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arrives on Friday. Can't wait! That's all from | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Urgent inspections are carried out after serious concerns about | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
standards of care at this home. Good evening. One member of staff who | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
wants to remain anonymous says the vulnerable residents deserve better. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
I would not send my mother to go and spend her last days there. That says | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
it all. The desperate need for housing in the South West. One | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
charity says the number of people asking for help has doubled in one | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
year. We visit the street that has become a living advent calendar. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Urgent inspections have been carried out a care home amid claims that | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
inadequate staffing has affected the way vulnerable residents are looked | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
after. One member of staff has told Spotlight she wouldn't let her own | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
mother be cared for at the home. A letter to the Care Quality | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Commission, which was also sent to our Health Correspondent, says many | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
residents don't get baths or showers and some are left for hours in | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
soiled pads because there aren't enough carers. Sally Mountjoy has | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
this exclusive report. This centre looks after around 40 older | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
residents, most of whom need help with basic care. According to an | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
anonymous letter, there are not enough carers to do the job properly | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
or safely. Among the concerns listed are that many residents do not | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
receive a bath or shower, repositioning to help reduce the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
risk of pressure sores is not done regularly, Bales go unanswered and | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
toileting rarely happens. This member of staff as not to be | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
identified. It makes you feel bad. You're not able to provide what they | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
need and it is what they should have, because they are in a place | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
where they should be cared for. I would not send my mother to go and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
spend her last days there. The letter went to the care quality | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
commission who sent inspectors to assess the home and speak to the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
owners. There are full report will not be published until the New Year. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Cornwall Council have made urgent inspections. The councillor who was | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
sent a copy of the anonymous letter says it is vital to ensure that | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
vulnerable people are getting safe care. I have asked for a report from | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
them so that we can identify the complaint and if they are valid, we | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
will deal with them so that we can assure the public of the quality of | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
our care homes. Two years ago, they reported a catalogue of failings at | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
the home but said the necessary changes were made. The latest claims | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
concern problems which have developed in recent weeks. New | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
owners took over the care centre in October. A spokesperson told us that | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
if there were any compliance issues arising at any of their homes they | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
would work in partnership with the CQC and the council to solve them. | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
In October, add missions were suspended at another home owned by | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
the same group. Relatives had complained. The watchdog said that | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
people's dignity was not always respected and is not always enough | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
experienced staff to meet needs. The home drew up an action plan. On the | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
latest allegations about the other home, Cornwall Council said they | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
would closely monitor the situation to ensure that expected standards of | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
care were maintained and that any concerns `` Michael any concerned | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
relatives should contact the council. A charity in Cornwall says | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
the number of people asking it for help with housing has doubled in a | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
year. Chy Lowen is a project run by Chapter one, which helps people who | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
say they can't get help from traditional sources such as the | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
local authority. Cornwall Council says it's doing all it can to help | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
ease the problem, but that there are no easy solutions. Tamsin Melville | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
reports. This woman knows she is one of the lucky ones, a few years ago | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
she was stuck in a cramped flat. Now she is living in a new place and is | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
studying law. The property I am in now is more than sufficient for my | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
family. It is not damp, it is lovely. I am really happy. I feel | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
safe and secure. It is a long lease. I did not have to try and find a | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
deposit. I am so much happier now. She was helped by Chy Lowen, a | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
project which takes on the responsibility for letting private | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
properties to tenants struggling with deposits or credit checks. It | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
is people who cannot go down the private sector route, are not | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
vulnerable enough for the Council, and those are the people who are | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
caught in that gap, but do make very good tenants. Debbie says they have | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
seen a sharp rise in people asking for help, with up to 30 new | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
approaches a week. The need for more affordable housing is a widely | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
acknowledged problem. We are aiming to deliver 4000 homes in the next | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
four years and that will only scratch the surface. We are looking | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
at all sorts of ways to bring properties back into use. We are | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
working with landlords and trying to raise standards in the private | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
