18/02/2017 Spotlight

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that a prisoner being held

Noel Boylan, who was 47, died yesterday at HMP

The Government says an independent investigation will now be

carried out by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman,

which is the procedure followed with all deaths in custody.

More schools are to be offered sessions on helping young people

to stay safe on nights out, following the death of a teenager

whose body was recovered from the sea off Dorset.

Louis Harris was 18 when he went missing in Weymouth last year.

His mother has already been working with his old school in Dorchester,

encouraging teenagers to charge their phones

Think guide dogs or police dogs and you realise just how

Andrea Ormsby has been to a fundraising event in Devon

today, for dogs which can sense serious human health conditions

Gemma is 14 and she has had type one diabetes since she was two.

He has changed my life in the last five years.

I've had a lot more independence, you know, I've been

able to go out with my friends a lot more because I put

all my trust in him to alert me when I amlow or high.

This labrador is being trained to be a medical alert assistance dog.

It gives them their life back totally.

They have a guardian angel by their side.

It keeps them out of hospital, it saves casualty

admissions, it saves ambulance call-outs,

and it gives friends and relatives reassurance.

Today's event is all about supporting the medical

What are you hoping to achieve today?

Spread awareness, hopefully get a few

puppies sponsored, because you can spend ?2000 and name

a puppy, which I did twice, after my mum and dad.

And also raise some money from selling the cakes.

It all helps people like Eileen Reid, who has had type one

I've had Eddie for five years now, and he has

saved my life many times by alerting me that my sugar

There is another event here tomorrow, to keep raising money to

A phone used by Adolf Hitler, which is owned by a man from Dawlish,

is to be auctioned in America tomorrow.

The phone was used by Hitler during the Second World War,

and was found in his Berlin bunker in 1945.

It has his name engraved on it and was eventually given

It's thought it could fetch up to $300,000.

Plymouth Argyle 1-1 with Hartlepool, same for

Exeter City at home to Stevenage in the final minute.

Yeovil Town lost 2-0 away to Cheltenham Town.

And another draw In the National League - Torquay United

In rugby: it ended Exeter 48, Worcester 32.

Cornish Pirates saw off Yorkshire Carnegie 42-27.

Jersey beat London Scottish 37-33, and Plymouth Albion beat

A reasonably pleasant end to half term in the weather now with Bee.

We've had a few bright spells across the south-west today.

Some of us been lucky enough to see some sunshine,

and where we have had the sunshine, temperatures have done

We've still got quite a bit of cloud out there, and overnight it

will thicken and lower, so we will see some mist

Perhaps not quite as widespread and dense as last night.

Temperatures very similar, down at six or seven Celsius.

That means quite a grey start to the day, some mist and fog

There will be some sunshine coming tomorrow, though the

cloud will always be thick enough for a bit of light rain or drizzle,

but I think the sunshine will be in shorter supply

Once it gets dark, we will see that mist and

Fairly mild day, though, temperatures of 11 or

It stays mild as we head into next week.

The breeze will pick up and we will see quite a bit

We'll bring you more on our local radio stations in the morning

and throughout the weekend here on the BBC in the south-west.

It has been a mild day to day and some of us have seen some spring

sunshine. Blue skies and sunshine here above the River Thames. It has

not been sunny everywhere, though. We have got more cloud around across

more northerly parts of the country. Some rain to come tonight across

Scotland and northern England, all clearing away by the time we get to

Sunday morning. And it will be quite chilly start to Sunday, particularly

in the south-east corner, where there could be some mist and fog

first thing. Away from the south and south-east, it is a milder start to

the day. Still quite cloudy on Sunday in the west. For central and

eastern areas, a different