:00:09. > :00:19.Pensions and protests - as public sector workers take to the streets,
:00:19. > :00:22.
:00:22. > :00:26.one local teacher tells us enough is enough... Who's going to agree
:00:26. > :00:29.with that? Put in more money, get less out at the end, and work
:00:29. > :00:32.longer afford. It is the worst deal in the world.
:00:32. > :00:35.Good evening. David Colwill says he'll have hardly any spare money
:00:35. > :00:37.left once the pension increases come into force. We'll be live in
:00:37. > :00:39.Westminster with reaction to today's protests.
:00:39. > :00:42.Also on Spotlight tonight... Flying into the arms of loved ones
:00:42. > :00:52.- a jubilant welcome for 4-2 Commando Royal Marines back from
:00:52. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :00:54.over six months in Afghanistan. can't put it into words, I just
:00:54. > :01:04.can't. And somewhere to worship - the
:01:04. > :01:07.South West's first purpose built mosque opens its doors.
:01:07. > :01:09.Teachers from across the South West are in London protesting about
:01:09. > :01:12.planned increases to their pension contributions. Some face paying �60
:01:12. > :01:15.extra per month into the scheme from next April More than 2 million
:01:15. > :01:21.public sector workers have been told they'll have to pay more
:01:21. > :01:24.towards their retirement from April next year. As well as teachers, NHS
:01:24. > :01:27.staff and civil servants will be affected. The Government says the
:01:27. > :01:31.current system is unaffordable and wants to save more than a billion
:01:31. > :01:33.pounds from its pension bill. Those earning under �15,000 wont be
:01:34. > :01:36.affected but the highest paid will face the biggest rises in
:01:36. > :01:45.contributions - from April some doctors will pay almost 11% of
:01:45. > :01:53.their salary into their pension instead of the current 8.5%. Our
:01:53. > :01:56.political editor Martyn Oates is in Westminster for us this evening.
:01:56. > :02:00.We have seen a little bit of history at Westminster today
:02:00. > :02:05.because it is the first time the teaching unions have taken action
:02:05. > :02:10.together on a single issue. It could be a prelude to widespread
:02:10. > :02:13.strikes across the public sector in a month. Even the National
:02:14. > :02:18.Association of Head Teachers is balloting on a fright. Head
:02:19. > :02:28.teachers on strike would be an historic first. It shows the anger
:02:29. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:38.in the public sector. 29 year old David teaches science
:02:38. > :02:43.at Plymouth High School for girls. As well as doing the Mark King --
:02:43. > :02:48.as well as dinner marking he is considering changes to pensions.
:02:48. > :02:56.pay �164 a month already. Were they to increase that it will go up to
:02:56. > :03:05.something like �224 a month, about an extra �60. If I have got �100
:03:05. > :03:10.spare at the end of the month, that is essentially going to be halved.
:03:10. > :03:14.David says the reforms at the end of 2007 were deemed to be good and
:03:14. > :03:18.he is sceptical about further reform. They are taking it directly
:03:18. > :03:24.and it will not secure the future of our pensions scheme. Where is it
:03:24. > :03:30.going? I can only assume to fill a hole in the deficit, which is the
:03:30. > :03:35.wrong's concern. There seems to be a very narrowly focused means of
:03:35. > :03:39.getting the cash back. The plant height is coupled with plans to
:03:39. > :03:45.raise the retirement age to 68. David says teachers have had enough.
:03:45. > :03:48.He will have -- he will agree with that? Put in more money, get less
:03:48. > :03:55.at the end of work long before it. It is the worst the delay in the
:03:56. > :04:00.world. The unions are saying for years ago a pension scheme was
:04:01. > :04:06.judged to be in good shape and now it looks like they are paying for
:04:06. > :04:11.the five Cerys mess. It is the mess our economy is in. We have all got
:04:11. > :04:15.to pay for it. We are all living longer and there is no magic pot of
:04:15. > :04:20.money to pay for that. Because of the state of public finances we
:04:20. > :04:23.have to make these tough decisions. No one is saying this is easy but
:04:23. > :04:30.for all of us working in the public sector there will have to be
:04:30. > :04:33.changes. Teachers' pensions are not gold-plated public sector pensions,
:04:34. > :04:36.are they? The their relatively modest but there will have to be
:04:36. > :04:42.changes for everyone. The government have made no final
:04:42. > :04:48.decisions. We will see what came -- comes out at the end of the day. It
:04:48. > :04:52.is the armed forces, police, nurses, teachers and MPs. All of us will
:04:53. > :04:59.have to work longer and take less at the end. The unions said a
:04:59. > :05:03.government is not prepared to negotiate on matters like this and
:05:03. > :05:07.so strike action will be inevitable. Star Write action will not change
:05:07. > :05:12.the raw fact. There is no money. There is nothing to pay for future
:05:12. > :05:16.pensions. Any government would have to do this and all over Europe this
:05:16. > :05:24.is happening. We are going to add a tough times including in the United
:05:24. > :05:28.Kingdom and it will affect all of us. The unions are warning the
:05:28. > :05:31.government should raise itself for strike action if it does not listen
:05:31. > :05:34.today. The South West Royal Marines who've
:05:34. > :05:37.just returned home from the front line in Afghanistan have invited
:05:37. > :05:40.the people of the region to a homecoming parade in Plymouth as a
:05:40. > :05:43.thank you for the support they've received. A hundred men from 4-2
:05:43. > :05:45.Commando arrived back in Devon late last night, to a joyous reception.
