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Chronically ill and isolated, a woman unable to move closer to | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
health services because of a lack of council housing. I have come | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
very close to wishing that if I didn't wake up, it wouldn't be such | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
a bad thing. Linda Miller says she feels stranded in her rural home. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
There are calls for more to be done to help people in her situation. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Served with a notice to quit, the Occupy protesters at Exeter but -- | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Cathedral have been told to go immediately. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Her son was killed in a Nimrod accident, the mother who has | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
written about his death but is still looking for answers. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
100 years on, remembering captain Robert Scott and the men who never | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
made it back from the South Pole. Many chronically ill people in the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
south-west are unable to move out of their isolated rural homes | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
because there are not enough council properties available. They | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Cornish community groups is housing, health and Social Services should | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
work more closely together to ensure sick and disabled people | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
have the highest priority. Nestling in the north Cornwall | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
countryside, this village is academic, but that is not how Linda | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Miller sees it. She doesn't drive and there are only three buses a | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
week. Linda has chronic lung disease, arthritis and depression, | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
but says it is too difficult to get to hospital and living here is | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
making her condition worse. I don't see anybody. I'm completely | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
isolated. I don't see a soul from one day to the next. I have come | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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very close a couple of times, this winter, to wishing that if I didn't | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
wake up it would be such a bad thing. In remote villages, bus | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
services are in frequent and access can be difficult in bad weather. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
There is no shop, no pub and those services and the nearest doctor's | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
surgery is nearly seven miles away. Linda has been waiting for a year | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
for the council to move her to a bigger tan closer to people she | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
knows. A local support group has taken BUT they said there are many | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
disabled and sick people in isolated areas waiting to move, he | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
need have not been properly assessed. They said different | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
agencies must work more closely together. The situation is critical. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
There are many people suffering at the moment and the importance is | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
getting health, Social Services and housing together to assess them so | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
they get their housing. Cornwall Council says there are not enough | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
properties to satisfy demand, even for those with a house priority, | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
but it says the system aims to be fair and transparent in assessing | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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housing need and when someone highlight health and social care -- | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
highlights a health issue, it is no doubt by a panel including health | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
and social care professionals. Health care professionals say those | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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who are sick should not languish in isolated homes. We have heard from | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
lender, who is very depressed about her situation. -- Linda Evans. -- | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
Linda Miller. How common is this? It is quite common and we do a Mac | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
with quite different groups were this occurs. -- deal. We know the | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
population is ageing and also, it is a dream for some people to | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
retire down here. They come down on holiday as a couple and then they | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
are here for their retirement and as they get older and their health | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
deteriorates it becomes a serious issue. How do we get over this | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
problem? Councils said they do not have the properties available. How | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
do we get past that problem? work which Cornwall Council and we | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
work through DEFRA. We had the Advocate for rural communities down | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
before Christmas and we were taking him to visit people like the lady | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
in your report. Some of the responsibility must rest with the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
community to support individuals that are there. We are working | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
collectively with charities. The solution does not just that with | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
the strategy because we cannot afford that any more as a country | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
and a Cardhu. It is a combination of things, it is doing things and | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
making sure that the services that are there join up and if there is | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
housing available to make sure that the most appropriate people have | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
access to it in the right place. That is probably going to stave -- | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
saved on statutory funding as well. Putting people in a care home would | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
be even more costly. Anti-capitalist protesters camped | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
outside Exeter Cathedral have been served with notices telling them to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
leave immediately. The Charge Authority survey will take action | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
to evict the dozens of demonstrators if they do not comply. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
-- the church authorities say. What did these notices they? It is in | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the form of eight Letter. It is very terse, just a few lines. It | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
reflects a loss of patience with the protesters. Nicky point of the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
letter is -- the key point of the letter is that the protesters are | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
required to leave immediately and if they do not court action will | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
follow. It adds that no further notice will be given. There has | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
been a stand-off for a while. What is likely to happen next? It is | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
difficult to call. There is a tape -- game of cat and mouse going on | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
here. There are suggestions that the protesters will be given a week | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
or so to move voluntarily. That is what the cathedral hope will happen. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
If they do not do so, court action will follow. What are the two sides | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
saying tonight? The cathedral say they regret having to do it but | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
they believe we can has become a focus for antisocial behaviour, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
noise, mess and causing distress to local do this -- businesses and | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
people. The protesters said they have not decided what to do yet. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
They previously said they would not leave until there were changes in | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the global capitalist system. So far, there are no signs of that | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
happening. A secondary school in Plymouth is | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
planning to expand by creating a Free School for primary-school | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
pupils. Marine academy Plymouth says it wants to improve standards | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
of maths and literacy. Currently results are per in around one in | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
four primary schools in the city. Among the first primary Free | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Schools in the region. -- it could become. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
These schools are changing with the times. This is the Marine Academy, | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
linked to the University Plymouth - - of Plymouth. Then has a small | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
