:00:10. > :00:13.The dangers of farming - deaths and injuries show it continues to be
:00:13. > :00:17.one of the most hazardous occupations.
:00:17. > :00:19.Good evening. We'll hear from a farmer who was seriously injured
:00:19. > :00:22.and talk to the Health and Safety Executive.
:00:22. > :00:25.Also tonight - big changes to the fishing industry, but there's
:00:25. > :00:29.scepticism about plans to give fishermen greater control over what
:00:29. > :00:33.they catch. And the bones which could prove
:00:33. > :00:37.Torquay was one of the first places in Europe where modern humans
:00:37. > :00:40.settled. New figures released today show
:00:40. > :00:43.farming remains one of the most dangerous professions in the
:00:43. > :00:49.country. The Health and Safety Executive says between 2005-2010,
:00:49. > :00:52.there were 34 farm-related deaths across the greater South West.
:00:52. > :00:55.Around a quarter of Britain's workplace fatalities happen on
:00:55. > :01:01.farms - even though farmers only make up 1.5% of the working
:01:01. > :01:04.population. In a moment we'll hear from the Health and Safety
:01:04. > :01:08.Executive, but first this report from Janine Jansen.
:01:08. > :01:12.In the past 18 months, there have been at least two farm-related
:01:12. > :01:16.deaths in the region. A 16-year-old boy died after a tractor he was
:01:16. > :01:20.driving fell into a slurry pit near Padstow in Cornwall. In North Devon,
:01:20. > :01:24.near Bridgerule, a 40-year-old man died after a heavy hay bale fell on
:01:24. > :01:26.top of him. Between 2005-2010, There were 34 farm-related
:01:26. > :01:34.fatalities reported to the HSE across the greater South West
:01:34. > :01:43.region. There were 390 major injuries and 573 injuries requiring
:01:43. > :01:53.three days off work. Brian Trewin farms near Launceston. He had a
:01:53. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:01.lucky escape when he was trampled by a cow. I was loading the couple
:02:01. > :02:06.to take to market. I got it in the trailer and when to shut the gate
:02:06. > :02:10.and it started, I wrote and push the Kate open and did pick me up
:02:10. > :02:17.with its head and carried me out of the back of the trailer and threw
:02:17. > :02:21.me against the gate which cut the top of my head open. As it went
:02:21. > :02:31.through, it released me and put a horn through my Al boat and threw
:02:31. > :02:32.
:02:32. > :02:35.me on the ground and stepped on my stomach. The Health and Safety
:02:35. > :02:41.Executive says that the rate of accidents remains high by other
:02:41. > :02:45.areas have made big progress in recent years. Farming is by far the
:02:45. > :02:49.worst sector for under-reporting serious injury. It took Brian a
:02:49. > :02:53.year to recover from his accident. He says because animals can be so
:02:53. > :02:56.unpredictable, he never works on the farm alone.
:02:56. > :03:03.Earlier, I spoke to Rob Pearce from the Health and Safety Executive. I
:03:03. > :03:10.asked him what farmers could do to reduce the number of accidents.
:03:10. > :03:16.They need to think about who is on the farm. They have children on
:03:16. > :03:22.farms, can people, the need to make sure those people are safe. The
:03:22. > :03:25.good weight of doing that is to send your answers to college to
:03:25. > :03:30.learn about agriculture, then we have a basis on which to build for
:03:30. > :03:36.the future. Once they had done that, once they are thinking about their
:03:36. > :03:40.farm, then they can do the job safely. Over at the last 10 years
:03:40. > :03:48.accidents in comparable industries have come down but not in farming.
:03:48. > :03:52.Why is that? Been comparable industries, there are big employers.
:03:52. > :03:57.A lot of farms in the south west are small employers, they do not
:03:57. > :04:01.have the resources to get systems in place. That does not mean that
:04:01. > :04:05.they don't know what the correct way of doing the job is and it
:04:05. > :04:09.doesn't mean that they can't actually do the job safely. You can
:04:09. > :04:13.have as many in pools and regulations as you want but farmers
:04:13. > :04:18.are working and this huge pressures. How did get the message of safety
:04:18. > :04:22.across? One of the major campaigns at the moment is asking farmers to
:04:22. > :04:26.stop and think about what they are doing and to promise to their
:04:26. > :04:31.families that they will come home safe. If you think nationally, with
:04:31. > :04:35.the figures that we have got, it means that one person every week is
:04:35. > :04:41.killed on a farm. Locally it means that every two months someone is
:04:41. > :04:44.killed on a farm. I would like people could look around the group
:04:44. > :04:50.they are sitting in, look at their loved ones, and realised that if
:04:50. > :04:53.they do not do something than one of those people will not be here.
