:00:09. > :00:14.A boost for rail services- some of our most overcrowded trains will
:00:14. > :00:17.get extra carriages. Good evening and welcome to
:00:17. > :00:19.Spotlight. More on the news from First Great Western in just a
:00:19. > :00:24.moment. Also tonight: Digging deep - plans
:00:24. > :00:27.to revive tungsten mining near Plymouth move a step closer.
:00:27. > :00:36.South West students remember the victims of Auschwitz at a special
:00:36. > :00:40.service there. And flying high - the school boy's
:00:40. > :00:43.toys from 100 years ago. First Great Western has confirmed
:00:43. > :00:47.that the South West is to get three extra carriages to relieve
:00:47. > :00:50.overcrowding on mainline services. The company is converting 15 35-
:00:50. > :00:56.year-old buffet cars to offer high density seating and three should be
:00:56. > :00:59.in use on the Penzance to Paddington line by the summer. The
:00:59. > :01:02.carriages are in addition to two extra carriages on the Truro to
:01:02. > :01:12.Falmouth and Paignton to Barnstaple lines announced last year.
:01:12. > :01:15.Spotlight's Scott Bingham reports. Back in November, passengers on
:01:15. > :01:21.that for wrote to Falmouth branch line were happy to hear they will
:01:21. > :01:24.get an extra coverage this spring to relieve overcrowding. Along with
:01:24. > :01:29.another single carriage between Paignton and Barnstaple, that was
:01:29. > :01:33.it. Just two out of 50 across the country and nothing on the main
:01:33. > :01:38.line. First Great Western did its best at the time to explain why.
:01:38. > :01:42.There are very few spare carriages available to have. We have
:01:42. > :01:45.effectively got the last two. It will be some time before others
:01:45. > :01:51.will be available because of schemes elsewhere in the country.
:01:51. > :01:58.We will be doing our utmost to secure those as well. This is what
:01:59. > :02:02.they have come up with, 1535 year- old redundant buffet cars. At
:02:02. > :02:05.Kilmarnock in Scotland, the rolling stock is being stripped back to
:02:05. > :02:09.bare metal and being refurbished with high-density airline-style
:02:09. > :02:15.seating. When they are finished there will be added to existing
:02:15. > :02:18.trains, making the busiest services one carriage longer. Three trains
:02:18. > :02:28.between London and the South West should have an extra carriage
:02:28. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:41.within months. The 5:10am, the 16th 30 pm and 1833 should have these
:02:41. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:46.are. It can be a nightmare if you have to squat shop -- squash job on
:02:46. > :02:55.a seat, especially with people who do not like babies. Saving money in
:02:55. > :02:58.the long run. It is better it true we use them and make new ones.
:02:58. > :03:02.Passengers should not have to wait too long for the benefits. By the
:03:02. > :03:09.time of the Olympics, the vast majority of carriages will be in
:03:09. > :03:12.traffic for her customers. All 48 carriages should increase Russia
:03:13. > :03:16.capacity across the First Great Western at work by 9%. With demand
:03:16. > :03:20.growing past, the extra capacity will be exceeded in just three
:03:20. > :03:23.years. Spotlight has learned that the plan
:03:23. > :03:27.to revive tungsten mining on the edge of Plymouth has taken its
:03:27. > :03:30.second big step forward this month. The mining company has succeeded in
:03:30. > :03:37.lining up tens of millions of pounds in bank loans. Our Business
:03:37. > :03:41.Correspondent Neil Gallacher reports from Hemerdon.
:03:41. > :03:50.For the moment, the one sign of this plan taking shape is the new
:03:50. > :03:55.road. This will be the excess from Plymouth to the mine in hem be done.
:03:55. > :03:59.-- Emerton. The mine company has had its loans approved. Even at a
:03:59. > :04:08.time when loans are notoriously hard to get, the company has
:04:08. > :04:13.managed to secure a �50 million of loan funding from well-known names.
