:00:00. > :00:13.colder. It could be short lived. That is all from the BBC's
:00:14. > :00:21.Was the death of this woman in a landslip in Cornwall preventable?
:00:22. > :00:24.Good evening. Welcome to Spotlight. Official inquiries into the tragedy
:00:25. > :00:41.last year are still ongoing but family members have delivered their
:00:42. > :00:45.own verdict. I feel I have been robbed. No one
:00:46. > :00:48.will With questions remaining over whether local authorities headed
:00:49. > :00:51.warnings ` we'll have a special report. Ever know her.
:00:52. > :00:53.The family of a woman who died when her home collapsed in a landslip say
:00:54. > :01:02.it shouldn't have happened. A call for rat poison to be banned
:01:03. > :01:14.because of the effect it is having on barn owls and kestrels. The
:01:15. > :01:18.family of a woman who died when her home collapsed in a landslip say it
:01:19. > :01:21.shouldn't have happened. Susan Norman's death following heavy rain
:01:22. > :01:23.last year shocked the community of Looe and led to months of
:01:24. > :01:26.disruption. Her relatives say more could have been done to protect the
:01:27. > :01:29.68`year`old although formal investigations are still to report.
:01:30. > :01:36.The family's been speaking to the BBC's Inside Out South West
:01:37. > :01:45.programme. This is where Susan's home once stood. Work started eight
:01:46. > :01:50.months after the landslip. It is annoying to know that her
:01:51. > :01:58.possessions are buried there. They are wasting away and Matt would
:01:59. > :02:02.really upset my mum. Susan died when she was trapped by an landslip
:02:03. > :02:07.behind her home. Residents here say they have repeatedly warned Cornwall
:02:08. > :02:14.Council that the slope wasn't safe. They told the council that water
:02:15. > :02:18.wasn't draining away properly and it was instead saturating the slope
:02:19. > :02:28.making it unstable. They say the council wasn't doing enough to stop
:02:29. > :02:32.this happening? ``. I feel I have been robbed and my children have
:02:33. > :02:37.been robbed of ever knowing her. Also knowing what a wonderful person
:02:38. > :02:44.she was. Kind and caring and it shouldn't have happened. I am
:02:45. > :02:49.fuming. They say their grief has been made worse by a lack of contact
:02:50. > :02:55.from the council. I have never had a call from anyone senior at the
:02:56. > :02:59.council. Never had an offer of support, a phone call, a letter. The
:03:00. > :03:07.way they have dealt with this is very insensitive. Cornwall Council
:03:08. > :03:15.said the would be inappropriate to comment.
:03:16. > :03:21.Some of Susan's belongings have been retrieved and with the investigation
:03:22. > :03:26.still in progress, there wait for answers goes on.
:03:27. > :03:29.Well with a prolonged period of wet weather this year, landslips
:03:30. > :03:34.continue to be a danger. Lots of water in the ground adds to the risk
:03:35. > :03:38.as some communities are discovering. Just before New Year high tides and
:03:39. > :03:41.heavy rain combined to cause a major slip in Calstock, cutting off homes
:03:42. > :03:44.from a road through the village. There have also been problems along
:03:45. > :03:48.the coastline, forcing the closure of footpaths. And a fresh landslip
:03:49. > :03:51.today in Mevagissey, following the poor conditons at the weekend. From
:03:52. > :03:57.there, Spotlight's David George reports.
:03:58. > :04:04.Tonnes of rubble along with trees, a hedge and offence crashed onto the
:04:05. > :04:09.kitchen roof below before first light this morning. Ten metres of
:04:10. > :04:16.the private access road has fallen away. In the kitchen, Bell Smith was
:04:17. > :04:22.making breakfast. I heard a bit of thunder. My son shouted down from
:04:23. > :04:27.upstairs, have you seen what is going on? I looked out of the window
:04:28. > :04:36.and could see the tree. We realised how bad it was. Explain to us how
:04:37. > :04:39.bad it is. Behind that wall is a one story kitchen and it is all down on
:04:40. > :04:55.the kitchen roof blocking the back door. Mike's front gate is feet from
:04:56. > :05:00.the edge. It is a bit worrying if it progresses. The sewer is in line
:05:01. > :05:12.with it and the water mains. The house is now far behind it. What
:05:13. > :05:18.remains is just a few feet wide. Aren't I the lucky one? I will try
:05:19. > :05:22.and get my road tax back. As the lane is privately owned, the council
:05:23. > :05:25.say they are not responsible for repairs which could cost many
:05:26. > :05:37.thousands of pounds. David is there for us tonight.
