:00:13. > :00:18.Sleeping in hedges, begging on the street and scavenging for food -
:00:18. > :00:28.one man's account of sleeping rough in a countryside town. A local
:00:28. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:32.church says the numbers are rising. We are seeing younger men and
:00:32. > :00:34.middle-aged men who have fallen on hard times.
:00:34. > :00:37.Good evening and welcome to Spotlight. We'll be assessing how
:00:37. > :00:40.much of a problem rural homelessness really is.
:00:40. > :00:43.Also tonight: We are a region defined by our coastline - now
:00:43. > :00:45.plans are being put forward for dozens of new marine conservation
:00:45. > :00:48.zones. Every metal detector's dreams - the
:00:48. > :00:57.amazing treasure buried beneath the surface, but it's not quite a case
:00:57. > :01:02.A homeless charity says the number of people sleeping rough in Dorset
:01:02. > :01:05.is on the rise and rural areas are affected as well as big towns. One
:01:05. > :01:08.local church has told Spotlight it has seen a growing number turning
:01:08. > :01:18.up on the doorstep asking for food, but the district council says help
:01:18. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:47.is available if it is needed. I've been in Dorset investigating. To I
:01:47. > :01:52.ended up being homeless, slid in with other guys.
:01:52. > :01:59.I have even slept in a wheelie bin. He took me to some of the places
:01:59. > :02:04.that he says him and others have been staying. This is just a two-
:02:04. > :02:12.man tent. I have been intense in this know and things. You just have
:02:12. > :02:17.to cuddle up to each other. It is this - - is this rural homelessness
:02:18. > :02:22.hit and four - - hidden from view? I have never been homeless before.
:02:22. > :02:28.I take my hat off to homelessness. The discipline - - opened my eyes
:02:28. > :02:33.up. This is not something you ever told you would be doing? And 81 to
:02:33. > :02:38.be doing it. John lost his parents and turn to alcohol, is staying
:02:38. > :02:43.with friends before ending up on the streets. He says he is on top
:02:43. > :02:51.of his drinking, but understood to go back to his family in Essex. He
:02:51. > :02:59.says some have been slipping in this hedge outside this church.
:02:59. > :03:04.can see the card boards. So, people will be coming up to church and a
:03:04. > :03:09.Sunday morning not knowing that three of your hidden behind here.
:03:09. > :03:15.Basically, yeah. The local rectory has become a port of call for food
:03:15. > :03:21.and clothing. We would expect to get five people at the front door.
:03:21. > :03:27.They will turn up, ring the bell and would ask for food or for some
:03:27. > :03:33.help and we do what we can. Out the numbers increasing? Very definitely.
:03:33. > :03:38.And the age profile is changing. Fragrance tend to be older men, but
:03:38. > :03:43.not what we're seeing now are younger men and middle-aged men who
:03:43. > :03:49.have fallen on hard times. There is an increasing number of people
:03:49. > :03:53.coming to us for advice, and increasing the number of people
:03:53. > :03:57.homeless and to the number of people threatened with homelessness.
:03:57. > :04:01.West Dorset District Council says it carries a regular checks in this
:04:01. > :04:05.town and this week found no rough sleepers. It lets that there are
:04:05. > :04:09.services available if people find themselves homeless.
:04:09. > :04:12.Our Political Editor, Martyn Oates, joins me now. A number of people in
:04:12. > :04:15.the film there saying this is a problem and yet the local council
:04:15. > :04:23.saying it isn't. Is rural homelessness just hidden in every
:04:23. > :04:27.sense? You were filming in Dorset. In Cornwall the council has
:04:27. > :04:35.produced its latest survey into homelessness and the findings
:04:35. > :04:39.showed that the number of rough sleepers in Cornwall has increased.
:04:39. > :04:43.At the same time, the council says that might not be an entirely
:04:43. > :04:49.accurate depiction because it in cities by got a better method of
:04:49. > :04:58.identifying rough sleepers. It also says that last year's information
:04:58. > :05:05.did not contain any information for Cornwall east of St Austell.
