:00:24. > :00:30.Should children pay adult fears on the buses? It is the question being
:00:30. > :00:36.asked as a company puts up its fears. But also all the moment a
:00:36. > :00:42.helicopter crashed to the ground. I witnesses book Dear views across.
:00:42. > :00:45.And Disney magic - the jobs market in Cornwall. Students, parents and
:00:45. > :00:47.teachers have reacted with anger over a decision by one of the
:00:48. > :00:49.region's bus companies to charge school children adult fares.
:00:50. > :00:52.Plymouth's biggest operator, Citybus, has defended the move
:00:53. > :01:00.saying it's trying to encourage people to buy tickets in advance to
:01:00. > :01:03.speed up services. Child and student fares will all
:01:04. > :01:08.change in September. Children will have to pay the same price as
:01:08. > :01:11.adults before 9.30 in the morning. Under the changes most will have to
:01:11. > :01:21.pay double their current fare. And even the cheapest pre-paid option
:01:21. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:30.will see prices rise by �100 per year. Hamish Marshall reports.
:01:30. > :01:40.Citybus will remove the child and student fears by a September.
:01:40. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:48.will double. -- the cost will double. That is a big leap. The
:01:49. > :01:55.cost of everything is rising. It is not viable. Students at this school
:01:55. > :02:02.agree in feel they are being unfairly penalised. It is
:02:02. > :02:05.disrespect. They have treated as long way. Before 9:30am we are
:02:05. > :02:11.classed as adults and then afterwards we are classed as
:02:11. > :02:17.children. That is confusing. People will go somewhere else for the
:02:17. > :02:21.services and this company will lose money. Putting the price is that
:02:21. > :02:28.makes us feel we are not wanted. When the head teacher was told the
:02:28. > :02:38.news she was outraged. Asking people to fork out more money, yes
:02:38. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:46.I am disappointed. The unfairness of it got me by rate. The company
:02:46. > :02:55.say students can buy a season ticket but without it they will
:02:55. > :03:04.need to pay full adult price before 9:30am. All we have changed is that
:03:04. > :03:14.you cannot buy from the driver before 9:30am. All the other
:03:14. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:21.mechanisms will still be there. Pupils currently buying on the day
:03:21. > :03:25.ticket pay �7.50 per week. In September the equivalent will cost
:03:25. > :03:29.�19.50 per week. Even buying advance tickets will see a rise of
:03:29. > :03:32.�100 per year. Meanwhile in Cornwall dozens of bus
:03:32. > :03:35.routes could be axed. Cornwall council says it needs to reduce the
:03:35. > :03:37.subsidy it pays for concessionary fares to make up for cuts in
:03:37. > :03:41.government funding. But bus operators say any reduction will
:03:41. > :03:51.force them to reduce services. They'll meet officials for a crisis
:03:51. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :03:56.meeting later this week. David George reports. Free bus travel for
:03:56. > :04:01.the over-sixties and disabled passengers was brought in by the
:04:01. > :04:06.last government and has proved extremely popular. Companies are
:04:06. > :04:12.reimbursed by local authorities for a percentage of the average ticket
:04:12. > :04:18.price. Cornwall has agreed to pay just over 70 % for the current
:04:18. > :04:22.financial year. Now officials have written to companies saying it will
:04:22. > :04:28.cut the subsidy and backdate the cat to April. A we have run the
:04:28. > :04:32.figures do our system and we have 72 routes. They would be reduced to
:04:32. > :04:38.20. 50 troops would come out completely. The remaining 20 would
:04:38. > :04:47.be reduced in frequency. Why is that? The profitability of bus
:04:47. > :04:51.routes is very small. To reduce the revenue by 30 % is very dramatic.
:04:52. > :04:55.They have got to understand that we have suffered with these large cuts.
:04:55. > :05:02.It might mean some bus routes closing but that is the name of the
:05:02. > :05:07.game. The country is paying for the huge financial problems. We have
:05:07. > :05:17.got to do her best. What you say to passengers who regularly use those
:05:17. > :05:18.
:05:18. > :05:24.roots? I'd do not want to lose any bus routes at this stage. It might
:05:24. > :05:27.happen, but we will do everything we can to stop that happening.