:05:45. > :05:55.Our correspondent Simon Hall reports from Exeter Airport
:05:55. > :05:55.
:05:55. > :06:05.In the latest part of our series -- they travelled to the arms of
:06:05. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:12.families and friends. APPLAUSE.
:06:12. > :06:19.There are no words to describe it. It has been a long time coming. I
:06:19. > :06:29.am very happy, very happy. No words. I am just ecstatic he is home and
:06:29. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:37.save. I am not doing any more at Napoli's! I am going to do the DIY.
:06:37. > :06:47.Waiting with a particular eagerness, Mercian Linton. Her grandson is the
:06:47. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :07:03.youngest marine and what a welcome! SCREAMS. It is good to be home and
:07:03. > :07:14.
:07:14. > :07:23.back. For once in her life she is speechless. I just can't put this
:07:23. > :07:31.into words, I just can't. Are you all right? 100 Marines returned,
:07:31. > :07:37.each to a hero's welcome. APPLAUSE.
:07:37. > :07:43.It was in no way intended, just the way this timing worked out. How
:07:43. > :07:47.appropriate these men should return just as remembrance day draws near.
:07:47. > :07:51.The marines may work in Afghanistan -- the Marines work with training
:07:51. > :07:55.the Afghan police force. Seven men fell in the tour of duty, the
:07:55. > :08:00.memory of the happiness of a homecoming. It is a risky job that
:08:00. > :08:04.we do. The humbling part is the resolve and resilience of the men
:08:04. > :08:08.showed to one another and it makes us want to progress with the task
:08:08. > :08:17.we have been given even more in the honour of the memory of those who
:08:18. > :08:22.have paid the ultimate prize. Marines are invited the public to a
:08:22. > :08:26.home coming parade in Plymouth next month as a sign of their thinking -
:08:26. > :08:29.- as a sign of their gratitude. Teams in Exeter, Plymouth and Truro
:08:29. > :08:39.have won international acclaim for studies of diabetes, neurology and
:08:39. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:47.the way the environment affects our well-being. Here's our Health
:08:47. > :08:51.Correspondent Sally Mountjoy. Since the peninsula medical school
:08:51. > :08:57.was set up in 2000 to its represent -- reputation has gone from
:08:57. > :09:01.strength to strength. Clinicians are making valuable contributions
:09:01. > :09:08.to medical knowledge and more importantly, patient care and
:09:08. > :09:13.treatment. I want you to cycle for about a minute. This man is doing
:09:13. > :09:18.this for the good of other people. A fit and healthy police officer,
:09:18. > :09:25.he is a research volunteer in Exeter. He is undergoing a battery
:09:25. > :09:32.of tests to help scientists studying diabetes, a disease that
:09:32. > :09:39.affects one in 20 of us. A number of my friends, in time, will end up
:09:39. > :09:42.with diabetes based on the research which is around at the moment, in
:09:42. > :09:50.people with type 2 diabetes. Therefore I am more than happy to
:09:50. > :09:55.try and help. It could end up being me. Building on clinical research
:09:55. > :09:59.work done by Exeter Hospital, the medical school has made ground-
:10:00. > :10:03.breaking progress in its discovery of the causes of diabetes. Type 2
:10:03. > :10:08.diabetes is important because it is increasing. The clinicians dealing
:10:09. > :10:15.with the problem do not know that much about what goes wrong in the
:10:15. > :10:19.body that causes type 2 diabetes. It means one person will get it and
:10:19. > :10:25.another will not. That is what we are studying. Hopefully we are
:10:25. > :10:31.making progress. White man Exeter's research credentials will get a
:10:31. > :10:37.further post -- based when a research centre brings further
:10:37. > :10:40.researchers and clinicians together in 2013. In Plymouth research in
:10:40. > :10:48.you're logical disease has made a big impact. Samples from brain
:10:48. > :10:55.tumour patients are analysed to help develop drug treatments. This
:10:55. > :10:59.man is working of therapies for those with multiple brain tumours.