:05:05. > :05:12.Cornwall is taking the problem very seriously indeed. It still thinks
:05:12. > :05:16.that this year's total of 88 is a conservative estimate and this is
:05:16. > :05:20.getting those people off the streets into proper housing is a
:05:20. > :05:25.priority. Housing is the responsibility of local government,
:05:25. > :05:30.but also Westminster. What are they doing? The government insists that
:05:30. > :05:34.homelessness nationally is at an all-time low, but it says it is
:05:34. > :05:39.giving local authorities �400 million to deal with the problems.
:05:39. > :05:45.It is also committing itself to building 170,000 affordable homes
:05:45. > :05:48.in that period. New affordable homes in theory in the south-west
:05:48. > :05:55.are something to be welcomed, but the way the government is going
:05:55. > :06:02.about to them where those homes will be built, particularly if
:06:02. > :06:04.they're on green field sites, is proving increasingly controversial.
:06:04. > :06:07.The body of Plymouth Royal Marine Sergeant Barry Weston has been
:06:07. > :06:10.repatriated this afternoon. Sergeant Weston, a father of three,
:06:10. > :06:13.was serving with 42 Commando when he was killed by a roadside bomb in
:06:13. > :06:15.Afghanistan. His body was flown into RAF Brize Norton this
:06:15. > :06:18.afternoon and his cortege travelled through the village before stopping
:06:18. > :06:28.at a memorial garden. It is the first repatriation at the base
:06:28. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:40.since they ended at RAF Lyneham And there'll be more on the
:06:40. > :06:44.repatriation of Sergeant Barry Weston in our late news tonight.
:06:44. > :06:46.Proposals which could see 20% of the sea around the South West coast
:06:47. > :06:51.protected by marine conservation zones have been put forward to the
:06:51. > :06:54.Government. These are areas which limit the amount of fishing and
:06:54. > :06:57.other activities that can take place as a way of protecting
:06:57. > :06:59.species. The plans have been welcomed by conservationists, but
:06:59. > :07:02.some fishermen are critical saying their industry is already under
:07:02. > :07:12.prolonged attack. Spotlight's Environment Correspondent, Adrian
:07:12. > :07:17.Campbell, reports. This south-west has some of this
:07:17. > :07:20.country's most impressive marine habitat, but the need for increased
:07:20. > :07:24.conservation netted across Europe has prompted a three-year debate
:07:24. > :07:28.with interested groups here about how to conserve the marine
:07:28. > :07:32.environment. Finding sanctuary has topped with everyone and now
:07:32. > :07:39.delivered its final verdict. It suggests a new network of marine
:07:39. > :07:45.conservation zones covering 20 % of the sea. There is a lot of detail
:07:45. > :07:49.about which sectors have supported the site and how it has originated.
:07:49. > :07:53.The detail that has gone into finding areas which are most
:07:53. > :07:57.acceptable to all the sectors around the table, so we look at a
:07:57. > :08:00.huge variety of different stakeholders and interests, people
:08:00. > :08:05.come with different values, and what this represents is the
:08:06. > :08:10.compromises that all sides were prepared to make. Finding Sentry
:08:10. > :08:16.recommends that to be 13 Marine Conservation dunes beyond 12
:08:16. > :08:19.nautical miles. It is proposing 32 inshore conservation zones and
:08:19. > :08:25.there would be 13 reference areas, many of which would be underside
:08:25. > :08:31.coast. The was had - - these would have the strongest protection. It
:08:31. > :08:36.is suggested that the Isles of Scilly Conservation some would have
:08:36. > :08:41.many different components, and Lundy would get extra protection.
