:00:15. > :00:18.Who lives in a place like this? The south west - home to seven of
:00:18. > :00:21.the most expensive rural areas to live in the country.
:00:21. > :00:25.Good evening. West Dorset tops the chart where a home will cost you
:00:25. > :00:27.eight times the average local salary. We'll reveal more in a
:00:27. > :00:30.moment. Also tonight: the desperate need
:00:30. > :00:40.for organ donors. A local transplant patient tells us of the
:00:40. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:47.debt he owes to his donor and her family.
:00:47. > :00:52.People are prepared to make that decision at a very difficult time
:00:52. > :00:55.and they are heroes, basically. And something to lift the spirits -
:00:55. > :00:58.the local whiskey doing its bit for the community.
:00:58. > :01:02.The South West is home to seven out of the top ten most expensive rural
:01:02. > :01:04.areas to live in the country, according to new research. The
:01:04. > :01:09.survey by Halifax compared the average cost of a house in rural
:01:09. > :01:11.areas with the average local income. West Dorset was named the most
:01:11. > :01:20.expensive rural area in Britain, with the average house costing
:01:20. > :01:24.�256,000 - eight times more than the average local salary.
:01:24. > :01:26.And these are the six other South West districts in the top ten. The
:01:26. > :01:28.findings come during the first ever South West Rural Housing Week,
:01:28. > :01:38.which aims to highlight the vital need for affordable housing to keep
:01:38. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:45.villages alive. Johnny Rutherford reports from West Dorset.
:01:45. > :01:51.Buying a house in the countryside is on average �27,000 more
:01:51. > :01:57.expensive than an urban property. And in West Dorset it can be quite
:01:57. > :02:03.an expense for some according to the Halifax report. Here in West
:02:03. > :02:08.Dorset we are in a bubble. We're close to railway stations so BT's
:02:08. > :02:13.easy to commute into London. And in the last year house prices have
:02:13. > :02:21.remained pretty steady. The average price of a house in the British
:02:21. > :02:30.countryside is �196,000. In west Dorset the average is �256,000 -
:02:30. > :02:35.eight times more than the local average earnings. Prices can vary
:02:35. > :02:45.from 215 for a two-bedroomed cottage up to 375. Those prices
:02:45. > :02:50.make it hard for people to get on the housing ladder. Oliver's family
:02:50. > :03:00.have lived in Bridport for many generations. It is the perfect size,
:03:00. > :03:03.
:03:03. > :03:07.but we just cannot afford it. It is out of our budget. It is all the
:03:07. > :03:13.people coming down from London coming to buy second homes for.
:03:13. > :03:22.Wages are quite low here and have historically always been low. There
:03:22. > :03:29.are a lot of second home owners will stop it is expensive. -- it is
:03:29. > :03:32.expensive. Oliver's hope is to purchase through a housing scheme.
:03:32. > :03:36.Recently we reported on plans by Cornwall Council to crack down on
:03:36. > :03:38.private landlords with empty properties. Well, we've since heard
:03:38. > :03:42.from one parish about a council- owned house which has been lying
:03:42. > :03:45.empty for four years. It's finally on sale, but locals accuse the
:03:45. > :03:51.council of hypocrisy and of wasting taxpayers' money. Our Community
:03:52. > :03:56.Affairs Correspondent, Carys Edwards, went to find out more.
:03:56. > :04:04.It is an old farm worker's cottage which became a three-bedroom
:04:04. > :04:08.council house. But no one has lived here for four years. It lies in an
:04:08. > :04:12.area where there are plenty of families in need of a good home.
:04:12. > :04:17.There's real frustration and despair that a house like this has
:04:17. > :04:23.been left to lie empty for so long. David Skelton is on the parish
:04:24. > :04:28.council which has been battling to get the house back into use.
