:00:11. > :00:14.Good evening. Drivers in the South West are being
:00:14. > :00:16.warned about the dangers of driving when tired. Latest figures show
:00:16. > :00:20.Cornwall has one of the worst records for accidents caused by
:00:20. > :00:23.motorists falling asleep at the wheel. Road safety experts say
:00:23. > :00:33.driving when very tired is as risky as drink driving. Eleanor Parkinson
:00:33. > :00:34.
:00:34. > :00:38.reports. Today This man is a taxi-driver. 20
:00:38. > :00:44.years ago he was a young man working in an office and after a
:00:44. > :00:50.hard weekend's of driving he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and
:00:50. > :00:58.hegemony bus head-on. Did you feel guilty at the time, or now? I was
:00:58. > :01:05.very young. I have often thought of it that I thought I was invincible
:01:05. > :01:08.at the time, but sleep be mean. It was a school minibus. Had I met
:01:08. > :01:13.them go the other way it would have been full of children and the
:01:13. > :01:16.consequences would have been dire. Road safety experts said that
:01:16. > :01:20.Cornwall has one of the worst records for injury and death caused
:01:20. > :01:23.by falling asleep at the wheel. The say the geography of the county
:01:23. > :01:29.means that many people have to drive long distances to get from
:01:29. > :01:33.one town to the other. There are a lot of roads that are not yet good
:01:34. > :01:43.enough various towns and long distances to travel. People can get
:01:44. > :01:46.
:01:47. > :01:53.tired, even during the working day. Road-safety experts say you should
:01:53. > :01:58.not drive for more than 2 1/2 hours at a stretch. They say that you
:01:58. > :02:01.should take a break and have a drink of coffee and tea and that a
:02:01. > :02:04.power nap of the even 30 minutes can make all the difference.
:02:04. > :02:07.There are fresh calls from business leaders for the A30 and A303
:02:07. > :02:10.through East Devon to be made a dual carriageway. Previous attempts
:02:10. > :02:13.to upgrade the road have failed because of a lack of money and
:02:13. > :02:21.opposition from environmentalists. The plan by the Highways Agency is
:02:21. > :02:24.to spend �40 million on small scale improvements.
:02:24. > :02:33.One of the most important pieces of infrastructure we are missing at
:02:33. > :02:36.the moment is a second artery in and out of the south-west. Opening
:02:36. > :02:39.up this is a dual-carriageway would be a massive bonus and a big boost
:02:39. > :02:42.to the economy. Detectives investigating the murder
:02:42. > :02:46.of a man in his 40s in Dorset are appealing for witnesses. Police
:02:46. > :02:48.were called to an address in Park Road on Portland in the early hours
:02:48. > :02:52.of this morning. The dead man has not yet been named.
:02:52. > :02:55.A 44-year-old woman from Devon has been arrested.
:02:55. > :02:58.A 43-year-old woman from St Austell has appeared in court charged with
:02:58. > :03:01.arson with intent to endanger life. Karen Broadhurst was arrested
:03:01. > :03:09.following a fire at a sheltered housing complex in the town on
:03:09. > :03:13.Boxing Day. She has been remanded in custody until 6th January.
:03:13. > :03:16.A sculptor from Devon has been chosen to take part in an art
:03:16. > :03:18.project to celebrate the Olympics. Jilly Sutton from East Cornworthy
:03:18. > :03:28.has carved a wooden sculpture inspired by archery. Emma Ruminski
:03:28. > :03:31.
:03:31. > :03:37.went to meet her. It is easy to see why her work is
:03:37. > :03:41.inspired by a wood. Her studio is surrounded by magnificent trees.
:03:41. > :03:46.She is one of dirty artists commissioned to make sculptures
:03:46. > :03:51.that reflects a Olympic and Paralympic sport. I was lucky to be
:03:51. > :03:56.able to choose our tree because I do a lot of faces and heads and I
:03:56. > :04:00.thought I would play safe and do part of a face. I thought I would
:04:00. > :04:06.do something like a really focused alive. I thought about archery and
:04:06. > :04:11.what they do and my son modelled for me with the bow and arrow when
:04:11. > :04:16.he said he was concentrating on keeping still and intense focusing.
:04:16. > :04:23.I thought I would do a very intensely focused eye. Her work
:04:24. > :04:28.will be caste in bronze and sold to raise money for charity. Jilly
:04:28. > :04:35.Sutton and the array that she created is one example. This is
:04:35. > :04:41.another. These will be caste in bronze as limited editions and they
:04:41. > :04:45.will be exhibited in places like the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the
:04:45. > :04:50.Victorian Art Gallery in Bath and the Oxo Tower Gallery in London
:04:50. > :04:55.during the Olympics. The organisers hope to use the international
:04:55. > :04:59.platform that the Olympics will bring to promote British sculpture.
:04:59. > :05:02.2011 has been a year of highs and lows. From breaking news to heart
:05:02. > :05:09.breaking news, Justin and Victoria take a look back at some of the
:05:10. > :05:14.memorable moments of the year. The 2011, you dominated by economic
:05:14. > :05:22.uncertainty. The police, local authorities and even the armed
:05:22. > :05:27.forces suffered Budget cuts. Paul Starr's staff gathered for Agnew
:05:27. > :05:34.new meeting expecting bad news, and they got it. All 230 being made
:05:34. > :05:39.redundant. I have been there for nearly 26 years. It is devastating.
:05:39. > :05:44.This was the year of anniversaries. The time our bridge turned 60, as
:05:44. > :05:49.the BBC television here in the south-west. People share their
:05:49. > :05:56.memories of the Blitz 70 years ago. The sirens had gone on the Monday
:05:56. > :06:05.night. The place was lit up like a chandelier coming from the sky.
:06:05. > :06:12.They peppered the place within Centra bombs. It was hell let loose.
:06:12. > :06:19.Seven ladders, 142 steps, but it is only when you get here, look at
:06:19. > :06:24.that! You get the view. Fantastic. In the summer we reported on the
:06:24. > :06:28.plight of the baby from Torquay in desperate need of a new liver. Less
:06:28. > :06:32.than two days later she received a life-saving operation.
:06:32. > :06:40.In it is a day they never dared to trade - - dare to dream would
:06:40. > :06:48.happen. As hope was fading, a donor liver became available and now,
:06:48. > :06:52.finally, their home alone. I and a warm homecoming was given
:06:52. > :06:56.to are returning soldiers. Some cities was the biggest military
:06:56. > :07:00.parade through Plymouth since the Second World War and the crowds
:07:00. > :07:10.turned out in their thousands. The Duke of Edinburgh took the
:07:10. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:20.salute. For the families, a proud Time now for the weather with Emily.
:07:20. > :07:25.Affair Eco night to come. The weather will be settles, at least.
:07:25. > :07:30.Just a few showers for tonight, mainly to the West. There will be
:07:30. > :07:36.clear skies overnight, so temperatures will drop away, down
:07:36. > :07:40.to about three Celsius at their lowest. Quite a brisk north-
:07:40. > :07:46.westerly wind. First thing tomorrow morning a few showers still to come
:07:46. > :07:51.to it the day, merging into longer spells of rain for a time. It is