:00:14. > :00:24.Ship to shore. A close shave for a 9,000 tonne container ship only
:00:24. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:28.just off Cornwall. Good evening. An investigation is under way tonight
:00:28. > :00:32.after the ship ran aground, we'll have the exact route it took in a
:00:32. > :00:36.moment. Also on Spotlight tonight, a story with a sting in its tale.
:00:36. > :00:41.Swarms of wasps on the attack on a woodland walk. You could not see
:00:41. > :00:51.her, because of the Wasps, she was called up and the little ball, and
:00:51. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :00:58.then she ran into a stream. -- curled up into a ball. And expect
:00:58. > :01:06.the unexpected at the North Devon Show. We'll bring you all the
:01:06. > :01:08.highlights. An investigation is under way tonight into why a 9,000
:01:09. > :01:12.tonne container ship ran aground near Land's End. Miraculously none
:01:12. > :01:14.of the 13 crew was injured. And the cargo, including chemicals,
:01:14. > :01:18.remained intact. Falmouth coastguards had tried in vain to
:01:18. > :01:21.alert the Karin Schephers after they saw she was off course and
:01:21. > :01:25.heading for rocks. Fortunately she ran ashore in a sandy cove. It's
:01:25. > :01:27.the second time in less than three years that the vessel has run
:01:27. > :01:29.aground. Chris Lyddon reports. These dramatic pictures film from a
:01:29. > :01:32.search-and-rescue helicopter at around 4 o'clock this morning show
:01:32. > :01:37.how close this container ship came to disaster. The 9,000 ton Shep was
:01:37. > :01:41.well of course and dangerously close to shore. The after 18 crew
:01:41. > :01:48.on board, but they failed to respond to repeated emergency
:01:48. > :01:53.messages from coastguards, that the ship was heading into danger.
:01:53. > :01:59.vessel was doing 17, 18 knots, so the next thing you knew, it had run
:01:59. > :02:05.aground. This was the remarkable view that greeted the crew of the
:02:05. > :02:14.lifeboat, the City of London three, one of two launch, the other being
:02:14. > :02:22.dispatched from cent eyes. The naval helicopter pilot decided to
:02:22. > :02:27.lower his winchman. Using the radio, there was no response bus-stop
:02:27. > :02:32.where the ship was lying, was sent a winchman down on to the stern of
:02:32. > :02:36.the ship to try and find the crew and find out what was going on. We
:02:36. > :02:40.were looking to see if there had been any injuries or whether the
:02:40. > :02:46.ship was damaged. But the crew seemed to be happy that the ship
:02:46. > :02:50.was not damaged and in the five or 10 minutes we were on the ship we
:02:50. > :02:55.could see that it was already floating away from the beach and a
:02:55. > :03:04.few more minutes after that it was making its way, down towards Land's
:03:04. > :03:10.End, apparently undamaged. Most of the coastline is rocky but sea
:03:10. > :03:15.conditions were Khan, and the idea where the vessel ran aground is a
:03:15. > :03:22.sandy course known locally as the vineyards, but there are rocks to
:03:22. > :03:27.the west and east. They are extremely lucky with the conditions.
:03:27. > :03:34.A German owners of bishop claimed that the vessel did not run aground
:03:34. > :03:38.and was only close to shore. Surveyors will examine the whole of
:03:38. > :03:42.the ship in Rotterdam. It ran aground in of Denmark two years ago
:03:42. > :03:48.and an investigation found that the chief officer was drunk and had
:03:48. > :03:53.fallen asleep on watch, and that the navigational alarm system was
:03:53. > :04:03.offered. But there is no suggestion that the sport any relation to the
:04:03. > :04:11.grounding this morning, or that it was the same crew. David has been
:04:11. > :04:14.studying what happened. There is a traffic separation zone between
:04:14. > :04:17.Scilly and Lands End, such that North or South travelling ships can
:04:17. > :04:20.safely pass. This zone is marked clearly on charts and computer
:04:20. > :04:23.navigation systems. The Karin Schepers was heading south east
:04:23. > :04:26.towards the separation zone but instead of joining it and turning
:04:26. > :04:32.right with the rest of the southbound traffic, it continued to
:04:32. > :04:38.cross the zone without changing course or speed. It then left the
:04:38. > :04:48.zone at 04:09 still doing 17 knots and the same course. How do we know
:04:48. > :04:51.all that? Any share above the 100 tons in weight has this automated
:04:51. > :04:55.information system which tracks where it has headed. There are
:04:55. > :05:05.several public websites that you and I could go on to and have a
:05:05. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:10.look at this. At 04:30 the ship was doing 18 knots on the same course
:05:10. > :05:14.and is believed shortly after to have run aground. The next report
:05:14. > :05:19.we have on the ship was at 05:38 when it was headed north at 13
:05:19. > :05:27.knots. For over an hour the ship was stationary and according to the
:05:27. > :05:33.MCA and the RNLI was aground. weather conditions been a factor?
