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Concerns over fire cover. The stations out of action for more than

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2,000 hours in just one month. It has emerged that retained crews were

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unavailable at the stations. Back in Unions have warned that it could

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affect response times. For every minute that a fire engine is

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delayed, fire will grow to fold. Devon and Somerset Fire Service has

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revealed a shortage of retained firefighters meant some towns and

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villages have been left without cover for a time.

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Two warships from Devon head towards the Mediterranean on a long planned

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exercise. Devon and Somerset Fire Service has revealed a shortage of

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retained firefighters meant some towns and villages have been left

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without cover for a time. Part time crews were unavailable for more than

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2,000 hours last month. Communities with fire stations unavailable on

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around 30 occasions in July include Combe Martin, Budleigh Salterton,

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Ottery St Mary, Modbury, Porlock and Chagford, from where our home

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affairs correspondent reports. This fire in the centre of Chagford

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might have happened ten years ago, but memories are fresh. Local people

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say if it was not for the rapid reaction of the firefighters, the

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damage could've been much worse. Then use the station can be for

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callouts due to crew shortages is a worry. It is a big concern. It is

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because of our isolated situation. For emergency services, it is

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difficult to get to us in other ways. Especially in the summer

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months when there is so much traffic around. It is very difficult.

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shop with many combustible valuables, it is also a concern.

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This is a wooden building. One of the oldest in the town. If the lanes

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are too narrow for other Fire Services to get up the roads, you

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are in trouble. Analysis shows the shortage of retained Fire Services

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writing to councillors and MPs to tell them of their concerns. Fire

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stations are being left unattended during the day and sometimes at

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night. Devon and Somerset Fire Service say they have begun a

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recruitment drive. The shortage tends to affect smaller and more

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rural communities. In a statement, the Fire Service said on average

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stations were available to respond 95% of the time. On the rear

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occasions they were not available, which could amount to just a few

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minutes, the next station would always provide cover.

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There has been an increase in the number of people arrested for drink

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driving in Devon and Cornwall. The 4% rise in June this year compared

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to the same month last year bucks the national trend which has seen

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numbers falling. Our reporter has been speaking to a mother who lost

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her daughter in an accident involving a drink driver five years

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ago. The last time I saw my daughter

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alive was five or six years ago at my youngest son's birthday party.

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From there, she said goodbye. You say goodbye and you never realise

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that is the last time you could see your daughter's face ever again.

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21-year-old Anna had accepted a lift home from a party. The driver had

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been drinking. Their car ploughed into a stationary highways lorry on

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a slip road off the M5. Nationally drink driving accounts for a

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staggering 15% of all road fatalities. In Devon and Cornwall,

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there appears to be a worrying forces run their campaigns may

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account for the increase locally. But there is always room for

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improvement. It is very unfortunate that we do detect a number of

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people. We want to make sure we reinforce the message to make sure

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people understand the devastating consequences that can come from

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getting behind the wheel of your car when under the influence of drink or

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drugs. Aliis now hoping that the increase in drink drive numbers may

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give additional weight to calls for a review of current drink drive

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laws. Two Royal Navy ships left Devonport

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this morning bound for the Mediterranean amid increased

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tensions with Spain over Gibraltar. HMS Bulwark and HMS Montrose will

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visit the region as part of an annual deployment known as Cougar

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13. The Ministry of Defence said the visit was long-planned and routine.

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Our defence reporter joins me. This is an annual exercise its third

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year. It is a chance for what is known as the response force task

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group of the UK, largely based here in the South West, to hone their

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skills and training together. HMS Bulwark and HMS Montrose, along with

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two other ship is, will take part in this deployment.

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I think there were 200 friends and family at the port today. Most

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seemed aware of the situation in Spain and Gibraltar. Few were

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concerned. I am not concerned. It will be sad to see him go for seven

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months. Looking forward to when he returns. They will do what they need

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to do. Hopefully they will all come back safe. I just go from

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day-to-day. See what you hear from them. That is what you have to do,

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wait until they come home and see what use you get.