:05:38. > :05:42.David, what's the latest? Luckily nothing more has fallen down today
:05:43. > :05:45.and Cornwall Council's contractors have put up some safety fencing at
:05:46. > :05:50.the top there as they promised they would. It is going to be between the
:05:51. > :05:54.insurers of the house here and the insurers of the lane to pick up the
:05:55. > :05:59.bill which could be a great deal of money to fix this. It could take
:06:00. > :06:06.quite some time. We heard about the closure of a footpath of a
:06:07. > :06:11.Dorset/Desmond `` Devon border. That happened just before the weekend. It
:06:12. > :06:21.will be closed for the foreseeable future Devon county council asked
:06:22. > :06:27.telling us. I asked the man with the BMW if the Royal Marines could help?
:06:28. > :06:30.He didn't think a landing craft could be good but one of their to
:06:31. > :06:34.nuke helicopters could be just the job. And you can see more on Sam
:06:35. > :06:36.Smith's report on the Looe landslip in full on Inside Out South West on
:06:37. > :06:43.BBC One tonight at 7.30pm. It's been dragging on for weeks but
:06:44. > :06:46.there are promises tonight things are being done to help. 65 square
:06:47. > :06:50.kilometres of the Somerset levels are currently inundated with ?65
:06:51. > :06:56.million cubic metres of floodwater ` that's an area roughly the size of
:06:57. > :07:01.Plymouth. 30 to 40 properties are flooded with a further 170 cut off.
:07:02. > :07:05.The situation is impacting on individuals, farms and businesses.
:07:06. > :07:09.Now the Environment Minister has promised that action will be taken
:07:10. > :07:12.within six weeks. But local people say they will believe it when they
:07:13. > :07:23.see it, as Spotlight's Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers
:07:24. > :07:26.reports. What is our Environment Minister doing? They were preparing
:07:27. > :07:33.for the Environment Secretary early this morning. What reception are you
:07:34. > :07:39.expecting? If you didn't know before, the roadside placards were a
:07:40. > :07:49.clue. Why was this not done ages ago? Ignore the people. When he
:07:50. > :07:53.arrived, he had been left in no doubt about the strength of the
:07:54. > :07:59.anger here. We were flooded last year, where was he at the end of the
:08:00. > :08:05.day? What happens then? A year on, we off`loaded yet again. This is
:08:06. > :08:11.where the minister had come to see the scale of the flooding. Just one
:08:12. > :08:17.of the pumping stations operating day and night to clear water from 65
:08:18. > :08:23.square miles of flooded farmland. Three weeks on, the water is still
:08:24. > :08:28.hardly receding. In fact last week more houses succumbed to the water.
:08:29. > :08:31.The victims were keen to know whether the Secretary of State has
:08:32. > :08:39.come then answer, preferably money to help them. A week ago I was in a
:08:40. > :08:43.house with a grown man who cried in front of me because his house was
:08:44. > :08:51.under a foot of water. Do you think anything will reassure him you will
:08:52. > :08:57.do something fast? I have said I appreciate how shocking it is. Are
:08:58. > :09:01.you going to do anything fast? I have asked partners to give me a
:09:02. > :09:06.concrete plan which will provide satisfaction over the next 20 years.
