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colder. It could be short lived. That is all from the BBC's

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Was the death of this woman in a landslip in Cornwall preventable?

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Good evening. Welcome to Spotlight. Official inquiries into the tragedy

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last year are still ongoing but family members have delivered their

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own verdict. I feel I have been robbed. No one

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will With questions remaining over whether local authorities headed

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warnings ` we'll have a special report. Ever know her.

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The family of a woman who died when her home collapsed in a landslip say

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it shouldn't have happened. A call for rat poison to be banned

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because of the effect it is having on barn owls and kestrels. The

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family of a woman who died when her home collapsed in a landslip say it

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shouldn't have happened. Susan Norman's death following heavy rain

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last year shocked the community of Looe and led to months of

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disruption. Her relatives say more could have been done to protect the

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68`year`old although formal investigations are still to report.

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The family's been speaking to the BBC's Inside Out South West

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programme. This is where Susan's home once stood. Work started eight

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months after the landslip. It is annoying to know that her

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possessions are buried there. They are wasting away and Matt would

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really upset my mum. Susan died when she was trapped by an landslip

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behind her home. Residents here say they have repeatedly warned Cornwall

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Council that the slope wasn't safe. They told the council that water

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wasn't draining away properly and it was instead saturating the slope

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making it unstable. They say the council wasn't doing enough to stop

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this happening? ``. I feel I have been robbed and my children have

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been robbed of ever knowing her. Also knowing what a wonderful person

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she was. Kind and caring and it shouldn't have happened. I am

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fuming. They say their grief has been made worse by a lack of contact

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from the council. I have never had a call from anyone senior at the

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council. Never had an offer of support, a phone call, a letter. The

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way they have dealt with this is very insensitive. Cornwall Council

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said the would be inappropriate to comment.

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Some of Susan's belongings have been retrieved and with the investigation

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still in progress, there wait for answers goes on.

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Well with a prolonged period of wet weather this year, landslips

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continue to be a danger. Lots of water in the ground adds to the risk

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as some communities are discovering. Just before New Year high tides and

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heavy rain combined to cause a major slip in Calstock, cutting off homes

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from a road through the village. There have also been problems along

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the coastline, forcing the closure of footpaths. And a fresh landslip

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today in Mevagissey, following the poor conditons at the weekend. From

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there, Spotlight's David George reports.

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Tonnes of rubble along with trees, a hedge and offence crashed onto the

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kitchen roof below before first light this morning. Ten metres of

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the private access road has fallen away. In the kitchen, Bell Smith was

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making breakfast. I heard a bit of thunder. My son shouted down from

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upstairs, have you seen what is going on? I looked out of the window

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and could see the tree. We realised how bad it was. Explain to us how

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bad it is. Behind that wall is a one story kitchen and it is all down on

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the kitchen roof blocking the back door. Mike's front gate is feet from

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the edge. It is a bit worrying if it progresses. The sewer is in line

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with it and the water mains. The house is now far behind it. What

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remains is just a few feet wide. Aren't I the lucky one? I will try

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and get my road tax back. As the lane is privately owned, the council

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say they are not responsible for repairs which could cost many

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thousands of pounds. David is there for us tonight.

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David, what's the latest? Luckily nothing more has fallen down today

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and Cornwall Council's contractors have put up some safety fencing at

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the top there as they promised they would. It is going to be between the

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insurers of the house here and the insurers of the lane to pick up the

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bill which could be a great deal of money to fix this. It could take

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quite some time. We heard about the closure of a footpath of a

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Dorset/Desmond `` Devon border. That happened just before the weekend. It

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will be closed for the foreseeable future Devon county council asked

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telling us. I asked the man with the BMW if the Royal Marines could help?

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He didn't think a landing craft could be good but one of their to

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nuke helicopters could be just the job. And you can see more on Sam

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Smith's report on the Looe landslip in full on Inside Out South West on

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BBC One tonight at 7.30pm. It's been dragging on for weeks but

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there are promises tonight things are being done to help. 65 square

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kilometres of the Somerset levels are currently inundated with ?65

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million cubic metres of floodwater ` that's an area roughly the size of

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Plymouth. 30 to 40 properties are flooded with a further 170 cut off.