:04:28. > :04:33.Responsibility for the house lies now with Cornwall council. It is a
:04:33. > :04:37.Shambles. Cornwall Council have spent money to maintain the house
:04:37. > :04:42.and have lost out on the income they could have had from it. And on
:04:42. > :04:46.the other hand and local couple could have been living there and it
:04:46. > :04:50.could have stayed that way into the future for stock we reported
:04:50. > :04:56.recently how Cornwall council was cracking down on private landlords
:04:56. > :05:02.with empty properties. But it seems that the parishioners battle may
:05:02. > :05:06.now be over. The house was still not up for sale yesterday morning.
:05:06. > :05:13.We asked the council white and within hours of our telephone call,
:05:13. > :05:18.the sport had gone up. It was finally on the market. The agents
:05:18. > :05:25.had not been given instructions to sell its but just two hours ago
:05:25. > :05:30.they were told to get on with it. I think it is a face saving exercise
:05:30. > :05:34.bike somebody at the council rather than some genuine change in policy.
:05:34. > :05:38.Cornwall council says it always planned to sell the house but that
:05:38. > :05:43.work needed to be done to it first. It remains committed to ensuring
:05:43. > :05:48.that as many empty homes as possible of brought back into use.
:05:48. > :05:53.We have properties out there that have been empty for 20 or 30 years.
:05:53. > :05:58.We want to find out what landlords are doing with their properties,
:05:58. > :06:02.what they intend to do with them. And if they can be helped them the
:06:02. > :06:12.council is willing to help them. Whatever the history of this House,
:06:12. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:17.David is delighted that someone will finally be moving in.
:06:17. > :06:19.A man has appeared before magistrates in Truro, charged with
:06:19. > :06:22.murdering a baby boy. Steven Coukham, who's 20 and from Hendra
:06:22. > :06:26.Road in Truro, is accused of killing Tyrone Coukham a year ago.
:06:26. > :06:28.He was remanded in custody. The funeral service has been held
:06:28. > :06:32.today of Devon-based Royal Marine, David Fairbrother, who was shot
:06:32. > :06:35.dead in Afghanistan. The 24 year- old was serving with 42 Commando
:06:35. > :06:38.when his patrol was ambushed in Helmand Province. The service was
:06:38. > :06:46.held this lunchtime at Blackburn Cathedral. Marine Fairbrother
:06:46. > :06:48.joined the forces in 2009. More than 10,000 people in the UK
:06:48. > :06:53.need an organ transplant and every day, three people die waiting for
:06:53. > :06:55.one. Tonight, a transplant patient from the South West features in a
:06:55. > :07:00.unique BBC documentary, which he hopes will prompt more people to
:07:00. > :07:04.register as organ donors. Here's our Health Correspondent, Sally
:07:04. > :07:06.Mountjoy. The makers of tonight's programme
:07:06. > :07:13.have been given unprecedented access to the people involved in
:07:13. > :07:19.one organ donation process. You are aware it's the end of a
:07:19. > :07:21.life, but it's the beginning of many other lives from this one life.
:07:21. > :07:24.It features the specialist medical teams who make it all possible, the
:07:24. > :07:32.family of the donor and the three recipients of her organs -
:07:32. > :07:35.including 52 year-old Alex from the south west. He'd had been on
:07:35. > :07:43.dialysis for three and a half years before a failed kidney transplant
:07:43. > :07:45.last year. By May this year, he needed a new liver and kidney. The
:07:45. > :07:55.programme shows the family of his donor, Penny, explaining why they
:07:55. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:02.gave consent. She always believed that organs are lent to you in a
:08:02. > :08:06.strange sort of way and if they can be used after death, she said they
:08:06. > :08:08.had to beat. There was no maybe. Four months after his double
:08:08. > :08:16.transplant, Alex is getting stronger every day. But he's always
:08:16. > :08:20.mindful of the person who made his recovery possible. What do you feel
:08:20. > :08:27.about penny, at the present who donated her organs to you?
