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from the west That is all | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
care of the elderly ` an uncertain future for more than 20 residential | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
homes across Devon. Good evening. A review of the homes which care for | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
400 people has been launched. One charity says it is deeply worrying. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
It is bound to be an unsettling time, but I hope they come out with | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
answers quickly about how they will manage the consultation. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight, the latest scam affecting thousands of motorists. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
How the price of metal is encouraging thieves to dismantle | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
your car. And from Laurel and Hardy to rack | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
and ruin ` the millions needed to restore this old theatre to its | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
former glory. The future of all Devon's | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
council`run residential care homes for older people has been put under | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
review, Spotlight has learned. The move is part of the council's | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
efforts to find millions of pounds of austerity savings. There are 23 | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
homes in Devon, caring for almost 400 frail and vulnerable people. The | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
charity Age UK has expressed alarm. Our correspondent Simon Hall | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
reports. Our | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
this review of residential care homes for older people is part of | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Devon county council was micro`search for cost savings | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
because of the austerity cuts. `` Devon county council's search for | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
cost savings. Demand for residential care has been | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
falling, according to the council, as more older people are given | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
support to stay in their own homes. That has led to a review of all 20 | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
three `` 23 council homes in Devon. Around 360 people live in them. The | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
council says no womble have removed out, but the review has `` the | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
council says no one will have to move out but the review has raised | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
concerns. There will be an `` concern among residents and their | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
families, because the uncertainty has come back onto the agenda. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
We went through this a few years ago and it came to not then. Devon | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
county council say increasing amounts of funding are being | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
invested in care for those with dementia and specialist homes for | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
sufferers have been set up. The council from `` say residents of | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
care homes and families will be kept fully informed. No one from the | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
council was available for interview. A statement said that | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
anyone needing residential care would continue to be supported by | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the council. We want to develop extra housing, the statement said, | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
in order to meet the growing complexity and increasing demands of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
care needs in the future. The first badgers have been | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
vaccinated in West Cornwall as part of a programme aimed at curbing TB | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
in cattle. The six year scheme involves a pilot taking place on | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
five farms. The aim is to expand vaccinations across the Penwith | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
peninsula. Our environment correspondent, Adrian Campbell, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
joins me now in the studio. This is in its very early stages at | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the moment. Yes, very early. They have vaccinated for badgers so | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
far. `` four badgers. They are starting in the far west and they | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
are hoping to strike over the whole peninsula. They have to capture the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
badgers, vaccinate them and release them back into the wild. Obviously | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
this will take time. Professor Rosie Woodruff is in charge of all this. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
The hope is, should we get funding, that this will become more like 50 | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
square kilometres, much eager area next year, and over the next few | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
years expanding to the full 200 square kilometres of Penrith and | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
maintaining that for five years. A seven`year programme in total. I | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
know that the local MP Andrew George is taking a close interest, why is | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
he so team`2`macro he believes that local farmers would not be keen on a | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
badger cull. He is keen on the idea of | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
vaccination because he believes it is the right way to go. The | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
government's policy runs the high risk of making the situation worse, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
we know at least with vaccination that it runs a good likelihood of | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
making the situation better and cannot make the situation worse. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
There are others, though, who say that vaccination is just a | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
distraction and they would rather see the cull we have seen in | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Somerset and Gloucestershire. Yes, we contacted the National farmers | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
union today. They pointed to what has happened in Wales. They say at | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
best it is only 65% effective, this type of vaccination. They think it | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
is more cost`effective to have a cull and they would prefer that. It | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
is fair to say that people involved in the vaccination project would | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
take issue with that. The high price of metal has led to a | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
boom in the theft of catalytic converters from cars and vans. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Nearly 1,000 have been stolen in Devon and Cornwall over the past | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
three years. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has been to meet a victim of | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
the crime in Devon. This garage is the oldest in | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
Britain. In 1815, it made carriages and has been repairing motor cars | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
