:00:11. > :00:17.The death of a school girl — was she a victim of cyber bullying? Her
:00:17. > :00:22.family believe she was driven to take her own life. Good evening. The
:00:22. > :00:25.death of Izzy Dix has prompted a petition calling for tighter
:00:25. > :00:39.controls of social media sites. Tonight we'll hear from some of her
:00:39. > :00:43.friends. It is ridiculous, it should not be happening. They were just
:00:43. > :00:46.jealous. Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for action
:00:46. > :00:49.to be taken against cyber bullying and for the social media website
:00:49. > :01:01.Ask.fm to be closed down. It follows the death last month of Brixham
:01:01. > :01:13.schoolgirl Izzy Dix. Her family believe she took her own life. Our
:01:13. > :01:25.South Devon reporter John Ayres has more. Close friends of Izzy Dix are
:01:25. > :01:28.having to come to terms with her death. They say she was bullied,
:01:29. > :01:38.especially online through social media. Izzy was getting huge amounts
:01:38. > :01:45.of hate. It should not be happening. They were just jealous of
:01:45. > :01:49.her and it just shows how people are so insecure about themselves and
:01:49. > :01:55.they think hitting other people down will help them. It won't. The
:01:55. > :01:59.campaign is targeting the Ask.fm website where people can post
:01:59. > :02:12.comments anonymously. Many people find these sites are addictive. You
:02:12. > :02:20.check your phone first thing in the morning and last thing at night, it
:02:20. > :02:28.is everywhere you go. You will be getting so many compliments, but
:02:29. > :02:39.when you say thank you, being polite, then you will get hate,
:02:39. > :02:43.like, why didn't you say you are not pretty? That makes you feel really
:02:43. > :02:52.insecure about yourself and makes your self esteem low. The campaign
:02:52. > :03:01.has the full support of Izzy's mother. I don't think it's all bad.
:03:02. > :03:05.They communicate with their friends and they enjoyed chatting, but where
:03:05. > :03:12.it goes wrong is when someone dislikes someone, they use these. If
:03:12. > :03:23.they were properly monitored, these websites, then I don't think it
:03:23. > :03:34.would be half as bad. In response, the Ask.fm website made a statement.
:03:34. > :03:39.Izzy was probably the most beautiful and intelligent person I have met.
:03:39. > :03:44.She was so easy to talk to and really funny. You could tell her
:03:44. > :03:50.anything. She was a really lovely person.
:03:50. > :03:53.Well, earlier I spoke to Caimin Collins from the organisation
:03:53. > :03:56.BeatBullying. I asked him what he would like social media sites to do
:03:56. > :04:02.to safeguard the youngsters using them. Websites like Ask.fm have said
:04:02. > :04:08.they are putting more resources into moderating the websites and making
:04:08. > :04:13.them safer for young people, but it is difficult to see if that is
:04:13. > :04:17.having an effect and if young people are safer on these sites right now.
:04:17. > :04:22.We eagerly await more developments from Ask.fm to find out what
:04:22. > :04:26.safeguards they are putting in place. They need to make it easier
:04:26. > :04:35.for young people to report abuse and the need to act on the reports for
:04:35. > :04:47.Gregor and they are now. Some people would ask why people don't just stop
:04:47. > :04:53.using the websites. It is not that simple. One young girl who came to
:04:53. > :04:58.us for help set, people asked why she kept going back to the site. Her
:04:58. > :05:01.response was that if she was interested in what one person
:05:01. > :05:06.thought of her, she was interested in what everyone else thought Opera.
:05:06. > :05:11.We urge just human, we are interested in what people think of
:05:11. > :05:22.us. And even more so, as teenagers. It is up to adults to meet the
:05:22. > :05:31.websites safe. What precautions can teenagers take and what precautions
:05:31. > :05:36.should parents be taking? First of all, young people can know that they
:05:36. > :05:41.can get help from organisations like ours and they can immediately report
:05:41. > :05:45.the abuse. We suggest they record every incident and build—up that
:05:45. > :05:51.profile, so they record when it happens, what the website is. As
:05:51. > :05:56.parents, it is really important to discuss this with your children.
:05:56. > :06:03.Bring up the subject in the right context, in a quiet place. A lot of
:06:03. > :06:08.parents might not know what is happening. Either changes in
:06:08. > :06:16.behaviour that might indicate cyber bullying? Sometimes there are signs.