:04:13. > :04:16.This is a world-class tungsten deposit. It will produce 4% of the
:04:16. > :04:23.world's tungsten and there is a lot of interest to get this project up
:04:23. > :04:29.and running. The 55 million is half the cost of getting back into
:04:29. > :04:34.production. The rest is due to come from companies buying contracts and
:04:34. > :04:39.through sales are shelved. Just below the surface is the world's
:04:39. > :04:45.fourth-biggest tungsten the puddle. Man everyone is pleased the mind is
:04:45. > :04:50.reopening. I know it is jobs but it is just that this has been ruined
:04:50. > :04:57.by all of the mining and it just keeps been more room. The modern
:04:57. > :05:00.tungsten mine has had planning consent since the 80s. It should
:05:00. > :05:06.take on employment when it neighbouring play in climate has
:05:06. > :05:09.dropped. -- clay employment. A lawyer acting for a 19-year-old
:05:09. > :05:11.man from Devon wrongly accused of rape is calling for a public
:05:11. > :05:14.inquiry after a DNA sample became contaminated in a forensics
:05:14. > :05:17.laboratory. Adam Scott was wrongly accused of a sex attack in
:05:17. > :05:19.Manchester. His mother says it's beyond belief how the evidence
:05:19. > :05:25.became contaminated. Scott is currently serving a prison sentence
:05:25. > :05:28.for affray. A Plymouth hotelier who paid an
:05:28. > :05:35.autistic chef �90 a week has been ordered by the employment tribunal
:05:35. > :05:37.to pay him more than �40,000 in compensation. The owner of the
:05:37. > :05:41.three star Astor Hotel, Joseph Louei, was condemned for the
:05:41. > :05:43.exploitation of a very vulnerable young man who was disabled. 23-
:05:43. > :05:45.year-old Adam O'Dee, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome and
:05:45. > :05:53.dyslexia, won his claims for unfair dismissal, disability
:05:53. > :05:56.discrimination and minimum pay. A serious accident involving a
:05:56. > :06:06.pedestrian and a lorry closed part of the M5 Motorway in Devon this
:06:06. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:09.afternoon. It happened between junction 30 and 31 at around 11
:06:09. > :06:11.o'clock this morning. The scientific team in Cornwall
:06:11. > :06:14.which leads the world in researching diseases affecting
:06:14. > :06:16.dolphins is being broken up to save money. Scientists at Polwhele near
:06:16. > :06:20.Truro also identify new diseases in farming and there's growing concern
:06:20. > :06:21.the county won't cope if there's an outbreak of a serious new disease
:06:21. > :06:31.like Schmallenberg. Our Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell
:06:31. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:39.reports. When a mass stamina of dolphins
:06:40. > :06:44.take place in Cornwall in 2008, experts from me better meet
:06:44. > :06:47.laboratory carried out much of the work to discover how they died. --
:06:47. > :06:54.and a veteran of Audrey. Today the chair of a parliamentary committee
:06:54. > :06:56.has asked DEFRA to provide further assurances and has said there may
:06:56. > :07:06.not have been a silly enough consultation about the deployment
:07:06. > :07:11.and job cuts. Local supporters have mounted a campaign. Polwhele is one
:07:11. > :07:16.of the first laboratories in the country that identified BSE. It was
:07:16. > :07:21.the first to identify lead contamination of cattle food. You
:07:22. > :07:26.need this network to be on the ball with experienced eyes looking. We
:07:26. > :07:32.have got that and I do not think it is acceptable to lose it. Farmers
:07:32. > :07:37.could be badly affected by the decision to lose skilled staff.
:07:37. > :07:41.These are the frontline professionals, except for the
:07:41. > :07:47.environment and domestic animals and while life. We really use their
:07:47. > :07:51.-- lose them at the peril. agency which runs Polwhele declined
:07:51. > :07:57.to be interviewed but it said it has to make compacts -- cutbacks
:07:57. > :08:00.and accepts that this can safely be moved to Devon, 90 miles up the
:08:00. > :08:03.road. It's Stephen Otter's last day as
:08:03. > :08:09.Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police after five years in
:08:09. > :08:12.the role. He's taken a job as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of
:08:12. > :08:16.Constabulary. When he announced he was leaving, the Police Authority
:08:16. > :08:19.described him as an "inspiring leader". His deputy, Shaun Sawyer,
:08:19. > :08:28.will take over on a temporary basis until a permanent Chief Constable
:08:28. > :08:32.is appointed. Our political editor is with me. Why is his only a
:08:32. > :08:36.temporary appointment? In November we will get the chance to vote for
:08:36. > :08:42.an elected police commissioner. This is completely new and hugely
:08:42. > :08:46.powerful, a bit like the elected mayor we have got in Torbay. He or
:08:46. > :08:49.she will supervise the police budgets and priorities are and will
:08:49. > :08:54.also have the power to appoint a chief constable. We will have to
:08:54. > :08:59.wait until then to get a permanent chief constable. Potentially
:08:59. > :09:03.controversial, is everybody happy? As with most big political changes,
:09:03. > :09:09.no. The government insists this will make policing mark democratic.