ever since. Last month it was the scene of a very modern crime. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
We take any catalytic converters off of scrap cars as they have some | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
value. They contain precious metals, rhodium and platinum among them. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Over two years, they collected nearly 100 catalytic converters. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
We came in one weekend and the store had been broken into, the locks | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
broken and the catalytic converters and a few other items along with | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
them were all gone. This is a catalytic converter from | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
quite an old car. This would be around the year 2000. It's value is | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
probably around ?25, maybe 30. But on a more expensive car they are | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
worth around ?80 or more in scrap value. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
A BBC investigation has found thefts of catalytic converters have more | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
than doubled in the past three years, with almost 25,000 reported | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
to police across the country. In Devon and Cornwall, nearly 1000 have | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
been stolen in that period. Unfortunately, we live in a society | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
where if you can get something for nothing there is an element of | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
people out there quite willing to do that. Although some catalytic | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
converters might get ?80 in scrap, for the victim it could be more than | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
1000 to replace. David Cameron has asked President | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Putin for prompt, fair and proportionate action in the case of | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
the 30 Greenpeace activists being held for hoolganism. Three of the | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
group being detained are from Devon. Journalist Kieron Bryan, along with | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
activists Iain Rogers and Alexandra Harris, were with Greenpeace | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
protesting over oil drilling in the Artic. President Putin was said to | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
understand the concerns, and the two leaders have agreed to stay in touch | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
on the issue. Plans to offer a discount on fuel to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
motorists living in some rural areas are to be delayed. Lynton in Devon | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
is one of ten locations earmarked for the discount, and the only one | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
in the South West. However other areas have now complained they were | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
overlooked and the government says it is reconsidering the scheme. | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
A deal has been done over the pay and conditions of workers who would | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
help build Hinkley C. The agreement's been drawn up between | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
EDF Energy and two unions. It covers electrical and mechanical workers on | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
the planned new nuclear power station. Unions say it guarantees at | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
least 500 apprenticeships during the construction. | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
Walk down Union Street in Plymouth and you can't miss the Palace | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Theatre. In its heyday, it was home to stars such as Charlie Chaplin, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Laurel and Hardy, and Morecambe and Wise. Since its closure as a | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
nightclub in 2006 the building has seemingly been left to rot. But, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
behind the facade, restoration work has been taking place all year. It | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
has finally been made watertight, and our reporter, Louise Walter, was | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
given access to the building. The brass plates in the pavement | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
outside, and dusty images of the greats who appeared here. The only | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
clues still in place to the Palace Theatre's illustrious past. | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
I actually once appeared in the stage in the chorus of a pantomime. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Even the BBC's own Angela Rippon trod the boards. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
I have to admit I am unashamedly sentimental about this place. This | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
is the main body of the theatre... You can still glimpse that grandeur | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
here today ` but more clearly the sheer volume of work that needs | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
doing. This area was flooded out, totally | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
wet. It has caused a lot of damage. Dave Welsh is the man behind the | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Palace Project ` a not`for`profit company trying to return this | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
theatre to its former glory. As you can see over there, the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
plaster has been totally ruined on that edge. However, it has not been | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
on that site, so we have experts who have offered to come in and mould | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
from that to rebuild this site. What is your vision for this space | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
command the vision is to turn it into a community theatre. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
`` what is your vision for this space? We want to turn it into a | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
splendid old palace. This takes you up to the blue room, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
there at the moment our intention is to put it right and turn it into a | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
rest grant. At the moment all the floors have to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
come up and the ceiling has to be prepared. `` repaired. | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
But this is a listed building ` a factor which has to be at the heart | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
of the refurbishment. Everything we wanted to do it will | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
be twice as much money to do it, twice as long to do it and we have | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
to have English Heritage involved all the way. They have been helpful, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
they have come along, they have no funds to give us at the moment but | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
they have given us some of direct 30s, and I can't see it being a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
problem. `` they have given some of their expertise. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
But what is a problem is cash. The Palace Project thinks it could | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
cost up to ?10 million to complete the work, including buying the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
freehold. It is hoping to win grant money, but also that social media | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