:08:41. > :08:49.So why the conservationists have been? Historically, Management of
:08:49. > :08:55.fisheries has been from a position of reluctance and we have now
:08:55. > :09:00.reduced this. Our oceans around the edge of collapse and we have to put
:09:00. > :09:05.in a robust system of protected areas if we have any chance - - if
:09:06. > :09:11.we are to have any chance of moving it forward. Fishermen see it
:09:11. > :09:16.differently. To blanket areas is not the way to do it. How would you
:09:16. > :09:21.do it? What are your ideas? would have to get everyone together
:09:21. > :09:25.and find what is reasonable ways of doing it. The government aims to
:09:25. > :09:29.establish the new Marine Conservation since the the end of
:09:29. > :09:34.2012, but first there will be a further period of public
:09:34. > :09:43.consultation. We will be going to the minister with our case during
:09:43. > :09:46.that consultation and we hope that the minister will go to the sides
:09:46. > :09:50.of the needs of the fishing industry and the food needs of this
:09:50. > :09:59.nation. A but it will be at least another year before we know for
:09:59. > :10:04.certain how many conservation zones are approved by government.
:10:04. > :10:09.This sale of Plymouth Argyll Football Club has been opened up to
:10:09. > :10:15.fresh bitters. The administrator is making new offers. The deal with
:10:15. > :10:21.Bishop International has still not completed. Hamish Marshall is with
:10:21. > :10:25.me. Does this bring us nearer to a solution? It dos, but it is a
:10:25. > :10:30.double edged sword. The administrator has run out of
:10:30. > :10:35.patience with the bid from Kevin Heaney. A quick because this have
:10:35. > :10:40.to be done? The timescale is very tight. The players and staff have
:10:40. > :10:50.signed a deal which says they will work on reduced wages until next
:10:50. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:56.Thursday but some sort of tangible deal needs to be introduced them.
:10:56. > :11:02.Who is going to be in the frame? Kevin Heaney still says that his
:11:02. > :11:07.bid could happen. James Brent is definitely somebody he is engaged
:11:07. > :11:15.with the administrator already. Another businessman from the south-
:11:15. > :11:20.east launched a bid in March. Those three are still expected to be
:11:20. > :11:25.involved. More bidders could come forward, but the club has big debts
:11:25. > :11:28.so I don't think the doors will be knocked down with the bidders.
:11:28. > :11:33.Peter Ridsdale? Peter Ridsdale would have taken over the club
:11:33. > :11:37.under the deal with Kevin Heaney. He says he will stay as acting
:11:37. > :11:41.chairman until the deal is done. He said that if the new owner wants
:11:41. > :11:51.him to remain, but if the new owner would be happy to walk away, he
:11:51. > :11:51.
:11:51. > :11:54.would be happy to do that as well. Coming up: We will be looking
:11:54. > :11:57.around an eclectic mix of heritage sites later in the programme. From
:11:57. > :12:00.castles to cottages, tin mines to treatment works, they are all open
:12:01. > :12:10.free as part of Heritage open day And from source to supply, we
:12:11. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:18.explore the history behind the A piece of silver found near
:12:18. > :12:21.Newquay has been declared treasure trove at a special inquest in Truro.
:12:21. > :12:23.The 13th century solid silver seal was found by a metal detector
:12:23. > :12:26.enthusiast on farmland near the resort. Experts say it is an
:12:26. > :12:28.extremely rare find. Our Cornwall reporter, David George, has the
:12:28. > :12:32.details. John Faraday has been using his
:12:32. > :12:37.metal detector for almost 35 years. And during that time he has found
:12:37. > :12:43.dozens of coins but none of them anything like what he found on 6th
:12:43. > :12:48.February this year. A I thought it was just a branch. What he had
:12:48. > :12:53.actually found what a solid silver seal, a little bit bigger than a 10
:12:53. > :13:02.pence coin. It shows an eagle with its wings outstretched and an
:13:02. > :13:08.inscription that says it is the seal of Tristan. It is from the
:13:08. > :13:13.13th century. I was a bag of nerves! It is a lovely feeling to
:13:13. > :13:20.pick up something from the soil that has been there 700 years. But
:13:20. > :13:24.is quite exciting. I was shaking like a leaf. To date the Cornwall
:13:25. > :13:30.coroner declared this field to be treasure trove, meaning that it
:13:30. > :13:35.belongs to the States. Once it has been valued the finder and
:13:35. > :13:40.landowner will share the proceeds. The Cornwall Museum wants to add
:13:40. > :13:50.this to its collection. It would have been used to seal to represent
:13:50. > :13:59.