:09:07. > :09:08.It may involve dredging the two rivers but it will involve long`term
:09:09. > :09:17.plans to hold water back long`term. A terrifying prospect. That's a
:09:18. > :09:20.former GP's view of controversial plans to put all of our medical
:09:21. > :09:24.records on to a massive national database. The NHS says it will use
:09:25. > :09:29.the information to improve patient care and save lives. But a growing
:09:30. > :09:39.number of critics in the South West say it's an invasion of privacy.
:09:40. > :09:47.Hospital notes have been used for research and planning for years and
:09:48. > :09:50.most of the records our GP's hold can only be passed without
:09:51. > :09:56.permission. Within months, they will be sending our information to an NHS
:09:57. > :10:00.database used to plan and target services and check the effectiveness
:10:01. > :10:06.of treatment. Other organisations can ask for access to the data in an
:10:07. > :10:09.anonymous form the research. You talk to your doctor and nurse and
:10:10. > :10:13.give your medical information so they can provide better care for
:10:14. > :10:16.you. We are extending their principal and providing better care
:10:17. > :10:23.for the population so we are sharing the data but only on that basis. It
:10:24. > :10:27.doesn't provide better care. Every household will get a leaflet
:10:28. > :10:41.outlining the benefits of sharing medical information. Some are not
:10:42. > :10:45.convinced. Flo Davis says the plan undermines the principle of medical
:10:46. > :10:53.confidentiality. Once this information has been taken, there is
:10:54. > :10:59.no way it can ever be deleted. That is quite a terrifying prospect. This
:11:00. > :11:08.is data folder. It is not ethical and against the basic principles of
:11:09. > :11:18.medical ethics. The Royal College of General practitioners... Four in ten
:11:19. > :11:23.GPs will opt out and refused to allow their patient records to be
:11:24. > :11:26.handed over. There is a range of views among family doctors in the
:11:27. > :11:34.south`west. It has some great benefits stop the general practice
:11:35. > :11:37.record in the UK which has been going in a computerised sense, is
:11:38. > :11:43.the most complete in the world. It is a mine of information of data
:11:44. > :11:51.that can be used for research `` that can be used for research
:11:52. > :11:54.purposes. We don't know exactly who will be able to access the
:11:55. > :12:02.information and we don't know whether some of it will be fully
:12:03. > :12:10.harmonised. Will you be able to identify patients by the
:12:11. > :12:17.information? The NHS says the risk to our privacy is very small but the
:12:18. > :12:23.gains in better care and save lives `` safe lives is in doubt. We would
:12:24. > :12:25.like to hear what you think about that. Please do get in touch with
:12:26. > :12:38.us. A Devon based charity is calling for
:12:39. > :12:41.a ban on the strongest forms of rat poison because it says they are
:12:42. > :12:46.threatening the future of barn owls and kestrels. Tests have found that
:12:47. > :12:50.more than eight out of ten owls have rat poison in their system. It comes
:12:51. > :12:55.when they feed on dying or dead rats. Some viewers may find some
:12:56. > :13:02.images in Hamish Marshall's report distressing.
:13:03. > :13:12.The plan was to get rid of rats but this owl has been the latest victim
:13:13. > :13:18.of poison. It fed on a rat which had been baited and now it has lost its
:13:19. > :13:24.life. There blood gets thinner and thinner until they have a
:13:25. > :13:28.haemorrhage and bleed. They bleed through their beak or their bottom
:13:29. > :13:37.end. They are sick for a long period leading up to their death. 30 years
:13:38. > :13:44.ago, 5% of owls had a rat poison in their system and now it is more than
:13:45. > :13:49.80%. They want dating to prevent rats moving to an area band. For
:13:50. > :13:53.poisons to be used as a last resort and for better labelling of poison
:13:54. > :13:59.to make people realise it isn't just rats who will be affected. Rats take
:14:00. > :14:05.a long time today after eating the bait. Some of them are caught by
:14:06. > :14:11.birds of prey and some of them die as a result. The poisons are eaten
:14:12. > :14:15.by wood mice and smaller mammals and some of those are eaten by
:14:16. > :14:19.predators. There is two roots of contamination. Darren Smith is
:14:20. > :14:25.dealing with a growing number of rats. The heavy rain has flushed
:14:26. > :14:29.many of them off. He says you need to cut off their food supply and
:14:30. > :14:39.find out where they are living. It is very hard to trap and adult rat.