nursery and now it wants to open a primary. It wants to open a | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
seamless education and wants to improve standards for children in | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
the city. It gives us an impetus to ensure standards are raised. There | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
will be a clear emphasis on literacy and numeracy and also on | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
science and maths. We have to drive up our art comes in this area of | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
the city. -- outcomes. Plymouth are primary schools are amongst the | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
lowest 10 performing authorities in the country. A recent report from | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
the council said... In a statement today it said Ofsted graded the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
majority of primary schools as good or better based on their last | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
inspection grade. It added, having a new Free School is a positive | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
factor. Free Schools are independent of look authority | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
control and the academy believes the freedom to create its own | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
curriculum will help drive up standards. We would aim to be open | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
to all and to Sir the local community. -- serve the local | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
community. Teaching unions and others are opposed to academies and | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Free Schools and controversially, this school is hoping to become | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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both. The unions argue such schools The National Union of Teachers said | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
free schools are untested and that evidence from other countries | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
showed that standards have fallen with this type of school in place. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
The academy is consulting and hopes to bed next month. They are | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
successful the new school will open in September next year. -- if they | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
are successful. Another college in Plymouth has | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
announced it also hopes to open one in the city. Plymouth College of | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Art would call it Plymouth School of creative arts, with around 900 | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
pupils. It says it aims to put creative thinking and innovation at | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
the heart of its curriculum. There has to be balancing between the | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
target driven activities, but result in the table positions, and | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the interests of individuals for whom a conventional academic path | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
might not be the best thing. Campaigners went into battle today | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
against controversial plans for 150 new homes in the Devon countryside. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
A public inquiry opened in the development, planned for 25 acres | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
of land between Exmouth and Lympstone. It attracted more than | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
600 objections. Those involved severe government is sending out | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
mixed messages about whether it approves of such developments. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
It may not like much but this is the so-called green wedge between | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
the edge of the town of Exmouth and the village of Lympstone. It is | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
popular with dog owners and local workers. The East Devon way it runs | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
through the fields which are earmarked for develop -- | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
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It is our descale with the local community. It overturns most of the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
planet -- planning policies laid down to have a properly managed and | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
orderly development. It is precious green land that none tains the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
boundary of the historic village of Lympstone. East Devon District | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Council has thrown out the plans twice but the decision could be | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
taken out of their hands. A public inquiry could give them a go-ahead. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
The developer said there are hopeful of winning their appeal. -- | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
they are. This case highlights apparent contradictions in | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
government policy. An Act passed loo -- an Act passed last year it | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
says local people should have more plate -- say, but guidelines also | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
issued last year said that there should also be a presumption in | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
favour of development as long as it is sustainable. We should do the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
out come within two months. Developers say they will start work | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
almost immediately if the planning inspector backs them. | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Campaigners against plans for a new nuclear power station in Somerset | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
have put their objections to the body reviewing the application. The | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
Stop Hinkley group have delivered a petition signed by more than 13,000 | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
people to be Infrastructure Planning Commission. The energy | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
company EDF is applying to build the power station. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Power restrictions have been removed from wind turbines at | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
England's windfarm at Fullabrook Down near African. Noise testing | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
will be carried out after complaints from local residents. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
In the service has been set up in Torbay to help pregnant women | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
experiencing mental health problems. It comes after a case review into | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
the death of a 10 day-old baby in Anxiety and depression are the most | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
common problems for recent mothers. It felt like terror, panic, I | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
didn't want to be left alone with my baby. Mental torture. Unless | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
you've experience what that like, it's very difficult to describe. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
women will be screened for mental health concerns, if something is | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
picked up, they will be offered an assistant by the mental health team. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
If they need a package of care, we will work closely with the midwife, | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
her GP, and partner, to create a plan, which she is at the centre of, | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
but covers every eventuality, to what happens if she becomes ill. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
expect to see about 250 women within a year, in the last four | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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months, we have had 200 referrals made to last. -- made to last. | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
that I and treated, I don't think I'm a terrible mum, I think I have | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
done a good job today. The mother of a young RAF sergeant | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
from Somerset who died when his plane exploded over Afghanistan has | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
written a book about his death. Ben Knight was one of 14 men killed | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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when the RAF Nimrod exploded. The family had been campaigning to find | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
out what happened. The explosion which devastated this | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
plane killed off 14 people on board. The biggest loss of life is a | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
single incident since the Falklands -- in a single incident. This | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
mother has written a book about her son, and her search for the truth. | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
I won the people held rook -- and what the people responsible held to | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
account. That has not happened. rout the inquiries, she submitted | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
her thoughts to paper, for a self-, and for the future, his nephews and | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
it nieces. The proceeds of the book will go to charity, so some book | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
will come from the last. -- loss. An inquiry found about the Nimrods | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
were poorly maintained, and shouldn't have been flying. She | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
expresses anger, although people were blamed, nobody was held to | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
account. Do you hate ironing, or digging the | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
garden? A volunteer scheme which allows people to use their skills | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