:13:59. > :14:05.the Earl to say that I'm official. You can imagine Tristan out here on
:14:05. > :14:09.the north cliffs, perhaps on his horse riding along, but he has lost
:14:09. > :14:18.his seal. Little did he know it would be 800 years before it was
:14:18. > :14:21.found again. Sites across the South West rarely
:14:21. > :14:24.seen by the public are being opened up this weekend as part of Heritage
:14:24. > :14:27.Open Days. Old factories, cottages and castles will be on show, along
:14:28. > :14:37.with some sites you would expect people to turn their noses up at.
:14:38. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:56.Priston House in Plymouth. It is in the city centre, but is very rarely
:14:56. > :14:59.
:15:00. > :15:03.seen. This is the main room of the House. It is a thought to be the
:15:03. > :15:08.oldest house in Plymouth. As well as being used by the Church it has
:15:08. > :15:15.been a wine store and a bacon factory. He is the only example of
:15:15. > :15:22.a medieval house in Plymouth. This was built in the 14 the 80s.
:15:22. > :15:29.Heritage Open Days is a national event giving people the chance to
:15:29. > :15:35.see important sites. There is such a huge variety of places. There
:15:36. > :15:40.should be something to tickle your curiosity and suit your taste.
:15:40. > :15:44.Don't be fooled into thinking this is just about old homes. This
:15:44. > :15:48.sewage works in Torbay is opening its doors and there are plenty of
:15:48. > :15:57.people clambering for the chance to see how local waste water is
:15:57. > :16:02.processed. This is ultraviolet disinfectant. It is the final part
:16:02. > :16:11.of the process and kills the remaining bacteria by altering its
:16:11. > :16:17.DNA. I know what you're thinking, does it smell? Well, yes, a little
:16:17. > :16:26.bit, but I am told what Ms Snelling is the chemicals. For it deals with
:16:26. > :16:31.10 million gallons of raw sewage a day. At the end of that process we
:16:31. > :16:37.have six Blue Flag beaches in Torbay. Some of the sides taking
:16:37. > :16:40.part are at asking people to pre- book. All the events are free.
:16:40. > :16:43.The Government has agreed to plans to increase the age limit for girls
:16:43. > :16:46.to play alongside boys in mixed football teams. It follows a
:16:46. > :16:48.successful campaign led by Emily Lewis-Clarke from Newton Abbot, who
:16:48. > :16:54.took a 6,000 name petition to the Football Association in London
:16:54. > :16:57.earlier this year. The FA voted to raise the age limit from 11 to 13,
:16:57. > :17:03.meaning Emily could carry on playing for her local side next
:17:03. > :17:06.season. Today's dreary weather might make
:17:06. > :17:08.you think that summer is over, but the cricket season in the South
:17:08. > :17:12.West has just reached a scorching finale. Devon's County cricketers
:17:12. > :17:15.have returned home as the Champions of all the Minor League Counties.
:17:15. > :17:18.To find out how they did it, we can go live to Spotlight's reporter
:17:18. > :17:28.Simon Walton, who is joining the celebrations at Sidmouth Cricket
:17:28. > :17:33.
:17:33. > :17:39.Well, rumours of the early end to this summer may be premature
:17:39. > :17:45.because it is a lovely evening here. What an amazing cricket ground.
