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What is to be done for our struggling high streets? This man's | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
turned around some of the UK's biggest businesses. Can he give | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Penzance a new spin? We need to look to something other than shops to | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
make it really work. We need a different plan. Also tonight. | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
Singing the praises of the Devon priest with a passion for music. The | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
songs of the west. Folk songs of Devon and Cornwall collected from | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
the mouths of the people. And Judi Spiers on a Jewish revival in | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Exeter. A few of us got involved in the synagogue, started having | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
services, started having parties. Started having a sense of community | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
again. Welcome to Inside Out. Southwest. | :01:01. | :01:17. | |
First night. The move to out`of`town and online shopping has left many of | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
our high streets struggling. We asked one successful retailer, and | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
recently appointed Labour Party adviser, to take a look at one of | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
our hardest hit towns. Penzance. One in seven shops empty. | :01:27. | :01:38. | |
It's all sadly typical of what's going on in many of our town | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
centres. I'm Bill Grimsey and I've run some of Britain's biggest | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
retailers. I say the high street as we've known it is dead. The real | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
hustle and bustle of 40 years ago, it's gone. It's not coming back. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
It's so depressing. A pound shop where Woolworths used to be. Money | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
lenders and charity shops moving in. I'm off to Causewayhead. Home to the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
type of small independents that are vital to the lifeblood of a town. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
It's pedestrianised, which is good, and there's a nice buzz about the | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
place. When you look a bit closer underneath, you see one or two empty | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
shops creeping in, so that says perhaps it having a hard time and of | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
course we have three or four charity shops already in place, and, if you | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
look around, it need some tender loving care and some investment to | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
really make it work properly for the local community. Time to hear the | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
traders' gripes. What are the big issues you face? Increasing energy | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
bills, like everyone, really, increasing rates, although we are | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
lucky we get a small business rate relief which cuts our business rates | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
in half. That's good. It means the local authority are taking some | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
action on small businesses. Next I head to Penzance's main shopping | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
street. It runs up to a Victorian Market House, which has lain empty | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
for two years. To me, that's a crime. One enterprise which has | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
survived, and for a good 150 years, is Simpsons, now in the hands of the | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
fifth generation of the same family. They own their building so at least | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
they don't have to pay rent. But it's the out`of`town competition | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
that bugs them here. It's ridiculous that someone out of town, who have | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
all the advantages nowadays, because who hasn't got access to a car? They | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
get paid really low rates, like warehouses, and the Internet | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
companies, and in town, we have far too high car parking rates, business | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
rates are far too high so we are being disadvantaged by it. It's | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
true. There is a cluster of supermarkets on the edge of town. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
But I don't agree they're the real issue. It's because of us, the | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
consumers. We want that convenience. In order to restore this town centre | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
as a thriving community hub, we need to look to something other than just | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
shops to make it really work. If you look around you, you can see those | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
empty buildings above the shops, too. There is a housing shortage in | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
this country. We need a different plan. And that's what I've told the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Government. We need more housing, offices and community facilities in | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
our high streets. Of course, I'm not the only one with bright ideas. Two | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
years ago, Mary Portas's review led to over ?1 million of funding being | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
shared between a dozen UK towns, including Liskeard. Shop vacancy | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
rates here have fallen dramatically, but I don't think the Portas | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
solution goes far enough. The big difference between my review and | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Mary Portis, if we are saying to government, you can't tinker with | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
the edges, you can't do make overs, you can't provide these things. We | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
just don't want it any more, the way it was. But every town has to tailor | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
its own solution. Time to head East, to somewhere that seems to have | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
cracked it. In Totnes, 80% of shops are independent. Locals love them so | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
much they even prevented the Costa Coffee chain from moving in here. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Only one in 20 of the town's shops are empty. When I walk around, I | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
feel a great sense of locality and location. They even make their own | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
stuff, and where they don't make it on the premises, they saw fit | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
locally, so the economy thrives. And this is exactly the sort of facility | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
that I think every high street needs. A modernised library at the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
heart of town. Totnes isn't Penzance. For starters, people have | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
got more money to spend here. But it's the real determination to keep | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
it local that I think many towns could learn from. A big part of what | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
we talk about is the leaky bucket scenario, so in one place, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
everybody's money goes into the bucket and pensions go in and wages | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and benefits, and then what happens, in most places, the money just pours | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
out. It pours out through people spending with multinationals. And | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
so, to be able to celebrate the fact that here we have got a really | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
strong buckets, less holes, basically, and a big part of what we | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
do, we celebrate that and think, how can we build on that? Transition | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Town Totnes has come up with a 20`year plan. We posed a question, | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
