:00:18. > :00:27.An extraordinary meeting, the North Devon meeting about prayer in a
:00:27. > :00:35.castle all over the country. Tonight we will be life in Bideford.
:00:35. > :00:45.And making �20 million worth of savings, Devon said its budget, but
:00:45. > :00:50.some of rural communities to fear it could make them vulnerable. And
:00:50. > :00:55.the South Devon man battered and bruised after messing -- fighting
:00:55. > :00:59.with a monster fish. Councillors in Bideford will
:00:59. > :01:02.tonight decide whether or not to appeal against a decision that
:01:03. > :01:09.means they will be breaking the law if they say prayers as part of
:01:09. > :01:16.their formal meetings. Clive Bone, who is an atheist, challenged it
:01:16. > :01:21.and said that it was unlawful to have a prayers in the meetings. Our
:01:21. > :01:26.correspondent joins us alive from Bideford tonight.
:01:26. > :01:29.-- joins us life. This extraordinary meeting got under way
:01:29. > :01:35.about 20 minutes ago and tonight councillors are seeking legal
:01:35. > :01:39.advice on whether to appeal against that ruling. This case has really
:01:39. > :01:44.set the cat among the pigeons. You might remember that last week the
:01:44. > :01:48.Archbishop of Canterbury criticised it. The Secretary of State for
:01:48. > :01:51.local communities and government said that he was planning to bring
:01:51. > :01:56.a bill for a word so that local councils could continue with their
:01:56. > :02:02.tradition. -- forward. However, a West Devon MP said that bringing
:02:02. > :02:07.the case was a waste of money. Today my colleague has been finding
:02:07. > :02:13.out what affects the ruling has had on other councils in the South West.
:02:13. > :02:16.The debate and rolling over prayers before meetings in the council --
:02:16. > :02:23.and rolling over prayers before meetings is affecting other
:02:23. > :02:27.councillors in the meeting. -- in the region.
:02:27. > :02:34.Normally the first tenants of a council meeting is dedicated to
:02:34. > :02:40.prayers, but it has been decided that Spurs will not be on the
:02:40. > :02:43.agenda. -- that prayers will not be on the agenda. The chairman of the
:02:43. > :02:48.council has decided that if anyone wants to take part in Christian
:02:48. > :02:53.prayers, they can do so 10 minutes before the meeting. That is part of
:02:53. > :02:58.democracy. Not everybody agrees with it. Some people do. The
:02:58. > :03:03.council will have an opportunity to discuss where they want to go. At
:03:03. > :03:07.the moment I believe that if we had prayers at 10:30am despite in not
:03:07. > :03:12.being put on the agenda, I believe we would be breaking the law, and I
:03:12. > :03:16.am not prepared to put the council through that. Today, Devon County
:03:16. > :03:19.Council were holding the budget meeting. They decided to hold their
:03:19. > :03:23.prayers before the meeting officially started so they would
:03:23. > :03:28.not break the law. Torbay Council say they are looking
:03:28. > :03:32.into the ruling and Annie implications it might have for them.
:03:32. > :03:35.-- and Annie implications it might have for them.
:03:35. > :03:40.A spokesman for Plymouth City Council says that prayers are said
:03:40. > :03:46.but are not part of the meeting. They say that councillors need not
:03:46. > :03:52.be present and some choose not to the.
:03:52. > :03:56.-- not to be. That meeting is due to finish around 7:00pm and I am
:03:56. > :04:01.told that if councillors decide to appeal against the ruling they will
:04:01. > :04:04.be held out by the Christian Institute. It would not come at the
:04:05. > :04:11.taxpayers' expense because the Christian Institute would foot the
:04:11. > :04:16.bill. What will be interesting as whether councillors did say prayers
:04:16. > :04:21.unofficially. It did not appear on the agenda but they were talking
:04:21. > :04:29.about doing that last week. We will have a report about this with an
:04:29. > :04:33.update on tonight's 10:25pm Programme.
:04:33. > :04:36.Bus routes and libraries will suffer and thousands more street
:04:37. > :04:42.night will be switched off every night as �20 million worth of cuts
:04:42. > :04:47.are made across Devon. The council set its budget today. Politicians
:04:47. > :04:52.are worried that some rural communities will be isolated.