:05:33. > :05:43.The weather was pretty good, good visibility and calm conditions, and
:05:43. > :05:45.
:05:45. > :05:48.I think we narrowly avoided a major incidents on our coastline.
:05:48. > :05:50.Armed Forces minister today moved to end speculation about the future
:05:51. > :05:54.of the Navy's two training establishments in the south west.
:05:54. > :05:57.Nick Harvey said there were no plans to close Britannia Royal
:05:57. > :06:00.Naval College or HMS Raleigh, but could not rule out a possible
:06:00. > :06:02.merger. It comes on the day a strongly-worded report from the
:06:02. > :06:05.Commons' Defence Committee criticised cuts made under the
:06:05. > :06:09.Strategic Defence & Security Review. Here's Spotlight's defence reporter
:06:09. > :06:15.Scott Bingham. Here in the South West, we have seen first-hand cuts
:06:15. > :06:21.to the Royal Navy as a result of last October's at strategic defence
:06:21. > :06:29.and security review. Devon port has lost four pay 22 frigates. All of
:06:29. > :06:35.them have been decommissioned. tis a huge blow to this area. Each
:06:35. > :06:39.ship was the equivalent of an regiment or battalion, so more than
:06:39. > :06:43.1,000 experienced sailors associated with those ships. Not
:06:43. > :06:46.all of them will lose their jobs but the work to the dockyards has
:06:47. > :06:55.gone, some of those sailors have been made redundant and the money
:06:55. > :06:59.comes out of the community. first tranche of 1600 Royal Navy
:06:59. > :07:03.personnel are due to be informed of their redundancy next month. Just
:07:03. > :07:08.last week he revealed documents considering the possible closure of
:07:08. > :07:14.by the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, or HMS rally,
:07:14. > :07:20.in poor point. Either of those would have a huge impact here.
:07:20. > :07:26.Meanwhile, the Commons Select Defence Committee published a
:07:26. > :07:29.report criticising the Government over last October's strategic
:07:29. > :07:34.defence and security review. They said it was not convinced that UK
:07:34. > :07:42.royal forces will be able to do what is asked of them after 2015
:07:42. > :07:50.and said that if a long, -- long- term real terms increase in funding
:07:50. > :07:53.does not come about, we will have failed our armed forces. Earlier I
:07:53. > :07:56.spoke to the North Devon MP and Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey.
:07:56. > :08:00.I asked him what assurances he could give about the military's
:08:00. > :08:02.capabilities after 2015 in light of the Committee's report. I am rather
:08:02. > :08:05.puzzled by the committee saying that they thing problems will come
:08:05. > :08:09.about after 2015. We are due to come out of Afghanistan by then and
:08:09. > :08:16.I would have thought that our ability to meet challenges coming
:08:16. > :08:22.our way would be greater after having that major responsibility
:08:22. > :08:26.taking off or shoulders. Either way, I believe we have the range of
:08:26. > :08:34.flexible and adaptable forces capable of meeting whatever is at
:08:34. > :08:40.thrown at them. We have to ask about speculation over the future
:08:40. > :08:45.of Dartmouth Royal Naval College and HMS rally. What does the future
:08:45. > :08:49.hold for those establishments? There is no firm ground to change
:08:49. > :08:55.anything at either of those establishments. In the long term
:08:55. > :09:00.the Royal Navy might decide that it wants to perform both functions in
:09:00. > :09:04.one place, but as you say, this is speculation and some time off into
:09:04. > :09:09.the future. This would need working out as a detailed plan and money
:09:09. > :09:16.would need to be found for it, so it is a good way off, if it were to
:09:16. > :09:19.happen at all. Let me be absolutely clear. There was a worry before the
:09:19. > :09:24.strategic defence review that this was going to happen, then it went
:09:24. > :09:28.away, now it seems to have come back because of leaked documents.