:08:27. > :08:30.basically saved my life, as the short and simple as that. The fact
:08:30. > :08:38.that people are prepared to make that decision at a very difficult
:08:38. > :08:41.time, they are heroes, basically. You do feel very attached to that
:08:41. > :08:48.family and what they're going through because after the
:08:48. > :08:51.transplant, we have a success story. But we are aware that the other
:08:51. > :08:54.family are going through a tremendous grieving process because
:08:54. > :08:56.they have lost their loved one. Alex and Daryl hope tonight's
:08:56. > :09:04.programme will persuade people to sign up as organ donors and give
:09:04. > :09:07.more patients like him the chance of life.
:09:07. > :09:12.In the South West, there are 635 people waiting for an organ
:09:12. > :09:15.transplant. But the good news is that we have the highest proportion
:09:15. > :09:20.of people on the Organ Donor Register of any region - 36 percent
:09:20. > :09:22.of us have signed up. The South West Transplant Centre at Derriford
:09:22. > :09:25.Hospital is one of the leading centres, and has the shortest
:09:25. > :09:33.waiting time in the country for kidney transplants - about half the
:09:33. > :09:38.national average. Well, joining me now is Jacob Akoh from Derriford.
:09:38. > :09:44.It is really good news that we have the shortest waiting times. Why do
:09:44. > :09:54.you think that is? It is due to the generosity of the people in the
:09:54. > :09:54.
:09:54. > :10:00.south-west. A lot of the organ transplants come from diseased
:10:00. > :10:06.cardiac donors. Because people from this part of the world are very
:10:06. > :10:11.generous and helpful, we have increased the number of transplants
:10:11. > :10:16.by enormous amounts in the last few years for DUP but we just had over
:10:16. > :10:21.one third of people who have signed up. Why do you think that people
:10:21. > :10:31.still are not on board? What do you think about the opt out system for
:10:31. > :10:35.donor cards? Are well at the time when Elizabeth Perkins was about to
:10:35. > :10:41.report on the organ donor task force, there was a lot of debate in
:10:41. > :10:46.the country about opting out. It was felt generally in the country,
:10:46. > :10:51.opinion was divided. There were those who felt that we have not
:10:51. > :10:59.developed enough infrastructure to maximise the number of diseased
:10:59. > :11:03.organ donors giving because all truism. And those who believe that
:11:03. > :11:08.families feel a lot more satisfaction that they are giving
:11:08. > :11:12.this gift out of freewill rather than being compelled to do so. It
:11:12. > :11:15.looked like there were a number of things that could be done to
:11:15. > :11:21.maximise that before taking the next step. It is a difficult
:11:21. > :11:28.subject for families to talk about? It is. It is interesting that
:11:28. > :11:31.around 40% of people go were reproached refused. And you can
:11:31. > :11:35.understand that in the heat of the moment when your loved one was
:11:35. > :11:40.dying, some people would not find it convenient to talk about that.
:11:40. > :11:44.It would be easier if people discuss their intentions with their
:11:44. > :11:49.families and loved ones. It would make that decision a lot simpler
:11:49. > :11:56.and easier. It is good that the south-west has the highest
:11:56. > :12:00.proportion of people on the organ Donor Register, but we can do more.
:12:00. > :12:06.The South West receives a lot of accolades for these and we should
:12:06. > :12:08.aim of getting most people to talk about this and get on the register.
:12:08. > :12:17.You can see the documentary, Transplant, tonight, on BBC 1, at
:12:17. > :12:19.10.35, after the Spotlight late news. And if you want details of
:12:19. > :12:27.how to join the Organ Donor Register, you can call 0300 123 23
:12:27. > :12:30.23 or go to www.organdonation.nhs.uk.
:12:30. > :12:33.Plymouth residents will be able to have their say on the dismantling
:12:33. > :12:35.of nuclear powered submarines in the city. The MoD has announced a
:12:36. > :12:40.third public consultation into the process, which will start at the
:12:40. > :12:44.end of the month. A series of events are planned for the
:12:44. > :12:47.Devonport area, including exhibitions and workshops.
