28/12/2011 Spotlight

Good evening. Drivers in the South West are being

warned about the dangers of driving when tired. Latest figures show

Cornwall has one of the worst records for accidents caused by

motorists falling asleep at the wheel. Road safety experts say

driving when very tired is as risky as drink driving. Eleanor Parkinson

reports. Today This man is a taxi-driver. 20

years ago he was a young man working in an office and after a

hard weekend's of driving he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and

hegemony bus head-on. Did you feel guilty at the time, or now? I was

very young. I have often thought of it that I thought I was invincible

at the time, but sleep be mean. It was a school minibus. Had I met

them go the other way it would have been full of children and the

consequences would have been dire. Road safety experts said that

Cornwall has one of the worst records for injury and death caused

by falling asleep at the wheel. The say the geography of the county

means that many people have to drive long distances to get from

one town to the other. There are a lot of roads that are not yet good

enough various towns and long distances to travel. People can get

tired, even during the working day. Road-safety experts say you should

not drive for more than 2 1/2 hours at a stretch. They say that you

should take a break and have a drink of coffee and tea and that a

power nap of the even 30 minutes can make all the difference.

There are fresh calls from business leaders for the A30 and A303

through East Devon to be made a dual carriageway. Previous attempts

to upgrade the road have failed because of a lack of money and

opposition from environmentalists. The plan by the Highways Agency is

to spend �40 million on small scale improvements.

One of the most important pieces of infrastructure we are missing at

the moment is a second artery in and out of the south-west. Opening

up this is a dual-carriageway would be a massive bonus and a big boost

to the economy. Detectives investigating the murder

of a man in his 40s in Dorset are appealing for witnesses. Police

were called to an address in Park Road on Portland in the early hours

of this morning. The dead man has not yet been named.

A 44-year-old woman from Devon has been arrested.

A 43-year-old woman from St Austell has appeared in court charged with

arson with intent to endanger life. Karen Broadhurst was arrested

following a fire at a sheltered housing complex in the town on

Boxing Day. She has been remanded in custody until 6th January.

A sculptor from Devon has been chosen to take part in an art

project to celebrate the Olympics. Jilly Sutton from East Cornworthy

has carved a wooden sculpture inspired by archery. Emma Ruminski

went to meet her. It is easy to see why her work is

inspired by a wood. Her studio is surrounded by magnificent trees.

She is one of dirty artists commissioned to make sculptures

that reflects a Olympic and Paralympic sport. I was lucky to be

able to choose our tree because I do a lot of faces and heads and I

thought I would play safe and do part of a face. I thought I would

do something like a really focused alive. I thought about archery and

what they do and my son modelled for me with the bow and arrow when

he said he was concentrating on keeping still and intense focusing.

I thought I would do a very intensely focused eye. Her work

will be caste in bronze and sold to raise money for charity. Jilly

Sutton and the array that she created is one example. This is

another. These will be caste in bronze as limited editions and they

will be exhibited in places like the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the

Victorian Art Gallery in Bath and the Oxo Tower Gallery in London

during the Olympics. The organisers hope to use the international

platform that the Olympics will bring to promote British sculpture.

2011 has been a year of highs and lows. From breaking news to heart

breaking news, Justin and Victoria take a look back at some of the

memorable moments of the year. The 2011, you dominated by economic

uncertainty. The police, local authorities and even the armed

forces suffered Budget cuts. Paul Starr's staff gathered for Agnew

new meeting expecting bad news, and they got it. All 230 being made

redundant. I have been there for nearly 26 years. It is devastating.

This was the year of anniversaries. The time our bridge turned 60, as

the BBC television here in the south-west. People share their

memories of the Blitz 70 years ago. The sirens had gone on the Monday

night. The place was lit up like a chandelier coming from the sky.

They peppered the place within Centra bombs. It was hell let loose.

Seven ladders, 142 steps, but it is only when you get here, look at

that! You get the view. Fantastic. In the summer we reported on the

plight of the baby from Torquay in desperate need of a new liver. Less

than two days later she received a life-saving operation.

In it is a day they never dared to trade - - dare to dream would

happen. As hope was fading, a donor liver became available and now,

finally, their home alone. I and a warm homecoming was given

to are returning soldiers. Some cities was the biggest military

parade through Plymouth since the Second World War and the crowds

turned out in their thousands. The Duke of Edinburgh took the

salute. For the families, a proud Time now for the weather with Emily.

Affair Eco night to come. The weather will be settles, at least.

Just a few showers for tonight, mainly to the West. There will be

clear skies overnight, so temperatures will drop away, down

to about three Celsius at their lowest. Quite a brisk north-

westerly wind. First thing tomorrow morning a few showers still to come

to it the day, merging into longer spells of rain for a time. It is