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Less than 24 hours to go until Plymouth welcomes the world. There

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is spray flying and boats were crashing sometimes. There's just

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all kinds of action at all the time, it never stops. Good evening. This

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is BBC Spotlight. It is misty and damp here but organisers say

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conditions for the opening of the America's Cup World Series tomorrow

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promise some thrilling action. And Tonight what it's like to race on

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the water, the best places to see this free global event and as a

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city prepares we'll assess the true value to the local economy.

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It is a fantastic thing for Plymouth, it is putting Plymouth on

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the map. There is no such thing as bad publicity but it is quite easy

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to be over optimistic as to the long-term benefits.

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Also in the South West tonight - a damning report into a Cornish

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nursing home. Some people did not have the food for medication they

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needed. Changes will now be made and the home has apologised.

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I'm live on Plymouth Hoe - one of the great vantage points for the

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America's Cup World Series. It's expected to become a giant

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amphitheatre filled with thousands of people over the weekend - a

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stadium looking down on all the action in the Sound. As well as the

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crowds coming in, the pictures are going to be going out to a global

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audience. Depending on the weather it could be just the boost Plymouth

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needs. With the economy in the doldrums, the loss of the airport

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and the football club struggling to survive, it is a big opportunity

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for a our biggest city. But how valuable is it?

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This is an unrepeatable opportunity. Nine days, during which pictures

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will be beamed around the world. How come -- how much can I come

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away with and what does it cost to get all this? The council says it

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cannot reveal how much, if anything, it paid to secure the Cup in the

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first place. We do know that spend up to �200,000 on stages. Some

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benefits are already obvious. Our survey has shown a number of hotels

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have been putting their prices up for the coming week. This hotelier

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says he has neither raised prices or squeezed out previous bookings,

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though some hotels have. I know of a few that have passed at the

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King's that were already had, to accommodate teams. Cancel bookings?

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I believe so. Have I financially put out to get the America's Cup

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here? I'm not sure, I'm not sure where the findings have come from.

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There will be hidden costs, I'm sure. It's a fantastic thing for

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Plymouth. It is putting a limit on the map. A huge sporting event

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which is great for us because it will bring more people here other's

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hands of the year as well. It is a good thing for the city but the

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question is, how big is the benefit? They will be more people

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staying in hotels, there will be considered spending but a lot of it

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will be the distribution of spending that would have occurred

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in Plymouth over in Devon and Cornwall. This was a 25 hotels this

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week, most say trade was up though few were actually fully booked by

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yesterday. Not that it is all about hotels. This really is a global

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event which will be excellent news for the city of Plymouth and for

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the businesses, not just the hospitality business. It is about

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the real estate, the man factoring side, showing Plymouth of to its

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best advantage. It is putting Plymouth into a select bracket of

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world-class maritime cities like Venice and San Francisco,

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comparisons don't get any more impressive than that.

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I'm joined now by Dave Young from the local organising committee. Put

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this in context for us, high profile is this? This is a major,

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major event, probably one of the biggest trophy events in yacht

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racing. It is the oldest trophy in the world and the ambitions of this

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team better here are to make it the equivalent of Formula One. It is

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costing money as well, are you confident that the South West can

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make that money back and more? times over, no doubt about that. We

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have already seen a return on investment that has been made. The

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direct investment of 1000 people in the City from the teams and the

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people putting this on, and the global recognition will be immense.

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This is not just money there could be spent elsewhere? Categorically

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not, this is brand new expenditure coming into our city and giving as

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a profile on the world stage, the like of which we cannot have wished

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for. Does it all hinged on the weather, does that make it a

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success? The weather is obviously a factor in terms of how many people

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will turn out. The winds have been very strong today but the bottom

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line is, these racers have to go out in all conditions. We just want

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everyone to come out, whatever the weather, to support this event.