:06:16. > :06:20.If you are children with draw and become isolated or if their
:06:20. > :06:23.behaviour becomes very erratic and they start reacting to things in a
:06:23. > :06:29.very aggressive or uncharacteristic way, that can also be an
:06:29. > :06:37.indication. Sometimes there are no indications, but those are things
:06:37. > :06:41.parents can the doubtful. A multi—million pound scheme to save
:06:41. > :06:44.parts of Lyme Regis falling into the sea is underway. Coastal erosion is
:06:44. > :06:46.a major problem in the area and earlier this year, a landslip
:06:47. > :06:50.dislodged thousands of tonnes of earth and rock. £19.5 million is
:06:50. > :07:02.being spent to protect homes, roads and infrastructure. Hamish Marshall
:07:02. > :07:07.is in Lyme. We can look back into the town. This
:07:07. > :07:12.scheme is the final phase of something that has been going on for
:07:12. > :07:18.20 years. In a battle against the elements, where it has looked as
:07:18. > :07:24.though the town may lose. The Jurassic Coast is well—known for
:07:24. > :07:29.land and land falls, but some people 's houses have been in real danger
:07:29. > :07:32.of being affected. Lyme Regis has been at the forefront of coastal
:07:32. > :07:44.erosion. There have been regular landslips here and each time houses
:07:44. > :07:49.and roads get closer to the edge. Malcolm lives on the edge, but he
:07:49. > :07:54.doesn't fear his house will slip into the seat soon. But part of his
:07:55. > :08:08.garden might, which means part of it is currently out of action. All
:08:08. > :08:14.these trees will call. They say they will work on it, but not in our
:08:14. > :08:21.lifetime. We have also lost vegetable patches. But on the hall,
:08:21. > :08:29.it is a good scheme. But we have put up with a lot of disruption. This
:08:29. > :08:32.scheme to protect up to 500 properties is gathering pace.
:08:32. > :08:36.Experts say the work to keep the sea at bay and strengthen the land and
:08:36. > :08:45.protect Lyme Regis by more than 50 years. It has been susceptible to
:08:45. > :08:50.problems ever since it was built. The harbours have been damaged, the
:08:50. > :08:53.sea walls are being damaged and housing has been lost. In the 1960s,
:08:54. > :09:03.a lot of housing in the middle of the town was lost. The strengthen
:09:03. > :09:08.sea wall will run for nearly 400 metres. Further up, 2500 of these
:09:09. > :09:14.pipes will be filled with concrete to help them stop soil movement.
:09:14. > :09:18.When you come to see level you get an idea of the scale of the
:09:18. > :09:22.operation. Look at the size of the new sea wall and how much of the
:09:22. > :09:26.cliff side will have to be shored up. The work will continue through
:09:26. > :09:32.the winter and it should be finished by next summer. Looking at what work
:09:32. > :09:37.they have been doing today, it is fascinating to see that both also
:09:37. > :09:42.have been dug down so that instruments can go down 30 metres to
:09:42. > :09:46.detect if the land underneath has moved by as little as one
:09:46. > :10:03.millimetre. That is how seriously they look to see what the chances of
:10:03. > :10:07.the earth moving arm. A massive scheme for Lyme Regis and it is
:10:07. > :10:13.coming to a conclusion. It should be finished next summer.