:10:59. > :11:03.These patients are difficult to treat because you feel sometimes
:11:03. > :11:07.helpless because you treat one humour and the patient comes again
:11:07. > :11:14.a month later with another one. There is great medical need for a
:11:14. > :11:21.newts systemic meaning drug treatment. That is what we are
:11:21. > :11:26.doing in these clinical trials. ocean and how it affects us is a
:11:26. > :11:30.major feature of the new research venture in Cornwall. The European
:11:30. > :11:34.centre for the environment and human health studies of threats to
:11:35. > :11:40.our health form -- from the natural world such as climate change,
:11:40. > :11:45.marine pollution, radon gas and the sun. It works with businesses to
:11:45. > :11:49.tackle the challenges but also investigates the value of spending
:11:49. > :11:53.time in the National Environment -- natural environment. We are
:11:53. > :11:56.interested in helping people have a better relationship with their
:11:56. > :12:01.natural environment and improve their health and well-being in that
:12:01. > :12:07.way. If we can keep them fitter and keep their mental health better we
:12:07. > :12:17.hope that will reduce the number of visits to GPs. His reputation
:12:17. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:25.riding high, Peninsula is set to build on that success. We will move
:12:25. > :12:28.up in our reputation. Our research is already performing
:12:28. > :12:37.internationally. It is changing patient health care across the
:12:37. > :12:41.world. Attracting substantial external funding, the teams in all
:12:41. > :12:47.three cities promise to benefit the wealth as well as health of the
:12:47. > :12:50.south-west and beyond. And tomorrow in the last of our
:12:50. > :12:52.series looking at the South West's three cities, we'll explore the
:12:52. > :12:55.development of sport grounds across the region.
:12:55. > :12:58.Still to come tonight... The opening of the region's first
:12:58. > :13:01.purpose built Mosque. Plus - another bad night for
:13:01. > :13:06.Plymouth Argyle, but Torquay were on target four times. We'll have
:13:06. > :13:15.all the local goal action. And fashions, hairstyles and music
:13:15. > :13:19.- find out why one Cornish town's gone back to the 1940s.
:13:19. > :13:22.A man's being held on suspicion of murder after a body was found at a
:13:22. > :13:27.house in Brixham. Police were called to Fore Street around 4
:13:27. > :13:29.o'clock this morning. They say the dead man, who was in his 50s, may
:13:29. > :13:33.have been involved in an argument yesterday.
:13:33. > :13:36.South West MPs are urging the BBC to halt planned cuts to Local Radio.
:13:36. > :13:39.The proposals, which will see a reduction in local programming
:13:39. > :13:42.because of a freeze in the licence fee, have been debated in
:13:42. > :13:44.Parliament today. The Conservative MP for Truro and Falmouth, Sarah
:13:44. > :13:54.Newton, says there's room for cutting expensive celebrities from
:13:54. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :13:59.national BBC channels instead. Does the Right Honourable Gentleman
:13:59. > :14:07.think it is appropriate that hard- working families in my constituency
:14:07. > :14:11.should be having to enable the BBC to employ Kylie Minogue, at over �1
:14:11. > :14:14.million, to front a BBC show? A scheme which helps youngsters in
:14:14. > :14:16.Devon move from foster care to adult life is receiving national
:14:17. > :14:20.recognition. The project, which costs almost half a million pounds
:14:20. > :14:23.to run, aims to give cared for children the same chances as others
:14:23. > :14:33.by allowing them to stay in care after their 18th birthday. In a
:14:33. > :14:36.moment we'll hear from the NSPCC after this report.
:14:36. > :14:41.For most children in care, reaching year 18th birthday means you have
:14:41. > :14:49.not just the campaign -- an adult but also lost a family, because you
:14:49. > :14:52.have to move out of your foster home and fend for yourself. There
:14:52. > :14:55.was a drive at getting the first person who live with me he was
:14:55. > :15:01.eating into accommodation straight away. A lot of them going to bed
:15:01. > :15:06.and breakfast or a two-night stops. Mandy provides a transitional care
:15:06. > :15:10.through a pioneering project. So free lives in an annex of her home.
