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medical help in Devon is delayed. Good evening. Welcome to Spotlight. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The service which replaces NHS Direct was meant to be up and | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
running across the South West in April. But a pause to learn lessons | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
from problems with the launch in other areas has been welcomed. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Hello. Also tonight. Remember the year of landslips and cliff falls? | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
One woman died when her house collapsed after torrential rain. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
We've been back to one town in Cornwall still recovering from the | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
impact of 2012's weather on the South West. And the day the war | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
crash landed on the beach remembered forever. The launch of the new | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
non-emergency helpline NHS 111 has been postponed in Devon, to avoid | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
the chaos experienced elsewhere. In some areas, thousands of calls have | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
been left unanswered, and inappropriate referrals have put a | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
huge strain on ambulances and hospitals. Now 111 won't go live in | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Devon until September. Our Health Correspondent Sally Mountjoy has | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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more. This is the call centre for the nature tes one2one service in | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Somerset. The phoneline has been operating here and Dorset since | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
earlier this year, but unexpected high demand created problems. Over | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the Easter weekend one in eight callers in Somerset and one in three | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
in Dorset couldn't get through, or abandoned their call. But now things | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
have improve. Devon was due to launch the service this month, but | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
has today announced a delay until September. We found that elsewhere | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
in the country there were problems with people being sent to the wrong | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
place and perhaps the advice given wasn't appropriate and we're trying | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
to learn from those mistakes and make sure it does not happen in | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
Devon. For emergencies, 999 is still the number to cull -call, but the | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
111 line points people to the right service. But in some parts of the | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
country, the start of 111 led to a big increase in hospital visits and | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
ambulance call-outs. In the South West the long cold winter has put | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
these service under strain and there has been concern in Devon and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Cornwall that 111 would add to the pressure. Cornwall has postponed the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
launch and still hasn't announced a new date. The South West ambulance | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
trust is already running 111 in Dorset and will run the service in | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Devon. The ambulance you yob said the -- union said the area will | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
benefit from the experience elsewhere. We have learned a great | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
deal from the problems. To ensure that the same does not happen in | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Devon. We provide the service in Dorset and we have a good record | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
there and the experiences we have achieved there will be passed | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
through into Devon. Family doctors have been concerned about the roll | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
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ot of one2one, claiming -- 111 saying that they welcome the | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
decision to delay the launch. The help looiven will be rolled ---line | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
will be rolled out in stages from September. It is hoped the service | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
will have a trouble-free lunch. -- launch Work has begun today to | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
stabilise a road hit by a landslip at Looe in Cornwall. In December 200 | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
homes were cut off when the fall closed the busy Hannafore Road in | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
West Looe. It was the first of two landslips in the town last winter. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
In March, 68-year-old Susan Norman died when her house by St Martin's | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Road in East Looe collapsed after torrential rain. Alison Johns | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
reports Just two weeks ago - before half term - the Government was | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
warning of the dangers of taking a disposable barbeque inside a tent in | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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cliff face. You look out and you are looking for cracks, because we had | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
some wild weather and you have never been sure when they were going to | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
come back. But of course the tragedy of St Martins, we didn't want to be | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
under a pile of bricks either. Norman died after her block of flats | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
collapsed. The road has been closed since, although the main A-road has | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
re-opened. Businesses in Looe have formed a new group to get the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
message across that the town is still open. We have all suffered | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
over the last few months. We have had terrible problems with land | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
slips and road closures, the perception has gone out there that | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the road has been closed for business. This has never been the | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
case, but we really are trying to get the message that Looe is very | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
much open for business and a great place to come to. Cornwall Council | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
says the bad weather led to so many land slips it's having to prioritise | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
its work. We have experienced significant damage. We had heavy | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
rain fall in November, again in December, and again recently in | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
March and that has given us a sort of bill in the order of �of to �7 | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
million. It is a significant amount of work. We will get it all done. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Just along the coast at another town, business had been affected | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
sips part of car rk -- since part of car park has been fenced off since | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