:04:53. > :04:57.The economic downturn has left thousands of older people in the
:04:57. > :04:59.South West struggling to get by, and in fear of the coming winter,
:04:59. > :05:03.according to economists and lobby groups. Many pensioners are being
:05:03. > :05:07.squeezed by the rapidly rising cost of living and a fall in the value
:05:07. > :05:12.of their investments, as Simon Hall reports from Exeter.
:05:12. > :05:17.These experienced eyes expected to see a more comfortable retirement.
:05:17. > :05:21.Ken and Cyndy Jenkins have begun spending their savings to get by.
:05:21. > :05:30.The bills keep growing, the income doesn't. And Mr Jenkins is now
:05:30. > :05:35.considering a part time job - at 72 years of age. A don't think it is a
:05:35. > :05:41.thing that should happen. It should never be allowed to happen way you
:05:41. > :05:45.are literally counting your pennies. We have not had a holiday now for
:05:45. > :05:51.four or five years, we simply cannot afford it. Very angry,
:05:51. > :05:56.really. When you have worked and put something into the society, it
:05:56. > :06:00.makes you feel very bitter. issue for many older people is
:06:00. > :06:04.simple economics. Their costs have risen as inflation is high. Their
:06:04. > :06:06.incomes have fallen. Returns on savings are scarce as interest
:06:06. > :06:14.rates are low. Dividend payments suffer as the stock market
:06:14. > :06:18.struggles. It is a particular problem in the south west because
:06:18. > :06:24.the percentage of old people is higher than anywhere else, it is
:06:24. > :06:33.22% in Devon and Cornwall and Denise Devon it is up to nearly 28%.
:06:33. > :06:39.A particular worry for older people - winter looms large. Fuel bills
:06:39. > :06:45.have been rising particularly fast. People are scared about being cut
:06:45. > :06:49.off and not being out built to keep warm. In a statement, the
:06:49. > :06:53.government said the government had taken a series of steps to protect
:06:53. > :07:00.people. The state pension system had been reformed to encourage
:07:00. > :07:05.saving and the automatic retirement age have been a polished to give
:07:05. > :07:08.people more options. If Mr Jenkins does try to get a job, the state of
:07:08. > :07:09.the economy won't help there either. A recent part time vacancy in
:07:09. > :07:13.Exeter attracted almost 300 applicants.
:07:13. > :07:16.Simon Hall reporting. As you heard there, the Government claims it's
:07:17. > :07:24.taken steps to help older people. I asked Ross Altmann from Saga if she
:07:24. > :07:28.agreed. I wouldn't agree. I think many of the measures the government
:07:28. > :07:34.have adopted have damaged pensioners. The cut in the winter
:07:34. > :07:38.fuel payment will be a tremendous problem for many pensioners. The
:07:38. > :07:42.very low interest rates and high inflation is impacting pensioners
:07:43. > :07:47.much more than other groups. What can be done? One thing the
:07:47. > :07:51.government might consider is, for example, allowing pensioners to
:07:51. > :07:56.earn whatever income they are getting on their pensions tax-free
:07:56. > :07:59.and also I think it has been very cruel to cut the winter fuel
:07:59. > :08:04.payments just at the time when it fuel prices have reached a record
:08:04. > :08:10.high and we are just going into winter. It seems a very strange
:08:10. > :08:15.thing to do. But we are all in this together, we all need fuel, we all
:08:15. > :08:19.need heating, why should pensioners be protected? Pensioners spend a
:08:19. > :08:23.lot more time at home and they spend a lot more of their income on
:08:23. > :08:28.things like fuel and food and they are the things that have gone up
:08:28. > :08:32.most in cost. It is a frightening situation and for anyone watching
:08:32. > :08:36.this he may be in the Fifties, or can they do to protect the future?