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The Ministry of Defence has stressed Cougar 13 is long-planned and a

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routine deployment. Nobody is really disputing that. And while both the

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Spanish and UK Governments have played down the timing of the visit,

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there is no question it comes during a sensitive period for relations

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between the two countries. Some elderly people in Cornwall say

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they feel they have had to pay for a new alarm system or leave their

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sheltered housing. Coastline Housing Association says budget cuts mean it

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now has to charge for the service, but no-one will be forced to move

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out. This sheltered housing close used to

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have warden, but the ball was replaced -- This sheltered housing

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close in Redruth used to have a warden, but the role was replaced by

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an emergency personal alarm system. Up until now, the cost of the

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service was covered the landlords, the Coastline Housing Association.

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But now residents, like 65-year-old Anthony Jacobs, have been told they

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will have to pay almost �3 a week for the alarm. Mr Jacobs says he

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feels he was given no choice but to agree. This is a not inconsiderable

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sum from a pension. I said, what if I don't want to pay this? They then

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informed me that I would be moved from my property. I said I did not

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want to move at my age. Coastline says funding cuts over the

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past two years means it has no choice but to pass on the cost of

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the service to its tenants. However, it is categorical. No-one will be

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made to leave their homes. We are not looking to force anybody to

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move. We will work with individuals to try to achieve that outcome that

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meets their needs were talking about people who have applied for

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supported accommodation. Therefore they should have a support need to.

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Cornwall Council says some help may be available to tenants, but it

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stresses that many people in the private housing sector already have

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to pay for similar alarms. council might be able to help people

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if they have a care package. It is worth contacting us to see if we can

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help with the costs. Right across Cornwall, if people live in their

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own accommodation, they have had to pay for their own lifeline support

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for years. Coastline isn't the only housing association in Cornwall

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looking to introduce such charges. Ocean Housing Association told us

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they have 700 clients with alarms, half of which have signed up to pay

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�3.80 per week. A pioneering scheme in Newquay in

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Cornwall to help reduce the number of elderly people admitted to

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hospital could be extended to other areas. The NHS and voluntary

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organisations are working together to help vulnerable people get out

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and about or have regular visitors to their home. An application has

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now been made to the Department of Health to help develop the scheme

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further. Our reporter has been finding out how it works.

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Time for tea and biscuits at this home. It is something to look

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forward to. That is a big thing when you are on your own and there is not

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a lot going on. It is the second time the 82-year-old has hosted such

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a get together. The charity focuses on older people at high risk of

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going into hospital. I did not go out apart from to the local shop. No

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social outings or social occasions like this. This is lovely.

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Volunteers are key to the success of the scheme, which has helped 100

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people over the last year, giving them individual goals like getting

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to the shops or socialising. talk, we laughed, we mourn and have

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fun together. The project has support from the NHS and Age UK.

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am not clinically trained, but the skills we have in the voluntary

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sector complements the health sector as well. It is all about achieving

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or improving the quality of life for the individuals concerned. It is

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hoped that this project can be extended. I believe we need to work

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together. We have very little money now within the NHS services. I think

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we need to creatively look at what we have got, use our services

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different way -- differently to provide a better service. Those

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involved see the emotional benefits for the individuals is

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immeasurable. Coming up:

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A multi-million pound boost for cycling on Dartmoor.

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A serious decline in barn owls. Now farmers are being asked to help save

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them from extinction. And up close to the Mary Rose for

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the first time. The man from Cornwall who helped locate the wreck

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more than 50 years ago. More than �7 million is to be spent

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to make Dartmoor more accessible to cyclists. The cash from both central

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and local government, will mean major improvements on around 125

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miles of cycleways. These will include creating cycling hubs at

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Postbridge, Princetown and Mortonhampstead. It is hoped a cycle

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path running parallel to the A38 will make it easier to access the

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moor from Exeter. In the west, Drakes Trail will be upgraded

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between Bere Alston and Tavistock and also through Plymbridge Woods.

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The signs will also be improved on another 85 miles of the moor.