:05:27. > :05:33.Councillors and officials are meeting with bus operators to more
:05:33. > :05:38.or. In addition one of the county's scrutiny committees is examining
:05:38. > :05:40.the plans at a meeting on Wednesday. A train driver has been suspended
:05:40. > :05:42.after being photographed apparently reading a newspaper while at the
:05:42. > :05:45.controls of a high-speed service near Dawlish.
:05:45. > :05:48.First Great Western said the picture of the Plymouth to London
:05:48. > :05:49.train, taken by a member of the public, appeared to show behaviour
:05:49. > :05:52.that fell short of professional standards.
:05:52. > :06:01.Eyewitnesses have been describing how a helicopter exploded as it hit
:06:01. > :06:06.the ground in Cornwall killing its pilot. Investigators are today
:06:06. > :06:09.continuing their search for clues near Bude. The pilot, who is
:06:09. > :06:18.believed to be in his 40s, was the only person on board. Simon
:06:18. > :06:23.Alexander reports. Air accident investigators are continuing to
:06:23. > :06:26.examine the wreckage of the helicopter. Their aircraft crashed
:06:26. > :06:31.yesterday afternoon spreading debris over a wide airier. The
:06:31. > :06:36.pilot who died is from the Bristol area. His next of kin have been
:06:36. > :06:42.informed. Residents living near by arrive before the emergency
:06:42. > :06:46.services. Luckily there were no animals in the field. It narrowly
:06:46. > :06:53.missed a property. It was lucky that it did not cause any more
:06:53. > :06:57.damage. But it is shocking. It was horrible to be there. The crash
:06:57. > :07:03.site remained cordoned off as investigators try to find out what
:07:03. > :07:11.made the helicopter hit the ground. The main thing for as is to
:07:12. > :07:15.establish what happened. We are doing investigations into that. If
:07:15. > :07:20.people saw the helicopter or think they may have seen it they should
:07:20. > :07:24.contact us because that will help us piece things together. A post-
:07:24. > :07:29.mortem examination of the dead man has yet to be carried out and
:07:29. > :07:31.police say they do not expect to release and St day.
:07:31. > :07:34.Young musicians in Somerset will no longer benefit from individual
:07:34. > :07:37.tuition because of council budget cuts. The move has drawn strong
:07:37. > :07:47.criticism from music teachers who say it could prevent many musicians
:07:47. > :07:51.
:07:51. > :07:56.from fulfilling their potential. The sound of the Somerset youth
:07:56. > :08:06.orchestra. Most of the members here will have benefited from one to one
:08:06. > :08:09.
:08:09. > :08:14.tuition, but the chance to receive This is how it is supposed to work.
:08:14. > :08:18.Students start in primary school with a three year. Then gradually
:08:18. > :08:22.the idea is the work in smaller groups. They have individual
:08:22. > :08:27.lessons perhaps at secondary school until eventually the a good enough
:08:27. > :08:32.to pay a in the county orchestra. But what Somerset County Council
:08:32. > :08:42.are doing is removing all these opportunities here. They are
:08:42. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:50.leaving us with no way of getting Daisy has been playing the violin
:08:50. > :08:54.since she was four. She believes without one-to-one tuition she
:08:54. > :08:59.would not have had the opportunity to excel. Individual tuition is
:08:59. > :09:03.really important. You cannot really progress in large groups. You do
:09:03. > :09:06.not get focused on. You need somebody who is listening
:09:06. > :09:11.specifically to you to tell you what you need to work on, what you
:09:11. > :09:16.are doing right, what you're doing wrong. If you do not have that you
:09:16. > :09:19.do not progress. The council may be seen as the villains of the piece
:09:19. > :09:24.but they have defended the decision saying the cats need to be made.
:09:24. > :09:27.Many schools and Somerset are converting to academies and so are
:09:27. > :09:32.in charge of their own budgets. Therefore they might decide to
:09:32. > :09:42.provide the lessons themselves. So there is still a chance for young
:09:42. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:44.musicians to reach their crescendo. West Cornwall has one of the
:09:44. > :09:48.highest unemployment rates in the rural south west. So it's
:09:48. > :09:51.especially good for the area that Disney have decided to produce a TV
:09:51. > :10:01.series in St Just. And it means work for over 50 people, as
:10:01. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:11.Spotlight's Greg Wade reports. From California to Cornwall. Special
:10:11. > :10:21.delivery! Here they are working on animations for Disney called Jungle
:10:21. > :10:25.