:10:13. > :10:16.A shipping company has been fined £15,000 after one of its tankers
:10:16. > :10:19.polluted a 20—mile stretch of the sea off Cornwall. The company was
:10:19. > :10:22.prosecuted by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which used a
:10:22. > :10:31.photograph taken from a satellite as their evidence. Eleanor Parkinson
:10:31. > :10:36.reports. The tanker was making its way around
:10:37. > :10:52.Land's End when a satellite used to detect pollution photographed it
:10:52. > :10:55.trailing a pollution slip behind it. The Maritime and coastguard agency
:10:55. > :11:01.say the satellite image clearly showed the bezel to be within the
:11:01. > :11:07.exclusion zone. At one stage, it was nine miles offshore. The company
:11:08. > :11:15.eventually admitted they had broken the law and today they were fined
:11:15. > :11:19.£15,000. This is the satellite image tracking the vessel. The black line
:11:19. > :11:26.is the pollution, which stretches some 20 miles. This is the first
:11:26. > :11:34.time satellite imagery has been used in this way as evidence. It is
:11:34. > :11:38.another tool in our armoury and hopefully we can use it again in the
:11:38. > :11:41.near future. Hopefully people would do it once they know we are using
:11:42. > :11:48.satellite, but if they do, we will catch them. The company said there
:11:48. > :12:01.was no evidence that divers did Palm oil could cause any harm to the
:12:02. > :12:08.environment. The Maritime and coastguard agency says this case
:12:08. > :12:17.shows that satellite technology is very useful in the fight against
:12:17. > :12:21.Marine pollution. The BBC has learnt that the project
:12:21. > :12:24.to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley point in Somerset has
:12:24. > :12:27.been pushed back by two years. Yesterday the Government hinted that
:12:27. > :12:30.it was just weeks away from announcing a deal on energy prices,
:12:30. > :12:33.which would finally pave the way for the building to begin. But, as our
:12:33. > :12:36.Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers reports, there are still
:12:36. > :12:45.significant obstacles in the way of Hinkley C finally producing
:12:45. > :12:53.electricity. I remembered the energy company EDF telling us that we would
:12:53. > :12:58.be boiling kettles with nuclear power by 2017. This picture tells a
:12:58. > :13:08.different story. Construction work ground to a halt to months ago.
:13:08. > :13:12.Constant delays in negotiating a price for new nuclear electricity,
:13:12. > :13:17.known as the strike price, were to blame. Locally, frustration is
:13:17. > :13:24.boiling over into anger. We know the government is trying to protect the
:13:24. > :13:28.consumer, but that is extremely frustrating for all those waiting
:13:28. > :13:33.for the work to happen. Businesses have had to lay off employees. EDF
:13:33. > :13:39.have laid off employees. We have staff in our officers who have been
:13:39. > :13:45.employed for the Hinkley point project and are now kicking their
:13:45. > :13:50.heels. Now it seems a breakthrough is near, thanks in part to talks
:13:50. > :13:56.happening in China. The energy secretary has been in Beijing,
:13:56. > :14:02.beating businesses who are potential investors. The word is that the
:14:02. > :14:07.Minister is ready to make an announcement on the strike price
:14:07. > :14:13.within weeks. Even if investors come in and work starts again next
:14:13. > :14:17.spring, the best case scenario is completion by 2022.
:14:17. > :14:20.Investigations are continuing after it took 60 fire fighters to
:14:20. > :14:24.extinguish a blaze at a popular shopping centre on St Ives sea front
:14:24. > :14:27.last night. Cornwall Fire and Rescue say it started because of an
:14:27. > :14:29.electrical fault in a ground floor shop. Neighbouring flats and
:14:29. > :14:34.restaurants were smoke—logged and six people were treated at the
:14:34. > :14:37.scene. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service say the nature of the
:14:37. > :14:49.properties in St Ives means any blaze requires a significant
:14:49. > :14:53.response. While the fire itself was small and contained, it was the
:14:53. > :14:57.amount of smoke going through adjacent premises that concerns us.
:14:57. > :15:02.Saint Ives is a beautiful town, but it is also a town that has problems
:15:02. > :15:07.be don't get a virus stopped quickly. So we threw a lot of people
:15:07. > :15:10.at it, they worked hard and the results are very pleasing.
:15:10. > :15:13.Next we'll meet the Royal Marine whose bravery in Afghanistan has
:15:13. > :15:16.been recognised Also still ahead. The Cornish para—triathlete who's
:15:16. > :15:19.heading for the Rio Olympics. And a literary view from the lower
:15:19. > :15:24.decks of how the Navy fought against German e—boats.
:15:25. > :15:37.A Somerset Royal Marine has been awarded the Military Cross for
:15:37. > :15:40.bravery under fire in Afghanistan. Marine Craig Buchanan was serving
:15:40. > :15:43.with 40 Commando in Helmand Province last year when his patrol was
:15:43. > :15:45.attacked by a rogue Afghan policeman. The courageous
:15:45. > :15:48.26—year—old put himself between his comrades and the assailant. Our
:15:48. > :15:51.defence reporter Scott Bingham has the story.
