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The national hacking scandal with local connections. Claims a Devon | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
and Cornwall police officer sold information about politicians. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Good evening. We'll be live in Exeter with more about the leaked | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
details of a prominent public figure in a moment. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Also on Spotlight tonight, frail, elderly and being evicted. Concern | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
for the residents of this local care home which is closing in three | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
months. It is the end of the world for many | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
of them, supply, because they are poorly, they are not well, they're | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
in the last few years of their life, if not to last few months, and it | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
is a very sad situation. And dial a diagnosis. The new GP appointment | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
system some feel is ill advised. can see by the colour of your skin, | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
the way you are walking, what is wrong with you. I did things you | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
could find that out on the phone. A former Devon and Cornwall police | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
officer has been implicated in the scandal surrounding journalists | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
paying for sensitive information about high profile public figures. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
A detective is alleged to have accessed information on Gordon | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Brown from the Police National Computer and sold it on. The | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
officer was prosecuted, but the case collapsed. Some of the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
region's MPs have criticised that and are now calling for the | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
investigation to be reopened. Simon Hall reports. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police discovered a detective had been | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
accessing the police national computer for information on public | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
figures. One of them was Gordon Brown. The information was gathered | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
around ten years ago, when Mr Brown was the Chancellor. The officer | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
alleged to have accessed the information was Phil Diss, a | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
detective with the major crime team. He's believed to have sold it onto | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
a network of private investigators, for �20 to �40 per inquiry. It's | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
not clear what the investigators were doing with the information, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
but it's suspected they were working with several national | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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newspapers, including those in the News International group. I just | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
cannot bestow on this. If I, with all the protection and security | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and prime minister has, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
is so full honourable to unscrupulous tactics, unlawful | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
tactics, to matters that have been used, what about the ordinary | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
citizen critic Mark A case was brought against Phil Diss at Exeter | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Crown Court, under the Data Protection Act. But the judge, Paul | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Darlow, indicated he didn't believe such a relatively minor charge | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
would justify a potentially long and expensive trial, and so the | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case. It seems that Devon and | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Cornwall police did a fine job. They worked very hard on this | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
investigation, they put a lot of time and effort into it and they | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
were devastated when the judge threw it out. I think there are | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
questions for the judge as to why she did that. I imagine there is a | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
judge somewhere in the country right now feeding very embarrassed | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
by making that poor decision, which was largely on the grounds of cost. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
It was in the public interest that that prosecution would full-term | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
and result was achieved to find someone guilty of something that | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
was completely wrong. We asked for a comment from Judge Darlow. A | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
spokesman for the Judicial Communications Office said: "By | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
convention judges do not comment on cases beyond remarks made in | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
court." Simon is outside police headquarters now. What have done | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
and Cornwall police said about this today? They have released a | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
statement which says they carried out a lengthy and thorough | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
investigation into the allegations of misuse of the police national | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
computer system. They go on to say that, behind that there was real | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
anger here about the collapse of the case. They saw it as an | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
important opportunity to demonstrate to the public that the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
police could deal with rogue officers, an opportunity that they | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
believe was then lost. We are getting e-mail us in about Phil | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Diss. What became of him. He was a well-known detective in Devon and | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Cornwall. He dealt with some major investigations, such as the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
disappearance of schoolgirl Genette Tate in the 1970s. When these | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
allegations service to was nearing the end of his career and he | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
subsequently retired and has since died. Any news from -- any word | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
from News International today? Gordon Brown's attack on them | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
earlier was a scathing one. They released a statement saying they | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
noted what he said then asked him to provide any more information so | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
the Likud fully investigate. A care home in Torquay is to close, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