:08:36. > :08:40.I think people are going to need to think about working longer if they
:08:40. > :08:46.do not have much savings and probably saving a lot more if they
:08:46. > :08:50.can afford to do so, although not everybody can. Really, it is
:08:50. > :08:54.praying that the economy will get better, thinking about being more
:08:54. > :08:58.flexible and working part-time later in life if you want a better
:08:58. > :09:01.income. The average cost of a home in the
:09:01. > :09:04.South West is now 13 times the average salary, according to the
:09:04. > :09:08.National Housing Federation. It's warning more young professionals as
:09:08. > :09:11.well as middle income families are being priced out of the market. The
:09:11. > :09:16.report says the average house in Cornwall now costs around �228,000.
:09:16. > :09:19.In Devon, the South Hams is the most expensive area to live.
:09:19. > :09:23.A charity concert is to be staged in Truro Cathedral for people
:09:23. > :09:26.affected by last year's floods in mid-Cornwall. It'll be the first
:09:26. > :09:30.anniversary of the floods later this month. All the money raised
:09:30. > :09:34.will go to help people whose homes and businesses were damaged.
:09:34. > :09:37.Fishermen in the South West are tonight sceptical about a new pilot
:09:37. > :09:40.scheme which will give them more control over how much they catch.
:09:40. > :09:44.The Government wants to see whether communities with boats under ten
:09:44. > :09:50.metres long would be able to manage their own quotas and do more to
:09:50. > :09:53.market their catches. Simon Alexander reports.
:09:53. > :09:56.The fishing industry in the region has been in and out of troubled
:09:56. > :09:59.waters over the years, with fish quotas being one the biggest
:10:00. > :10:03.flashpoints. Today the Government unveiled plans for a pilot scheme
:10:03. > :10:09.to encourage fishing communities to take more control over how many
:10:09. > :10:18.fish they catch and still keep stocks sustainable. Some in the
:10:18. > :10:23.industry say it won't suit everybody. There is a need to have
:10:23. > :10:27.a critical mass or fish so that you can engage in trading swaps and you
:10:27. > :10:31.will lose that if you go into small, isolated groups. The Government
:10:31. > :10:34.wants to hear from fishermen of small boats under 10 metres long
:10:34. > :10:44.and their quotas will be based on what they've landed collectively
:10:44. > :10:47.over recent years. We have come up with some ideas, one of which is to
:10:47. > :10:51.allow local committees to hold quota on behalf of the local
:10:51. > :10:56.fishing fleet, which means that local communities that identify
:10:56. > :10:59.with their fishing fleet can be part of supporting that business.
:10:59. > :11:04.There is a great opportunity for the fishing industries to start
:11:04. > :11:09.managing the fish docks, both for the sustainability of the future of
:11:09. > :11:13.the industry but also for the good of the marine environment. I would
:11:13. > :11:17.like to see Cornwall taking up one of the opportunity to become one of
:11:17. > :11:20.the pilots. Fishermen who don't wish to take part in the initiative
:11:20. > :11:26.will continue to access quota through a central pool. Critics say
:11:26. > :11:31.any changes need to be better thought through. I don't think they
:11:31. > :11:37.will be widely embraced by the under 10 fishermen. There is a risk
:11:37. > :11:40.of further dilution of the quotas and that they will be fewer
:11:40. > :11:44.opportunities unless the carrot is offered. One of the pilot schemes
:11:44. > :11:47.is expected to be run in the South West, although no decision has yet
:11:47. > :11:52.been made. How well fishermen support the project has yet to be
:11:52. > :11:57.established. We'll be live at Kents Cavern later
:11:57. > :12:07.in the programme. Also still to come. They're surrounded by water,
:12:07. > :12:10.
:12:10. > :12:18.so why are the Channel Islands struggling with supplies? And
:12:18. > :12:24.A woman from Cornwall with obsessive compulsive disorder says
:12:25. > :12:30.there needs to be more support for people like her. The charity OCD
:12:30. > :12:40.Action says there are currently not enough OCD treatment centres.