:15:51. > :15:58.Royal Marines Craig you can and was one of more than 100 military
:15:58. > :16:05.personnel honoured yesterday. He was part of an eight man patrol in
:16:05. > :16:11.Helmand Province in October 2012. They were working with the Afghan
:16:11. > :16:19.police, when a rogue member suddenly opened fire, killing two of his
:16:19. > :16:24.colleagues and wounding a third. I don't know why it happened or how it
:16:24. > :16:32.happened, but it is the way it came down. He was able to shoot the
:16:33. > :16:46.assailant dead. His military Cross citation rate...
:16:46. > :17:06.I don't think it has sunk in yet. I really appreciate the honour. Also
:17:06. > :17:10.note was his commander. He received a distinguished service order for
:17:10. > :17:16.his inspiration and courageous leadership during an intense spell
:17:16. > :17:19.of combat in Afghanistan. Time for the sport and Dave's here
:17:19. > :17:32.looking at the first of this season's Devon football derbies.
:17:32. > :17:35.At St James Park, Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle renew their rivalry
:17:35. > :17:39.which, last December, ended in a draw at City with Argyle gaining the
:17:39. > :17:42.honours at Home Park. It's the 61st Devon derby tomorrow when Exeter
:17:42. > :17:46.City and Plymouth Argyle renew their rivalry at St James Park. City have
:17:46. > :18:03.won 15 of those with Argyle coming out on top 25 times. But who'll win
:18:03. > :18:10.this one? What does playing against Plymouth mean? It means a lot.
:18:10. > :18:15.Everyone knows what it means to everyone around the city. It is not
:18:15. > :18:30.a big city, so I am hoping there will be a lot of fans turning up to
:18:30. > :18:35.cheer is on. One player knows how important it is to the players and
:18:35. > :18:40.fans. Because I'm from Plymouth, people think it means more to me
:18:40. > :18:42.than it does to the other players. But we are all professional
:18:42. > :18:52.footballers and they are fully aware of what it means to the fans and the
:18:52. > :19:00.city. No special treatment. Elsewhere, Yeovil town seek an away
:19:00. > :19:09.win against Middlesbrough. Torquay United look to emulate an impressive
:19:09. > :19:12.debut when your city come. The weekend's rugby kicks off this
:19:12. > :19:15.evening with the Cornish Pirates looking to improve their fourth
:19:15. > :19:17.position in the Championship by beating Moseley in Penzance. At
:19:17. > :19:20.Brickfields, Plymouth Albion could move into the top four if they
:19:20. > :19:28.overcome London Scottish. It's another testing Sunday date for
:19:28. > :19:31.Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership. After last week's home loss to
:19:31. > :19:39.Leicester, their forwards hope to set up the platform for success at
:19:39. > :19:42.Kingsholm, the home of Gloucester. A 22—year—old Cornish woman is
:19:42. > :19:45.targeting a gold medal in the very first Olympic para—triathlon at the
:19:45. > :19:47.2016 Games in Rio. Melissa Reid, from Mount Hawke, is already the
:19:47. > :19:51.world aquathon and para—triathlon champion. She's totally blind in one
:19:51. > :20:03.eye and has peripheral vision in the other.
:20:03. > :20:09.It consists of 1000 metres runner and a five kilometre run. It was two
:20:09. > :20:12.days before the triathlon, so we swam in the Serpentine and run the
:20:12. > :20:19.same route as we did in the triathlon.
:20:19. > :20:28.Miller said trains in Falmouth. On this occasion, she was tethered to
:20:29. > :20:33.Becky Walters. When we first moved down, I couldn't swim. But being by
:20:33. > :20:41.the sea, you don't have a choice, you have to learn to swim. Because
:20:41. > :20:49.of my eyesight, I can't drive, there are no buses, so the only way to get
:20:49. > :20:54.around was to cycle. This race will burst onto the Olympic scene for the
:20:54. > :20:59.first time in the next Olympics and Melissa is determined to make the
:20:59. > :21:05.most of it. If I can say number one, I will be guaranteed a place, but
:21:05. > :21:11.there are no guarantees in life. It all depends on whether she can
:21:11. > :21:16.attract the financial backing. Because I have to have a guide with
:21:16. > :21:21.me and we have to take the tandem apart and put it back together, it
:21:21. > :21:25.usually costs £10,000 a year just for the travel and accommodation.
:21:25. > :21:28.That doesn't include the training. Plymouth Raiders have two
:21:28. > :21:30.opportunities this weekend to net their first win of the new
:21:30. > :21:33.basketball season. Tonight at Sheffield Sharks and on Sunday
:21:33. > :21:41.afternoon, it's former champions Newcastle Eagles at the Pavilions.