:10:26. > :10:35.Junction. It is need locally and seen globally. We used broadband
:10:36. > :10:42.
:10:42. > :10:48.and you can be anywhere, you can be The company has now grown to be the
:10:48. > :10:56.town's second biggest employer. This man says and mining his and
:10:57. > :11:03.his family blood and now he is tapping into a rich new vein. Fast
:11:03. > :11:10.broadband create these opportunities. The environment that
:11:10. > :11:15.you live in and work in contributes to the work that you produce.
:11:15. > :11:21.love it. They are very happy with what we are producing. Hopefully
:11:21. > :11:25.this will be a stepping stone to more work being produced.
:11:25. > :11:31.town's other businesses have benefited from the expanding
:11:31. > :11:41.animation studio. One of the local pubs even has a starring role in
:11:41. > :11:51.the series. I made my dream come true! I remember this town where it
:11:51. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:57.was a mining town. The last thing I would have thought of was animation.
:11:57. > :12:01.Can I interest you in something tasty to drink? You can relate some
:12:01. > :12:11.of the characters to some of the people around here - mentioning no
:12:11. > :12:21.
:12:21. > :12:24.names! Is this Disneyland? Not yet, 1,800 teachers in Plymouth have not
:12:24. > :12:27.had their salaries paid into their bank accounts today. The city
:12:27. > :12:31.council has apologised for the error and says the money should be
:12:31. > :12:36.paid in on Wednesday. It's launched an investigation and set up a
:12:36. > :12:39.helpline. Police say they have serious concerns for the welfare of
:12:39. > :12:43.a woman who's gone missing from her North Devon home. Elizabeth Parish,
:12:43. > :12:46.known as Liz, was last seen at her home in Combe Martin on July 17th.
:12:46. > :12:52.An extensive search of the area over the weekend failed to find any
:12:52. > :12:57.trace of the 52 year-old. Still lots to come on the programme
:12:57. > :13:00.tonight. From surfing to life- saving, sea kayaking to sailing.
:13:00. > :13:07.We'll bring you all the news from the Atlantic Watersports Games in
:13:07. > :13:17.North Devon. And the unusual mechanics in a Devon garage. The
:13:17. > :13:21.
:13:21. > :13:25.It's time for the sport now and Natalie's here with a round-up. Up-
:13:25. > :13:28.and-coming stars have taken to the seas off North Devon today in a
:13:28. > :13:31.prestigious European watersports competition. Wales was intending to
:13:31. > :13:35.hold the event but pulled out at the last minute because of budget
:13:35. > :13:44.cuts. At the 11th hour North Devon made a bid and won. From Croyde
:13:44. > :13:48.beach, Leigh Rundle sends this report. Of all is popular with
:13:48. > :13:53.surfers, today, the area well comes sportsmen and women from five
:13:53. > :13:56.different European countries, battling for the title of Atlantic
:13:56. > :14:00.water sports champion in its different disciplines over the next
:14:00. > :14:03.three days. One contender must be 16 year-old local girl Laura Crane.
:14:03. > :14:13.She's twice British under-18 surfing champion and won her first
:14:13. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:17.heat today, despite rather flat conditions. Happy with that? With
:14:17. > :14:22.the surfed being smaller it is trickier than what it has been
:14:22. > :14:25.because you must put more effort into getting returns and manoeuvres,
:14:25. > :14:29.it's one of the sports we must make the best of what is out there with
:14:29. > :14:33.the waves. But yes, it's great to be here and it's part of the North
:14:33. > :14:37.Devon team and we're proud to have a chair. Nowhere was the rivalry
:14:38. > :14:41.more fierce than between the counties of Devon and Cornwall.
:14:41. > :14:46.You're obviously going to win because we are the best team
:14:46. > :14:51.because we're from Cornwall. gentleman from Devon is here, how
:14:51. > :14:53.do you fill? I'm not happy about that, obviously Devon will win.