rental sector. At least then the homes will be quality homes. Chy | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Lowen managers 170 properties across the county. A man's appeared in | :06:09. | :06:22. | |
court charged with the murder of a 36`year`old woman in Plymouth. Kerry | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Power was found dead at a property on Tailyour Road in the Crownhill | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
area of the city on Saturday morning. Today, 41`year`old David | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Wilder appeared before Plymouth magistrates accused of killing her. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
He was remanded in custody. A former Royal Marines base in Plymouth has | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
been put up for sale. RM Turnchapel in Plymstock is the former home of | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
539 Assault Squadron, which is now based at Devonport. Operations ended | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
at Turnchapel earlier this year after the site was declared surplus | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
to military requirements. The plan to mine one of the world's biggest | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
tungsten deposits near Plymouth has cleared its last two major hurdles. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Environment Agency consent has been given for the mine's waste dump and | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
deals have been agreed on all of the local homes that have to be bought | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
up before mining can start. Our business correspondent Neil | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Gallacher reports from Hemerdon. In recent weeks around a dozen homes in | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
this hamlet on the edge of Dartmoor have been evacuated. This area will | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
shortly start to see the first mine reopening since the early 1970s. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
There have been major mineral works in this area for decades, soon the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
local clay industry will be joined by a tungsten mine. A company has | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
been given consent for the waste dump the mine needs. They are over | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the last major hurdle. We are all very excited. All we have seen for | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
the last 30 years is the decline of the mining industry and it is nice | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
to see a new mine start up. Some of the locals are not happy. Several | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
have talked about the stress of having to brute, even though they | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
have agreed purchase prices for their homes. None of them were | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
prepared to be interviewed. Are viable of tungsten mining here had | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
long been a possibility because basic planning permission was given | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
decades ago. There has been some support, the big hope is it will | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
employ local people. It is an Australian mining company, but the | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
senior management team have local connections. Virtually all of us are | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
people who have lived and worked for many years in the area. Our | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
expectation is the vast majority of the workforce will be from the area. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
It is six years since the company revealed their intention to mine, | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the downturn threatened to direct them but only slowed them. Hemerdon | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
has the fourth largest tungsten deposit in the world. The new mine | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
will be built in the New Year. A second dog has died after eating a | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
white substance which was first seen washed up in West Penwith two months | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
ago. It was identified as rancid palm oil. Council officials say its | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
now been washed up along the North coast of Cornwall. It's the 14th | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
time the substance has been reported on local beaches. The second dog | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
died after eating the material at Polzeath. There is a lot of evidence | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
which has demonstrated that this is an international problem. We have | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
had ports from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and France and we are really | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
concerned `` reports. We consider our beaches to be pristine so | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
anything that impacts on the beach we do not want. South West farmers | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
are being encouraged to invest in renewable energy schemes to cut fuel | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
costs on their farms as well as selling power to the National Grid. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Green energy supporters say wind and solar power should be thought of as | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
cash crops alongside other forms of agriculture. The move comes at a | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
time when subsidies for this scheme are being criticised. Ali Chitty | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
reports. Large`scale wind and solar farms attract fierce debate, for | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
many they are the energy of the future, but not many people want | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
them on their doorstep. Good small`scale production be the | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
answer? On his farm, this man has one turbine and a small solar array | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
providing power for his farm. He sells the excess back to the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
National Grid. I use the electricity from my solar panels and my wind | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
turbine before it goes into the National Grid. What I produce is the | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
equivalent of something between 30 and 40 houses average consumption. I | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
turn it in, use it myself and have a free electric car. It is not bad. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
The other advantage is they do not take any of the land out of | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
production. Normally this field is full of sheep, but they are up at | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
the other end today. When the weather is bad, they shelter | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
underneath it. Rob and remortgaged his house and received subsidies for | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
this game, but subsidies have been criticised. Cornwall Council says it | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
is important that agriculture can become as sustainable as possible. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
It is important that farmers are sustainable, agriculture is an | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
important industry, one of our biggest industries and we need to | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
make sure that they are competitive. If they have got | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