:04:52. > :05:01.Broil bus routes are being put under review and there will be cut
:05:01. > :05:06.to transport fees for young people. It will affect the young people and
:05:06. > :05:10.vulnerable people. What bus routes, it usually affects a small number
:05:10. > :05:16.of people, but these are very important to them and they need to
:05:16. > :05:21.be able to get from A to B. Libraries were also suffer. None
:05:21. > :05:26.will close, but the budget for buying books will be cut. Thousands
:05:26. > :05:31.more street lights will be cut off. This year it has been described as
:05:31. > :05:37.a steady as you go budget. But next year there will be a turbulent time
:05:37. > :05:41.ahead and I think that for services in Devon. Today's meeting was told
:05:41. > :05:45.that the savings required in Devon would be found from cuts to
:05:45. > :05:50.management and a reorganisation of the council. I think we have
:05:50. > :05:54.protected services. We have protected them to the best of our
:05:54. > :05:58.ability. We are looking after the young and the vulnerable. We are
:05:58. > :06:04.still reducing staff, which is why the corporate side will actually
:06:04. > :06:11.have less to spend this year. But we are at now shaped in a way to
:06:11. > :06:16.face the 21st century. -- but we are now shaped. Roads have been
:06:16. > :06:24.damaged by severe weather. Devon's share of council-tax bills will be
:06:24. > :06:31.frozen. This is nothing like the Budget last year, when there was a
:06:31. > :06:38.high profile row over cuts to support for domestic violence
:06:38. > :06:42.victims. Another review will be held in May of next year.
:06:43. > :06:50.Major disruption is imminent for ferry passengers out of Weymouth.
:06:50. > :06:55.Condor Ferries are trying to search -- which services because of
:06:55. > :06:59.serious safety concerns about their ports in a Poole. Our business
:06:59. > :07:05.correspondent is with me now. What is wrong with the port?
:07:05. > :07:10.De are concerned about -- there are concerns that the masonry could
:07:10. > :07:16.fall apart at the port. This comes after an examination. A diver went
:07:16. > :07:21.down and cracks were seen below the water line. There are problems
:07:21. > :07:25.above that line as well. There are cracks visible. It is an obvious
:07:25. > :07:29.risk to the travelling public. One senior counsellor has told us that
:07:29. > :07:36.this is being treated at the moment as a trip hazard rather than
:07:36. > :07:43.anything more serious. It is uneven. People can trip. If it were to get
:07:43. > :07:47.much worse, which we don't think it will, it could be a real danger. We
:07:47. > :07:53.want to deal with it now. What will this mean for a ferry schedules?
:07:53. > :07:58.The air is one more departure from Weymouth -- there is one more
:07:58. > :08:06.departure from Weymouth at and 30 am. Sunday and Monday will have
:08:06. > :08:10.ferries are going from Poole. -- at 10:30am. Condor Ferries is an
:08:10. > :08:14.important employer. How long will this last's it is the biggest
:08:14. > :08:19.private employer in the area. It is important for Weymouth that this be
:08:19. > :08:23.sorted out as soon as possible. We simply do not know. The statement
:08:23. > :08:27.from Condor Ferries just says that the ceilings for the rest of the
:08:27. > :08:32.month will be reviewed this coming week after they have done more on
:08:32. > :08:41.site investigation. More than 100 guests had to be
:08:41. > :08:46.moved out of the Crown Hotel on Torquay seafront while firefighters
:08:47. > :08:51.tackled a chimney fire. -- Grand Hotel. Staff say that there was
:08:51. > :08:56.minimal damage to the four-star Hotel and officers say it was a
:08:56. > :09:01.difficult fire to put out because of the position of the chimney.
:09:01. > :09:07.was assured that the chimney was swept quite regularly. It was last
:09:07. > :09:13.swept in November. It is used on a daily basis and it could be a build
:09:13. > :09:18.up of build up which has decided to catch fire today. New houses built
:09:18. > :09:21.in the Olympic village have been handed over to Games organisers. A
:09:21. > :09:25.handshake marked the moment that the homes, which form the will of
:09:25. > :09:28.the village, will eventually be sold on the open market. The new
:09:28. > :09:33.development would have taken longer to complete had it not been for the
:09:33. > :09:37.Games. I came down here in 2003 when we started the bid. Those days
:09:37. > :09:44.we were working on a cruise ship. To see the village you complete and
:09:44. > :09:47.taking it over, for me, personally, it is a big milestone. Not on the
:09:47. > :09:51.will be amazing during the Games but it will be a great legacy for
:09:51. > :09:56.the community after words. There is a warning to write that the number
:09:56. > :09:59.of applications for single wind turbines in Cornwall will
:09:59. > :10:04.industrialise the countryside. A new organisation called Core mob
:10:04. > :10:10.attack says that there has been a number of fashionable Cornwall
:10:10. > :10:20.Protect says that there needs to be -- and Organisation accord Cornwall
:10:20. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :10:25.Protect says that more needs to be done to protect the area.