meaning 16 elderly residents, some as old as 105, must find somewhere | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
new to live. 48 staff will lose their jobs at Wallis Court. It's | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
one of three homes run by the RBS Care Homes Foundation, for former | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
bank employees which are to close. The son of one resident branded the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
decision as "deplorable". The charity says the home's been losing | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
money because its less than half full. Hamish Marshall reports. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Lily Dearden has lived in Wallis Court for three years. She expected | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
to see out her days there. But today she was told she must find | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
another care home by October 14th - just four days before her 90th | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
birthday. Three we wanted to speak to Lillee but bosses would not let | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
us inside to see her in her room. Despite wanting to, she is simply | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
not enough to come outside to tell us how she feels. It is hard to | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
imagine what it is like to lose your home at 89 years old. You | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
don't know what to expect when you go somewhere else. I think it is | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
could be very hard for her. Some of the 48 staff had arrived through | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the morning to hear the fate of the home which is run by a charity for | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
former staff at Natwest and RBS. The RBS Care Homes Foundation says | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
this home is unsustainable due to shortage of residents. It says that | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
during the consultation period all views and information gathered were | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
considered but it was left with no choice but to close the home, which | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
will happen by the middle of October. John Palmer has had | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
respite breaks at Wallis Court and had planned to move in permanently. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
They would say, can I help you with that, can I take that up for you? | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
Is there anything I can get? Ended they had it, you got it. This RBS | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
pensioner believes more should have been done to attract new resident. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
It is the end of the world for many of them, sadly, because they are in | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
their ages what they are poorly, they are not well. They are in the | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
last few years of their life should not the last months and it is a sad | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
situation. Inspectors rated the home as excellent. Families and | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
staff face a race against time to find somewhere to match it. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Earlier I spoke to Ros Altmann, the Director General of Saga and asked | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
her what effect the closure of a care home could have on its | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
residents. The sad reality is that for many people who are frail, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
elderly and used to their surroundings, if you not read them | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
and move them to summer they are not familiar with it can be life- | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
threatening. We are not talking about parcels, we are talking about | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
people, he needs to be stable and comfortable. If they are moved from | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
one environment to another, it can kill them. What about finding an | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
alternative place to live? What safeguards are in place to make | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
sure go care of these people continues? Local authorities are | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
obliged to find another care home for any resident in a care home | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
that the local authority is currently paying for. If you pay | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
privately, it is up to you and your family to try and find another care | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
home. At the end of the day, the local authority is responsible for | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
you. We cannot leave you on the street. But that is scant comfort | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
to somebody who was worried about their loved one who is in a home | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
and might be so unsettled by the move that they could either become | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
seriously ill or have their condition worsened, or it could be | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
fatal. There is an ongoing debate about how we pay for our ongoing | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
care in old age. How do you feel about the system as it currently is | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
and the plants that are being considered? They are system at the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
moment is unfit for purpose. It is breaking down. We have continuous | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
headlines about frail, elderly people who are not being properly | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
looked after. The reality is that we have not put enough money into | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
the care system to provide decent care. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
From next year, students attending Exeter university will have to pay | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
�9,000 a year. The fees were given the stamp of approval by the Office | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
for Fair Access earlier today. �9,000 is the maximum a university | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
:09:59. | :10:01. | ||
can charge for tuition fees. By if it was you coming to | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
university in 2012, would you go for it and pay �9,000? This is the | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
million dollar question. Well students be put off by the prospect | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
of incurring towering debt before they even set foot in the | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
workplace? If I was coming to university with the high tuition | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
fees, unless I had additional help I don't think I'll be able to | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
afford it. It will put a large number of people of just through | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
rumour and the fact of St �9,000 a year. More than 12,000 students | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
study here and it is now ranked among the top 10 UK universities. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
