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A teenager from Cornwall describes the moment she was rescued from a | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
tall ship as it smashed against the rocks. Good evening. The Astrid got | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
into difficulties off the coast of Ireland prompting a major rescue | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
operation. Tonight we'll hear Katie Spencer's account of what happened. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
It's just weird to think how lucky we were to get off because I just | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
wouldn't imagine something like that happening. You just don't realise | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
how serious it is until to you watch it back and think, oh, my gosh. | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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Also, triple amputee becomes the first person to receive state-of-the | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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art bionic limbs on the NHS. And we An insurance company says | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
sorry after sending letters to a woman they KNEW had died. And we | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
speak to Plymouth schoolgirl and world champion swimmer Ruta | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Meilutyte about her next challenge. A teenager from Cornwall has | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
described the dramatic moment when a sailing boat she was on started | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
sinking. Rescuers say it's a miracle everyone survived when the tall ship | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Astrid lost power and hit rocks off the Irish coast last week. Katie | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Spencer, who lives in Looe, was one of 30 people onboard the training | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
vessel. We'll hear from her in a moment, but first John Henderson | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
describes how events unfolded. On her side on rocks in rough seas. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
But all those onboard the Astrid - her seven strong crew and 23 | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
teenagers - were rescued. I think it's an absolute miracle that you | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
have a situation like that and you get 30 people that literally walk | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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away from this sort of disaster and without a scratch. It's unheard of. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
This footage from the RNLI shows one of the Astrid's liferafts used to | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
get 12 people to safety. The rest were picked up by lifeboats. In all | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
four were involved in the rescue, along with two helicopters from the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Irish Coastguard. It's a credit to the training of our emergency | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
services. If it had been another ten or 15 minutes, we might have been | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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talking about a totally different talking about a totally different | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
story. The Astrid is well known in the waters around the south-west. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Spotlight was on board the 42 metre sail training vessel in 1998 | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
following a refit. For a while she was based in Weymouth. She was there | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
again, just a week before she was blown onto rocks. For now there's a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
200 metre exclusion zone around the wreck, which is said to be badly | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
damaged with a slim chance the Astrid will ever sail again. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
15-year-old Katie Spencer from Looe, who's a pupil at Devonport High | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
School for Girls in Plymouth, was onboard the Astrid. I asked her how | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
the alarm was raised. I was downstairs, and I was just - I had | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
to go to sleep, and someone came down stairs and was like, "Everybody | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
up. Get up on deck and put a life jacket on." We were like, what's | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
happening? We got up there and realised the engine had powered off | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and we were drifting towards the rocks. At that stage, did you know | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
how serious things were going to get? We thought it was a precaution. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
We didn't really realise until we got close to the rocks that it was | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
really serious. So you were still onboard when the ship was hitting | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
the coast, the rocks? Yeah, we were all sat down at the back and kind of | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
holding onto the boat and were being hit against the rocks. How did the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
evacuate of the ship unfold? How did you all get off? Whilst we were | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
being hit against the rocks, a little motor boat from the RNLI came | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
over. They were taken away in that, and the other 18 of us got away in a | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
lifeboat. Some of your colleagues were already off, but you were still | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
on the ship? Yeah, I saw them going away. What was going on in your mind | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
at that moment? I felt we were going to get off, but it was just kind of | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
like, when will we get off because we were hitting against the side. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
Time went on forever. Take us through when you were going to get | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
off the boat? This is your life raft? Yeah, I was in that. We got | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
towed away and taken to a really big RNLI boat which took us to a town, | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
and we stayed there and kind of had some food and stuff. We have heard | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
from RNLI people since who said to get everyone off safely was a | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
miracle. When you hear that now, what do you think? It's just weird | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
to think how lucky we were to get off because you just wouldn't | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
imagine something like this happening. You kind of don't realise | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
how serious something like this is until you watch it back and think, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
my gosh! The only thing you managed to get off the ship with apart from | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
the clothes you were wearing is your phone? When you got on to dry land, | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
how were you looked after? When we got on to dry land we were taken to | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
the yacht club where they had showers, and a hotel nearby gave us | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
clothes, so we all kind of managed to make do with that then just some | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
local people were like, yeah, you can come stay with us for the night. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