:14:40. > :14:45.If you put a snap trap down, they are unlikely to go into that. Dead
:14:46. > :14:50.rats should be buried 18 inches underground to stop passing ``
:14:51. > :14:54.poison harming other creatures. South West`based airline Flybe says
:14:55. > :14:57.it will start a new route from Newquay airport which was previously
:14:58. > :15:00.run by Easyjet. Flybe says the flights from Cornwall to Southend
:15:01. > :15:04.will operate three times a week from May to September. The airline
:15:05. > :15:07.already flies from Newquay to Gatwick but says that will stop if
:15:08. > :15:09.the government doesn't agree to subsidise it.
:15:10. > :15:13.New figures show the south west coast path generates millions of
:15:14. > :15:20.pounds towards the local economy. In 2012, 630 miles of the region's
:15:21. > :15:24.coastline brought in ?436 million. You can find out more about that in
:15:25. > :15:29.BBC Radio Devon's breakfast programme tomorrow from 6.30.
:15:30. > :15:34.For the first time since 1986, a new leader of thousands of Catholics
:15:35. > :15:36.across the South West will be ordained at Plymouth Cathedral.
:15:37. > :15:39.Tomorrow's ceremony in which Mark O'Toole will officially succeed
:15:40. > :15:42.Christopher Budd after nearly 30 years will be attended by the past
:15:43. > :15:53.and present heads of the catholic church in England and Wales.
:15:54. > :15:58.Plymouth may help the cathedral but tomorrow this man would lead to
:15:59. > :16:04.Catholics not only in Devon but in Cornwall, Dorset and the Isles of
:16:05. > :16:09.Scilly also. The cathedral for Catholics is the heart of the life
:16:10. > :16:14.of faith. The place where I will be celebrating a lot of the services of
:16:15. > :16:22.the community. As preparations are made, I asked Mark about the days
:16:23. > :16:29.after the ceremony when the work to appeal to people who have moved away
:16:30. > :16:34.from the church begins. We have been bolstered by the migrant communities
:16:35. > :16:41.and the Philippines. We want to reach out to those who were once
:16:42. > :16:45.Catholic and now the message no longer resonates. We have to meet
:16:46. > :16:58.people where they are. That is one of the things that Pope Francis
:16:59. > :17:09.talks about. We have to be willing to take risks. How are you going to
:17:10. > :17:13.get in amongst people? One is a thing called night Fever which I
:17:14. > :17:19.have seen work in other cities. You simply open the church on a Friday
:17:20. > :17:26.night and you go out onto the streets and invite anybody who might
:17:27. > :17:32.be going out for the night. Will you do that in Plymouth? They are
:17:33. > :17:36.invited to come in and light a candle and think about people who
:17:37. > :17:44.are important in their lives. These are the new people the Bishop is
:17:45. > :17:51.wanting to reach out to. Once you grow up, you stop. I don't go
:17:52. > :18:04.preaching the Bible to everyone, I have just read it. Did you ever go
:18:05. > :18:08.to church? I did, yes. Why not now? Time.