With that comes a degree of exclusivity by university bosses | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
are promising to broaden their appeal. We are planning to spend | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
31% of our new income from the new fees to help students from less | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
well-off backgrounds and students from more poorly-performing schools | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
so that we can give them bursaries, scholarships, fee wavers and help | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
with accommodation. For next year's students, this will become the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
centrepiece for Learning and Leisure, the �80 million Forum | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Project. Investment is crucial to Exeter maintaining its pole | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
position in the league table but will fees continue to rise? We have | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
seen over the past 10 to 15 years that it has come from nothing up to | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
�9,000 and this cannot go on. We would like the government to take | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
responsibility and realise this is a measure taken because of the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
economic climate and a some point these fees for me to go down. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
in the current climate, the law of relativity has never been so | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
unpredictable. Thieves who used a sledge hammer and pick axe to smash | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
their way into a Torbay jewellers are being hunted by police. They | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
made off with jewellery estimated to be worth around �50,000, | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
including several brooches and watches. Police have released | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
pictures of the incident at Dobles Jewellers in Brixham and want to | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
speak to three men seen running away from the shop after the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
incident. Exeter-based airline Flybe has | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
apologised to a World War Two veteran after he was charged �60 to | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
take a military standard to a liberation ceremony in Jersey as | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
hand luggage. Alec Penstone complained, saying some comrades | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
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could not afford the cost. Flybe has now changed its baggage policy. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Coming up, an emotional reunion for the woman who found her birth | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
mother after a 30 year search. Plus on Royal parade - the tank regiment | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
giving thanks for a safe return from Afghanistan. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
There's concern that a new appointment system at a Cornish | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
surgery will deny people the chance to see their doctor. Patients at | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Liskeard's Oak Tree practice are given a phone slot with the doctor, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
who decides if a consultation is really necessary. GPs say it will | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
provide faster, and the most appropriate, treatment. Here's our | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
health correspondent, Sally Mountjoy. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Ian Bowman wants to see his GP at her practice in Liskeard. But he | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
doesn't get an appointment straight away. Receptionists at Oak Tree | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
surgery ask patients for an idea of why they want to see a doctor then | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
arrange a phone consultation. The GP then decides if they need to see | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
the patient. Mr Bowman's afraid the system won't work for everyone | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Doctors say they can gauge when a face-to-face appointment is | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
necessary. Many of us find it difficult to express ourselves | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
adequately over the fate for all sorts of reasons. There is a great | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
danger that the doctor will misinterpret what we have said, | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
consequently advised the wrong treatment. Doctors say they can | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
gaze when appointment is necessary. They say increasing demand had made | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
it hard to get an appointment and phone triage provides greater | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
access to GPs. Before I was seen between 30 and 40 patients a day | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
and taking two or three telephone calls. I am now taking 50 to 60 | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
telephone calls a day, speaking to my own patients so what can work | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
out the best way of helping them. Sometimes they want to see me, or | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
sometimes it may be more appropriate to see a colleague with | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
expertise greater than my own. Basically I am responding in the | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
fastest and most helpful way that I can. 40 surgeries in the UK and | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
five in Cornwall operate the phone triage system. NHS Cornwall says | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
it's up to individual practices how they structure their systems for | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
booking appointments but the intention is to ensure patients get | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
treatment in the most appropriate place. Elaine James says care at | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the surgery is excellent but she's arranged a meeting with Oak Tree | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
Surgery staff to discuss her concerns about it. When you go and | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
see a doctor you very often go in with a problem. That is not a real | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
problem, is it? By careful questioning the doctor can ponder | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
what the real problem is. Equally, just by looking at you with his | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
trained clinical eye he can see by the colour of your skin, the wage | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
of walking, what is wrong with you. I don't think you'll find that out | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
on the telephone. Doctors insist patients are getting the best | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
treatment, even if it doesn't mean coming to the surgery. Some of | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
those patients have yet to be convinced. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Players of Plymouth Argyle Football Club have been asked to defer their | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