So that was great, and yeah, everyone just gave us food and | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
clothes, which was quite good. a remarkable story. Thank you very | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
much indeed for telling us about it. That's all right. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
A former Royal Marine from Plymouth who lost three limbs in Afghanistan | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
is the first veteran to receive new state-of the art "bionic" legs on | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
the NHS. Mark Ormrod feared he would have to remortgage his home to pay | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
for the new limbs. But he's now able to benefit from a share of �11 | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
million set aside for veterans by the Government. Here's our defence | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
reporter Scott Bingham. MarkOrmrod continues to take everything in | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
stride. He has been at this clinic since morning working hard with | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
physiotherapists to get used to his new legs. They should help a man who | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
has already overcome so many obstacles to take just a few more. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
lot of it was my thing, you know, but confidence issues before - | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
carrying my young children around - my son was very young. I didn't want | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
to carry him around, but with these, because they're more stable, I'm | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
more confident I'll be able to carry the kids around and help out a lot | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
more around the house and do stuff than I felt before. The bionic | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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element is the genium knee joint - developed in Germany. It's packed | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
with the latest technology such as gyroscopes, accelerometers and a | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
micropocessor to closley mimic the functions of a natural knee, making | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
everyday tasks that much easier. People have the ability to walk | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
upstairs. It's something we all take for granted, but for an afternoon | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
you tee, it's nearly impossible. It's a little movement pattern. It | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
senses he's going do it, then helps him get upstairs. Just six months | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
ago Mark faced having to remortgage his home to pay for the legs, but | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
now thanks to �11 million of Government funding, he's the first | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
veteran to get these new limbs on the NHS. They cost around �50,000 | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
each, but experts say that's good value compared to many other | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
treatments. Some of those are just to maintain a certain level, whereas | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
we're actually getting people back walking, back out into the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
community, back working, back with their families and really enhancing | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
their lives. Mark says veteran amputees should | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
make use of the funding while it's still available. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
The daughter of an 83-year-old woman who has been missing from her home | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
in Exeter for five days is appealing for people to check out buildings. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Today 25 specialist officers have been searching for Alma Royle, who | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
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has dementia. Hamish Marshall specialist officers have been | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
combing this area since Sunday. Even in summer, five nights out in the | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
elements is very dangerous For Alma's daughter it's waiting, | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
worrying but hoping. I have to be real realistic. It's just to know | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
where she is - because of the dementia she could be living in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
another house with someone who she thinks is her husband because she | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
has been looking for my dad. That I don't know. I can always cling onto | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
that hope. Alma has been widowed for five | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
years. She's physically well but recently she's got more confused. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
She was last seen in this store near her home last Friday. When her | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
daughter failed to make contact with her on Saturday, she raised the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
alarm. The concern was that fence along there - that might be there. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
We've cleared all At the control centre careful note | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
is kept of which places have and haven't been searched. That. 25 | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
specialist police officers are involved in the search, and they're | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
going to be joined by members of the Dartmoor Rescue group they're | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
looking at an area of 1.6 kilometres because research shows dementia | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
sufferers don't normally wander that much further than that. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
It's a really steep drop through extreme extremely thick undergrowth. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
We have had the helicopter out with imaging. We have had scent dogs go | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
through, but that is extremely problematic. We have to take into | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
account it's dangerous for officers to search as well. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Alma has lived in Exeter for nearly 30 years. She doesn't have her | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
glasses or bus pass. The search for her in this area goes on. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
A widower from Devon has spoken of his distress after an insurance | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
company sent two letters addressed to his late wife advertising health | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
insurance even though they knew she was dead. The letters from Aviva | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
were addressed to June Davies "deceased". The company has | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
apologised and says its changed the way it works to ensure it won't | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
happen again. Our south Devon reporter John Ayres has more. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
John Davies lost his wife June ten years ago. A few months ago, out of | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
the blue, Aviva sent a letter to her advertising health insurance. The | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
address on the front acknowledged she was deceased. Mr Davies | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