:12:40. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:47.Johnny Rutherford reports. When Joyce salto was pregnant with
:12:47. > :12:52.her son she noted she developed obsessive compulsive disorder. 40
:12:52. > :12:57.years on and she still suffers from OCD, though importantly treatment
:12:57. > :13:01.in recent years allows her to control its level. I became more
:13:01. > :13:06.and more worried about, I don't even know whether it was germs,
:13:06. > :13:10.dirt or what it was, but it was something I conceived of as
:13:10. > :13:16.contamination. Whatever that contamination was, it was so
:13:16. > :13:20.terrifying that it was stronger than your fear of death. Washing
:13:20. > :13:27.hands repeatedly, cleaning constantly and not touching things
:13:27. > :13:31.became the norm. She claims OCD has been passed down her family line.
:13:31. > :13:36.was too ill to bring my son up. After the age of four he was
:13:36. > :13:43.brought up by his father and his grandmother. And yet, at the same
:13:43. > :13:50.age as me, at 22, he developed it to himself. I just feel there has
:13:50. > :13:53.to be a hereditary link there. what happened to him? He struggled
:13:53. > :14:00.with it for 15 years and I am afraid eventually it became too
:14:00. > :14:07.much for him and he took his own life. He poisoned himself. Joyce
:14:08. > :14:12.spent a lot of time writing on forums on the OCD Action website.
:14:12. > :14:17.She believes the quality of therapy can be variable. In Cornwall, the
:14:17. > :14:23.NHS say a number of treatments are available and there are presently
:14:23. > :14:27.working on this individual support packages. OCD is increasingly
:14:27. > :14:32.recognised and it is treatable. The sooner you get treatment, the
:14:32. > :14:42.better the chance of recovery. Joyce says that with the right
:14:42. > :14:47.treatment you can still have quality of life.
:14:47. > :14:54.For for the last of his series on water supplies, David has been a
:14:54. > :14:57.care worker will come from in the future., for the first time in five
:14:57. > :15:01.years, the desalination plant on Jersey has started to produce fresh
:15:01. > :15:06.water. Could this be a sign of things to come, and where will our
:15:06. > :15:12.water come from in 50 or 100 years time? David has been trying to find
:15:12. > :15:16.out. Population increases as well as
:15:16. > :15:22.climate change could other Pink had packed. Could we have enough water
:15:22. > :15:27.all for the water than we do have, could it be very important? Because
:15:27. > :15:32.of the geography of south-west England, we get our fair share of
:15:32. > :15:35.rain, most of which runs backache to see, but could we seller to base
:15:35. > :15:38.he needed? If the predictions of climate change are right there are
:15:38. > :15:43.going to be part of the world quite close to was that are going to be
:15:43. > :15:51.in demand of more water than they do not have. Is their business to
:15:51. > :15:58.export up water? It is very expensive moving water around.
:15:58. > :16:02.Typically, a family of four uses a ton of water each day. When people
:16:02. > :16:05.talk about a national water grid they tend to forget that things
:16:05. > :16:09.like gas and electricity are much easier to move around them water.
:16:09. > :16:14.It will be a long time before were able to export large amounts of
:16:14. > :16:19.water out of the country. Climate change as well as population
:16:19. > :16:23.increase and into a van effect on the demand for water. The climate
:16:23. > :16:26.model shows that parts of the country will experience more severe
:16:26. > :16:31.effects than others and in the south-west of England we are
:16:31. > :16:35.expecting quite severe effects over the longer term. We build that into
:16:35. > :16:40.one models both on the supply side and the demand side, because we
:16:40. > :16:45.expect customers using more water excite in the garden and more for
:16:45. > :16:50.personal washing and clothes washing. We also need to take into
:16:50. > :17:00.account rising sea levels and they can impact on the ground water that
:17:00. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:07.we take. The estimation in 2007 bus just under 1.7 million. By 2035,
:17:07. > :17:12.the estimate is 2 million. With climate change and the warm air
:17:12. > :17:18.that we are likely to see, people could use for 0.3% or and household
:17:18. > :17:23.could be 2.2% more. We rely on water companies to supply our fresh
:17:23. > :17:30.water. We don't have much choice, or do we? Business is booming for
:17:30. > :17:35.companies that drill for and supply water cisterns. We have seen an
:17:35. > :17:42.increase mainly due to people wanting to get away from the
:17:42. > :17:46.utilities companies. Leaky pipelines that a costly to improve.