:15:10. > :15:13.She has someone to turn to with everyday problems such as managing
:15:14. > :15:20.a budget or cooking. She is studying at college and says
:15:20. > :15:30.without Mandy she would struggle. If I am upset or something she will
:15:30. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:37.try and help me out and sold it. She will try and help me. Mandy and
:15:37. > :15:46.Sophie have been invited to talk to MPs and members of the house of
:15:46. > :15:49.Lords about providing post 18 care. Earlier I spoke to Helena Jones
:15:49. > :15:57.from the NSPCC and I started by asking her why this scheme is so
:15:57. > :16:02.important. This scheme is a vitally important to care leavers. Most
:16:02. > :16:07.young people at his team have the ongoing support of their families
:16:07. > :16:12.both practically and financially as they needed. He sued for your child
:16:12. > :16:16.as long as they need their help. For care leavers, they do not have
:16:16. > :16:20.that ongoing support and it is really, really needed for them.
:16:20. > :16:28.I understand that it is not a statutory requirement for local
:16:28. > :16:32.parties to do this? What are they doing in other areas? Devon is
:16:32. > :16:36.doing a fantastic job. Unfortunately that is not the case
:16:36. > :16:41.across the country although we have a responsibility to look to the
:16:41. > :16:45.needs of our care leavers and support them in any way the can.
:16:45. > :16:53.terms of looking further down the line, what more would you like to
:16:53. > :16:57.see done to support care leavers? From the calls by young people make
:16:57. > :17:02.to Childline, we know that care leavers often feel isolated when
:17:02. > :17:05.they leave care. It is vitally important that as much support is
:17:06. > :17:11.given to them as possible so that they can make safe and sound
:17:11. > :17:15.transitions to adulthood. The care leavers that we work with have had
:17:15. > :17:19.to face enormous obstacles in their lives and therefore any support
:17:19. > :17:26.they can be given on that transition to adulthood can only be
:17:26. > :17:29.a big thing. Thank you for joining Muslims from across the South West
:17:29. > :17:32.have been celebrating the official opening of their new mosque in
:17:32. > :17:34.Exeter. It's the first purpose- built mosque in the region and is
:17:34. > :17:36.expected to attract thousands of worshipers and help increase the
:17:36. > :17:43.understanding of Islam among the wider community. Spotlight's Aysha
:17:44. > :17:49.Iqbal has been at today's opening ceremony.
:17:49. > :17:53.The distinctive minaret of the new mosque in Exeter, reflecting a
:17:53. > :17:58.milestone for the Muslim community here. Although there are mosques in
:17:58. > :18:05.Plymouth and Torbay, this is the first purpose-built mosque in
:18:05. > :18:10.Islamic style architectures ever to be built in their region. Today it
:18:10. > :18:16.was the official opening ceremony, attended by locals and dignitaries.
:18:16. > :18:21.It is a moment they have eagerly awaited for a number of years.
:18:21. > :18:25.main thing is it is purpose-built. There are rooms for the school that
:18:25. > :18:29.meets on Saturdays and Sundays. There are rooms for the youth club
:18:30. > :18:34.and we still have the old prayer hall which can be used for sports
:18:34. > :18:41.activities and craft. It is a lot easier now that we are all together
:18:41. > :18:47.in the wonderful new mosque. cost over �1.5 million, made
:18:47. > :18:56.possible from donations and a former graduate of the University
:18:56. > :19:02.of Exeter. There are a lot of Muslims in this town. Many people
:19:02. > :19:05.are affected by the misrepresentation out there. It is
:19:05. > :19:11.one of the challenges this mosque and other mosques have, to raise
:19:11. > :19:15.awareness. As Muslims in the city look forward to the New Marske it
:19:16. > :19:19.will no doubt have been worth the wait. -- to the new mosque.
:19:19. > :19:22.Onto football now, and Exeter City are out of the bottom four of
:19:22. > :19:25.League One after their second win in four days. Torquay also won last
:19:26. > :19:34.night, for the first time in nearly two months. But the problems go on
:19:34. > :19:37.for Plymouth Argyle. Hamish Marshall reports.
:19:37. > :19:47.Walsall was Exeter's 7th away game of the season and they had yet to
:19:47. > :19:52.score on their travels. Danny Nardiello finished with a goal. The
:19:52. > :20:00.Grecians were paid back. Their keeper kept the scores level as
:20:00. > :20:04.Balsall also hit the woodwork twice. Narnia low's shot was powerful
:20:04. > :20:14.enough to pull his side out of relegation. -- Danny Nardiello's
:20:14. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:26.shot. There was a golden chance to sail the win when Yeovil won a
:20:26. > :20:29.penalty for handball but they went wide and the Glovers were made to
:20:29. > :20:39.pay as David rainy gave a brave Kesh gave away a penalty three
:20:39. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :20:57.Eunan O'Kane doubled the lead over a of the women. The way it goes on
:20:58. > :21:05.for confirmation of the takeover of Plymouth Argyle and the agony on
:21:05. > :21:08.the pitch goes on as well. They fell behind at Oxford. Simon was
:21:08. > :21:14.then converted a penalty to bring Plymouth Argyle level but that was
:21:15. > :21:24.as good as it got. Oxford scored four more goals meaning of pilgrims
:21:24. > :21:27.conceded five for the first time in six years.
