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The Devon photographer injured in a Syrian shell attack. His wife

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describes the moment she saw the headlines.

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My heart stopped and I was looking and I saw Marie's name and I

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thought if she was dead then he was dead as well.

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Good evening. Paul Conroy survived the attack but two other

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journalists were killed. Also on Spotlight tonight:

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The death of a Royal Marine. A coroner pays tribute to James

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Wright and to the sacrifices made by military personnel. Refused a

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private ambulance because he can't wear a seat belt. The patient who

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had waited over a year for an appointment.

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They have let me down, really. I have got to wait for another

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appointment and it could be several months.

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And we are not amoosed! The shaggy dog story of the premature calf.

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A wife has been speaking to Spotlight about the horrific moment

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she thought her husband had been killed in a mortar attack in war-

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torn Syria. Kate Conroy says it was the moment her life stopped. It was

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almost half hour before she knew he was alive.

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The mother of three is tonight waiting for more news of her

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wounded husband Paul, a photographer, whose two journalist

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colleagues died in the same attack. It happened earlier today when

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government forces shelled a house in the Baba Amr district of the

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city of Homs. The three were all working inside. Live to Totnes and

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Spotlight's correspondent Simon Hall.

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Paul was well known here. I detected a sense of pride about the

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work he was doing in Syria. There has been great shock at what has

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happened here. That was expressed very powerfully to me by his wife

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Kate. Paul, is being treated for his are ruins following the attack,

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but he is the lucky one. Two journalists working alongside him

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were killed. At home, his wife waits for news, as she has since

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first hearing of the attack. I was actually at work and I was just

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about to show a colleague a little documentary that he had posted on

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the internet last night. I was trying to locate it on the internet

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and then this headline flashed up about two Western journalists

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killed in Syria. My heart just stopped and I was looking and I

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summary's name and I thought that if she was dead that meant he was

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dead as well. -- saw Marie's name. I thought that was the case and

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then I came across a little bit of news saying that Paul Conroy was

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seriously injured which was better than dead. But still, it was not

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necessarily good. Things are looking a lot better now than that

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laugh -- half hour. Very few people have experienced anything like that.

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It must have been the worst have hour of your life. Your world just

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comes tumbling around you. It is just indescribable, really. I have

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imagined the SIM area of so many times over -- the scenario so many

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times over in the last 10 years, and suddenly it is a reality. It is

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impossible to describe, to be honest. The couple have three sons.

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The youngest son does not actually know yet so I have got to break

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that to him gently. We have tried to protect him a lot from the

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danger that his father is in but he picks it up. It is on the news and

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it is hard to shield him complete from it. He is very brave.

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suspect part of that might come from his father. I have heard

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people speaking of him as a brave man who is doing his duty to show

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the world something they need to see. How are you feeling now about

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the job he does out there? I Emily hoping that maybe he will stop now.

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-- I am really hoping. We will see. When I told my older son he said it

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was a wake-up call. He cannot carry on doing this. That is my hope. He

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will see that he has not somebody... He is a very driven to tell a story

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and he is doing a really important job and I am very proud of him for

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what he does but he does not make it any easier for us at home. --

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does not make it any easier for us at home. The question now is what

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happens to Paul next. The Sunday Times have given us a statement

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saying they will do everything they can to get him to safety, but in a

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country like Syria, in a virtual state of civil war, that will not

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be a straightforward task. The coroner at an inquest into the

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death of a south west Royal Marine in Afghanistan today paid tribute

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to the sacrifices made by military personnel. 22-year-old Marine James

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Wright, from Weymouth, was killed in a grenade explosion in Helmand

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last August.The West Dorset Coroner said he felt the verdict of

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unlawful killing was inadequate and recorded a narrative verdict.

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Spotlight's defence reporter Scott Bingham was at the inquest.

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The loss of marine James Wright seemed all the more tragic as his

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partner was pregnant with their first child at the time of his

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death. Today, just 12 weeks after she was born, baby Lily attended --

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attended her father's inquest. Though she might never know him in

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person, in time she will know about the man he was and the sacrifice he

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made. The inquest heard that marine James Wright was serving a in a

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district of Helmand province last year. They had been on patrol that

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morning and had come under fire from insurgent several times. The

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fire fight ceased and they made it safely back to their checkpoint.