will prove a useful source. They have already found volunteers that | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
way. We have a lot of people coming in | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
with the Facebook page we have set up asking how to get involved. We | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
are working with a local company called Crown Funding, setting up a | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
website for us so that we can have a way for the locals to put some money | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
into the project and benefit the project itself. | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
But there is an issue. Dave was found guilty of fraud in | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
2009 and was sentenced to five years and three months in jail. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
First of all, we have done all this without going asking people for | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
money, so we're not trying to deprive people with cash. The other | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
thing is, we don't want people coming in with buckets of money | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
saying we have raised this come everything will go through a bank | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
account and be audited. There will be an accounts manager and | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
everything will be done so it can be seen upfront. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
The vision is that this will become a people's Palace, restored and run | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
for the benefit of the community. There is a public meeting tonight | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
for anyone interested in getting involved. | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
An amazing building. Coming up, the online campaign to save a famous | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
landmark. Plus, opening up a treasure trove ` we'll delve into | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
this historic archive. And joining as `` and these | :12:12. | :12:27. | |
colourful characters as Paignton Zoo. | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
Women working in the South West are being enouraged to join in a survey | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
looking at issues faced by businesses in the region. It is | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
hoped the report will help to identify issues faced specifically | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
by women. The results will then be used to help find solutions to the | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
problems. We are putting together a survey for | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
women in business in the South West and looking at what they actually | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
need. There is so much in the press at the moment about glass ceilings | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
and diversity in boardrooms, but does that just apply to the | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
south`east or is it something that is nationwide? | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
We are putting together a survey to find out what women in the South | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
West actually need, want and think. The future is looking more secure | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
for Cornwall's only preserved steam railway. The Bodmin and Wenford line | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
has reached an important milestone by securing a 35`year long lease | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
from Cornwall Council. It is the first time there's been a longer | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
lease in the railway's 27`year history. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
The future of a former boathouse once used by coastguards as a base | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
to track smugglers is heading all the way to the High Court. A group | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
of people in Budleigh Salterton are so angry over plans to redevelop the | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
building now used as a cafe, they're funding their own legal challenge. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Hamish Marshall reports. On a damp autumn day, the Longboat | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
doesn't look worthy of such a fuss. The owner wants to extend his | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
season. The cafe would be revamped downstairs and a restaurant would be | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
added on the first floor. These plans were approved by East Devon | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
District Council last year but that decision is being challenged in the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
High Court. Protesters say the council didn't follow correct | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
procedure. They want to save the Longboat in its current form. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
It is a garage. It is a boathouse. It is a very utilitarian building, | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
but if you look at the plans you actually find it was built with | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
loving care with a lot more attention to detail than a simple | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
garden shed really demands. Somebody must have thought this was a very | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
important building when they built it. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
That was in the 1870's ` it stored the coastguard boat which stopped | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
smuggling and also rescued mariners. But while the nearby coastguard | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
cottages were listed, the boathouse wasn't. The well`known | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
archaeologist, Mark Horton, is against the plans, while Natural | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
England has listed concerns over the new buildings' sustainability. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
But not everyone in Budleigh is against it. Sharon Raybock and her | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
husband run a bed and breakfast and cookery school. She says the town | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
needs to move on. Budleigh Salterton lacks a lot of | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
restaurants and some have closed in the past so it would be good for the | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
town to have a new facility. Not only for people in the town, but to | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
bring new people to the town, which is critical. I have been speaking to | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the owner. He did not want to do an interview | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
on camera but told me the planning process has taken seven years and he | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
is anxious for Freddie's result to come. What ever the High Court | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
decides, he says he will abide by it. `` he is anxious for Friday's | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
result. The council considers the verdict to | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
be legally correct and procedurally sound. | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
Exeter Cathedral's new Library and Archives has been showing off its | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
treasures. The brand new purpose`built facility at the | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
Bishop's Palace houses books and documents dating back more than | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
1,000 years. The collection includes the foundation charter from the time | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