:18:09. > :18:12.Around 100 families have been welcoming home the crew of HMS
:18:13. > :18:16.Talent which has returned to its home base of Devonport. The nuclear
:18:17. > :18:19.submarine has been on deployment in the Mediterranean and the Gulf for
:18:20. > :18:28.the last five months. Spotlight's John Ayres was there to see her
:18:29. > :18:31.homecoming. The families lined the quayside to give their loved ones a
:18:32. > :18:36.warm welcome. The Plymouth weather wasn't that welcoming. Many of them
:18:37. > :18:47.had to take shelter in a dockyard cafe as they waited. When the crew
:18:48. > :18:53.were able to come to shore, it was that special moment. I wanted to
:18:54. > :19:04.come back for Christmas but I couldn't. Hopefully I will get time
:19:05. > :19:13.at home now. How do you feel? It is great. Glad to have him home with
:19:14. > :19:16.us. Long periods under the sea coupled with the military
:19:17. > :19:21.sensitivities around their work means they can often go sometime
:19:22. > :19:25.without being able to communicate with friends and family. We get
:19:26. > :19:30.e`mails once a week maybe but it depends where we are at and what we
:19:31. > :19:36.are doing. It can be understand that they understand. That lack of
:19:37. > :19:40.day`to`day communication can be tough and for the younger sailors,
:19:41. > :19:50.back home they are used to constant contact. They have to commit a lot
:19:51. > :19:56.to the Royal Navy. Their families commit and we couldn't do their job
:19:57. > :20:04.without them. Our families play a vital part in this. For now, this
:20:05. > :20:09.areas are having that special time with their families. To the sport
:20:10. > :20:12.now and Yeovil Town's 2`0 FA Cup exit at Premier League Southampton
:20:13. > :20:15.was maybe a little harsh, but now they have to concentrate solely on
:20:16. > :20:18.staying in the Championship, starting at Derby County tomorrow
:20:19. > :20:20.night. They gave away a needless penalty when Jamie McAllister
:20:21. > :20:24.handled unnecessarily from a corner to give the Saints the lead from the
:20:25. > :20:32.penalty spot. They scored what proved to be the decisive goal 20
:20:33. > :20:40.minutes from the end. Always proud of our club. I am sure
:20:41. > :20:46.the directors were proud of their club. We have to go to Derby and put
:20:47. > :20:49.on that first half performance of two halves. Exeter City's dramatic
:20:50. > :20:52.slide down League Two continues following a 2`1 reverse at AFC
:20:53. > :20:55.Wimbledon. City actually led in South London after only four minutes
:20:56. > :20:59.through an own goal, but the Dons turned that round to send Exeter
:21:00. > :21:03.down to 16th and to their fifth defeat in six games.
:21:04. > :21:07.At Home Park, Plymouth Argyle had to thank Luke Young's late free`kick
:21:08. > :21:10.which earned them a point in a 1`1 draw with Cheltenham Town and the
:21:11. > :21:16.honeymoon is over for Torquay United's Chris Hargreaves. Oxford
:21:17. > :21:19.beat them by a single goal at the Kassam Stadium to ruin his second
:21:20. > :21:24.match as manager. They remain next`to`the`bottom of the table.
:21:25. > :21:26.Exeter Chiefs can still qualify for the semi`finals of rugby's
:21:27. > :21:31.Anglo`Welsh Cup after their 36`22 win over Ospreys at Sandy Park. They
:21:32. > :21:34.out`scored the Welsh side by five tries to four, including two from
:21:35. > :21:39.England under`20 hooker Luke Cowan`Dickie. If pool leaders Sale
:21:40. > :21:43.Sharks fail to pick up a bonus point win at Ospreys on Friday night, and
:21:44. > :21:48.the Chiefs manage to record one at Worcester the day after, they'll go
:21:49. > :21:52.through. The Cornish Pirates head coach Ian
:21:53. > :21:55.Davies has been promoted to Director of Rugby. Davies, who's 40, has
:21:56. > :21:59.developed the Pirates into a strong Championship team which is currently
:22:00. > :22:02.lying sixth in the table. Meanwhile, the Pirates have been drawn against
:22:03. > :22:06.Pontypridd at home in the quarterfinals of the British and
:22:07. > :22:10.Irish Cup. Plymouth Albion face a tough away tie at Leeds.