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Following the success of our Olympians last year and the Tour of

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Britain in the region, cycling couldn't be more popular. This new

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investment will improve access for cyclists to Dartmoor. For Ashburton

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cycle shop owner Paul Tomlin, this news couldn't be more welcome. He

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believes it help him create new jobs. This is brilliant. A big boost

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to the local economy. We will benefit, local businesses will

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benefit, tourism and leisure industry will benefit. We have

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needed this for some time. Bits and pieces have been done in the past,

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this will give us the money to do it properly. The money will be spent on

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improving existing cycle routes, like the Granite Way, which uses

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parts of an old railway line. It will also provide better signage. It

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is expected to increase cycling on the more by up to 43% over the next

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five years creating up to 100 jobs. There are 2.4 million visitors to

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Dartmoor, 600,000 on bicycles. That will increase when this work goes

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ahead. This is really good news. Dartmoor is a protected area, so the

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money will be used to provide and improve designated trails. Cyclists

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will be encouraged to stick to the routes and not ride across the

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countryside. Today's announcement was welcome news to people using

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Granite Way. It is vital. Very, very important. Both in terms of getting

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around without needing a car and also providing access to the

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countryside. It is good exercise. Cyclists have always been

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second-class citizens. It is about time money was spent on as.

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money will also be used to link these routes with public transport

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including providing cycle friendly taxi-service between the Moor and

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the railway. The number of barn owls in the south

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west is in serious decline, and last year's terrible weather is partly to

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blame. A conservation project in Somerset has revealed that numbers

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there have dropped by 60% in the past year. Now farmers are being

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asked to support efforts to save the barn owl from extinction. Here is

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our Somerset Correspondent. It may seem a distant memory now,

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but last year of vast areas of Somerset were underwater. And the

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bar now all paid the price. -- the barn owl paid the price. Hundreds of

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nesting boxes have been put up across Somerset to attempt to boost

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the barn owl population. Camera checks have revealed an alarming

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drop in numbers of a bird already struggling to survive. This is

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empty. From the early results we have so far, I would estimate we

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have lost 60% of the entire population. In number terms, we are

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possibly looking at 70 or 80 pairs of barn owls. Floods meant that

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there were fewer animals for the barn owls to eat. Now farmers are

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being asked to play their part to boost the barn owl population. By

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leaving borders of long grass around their fields. They will attract the

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falls. -- voles. Farmers are leaving margins like this forward Haraway

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and it is having a great impact. barn owl is not heading for

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extinction, but the decline is serious and must be reversed.

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Time for the sport now. Dave is here, reflecting on a disappointing

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weekend for South West football. It was a blank weekend for South

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West football teams. Yeovil Town's first home game as a Championship

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club ended in dismay, caused by one of their former players. Plymouth

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Argyle can't find the winning touch, while Exeter City and Torquay United

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at least got a point each. Yeovil Town more than doubled last

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season's average attendance at Hewish Park. A crowd approaching

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9,000 saw Gary Johnson's team have their fingers burned by the man who

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scored one of their goals at Wembley 9,000 saw Gary Johnson's team have

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their Dan Burn spent a season on loan in Somerset from Fulham. But

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after joining Birmingham City on the same arrangement, the centre-back

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headed the only goal to spoil Yeovil's fine start to life in the

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Championship. In League Two, Exeter City held last

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season's Conference champions Mansfield Town to a goalless draw in

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Nottinghamshire. City could have won it if Liam Sercombe and John O'Flynn

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had enjoyed better luck, but they will be happy with a point gained at

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a tough place to visit. Plymouth Argyle have got off to a

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terrible start. Their third successive defeat in League and Cup

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came at Home Park against Fleetwood Town. The Lancashire team struck

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twice in the first 12 minutes to leave the 7,000-plus crowd bemused

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and wondering where Argyle's first win will come from.

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Karl Hawley scored his first goal for Torquay United as he earned the

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Gulls a 1-1 draw at Morecambe. After Dale Tonge's sending off, United

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nearly paid the price when the hosts came within a whisker of snatching

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victory, the aluminium saving them A group of injured military

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personnel taking part in the Fastnet yacht race have had to quit after a

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winch was ripped off the deck of their boat. The first yachts

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continuing in the legendary race are due to finish off Plymouth in the

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early hours. Spindrift Two is the first of the multi-hull yachts which

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should emerge in Plymouth Sound at around 4am. Nearly 350 crews from 20

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countries started out in the 608 nautical mile race. They started

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yesterday from Cowes, navigating to the Fastnet rock off South West

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Ireland and then back to Plymouth. We will have a full report on that

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tomorrow evening. Exe Sailing Club's Joe Glanfield

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finished fifth in his comeback race in the World Championships in La

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Rochelle over the weekend. Joe, who won a silver medal at the Athens and

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Beijing Olympic Games, retired from competitive racing but has proved he

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can still compete with the best in the 470 class. Glanfield and his

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sailing partner Luke Patience have had a good start to this season,

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taking silver in the Europeans in June.