:14:53. > :15:01.Suring is one of eight watersports being contested at locations around
:15:01. > :15:05.Devon over the next few days. During the games themselves, we
:15:05. > :15:08.anticipate around 60,000 visitors over the week for different
:15:08. > :15:11.locations and the opening and closing ceremonies. You'll always
:15:11. > :15:17.find a healthy surge of surfers hanging out along the North Devon
:15:17. > :15:20.coast. This event brings a welcome injection of cash with it.
:15:20. > :15:24.Plymouth's Tom Daley is preparing to leave Shanghai after
:15:24. > :15:27.surrendering his World Championship title at the weekend. He finished
:15:27. > :15:31.fifth in the men's 10 metre platform and is now getting ready
:15:31. > :15:34.to join in the one year to go Olympic celebrations here. Tom was
:15:34. > :15:38.competing in four of the new dives which he's working on ahead of
:15:38. > :15:40.London 2012. He said he was satisfied with fifth place but
:15:41. > :15:44.things could have gone better. Tom also refuted tabloid claims today
:15:44. > :15:48.that he's abandoning his studies to concentrate on the Olympics. He
:15:48. > :15:51.said it was always the plan that he would fast-track through his A
:15:51. > :15:54.levels so he could focus on his training. This Wednesday Tom will
:15:54. > :16:04.be the first to dive at the new Olympics Aquatics Centre in London,
:16:04. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:07.live on BBC1 at 7pm, kicking off the one year to go countdown. --
:16:07. > :16:09.BBC One. Exeter swimmer Liam Tancock has qualified for
:16:09. > :16:12.tomorrow's 100 metre backstroke final at the World Championships,
:16:12. > :16:16.but only just. Plymouth's Antony James missed out on the men's 50
:16:16. > :16:21.metre butterfly final. Spotlight's Dave Gibbins has more details. A
:16:21. > :16:26.lot was expected of the 26 year-old Exeter City fan. Liam's forte is
:16:26. > :16:30.the 50 metre backstroke, in which he won gold in Rome two years ago.
:16:30. > :16:40.However, he is one of the world's best at 100 metres and was looking
:16:40. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:50.good at the turn of the first semi- But his rivals went into overdrive
:16:50. > :16:53.in the final 50 and catapulted away from Tancock, who finished fifth.
:16:53. > :16:59.Come on, Liam Tancock! His overall placing after the second semi-final
:16:59. > :17:05.was seventh, narrowly qualifying for Tuesday's final. I did get my
:17:05. > :17:09.hopes up but I might not have been good enough but it's nice to race
:17:09. > :17:13.on the world stage and I guess it's a bonus. There's no doubt Tancock
:17:13. > :17:17.has it in him to win a medal, but it will need all his strength and
:17:17. > :17:20.skill to beat off his challengers, especially the French swimmers.
:17:20. > :17:22.Somerset have kept alive their outside chance of winning cricket's
:17:22. > :17:26.County Championship for the first time. They beat current leaders,
:17:26. > :17:32.Durham, at Taunton over the weekend by nine wickets to close the gap to
:17:32. > :17:37.45 points with a game in hand. They play that tomorrow when they start
:17:37. > :17:40.a four-day match at New Road, Worcester. Torquay United have
:17:40. > :17:42.signed striker Taiwo Atieno on a one-year deal. The Kenyan
:17:42. > :17:45.international put pen to paper after successfully completing a
:17:45. > :17:51.two-week trial with the Gulls and represents the final piece in
:17:51. > :17:54.manager Martin Ling's jigsaw. He said he was pleased to have a full
:17:54. > :18:02.squad ready to go two weeks before the season starts, especially given
:18:02. > :18:05.where they had started. Well done to Truro's 17 year-old athlete
:18:05. > :18:11.Annabel Gummow. She won bronze for Great Britain in the 5000 metres at
:18:11. > :18:15.the European Under-20 championships in Estonia at the weekend. And
:18:15. > :18:18.that's all the sport. Thank you. Now for a story which didn't quite
:18:18. > :18:21.ring true when we heard about it, but we drove there, checked it out
:18:21. > :18:24.and indeed there is something rather unusual going on in the
:18:24. > :18:27.garage of a detached house in Okehampton. In fact, you can hear
:18:27. > :18:30.it before you see it. It involves up to ten people all pulling
:18:30. > :18:39.together to keep a traditional pastime alive. John Henderson
:18:39. > :18:46.explains. It's a familiar sight and a familiar sound but do not be
:18:46. > :18:54.fooled. That ringing isn't coming from here. No, the bells you can
:18:54. > :18:59.hear at the moment come from this garage. It's all very
:18:59. > :19:06.straightforward, really. Ten ropes are connected to ten bell wheels in
:19:06. > :19:09.the loft. The wheels are in turn hooked up to a computer. This
:19:09. > :19:18.monitors what's going on and with some speakers plugged in, hey
:19:18. > :19:24.presto. A veritable garage belfry. And one that's fairly user-friendly.