complained. They apologised and said they wouldn't do it again, except | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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they have. I got the first and I went aPLO President-Electic. I mean, | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
what -- apoplectic. What does one do? You get a letter, and it's an | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
insurance policy. They even spelled "deceased wrong". I am going what is | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
going on here? So I rang up obviously very, very- it was | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
traumatic. His wife June was a concert pianist, produced musicals | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
and taught music. She had cancer when she died. Some difficulty with | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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the information I'd sent you? Yeah, saying this will not happen again, | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
and it has done. It's just unbelievable - total incompetence, | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
total incompetence with a national , big, international company. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
It's been a distressing time for Mr Davies. He's hoping now that another | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
letter doesn't arrive, bringing it all up again. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Cornwall Council is to close two of its residential children's homes | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
after both had been described as inadequate by inspectors. They are | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
also reviewing the future of the county's three other homes. The | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
council says it wants to re-invest the money into other ways of caring | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
for children who need help. It's understood more children will now be | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
given temporary homes with families. Eleanor Parkinson reports. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
17-year-old Connor spent three months in a children's home when he | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
was 15. He temporarily moved out of his family home because of his | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
challenging behaviour. He's now back with his family and say his stay in | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
residential care helped with his problems. The time away helped, the | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
fact that I didn't have my dad around to argue with, the care I am | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
offered - as much support as possible, which was really helpful, | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the fact I was mixing with other young people who also had troubles | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
at home, talked to them. But the council is now closing two of its | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
children's homes, one in Cam born and one in less guard. Both homes | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
had been criticised as inadequate in their recent Ofsted inspections. The | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
council says they want to change the way they care for vulnerable | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
children, and they now believe they do better when placed in a family | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
setting. We all know how important a family unit is for a child and a | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
young person's development. That's what we need to look at, is trying | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
to keep those children who are at risk in the family unit where it's | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
at safe or in the wider family or fostering, so they get that family | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
environment, growing new a loving, nurturing world so it sets them up | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
right for life. The councillor said it is also reviewing the future of | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
the county's three other children's homes. It's said although the plan | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
isn't financially driven, a councillor reported that placing a | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
child into a family setting is more cost effective. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Residents in the St Ives area no longer need to boil their tap water | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
before drinking it. More than a thousand homes have had to boil | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
water used for drinking, cooking, washing food and cleaning teeth | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
since Sunday. It was after abnormal levels of colyform bacteria were | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
found in the sealed reservoir serving the area. South West Water | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
says test results are now clear. After a disastrous start, this | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
year's harvest is on course to be a big improvement on last year's. The | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
long cold winter and a very late spring meant farmers ploughed some | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
crops back into the ground and started again, but the hot weather | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
of recent weeks appears to have saved the day. Our environment | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
This summer looks set to be a good harvest. These fields of oil-seed | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
rape have managed to escape the worst of last summer's washout. Now, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
despite everyone's fears, they're set to deliver a very healthy crop. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Some of the crops didn't survive the winter, had to be ripped up, pulled | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
up, redrilled again in the spring, but the year so far has been fairly | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
kind to what's survived and what's gone in this spring. Going back to | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
February, March time, things were locking really dire. The crops were | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
looking poor. Everything was looking poor. They pulled through, and | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
surprise, surprise, the crops have turned out good. Will says this | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
year's prices for crops reflect the weather conditions both here and | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
around the globe. The better weather means more crops, but the economics | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
of supply and demand means their value has dropped. Last year wheat | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
was around 180 pounds a tonne, but this year it's around �160. It's a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
similar story for oil-seed rape, and feed barley has also shown a drop in | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
price. Will and his son Charles closely monitor all their crops. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
They use a special metre to check on the moisture content. Too much | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
moisture can delay the harvest. Charles says he expects more extreme | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
weather events in the future, but they're a real challenge. At the | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
moment, it's worrying to see the sort of very cold spring we had, and | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
then this warm heatwave last year. There was a lot of rain. At the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
moment, there is no real trend, so it is very difficult to sort of plan | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