:12:47. > :12:50.Campaigners who want to breathe new life into Plymouth City Airport
:12:50. > :12:52.will meet tonight. A group of passengers, businesses and air
:12:52. > :13:01.experts who call themselves Viable, want to look at alternative ways of
:13:01. > :13:03.keeping an airport in the city. Plans for a �19 million research
:13:03. > :13:06.centre at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital have been given the go
:13:06. > :13:08.ahead by the City Council. The state-of-the-art centre will
:13:08. > :13:12.pioneer research into the treatment of conditions such as diabetes and
:13:12. > :13:16.obesity. A new flood defence scheme for
:13:16. > :13:19.Teignmouth has been approved. The Environment Agency's four million
:13:19. > :13:22.pound scheme will include new defence walls and flood gates. It's
:13:22. > :13:29.designed to minimise the flood risk to more than 400 properties in the
:13:29. > :13:32.town. Coming up: A cash boost for a local
:13:32. > :13:35.attraction which brings two million visitors to the region.
:13:35. > :13:38.The end of the road for this motoring museum - the search is on
:13:38. > :13:41.for a new home for these classic cars.
:13:41. > :13:50.And an avalanche of apples - the bumper crop which could lead to a
:13:50. > :13:52.vintage year for cider makers. Now this might be a quiz question -
:13:52. > :13:55.what joins Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, gets more than
:13:55. > :14:01.two million visitors a year and brings over 200 million pounds to
:14:01. > :14:06.the economy of the Southwest? The answer is the Southwest
:14:06. > :14:08.Coastpath. And now work is under way to increase the amount of
:14:08. > :14:15.visitors and income the footpath brings to the tourist industry.
:14:15. > :14:22.David George put on his walking boots to find out more.
:14:22. > :14:27.The south-west coastal path extends 630 miles from Minehead in the
:14:27. > :14:34.North all the way round to Poole in Dorset. It includes wonderful
:14:34. > :14:40.rugged rumbles like this one. It is not all wind-blown clifftops, there
:14:40. > :14:44.are wild woodland walks beneath the trees. And there are a scenic
:14:44. > :14:53.strolls but this one along the banks of the Helford River. On a
:14:53. > :15:00.good day the viewers from here are absolutely Fabulous. People like
:15:00. > :15:06.Tennyson and Wordsworth where inspired by the howling wind and
:15:06. > :15:10.the tales of the ghosts in the sea caves. Roof is walking the coastal
:15:10. > :15:20.path and camping along the way in order to bring out the stories of
:15:20. > :15:25.
:15:25. > :15:34.the places that the path passes through. Daphne du Maurier,
:15:34. > :15:40.Frenchman's Creek. It is all romantic.
:15:40. > :15:45.The coastal path brings in a calculated �222 million each year.
:15:45. > :15:52.The latest investment is aimed at encouraging even more visitors, and
:15:52. > :15:57.their cash. People are staying close to the coastal path are
:15:57. > :16:02.looking for it on all day walk or just a short stroll. There will
:16:02. > :16:09.come back time and again. And whilst they're out and about there
:16:09. > :16:14.are likely to buy a cream tea, a pub lunch, or stay in a local hotel.
:16:14. > :16:24.Here is one of the walking guides already produced. The Cornish
:16:24. > :16:27.
:16:27. > :16:29.versions will be out in the spring. Some sports news. Both Exeter City
:16:30. > :16:33.and Yeovil Town aim to reach the third round of the Football League
:16:33. > :16:35.Trophy tonight. At St James Park, City hope last weekends win in
:16:36. > :16:41.League One will spur them on to beat Swindon Town, managed by the
:16:41. > :16:43.former West Ham favourite, Italian Paulo Di Canio. After three
:16:43. > :16:51.successive league defeats, Yeovil Town try to turn their form around
:16:52. > :16:56.when they go to Bournemouth. Rising running costs have led to a
:16:56. > :16:58.popular Devon motor museum reaching the end of the road. Over the years,
:16:58. > :17:01.thousands of car enthusiasts have visited the village of Colyford to
:17:01. > :17:11.relive the heyday of British motoring. Spotlight's Simon
:17:11. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:18.Alexander reports. The Museum of motoring memories was
:17:18. > :17:23.set up after the original filling station became uneconomical to run.