wages for another month. The deferment forms have been | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
distributed to the playing squad as the Pilgrims seek Football League | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
approval to the agreed deal to buy the club and come out of | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
administration. In cricket's County Championship, | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
England bowler Stuart Broad virtually cleaned up Somerset's | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
tail on the second days play at Trent Bridge. Broad took three of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
the last five wickets to fall. Somerset's Craig Kieswetter went on | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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to make 164. Not closed on 303 for five. Ishing their two-day tour of | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
the South west tonight. During the day they were in Cornwall visiting | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
the Eden Project before splitting up, with Camilla going to see | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
affordable accommodation in Liskeard and the Prince touring the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Davidstow creamery. Our Cornwall reporter, David George, was there. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Children from nearby Otterham Primary School were there to | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
welcome the Duke of Cornwall as he arrived at what the owners say is | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Britain's biggest creamery. Eight- year-old Daisy Anthony presented | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
the bouquet and then it was inside, where the white-coated Prince added | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the culture to a very special cheese to celebrate his mother's | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
diamond jubilee. The 15 tonnes of cheese in here will take 13 months | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
to mature - the profits from its sale will all go to his Countryside | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Fund. Next job was to inauguarate the factory's new biomass boilers - | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
waste wood pellets are burned to generate the heat used in the | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
cheese making process. Outside the Prince met the chief cheese taster, | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
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but would he try it himself? Cheeses. He seemed to be very much | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
into the stronger cheeses. He was clued into the taste and the | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
texture, which it is the two together. His opposite passionate | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
about Cornish produce generally. While all that was going on, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Camilla was having a go at a computer game at affordable | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
accommodation in Liskeard. Nothing's happened. Can you explain | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
what has gone wrong? No, I can't! Earlier the Duke and Duchess were | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
together at the Eden Project, where they toured the humid tropical | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
biome and watched performers from the "What a State Circus" - who | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
will be performing here later this year. | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
150 soldiers brought Plymouth to a standstill this morning as they | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
marched through the city centre. Members of the 2nd Royal Tank | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Regiment, based in Tidworth, have just completed a six month tour in | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Afghanistan. Janine Jansen was there. | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
People stood to attention as 150 tankies marched through the city. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
The majority of the soldiers in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment are | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
recruited from the South West. We spoke to two brothers who come from | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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Exeter. I have to make sure he is all right, make sure he is on time | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
and everything. At there was a bit annoying Band again because you | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
hear something has happened somewhere else and you don't know | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
who it was. Straightaway, you think, was that my brother? The soldiers | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
helped build schools and roads in Afghanistan in extreme temperatures. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
The winter it in October time, really cold, a lot of rain. Towards | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
the end of the tour it was really hot, 45 degrees. The crowd each | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
year and the children were very impressed with the marching. He can | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
hear the stump at the end. They just do what they're told, really, | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
like a child with the mother or dad. I thought it was quite cool, how | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
they will march and the same time. Wonderful. Why had been here since | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
9 o'clock and I am 86! The regiment are pleased to be back home and | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
suffered no losses during their tour. To think they are back here | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
and we have not lost one, absolutely lovely. The soldiers say | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
the equipment helped keep them safe. Pretty changes, it is her brilliant | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
vehicle. The vehicle took an explosive and was the longer in use | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
but everyone inside was safe and sound for stop Roughly a fifth of | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the soldiers who went on the tour come from Plymouth. A fitting | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
location then for today's march. A woman from Plymouth has been | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
reunited with her mother after a 30-year search to find her. Susie | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Pine was put up for adoption when she was five. But after being apart | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
for nearly six decades, mother and daughter are finally together again. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
John Danks went to meet them. Childhood pictures she hasn't seen | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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until now. I was a big baby. weeks old girl. Susie Pine was born | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
in Yorkshire 61 years ago. But her unmarried mother was forced to give | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
her up for adoption at an early age. With no contact between them for | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
more than half a century, a friend helped track down Susie's mum to an | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