and to forecast and really to meet and to adapt to these changes. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Despite all the recent setbacks, the harvest is looking good. That should | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
help consumers with lower prices. It's been quite a week for Plymouth | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
college student Ruta Meilutyte, notching up a world record and | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
taking the world champion title. Tonight she's back in the training | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
pool as she prepares for her next challenge at the World | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Championships. But the 16-year-old, who swims for Plymouth Leander and | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Lithuania, joined us earlier from Barcelona, along with her coach John | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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Rudd. I'm really, really happy with all semithree swims, yeah, but I | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
will still try to keep focussed for the upcoming events, 50 breaststroke | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
and... That's right. You're only halfway through your meet so far. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Tomorrow are the heats for the 100 metres freestyle. What are your | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
chances like for that? I think the field is really really fast, and I | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
don't think I have a really big chance of making the semi, but yeah, | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
I'm just going to go out there, have fun, and hopefully, I can go under | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
the 55-second mark. That's all I want to do, and yeah, that's all. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
The 50-metre title could now be well in your sights. How about a 50-metre | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
world record as well? Um, I'm pretty close, and yeah, I don't know. I'll | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
just do my best and see what happens. So John, you're the coach. | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Your job done really, so far, is it? It's a part of a job done because as | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
she sea, we've still got another big event to swim on Saturday and | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Sunday, but yeah, I couldn't be more happy to come here and watch her | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
take a world record and then the following day pick up the gold medal | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
to add to her Olympic gold. It's a fantastic achievement for her and | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
extremely gratifying for me. After she set the world record, going into | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
the final, how did you prepare her for what was coming up? Clearly, at | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
that point she was the hot favourite to take the title. We always do the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
same thing in the same way. It's one of the things I think we're good at | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
is we keep everything regular and normal. We've always said we can't | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
control what anybody else does, and we just focus on the way that she | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
races. That's what we did for the semifinal for the record and the | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
final for the medal. It was, concentrate on your swim, your way, | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
shut out anything else that's going on. It's one of the reasons why | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
she's a special athlete, because she's able to do that. You are just | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
16. You hold the Olympic title. You hold the world title. You hold the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
world record. Is there anything left for you to achieve? I think the main | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
focus - the long-term goal is the Rio Olympics. Like I said, we're | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
just taking it every year step by step. Yeah, my main focus is on the | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
Olympics, yeah. Ruta Meilutyte and John Rudd, thank you very much. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Congratulations. The whole of Plymouth and the whole of the | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
south-west is very proud of you. Thank you. This is hard to believe. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
The new football season is only three days away and the current | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
economic climate will certainly dictate how the four South West | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
clubs will do. Over the next few nights we'll find how they're | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
preparing for the season ahead starting with Exeter City and | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Torquay United in League Two. Spotlight's Dave Gibbins has been | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
meet two club stalwarts. Julian Tagg is Mr Versatile. In his | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
17 years at Exeter City, he's coached the youngsters, was a | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
leading figure when the fans rescued City from the brink of extinction, | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
became vice-chairman and is now Chief Executive. The situation at St | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
James' Park is simple: there's no money to spend. So how does that fit | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
in with their new season plans? Well, it's nice to report we're | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
probably the richest club in the country. Look at me, nonplussed. I | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
am not surprised by the criteria of the richest clubs of the country - | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
it's because we don't owe anything. In the same breath you could say | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
we're probably the poorest club in the country because if something | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
goes wrong - we had problems with the wall, unexpected finance, there | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
is no backup. There is no bank overdraft. There is no chairman that | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
is going to step in. There are no board of directors that are going to | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
suddenly put in �4,000, 5,000, �10,000 each. Depending on the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
context you want to put it in, we're either the richest club in the | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
country or the poorest. Dean Edwards is about to commence | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
his eighth year at Torquay United. First as a player, now as Commercial | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Manager. He's a living legend at Plainmoor, becoming the first Devon | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
footballer to score at Wembley back in 1989. Two years later, he scored | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
again in United's next appearance at the national stadium. Now, he has a | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
key role in making sure Torquay swell their budget, despite an | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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average gate last season of only 2,700. They only see what - what are | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
the costs. For us, behind the scenes is all the day-to-day running, | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
ordering paper and photocopiers and things like that. It's a massive | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