:17:45. > :17:54.That is to deceive just across that boundary, and it is the clubhouse,
:17:54. > :17:59.which is thatched. A few weeks ago, Devon was in the semi-finals
:17:59. > :18:07.against Berkshire, which they beat. Today they returned victorious from
:18:07. > :18:11.the final. I will hand this over to the man of the match. How did you
:18:11. > :18:18.come to be man of the match? managed to get a few runs and a few
:18:18. > :18:22.wickets in the second innings. It was more of a team performance.
:18:22. > :18:27.half century you got, and some crucial wickets. Yes, it would do
:18:27. > :18:33.quite nicely in the end. A great time for English cricket. Have you
:18:33. > :18:38.got ambitions to go on to first- class cricket? Of course I would
:18:38. > :18:44.absolutely love to. I had just got to keep taking more runs and
:18:44. > :18:48.getting more wickets. A what does this mean for debt and cricket?
:18:48. > :18:52.means a great deal. We have had good success in the past with three
:18:52. > :18:56.victories in the last eight years in the championship. We won at the
:18:56. > :19:04.very mature side in 2006 but this time we have had a development
:19:04. > :19:10.squad of youngsters. Debt and has a reputation for nurturing talent and
:19:10. > :19:16.sending them on to the bigger clubs. Yes, there are several other
:19:16. > :19:22.players with Somerset and another with Warwickshire. So, what is next
:19:22. > :19:27.for you? Keep working over the winter, keep doing my physical work
:19:27. > :19:34.and keep trying to improve if my cricket. Lackeys said, scored a few
:19:34. > :19:37.more runs, took a few more wickets. Now you are back to your day job as
:19:37. > :19:44.a physiotherapist. Good luck with that, good luck with your cricket
:19:44. > :19:54.enjoy rugby over the winter. From, Sidmouth, the home of the man of
:19:54. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:07.the match but it - - man of the Now, the weather. We have had to an
:20:07. > :20:13.unusually dry spring, saw our water levels are running low. But how do
:20:13. > :20:17.we get a water? Tonight we start the first and a series about water
:20:17. > :20:24.and look at the history of our water supply in the south-west.
:20:24. > :20:28.Only about 3% of the water on planet Earth is freshwater and off
:20:28. > :20:33.that's 1% is drinking water. The water in a race at worst, streams
:20:33. > :20:40.and rivers is the same water that the dinosaurs were drinking. It
:20:40. > :20:43.starts out at sea as condensation, then falls as rain. And the water
:20:43. > :20:47.reaches the ground it flows towards the sea and the process repeats
:20:48. > :20:52.itself. On the way the water is absorbed by plants and animals and
:20:52. > :20:55.sustains life. In the south-west springs and rivers would have been
:20:55. > :21:05.her first water supply, but as the population increased we needed to
:21:05. > :21:07.
:21:07. > :21:12.Channel waters to towns and villages. Water pipes were first
:21:12. > :21:16.made from wood and then clay, with metal or cast-iron becoming the
:21:16. > :21:22.mainstay of water distribution, still used today. Pumping water
:21:22. > :21:28.into pipes proved to be a challenge without power, but in Dorset the
:21:28. > :21:32.engineers had the solution, the water is the power. The race to
:21:32. > :21:36.acquire stores to water out of the springs and it provides a pressure
:21:36. > :21:42.head because the reservoir is 50 ft higher than we are at the present
:21:42. > :21:48.time. That provides the pressure to drive that - - drive the turbine
:21:48. > :21:52.unit. The Red rotor is what spins round with the water coming up
:21:52. > :22:00.through the centre column, in to the rotor and that's what drives
:22:00. > :22:04.around. By the rotation of it rotating round this year and into
:22:05. > :22:10.the crank shaft, that drives the pistons which pubs the water up to
:22:10. > :22:19.the rest of wire and from the reservoir it can gravitate into
:22:19. > :22:26.Weymouth. As demand increased, reservoirs are were built.
