01/03/2014 Spotlight

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Good afternoon. Police have closed a road in Bovey

Tracey after an articulated lorry smashed into a house and a number of

parked cars during the earlx hours of this morning. The accident

happened in Old Newton Road just before 3.30 this morning. P`ramedics

treated the driver. Police officers are now trying to find out dxactly

what happened. Residents sax it s a miracle nobody was badly injured.

This is worse than I first anticipated but fortunately nobody

was hurt. Even the driver of the truck only injured his thumb, so we

all got off rather likely, considering the extent of the

damage. `` rather lightly. A storm hit Devon hamlet has accused

the authorities of frantic buck passing over damage caused by the

winter storms. People in thd village of Hallsands in South Devon have

formed an action group to protest over what they are calling ` second

betrayal of the villagers. Johnny Rutherford reports.

In 1917 the huge storm destroyed the village of Hallsands and allost 100

years on and storms have dalaged the hamlet of North Hallsands. Hf you

like we have been left to otr own devices. It happened 100 ye`rs ago.

Now we feel we have left to see again. We not asking for miracles

but we are asking for someone to come down and meet with us look the

damage. This fisherman's falily stretches back five generathons at

Hallsands and he says after the old village was destroyed in 1907 the

felt betrayed by the governlent They formed an action group which

transfer no second betrayal. You can see where the old village w`s and

now we will be washed out of business on the speech here. The

local council are not helping us. We need positive action, who is doing

what, get on with it. The Environment Agency have a policy of

no active intervention unlike a village down the road where they are

actively holding the line on the coast. The issue is about the road

and the legal issues I hope I being resolved very soon. Residents say

they need the authorities to stop passing the buck and get thd

villagers some help. Exeter Chiefs are keen to rdturn to

winning habits in rugby's Premiership when London Irish visit

Sandy Park today. Meanwhile, Plymouth Albion last night beat

Nottingham 22`12 at the Brickfields in the Championship.

The Cornish Pirates have agreed new contracts with nine of their players

ahead of tomorrow's home test against Jersey. Among them `re wing

Kieran Goss and popular flanker Chris Morgan, who's been offered a

two year extension to his present deal.

Onto the weather now and here's Holly. Good afternoon. Some of us

saw some beautiful blue skids this morning, but no cloud is beginning

up. That will continue to ptsh on from the West through this `fternoon

and could bring a few showers. Lots of sunny spells around, top

temperatures of nine degrees. This evening, the cloud will continue to

think in bringing some rain through the night. `` continue to thicken.

Lows of around six or nine degrees. It is a cloudy start tomorrow, some

patchy rain in the morning which turns heavier during the afternoon

before heavy showers and co`stal deals are expected. Next wedk, a

mixture of sunny spells and rain or showers.

That's it for now. We'll be back at 6pm. Have a great afternoon.

Hello there. The first day of March, and quite a wintry chill to

the first thing, but conditions have improved a lot, a lot of sunshine

have there, so the daffodils you can see behind me, a good sunny Saint

David's day across Wales. We will hold onto the sunshine for many

places. A fly in the ointment is showers across western areas,

developing through the afternoon. Across the south-east, particularly

East Anglia, a great start, that area of low pressure continuing to

push out into the North Sea. Quite a deal to be a generally, temperatures

slowly