:09:09. > :09:14.Others feel that putting so much power into the hands of one
:09:14. > :09:22.individual will be non-democratic. There are -- concerned it will
:09:22. > :09:28.politicise policing. At the moment, councillors sit on policing boards.
:09:28. > :09:30.The party's federal executive, which governs party policy but not
:09:30. > :09:36.what it's MPs do and say in Westminster, has advised against
:09:36. > :09:41.Lib Dem candidates standing. Labour is opposed in principle but that is
:09:41. > :09:48.not stopping them from finding candidates. Through John Prescott
:09:48. > :09:53.is putting the be interested. -- Sir John Prescott.
:09:53. > :10:01.And there could be some independent candidates? There could be former
:10:01. > :10:06.senior police candidates and a former television presenter.
:10:06. > :10:09.More on the Sunday Politics at 11? Yes.
:10:09. > :10:19.Coming later - a preview of the weekend sport, including some very
:10:19. > :10:22.excited youngsters. This lot have got to meet some of the British
:10:22. > :10:29.players this afternoon. And David looks back at one of the
:10:29. > :10:32.region's most severe snow storms on this weekend in 1891.
:10:32. > :10:35.The victims of the holocaust have been remembered at a special
:10:35. > :10:39.service in Auschwitz, where 200 sixth formers from across the South
:10:39. > :10:42.West lit candles. This week they've been touring the concentration camp
:10:42. > :10:46.as part of a government-funded scheme run by the Holocaust
:10:46. > :10:54.Educational Trust. Simon Clemison has been travelling with them.
:10:54. > :10:57.Here's the second of his special reports from Poland.
:10:57. > :11:02.They stare into the past, but making sense of it is a struggle.
:11:02. > :11:07.You can get closer to history but it does not necessarily make it
:11:07. > :11:11.easier to understand. This was persecution at hands of another
:11:11. > :11:14.Western civilisation. They see inside the gas chambers and take a
:11:14. > :11:20.look at some of the towns of hair shaved from the heads of the
:11:20. > :11:24.victims. Sometimes people who come here find it is that you can see
:11:24. > :11:30.which is most challenging. Come to the second camp and it feels as if
:11:30. > :11:34.the guards have only just left. Her Gounelle is abandoned and the
:11:34. > :11:42.watchtowers are still watching. Wander in, cross the tracks and the
:11:42. > :11:48.years have hardly past. Walk down a corridor in some of the barracks
:11:48. > :11:51.and it feels like a public building, a school or hospital. Come up here
:11:51. > :11:57.and it is desolate. There is a row of wooden huts that have been
:11:57. > :12:05.rebuilt but most were raised to the ground, the Chinese all that still
:12:05. > :12:09.stands. -- the Chinese. This is not meant to be a museum, it is
:12:09. > :12:13.supposed to awaken something. As links to the past it away it is
:12:13. > :12:17.more important than ever. We do not want this to be consigned to the
:12:17. > :12:21.history books. We want the next generation to be aware of that they
:12:21. > :12:25.can also be engulfed by what happened with the Nazi ideology. A
:12:25. > :12:31.lot of these children will not have a member of the family who lived
:12:31. > :12:37.through the war? Absolutely, that is why letting them experience that
:12:37. > :12:44.this is vital for the future of our society. Is it that morbid to
:12:44. > :12:53.imagine what happened here? When you get to the museum you get the
:12:53. > :12:58.context. It is harder to experience. A no less personal. In the museum,
:12:58. > :13:03.you do not know about them. worst part is walking down the
:13:03. > :13:07.railway track, because you hear all of the stories about that being the
:13:07. > :13:11.end of the line, when families got split up. That is the hardest part.