:10:25. > :10:30.Cornwall Protect his concern about the rising number of applications
:10:30. > :10:35.for more single wind turbines. These maps are produced by Cornwall
:10:35. > :10:39.council. You can see all of the lines across here show a massive
:10:39. > :10:42.increase in wind turbine applications. Cornwall has
:10:42. > :10:46.pioneered wind energy but some people are asking how many wind
:10:47. > :10:51.turbines there should be. These days, wind turbines tend to look
:10:51. > :10:56.quite large on the landscape. But the question is whether or not we
:10:56. > :11:01.are killing off the goose that lays the golden egg. Our wind turbines
:11:01. > :11:11.blighting the English -- are wind turbines blighting the English
:11:11. > :11:18.countryside? I am thinking out geothermal and wave hubs and things.
:11:18. > :11:22.All of these are vital alternatives. This man worked for the energy
:11:22. > :11:28.industry. Now he has joined Cornwall Protect. He gave as the
:11:28. > :11:35.figures to show how the terra pak works for wind turbine owners. --
:11:35. > :11:42.at the tariff works. They have electricity expenses transported to
:11:42. > :11:50.a power company and they can save 13 -- 13p per kilowatt hour. That
:11:50. > :12:00.would net and operator �450,000 per year. But this company says that
:12:00. > :12:01.
:12:01. > :12:04.wind turbines are good for the countryside. They offer cost
:12:04. > :12:08.effective forms of energy generation which is secured and we
:12:08. > :12:12.can rely on rather than the vagaries of a fossil fuels.
:12:12. > :12:19.commercial wind farms agreed, despite their critics. They say
:12:19. > :12:24.that wind energy is efficient. Artists in Bridport are concerned
:12:24. > :12:29.about plans which might paint a very different picture of the town.
:12:29. > :12:33.That to come in a moment. And back in its home county, the painting
:12:33. > :12:40.bought and sold as a scene of London.
:12:40. > :12:46.And the city of Exeter might up to excite and inspire. -- lights up to
:12:46. > :12:52.excite and inspire. Police say they believe that the
:12:52. > :12:56.bones found by contractors in a house... They are being analysed at
:12:56. > :13:01.the moment. It is not clear how significant they are, but there is
:13:01. > :13:07.evidence that they could be from the Iron Age. It is not every day
:13:07. > :13:12.to be called by the police on a case such as this. People have been
:13:12. > :13:16.living around Dorset for many thousands of years and so it is not
:13:16. > :13:23.unexpected to find remains of individuals who have been buried
:13:23. > :13:26.The number of people sleeping rough in and around Truro has more than
:13:26. > :13:29.doubled. The charity St Petrocs says it's helped 91 people at its
:13:29. > :13:35.shelter this winter as opposed to 36 during the same time last year.
:13:35. > :13:38.The organisation is blaming the economic downturn.
:13:38. > :13:40.It has been revealed that Dartmouth will play host to an international
:13:40. > :13:43.sailing competition later this year. The J80 World Sailing Championships
:13:43. > :13:47.will be a joint venture hosted by the Britain -- Britannia Yacht Club
:13:47. > :13:57.and the Royal Dart Yacht club. Around 80 teams from all over the
:13:57. > :14:00.world will be competing in the event at the beginning of June.
:14:00. > :14:03.Described as Notting Hill-on-Sea, Bridport has been build -- building
:14:03. > :14:06.a bit of a national reputation in recent years. And for a coastal
:14:06. > :14:09.town in Dorset, there is a colourful cultural scene. But some
:14:09. > :14:16.argue that part of it is now under threat because of redevelopment
:14:17. > :14:21.plans for an area close to the artists and their studios. It may
:14:21. > :14:23.be a run-down industrial estate, but hidden away here are plenty of
:14:23. > :14:27.businesses. It is no coincidence that these sorts of traders have
:14:28. > :14:34.set up in Bridport. They appealed to art lovers who come from far and
:14:34. > :14:41.wide to spend their money. Bridport is building a cultural name for
:14:41. > :14:48.itself, and the galleries, studios have a closely linked marketplace.