to help each other out is being expanded across Cornwall. The St | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Austell Time Bank has been running for two years, now the organisers | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
have got money from the Big Lottery Fund to expand it to towns. I hope | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
they are coming to mind. This woman is doing the ironing, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
somebody else's dining. When this is done she will have banked an | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
hour in a time the bank, she can use it for anything. She says the | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
scheme has been helpful. This set of drawers collapsed, and stark. | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
Within less than 24 hours a member came, very capable, he put some | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
bigger screws in, now it's absolutely fine, it's a job I | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
couldn't have done. These new shelves were built, and painted, by | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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other members. It can provide an A- Z of services. There are many | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
different services, including gardening. I have put up doors, | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
shelves, pictures, cleared rubbish, made shelves, repaired things. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Everyone is equal, so one hour's work is one hour's work, whether it | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
is ironing or a music lesson. She is 12 hours in credit, but if | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
needed, an overdraft is possible. We do get people into debt, but | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
only in time. Once they have been known to last, then they can go | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
into debt. They repay the time when they are able to. The �50,000 | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
annual grant means the scheme has expanded to other towns in Cornwall. | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
If you are in Bodmin, Newquay or Truro, you too can also open your | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
own account. Justin said if you come and do his | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
signing, he will come and cudgel grass! -- cut your grass. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
The Steven Spielberg film War Horse has been a nominated for six Oscars, | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
including for best picture. It is based on the book by the Devon | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
author Michael Morpurgo, telling the story Of A boy whose horse is | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
sold and Serbs in World War I. -- and Serbs. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
International women's cricket will come up to try this summer, the | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
England women's team will play India. It is a massive here for us. | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
We have the World Cup of 2020, and the 50 over World Cup next month. | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
It is a really big year for us all. Those games will be very important | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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for us. Torquay and knighted can stretch their unbeaten -- Torquay | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
United can stretch their unbeaten run to six games. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
They play Dagenham and Redbridge tonight. They can also do Plymouth | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Argyle a favour as the Daggers are only one place above them in the | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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table. Now in the second part of our | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
series about Plymouth born Captain Robert Falcon Scott we look at the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
famous expedition which claimed his life almost a century ago. Scott's | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
bid for the pole relied on using ponies, dogs and men to haul | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
sledges part of the way. But by the beginning of January 1912, and | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
within 150 miles of the pole he chose just four men to accompany | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
him. The names Bowers, Evans, Oates and Wilson would be immortalised | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
alongside Scott's on that fateful journey. | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
Scott and his men have way in a race to the poll. They knew the | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
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Norwegians led by a role -- role are Amundsen were ahead of them. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Now we finally know the whole story. The Norwegians had beaten them to | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
the poll, reaching eight weeks earlier. They reached it in 56 days. | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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Scott's reliance on man meant it to pin 78 days to to reach it. On the | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
return journey one man died. He fell into a crevasse, his condition | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
worsened and he eventually died. His death shocked the men, they | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
pressed on a, they're very survival depended on reaching supply depots. | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
The temperatures plunged, and keeping warm was crucial. Keeping | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
in mind, any time you exerted yourself, and sweated, that's why | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
it would freeze, and then when it melted again you would be dead. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
food rations were inadequate for the work they were doing. They were | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
literally starving to death. There was another problem. They had | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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frostbitten feet, progress slowed. One member went out into a blizzard | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
saying, I'm just going outside for a moment, I may be some time. He | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
sacrificed himself for the rest of the team. Scott described him as an | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
Englishman and a gentleman. The storm of would not relent, Scott | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
knew their time was up. On 29th March, 1912, he wrote, if it seems | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
a pity, but I cannot write any more. They died just 11 miles from their | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
next supply depot. Their bodies were discovered some eight months | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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later. They were buried beneath It is 100 years on, but still an | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
incredible story. You can see the third and final part of our series | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
next week, when the talk to a modern-day polar explorer about the | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
modern-day polar explorer about the legacy. -- when we talk. | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
Time for the weather. Colder, but not as cold as the | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
Antarctic. Some drizzle tonight. Some fog on the hills, may be | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
becoming more widespread. You can see the cloud out here to the West. | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
That is a change, a colder weather front, it is heading towards us. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
There is some cold air behind it. A risk of some wintery showers by | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
Thursday. At the moment, mild air, cloudy conditions. Some quite | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
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strong winds tomorrow. Lunchtime on Thursday, that front is to be -- | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
that front is to the east of us. A scattering of busty -- a blustery | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
showers. The cloud is giving us some light drizzle, continuing | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
eastwards. With all that cloud, we should not see too much of a fall | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
in temperatures, probably 8-9 degrees. I cloudy and misty day | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
tomorrow, very similar to today. Just a chance of some breaks | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
developing in the cloud, but here comes the persistent rain. That | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
moves into West Cornwall by the end of the afternoon. Some quite a wet | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
weather moving in, some strong winds as well. Temperatures | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
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tomorrow, 10 -11 degrees, above average. Wednesday, some drizzle, | :26:18. | :26:28. | |
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and the persistent rain later. The For the rest of us, rather choppy. | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
That is the coastal water forecast. The wind is from the south-west. | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
There is moderate, too poor, visibility. Quite a drop in the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
temperatures on Thursday, windy with some scattered, blustery | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
showers. One or two showers over Dartmoor. Friday, a cold start, | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
just seven degrees the top temperature. Similar conditions on | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
Saturday. There is a risk of some widespread overnight frost on the | :27:25. | :27:29. |