what would an economy look like that worked for Totnes, so the blueprint | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
is a plan for how Totnes could look if we maximised the value of | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
people's spend, and I think bringing people together around that, they | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
saw what the possibilities were. The big thing I got from that meeting is | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
that they have an economic blueprint, a plan, for this town, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
which is engaging with the community and helping the community understand | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
how it can make the local economy prosper. And I guess, when we get | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
back to Penzance, that's a big question we have got to have for | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
them. Have they got a plan? The challenge in Penzance is far greater | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
than they are here. It turns out Penzance hasn't got a plan to rival | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Totnes but it does have movers and shakers. I'm off to meet some of | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
them in a rundown former cinema. Can they mastermind a solution to | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Penzance's high street problems? They're certainly well aware of the | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
challenges. There are definitely problems here. Penzance tops the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
league tables of deprivation, serious issues in Penn 's arms. The | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
problem we have in particular, large shops, in the high Street, and they | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
are proving very difficult to left. `` letter. And they recognise that | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
the high street of the future will have to be different from the one | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
we've known. Clearly, the town centre is not all about retail but | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
about culture and social exchange, which was the nature of what a town | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
centre used to be. That's all very idealistic, but how are you going to | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
make that happen? An important thing, prompted by the business | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
community, is to go ahead and embrace localism and develop a | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
neighbourhood plan. What period of time but that plan B? Over 18 | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
months. So they do have a plan? Or at least plans for a plan? I think | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the most encouraging part of the discussion we just had is that there | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
is a great deal of enthusiasm there, and an understanding that | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
something needs to happen. But it's going to take time, and I think time | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
is something the local residents doesn't understand. And I think the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
main streets of Penzance will be struggling a good while yet. It's | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
time for me to return to London. Penzance demonstrates just what sort | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
of challenge other towns in the UK face. I have met some people who've | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
got plans to do something about it and they have got great intentions, | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
and I wish them all the luck in the world, because they are going to | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
need it. There is a big challenge here and good luck to them. | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
The Victorian craze for collecting led to all number of weird and | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
wonderful accumulations of curios. But the collection of one eccentric | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
clergyman from West Devon has done more than fill shelves in a museum. | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
Verity Sharp has the story of one of Devon's unsung heroes. | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
Faure folk fan like me, sessions like this one what all about. A warm | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
and inviting atmosphere to play and share some of the music we love. But | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
many of our most treasured folk songs only survive today because of | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
the extraordinary lengths that one Devon man went to to keep them | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
alive. Sabine Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834. He read classics | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
at Cambridge University before becoming an African priest. He | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
served his curiously at Horbury, and it was here he wrote the words to | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
one of our best known hymns. Sabine was surprised at the same Onward | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Christian Soldiers brought him. He later said he dashed the words off | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
in no more than 15 minutes for a procession of schoolchildren. But it | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
was an ecclesiastical hit and even now, it's what he's best known for. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
It was while he was at Horbury that Sabine met the love of his life. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Despite his Christian credentials, the 34`year`old vicar amazed | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
everyone by taking a bright half his age and far below his social | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
standing. But 16`year`old millworker Grace Taylor proved to be a good | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
match and would bear him an astounding 15 children. With a fast | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
family, the Baring`Goulds needed to find a larger house. So in 1881 they | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
moved here, to Lewtrenchard Manor, the Devon estate that Sabine had | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
inherited. The appointed himself squire and Parson and set about | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
rebuilding his new home. Today the house remains in the Baring`Gould | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
family but is leased by Sue Marie, who brought her family appear. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Sabine moves here in 1881. What was it like then? It wasn't it a good | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
state. He transformed it into what it is now. His family put his mark | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
on it in every possible way with architectural detail and enlarging | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
it in size. He was the person who brought his family here and turned a | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
house into a home. Absolutely. From a very early age she had this idea | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
that he wanted three things in life. One was that he was going to restore | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
this house. The second was that he was going to restore the church. The | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
third was that he was going to save the souls of the parish. He never | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
wavered and did an amazing job. The house is much and changed and | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Sabine's influence still looms large. This is the library where he | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
did all his writing. Being an energetic chap as he was, he wrote | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
standing up. He never sat down. Was that normal? Not at all. I've never | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
heard of anyone else who did that! Another eccentricity. His energy was | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
legendary. He was one of the leading archaeologists of Dartmoor and one | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
of the top ten novelists of his time. There was hardly any subject | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
that he didn't write a book on. Folklore, theology, history, | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