:22:11. > :22:12.Truro Golf Club's Sarah`Jane Boyd represents England this week in the
:22:13. > :22:16.Portuguese International Ladies' Amateur Championship. The
:22:17. > :22:20.22`year`old reigning English amateur champion also hopes to make her mark
:22:21. > :22:23.in the Nations' Cup, which is part of the event. It starts on Wednesday
:22:24. > :22:33.and goes through until Saturday. Now, an urgent plea's going out to
:22:34. > :22:42.the people of the South West tonight for...wait for it...metronomes! If
:22:43. > :22:46.you're musical you'll know what that is, but if not, it's a device
:22:47. > :22:49.musicians can use to keep their timing accurate. Well a group in
:22:50. > :22:52.Totnes needs 100 of them by Friday, where they won't be helping with the
:22:53. > :22:54.music but making it instead. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has the
:22:55. > :23:07.story. Practising for the pub. It might not
:23:08. > :23:11.sounds like pub music that this is a new thing. We are trying to make
:23:12. > :23:17.classical music happen in a place other than expensive concert halls.
:23:18. > :23:22.Not everyone can get there. Not everyone can afford it. We really
:23:23. > :23:26.think this music has a life outside of the concert hall. There is that
:23:27. > :23:37.implication that it is a little bit unbuttoned. This is how the night
:23:38. > :23:43.will start. The sound of just seven metronomes but on Friday night, they
:23:44. > :23:47.are hoping to have 100. Imagine sitting with your point and you set
:23:48. > :23:58.them off and listen to these crazy metronomes going. Is this musical? I
:23:59. > :24:04.think it is, yes. I am finding the way they are coming in and out of
:24:05. > :24:10.being in line with each other, the sound. At times it can sound like an
:24:11. > :24:13.army marching and then as if they are marching out of sync with each
:24:14. > :24:20.other. There they are coming back into sync with each other. There
:24:21. > :24:30.will be a whole range of music played. I don't know what to say
:24:31. > :24:31.about that. Time now for the weather forecast. There is a couple of
:24:32. > :24:42.weather warnings on the way. Good evening to you. We have more
:24:43. > :24:46.rain in the forecast, mainly in the form of some heavy showers. Every
:24:47. > :24:52.time the shower turns up, the rainfall adds up over the space of a
:24:53. > :24:58.day. It is showery this week and much colder and breezy. Late in the
:24:59. > :25:00.week, those wins will drop. For tonight and tomorrow, we still have
:25:01. > :25:05.weather warnings of further rain in the form of those heavy showers.
:25:06. > :25:10.They keep on coming and they won't die away overnight. They would be
:25:11. > :25:16.around for much of the day tomorrow. There is an area of low pressure and
:25:17. > :25:21.the main line of cloud is gradually moving southwards over the next 24
:25:22. > :25:24.hours. It will lie over us by the middle of the day tomorrow. We will
:25:25. > :25:34.see plenty of showers associated with that. We draw in easterly winds
:25:35. > :25:41.but there is colder air heading our way. You can see how these strands
:25:42. > :25:52.of rain have peppered the region. Our cameraman got the glimpse of
:25:53. > :25:55.that weather. Every now and then we did get some sunshine today. We will
:25:56. > :26:00.have a similar weather pattern tonight. We have clear skies and
:26:01. > :26:07.they will drop the temperatures later on tonight. We have some
:26:08. > :26:14.lovely glimpses of cloud on the back end of the day. We have one or two
:26:15. > :26:22.showers with us and one or two of them can be heavy. Overnight
:26:23. > :26:26.temperatures dipping to three Celsius. Probably not quite as cold
:26:27. > :26:33.as last night but still cold enough in a few places for a touch of
:26:34. > :26:36.frost. A windy day tomorrow. The showers are coming and going through
:26:37. > :26:42.to the afternoon. Becoming more isolated the further west you are.
:26:43. > :26:45.Temperatures around eight Celsius. With the wind chill, it will feel
:26:46. > :26:49.colder than that. For the Isles of Scilly, we will have showers in the
:26:50. > :26:53.morning but it will improve in the afternoon. It is a blustery day here
:26:54. > :27:30.along the rest of our coastline. Plenty of showers are dotted around
:27:31. > :27:36.and we have showers on Wednesday. Feeling colder on Thursday.
:27:37. > :27:46.That is it. Natalie will be back with the late news at 1020 5p.
:27:47. > :27:47.Goodbye. `` 10:25pm.