of Edward the Confessor, and the Exeter Book, as Spotlight's Heidi | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Davey has been finding out. Steeped in a wealth of history. The | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
shelves of Exeter Cathedral's new look library and archives.with each | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
book telling its own unique story. The really interesting thing for me | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
is that it not only covers the life of the cathedral but the life of the | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
city. These are documents giving to `` given to us by kings from time to | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
time, it is about the life of the nation from time to time, as well. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
One of the most famous pieces of work is the Exeter book ` the 131 | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
page work is one of the earlies examples of English languagae | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
poetry. `` English`language poetry. Some of | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
them are very varied in type and the most popular of them are probably | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
the old English riddles. A few of those, only a small | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
minority, are fairly racy. Preponderantly of the book is | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Christian intone, but there is a wide variety of material in it. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
And you can take a look at some of those, along with the rest of | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
collection at the new facility at Bishop's Palace. Heidi Davey, BBC | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
Spotlight. Devon is celebrating the success of | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
four of its cricketers who've just come back from international duty. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
The quartet were picked for the England under`19 tour to South | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Africa. Andy Birkett has caught up with two of them. Three Lions on the | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
shirt ` every athlete's dream. But for four girls from Devon that dream | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
has become a reality. What's even more remarkable is that three of the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
girls play for just one club, Plympton. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
It was nice going out of there with people that we knew already. It is | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
down to the cultures. Warren has a link with England and has been | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
pushing us through coaching throughout the winter to make us the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
best we can be. I did not know how to react. I did not think it was | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
real until I got on the plane. Is this actually happening? | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
But it was. And all four played their part. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
I was nervous, wanting to do something good for the team, then I | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
got my wicket and first over and I was so happy, not just to contribute | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
to the team but to have a really big impact. | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Exeter University's Aylish Cranstone had a great time with the bat, while | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Plympton's third player, Amara Carr, behind the stumps, continued the | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
form that saw her picked for the England Academy. But it wasn't all | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
cricket, and the girls got to see another side to South Africa. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
It was really cute, they run up to you, give you a hug, they would not | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
let you go, but then it was quite sad because they were asking for | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
money, it was emotional. But back on the field, there was | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
success, with a 3`0 series win over South Africa's emerging women. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Were you one of those who went hunting for gorillas over the | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
summer? The colourful life`size models were placed in locations | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
across Exeter and Torbay to mark Paignton Zoo's 90th birthday. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Well tonight the creatures have been rounded up at Paignton's Palace | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Theatre to be auctioned off for conservation charities. James | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
Churchfield is there. Welcome to the stage here at the | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Palace Theatre in Paignton. This fellow has attracted the most | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
interest so far. Each of the gorillas part of the fundraising | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
effort have a reserve of around ?1500. This one was created and | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
designed by an adult education teacher at South Devon... | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
This one was made by the celebrity crafter Kirstie Allsopp. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
27 are here tonight and two smaller ones, as well. One of the others | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
will stay at Paignton Zoo. Back in July, that was around the time | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
people decided they wanted to have a look at these wonderful creatures | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
dotted around the landscape of Exeter and Torbay. 50,000 leaflets | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
were published and in almost two weeks they managed to complete the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
amount that was sent out. They had to reprint it again, such was the | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
popularity of people wanting to go gorilla spotting. Plenty of people | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
have arrived for the auction tonight, amongst them Malcolm, who | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
already has his eye on something he wants to bid for. Why have you | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
decided to come here and which has caught your attention? We have seen | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
the gorillas are rent Exeter, but I like skins, or Mr bumble, that are | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
the ones I am looking for. It is an early Christmas present for my wife. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
A bit of a surprise to you, isn't it two shock, perhaps ` I was looking | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
for a handbag! Where will it all back home? It will | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
go back to Exeter if we get one. Let's meet the man whose idea `` | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
lets meet the person whose idea it was to bring this idea to fruition. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
We have been overwhelmed by the response, we knew it would be | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
popular but we did not know how mini people would follow the trail and | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
engage with it. We had a competition to spot | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
gorillas. Lots of different people from all | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
ages have followed the trail, but probably one of the best stories | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