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The situation is impacting on individuals, farms and businesses.

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Now the Environment Minister has promised that action will be taken

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within six weeks. But local people say they will believe it when they

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see it, as Spotlight's Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers

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reports. What is our Environment Minister doing? They were preparing

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for the Environment Secretary early this morning. What reception are you

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expecting? If you didn't know before, the roadside placards were a

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clue. Why was this not done ages ago? Ignore the people. When he

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arrived, he had been left in no doubt about the strength of the

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anger here. We were flooded last year, where was he at the end of the

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day? What happens then? A year on, we off`loaded yet again. This is

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where the minister had come to see the scale of the flooding. Just one

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of the pumping stations operating day and night to clear water from 65

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square miles of flooded farmland. Three weeks on, the water is still

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hardly receding. In fact last week more houses succumbed to the water.

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The victims were keen to know whether the Secretary of State has

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come then answer, preferably money to help them. A week ago I was in a

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house with a grown man who cried in front of me because his house was

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under a foot of water. Do you think anything will reassure him you will

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do something fast? I have said I appreciate how shocking it is. Are

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you going to do anything fast? I have asked partners to give me a

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concrete plan which will provide satisfaction over the next 20 years.

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It may involve dredging the two rivers but it will involve long`term

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plans to hold water back long`term. A terrifying prospect. That's a

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former GP's view of controversial plans to put all of our medical

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records on to a massive national database. The NHS says it will use

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the information to improve patient care and save lives. But a growing

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number of critics in the South West say it's an invasion of privacy.

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Hospital notes have been used for research and planning for years and

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most of the records our GP's hold can only be passed without

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permission. Within months, they will be sending our information to an NHS

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database used to plan and target services and check the effectiveness

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of treatment. Other organisations can ask for access to the data in an

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anonymous form the research. You talk to your doctor and nurse and

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give your medical information so they can provide better care for

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you. We are extending their principal and providing better care

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for the population so we are sharing the data but only on that basis. It

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doesn't provide better care. Every household will get a leaflet

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outlining the benefits of sharing medical information. Some are not

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convinced. Flo Davis says the plan undermines the principle of medical

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confidentiality. Once this information has been taken, there is

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no way it can ever be deleted. That is quite a terrifying prospect. This

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is data folder. It is not ethical and against the basic principles of

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medical ethics. The Royal College of General practitioners... Four in ten

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GPs will opt out and refused to allow their patient records to be

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handed over. There is a range of views among family doctors in the

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south`west. It has some great benefits stop the general practice

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record in the UK which has been going in a computerised sense, is

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the most complete in the world. It is a mine of information of data

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that can be used for research `` that can be used for research

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purposes. We don't know exactly who will be able to access the

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information and we don't know whether some of it will be fully

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harmonised. Will you be able to identify patients by the

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information? The NHS says the risk to our privacy is very small but the

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gains in better care and save lives `` safe lives is in doubt. We would

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like to hear what you think about that. Please do get in touch with

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us. A Devon based charity is calling for

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a ban on the strongest forms of rat poison because it says they are

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threatening the future of barn owls and kestrels. Tests have found that

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more than eight out of ten owls have rat poison in their system. It comes

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when they feed on dying or dead rats. Some viewers may find some

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images in Hamish Marshall's report distressing.

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The plan was to get rid of rats but this owl has been the latest victim

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of poison. It fed on a rat which had been baited and now it has lost its

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life. There blood gets thinner and thinner until they have a

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haemorrhage and bleed. They bleed through their beak or their bottom

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end. They are sick for a long period leading up to their death. 30 years

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ago, 5% of owls had a rat poison in their system and now it is more than

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80%. They want dating to prevent rats moving to an area band. For

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poisons to be used as a last resort and for better labelling of poison

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to make people realise it isn't just rats who will be affected. Rats take

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a long time today after eating the bait. Some of them are caught by

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birds of prey and some of them die as a result. The poisons are eaten

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by wood mice and smaller mammals and some of those are eaten by

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predators. There is two roots of contamination. Darren Smith is

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dealing with a growing number of rats. The heavy rain has flushed

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many of them off. He says you need to cut off their food supply and

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find out where they are living. It is very hard to trap and adult rat.