:22:26. > :22:29.first was this one on the edge of Dartmoor in 1861. Then this one and
:22:29. > :22:35.1898. This was the main water supply for Plymouth and the
:22:35. > :22:40.building of the dam took five years and back then cost �178,000. That
:22:40. > :22:45.would be �10 million in today's money. It is built out of 60,000
:22:45. > :22:50.tons of granite blocks. In the late 70s and 80s the largest West at
:22:50. > :22:58.work for belts. New Maze - - new ways to move and store water came
:22:58. > :23:04.on line. This reservoir quadrupled the amount of water stored in the
:23:04. > :23:07.south-west. But even that couldn't keep up with demand. In the early
:23:07. > :23:12.1990s it became apparent that we needed to provide more water. We
:23:12. > :23:17.looked at different alternatives that will be decided the best one
:23:17. > :23:27.was was a pump storage scheme. Miners were brought into tunnel 800
:23:27. > :23:28.
:23:28. > :23:32.Seven kilometres of pipeline were late. This system is a key part of
:23:32. > :23:36.South West Water's distribution system. Next week we will be
:23:36. > :23:46.looking at her current water supply and following the water from wet of
:23:46. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :24:00.work to tap. - - From re Izaguirre We have more wet-weather to come.
:24:00. > :24:08.It will be a wet weekend. It will be drier tomorrow, but Saturday and
:24:08. > :24:15.Sunday looked unsettled. This is the first area of low pressure. It
:24:15. > :24:25.throws ahead of it a lot of moist air, hence the low cloud and fog we
:24:25. > :24:30.are likely to see this evening. These weather systems will push
:24:30. > :24:40.their way northwards and we are between weather fronts by midday
:24:40. > :24:40.
:24:40. > :24:44.tomorrow. It will be drier and brighter. By the time we get into
:24:45. > :24:49.the weekend, it really does start to get quite active. This area of
:24:49. > :24:54.low pressure will sweep across Britain with strong winds and rain
:24:54. > :25:04.in Saturday morning, replaced by showers in the afternoon. There is
:25:04. > :25:05.
:25:05. > :25:09.the cloud structure from earlier today. The cloud will become law
:25:09. > :25:14.and claw through this evening and overnight tonight. There will be
:25:14. > :25:18.extensive fog overnight tonight. It will be very miles, so the it
:25:18. > :25:22.overnight temperatures will be no law than 14 degrees for most of us.
:25:22. > :25:32.Tomorrow morning we had the mist and low cloud to start the day.
:25:32. > :25:33.
:25:33. > :25:40.There will be some bright nuts. It will feel warmer in this some, with
:25:41. > :25:47.temperatures getting up to possibly 20 degrees. Along the south coast
:25:47. > :25:52.it will... for the Isles of Scilly, if you're very misty and the
:25:52. > :26:02.possibility of some fog throughout the day with a southerly winds and
:26:02. > :26:38.
:26:38. > :26:43.18 the top temperature. Times of So, let slip that the outlook. We
:26:43. > :26:48.are a little concerned about the strength of the wins on Sunday, but
:26:48. > :26:52.also on Monday with the winds will be very gusty and there is the
:26:52. > :26:58.likelihood of seeing some sharp showers. Saturday will not be to
:26:58. > :27:02.bat, but blustery showers after the Mian Mian abuse through, and still
:27:02. > :27:07.windy conditions, so for the America's Cup, it will be exciting
:27:07. > :27:09.to watch! Before we go, a reminder that the
:27:09. > :27:12.America's Cup World series begins in Plymouth at the weekend, where
:27:12. > :27:15.some of the world's best sailors will be racing against each other
:27:15. > :27:18.in some of the world's fastest boats. Nine teams from seven
:27:18. > :27:21.countries will be battling it out in Plymouth Sound over the next
:27:21. > :27:25.week. Thousands of spectators will be able to watch the action close
:27:25. > :27:27.up from Plymouth Hoe, for free! Tomorrow, Spotlight will be