:17:23. > :17:29.It is the culmination of a hobby that began in the 1960s were stop
:17:29. > :17:35.it has been almost a lifetime that I have been collecting. 40 years
:17:35. > :17:40.ago I began. It is a sad time to think that it will have to come to
:17:40. > :17:46.an end. But for me to run it here from now on, because of the
:17:46. > :17:51.overheads and continual cost, and the fact that it ties up my time.
:17:51. > :17:57.The older you get, you want some free time. Inside the museum it
:17:57. > :18:01.feels as if we have stepped back in time. It is full of vintage cars
:18:01. > :18:08.like this Vauxhall. The walls are adorned with a motoring
:18:08. > :18:14.advertisements dating back to the early 1900s. And these are petrol
:18:14. > :18:19.pumps from the 1960s - around 21 pence per gallon! It has been a
:18:19. > :18:28.Labour of love for will then Bullard who built up the collection
:18:28. > :18:32.from scratch. Why did you begin the collection? I felt that although I
:18:32. > :18:40.have been in the trade in the 60s, I felt everything was being
:18:40. > :18:45.destroyed. The enamel signs were disappearing. Advertising was not
:18:45. > :18:49.been saved, and it became an obsession with me. It is hoped that
:18:49. > :18:55.the buyer can be found for the collection. If not if you fancy
:18:55. > :19:05.getting hold of a piece of motoring history, the court -- the items are
:19:05. > :19:10.to be sold at auction next year. Now a Posy end to the programme. A
:19:10. > :19:18.bottle of whisky made in Cornwall has fetched more than �2,000 in an
:19:18. > :19:23.online auction. It was being sold for charity. What makes it even
:19:23. > :19:30.more special is that it is the first whisky to be made in the
:19:30. > :19:39.county for 300 years. I am that the -- I'm at the state hostel brewery
:19:39. > :19:44.which is famous for making beer. But it has just produced its first
:19:44. > :19:48.whisky. The first to be made in Cornwall for 300 years. This is the
:19:48. > :19:52.man who convinced his bosses at this Cornish brewery that they
:19:52. > :19:58.should make whisky. He spent eight years in Scotland learning the
:19:58. > :20:04.tricks of the trade. We actually makes up malted barley. For years
:20:04. > :20:10.Cornish grown barley with Cornish spring water. We heat the water up,
:20:10. > :20:14.melt the barley and makes it all up. Then we extract the sugar from the
:20:14. > :20:19.barley which we then ferment and eventually distilled to make the
:20:19. > :20:25.whisky. The first bottle was sold on eBay to raise money for charity
:20:25. > :20:31.and made more than �2,000. An expensive tipple. So we needed to
:20:31. > :20:38.Sam discerning tasters, such as this couple, who wear on a visit to
:20:38. > :20:44.the brewery. What did you think about the whisky? I am not a big
:20:44. > :20:49.whisky drinker but that was really nice. The whisky has been described
:20:49. > :20:56.by one expert as amongst the best offerings of the decade. That is
:20:56. > :21:00.something worth celebrating. Now our recent spell of good
:21:00. > :21:03.weather has brought good news for one local industry. It's not just
:21:03. > :21:07.the sun though, it's the bitterly cold winters too! That combination
:21:07. > :21:09.has led to two bumper years of apple crops. And as Andrea Ormsby
:21:09. > :21:18.reports, for a traditional orchard that's fairly unusual and a big
:21:18. > :21:25.boost to the region's cider producers.
:21:25. > :21:30.An early start to harvesting here at this farm in Nepal. At around
:21:30. > :21:36.100 acres it is one of the largest traditional cider orchards in the
:21:36. > :21:43.south-west and the crop this year has come as something of a surprise.