cracks appeared. In the great scheme of thing, we have lost maybe a third | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
of the car park. But there was a poor woman in Looe died, so it puts | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
things in perspective. We will carry on trading It does have an effect, | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
but that is how it goes. The message from Cornwall Council is the work | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
will all be done, but they are having to prioritise it. The message | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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from businesses both in Looe and here is we are open. Just before | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
half term, the Government warned of the dangers of taking a disposable | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
barbecue inside a tent, because of the danger of carbon dioxide. But | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
lifeguards in Devon are now urging people to be aware of another risk | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
after a four-year-old was badly burnt by sand which had become | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
extremely hot although she was quickly treated. From Exmouth beach, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Leigh Rundle reports. Well this is the type of thing we are talking | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
about- a standard disposable barbecue. In the summer, they're | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
extremely popular, largely because they're so light and easy to | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
transport. But they can also be very dangerous if they're not disposed of | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
properly. Surprisingly the injuries to the child's hand and feet weren't | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
caused by the barbecue itself, but by burning hot sand under where the | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
tray had been placed while cooking. The victim and her family had | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
settled themselves on an area of beach near the town's lifeboat | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
station when the accident happened. First on the scene were volunteer | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
lifeguards from the local beach rescue club. Unfortunately the sand | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
below these barbecues gets extremely hot and the little girl stumbled | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
across the sand the hash cue had been on and put her hand down as | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
well. So she ended up with burns to her feet and her hand. These types | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
of disposable barbecue do contain warnings, but mostly relating to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
carbon dioxide poisoning. Other safety issues can easily be | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
overlooked. I think they're more dangerous after the barbecue, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
because while you're doing it, everybody's watching children, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
whereas when you have finished, I think that is when they're most | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
dangerous really. Michele is also on holiday with her grandchildren, how | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
clued up is she when it comes to post barbecue safety. I think sand | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
would cool it down, because there is no oxygen, so it's going to cool | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
down quickly. But you wouldn't actually do it where you're sitting, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
you would do your barbecue a little further away from where you're | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
sitting with the children. If people do use a disposable barbecue, one is | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
they let it cool down, keeping children and pets away from that | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
area. Then disrupt that sand area, maybe a dig a hole and spread the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
sand around so it dispenses with that heat. And disposal of the box | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
itself next to the rubbish bin and not in them. Work has started today | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
on a multi-million pound scheme to protect people living near three | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Dartmoor reservoirs from the threat of large scale flooding. The work is | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
taking place at the Kennick, Tottiford and Trenchford reservoirs, | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
near Bovey Tracey. It'll involve the enlargement of overspill drainage | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
channels which are designed to safely release water during flood | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
conditions. Members of the GMB union have been discussing the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
controversial process of blacklisting at their national | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
congress in Plymouth today. The GMB said many workers had their job | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
prospects destroyed by being placed on the blacklist, often for raising | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
questions about health and safety issues on building sites. One worker | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
whose name was on the blacklist was given a standing ovation after | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
revealing he hasn't worked for a major building firm for more than 20 | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
years. Finance nationally it made -- financially it made life difficult | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
and it makes you wary and you wonder how long will yo you be on a job. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
You're worried your past will come back to haunt you. 34 people died on | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Devon's roads last year, according to provisional figures released by | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
the County Council. Eight of them were motorcycle riders. Although | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
bikers make up only 1% of traffic, they account for around a quarter of | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
deaths on Devon's roads. Now the county council is urging bikers to | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
take extra care, and have produced an online guide to help people ride | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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more safely. A giant new nature reserve has just opened to the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
public in North Devon. What was once a large china clay quarry has become | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
an attraction for locals and visitors which it's hoped will | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
benefit the economy and wildlife. Our Environment Correspondent Adrian | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Campbell has been to take a look. Meeth Quarry Nature Reserve is large | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
by anybody's standards and it's just opened its gates to the public for | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
the first game. Pond-dipping was one of the attractions at this massive | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
new nature reserve being run by the Devon Wildlife Trust. Look at the | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
size of him- he will even eat your newt. How about that? John Lloyd | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