:13:11. > :13:16.There are so many different lessons that a person could take away from
:13:16. > :13:21.studying the Holocaust. There is no one can be neatly packaged set of
:13:21. > :13:24.takeaway lessons. -- conveniently packaged. We are not in a situation
:13:24. > :13:29.where we are looking at the potential for another Holocaust,
:13:29. > :13:33.but that is not the point. Challenging prejudice and racism,
:13:33. > :13:43.being vigilant about genocide wherever it may be, is important
:13:43. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:54.for us to try and cover him today. CHANCE IN HEBREW. This was by no
:13:54. > :13:59.means an ultimate symbol. There are those who deny it ever happened. In
:13:59. > :14:02.a service at the end of the visit, the rabbi rails against them as
:14:02. > :14:08.victims are remembered. He tells a new generation of the need to speak
:14:08. > :14:11.out against prejudice. They cannot fail to reflect on words spoken in
:14:11. > :14:21.this setting. The stories and memories may be passing ever
:14:21. > :14:35.
:14:35. > :14:39.further into history but these teenagers may keep them alive.
:14:39. > :14:43.An ancient Squadron at aircraft have been discovered. They predate
:14:43. > :14:46.manned flight. They are made of paper and they are thought to be
:14:46. > :14:49.Eden Project of mischievous schoolboys and were discovered with
:14:49. > :14:52.Latin homework and slates used for writing on, during the restoration
:14:52. > :14:59.of one of the oldest buildings in Barnstaple.
:14:59. > :15:09.How odd that this was school high jinks? These are paper darts that
:15:09. > :15:09.
:15:09. > :15:13.we found in St Ann's. They were also -- all thrown up there by
:15:13. > :15:17.pesky schoolboys! The sort of jolly jape that was all the rage 100
:15:17. > :15:25.years ago. At that time the chapel in the heart of Constable was a
:15:25. > :15:33.grammar school. -- Barnstaple. It is being restored. I made age of
:15:33. > :15:37.the day before that perhaps I would find a crashed airplane up there.
:15:37. > :15:41.It just so happens that there they were. The first month I found
:15:41. > :15:48.Windies. I thought they were the new play with people on your
:15:48. > :15:55.fingers. Then I found the first one with a pen been made for a fuselage
:15:55. > :15:59.and had eight eureka moment and what, here they all are! It was up
:15:59. > :16:07.in the eaves that they found the paper planes and darts. And they
:16:08. > :16:13.keep finding more. These were found this morning. They have no
:16:13. > :16:17.commercial value but their value in bringing this allied to connect
:16:17. > :16:23.with the building is priceless. It is likely they will form an art
:16:23. > :16:27.installation as a memory to their mischievous creators. I have e-
:16:27. > :16:32.mails from people who remember making similar things and claiming
:16:32. > :16:35.used to throw them at fellow- students. They have pointed ends
:16:35. > :16:39.when they were wedged into the wooden shaft of the pencil and
:16:39. > :16:47.apparently, you could throw them at the back of the neck and give
:16:47. > :16:50.someone a beasting effect. -- beasting.
:16:50. > :16:53.Time for the sport and Dave has news of a Devon College winning a
:16:53. > :16:56.national hockey title. Rugby's Championship play-offs get
:16:56. > :17:02.under way tonight, with Plymouth Albion out to preserve their status
:17:02. > :17:04.in the sport's second tier. They kick off their relegation group at
:17:04. > :17:11.Moseley, followed by nervous encounters against Esher and London
:17:11. > :17:14.Scottish as they bid to avoid the drop into the National Leagues. The
:17:14. > :17:21.Cornish Pirates aim to get their title play-off challenge off to a
:17:21. > :17:23.good start against Leeds in Penzance tomorrow.
:17:23. > :17:27.The weekend's football sees Torquay United attempt to gatecrash the
:17:27. > :17:31.automatic promotion places in League Two. United go for a double
:17:32. > :17:34.over Bristol Rovers at Plainmoor after beating them 2-1 last August.