travel... But there was one work above all others that he considered | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
to be his greatest achievement. And that was the songs of the West. Folk | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
songs collected from the mouths of the people. | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
# Of the sweet Nightingale as she sings in the Valley... | :14:30. | :14:47. | |
By 1882, when Sabine started collecting, these songs were already | :14:48. | :15:01. | |
dying out. His sources were very old and very | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
poor. # The clear crystal fountain through | :15:11. | :15:11. | |
England did go. And so he started combing the | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
villages of Devon and Cornwall, coaxing these folk songs out of the | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
working people who still remembered them. He had a particular view of | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
what he was going out for. He did not want the modern stuff. He was | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
after the old stuff, the old songs in mode and songs that had an | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
antiquity about them. He felt that was an essence of Englishness. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
That's what he was looking for. He wasn't a confident musician, so | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
while he noted the words, he'd take along an assistant to write down the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
June. These scholars, entirely out of place with their pens and | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
notebooks in hand, trailed after the singers as they went about their | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
chores. Sally Satterly, a renowned Dartmoor Dame, gave Sabine many | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
songs from her home. # And I do nothing but mourn. | :16:19. | :16:30. | |
# Now I have mourned by his grave for 12 month and a day. | :16:31. | :16:44. | |
# I'll set my sale before the wind. # To waft me far away. | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
He also invited singers to the more civilised environment of the manor. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
Their stage with this large oak settle, then by the fire and now in | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the entrance to the manner. Although he was interested in collecting the | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
words of the songs, he was most passionate about the tunes. Without | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
his collecting works we may well have lost great tunes like the | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
Helston Furry Dance. And then, of course, the wonderful Widecome Fair. | :17:20. | :17:55. | |
Sabine's was the first serious collection of its kind, something | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
that even the famous folk song collector Cecil Sharp admitted. But | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
today, Baring`Gould has largely been forgotten. He was so well known in | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
his day and yet today his name isn't really well known, despite all these | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
achievements and interests and what have you. Why do you think that is? | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
He was a sort of rumbustious character. He fell out with people. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
He didn't get on that well with the folk Law Society and those kind of | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
things. Coupled with the fact he was down here. He wasn't, as Cecil Sharp | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
was, a hamster music teacher right in the middle of London, with all | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
that power and all of those connections. He was right out here | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
in the wilds. But his collection, Choon Wise, is one of the very | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
best. For me, as a trained musician and coming to this folk stuff, it | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
has beautiful tunes in it. It is unrivalled. Sabine was quiet and | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
parson and Lewtrenchard Manor 43 years, in which time he amassed some | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
900 songs. He died aged 89 in 1924 and was laid to rest alongside his | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
beloved Grace in Lewtrenchard church, within sight of the manor | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
house. He was determined that his collection would be more than just a | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
book in a library gathering dust. He wanted to revive the tradition that | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
he loved, and there's no doubt that there he succeeded. | :19:26. | :19:38. | |
# I will sing you. # What will you sing me? | :19:39. | :20:00. | |
This year sees the 250th anniversary of one of the oldest synagogues in | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
the country. It is in Devon and it has seen a remarkable revival. BBC | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Radio Devon's Judy Spier 's delves into her own background to tell us | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
the story. Members of Exeter's Jewish community enter my local | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
synagogue for the Friday night service that marks the start of the | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
sabbath, as Jewish people have been doing here since 1763. Attendances | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
have increased noticeably in the last few years. In fact, you could | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
say that the Exeter Jewish community are enjoying somewhat of a golden | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
period. The time was when Jews weren't welcome here at all. The | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
first reference to Jews in Exeter dates from 1177, when work on Exeter | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Cathedral had just started. They were brought to England following | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
the Norman conquest in 1066. I'm here to meet a man who has studied | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
the history of Exeter's Jews for the last 30 years. They came here | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
because it was an important city. The King at the time wanted Jews in | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
various centres, there were 26 in all in the end, where Jews were | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
allowed to operate as official comment moneylenders, doing the job | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
which Christians at that time weren't allowed to do. The cathedral | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
archives contain mediaeval records of transactions involving local | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Jews. What is unique about these items is they are a record of Jewish | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
presence in Exeter, here in the middle ages. It says, a widow of | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
Henry Porter, he died with left debts. His debts included loans from | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Jews. So when she sold the property, she wanted it made quite clear that | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
the money should be used to pay off all the debts, including the ones to | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the Jews. Eventually it became acceptable for Christians to lend | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
money. Jews were no longer useful and anti`Semitism reared its ugly | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
head. A sin not held here in 1287 heard the Bishop rousing his clergy | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
to protect their congregations against what he called the insidious | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
wilds of their Jewish neighbours. Three years later, Edward the first | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
ordered the expulsion of all Jews from England. It would be another | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
four centuries before they were allowed to return. When my family | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
set up its Jura loop `` business in the area, they were following a long | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
tradition. Jewish people were eventually readmitted to England in | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
1566 and Oliver Cromwell. This time they came back as educated | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