worked here for 22 years and he said he is pleased with the way the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
wildlife Trust has taken over. is the culmination, the clay's | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
worked out and now we have a magnificent wildlife environment for | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
everybody to enjoy. The Devon Wildlife Trust was keen to | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
incorporate the old buildings which date from the time when this was a | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
China clay quarry and they're also keen to tie in with the Tarka Trail, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
which is great news for cyclists. And there are new attractions for | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
walkers as well. The deer here is one of the sculptures in the areas, | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
aspect of interest, that we put around the site. The reason we | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
developed Meeth for public access is we want more people to engage with | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
wildlife, value it, take steps to protect it. You can look through the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
woodland, you can see the deer, the dragonflies and hopefully it will | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
lure you in to have a look and and enjoy the site. Hundreds of people | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
have already visited, including Phyllis and Ann. I'm sure it it will | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
look lovely in a few years time. It looks, what I have seen so far, | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
looks to be great. I'm a member of the Wildlife Trust and that is how I | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
got to hear about the open day and I'm thrilled about it. This is a | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
very big addition to the Devon Wildlife Trust's network of reserves | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
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and already it is proving very popular. Thanks for joining us this | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
evening. Still ahead tonight: The South West yachtsmen taking on the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
rest of the world in Europe. And the little overseas visitor giving staff | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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at an organic fruit and veg company a big surprise. The challenges of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
treating dangerously ill patients are being put to the test at The | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Royal Cornwall Hospital. Staff have been taking part in a pilot project, | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
which sees them treating simulated patients in wards and emergency | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
rooms. As Spotlight's Philippa Mina reports, the realistic scenarios | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
provide valuable lessons in how to improve care. This is Charlie and | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
he's come into intensive care with serious problems. He has come into | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
hospital with meningitis and now is developing some septicaemia and it | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
actually going to get quite ill during this scenario. Charlie is a | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
SimBaby and can be programmed to mimic all manner of medical | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
problems. By taking mannequins around and around hospital wards, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
and intensive care units, staff are given realistic experience of both | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
the clinical and emotional challenges they may face. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
mannequins are so realistic and they react the way you expect them to | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
react and they breathe and they have a heart rate and everything else | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
that you'd expect in a real patient. You find yourself thinking this is a | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
real child who is sick. Last year we have seen a couple of | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
meningococcals, so it does actually help to run it through in a safe, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
controlled environment, where if things highlight that things have | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
not gone as smoothy, we can look at where we can improve as a team. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
were able to drop into a ward area, deliver a session with the staff | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
working on that ward that day, run a debriefing session and then get out | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
of that ward area again. This is really unique. There are very few | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
areas in the country that are able to do that. Today, the team | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
responded swiftly and stabilised Charlie, gaining valuable skills | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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that in reality could mean the difference between life and death. A | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
campaign to tackle the rise in overweight children has been | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
launched in mid Devon today. Nearly one in ten of the four to | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
five-year-olds in the Culm Valley were classed as obese when they | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
started primary school - that's higher than Devon's average. | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has the story. Tucking into a healthy snack. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
This is day one of a month-long campaign on the importance of a | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
balanced diet and exercise. A recent survey found that 9% of the four to | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
five-year-olds starting school here in the Culm Valley are obese. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
don't think it's anything generally about this area in particular, it | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
just so happens that the statistics seem a little bit higher. But I | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
don't think we can put it down to any single factor around incomes or | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
poverty necessarily. The parents here seemed fairly clued up, but | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
said they are noticing more and more overweight children in the area. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
Unfortunately there are. The bottom line is it's convenience sometimes | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
not to eat healthily. You get home and if you're a busy mum, what shall | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
we do for tea, there's something in the freezer, we'll just pop that in | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the oven, it is easy and it's convenient. This hopefully will | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
bring awareness to people if they keep going the way they're going, | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
our country's just going to be a country of a lot of overweight | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
people. Really scary. I do know some children, yes, and it is difficult, | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