:09:28. > :09:32.You are saying that there is no concrete government policy to close
:09:32. > :09:37.either of these pieces at the moment? I am saying exactly that.
:09:37. > :09:41.The other point I would like you to reflect upon is that when we
:09:41. > :09:46.announced the defence reform package, we said that these
:09:46. > :09:53.decisions would be divorced from the Ministry of Defence down to the
:09:53. > :09:57.individual services, and it does, I think, cut into another issue you
:09:57. > :10:02.may have seen in the Secretary of Defence's statement a couple of
:10:02. > :10:06.weeks ago that we would like to bring 45 Commando, down to the
:10:06. > :10:10.South West, and the issue of where they might be based and the future
:10:10. > :10:15.of naval training are intertwined, and these are complex issues that
:10:15. > :10:19.will not be resolved overnight, but will fall squarely to the Royal
:10:19. > :10:29.Navy to determine what they might want to do about it, and not
:10:29. > :10:34.something that will be foisted upon the Royal Navy by ministers.
:10:34. > :10:39.Political Editor Martyn Oates is with us now. There is a possible
:10:39. > :10:44.relocation of 45 Commando, to the South West? We knew that it was
:10:44. > :10:49.leaving his present base in Scotland. And the Government has a
:10:49. > :10:54.long-term ambition to bring the Royal Marines to the South West. A
:10:54. > :11:00.couple of nights ago, there was speculation that if HMS Dartmouth
:11:00. > :11:04.or Heacham is Braley was to close, one of those might provide a new
:11:04. > :11:11.home for 45 Commando. The Armed forces Minister has confirmed that
:11:11. > :11:19.speculation along those lines is possibly not to wake of the mark. -
:11:19. > :11:23.- too wide of the mark. We are used to the government making these
:11:23. > :11:27.decisions for the armed forces. That is an important change. Of
:11:27. > :11:32.great importance for Devonport is where the new generation of Type 26
:11:32. > :11:38.frigates will be based, at their import, or Portsmouth, or possibly
:11:38. > :11:48.divided between the two. That decision will now be in the hands
:11:48. > :11:49.
:11:49. > :11:53.of the head of the Navy, rather than of ministers. Later in the
:11:53. > :11:56.programme, find out why children have been encouraged to get out and
:11:56. > :11:59.play today. Plus, the traders who fear this vintage market is at risk
:11:59. > :12:05.from redevelopment. And the Olympic hopeful who only took up rowing
:12:05. > :12:09.three years ago. The number of motorists caught drunk behind the
:12:09. > :12:11.wheel after a crash has more than doubled in Devon and Cornwall. The
:12:11. > :12:18.figures were released by the police following a month-long campaign
:12:18. > :12:21.targeting drunk drivers in June. While the number of positive tests
:12:22. > :12:31.fell overall from 209 in June last year, to 141 this year, the
:12:32. > :12:34.