:19:24. > :19:27.It's the sort of thing you cannot really practise on your own with. A
:19:27. > :19:33.lot of parishioners don't like church bells going for any length
:19:33. > :19:36.of time. Yes, it is a good thing. The garage belongs to keen bell-
:19:36. > :19:40.ringer Mischa Thompson. She and her late husband, Dennis, an engineer,
:19:41. > :19:48.had their first simulated bell installed four years ago. Now she's
:19:48. > :19:54.got the only set of ten simulated bells in the country. The thing is,
:19:54. > :19:57.you can ring them out of church time, this is the point. You cannot
:19:58. > :20:04.ring them in church any time, you must have specific times to
:20:04. > :20:12.practise and you must get permission. Here, you can, and ring
:20:12. > :20:18.them any time because it's just me! Net down at midnight? Absolutely!
:20:18. > :20:21.The trouble is going... As well as being used by seasoned bell ringers,
:20:22. > :20:29.the garage bells are a useful way of attracting new talent to a
:20:30. > :20:37.uniquely English art. It is quite strange, the feeling of being in a
:20:37. > :20:43.garage. These are miles lighter. I have only just got used to them,
:20:43. > :20:46.really. But yes, it gives you good practice. Named in honour of their
:20:46. > :20:56.owners, the DenMisch Ring are ten simulated bells as heavenly as the
:20:56. > :21:00.
:21:00. > :21:05.real thing. Really unusual. I love that story. Now for a new play
:21:05. > :21:08.which intends to make a splash. It's being based on Plymouth's
:21:08. > :21:10.famous Tinside Lido and the history of the outdoor pool. As Johnny
:21:10. > :21:13.Rutherford reports, the Listed Theatre is getting ready this
:21:14. > :21:21.summer to take you on a unique, watery romp through the thrills and
:21:21. > :21:27.chills of one of Britain's best- loved lidos. Looking good at 76
:21:27. > :21:32.years old. And like a lot of people at that age, it has some tales to
:21:32. > :21:35.tell. The pool was built in 1935 and was extremely popular. It
:21:35. > :21:41.served to me for many years until in the 1980s when it fell into
:21:41. > :21:44.disuse. Amid many battles for funding, it reopened in 2003 and
:21:44. > :21:47.this summer it's open for free and at the end of the month and you
:21:47. > :21:57.play will be performed in the evenings, telling tales of lives,
:21:57. > :22:03.loves and battles around the pool. I could see the entire sound.
:22:03. > :22:06.started off as a research project about a pool in Ipswich. And then
:22:06. > :22:10.we quickly found out about all the wonderful light goes around the
:22:10. > :22:15.country and especially in 10 side so we took that research along with
:22:15. > :22:20.other research and Plymouth and be able we've that into the
:22:20. > :22:25.performance, which will perform at the Lida. Together material, the
:22:25. > :22:34.company spoke with locals who had grown up swimming here. If we did
:22:34. > :22:38.not have the money to get in, we would borrow somebody's, somebody
:22:38. > :22:42.would lend us their plastic desk and we were coming through the
:22:42. > :22:46.spectators entrance. And then the Life Guards would think, I don't
:22:46. > :22:55.remember seeing her and throw us out. By boyfriend sent be a
:22:55. > :23:02.wonderful white bikini from abroad. I felt really special in it! It was
:23:02. > :23:08.nice to participate. The show opens on 30th July and runs at 8pm for
:23:08. > :23:11.one week. Some lovely memories. There was a fairly magnificent
:23:11. > :23:15.sight at the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset this weekend as more than
:23:15. > :23:18.650 swans were rounded up for the biannual census. As part of the
:23:18. > :23:22.process, the birds were checked by vets, weighed, recorded and ringed
:23:22. > :23:31.where necessary. Around 200 volunteers helped staff to tackle
:23:31. > :23:34.the round-up, which took two days to complete. I remember being there
:23:34. > :23:42.in the spring and the eggs had come early and were hatching. Now the
:23:42. > :23:52.weather. He saw some gorgeous sunshine in Plymouth, but in North
:23:52. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:59.Devon, it was quite misty for the The answer silly, that Mr and low
:23:59. > :24:03.cloud and 16 degrees and an Exeter, sunshine and 25. Quite a contrast.