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If you thought sailing was about white triangles on a blue

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background our reporter finds out this is not Swallows and Amazons

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but quite an extreme sport. That's later in the programme plus much

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more on the weather forecast, the build-up behind the scenes and

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where you can see all the action. But now the rest of the day's news

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with Natalie. Care inspectors have forced a

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Cornish nursing home to make immediate changes, after they found

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bedbound residents were left all day without being given a drink or

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turned in their beds. The Care Quality Commission found countless

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failings at St Theresa's Care Centre in Callington. The home has

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now apologised. The sea with two little ones, this

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lady visits her mum in the care home every day. She is disabled

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following a stroke. Before moving to her current home, she spent

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three years in St Teresa's where her daughter regularly had cause to

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complain. She never had a bat in over three years, she was very

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rarely given a proper Betwatch, which I used to do. If I went in

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the morning, I would be lucky if she had been attended or put in her

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wheelchair. Very often, she was left in bed until lunchtime. Last

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month, inspectors found many complaints at the way patients were

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being looked after. They found that people were given no drinks or a

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Several staff have told us that they have reported concerns to the

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care watchdog about the way that home was run over a number of years.

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This lady has set up a charity to explore for Standards in Cornwall

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and says the report vindicates her campaign. I am not surprised by a

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lot of the issues that have been brought up by this inspection as I

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have had reports from all over Cornwall but this is happening in

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quite a few care homes. A lot of it, there is very shocking and I am

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relieved that at last, the Care Quality Commission have exposed the

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feelings. The Care Quality Commission found countless failings

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and 10 major concerns. In a statement today, the owners of the

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home say that this is the first adverse report the home has had in

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25 years. They say they are deeply shocked and have apologised for

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their feelings and say a far reaching and robust action playing

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has been put in place. But I was told earlier that the Home still

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has much to do to provide the standard of care the residents

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deserve. When our inspectors visited and found a degree of

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problems so for example people not being able to call for help,

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problems with care plans that were not detailed enough, the premises

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and the building not being sufficient, not being enough staff

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to look after them properly. That is very serious indeed. As a result

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of that, reworked both with the provider but with the local

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authority and safeguarding unit to make sure that people were not at

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risk of imminent harm but then from regulation. If you, put actions on

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them very quickly and required them to take action straight away.

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Police searching for a missing teenager from Wales believe she may

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have travelled to Cornwall where she has family connections. 14 year

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old Seren Bernard, from Haverfordwest, was last seen nine

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days ago. Police are growing increasingly concerned for her

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safety. Her family have made an emotional appeal for help in

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finding her. Please contact somebody to make

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sure you are all right and if she is with anyone and she won't do it,

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please, please, please contact us because we are going mental here.

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Final plans for the South Devon Link Road have been submitted to

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the Government today. The authorities argue the scheme, which

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would by-pass Kingskerswell is vital for the economic well-being

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of the whole region but opponents say it would be a waste of money. A

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final decision on funding for the project is not expected until the

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end of the year. Hundreds of bikers led a funeral

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procession in memory of a Plymouth man who died after his motor bike

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crashed last month. John Twitchell, who was 41, hit a wall on Mannamead

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Road. He'd been a member of the city's Aquila Motorcycle Club for

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the last five years and it's thought riders from all over the

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country came to pay their respects. The United Kingdom Independence

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Party - which has two MEPs in the South West - opened its annual

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conference in Eastbourne today. Leader Nigel Farage urged

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Eurosceptic Conservatives to join UKIP and called for the

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introduction of an English Parliament.

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We are discouraged from describing ourselves as English. They seem to

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me in horror at the idea of the cross of St George and I think that

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we need to do something to plug that gap.

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The Green Party - which has four councillors in the South West - is

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also holding its conference this weekend in Sheffield. Party leader

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Caroline Lucas used her platform speech to criticise the coalition

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government's housing policy. I have to say to the captain

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mothering of local government and committees, Eric Pickles -- Eric

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Pickles, cutting the budget by 60% is a strange way of demonstrating

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commitment. He has rescinded his bid today

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which means there are three bids on the table.

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Let's start with cricket and Somerset's chances of winning the

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County Championship for the first time ever are still alive. They

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bowled Yorkshire out for 195 - a first innings lead of 65. But their

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second innings hasn't gone well. They were 124 for 6 at the close.

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So the bowlers will have it all to do on the final day tomorrow. How

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do you follow one of the best results in your club's history?

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Hopefully with another win, that's the view of the Exeter Chiefs as

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they play their first home game of the Premiership season tomorrow.

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After Saturday's historic victory at Leicester they take on Newcastle,

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who lost their opening game last week.