:12:34. > :12:37.positive tests following a collision rose from 20 to 49. Devon
:12:37. > :12:41.has been chosen to pilot a new payment by results scheme for
:12:41. > :12:43.children's centres. The county is one of just nine to trial the new
:12:44. > :12:46.system. The Government will reward authorities for reaching the most
:12:46. > :12:49.vulnerable families and for improving family health and
:12:49. > :12:53.wellbeing. It then intends to roll out the scheme nationally within
:12:53. > :12:56.the next couple of years. A challenge "of Everest proportions"
:12:56. > :13:03.- that's how the Royal Cornwall Hospital's Trust is viewing its bid
:13:03. > :13:06.for Foundation status. In a leaked document to BBC Radio Cornwall, the
:13:06. > :13:09.manager responsible for its bid says a "step change" is needed if
:13:09. > :13:11.it's to meet several crucial deadlines. The move to foundation
:13:11. > :13:15.status would give local NHS managers more freedom to manage
:13:15. > :13:21.their budgets, but the Trust fears it needs to clear its �25 million
:13:21. > :13:25.debt before it will be considered. Walkers say a swarm of angry wasps
:13:25. > :13:28.have attacked them and their dogs near a popular walking spot close
:13:28. > :13:32.to St Austell. One family of six people notched up 45 stings and
:13:32. > :13:37.another woman says she had to run for her life after the wasps
:13:37. > :13:40.attacked her dogs. John Henderson reports. Five months Old Bailey
:13:40. > :13:48.cowers in the book will become, hardly surprising after being
:13:48. > :13:52.attacked by Wasps on Saturday. dogs were screening, as if you had
:13:52. > :14:01.trodden on her tail. The children started screaming, I started
:14:01. > :14:05.screaming, and he ran off. The dogs were been taken for a walk near St
:14:05. > :14:12.hostel. The Wasps got into their ears, but amazingly their owner was
:14:12. > :14:22.not stung. It could have been a lot worse. He would have frozen and not
:14:22. > :14:28.move. The attack is one of several reported in the last few days in
:14:28. > :14:34.the same area. We had 51 Saturday morning and another of three
:14:34. > :14:40.yesterday. I am aware that other practices have had a few as well,
:14:40. > :14:49.in Saint hostel, and one of the dogs is seriously ill with it -- in
:14:49. > :14:55.St Austell. I am told that these wasps might be up here somewhere,
:14:55. > :15:00.so I am off to have a look. Much of the land here is owned by the
:15:00. > :15:04.Woodland Trust. That could have been someone else walking before
:15:04. > :15:10.and which disturb the Wasps and make them particularly angry. We
:15:10. > :15:20.don't know. A trust says that if the wasps are on their property, it
:15:20. > :15:22.
:15:22. > :15:25.will help to deal with the problem. There are fears one of Dorset's
:15:25. > :15:28.most popular vintage markets could be lost if redevelopment plans are
:15:28. > :15:33.given the green light. Bridport's Vintage Quarter has won national
:15:33. > :15:37.acclaim since it was set up last year, as Leigh Rundle reports. The
:15:37. > :15:42.attraction of Bridport's vibrant Latin Quarter is that nothing is
:15:43. > :15:48.mass produced. If you can find a hat that fits, then wear it. This
:15:48. > :15:52.is St Michael's estate, home to a thriving vintage market. But the
:15:52. > :15:58.development plans are making traders now this. If we redevelop
:15:58. > :16:05.it, all of that will go, all the money coming into this area stays
:16:05. > :16:11.in the town. With the people living in the town. It is really vibrant.
:16:11. > :16:16.You can sense the atmosphere. artist Dick glazier has occupied a
:16:16. > :16:21.studio here for the past 10 years. He says it is not the first time
:16:22. > :16:26.redevelopment has been proposed. Development was proposed a couple
:16:26. > :16:34.of years ago and the town came out in forced to express his opinions
:16:34. > :16:39.about the it and we managed to get it stopped, and we just want it to
:16:39. > :16:46.be open to the community, because what is great about this area is
:16:46. > :16:49.the community, it is amazing. new plans, if approved, are likely
:16:49. > :16:58.to involve the demolition of half of St Michael's estate for new
:16:58. > :17:01.homes and possibly for retail development. Children across the
:17:01. > :17:04.region have been encouraged to play today as part of a national
:17:04. > :17:07.campaign to improve their health and well-being. Many children these
:17:07. > :17:10.days no long take part in activities which were an ordinary
:17:10. > :17:14.part of growing up for their parents. Our South Devon reporter
:17:14. > :17:18.John Ayres has been along to see some of the activities taking place
:17:18. > :17:24.today in Paignton. Suggesting that children do not play enough might
:17:24. > :17:27.seem strange, but the reality is that many turn to the deal games
:17:27. > :17:31.and other forms of virtual entertainment at, and then there is
:17:31. > :17:36.the dreaded health and safety, meaning children do not have the
:17:36. > :17:42.freedom they used to have. risks taken, the emotional well-
:17:42. > :17:47.being of the child, to become a more rounded person, through the
:17:47. > :17:51.experience of play. That is intended to make children get XB so
:17:51. > :17:58.playing outside, and to push themselves. Many children today
:17:58. > :18:02.have never played hopscotch, or climb the tree. The scheme was
:18:02. > :18:08.going down a treat. It is not very often you get to go on things like
:18:08. > :18:14.this, these activities. The first one was like a race that you had to
:18:14. > :18:20.jump over things, and the other one was, like, jumping around. Going on
:18:20. > :18:30.bouncy castles, face-painting, things like that. And a chance to
:18:30. > :18:32.