:21:41. > :21:46.A wartime memoir's being launched at the Appledore Book Festival this
:21:46. > :21:49.weekend. The author from South Molton in Devon hopes it'll redress
:21:49. > :21:52.some of the glory given to German e—boats and show how well the
:21:52. > :21:55.British Navy coped with them. 89—year—old Tony Chapman says his
:21:55. > :22:00.book is unusual because it's not written by an officer, but by
:22:00. > :22:19.someone from the lower decks. Spotlight's North Devon reporter
:22:19. > :22:35.Andrea Ormsby has been to meet him. Tony was utterly convinced with the
:22:35. > :22:41.Royal Navy. The other e—boat had shaped up to ram as and we got in
:22:41. > :22:46.first, full speed. I didn't know, because the skipper didn't have time
:22:46. > :22:55.to ring down and tell me he was going to do it. It was in the height
:22:55. > :23:02.of the battle, so the impact knocked me out for some time. Now 70 years
:23:02. > :23:08.since that battle, Tony's wartime memoirs are being published.
:23:08. > :23:14.Probably the main advantage is that it is written by a lower deck person
:23:14. > :23:25.rather than an officer. And there are not a lot of books written by
:23:25. > :23:35.the common man. Friend and agent Tony Martin has been a common force.
:23:35. > :23:42.The Navy, after a pure start, develop taxis to contain the e—boats
:23:42. > :23:47.and took the water them. It was a bloody and brutal battle, but they
:23:47. > :23:53.contain them what you could call inferior equipment, in terms of
:23:53. > :23:56.speed and seagoing capability. It was simply a question of sticking it
:23:57. > :24:09.out stoically in the uncertain hope all would be well. Tony's book is
:24:09. > :24:12.being launched on Sunday. Photographs taken by BBC Radio Devon
:24:12. > :24:15.listeners will feature in a new calendar launched tonight. The
:24:15. > :24:18.images have been chosen from more than a thousand pictures submitted
:24:18. > :24:21.as part of a competition raising money for the Give A Gift Appeal for
:24:21. > :24:24.the Devon Community Foundation as part of the radio station's 30th
:24:24. > :24:27.birthday celebrations. You can find out how to get a calendar by
:24:27. > :24:38.visiting the BBC Radio Devon Facebook page.
:24:38. > :24:40.David has a rather nice picture behind him. Lovely blue sky. Do you
:24:40. > :24:56.have good news? We do have good news. Incidentally,
:24:56. > :25:02.we have had some lovely pictures sent in. As we head into the
:25:02. > :25:07.weekend, it is calmer and mainly drive. There will be colder nights,
:25:08. > :25:15.which is not a bad thing and also morning mist, but apart from that,
:25:15. > :25:20.there is a fine weather. It is likely to be at this time of year.
:25:20. > :25:24.There is a fair amount of cloud as we head out into the Atlantic. The
:25:24. > :25:31.main ring bearing cloud is across the other side of the Channel,
:25:31. > :25:41.across France. France has seen tremendous downpours. This is midday
:25:41. > :25:45.on Saturday and by midday on Sunday, it is moving across southern parts
:25:45. > :25:51.of Britain and is here to stay, because even by the middle of next
:25:51. > :25:54.week, we have high—pressure across southern Britain. Most of the rain
:25:54. > :26:02.to the north of us. There are some showers. Some clear skies tonight
:26:03. > :26:07.and is not the visibility problems we have seen recently. Colder night
:26:07. > :26:17.for all of us and why we will see light showers in the morning, there
:26:18. > :26:22.is enough sun to get the temperatures up. For much of the
:26:22. > :26:34.data model, it is fine and drive. Cloudy at times. Sunny spells is a
:26:34. > :26:38.good way to describe it. We should see temperatures get it up to about
:26:38. > :27:15.17 or 18 degrees. Lighter winds than we have seen today.
:27:15. > :27:22.Sunday is more cloudy and there may be more of Bob first thing on Sunday
:27:22. > :27:32.morning, but it should clear. Writer on Monday and rather cloudy, but
:27:32. > :27:40.still try on Tuesday. Much cooler in the night—time. Have a nice weekend.
:27:40. > :27:44.That's all from us. We will be back again on Monday at
:27:44. > :27:46.630 a.m..