:17:35. > :17:40.Plymouth Argyle plan to follow up their midweek away win with another
:17:40. > :17:43.at Rotherham. In League One, Yeovil Town look to widen the relegation
:17:43. > :17:46.gap even further by winning at Oldham, while Exeter City, now in
:17:46. > :17:56.the relegation slots, have to cope without skipper David Noble who's
:17:56. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:03.banned for three games after his dismissal at Brentford. I don't
:18:03. > :18:08.want to blame the referee for a where we sit in the league. We are
:18:08. > :18:14.here through many things. It certainly hasn't helped this year
:18:14. > :18:17.with red cards that have been generally soft against Bath, and
:18:17. > :18:19.there was another one on Tuesday at Brentford.
:18:19. > :18:23.South Dartmoor Community College were in the Olympic spirit today as
:18:23. > :18:26.members of the British ladies hockey team visited the school.
:18:26. > :18:29.Susie Gilbert and Beckie Herbert kicked off the Hockey Nation tour
:18:29. > :18:33.in Devon, which aims to give youngsters a chance to try out the
:18:33. > :18:41.sport in the run up to London 2012. Spotlight's Heidi Davey went along
:18:41. > :18:49.to check out the action. The two members of the British
:18:49. > :18:54.hockey squad were Cretan -- greeted warmly this morning. Their visit
:18:54. > :18:57.was welcome as they presented a trophy to be under 16 boys' team,
:18:57. > :19:04.who against the odds won the national indoor schools Trophy
:19:04. > :19:09.earlier this year. Hockey is a passion of mine and throughout the
:19:09. > :19:14.school and community. Earlier this term, the Dartmoor are under 16
:19:14. > :19:18.boys' team won a national title. That is the first time a state
:19:18. > :19:22.school have never once so it is fantastic. They were also on hand
:19:22. > :19:26.to watch some of the younger players take to the pitch as they
:19:26. > :19:31.completed in a tournament, an Olympic initiative to try and get
:19:31. > :19:35.students involved in the sport. This is really important. We are
:19:35. > :19:38.trying to put out as much as we can about our sport, get it and their
:19:38. > :19:43.anger the excitement of for the Olympics. It is getting as many
:19:43. > :19:48.people involved in the sport and translating our passion to tickets
:19:48. > :19:52.and getting them involved. This is for after 2012 as well as before.
:19:52. > :19:56.While they will have to wait until the summer to see if they make the
:19:56. > :20:01.final cut for the 16 man squad, there is no doubt bridge players
:20:01. > :20:06.have inspired some of the teenage players today. Meeting the Team GB
:20:06. > :20:12.players was really good. You can ask them questions to help you get
:20:12. > :20:16.further. It makes me think I could do it if I worked hard enough.
:20:16. > :20:20.a lot of hard work and a lot of training, we could be looking at
:20:20. > :20:22.the Olympians of tomorrow. Penzance kick-boxer Julie Kitchen
:20:22. > :20:28.defends her World Professional Muay Thai Federation title in her own
:20:28. > :20:31.county on Sunday afternoon. The 36- year-old fights Aleide Lawant of
:20:31. > :20:38.the Netherlands over five three- minute rounds at the Carn Brea
:20:38. > :20:41.Leisure Centre in West Cornwall. It's the first time Julie has
:20:41. > :20:46.fought in the UK for nearly four years. There'll be a sell-out crowd
:20:46. > :20:49.to cheer her on. Plymouth swimmer Antony James has
:20:49. > :20:52.qualified for tonight's final of the 100 metres butterfly at the
:20:52. > :20:55.British Championships. The event, at the London Aquatic Centre, will
:20:55. > :20:58.determine whether James will be swimming in the Olympics this
:20:58. > :21:00.summer. If he's successful, he'll join Exeter's Liam Tancock and
:21:00. > :21:10.Plymouth College student Ruta Melutyte, who's representing
:21:10. > :21:13.