renewable energy, that keeps costs down. At this restaurant, a lunch | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
was hosted were all lunch had been provided by former is investing in | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
renewables. We are talking about small`scale investments. There is a | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
specific view about covering the energy needs of the farm itself. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
There may be some excess Power to export to the grid, that is a bonus. | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
In terms of keeping businesses sustainable, farmers need all the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
help they can get. With big projects like the Atlantic Array of the | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
table, small`scale projects could be the future. Now you'll remember | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
during the Olympics there was a lot of talk about the legacy the games | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
would leave. Well, one thing to have come out of London 2012 is the sport | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
of handball. Yes, it's one of the most popular sports in Europe and it | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
could be taking off in Devon. Now, the hunt's on to find enough | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
under`16s to form the county's very first handball team. Our North Devon | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
reporter Andrea Ormsby has the story. He grew up playing handball | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
in France. His coaching skills are much needed because here, handball | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
is something you get a penalty for in football. It is inclusive, it is | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
a team sport, it is everything I like in a sport. It is great. At the | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
moment we are attacking this way. The blues have the ball. Very | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
quickly, they are moving back down the pitch. We want to get handball | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
to be a commonly played sport. At the moment, we are trying to get | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
people to find out about it and try it and then we will hopefully set up | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
competitions. It might be little known, but handball is massive in | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Europe, with 19 million players and more than 150,000 teams. It is the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
second most played team sport for men and the second for women and | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
these children love it. It is fun. You can pass it around, you can | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
shoot, it makes you feel nice. You can get to score. I enjoy doing | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
sport, but this is really good, you get to be a team player and you get | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
to have fun passing and trying to score goals. So far there is only | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
one handball club in the South West and an organisation set up last year | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
is trying to change that. The goal is to have Devon's very first under | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
16 's team ready to compete in the national schools Championships next | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
year. Onto the rest of the sport and Ruta Meilutyte has continued her | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
golden form in the pool, hasn't she, Dave? Exeter Chiefs are virtually | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
out of rugby's European Cup after going down 32`20 at holders Toulon. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
They were outscored by four tries to two, although they led 7`5 with Don | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
Armand's excellent score in the first half, the South African's | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
first for the Chiefs. But the French side went on to strengthen their | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
grip at the top of Pool Two with Jonny Wilkinson dashing in to | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
complete Toulon's scoring. Only Plymouth Argyle suffered defeat out | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
of the South West Football League teams this weekend. John Sheridan's | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
return to his former club Chesterfield ended in a 2`0 loss. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
But the rest came out unbeaten. Here's how the managers and fans | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
reacted. It was a tired affair, both teams tried to the game. They knew a | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
win would have been the better results. We are disappointed. We | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
felt we had some good situations. Our goalkeeper made a couple of good | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
saves. Keeper did not have make saves. `` their keeper. What a | :15:48. | :16:01. | |
terrific goal! He is going forward again. A chance here. It is our | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
second goal for Exeter city! Then a sharps! At a horrific goal! `` a | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
brilliant goal. The goals we give away were a joke. It give us a | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
mountain to climb. I thought we dominated the first half. It is | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
about scoring goals. We had a penalty, if he had scored, the game | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
would have been different. Everyone says how good the team is. We have | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
not put points on the table. That was the aim. Today, I thought we | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
were excellent against one of the best teams in the league. Plymouth | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
College swimmer Ruta Meilutyte has added two more gold medals to take | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
her haul this year to 14. The 16`year`old Olympic and World | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
champion set a new European short`course Championship record, | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
pipping her great rival Yuliya Efimova of Russia. Ruta won a total | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
of three medals in Denmark, including two golds and a silver, to | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
end a phenomenal year for the Lithuanian who lives, trains and | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
studies in Plymouth. Finally, kite racing's European Champion, Olly | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Bridge from Exmouth, came second at the inaugural Oceanic Championships | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
at Fremantle in Australia. He was runner`up to the World champion, | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Florian Gruber of Germany. 16`year`old Bridge pressurised | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
Gruber all week, winning two races in the regatta and more than ?2,000 | :17:36. | :17:50. | |
in prize money. That looks tremendous! A group of volunteers is | :17:51. | :18:02. | |
planning to restart a centuries old industry along the Somerset | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
coastline ` oyster farming. The group in the village of Porlock, | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
near Minehead have already received grants of ?17,000 for a pilot | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
project using oysters from Falmouth. Our Somerset Correspondent Clinton | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