because you don't think you say as another parent perhaps, unless they | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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ask you for advice, but I do think it is becoming a problem definitely. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Today's all about trying out something new. No, not all healthy | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
food is to everyone's taste. But the hope is this campaign will help to | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
create a healthier society for the future. What we need to do here is | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
make a difference for the teenagers and adults for the future. If we | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
want to do that we have to change people's habits when they're little | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
and we need mums and dads to cook the right things for their kids- | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
more fruit and veg, less stodge. We need to start now. The eat healthy | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
campaign it being backed by some local food shops who are offering a | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
discount to encourage a healthier diet. Despite suffering from | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
multiple sclerosis, a Devon triathlete has become British | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
champion and has qualified for next years World Championships in London. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
37-year-old Trish Deykin from Milton Combe won gold in her age group at | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Holme Pierre Point in Nottingham over the weekend after recording | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
excellent times in swimming, cycling and running. Next week,Trish will | :16:51. | :17:00. | |
wear the Great Britain vest in the European Championships in Turkey. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Now the French word Solitaire means lonesome and while two yachtsman | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
from the South West competing in the Solitaire du Figaro race will no | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
doubt be feeling every bit on their own now the solo race has begin - | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
they are in the company of some of the world's best sailors. They set | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
off from Bordeaux yesterday as one of the highlights of the French | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
racing calendar got underway. Andy Breare reports. Conditions were | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
perfect at yesterday's start as 41 skippers started the 2,000 mile La | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Solitaire du Figaro. For Sam, this is a big race and part of his | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
campaign towards competing in the next around the world race. At | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
yesterday's start, he lined up alongside a world class fleet, | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
including the only person to win the title twice. Looking forward to | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
getting into it. We have been here a week and now it's time to get opt | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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road and get -- on the road and get going. The tough test part will be | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
the sleeping. And it is going to be a bit of everything and sleeping | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
with the spin Kerr up is not easy. The La Solitaire du Figaro is a race | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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around the French and Spanish coast. For a year this has been my goal to | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
be here and to improve my particle from last year and -- performance | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
from last year. The first leg should take just a few days, with the whole | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
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race being contested over the next three weeks. And to give you an | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
updat Sam is now in 14th with Henry three places behind in 17th. Some of | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
stories of human endeavour from the Second World War are well known - | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
others less so. But the efforts of the crew on board one stricken plane | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
and the villagers who came to its rescue will now be remembered | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
forever. Locals came out onto a Cornish beach close to where the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
aircraft came down. It'd not only taken on an entire squadron of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
German fighters and won but managed to limp 300 miles home. A memorial | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
stone now stands close by. Graham Smith reports. The flying Sunderland | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
played a pivotal role in the Second World War. Despite lacking the speed | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
or manoeuvrability of aircraft like the Spitfire and Hurricane, its | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
anti-submarine missions were crucial. On 2nd June 1943, the two | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Australian and British RAF crew of 461 squadron were attacked by eight | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
German fighters over the Bay of Biscay. The Sunderland shot down | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
three of the German aircraft, the others fled. But during the | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
45-minute engagement, the Sunderland had been shot to pieces. Most of the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
crew were injured, flight engineer Ted Miles had been killed. Yet, | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
despite being on fire, one of his engines gone and his aircraft full | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
of holes from machine gun and cannon, pilot Colin Walker managed | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
to fly 300 miles before being forced to ditch near Helston. It is like | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
reading something out of Boy's Own. They made it this far and they | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
thought they were going to land on water. While they were on board they | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
had to use every bit of kit that had if they landed on water to give them | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
enough time to get off. If this battle had involved an American | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
aircraft, then Hollywood would surely have embraced its dramatic | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
narrative, yet with typical understatement, and despite | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
garlanding the surviving crew with medals, the British and Australian | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
authorities at the time seemed to have viewed it as all in a day's | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
work. It is a reminder to all of us when we put on our uniform and we go | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
into work we are just doing the job that we were trained to do and that | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
is all these men did. Many of those attending yesterday's memorial had | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
travelled from Australia to remember their relatives. I guess they were | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
all so modest and didn't want to talk about the war. But it was the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
whole crew they acted as one and they were just a wonderful team. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