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Where only in our second year of the Premiership. We know that we

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don't win any game when we're not playing well so we're going to

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concentrate very much on putting in a good performance, backing up one

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good performance with another performance, which is key. That's

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all we can aim to do. If the wind comes, it will come before we

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deserve it. In the Championship, it's the first home game of the

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season for Cornish Pirates. They play Doncaster at the Mennaye Field

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on Sunday. Plymouth Albion go for back-to-back wins to start their

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season at London Welsh. Yeovil Town kick off the weekend's

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football tonight at Preston. Exeter City hope a return to the scene of

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one of their best results of last season will inspire them. They've

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won just one game in seven ahead of the trip to Charlton where they won

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in February. In League Two, Rene Howe is the main injury doubt for

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Torquay United's game at Northampton. Plymouth Argyle fans

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will make a green card protest, calling for action to save the club

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before their home game with Port Vale.

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The long wait for basketball fans is almost over with Plymouth

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Raiders playing their first home game of the new season. They'll

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play a USA select team at the Pavilions on Sunday. The warm up

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for the NBL season continues in a fortnight with the Raiders hosting

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a three team tournament. We'll have the result of Yeovil's

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game in our late news and Saturday news and sport tomorrow is at

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5.20pm. Back now to Simon on Plymouth Hoe,

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looking forward to the start of the America's Cup tomorrow.

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We're looking forward to some better weather! 2000 people have

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been involved in staging this event, setting up a huge TV operation up

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here, this is where the spectators will be. Down at Millbay, that is

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where the sailors and the catamarans are, the nerve centre of

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the operation. We will be down there later. Up here it is the best

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seats in the house and what's more, it is all free. There are plenty of

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other places where you can see the action.

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The big screen is hugely impressive, ready to relate all the action up

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to the Plymouth Hoe but when it comes to watching the racing from

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any number of suitable vantage points, Plymouth really is out of

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this world. This graphic offers a bird's-eye view of the natural and

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the theatre. The first race on Saturday starts after 2pm in the

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afternoon. On Sunday it will be later at 2:30pm. As the camera

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swings in, the shaded area is the section of the Plymouth Sound

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weather catamarans will be racing over nine days. Looking out, this

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graphic should give an idea of the racecourse. The exact start and

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finish points will only be decided minutes before races begin because

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of the weather. If it is the Plymouth Hoe or Mount Batten to the

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left, there really are ample places to see the drama unfold. Remember,

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it is all totally free. I am joined now by a member of the

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media production company. It is miserable appear at the moment but

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try and take us through what the atmosphere will be like over the

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next eight days. We hope it will build up starting tomorrow. We

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don't care about the weather tonight. It is looking quite good

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for tomorrow, and we're hoping that this area will be so on occasions

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during the next 10 days. This is the grandstand, this is right

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behind one of the goals on our football pitch. This is where we

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want people to come during the day and then in the evenings, there is

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a film is a programme as well. is going to come, just sailing

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enthusiasts are when it appeared to a wider audience? The sailing

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enthusiasts will actually be out in the water. We really do want people

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of all ages to come up here, bring a picnic blanket, spend the

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afternoon and going to the evening as well because we're trying to

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bring the sport to the public at large, not just ceiling fans.

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about transforming the image of the sport, perhaps for a younger

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audience? We are largely putting on a show, we're in the Tudor age and

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that is where you can watch events live. This is to gain the oldest

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trophy in international sport and giving it a brand new look at the

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best sellers, the fastest yachts. You are from Plymouth originally,

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what is it like to bring this event home? I have got to control the

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personal juices there because professionally, I have to look at

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all of our 16 World Series events around the world and the Cup itself

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but this means a lot. I asked our crew last night, I said, this is

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the mother of all ports for me and we must make a mother of all

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sailing programmes. Welcome to Millbay, the aquatic

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equivalent of the Formula One motor racing pigeons. This is where the

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yachts are prepared and it dafter and these are very high tech. Some

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We have seen the promotional videos and waited and waited. Now, finally,

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the America's Cup is almost here. I volunteered to have a go, not

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realising that catamarans can travel up to 35 miles an hour. What

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I really cannot get over his how you go from a standstill to going

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at this speed. You're having trouble keeping up with us and the

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way this thing is tilting, it is absolutely unbelievable! I am

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clinging on for dear life here! The organisers of this world series are

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aiming for glamour. They have switched to catamarans with cameras

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and microphones on board to make you feel that you are there. Team

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career kindly invited me on their boat. Their skipper is from Dorset.