amount of money that needs to be generated. I think without the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
commercial department, every club would struggle. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Without the likes of Torquay and Exeter, football would be far beyond | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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the reach of the average supporter. In two places at once - the amazing | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Dave Gibbons. Tomorrow, Dave talks to Plymouth | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
Argyle owner and chairman James Brent. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
Now, crowds have been flocking to the annual Yealmpton Agricultural | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Show in Devon today. Last year's show had to be cancelled because of | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the bad weather.but this year, despite a few showers, it was | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
business as usual for the show organisers. Spotlight's Andy Breare | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
reports. After last year's wash-out summer, | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
it was full steam ahead this morning as the Yealmpton show got underway. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
It's held in the beautiful surroundings of the Kitley estate | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
and attracts visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. It's just a | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
lovely atmosphere. We're blessed with such a beautiful site. It's a | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
natural amphitheatre, really. We try to use it to best advantage so that | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
people have a good view and can see what's going on. There is quite a | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
focal point with the main ring, but lots going on in other rings out and | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
around. Someone who's a regular at the show | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
is beef farmer Suzanne Harper from Holsworthy.and today, her cattle | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
were proving to be rather popular with the judges. We have just taken | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
first prize with our six-year-old cow. It's a lot of work. It's weeks | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
of breaking and halter training because the -- they need to be | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
bringing them out amongst the public in the show ring, then the grooming | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and the shampooing and the travelling and the feeding - yes, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
it's a lot of work, but we enjoy it. One of the things that's new at this | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
year's show is the food and produce tent where some well-established | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Devon companies are exhibiting their war effects. All the bakers worked | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
overnight to get everything here fresh. The cakes were made yesterday | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
afternoon. Everything is fresh we sell. What would be your best seller | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
today? It would be our ugly bun which has its own Twitter account | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
and Facebook page. Sorry, this is bread with a Facebook account? | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
it's a bun, actually. It has 750 followers. The weather may have been | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
overcast today, but after last year's washout, everyone was pleased | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
the Yealmpton AgriculturalShow was back in style. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Good to see the weather wasn't too much of a problem for the show. It's | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
tomorrow. Temperatures are really picking up. We could see the mid to | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
high 20s for some tomorrow. It's a one-day-only offer. By Friday it | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
feels much fresher again. Good evening to you. Yes, a very misty | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
start to the day tomorrow for many of us, particularly in western areas | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Further to the south-east we should | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
see warm sunshine and warmer temperatures through the day | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
tomorrow. Let's start with a look at the satellite picture through the | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
day. You can see the massive cloud that brought us showers through this | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
morning and for much of the day today, moving further north through | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
this evening. If we look at that on the chart, we've currently got rain | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
for the Midlands, the north of the country and the north of Wales. For | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
us, though, into tomorrow, we're fairly clear of weather fronts. Just | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
keep an eye on this one to the west. Further to the east, we're clear of | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
those weather fronts, so it's a drier day. We've got warm, humid air | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
being drawn in from the continent through the day tomorrow. By Friday, | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
though, that front has crossed us, bringing much fresher air and a | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
mixture of sunshine and showers. This evening, you can take a closer | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
look at those showers as as they move to the north-east. Tomorrow, a | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
fair amount of cloud. A fair amount of low cloud, mist and fog over the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
moors and hills, some sea fog, particularly along the south coast. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Fairly light winds to the east. Always breezier to the west and the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Isles of Scilly. It's a warm, humid night to come. Temperatures holding | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
up around 15-16 Celsius for most, so fairly tricky to sleep once again. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
As we start the day tomorrow, I think there will be a fair amount of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
cloud around at first. We hold onto that cloud in western areas. Further | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
to the east, though, the sun does burn through and brings us a fairly | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
nice day, and the temperatures will respond accordingly in those light | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
winds. We could see for east Devon, Somerset, 20 Celsius. To the west, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
cooler than that, just down in the low 20s under the cloud. We could | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
see a few breaks into the afternoon for the isles of silly. It's | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
generally a fairly cloudy day with mist and fog at first. Looking at | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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Surf-wise, not too bad along the north shore. Here we're seeing 3-4 | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
feet, choppier further to the south. The winds south, south-west 4-6, | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
occasional drizzle with fog patches, low visibility in fog patches. | :27:21. | :27:25. |