:21:43. > :21:48.Normally with the traditional orchards, they crop heavily once a
:21:48. > :21:51.year and then much smaller crops the following year. But this year
:21:51. > :21:56.despite having a bumper crop last year it would seem to be having a
:21:56. > :22:00.very good year. We think that the colt weather in the winter it meant
:22:00. > :22:05.that they had a really good rest and growing conditions have been
:22:05. > :22:10.ideal this time. There was no frost when the blossom was out and quite
:22:10. > :22:16.a dry summer. Add it is good news for local business. Perron family
:22:16. > :22:22.is just one of 10 cider producers across the south-west who get their
:22:22. > :22:27.apples here. We source our cider apples from traditional orchards.
:22:27. > :22:31.So hysterically we have one great year and then quite a bad year at
:22:31. > :22:41.the next year. So this year it is great that we're getting a bumper
:22:41. > :22:42.
:22:42. > :22:49.crop again. We can build up our stocks from -- for the next season.
:22:49. > :22:55.When I was a girl, every form -- every farm had an orchard and a
:22:55. > :22:59.Webbies traditional types of trees. Over the years people have gone for
:22:59. > :23:06.more of production, gone for the bush trees to be more productive.
:23:06. > :23:10.But I feel it is important to keep the tradition ally. These trees are
:23:10. > :23:16.around 80 years old. But this year there is no rest for them, they
:23:16. > :23:25.have been working overtime to help boost the local economy just when
:23:25. > :23:35.it needs it most. Cider and whisky - what a way to
:23:35. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:46.end the programme! It has been a end the programme! It has been a
:23:46. > :23:52.good year for apples. Good evening. Let's begin with a
:23:52. > :23:59.look back at September. What an unusual month we saw. But when the
:23:59. > :24:09.average it out, it was outstanding because of a high temperatures
:24:09. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:25.towards the end of the month. We have had a good deal of sunshine.
:24:25. > :24:33.We had more than the average at 238 hours. And the temperatures, we
:24:33. > :24:43.have had some cool days and some very warm days giving us an average
:24:43. > :24:43.
:24:43. > :24:50.of 18 degrees Celsius. The one we all like to watch is the water
:24:50. > :25:00.levels in the reservoirs. This time last year, not a great deal, 67%.
:25:00. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:07.But what we have now is just 53% full of the moment. There is
:25:07. > :25:11.rainfall in the forecast in the next few days. Some outbreaks of
:25:11. > :25:20.patchy rain overnight tonight. But the main area of brain for will
:25:20. > :25:29.come towards the end of the day tomorrow. -- of rainfall. And by
:25:29. > :25:37.Thursday temperatures will be lower at around 14 degrees. We have a lot
:25:37. > :25:47.of isobars on the chart meaning quite a windy day tomorrow. And by
:25:47. > :25:57.Thursday we have much colder air coming in. That is the cloud
:25:57. > :26:04.structure from earlier today. But we do have some sunshine. This is
:26:04. > :26:09.the launch of an new ship, or one that has been restored, the pilgrim.
:26:09. > :26:17.And as we move the crossed to Dartmoor or we also had some
:26:17. > :26:26.sunshine there. The breeze has picked up today. And that will be a
:26:26. > :26:34.feature of the weather for the rest of the week. We have a few showers
:26:34. > :26:41.dotted around the tonight. Overnight temperatures down to as
:26:41. > :26:48.low as 12 degrees. Tomorrow afternoon we have some more
:26:48. > :26:58.persistent rain drifting in. Temperatures for most of us at 16
:26:58. > :26:58.
:26:58. > :27:08.or 17 degrees tomorrow. For the Isles of Scilly, quite a breezy day.
:27:08. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:23.Outbreaks of rain and not feeling particularly warm. There is the
:27:23. > :27:31.inshore waters forecast. And the forecast for the rest of the week -
:27:31. > :27:36.turning colder. Thank you to everyone and Cornwall