:18:32. > :18:37.meet new friends? Yes. I went on a big bouncy castle. It is very good
:18:37. > :18:41.for children that have not yet experienced making friends in
:18:41. > :18:45.different surroundings. Research claims that although most parents
:18:46. > :18:52.want their children to spend more time playing outside, one in seven
:18:52. > :18:55.could not tell you where to find the nearest park or playground.
:18:55. > :18:58.Weymouth based windsurfer Nick Dempsey is continuing his Olympic
:18:58. > :19:01.preparations at the Weymouth and Portland Sailing academy this week
:19:01. > :19:05.as he takes part in the official Olympic test event. With less than
:19:05. > :19:12.a year to go, the World Champion hopes to get a feel for the
:19:12. > :19:18.facilities, as he targets the Gold medal in 2012. Everything is very
:19:18. > :19:24.similar, but there is nothing that gets close to the pressure that you
:19:24. > :19:29.feel at the Olympic Games. It is a case of trying to get used to the
:19:29. > :19:37.venue and the surrounding so that when we come here, you are in the,
:19:37. > :19:40.God's own, as it were. Now in the three years since she started
:19:40. > :19:43.rowing, Cornwall's Helen Glover has undergone a remarkable rise to
:19:43. > :19:47.become one of the stars of Great Britain's elite squad. She's now
:19:47. > :19:50.tipped for a place on the podium at next summer's Olympic Games. As
:19:50. > :19:54.part of our Olympic dreams series, Spotlight's Phil Tuckett, has been
:19:54. > :20:00.to meet Helen and her family. Training starts early for Britain's
:20:00. > :20:06.top drawers. Up by 7:30am they are out on the water at their base near
:20:06. > :20:11.Caversham. At the last Olympics in Beijing, but in top the field with
:20:11. > :20:17.six rowing medals. For Helen Glover, from Cornwall, the world than 2,000
:20:18. > :20:22.and it was a different place. I left university I saw that they
:20:22. > :20:26.were looking for tall people in the newspaper to go into spores, for
:20:26. > :20:31.example, rowing, where you need to be tall, and they were looking to
:20:31. > :20:36.get people onto the podium for the Olympics, and I thought, what a
:20:36. > :20:46.great opportunity, I am going to try this, and I started rowing in
:20:46. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:58.2,000 indeed, having never done it before. -- 2008. Helen's parents
:20:58. > :21:00.
:21:00. > :21:06.run a small business at the harbour in. -- Newlyn. She has great will
:21:06. > :21:12.power, great strength, she has always been a very fine athlete.
:21:12. > :21:17.Helen's sporting prowess was evident from an early age.
:21:17. > :21:23.would play at school, in every team they put out, she played netball,
:21:23. > :21:26.she did swimming, everything she could possibly do. Having won a
:21:26. > :21:33.World Championship in the Zealand last year, the Great Britain
:21:33. > :21:43.women's pair will go for the gold medal in the same event and -- in
:21:43. > :21:46.Slovenia this year, before all eyes turned to the big event next year.