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They removed their helmets and body armour, as was routine Bude to the

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high summer temperatures. Minutes later, three grenades were launched

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into the compound. James was hit by shrapnel and suffered an survivable

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rooms to the head. Medics were unable to save him.

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Recording a narrative verdict, the coroner said, it seems to me this

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is an unlawful killing, but I am not sure that bold statement

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adequately recalls what I think needs to be acknowledged. James

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Wright died under enemy fire while serving his country. This, he said,

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gives some small acknowledgement to the sacrifice that James and others

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have made. An investigation into a complaint

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which led to a ward closure at the Royal Cornwall Hospital has now

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moved into a second week. The Wheal Agar ward was closed after an

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allegation from a patient. Several members of staff have been

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suspended, whilst the hospital carries out an inquiry.

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Weymouth ferry port remains closed tonight as an investigation

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continues into cracks in the harbour wall. Condor ferries has

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transferred all its services to Poole temporarily. The local

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council says it doesn't know how long the port will remain shut.

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Rail watchdogs are worried Cornwall's train services could be

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starved of cash if the local authority takes more control. It

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comes as the government prepares to offer a new franchise on the

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current First Great Western Line. Travelwatch South West is concerned

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there may not be enough money to back up a council bid to help run

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A disabled man in Cornwall missed a hospital appointment after a 14

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month wait because a private ambulance was unable to take him

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there without him wearing a seatbelt. The Royal Cornwall

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Hospitals Trust says it is working to resolve the problem.

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64-year-old Stuart is a chronic asthmatic who needs constant oxygen

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to help him breathe. Every movement is a strain. He also suffers from a

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hernia, which makes him exempt from wearing a seatbelt in a vehicle. A

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hospital asked if one of the ambulances could transfer him for a

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check-up but there was an insurance issue. They have let me down,

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really. I have got to wait for another appointment. It could be

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several months. How am I going to get their next time? He says he is

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absent because the trust had received all of the -- he is angry

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because the trust had received all of the information regarding the

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seat belt issue weeks before. should not stress out asthmatics at

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the best of time. It upsets your asthma. The trust says it was

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unaware of the seatbelt situation until it was too late and says that

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the transport department did everything it could to provide

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appropriate transport. The therapy department will be contacting him

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within the next month for his next appointment. No one from the

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ambulance service was available for interview, but in a statement, the

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company said that it could not risk the safety off Stuart were any of

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its staff. Stuart is someone who does not lead

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his problems get in the way of his life in the local community. He is

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hoping that any future hospital transport issues can be sorted out

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swiftly. MPs are this evening voting on

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whether the government should be forced to publish a confidential

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risk assessment into its controversial NHS reforms. Labour

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tabled today's debate but three Liberal Democrats from the South

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West have also called on the government to make the report

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public. Our Political Editor has been following events at

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Earlier I asked her what the risk register was.

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This is a routine in house procedure that water the Health

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Secretary told MPs today that these reports are confidential and they

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encourage the reports... This is such an underwritten issue that

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confidential the should be weighed in this case because these reports

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are do tend to be so candid in their findings. One MP is -- has

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said that this information should be in the public domain and has

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already made up his own mind that the health bill should be scrapped

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in its entirety. If you are about to undertake the biggest

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reorganisation of the NHS it is best not to do that in the dark.

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Whilst the Government has published a lot of information about the Bill

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and its impact, the Information Commissioner has made it clear that

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it does not risk government delivery and what actually add to

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improvements. And what is the Government saying?

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Despite the ruling from the Information Commissioner saying

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that the Government should publish this information, the Government is

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standing its ground and refusing, for a number of reasons. It says,

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for instance, that these assessments give a snapshot of the

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risk associated with a policy at a certain time because the health

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bill has changed so much since the assessment was made that it is no

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longer an accurate picture. They are also saying that if confident

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shout sea was breached it might make the people who write the

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reports less frank and useful with their advice in the future. --

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confidentiality was breached. The government has made, and some will

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only fuel speculation. This report contains some pretty hot stuff.