role of villagers who helped pull the crew from the wreckage was also | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
remembered. The pilot first of all landed and then he beached so it | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
that gave him time to get down, but they actually came down before they | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
got out of the water. They offered them tea. All sorts of things. One | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
lady was going around asking if they wanted a glass of whisky. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
memorial service had taken 18 months to organise and people travelled the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
world to be there. They heard a story of ordinary men who had done | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
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something quite extraordinary. Workers at a company which produces | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
organic fruit and veg boxes in Devon got a shock recently when a lizard | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
popped out from a crate of bananas. The small reptile is thought to have | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
travelled with the fruit all the way from the Caribbean. John Danks has | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
the story. It was just another day on the packing line here at | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Riverford near Buckfastleigh. Into the veg box went the lettuce, | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
spinach, bananas and nearly something else. A lady was reaching | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
for the bananas, she was unloading a box and she was pretty much at the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
bottom when something ran over her fingers. That something was a small | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
green lizard, it had stowed away with fruit that had been transported | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
almost 5,000 miles from the Dominican Republic, surviving not | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
only the cold, but the harvesting process too. The big bunches of | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
bananas come in from the farms themselves and they go into big | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
baths of water, where they get washed. So any insects that might be | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
there, being an organic farm, we do encourage wildlife, so there might | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
be insects so that is what the lizard was eating. They get all | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
washed off, but I think he must have been tucked right into a bunch of | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
bananas somewhere, because he hung on in there and made it all the way | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
here. The next stop was Paignton Zoo where keepers were able to identify | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
it and where the lizard will be kept in quarantine for six months. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
from the family iguana, so it's one of maybe two or three hundred | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
species, but we have narrowed it down to Dominican Republic, so we | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
will do a bit of research and find out exactly what species it is. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
out of the banana box and into the zoo - keepers say this long distance | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
lizard will most likely ends up being homed in one of their tropical | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
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houses. I hope he makes himself at home. Do you think he came for the | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
hot weather? We may have drawn him in. Yes there is more fine weather | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
in. Yes there is more fine weather on the way. Temperatures on rise, we | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
have had 20 degrees today, we could get 22 tomorrow and there is not a | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
great deal of change for the rest of the week. It is dry, fine and warm | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
with plenty of sunshine. Compared to the last couple of years when June | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
has been particularly wet, we are doing very well. This line of cloud | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
here is not getting any closer. Some dreadful weather over Europe, this | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
cloud has been generating some wet weather. But we have high pressure | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
and it sticks around this week. It may move around, gradually moving | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
away during the night and at first tomorrow morning, but comes back for | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
the middle of the week. We keep high pressure and a lot of dry weather | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
and yes, we will see more sunshine. Sunshine has been out for most of us | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
today. There has been some cloud during the afternoon. That is now | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
melting away. This is earlier today in Cornwall, where it it was a | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
beautiful day and surprisingly not many people on the beach. A lovely | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
day, plenty of blue skies. The same in Plymouth. We have had more of a | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
breeze along the south coast. But strong sunshine Scottishes please -- | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
so please take it easy, because the sunshine is strong. Tonight we have | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
a fair amount of clear sky developing. Just towards dawn | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
tomorrow we will see a few mist or fog patches. But they won't spoil | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
the day. Most of that will disappear. It is a fine day, but a | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
chilly start at seven degrees. But tomorrow is fine with a lot of | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
sunshine. Towards the end of the afternoon perhaps a build up of fair | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
weather cloud across Cornwall and central parts of Devon. But most of | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
us will have a lot of sunshine and warmer too. A bit cool along the | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
coastline here at 15 degrees. But inland it is 21. That is 70 | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
Fahrenheit. For the Isles of Scilly, a keep breeze from the east holding | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
temperatures down to 15. But unbroken sunshine. Times of high | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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was in the sea over the weekend and it is chilly, sea temperatures about | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
11 degrees. For the coastal waters forecast, there is more of a breeze | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
developing in the second half of the day, easterly force three or four, | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
mainly fair, perhaps picking up to force five along the south coast. If | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
you're enjoying this fine weather and are outside, the pollen is high | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
and the UV is at six, which is high. That is the forecast for the rest of | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the week. Not much change. A bit warmer each day. Very small chance | :27:23. | :27:29. |