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If you put a snap trap down, they are unlikely to go into that. Dead

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rats should be buried 18 inches underground to stop passing ``

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poison harming other creatures. South West`based airline Flybe says

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it will start a new route from Newquay airport which was previously

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run by Easyjet. Flybe says the flights from Cornwall to Southend

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will operate three times a week from May to September. The airline

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already flies from Newquay to Gatwick but says that will stop if

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the government doesn't agree to subsidise it.

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New figures show the south west coast path generates millions of

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pounds towards the local economy. In 2012, 630 miles of the region's

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coastline brought in ?436 million. You can find out more about that in

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BBC Radio Devon's breakfast programme tomorrow from 6.30.

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For the first time since 1986, a new leader of thousands of Catholics

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across the South West will be ordained at Plymouth Cathedral.

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Tomorrow's ceremony in which Mark O'Toole will officially succeed

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Christopher Budd after nearly 30 years will be attended by the past

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and present heads of the catholic church in England and Wales.

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Plymouth may help the cathedral but tomorrow this man would lead to

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Catholics not only in Devon but in Cornwall, Dorset and the Isles of

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Scilly also. The cathedral for Catholics is the heart of the life

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of faith. The place where I will be celebrating a lot of the services of

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the community. As preparations are made, I asked Mark about the days

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after the ceremony when the work to appeal to people who have moved away

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from the church begins. We have been bolstered by the migrant communities

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and the Philippines. We want to reach out to those who were once

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Catholic and now the message no longer resonates. We have to meet

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people where they are. That is one of the things that Pope Francis

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talks about. We have to be willing to take risks. How are you going to

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get in amongst people? One is a thing called night Fever which I

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have seen work in other cities. You simply open the church on a Friday

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night and you go out onto the streets and invite anybody who might

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be going out for the night. Will you do that in Plymouth? They are

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invited to come in and light a candle and think about people who

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are important in their lives. These are the new people the Bishop is

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wanting to reach out to. Once you grow up, you stop. I don't go

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preaching the Bible to everyone, I have just read it. Did you ever go

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to church? I did, yes. Why not now? Time.

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Around 100 families have been welcoming home the crew of HMS

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Talent which has returned to its home base of Devonport. The nuclear

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submarine has been on deployment in the Mediterranean and the Gulf for

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the last five months. Spotlight's John Ayres was there to see her

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homecoming. The families lined the quayside to give their loved ones a

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warm welcome. The Plymouth weather wasn't that welcoming. Many of them

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had to take shelter in a dockyard cafe as they waited. When the crew

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were able to come to shore, it was that special moment. I wanted to

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come back for Christmas but I couldn't. Hopefully I will get time

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at home now. How do you feel? It is great. Glad to have him home with

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us. Long periods under the sea coupled with the military

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sensitivities around their work means they can often go sometime

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without being able to communicate with friends and family. We get

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e`mails once a week maybe but it depends where we are at and what we

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are doing. It can be understand that they understand. That lack of

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day`to`day communication can be tough and for the younger sailors,

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back home they are used to constant contact. They have to commit a lot

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to the Royal Navy. Their families commit and we couldn't do their job

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without them. Our families play a vital part in this. For now, this

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areas are having that special time with their families. To the sport

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now and Yeovil Town's 2`0 FA Cup exit at Premier League Southampton

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was maybe a little harsh, but now they have to concentrate solely on

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staying in the Championship, starting at Derby County tomorrow

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night. They gave away a needless penalty when Jamie McAllister

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handled unnecessarily from a corner to give the Saints the lead from the

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penalty spot. They scored what proved to be the decisive goal 20

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minutes from the end. Always proud of our club. I am sure

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the directors were proud of their club. We have to go to Derby and put

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on that first half performance of two halves. Exeter City's dramatic

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slide down League Two continues following a 2`1 reverse at AFC

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Wimbledon. City actually led in South London after only four minutes

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through an own goal, but the Dons turned that round to send Exeter

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down to 16th and to their fifth defeat in six games.