:17:46. > :17:50.And there rise in popularity of crane source heating. We climate
:17:50. > :17:54.change we may get less rainfall when we needed the most and
:17:54. > :17:59.expensive desalination plants may need to be used more often. Being
:17:59. > :18:03.more efficient and clicking our own reporter made in the future be the
:18:03. > :18:10.only option. Ironically, there is some heavy
:18:10. > :18:20.rain in the forecast later! Research out today suggests some of
:18:20. > :18:21.
:18:21. > :18:24.the first modern humans lived in Torquay. We know all this thanks to
:18:24. > :18:31.new carbon dating of a jawbone found in Kent's Cavern. John
:18:31. > :18:34.Henderson is deep inside the caves and joins us now.
:18:34. > :18:38.These press turret caves have been giving up their secrets for
:18:38. > :18:44.hundreds of years -- prehistoric. The latest research to come from
:18:44. > :18:49.here is all about the origins of us. Torbay. Fit for human habitation.
:18:49. > :18:52.It's got beaches. It's got shops. It's got a football team. It's got
:18:52. > :18:59.attractions galore. Hardly surprising then, that the first
:18:59. > :19:05.modern humans in Europe lived in the Bay.
:19:05. > :19:14.It is lovely, Torquay, a good area to live in. Is it good for Torbay?
:19:14. > :19:18.It is but was on the map! How do we know? More advanced dating of this
:19:18. > :19:28.jaw bone - found at Kents Cavern in 1927 - shows it's between 44,000
:19:28. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:38.and 41,000 years old. Experts found that it is actually much older than
:19:38. > :19:43.I thought. Ball bait may have had a particularly nice environment. It
:19:43. > :19:47.may have been rich in the game and the findings in the case showed
:19:47. > :19:53.that there were a lot of large animals here and it would have been
:19:53. > :20:00.kept Perhaps the very nice spot for people to gather in and hunt as it
:20:00. > :20:10.is still today. The origins of humankind in Torbay had to contend
:20:10. > :20:19.with a lot. Woolly mammoths, hyenas, woolly rhinos, giant deer, bears
:20:19. > :20:25.and scimitar cats. Thankfully, some things have changed for the better.
:20:25. > :20:32.Men! They are more sympathetic than their work and pinkly they don't be
:20:32. > :20:38.too about the head any more! wait until you get home!
:20:38. > :20:43.excited I do about this latest research? It is really excited. We
:20:43. > :20:51.have always known this jawbone was important but now it brings out so
:20:52. > :20:56.many more important facts about the people that lived here. I am
:20:56. > :21:00.wearing a shirt and it is run as it league form down here. That is the
:21:00. > :21:05.whole point of working down here. Yes, it will stay the same
:21:05. > :21:09.temperature or years. Back in the Ice Age it was probably a little
:21:09. > :21:16.chilly up but it was certain be nice and stale and it was a great
:21:16. > :21:20.place to live. And you had animals outside. And Torquay was very
:21:20. > :21:24.different, there was no see out there that we can see now. They
:21:24. > :21:29.would have been a land bridge right across to continental Europe and
:21:29. > :21:32.this is how these people came here. They were very nomadic in their
:21:32. > :21:38.lifestyle, following the food source. They probably came back
:21:38. > :21:44.here every year, to a place that is such a fantastic sight, elevated up
:21:44. > :21:47.and able to command a great defensive position. It is quite
:21:47. > :21:54.warm in here tonight but I am certainly not going to be staying
:21:54. > :22:00.overnight. 14 degrees, that is warmer than my
:22:00. > :22:04.house! A Victorian garden, which over looks Falmouth Bay, has been
:22:04. > :22:07.re-opened to the public after a year-long restoration project.