:21:27. > :21:29.A town in Cornwall has turned the clock back more than sixty years
:21:29. > :21:32.today. The people of Lostwithiel have been celebrating the 1940s.
:21:32. > :21:42.They got out the ration books, hair rollers and dancing shoes.
:21:42. > :21:47.
:21:47. > :21:57.Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson was there. It has been a day of 1940s
:21:57. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:07.nostalgia in Lostwithiel. It has been a great excuse to dress up!
:22:07. > :22:14.am a land girl today. I believe you are a better? I am the Red Cross to
:22:14. > :22:21.date. But if you have an accident don't come to me! Today, everything
:22:21. > :22:27.has been cooked according to the Russian better. There is a pipe was
:22:27. > :22:32.created by Lord Walton. He wanted recipes for the housewife that were
:22:32. > :22:39.going to be nutritious. This has produced a pastry on the top. It is
:22:39. > :22:49.also substantial and filling and will keep the full so the next meal.
:22:49. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:56.Others are perfecting their victory rolls and with your hair product
:22:56. > :23:05.this was the difficult. They were Jewsbury gelatine or sugar water,
:23:05. > :23:09.anything that would hold their hair in place. But my hair is done in at
:23:09. > :23:19.no time. Il all dressed up with nowhere to go. I have heard there
:23:19. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:30.is a tea dance. How the ever been to a tea dance before? Using there
:23:30. > :23:35.will be any boys here? Mostly girls. I can while away the whole
:23:35. > :23:45.afternoon waltzing and taking tea but this is not really the 40s. It
:23:45. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:54.is 2011 and I have to go back to work.
:23:54. > :24:00.She has kept their hairstyle, by Let's take a look at the weather
:24:00. > :24:05.and the awful rain to come. Not as bad as Monday, but another
:24:05. > :24:11.wet start to tomorrow morning. The rain not too far away it right now.
:24:11. > :24:16.It is just beginning to cross the English Channel. To vans of wet
:24:16. > :24:23.weather coming, the first fairly light and patchy. -- two bans.
:24:23. > :24:31.Tomorrow, heavy rain, then becoming mean the dried into Friday. --
:24:32. > :24:37.mainly dry. This weather front is moving through northern France,
:24:37. > :24:44.heading towards us. Some of the rain will be quite intense by
:24:44. > :24:48.tomorrow morning, particularly over high ground. This area of low
:24:48. > :24:52.pressure moves off. It is not as intense as the one that gave was
:24:52. > :24:57.that those strong winds last mandate but it is still going to
:24:57. > :25:01.give us a stiff south-easterly breeze for a time. The rain is the
:25:01. > :25:09.main feature of this system. By lunchtime on Friday there is some
:25:09. > :25:17.bright and dry weather. A cold and misty start with the rest of four -
:25:17. > :25:20.- fog patches. Tonight, lots of cloud and patchy light rain
:25:20. > :25:25.spilling in. The threat of heavier rain will be after midnight and in
:25:25. > :25:30.the early hours of the morning. These are the heavy bursts coming
:25:30. > :25:34.up from the south. In southern parts of Cornwall and the south of
:25:34. > :25:44.Devon, intense rainfall. Temperatures dipping briefly into
:25:44. > :25:45.
:25:45. > :25:52.single figures over night but coming back up by dawn. Tomorrow
:25:52. > :25:56.afternoon, the rain begins to move away and the west of Cornwall. For
:25:56. > :26:06.the rest of us, a lot of cloud and the rain keeps coming until the end
:26:06. > :26:14.
:26:14. > :26:24.of the day. The upset Sinn is the as of silly... -- the exception is
:26:24. > :26:48.
:26:48. > :26:57.By Friday, it has all gone on Friday should hopefully be bright
:26:57. > :27:01.and dry. Into the weekend, breezy with a lot of cloud but mainly dry.
:27:01. > :27:04.The clocks go back an hour this Sunday, which means we get a bit of
:27:04. > :27:08.a lie in. But BBC Local Radio is hoping you'll put that extra hour
:27:08. > :27:18.to good use and help someone use a computer for the first time. More
:27:18. > :27:19.
:27:20. > :27:27.than a third of over 55s still If you have an interest, whether