professionals and skilled craftspeople. At the turn of the | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
18th century, Exeter was thriving thanks to the wool trade and the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
city's situation on the River ex. During the war, this part of the | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
street took a hammering from the German bombers and was extensively | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
rebuilt. In fact, at one time this was probably Exeter's Jewish | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
quarter. One prominent Jewish family lived and worked here. We know this | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
because it says so on their 250`year`old trade card. The | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
Ezekiels work opticians. Successful Jewish families were gradually | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
assimilated into Exeter's middle class. But at the time Ezekiel made | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
these engravings, they were still subject to discrimination. In 1763, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
his family wanted some land around the corner from the shop. The deal | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
had to be done through a third`party because Jews weren't allowed to | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
lease land. They wanted it to a synagogue. It has been in use ever | :24:03. | :24:16. | |
since. The holiest part of any synagogue is the Ark. Congregation | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
member Richard Hulsey describes its contents. In a synagogue, the only | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
living creatures you will see portrayed the Lions. They are the | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Lions of Judah which represent the tribe of Judah, one of the 13 tribes | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
of Israel. The Ark houses the Torah. Each contains the five books | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
of Moses, which are also the first five books of the Bible. We have six | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Torah scrolls here. The four larger ones were all written in areas of | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
Eastern Europe around about 1880. We have the pointer, because you never | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
touch a scroll with your hands, because your hand may have Greece on | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
them and you would damage it. And, of course, the breastplate because | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
we believe in biblical times that the high priest of Jerusalem would | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
have had some form of breastplate over his vestments. We are very | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
lucky because we are the only synagogue in England that has | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Georgian silver still in the synagogue from which was made. As a | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
child attended an orthodox synagogue in Plymouth. Here in Exeter they | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
take a more progressive approach, but the layout is basically the | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
same. In all traditional synagogues, this is always in the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
centre and the seats face in. Because this was considered to help | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
the study. A synagogue is not only a house of prayer it is also a house | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
of study. One thing is for sure, in my synagogue I would never be | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
standing here. I would be upstairs with the rest of the ladies because | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
we had to be separated, which was traditionally why you have the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
gallery. Yes. Historically we would have put you upstairs. In many | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
synagogues you still are. In this synagogue we are not affiliated to | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
any particular type of Judaism, so we do things how we want. Somebody | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
will be called up and they will be called up using their Hebrew name, | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
in order to save the blessings for the reading of it. And somebody else | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
will then lain it. That is effectively chanting. It is chanted | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
to tunes that are hundreds if not thousands of years old. Around the | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
time that work started on the synagogue, the Ezekiels also | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
established a burial ground. Ezekiel Ezekiel, one of the first to be | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
buried here, lies in an unmarked grave. His niece, Betsy, lies | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
nearby. Exeter synagogue flourished for a century but then attendances | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
fell. By the mid`19th century, economic sway changing again. The | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
attractions of London were far more important. Jews gradually began to | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
move away. By the end of the 19th`century, the Exeter community | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
as good as closed down. But recent years have seen a revival in the | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
synagogue's fortunes, Anne Frank has been at the heart of it. It has | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
around 100 members at present. The revival has involved a move away | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
from the more traditional interpretation of Judaism. I may not | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
have long hair now but in those days people thought of me as a bit of a | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
hippie. A few of us who were settling down and having families | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
got involved in the synagogue, started having services, having | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
parties, having a sense of community again. That is what has continued. | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
We also tried to be inclusive, to welcome everybody. And they do, | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
because since I moved to Exeter I can't always get to my synagogue in | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Plymouth, but I know I can always rely on a warm welcome in this | :28:27. | :28:36. | |
lovely, historic building. That is all from this week's Inside Out | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
South West. Join us next week. See you then. | :28:44. | :29:11. | |
A longer day, more exams and tougher discipline. That is what the | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
government wants for pupils in England's state schools. Ministers | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
believe it would bring standards closer to those in private schools. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
There is a warning over a social network raise after it was linked to | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
guess in Ireland. It involves drinking and filming a stun. The | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
body of the young man was found in the River. Tributes have poured in | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
for the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. It is thought he died from | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
a heroin overdose. More of us are undergoing plastic | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
surgery. The number of operations jumped 17% last year. Most were for | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
breast implants, but the biggest rise was for liposuction. | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
Imagine parking your car outside your house and waking up to this | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
dash a parties, having a sense of community | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
Hello, I'm Natalie Cornah in the We | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
Hello, I'm Natalie Cornah in the South West. There's been widespread | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
flooding across the region after coastal communities were hit by | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
strong winds, large waves and a high tide. Sea walls were breached and | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
homes and shops | :30:12. | :30:12. |