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A South West MP pressed the government today for more money to

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pay for millions of pounds in flood defences for the region. As it was,

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the bid failed, but he says the battle will go on. Exeter suffered

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serious flooding in the 1960s when a large part of the city was under

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water. New flood defences were put in place, but this flood Simulation

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produced by the Environment Agency shows how homes and businesses will

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be overwhelmed again if nothing is done to address the increasing risk

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of rising river levels. There are already a couple of suggestions

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about how Exeter might try to protect itself from rising river

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levels. There are existing flood defences along the banks of the

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river and a more costly option talks about the creation of a

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reservoir upstream from here. A possible shortfall of up to �12

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million for new flood defences would have to be found locally

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according to the City's MP. Government is passing the buck down

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to local people to find what should be nationally important schemes.

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The cost of cleaning up after a flood disaster is a higher than the

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cost of preventing the floods happening in the first place.

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businesses along the river want to improve flood defences but say they

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cannot afford to pay for them. Local authorities are also

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concerned. Last year, the total raised from all local authorities

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for local projects like this was in the region of �13 million, so I

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expect one of 40 -- so to expect when a party to get that all on

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their own is just and reasonable. The Environment Agency says it will

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do all it can do secured a flood scheme that will protect lives and

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property in Exeter. But the Government insists more money can

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be raised locally. We have developed a new system that came

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out of a report that the last government commission which seeks

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to get contributions where possible from businesses and the planning

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system and occasionally from local authorities. We are seeking

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negotiations locally to see if we can get the scheme above-the-line.

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Nobody wants a repetition of what happened in the 1960s, but it

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remains unclear just how and when the City's flood defences will come

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through. Plymouth diving pair Tonia Couch

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and Sarah Barrow are on course for a medal in tonight's final of the

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women's synchronised event in the World Cup. At the London Aquatic

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Centre, they qualified for the final with the second highest score,

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which should set them up for another good performance at the

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Olympic venue. It was brilliant having the home crowd behind you.

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It made us want it even more. really enjoyed it. Even with the

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team shouting behind you, it is good, but it when it is the home

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crowd, it is a really good feeling. Meanwhile later tonight there is a

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special programme featuring Plymouth Olympic hopeful Tom Daley.

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Diving & Daley is on BBC Radio Five Live from 9:00. It will be

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available for a week on the BBC iPlayer should you miss it tonight.

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It's often considered a national dish and remains a popular part of

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the British diet. But what's the secret of a good plate of fish and

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chips? There is one chippie in the South West which seems to have to

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cracked it. Krispies in Exmouth has been named the region's best fish

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and chip shop. John Henderson has been to find out why.

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Preparing the humble British potato chip. Normal, white, very chippy.

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Then there are these, made from the same potatoes, but different,

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colourful, battered. Some people have them with cheese on top.

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you are having a bad day it will Too hot! For others, battered fish

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and battered ships are a pleasure. The couple in charge had been in

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the business 14 years. The husband Fry's while his wife gets stuck in

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front of house. They have won prizes before. But this latest

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honour is special. It means everything to us. It proves that

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what we are doing is right. It was voted for by the customers so it

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shows that the customers appreciate what we are doing. He will not give

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away the secret ingredient for the batter for the orange chips. But it

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is a recipe for continued success. You're watching BBC spotlight.

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Someone was trying to take those chips away from him! Why was he

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rushing. A former Bond girl from the South

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West who was in the film Octopussy is returning to India where it was

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made to take part in a trekking adventure to raise money for

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working animals in some of the world's poorest countries. Carolyn

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Seaward from Newton Abbot worked with Roger Moore in the film 30

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years ago, but is expecting a very different trip this time around.

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Spotlight's South Devon reporter This is not actually a Bond film.

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It is us back in 1983. At the height of her fame, Carolyn Seaward

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was showing our view is what it is like to be a Bond girl. She was a

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runner up to Miss World and then came Octopussy. It took six months

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to make the film. We were filming in India and then on location at an

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air force base. The crew was great and it was very relaxed. As you can

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see, she has never been afraid to try things out. I was so excited.