:14:48. > :14:53.Some believe they will be a real loss to the economy if the plans go
:14:53. > :14:59.ahead. Not only are about 100 jobs at this, but the move could eat
:14:59. > :15:03.away at what has become a well- known art scene. I personally would
:15:03. > :15:07.move on. I couldn't stand the thought of an ugly housing
:15:07. > :15:11.development in the middle of a conservation area. The Heritage we
:15:12. > :15:16.are losing his incredible. Plans for the site include demolishing
:15:16. > :15:20.buildings and putting up about 100 homes. The owners say there will
:15:20. > :15:26.also be spaces for legitimate tenants already here to set up shop,
:15:26. > :15:36.and that -- but other traders always knew it would be a short-
:15:36. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:45.term deal. We let them in to help them out, and they have all agreed
:15:45. > :15:49.-- and they all agreed to leave when the time was past. Economic
:15:49. > :15:54.growth is the holy grail in Britain at the moment, and one gallery
:15:54. > :15:59.owner says art is the key to success here. People come down to
:15:59. > :16:05.Bridport just to see the galleries. Most of what by self goes to places
:16:05. > :16:09.like Surrey, home counties. We need people to come into Bridport. They
:16:09. > :16:14.have to come reasons to come to Bridport. The art scene here really
:16:14. > :16:20.has taken off over the last 10 years, and businesses clustered
:16:20. > :16:24.together. Someone coming to buy at the painted -- to buy a painting
:16:24. > :16:32.here, may also buy something else. What happens next is up to the
:16:32. > :16:35.district council. They need to take all views into account. A painting
:16:35. > :16:38.brought -- bought and sold as a view of old London has been brought
:16:38. > :16:41.back to Cornwall after it was revealed to actually portray Truro.
:16:41. > :16:49.The picture is a view of the Cornish city long before the
:16:49. > :16:55.cathedral was built. The picture is thought to have been painted more
:16:55. > :17:00.than 200 years ago, perhaps as early as 1790. It shows the high
:17:00. > :17:04.cost area of Truro and the odds and there is church. It is full of
:17:04. > :17:11.fascinating detail. There is a woman washing clothes. Their cars
:17:11. > :17:20.in the street, and the building on the left is an Ironmongers -- There
:17:20. > :17:25.are COWEs in the street. The painting was originally bought
:17:25. > :17:31.unsold as a fear of Kensington in London, but recognised it as Truro
:17:31. > :17:36.in the late 19th century. Today, the scene for the artist's
:17:36. > :17:40.viewpoint is very different. The cathedral has been built on this
:17:40. > :17:42.site of the old church. But the Assembly of rooms are still here,
:17:43. > :17:50.and this is where the woman was washing the clothes. You wouldn't
:17:50. > :17:54.want to do that today. And out here, there is not an animal in sight.
:17:54. > :17:58.was from before photography, so nobody else knows exactly what the
:17:58. > :18:06.place looked like. It is prices, a view of the lost, vanished world.
:18:06. > :18:15.Other same time, you can see what is there today. -- it is priceless.
:18:15. > :18:20.The artist remains a mystery, and the price tag is �7,500.
:18:20. > :18:25.Fascinating to see how things have changed. I'm coming from Truro, few
:18:25. > :18:33.people have asked if I remember it looking like that but the lad. I
:18:33. > :18:35.don't, quite! It has changed a bit. Thousands of people are expected to
:18:35. > :18:39.attend Animated Exeter this year. The annual festival showcases high-
:18:39. > :18:43.quality animation and allows the general public to give in - give it
:18:43. > :18:47.a go. More than 100 animated films will be shown in the city over the
:18:47. > :18:49.eight day event. We went to see some of the workshops helping young
:18:49. > :18:59.animators learn their craft from the professionals. The report
:18:59. > :19:06.contains some flashing images. You need to look at this from all
:19:06. > :19:10.the way round. Learning from the best. This woman is a model maker.
:19:10. > :19:15.She has worked on characters for the order -- for an award winning
:19:15. > :19:20.company, which makes models for films like chicken run and Wallace
:19:20. > :19:25.and Gromit. She is now passing on her skills to the next generation
:19:25. > :19:31.of animators. It is always good to get professionals to teach you. You
:19:31. > :19:40.can get the low-down on how to get into the industry itself. I love
:19:40. > :19:44.animation, I love filming. I love taking on new skills. It is
:19:44. > :19:50.wonderful to do -- to do that here. This model making classes just one
:19:50. > :19:59.of the many workshops happening to help people learn their own skills.