Rogers has the story. In this area is where the old fish traps and | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
tidal ponds used to be. Out there somewhere beneath the sea there are | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
apparently still the remnants of the oyster farms of Porlock Wear. In the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
day, they produced a delicacy renowned across the country. The | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
best tasting oysters anywhere, or so they claimed. The oyster industry | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
here disappeared about 80 years ago. In a few years time we will have an | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
industry here. Now a voluntary organisation dedicated to | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
encouraging economic growth, wants to restart the industry. To create | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
new jobs in an area where such things are almost as rare as | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
oysters. We are one of the oldest communities in the country `` | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
country. It is difficult for young people with families to find good | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
employment so that they can stay here. Is this the answer? We think | :19:20. | :19:34. | |
it is. ?17,000 has been given to fund a pilot project. Initially, | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
young oysters will be brought in from other fisheries, like here in | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Falmouth, and then they will be cultivated in Porlock. It will be an | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
important test to see if the waters here can still sustain oysters. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Eventually, if everything works out fine, we will have hundreds of | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
oysters. It will be quite good in the local pubs. The trial will last | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
one year at if it is successful, then this bay will once again see | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
commercial oyster production, but what makes this project unique is | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
that if and when it makes money, that money will be reinvested into | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
another community project. Always with the aim of growing new jobs. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Now do you have an advent calendar? Well, what if your whole street | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
became an advent calendar? That's what they've done in Ashburton in | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
South Devon. Neighbours in St Lawrence Lane have dressed up their | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
windows to help with the countdown to Christmas. Johnny Rutherford has | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
been to have a look. Just off one of the main streets and Ashburton is St | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Lawrence Lane. In May look like an average street, but something the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
residents are doing is causing excitement `` it may look like. The | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
whole street has been transformed into what local residents are | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
calling a living calendar. I sent about 35 letters and about 28 people | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
replied wanting to be apart of it. I had to turn a few people down. It | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
has been amazing, really lovely. Each day is a surprise. I am number | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
18 and the box has come down from the attic and I think flashing | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
lights are essential. We are nervous. It has become competitive. | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
It is lovely. We had a little boy coming home from school and he was | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
very excited because he had found 11 and you could hear him jumping up | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
and down with excitement. It made it all worthwhile for us. I want to see | :21:58. | :22:11. | |
the next one. I want to see the man leading the elephants. I like how | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
they used everything they can think of. I like the nativity scenes. | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Which house will display tomorrow's window? That secret stays with the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
cat. More of a wet Christmas rather than | :22:27. | :22:48. | |
a white Christmas. Some rain with us for tonight, the week ahead is | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
looking rather unsettled. Some strong winds at times, especially | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
for the middle part of the week. For today, we had cloud coming up from | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
the south, it has kept things mild, but we have some weather fronts | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
bringing rain for tonight. Some heavy downpours for a time. Tomorrow | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
could be the best day of the week in terms of a dry and bright day. By | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
the time we get to wear them stay, and other system moves in, some | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
gales are possible. Today we had some rain, some heavy downpours, and | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
some fairly cloudy conditions. If you're on the roads tonight, there | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
is a lot of water. Tomorrow, that rain will start to clear away and | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
with light winds and clearer skies, some mist and fog is likely, and | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
temperatures will drop down to three or four degrees. Parts of the | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
countryside could be lower than that. You might find some mist and | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
fog tomorrow, the sun should clear that away, a few showers close to | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
the south coast, but otherwise you are looking at a dry day with some | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
lighter winds temperatures reaching up to around eight or nine degrees. | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
For the Isles of Scilly, a fairly dry and bright day, moderate winds. | :24:29. | :24:42. | |
Times of high water... For the surfers, some decent waves for the | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
North Coast. Generally clean waves. Choppy on the south coast. The | :24:52. | :25:05. | |
coastal waters forecast... The week ahead continues and settles, so make | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
the most of the dry and bright weather tomorrow. On weapon state | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
there will be heavy rain arriving from the West `` Wednesday. Thursday | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
and Friday is still quite breezy, but a bit cooler. A few showers | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
could turn wintry, but on Friday it looks like we will return to more | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
wet and windy weather. Now, before we go this evening, as | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
is our tradition in the run up to Christmas, we have the first of our | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
Christmas Carols. This year we recorded singers and choirs from our | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
four counties in the Mary Harris Chapel at the University of Exeter. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Tonight we leave you with the Sterts Singers from Cornwall. Goodnight. | :25:47. | :25:58. |