:21:46. > :21:49.And we'll be following more of the South West's prospective Olympians
:21:49. > :21:52.during the coming months here on Spotlight, your BBC local radio
:21:52. > :21:56.station and online. A mixture of excellent weather and big crowds
:21:56. > :21:59.have made today's North Devon Show one of the most successful for many
:21:59. > :22:02.years. Thousands of people have been enjoying a variety of
:22:02. > :22:08.livestock classes, food stalls and displays of giant vehicles. Hamish
:22:09. > :22:15.Marshall was among them. These monster trucks and a bigger
:22:15. > :22:19.attraction. They took centre stage, sharing the limelight with Country
:22:19. > :22:25.Life. We must never lose sight of the fact that we're an agricultural
:22:25. > :22:29.show, and we do not want to lose that, but at the same time you have
:22:29. > :22:35.got to make sure that we have plenty of things that are going to
:22:35. > :22:39.all the interest. Overflow car- parks were in use by midday, which
:22:39. > :22:44.was a sign of a big crowd. The weather was dry but not quite warm
:22:44. > :22:50.enough for the beach. But what about these prizewinners whose will
:22:50. > :22:56.is used for world-famous Axminster carpets? This is actually doing
:22:56. > :23:02.some good. Yes, their skin will be quite cool, underneath the well, so
:23:02. > :23:11.it is like an insulation for them, it keeps them : the summer and warm
:23:11. > :23:21.in the winter. There is a class for the Ushers, the county of my birth,
:23:21. > :23:31.but then I realised, for some reason, I was ineligible! -- at
:23:31. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:36.last for their shires. It is the first time I have been here. Having
:23:36. > :23:41.a good time? Yes, it is excellent. There are still a lot of
:23:41. > :23:45.holidaymakers here who are just enjoying everything. Daisy and
:23:45. > :23:53.Sabbath a were young winners, and it was the old show that was the
:23:53. > :23:58.really big winner. -- Tabitha. Hamish had a great time. The
:23:58. > :24:05.Honiton Show is in East Devon tomorrow. It is not going to be
:24:05. > :24:11.like today, is it? Yes, we have a bit of wet weather coming our way.
:24:11. > :24:16.The wet weather has already started to arrive. And it should be quite
:24:16. > :24:23.misty losing some of the heat overnight. We had 25 Celsius today,
:24:23. > :24:29.in Exeter. Not as warm tomorrow, and overnight tonight, we have some
:24:29. > :24:36.warm air coming from a long way south. This area of cloud, the
:24:36. > :24:44.source of the air is the warm water not far from the equator. Tropical
:24:44. > :24:49.air, it is very moist, so it will be misty and muggy overnight. There
:24:49. > :24:53.is a better story for the afternoon tomorrow. It will unproved. And as
:24:53. > :24:59.we move into Friday, we have a weak ridge of high pressure so Friday
:24:59. > :25:04.does not look too bad. Although there will be the best of one or
:25:04. > :25:13.two showers. Much of this cloud has been high-level cloud, but now it
:25:13. > :25:18.is getting more. No sign of any mist or cloud over the tops of the
:25:18. > :25:26.moors, and quite pleasant in the sunshine. Temperatures getting up
:25:26. > :25:30.to 20, 21 Celsius. Now, the cloud has become quite expensive. But the
:25:30. > :25:36.rain will be very welcome for some of our reservoirs, because it is
:25:36. > :25:40.quite likely to be heavy overnight tonight. Later tonight, then
:25:40. > :25:47.becoming more persistent and widespread and generally quite
:25:47. > :25:53.heavy, and by tomorrow morning everywhere is damp. Misty, and wet,
:25:53. > :26:01.to start the day. Still very warm, but temperatures overnight between
:26:01. > :26:06.15-17 Celsius. That rain band will move out of the way, and by the
:26:06. > :26:11.time we get to the afternoon, the sun will be out and it will feel
:26:11. > :26:21.quite comfortable. We should see temperatures reaching as high as 22
:26:21. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:36.Hopefully, the rain will clear for the East Devon Show, at Honiton. On
:26:36. > :27:06.
:27:06. > :27:10.the ells of Scilly, mainly dry. And For Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a
:27:10. > :27:14.chance of showers on Friday, Saturday not too bad, a little bit
:27:14. > :27:20.cooler, but we should see some sunshine in between the showers,
:27:20. > :27:30.and on Sunday showers will be widespread and frequent, with gusty,
:27:30. > :27:31.