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At Home Park, Plymouth Argyle had to thank Luke Young's late free`kick

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which earned them a point in a 1`1 draw with Cheltenham Town and the

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honeymoon is over for Torquay United's Chris Hargreaves. Oxford

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beat them by a single goal at the Kassam Stadium to ruin his second

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match as manager. They remain next`to`the`bottom of the table.

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Exeter Chiefs can still qualify for the semi`finals of rugby's

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Anglo`Welsh Cup after their 36`22 win over Ospreys at Sandy Park. They

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out`scored the Welsh side by five tries to four, including two from

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England under`20 hooker Luke Cowan`Dickie. If pool leaders Sale

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Sharks fail to pick up a bonus point win at Ospreys on Friday night, and

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the Chiefs manage to record one at Worcester the day after, they'll go

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through. The Cornish Pirates head coach Ian

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Davies has been promoted to Director of Rugby. Davies, who's 40, has

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developed the Pirates into a strong Championship team which is currently

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lying sixth in the table. Meanwhile, the Pirates have been drawn against

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Pontypridd at home in the quarterfinals of the British and

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Irish Cup. Plymouth Albion face a tough away tie at Leeds.

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Truro Golf Club's Sarah`Jane Boyd represents England this week in the

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Portuguese International Ladies' Amateur Championship. The

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22`year`old reigning English amateur champion also hopes to make her mark

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in the Nations' Cup, which is part of the event. It starts on Wednesday

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and goes through until Saturday. Now, an urgent plea's going out to

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the people of the South West tonight for...wait for it...metronomes! If

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you're musical you'll know what that is, but if not, it's a device

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musicians can use to keep their timing accurate. Well a group in

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Totnes needs 100 of them by Friday, where they won't be helping with the

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music but making it instead. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has the

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story. Practising for the pub. It might not

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sounds like pub music that this is a new thing. We are trying to make

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classical music happen in a place other than expensive concert halls.

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Not everyone can get there. Not everyone can afford it. We really

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think this music has a life outside of the concert hall. There is that

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implication that it is a little bit unbuttoned. This is how the night

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will start. The sound of just seven metronomes but on Friday night, they

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are hoping to have 100. Imagine sitting with your point and you set

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them off and listen to these crazy metronomes going. Is this musical? I

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think it is, yes. I am finding the way they are coming in and out of

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being in line with each other, the sound. At times it can sound like an

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army marching and then as if they are marching out of sync with each

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other. There they are coming back into sync with each other. There

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will be a whole range of music played. I don't know what to say

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about that. Time now for the weather forecast. There is a couple of

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weather warnings on the way. Good evening to you. We have more

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rain in the forecast, mainly in the form of some heavy showers. Every

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time the shower turns up, the rainfall adds up over the space of a

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day. It is showery this week and much colder and breezy. Late in the

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week, those wins will drop. For tonight and tomorrow, we still have

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weather warnings of further rain in the form of those heavy showers.

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They keep on coming and they won't die away overnight. They would be

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around for much of the day tomorrow. There is an area of low pressure and

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the main line of cloud is gradually moving southwards over the next 24

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hours. It will lie over us by the middle of the day tomorrow. We will

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see plenty of showers associated with that. We draw in easterly winds

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but there is colder air heading our way. You can see how these strands

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of rain have peppered the region. Our cameraman got the glimpse of

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that weather. Every now and then we did get some sunshine today. We will

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have a similar weather pattern tonight. We have clear skies and

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they will drop the temperatures later on tonight. We have some

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lovely glimpses of cloud on the back end of the day. We have one or two

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showers with us and one or two of them can be heavy. Overnight

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temperatures dipping to three Celsius. Probably not quite as cold

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as last night but still cold enough in a few places for a touch of

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frost. A windy day tomorrow. The showers are coming and going through

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to the afternoon. Becoming more isolated the further west you are.

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Temperatures around eight Celsius. With the wind chill, it will feel

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colder than that. For the Isles of Scilly, we will have showers in the

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morning but it will improve in the afternoon. It is a blustery day here

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along the rest of our coastline. Plenty of showers are dotted around

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and we have showers on Wednesday. Feeling colder on Thursday.

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That is it. Natalie will be back with the late news at 1020 5p.

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Goodbye. `` 10:25pm.

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