from the event was a little boy aged seven, autistic, saw one of them for | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
the first time and it has changed his life. What is lurking behind the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
black grape? That would be Darth Vader. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
There you go, hopefully the force is with us tonight so that his menacing | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
steer looks out onto the bidders who will hopefully dig deep into the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
pockets to raise money for conservation charities ensuring the | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
future for the gorilla. Which would you prefer, a handbag or | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
a gorilla? Handbag, I think. | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
It has dominated the skyline of Newquay since Victorian times but | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
there are concerns a famous landmark in the resort may not make it | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
through another winter. The plight of the Huer's Hut was | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
highlighted after a pictures of it in a state of disrepair was posted | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
online. As Leigh Rundle reports, there's now a growing campaign to | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
save it perched high above the bay, the Huer's Hut is to Newquay what | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
black full tower is to Blackpool. But it has fallen to sad repair. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
This is one of Newquay boss Michael biggest icons. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
To have it like this come it is photographed by so many people. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
It is disgusting. A picture of the crumbling hut | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
appeared on Facebook and in than less a week locals were out | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
campaigning for a restoration programme. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
We pay our council tax. We do not think she will get through the | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
winter with the state she is in now. The hut is a relic from the mid`19th | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
century when Newquay was little more than a village. Here, huers watched | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
for the arrival of boats, directing them to the shore. They have said it | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
is not derelict enough to warrant support gets so I am working with | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
officers to try and secure the money, then we will look at | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
long`term arrangements for it. This former lookout is now being | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
watched over of this `` by descendants of the same community at | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
once helped to feed. Onto the weather, before we look | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
ahead, a look back, David? Yes, we will look at October's | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
statistics in the South West of England. We will start with rainfall | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
which has been particularly heavy. To give only the last couple of | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
weeks of October. The average is 102 millimetres, but in October we have | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
seen 186 millimetres. With all the cloud and rain, sunshine is down, | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
the average is just shy of 110 hours, but we actually recorded 99 | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
hours. Temperatures were above average. We did not see any frost at | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
all during October. On the left is the average temperatures, and it was | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
quite warm, 14 Celsius the daytime average, 10 Celsius the night`time | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
temperature. With all that rain you would expect what levels to come up, | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
but we are still suffering from a relatively dry summer. West `` this | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
time last year reservoirs were only 97% full, the last time I looked | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
reservoirs were only 74% full. Let's look at the forecast. We have a much | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
better day tomorrow, much brighter, winds are lighter, but it will feel | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
older. We will have some sunshine but we will have two wrap`up | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
one`way, quite a drop in temperatures. This is producing the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
wet weather we have had at the moment. 50 mph along the coast wall | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
in Devon `` along the coast in Cornwall and Devon. This low is | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
moving, taking the strength of wind with it but also taking the rain | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
come as well, by the morning most of us having a dry start with some | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
sunshine, the exception is in the Channel Islands where the rain will | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
continue until lunchtime. Into Friday, each of sunshine and | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
blustery showers, winds still westerly and feeling generally cold. | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
This is the structure of cloud we have seen in the last few hours, | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
more persistent rain this evening some heavy, but clearing out of the | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
way and by dawn tomorrow morning the last bits of the rain clearing from | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
the note `` Dorset coast. Enough clearing to drop the temperatures | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
just into single figures, eight or nine Celsius. A much better day | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
tomorrow, some sunshine, winds are much lighter, some showers to spoil | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
the day but they are fairly isolated for much of the day. For most of us | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
it will be a dry day, Calder air, temperatures struggling up to 12 | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Celsius axed `` as the maximum. `` more cold air. Times of high water | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
at Penzance... Big waves for the sufferers and a | :26:15. | :26:27. | |
little bit clean, still under chubby side, the north Coast will be up to | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
six feet and choppy, C temperatures coming down, between 14 and 15 | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Celsius. Winds are mainly from the West tomorrow, force for, five, | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
showers and generally good visibility. More showers to come on | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Friday and Saturday, and for remembrance Sunday it looks like it | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
will be cloudy, slightly warmer, but patchy drizzle throughout the day | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and becoming windy again. Good evening. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
I will be back with the headlines just before 8pm, hope you can join | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
me for that. From all of us on the Spotlight | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
team, have a lovely evening. Good night. | :27:07. | :27:09. |