address in Harrogate, and shortly afterwards received the call she | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
was waiting for. I took the phone and said hello. And mum said, hello | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
darling. I went, oh, my gosh! It's my mum. She didn't go to work the | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
following day. She stayed at home and did nothing and just thought | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
about it. An emotional reunion took place in Plymouth last night. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
had a little cry yesterday when you arrived. Susie's adopted family | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
moved to Devon. She says it was an unhappy time for her but it hasn't | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
changed the way she feels about her mum. Things happened years ago. It | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
is totally different now. I don't blame my mum, I always knew she | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
loved me. Susie also has catching up to do with a half brother and | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
half sister she knew nothing about. She's celebrating with friends and | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
family at a party tonight, where she's keeping Mum right by her side. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
A dance school from Plymouth has brought home a wealth of trophies | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
from the disco dance world championships. St Budeaux-based | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Academy Of Dance, known as AOD, won nearly 40 awards in various | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
categories at the winter gardens in Blackpool. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Plymouth has been quietly known for producing top quality dancers. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Wayne Sleep to name just one. This is 10-year-old Dylan Chapman from | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Efford. He's a name to watch as he's just won the under-12 free | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
style event at Blackpool's World Disco Dance Championships. I want | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
to be a dancer because it keeps you fit any get more energy and it is | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
really fun. When you go to Blackpool, it is amazing. Just | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
dancing and all that because you feel so flexible. It is amazing to | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
be up there. It left us all gobsmacked and everybody cheering. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
It is security that someone from this distance away from were the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
main hub of dancing is can get in amongst it. In fact, the dance | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
academy came back with 38 throphies from competitions which had age | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
ranges from 7 to 21. Counties competing outside of the UK | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
included Africa and Norway. Does this make you the best dancers in | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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the world? Yes. No! I got a text message and she was crying on the | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
end of the phone saying they've won it. Do you think you're going to | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
become a professional dancer? want to become a professional | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
dancer. So, yes. Watch this space. Good for them, brilliant news. | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
You're a bit like and you fit. No, I'm not! You are a good dancer, the | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
one the strictly competition. Not the national one, the children in | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
need one locally. Moving swiftly on Good evening. We have had some | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
sharp showers, very isolated. Or not too heavy showers. The main | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
line of showers will probably be still around later this evening but | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
tend to die away. Thursday a fine day and towards the end of the | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
wicket turns much more unsettled. Quite a lot going on on the | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
satellite picture. A lump of cloud has been moving through France. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
That is moving away from us. The fine weather is currently over | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Ireland amble slowly creep towards us to was the end of the day | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
tomorrow and into Thursday. Then all of this cloud will eventually | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
racing to give us fairly wet weather it was the end of the day | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
on Friday. There are still some showers this evening and overnight. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Despite the fact we have high pressure for lunchtime tomorrow, it | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
is not the complete picture. There are still some showers dotted red | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
tomorrow. Then this weather front will move off the Atlantic to give | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
us more cloud as we move into Thursday and Friday. On the second | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
half of Friday, quite a lot of cloud. The rainfall that we saw | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
earlier today has moved away from the Channel Islands. But there are | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
still some showers around. And perhaps some coming into the more | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
western parts of Cornwall overnight. The further east that you are, the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
clearer the skies overnight. As a result, the lower the temperature. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Temperatures as low as ten degrees in the east, 13 or 14 further west. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Tomorrow morning we have a lot of cloud across a good part of | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Cornwall. They will tend to fade away and become isolated in the | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
second part of the day. For the rest of us through the day, sunny | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
spells with just a small chance of wonder to showers in west Devon by | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
the end of the afternoon. Not too bad, something for everyone | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
tomorrow. Temperatures of 20 or 21 degrees. Very light winds and and | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
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one short sea breezes making the But the sea temperature at the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
moment is around 16. The coastal waters forecast has prayed light | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
winds tomorrow. Good visibility and generally dry. Similar conditions | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
on Thursday. We should have a lot of fine weather and similar at | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
temperatures. In the second half of the day on Friday, some patchy rain | :27:20. | :27:28. |