:19:59. > :20:07.This year's festival is very much focused on people skills. There are
:20:07. > :20:12.a lot of workshops for young people and also a lot like this one behind
:20:12. > :20:18.us for all the people. They are quite specialised workshops. These
:20:18. > :20:23.young animators are helping to project pictures on to inanimate
:20:23. > :20:31.objects. His polystyrene box comes to life and becomes a teak -- TV
:20:31. > :20:37.screen when the projection is rolling. We are painting objects of
:20:37. > :20:39.light. The professionals have a much bigger canvas to play with.
:20:40. > :20:49.Over the next three nights, animated films will be projected
:20:49. > :20:52.onto the walls of the city's Cathedral. It took 30 minutes to
:20:52. > :20:55.land but little did Devon angler Chris Proctor suspect that he had
:20:55. > :21:01.landed what could be the biggest cod ever caught by rod in the
:21:01. > :21:05.English Channel. And that's not all. It happened on his first ever sea
:21:05. > :21:09.fishing trip. The drama unfolded off Pevensey Bay and Chris tells us
:21:09. > :21:19.he's since had pan fried cod, cod in batter, a fish stew and a fish
:21:19. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:40.Celebrating their record-breaking catch. Chris and his friends can
:21:40. > :21:47.hardly believe their eyes. Not bad for their first trip catching cod.
:21:47. > :21:52.That is the magic moment, when you see this huge creature surfacing.
:21:52. > :21:56.Until it is in the boat, you haven't caught it. That is the
:21:56. > :22:04.exciting part of it. The sense of the unknown is all part of the fund.
:22:04. > :22:14.I was lucky enough to catch a �21 card, but Chris had this bigger
:22:14. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:21.fish. -- �21 cod. By the time Chris reached the shore for the official
:22:21. > :22:31.landing way in, rumours were already causing a stir in Pevensey
:22:31. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:45.Bay. People were filming yet. It went to 43.9. It is the biggest cod
:22:45. > :22:53.that fishermen here have ever seen. It is a spate of several catches
:22:53. > :23:03.larger than average, so much so that the angler's down -- I was 10
:23:03. > :23:12.
:23:12. > :23:21.now has a wall of fame of colossal cods. -- anglers' den. How is the
:23:21. > :23:31.weather? Tonight, it is mild, generally cloudy and generally
:23:31. > :23:32.
:23:32. > :23:42.quiet for all of us. There may be a few showers. The cloud will become
:23:42. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:54.a bit more active on Saturday. A cold front will push through on
:23:54. > :23:58.Saturday, so it could be quite wet and windy. We then get a big change.
:23:58. > :24:08.Saturday night into Sunday, the cold front introduce is much colder
:24:08. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:20.air, with the risk of some wintery showers -- introduces. There are
:24:20. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:34.already a few trips and drabs of showery rain. Low temperatures of
:24:34. > :24:38.
:24:38. > :24:42.four or five degrees. Quite misty developing over the moors. Tomorrow,
:24:42. > :24:45.we have got a lot of cloud for much of the day. There's little chance
:24:45. > :24:51.of seeing much of the way of breaks in that cloud. Every now and then,
:24:51. > :24:57.the odd shower will drift by. A change in wind direction. We may
:24:57. > :25:04.get slightly higher temperatures because of that. Maximum control of
:25:04. > :25:11.10 or 11 degrees. Those winds will be Westerleigh, and then back
:25:11. > :25:21.south-westerly later in the day. They will pick up into the early
:25:21. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:56.For those who have not had much surf for the last few days' cover
:25:56. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:26.it does Pickup. -- pick up. Coastal As for the outlet, there is a big
:26:26. > :26:34.change. Saturday becomes quite a wet. Still relatively mild, but ten
:26:34. > :26:40.degrees the top temperature. Some very blustery winds. Down to seven
:26:40. > :26:43.degrees on Sunday. The further east you are, the lower the temperatures
:26:43. > :26:53.will be, because we will have a frosty start on Sunday morning and
:26:53. > :26:54.
:26:54. > :27:04.the risk of ice after that rain. Monday, a frosty start and it
:27:04. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:10.clouds over again and become stamp. Wet, windy and mild by Tuesday.
:27:10. > :27:14.David Cameron makes the new offer for the devolution debate. And here,
:27:14. > :27:22.North Devon councillors discuss appealing against a ban on players
:27:23. > :27:28.in council meetings. -- prayers. We would give the the outcome of that