:24:03. > :24:08.Over the next few days the mistiness will be a round and
:24:08. > :24:12.overnight. Misty in the West but for all of us it will feel warm air
:24:12. > :24:18.and the humidity is up. And there's a problem with low cloud and fog
:24:18. > :24:26.first thing tomorrow. This is the big picture, and so cloud close by,
:24:26. > :24:30.it's not a complete picture. There are some showers beginning to
:24:30. > :24:33.develop, coming down through Wales in two parts of Dorset and Somerset
:24:33. > :24:37.and people keep an eye on those this evening. The weather fronts
:24:37. > :24:40.from the West, they gradually make progress towards us. This is
:24:40. > :24:44.launched and Tamara, and by lunchtime on Wednesday, one weather
:24:44. > :24:49.front trying to get into the far west of Cornwall but that is as far
:24:49. > :24:59.as it will get. It will stop there. Perhaps getting a push into
:24:59. > :24:59.
:24:59. > :25:04.Thursday. Until then, a lot of dry weather, this evening sun hazy
:25:04. > :25:07.sunshine to enjoy it and I mention showers coming to the east, they're
:25:07. > :25:11.appearing across Somerset and Dorset, all this is clear skies and
:25:11. > :25:18.to you run into the fog in the far west of Cornwall. The north
:25:18. > :25:23.Cornwall coast and North Devon. Overnight, they will find that some
:25:23. > :25:27.of that cloud will give us some fine drizzle but also breaks in the
:25:27. > :25:30.cloud and certainly to the east of Dartmoor, like today, there is
:25:30. > :25:36.likely to be a lot of sunshine, especially first thing. This was
:25:36. > :25:39.earlier today. Look at that, isn't that fantastic? It looks like a
:25:39. > :25:45.different world with plenty of sunshine, lifting temperatures and
:25:45. > :25:49.for many of us, we could have had a paddle in the water because 25 was
:25:49. > :25:53.a top temperature and there will be equally as warm tomorrow again with
:25:53. > :25:57.that hazy sunshine making for a real summer's day. But not
:25:57. > :26:02.everywhere. It's quite a complex story tomorrow, particularly
:26:02. > :26:08.because of that mist and fog in the far west. Morning temperatures,
:26:08. > :26:14.starting at 14, perhaps 15. Really struggling across the western parts
:26:14. > :26:17.of Cornwall with that Mr and fog and for the rest of us, fine
:26:17. > :26:23.weather, sunshine and some more in the way of cloud for the second
:26:23. > :26:27.half of the day. And always more a cloud in the far west of Cornwall
:26:27. > :26:34.or round the as a silly. Here, to be just getting up to 17 or 18
:26:34. > :26:37.degrees, 25 the top figure. Gaza City, Cloudy and Mr, just a little
:26:37. > :26:47.bit brighter, not quite as great as it has been today and not as nasty
:26:47. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:06.as it has been. Still a lot of The coastal waters forecast. The
:27:06. > :27:16.Windows Northwest Today, forced three, occasionally forced four.
:27:16. > :27:17.
:27:17. > :27:21.The risk of fog patches again. The forecast for the rest of the week,
:27:21. > :27:25.expect more cloud on Thursday, the risk of patchy rain and there is
:27:25. > :27:29.uncertainty and the forecast for Thursday, Friday mainly dry, there