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Now she is about to return to India with -- where they made Octopussy,

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but for a very different reason. She works for a charity that raises

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money for working animals and some of the world's poorest countries.

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She is expecting things to be very different. We are going to be out

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in the sticks and camping rather than staying at a nice hotel. Last

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time we stayed near a lake, which was lovely. This time we will be

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roughing it a bit. That is the challenge. The charity provides

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better Mary treatment so that the animals are treated properly. --

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veterinary treatment. Sometimes the owners have got no choice but to

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make the animal work because they have to feed their families. I

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think this charity in directly helps the people. Carolyn is for

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setting off tomorrow for six days. -- is setting off tomorrow for six

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days. Farmers in Torrington are learning how to cope with a new

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addition to the family. When one of Richard and Tracey Martin's cows

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became ill while she was pregnant, they assumed she'd lose her calf,

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but they hadn't reckoned on Clementine! Tiny and premature, the

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ten day old calf is a real fighter. Spotlight's North Devon reporter

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Andrea Ormsby has the story. This is far Murch racy. And wait

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for it... This is Clementine. That comes out of the microwave and you

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have to make sure it is the right temperature just like you would

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with a baby. Clementine is a pedigree Ayrshire.

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She arrived 12 days early to a mum who has no milk. She has had feeds

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varying from 200 mm -- male leaders and as you can see she is thriving.

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She is a bit of a red-haired woman. She is a feisty and determined. A

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great character, really. But she is small, very small. She is three

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days old and she is a heifer calf. But meet is Emley 10 days old. This

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is the difference we have. Magic 98.9 has a to grow to this size

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before we can put her outside. -- Clementine has to grow to this size

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before we can put her outside. you sleep any dog basket, you have

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got to expect to share. Clementine really is part of this family, and

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she could be here a while yet. They are going to have to get a

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bigger basket. She will never want to go outside. I am not sure that

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dog is impressed, either! Let's Temperatures are on the rise.

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Normally at this time of year we expect daytime temperatures of

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between 8 and ten Celsius. We will get those for night-time

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temperatures tonight and tomorrow we could see temperatures of 13 or

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14. It could be the warmest day of the year so far it tomorrow. Let's

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look at the satellite picture. This big lump of cloud is weaving away

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from us so we turned a little bit of drier tonight. There will be

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some drizzle in the wind. We will keep a lot of low cloud and that

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will cause problems with his ability, not just for hill fog, but

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around the coastline. -- with invisibility. By Friday, a weather

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front comes in from the north. That will improve visibility before a

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Friday evening. Ahead of it, slightly last damp, and some breaks

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in the cloud. We will see a limited amount of sunshine. Here is the

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structure of the cloud. The rain than has moved to the eastern side

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of England. It was a typical Plymouth day where our

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correspondent went out to enjoy the views. He did not put his feet up.

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The conditions today have been very grey across the South West and very

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down as well. Some of the rain was quite heavy but it is a good day to

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be on the water. Blustery conditions and South West winds now

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veering West words. You can see a lot of cloud right across the South

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West. Once we lose the patchy drizzle and rain, we will get the

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low cloud and mist. It will be covering most of the South West

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tomorrow morning. Temperatures will be nine or ten degrees. We will

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also see tomorrow the mist reluctance to move out of the way.

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We will see some breaks developing in the cloud. The most likely

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location will be here across Torbay and up towards Exeter. It is here

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where it just a few holes will develop in the cloud and the

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sunshine will come through. That is where we will get the highest

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temperature. 12 or 13 is looking to be the maximum figure. We will see

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a little drizzle but it will be less windy than we saw today. Times

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of water -- high water: The surf is likely to be quite messy. The

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As for the outlook: It will get better through the weekend. It will

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be a little bit cloudy on Sunday, especially in the evening, but for

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tomorrow it is the mist and fog. On Friday we will see some patchy rain

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late in the day. But the weekend temperatures will come back down to

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normal, down to about ten degrees on Saturday and Sunday. Watch out

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for the mist at fog tonight and also at first tomorrow. Have a good

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