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Finally in cricket and the latest from Somerset's floodlit Pro 40 game

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against Glamorgan at Cardiff. Somerset are batting. Marcus

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Trescothick's poor form continued as he went without scoring.

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Now the remarkable story of the man who found the Mary Rose. 92-year-old

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George Cooke from Launceston in Cornwall located Henry the VIII's

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flagship on the sea bed almost half a century ago. Yet in all the years

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that have passed since she was raised, George had never seen her

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for himself. We decided to put that right. Our reporter took him to

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Portsmouth's historic dockyard to visit the Tudor warship for the very

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first time. Good afternoon and welcome to you,

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Sir. 92-year-old George Cooke is welcomed by the head of the Mary

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Rose Trust Rear Admiral John Lippiett. Getting George here at his

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age is fantastic. This is living history coming alive. Coming to see

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a brand-new museum. Now he has actually visiting the ship. It has

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been a long journey to get here. Fantastic. I am impressed by the

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size of it. Almost half a century ago, on the first of September 1966,

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George was part of a team led by diver and historian Alexander McKee.

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I remember it was a horrible day. Force six winds. We were so tired.

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We were out for a five and a half hours. We made a lot of the bearings

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and that is where the Mary Rose turned out to be. The Mary Rose is

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one of the most famous ships in English history. She was Henry the

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VIII's flagship, sunk during a battle with the French in 1545.

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state of preservation is quite astonishing. When you consider it

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had been under the mode first century is. -- it had been

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underwater for centuries. And they found more than just the ship.

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19,000 artefacts have been recovered from the wreck site, providing a

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significant insight into Tudor life in Britain. The remains of many

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members of ship's crew have been found too. Why was there are dog on

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the ship? To keep away the rats? George's guide today is Maurice

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Young, now a volunteer at the museum, he was a diver on the same

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team in the 1960s. We were very pleased to take part. With

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hindsight, we realised that we were privileged. George has become a bit

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of a celebrity here, but he's taking it all in his stride. To think that

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this museum is all because of using a compass at rough sea, it is

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amazing. This is one of the highlights of my life, seeing this

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today. What a wonderful man. We hope he

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What a wonderful man. We hope he enjoyed his reunion.

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Tonight, there should be a meatier shower. And you will have to wait

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while for that. We rely on clear skies to see annual events of some

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meatier showers. You will probably see a couple overnight. Midnight

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will probably be the best time. For the week ahead, we have a real

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mixture. It will feel a little warmer. Viewing humid. There will be

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some sunshine, but also some rain. We had some patchy rain earlier

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today. That has cleared out. Quite a lot going on in the middle of the

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Atlantic. As you can see, you can make out the outline of most of

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southern Britain on the satellite picture. That means some clear

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skies. We do have these weather systems drifting in towards us

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through the day tomorrow. One will be quite weak. Producing more cloud

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and perhaps a few showers. As we get into Wednesday, are more active

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system arrives, bringing some workload and some possible drizzle.

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The hill fog will return on Wednesday. We have a fair amount of

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clear skies over most of the South West, so it is a good night for

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viewing the stars, but also quite cold. Temperatures just getting into

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single figures. The brisk breeze will slowly fade away overnight and

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we could see temperatures as low as eight or nine degrees. More mild

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around the coast. A reasonable start to the day tomorrow, but it will

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gradually cloud over. Part of Dorset and Somerset hold onto some sunny

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spells. More cloud covering Cornwall and some of that cloud thick enough

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for the old spit of drizzle in the wind. The wind will start to pick up

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as we move into the evening. For the Isles of Scilly, more cloud around

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and less windy than today. Mainly dry but rather cloudy, especially in

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the second half of the day. Here are the times of high water. Here is the

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surfing forecast. And he was the coastal waters forecast. -- here is.

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We have a real mixture, as I mention. Wednesday will be cloudy

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with spots of drizzle in the wind. More cloud. Thursday, we still have

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