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In my opinion, it's like racing caravans for years but now we are

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ripping across the water at 35 miles an hour. It is a lot of fun

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and is very physical. Being out on one of these things can be alarming.

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The races have been negotiated around the Navy and ferry company

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but that doesn't stop you getting pretty close. I almost dared not

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look now! You cannot deny it is a spectacle. There is spray flying

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and boats are crashing sometimes. There's just all kinds of action

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all the time, it never stops. off again, hold on tight! The

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catamaran is fast as you feel as if you are floating above the water.

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The boats hum loudly as they glide. Organisers hope that if you are

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watching from Plymouth Hoe, mule seemed to feel the same excitement.

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It looks really exciting. I am joined now by the principal race

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officer for the America's Cup. Talk us through one of these yachts,

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what is it all about? The AC 45 are one of the fastest boats in the

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world. What we have been able to do with them is to create a platform

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that uses the catamaran, 45 ft boat of carbon and the wind sale itself

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which presents us with an amazing, efficient way of moving the boats

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around on the water. The 40 fives were built to try and get teams

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together on the water and get teams going in preparation for the

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America's Cup which happens in 2013. How does this fit in with the

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America's Cup? Add these races contributing to who never will win?

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The races here are not. What they are doing is providing an

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opportunity for the team's to train and to start their design plans for

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what will ultimately be the A C Sunday to see which will they be

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ceiling in savage Cisco in 2013. The design of those bolts, a lot of

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the technology and a lot of the testing will come out of this

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serious and so, it is really an opportunity to get everybody going

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and working towards their designs. The 40 Five's were a one-design

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boat and are fairly strictly controlled as to what you can do

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with them. 72 will be a box rule, they have to fit in a certain

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parameters that there is lots of design opportunities and we will

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see those develop out of these boats. Lots of people coming down

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to watch this, where do the race's start and what is the best place to

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see them? Today we were out on the water, trying to get the courses

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sorted out. We're trying to get the race as close to the shore as we

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can. That is our goal. We have built a course to do that and

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worked on that today. Tomorrow is The weather has been awful today. A

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thing for those in Plymouth who are thinking about coming down, don't

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be put off with the weather because conditions will improve. It's going

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to be windy, we know that, there will be lively winds right through

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both Saturday and Sunday. Also some showers, in fact more persistent

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rain but once the rain comes through tomorrow morning, it clears

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out all of this low cloud and mist so if you're coming for the 2pm

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start, conditions will hopefully improve by then. There's the

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Atlantic satellite picture, you can see the cloud that has out to the

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west of Ireland, that is that no pressure, the driving force for the

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win that will happen this weekend. Here is the chart for this evening.

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By lunchtime the savings, it will clear all of this list and low

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cloud and hopefully improve the visibility and give a good few of

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the yachts racing. By lunchtime on Sunday, we have no pressure is

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still close by. Some heavy rain with the risk of under. It could

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give us some widely gusts of wind. The day we are watching is Monday.

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The remnants of an old tropical storm arriving to the north of

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Scotland which will increase the strength of wind and Monday could

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be a very windy day. We're a long way away from the centre of the

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will for the strength of that went on Monday. Somewhere buried beneath

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all that cloud is the United Kingdom. The drizzle continued for

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this evening so the savings forecast is one of a damp evening,

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the damp night, and usually mild air across us as well that

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overnight temperatures probably dipping no lower than 16 degrees.

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Very wet, very mild and very murky and misty, particularly here along

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the south coast as well. Tomorrow morning, we have that rain coming

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in, that is the cold weather front. That will introduce fresher

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conditions so after a wet morning, as it clears through, it should

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brighten up and we will see some sunshine. Brisk, south westerly

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winds so really good sailing conditions and a top temperature

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tomorrow at 17 degrees. For the as a silly, we can expect some showery

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rain early in the day, but will The outlook for the rest of the

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weekend, and mentioned the wings, they are going to be strong,

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possibly to gale-force at times. Plenty of showers around on Sunday.

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Monday, we have a yellow triangle there, that is a warning from the

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Met Office have the potential for some lively gusts of wind, possibly

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We have heard a lot about hopes tonight, hopes of transforming

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ceiling, transforming Plymouth, transforming our local economy. We

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