:21:14. > :21:17.Lithuania at the Games. We have just heard that Anthoney
:21:17. > :21:22.has finished third in the final and that does not meet the qualifying
:21:22. > :21:25.time. He does have a chance to qualify again when he swims in June.
:21:25. > :21:27.This weekend's point to point racing heads off to Exmoor for the
:21:27. > :21:35.Dulverton Farmers meeting at Treborough Hill on Sunday. The
:21:35. > :21:38.members' race is scheduled to start proceedings at 12.30.
:21:38. > :21:41.Earlier we reported on the extra carriages being introduced to some
:21:41. > :21:47.main line rail services. But spare a thought for the passengers on the
:21:47. > :21:50.3 o'clock from Paddington who were delayed - by eight days! It was on
:21:50. > :22:00.the 9th March 1891, and as David explains, it was the day spring
:22:00. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:14.very abruptly turned back to winter. Late February in 1891 had seen
:22:14. > :22:19.spring bloom and record warmth when suddenly, when to return. As that
:22:19. > :22:23.low pressure system rank along the Channel, it polled in very cold air
:22:23. > :22:28.along the top of the low pressure and brought snow too much of
:22:28. > :22:35.southern Britain. It was Devon and Cornwall that sold the burnt of the
:22:35. > :22:40.extreme snowfall and strong winds. Telegraph Lines, railways and roads
:22:40. > :22:46.were buried. Devon and Cornwall were cut off for a week. 65 ships
:22:47. > :22:49.were wrecked with the loss of 220 lives. The blizzard raged for her
:22:49. > :22:56.four days, and half a million trees were blown down. The snow lay
:22:56. > :23:01.everywhere, with drifts 20 ft deep. By Maj 14, the snow had melted and
:23:01. > :23:07.spring returned, but the blizzard of 1891 will go down in history as
:23:07. > :23:11.one of the worst ever recorded. That was this weekend in 1891.
:23:11. > :23:19.Let's bring things up to date. I hope no nasty surprises in the
:23:19. > :23:26.They were trapped in that train for two back days before they were dug
:23:26. > :23:36.out. Before the forecast, I thought I would have a quick look at
:23:36. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:18.February, which has been relatively Reservoir levels have recovered
:24:18. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:26.well despite the dry spell. Let's see if there is rain in the
:24:26. > :24:34.forecast. That is pretty unlikely. The weekend is right with bright
:24:34. > :24:44.weather and that's of cloud around. -- lots of cloud. Sunday will be
:24:44. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:53.more or sunny. There is a weak cold front coming in from the north.
:24:53. > :24:56.Possibly more moisture around some drizzle possible this evening
:24:56. > :25:06.across the north of Devon and through the Bristol Channel. A high
:25:06. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:13.pressure is a strong feature. Some breaks in a cloud and a few of
:25:13. > :25:18.those for the first half of the night before it generally becomes
:25:18. > :25:23.quite extensive and thick enough across the Bristol Channel and
:25:24. > :25:33.Exmoor for one or to sponsor of drizzle might wins from the west or
:25:34. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:42.south-west. Tomorrow, lots of cloud and mist around on the coast of
:25:42. > :25:46.Cornwall or Devon. Low cloud into Somerset at times. For the rest of
:25:46. > :25:54.the day we will get bright spells and sunshine. The best to the east
:25:54. > :25:59.of Dartmoor. Some sunshine across Cornwall in the afternoon. The
:25:59. > :26:09.South Coast faring better than the north coast. Temperatures up to 13
:26:09. > :26:25.
:26:25. > :26:28.or 14 degrees with a gentle north- There have been some big waves on
:26:28. > :26:38.the west coast of Ireland yesterday and today. Some of the residual
:26:38. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:58.smell will remove towards us. -- The outlook into next week, Sunday
:26:58. > :27:02.is the better of the weekend days. We should see some sunshine
:27:02. > :27:10.breaking through the cloud. That several spell continues into next
:27:10. > :27:14.week. -- settled spell. Any breaks in a cloud on Sunday and Monday
:27:14. > :27:17.could see 15 degrees as the top temperature. Just about frost free
:27:17. > :27:22.for the weekend but with more of clear skies in the early part of
:27:22. > :27:29.next week, temperatures were below were during the night time. It dry