:22:07. > :22:10.Gyllngdune Gardens, on the town's seafront, features a rare shell
:22:10. > :22:13.grotto thought to have been built over 150 years ago. David George
:22:13. > :22:16.has been for a visit. Falmouth's Princess Pavillion and
:22:16. > :22:24.Gyllyndune Gardens are now looking a little more like their grand
:22:24. > :22:30.former selves. Here's the bandstand and Edwardian veranda. And this is
:22:30. > :22:33.the rose garden and greenhouse. The old photographs are from the
:22:34. > :22:36.collection of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. The
:22:36. > :22:41.restoration project - included rebuilding these shell seats - cost
:22:41. > :22:46.�2.4 million of Lottery and Cornwall Council money. The project
:22:46. > :22:49.just avoided the councils' hard hitting cutbacks. The gardens were
:22:49. > :22:54.originally laid out by the owner of the nearby Gyllngdune Manor, the
:22:54. > :23:00.Reverend William-John Coope, in the 1850s. He turned the quarry which
:23:00. > :23:04.supplied the stone for the house into a fern garden. The land was
:23:04. > :23:09.bought by the council in 1903 so that a new coast road could be
:23:09. > :23:17.built and public winter gardens created. They had the advantage of
:23:17. > :23:23.the vicar's unusual quarry garden complete with a secret shell grotto.
:23:23. > :23:27.We think they are follies that were put together in Victorian times.
:23:27. > :23:32.Normally by the young ladies of the house and they used the shells that
:23:33. > :23:39.were brought home on the tea clippers to Falmouth, to decorate
:23:39. > :23:44.the sides of the cave. It was so overgrown and nobody Harby went
:23:44. > :23:47.into it so it is fantastic to see it opened up. It is one of the main
:23:47. > :23:51.reasons that we were able to get the award from the National Lottery
:23:51. > :23:55.because they are of national importance. This is the Fernery,
:23:55. > :23:58.just outside the shell grotto, photographed in the 1920s. Close by
:23:58. > :24:06.is the refurbished tunnel which leads from the gardens to what was
:24:06. > :24:11.then a private beach. Once here, the ladies of the house had the use
:24:11. > :24:15.of this rather elaborate beach hut so that they could get changed in
:24:15. > :24:23.private before descending to the beach below. Let us hope they had
:24:23. > :24:33.better weather than today it! That Shell grotto was stunning! It
:24:33. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:37.must have taking ages to put that It is ironic that Jersey have
:24:37. > :24:43.turned on the desalination plant and we have a whole lot of wet-
:24:43. > :24:48.weather coming away. For the rest of the week we are expecting some
:24:48. > :24:54.more persistent rain. And then some showers, persistent in the morning
:24:54. > :24:59.and perhaps easing in the afternoon. A big lump of cloud now covering
:24:59. > :25:06.most of United Kingdom. They Iraq two close there but it is one main
:25:06. > :25:13.system stretching from Spain and caught -- Portugal up to England.
:25:13. > :25:17.And mild by to come but also some wet weather coming in. -- a mild
:25:17. > :25:24.night to come. By the time we get to the weekend we have a change in
:25:24. > :25:30.the wind direction, with East League wins and setting in. --
:25:30. > :25:34.easterly. Where we have the brighter colours, that is the
:25:34. > :25:38.heavier rain which will continue overnight. It will peter out
:25:38. > :25:46.towards dawn but in the far west of Cornwall for a clutch of showers
:25:46. > :25:50.will arrive and they look quite angry. Overnight temperatures are
:25:50. > :25:55.unusually mild for a night in November. No lower than 13 or 14
:25:55. > :26:00.for most of us. Tomorrow morning, we have a yellow alert of the
:26:00. > :26:04.potential for some heavy rain, mainly in the form of some hefty
:26:04. > :26:10.showers in the morning. By the afternoon it becomes a lot drier
:26:10. > :26:16.and brighter. Warmer tomorrow with 16 degrees the top temperature.
:26:16. > :26:26.Less windy as well. All the Isles of Scilly some early rain will
:26:26. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:44.The north coast will have the cleanest surf but still on the trot
:26:44. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :27:00.beside. The South Coast very messy Some of the showers at risk of
:27:00. > :27:05.having some thunder in then. We will see more showers on Friday.
:27:05. > :27:10.Again there is the risk of one or two of those becoming quite heavy.
:27:10. > :27:16.As we moved into the weekend, an area of low pressure news up the
:27:16. > :27:22.eastern side of Britain giving us Eastbourne north easterly winds,
:27:22. > :27:30.scoring in slightly colder air. By Sunday, 12 or 13 will be the