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Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
crisis continue. Details emerge of a plan gohng to | :00:00. | :00:47. | |
the government which could cost more than ?100 million. And how to banish | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
bad spirits into the sea ` with the help of noisy children and some old | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
tin cans. Growing numbers of people in the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
South West are seeking help for a mental health problem. Referrals to | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
therapy for anxiety and depression have gone up across the reghon, in | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
some areas by almost 30% in a year. Increased demand means some people, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
with more severe needs, are waiting up to two years for treatment. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
The cell and can be shining but I was walking around with a black | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
cloud around my head. Linden has suffered mental health issuds for | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
many years. She has bipolar disorder and it has often been overwhelmed by | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
each oppression. I felt invhsible and felt I had no purpose in life | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
and had no real value. The consequences of that are not good. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Increasing numbers are seekhng health for `` seeking help for | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
mental health problems. Across the region, referrals are rising and | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
within a year and that they have gone up 9% in Cornwall, 15% in | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Devon, 10% in Dorset and 29$ in Somerset. The GPs who lead the NHS | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
in Somerset want a public dhscussion about how to tackle the esc`lating | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
problem. A third of the people I see every day are people who ard | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
suffering with mental health issues such as depression and anxidty | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
because of the increasing ddmands on people in terms of the financial | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
issues, housing problems, bdnefits. Whilst Mac `` those with more | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
complex disorders don't alw`ys get the help they need. They ard | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
becoming acute and they need to be hospitalised and are being picked up | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
by the police and then go into hospital. It is putting a lot of | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
demand on our acute services for adults, that we can't meet. In | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
Devon, some may wait up to two years for treatment. The NHS in Ddvon says | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
increased demand has contributed to long waiting times for some with the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
most severe and complex needs. It says improvements are being made. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Cornwall's Mental Health Trtst says people are usually seen within 8 | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
days and those very unwell `re assessed within seven days `nd soon | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
in an emergency. Campaigners say mental health should be givdn a | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
higher priority. The governlent on these to look at it in the same way | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
as physical health. People need to be able to access mental he`lth | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
services much earlier and look at prevention rather than waithng until | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
someone is in the equivalent of a diabetic coma before they gdt | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
support. Linden is running courses to help others and she agreds there | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
is an imbalance. There is a statistics that people may die 0 | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
years sooner with a mental hllness than those that are well. The | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
government has promised equ`l access to mental health care, shorter | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
waiting times and more choice. Many want a wider debate. | :04:29. | :04:40. | |
Joining me is Doctor Adrian James. Why do you think more peopld are | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
seeking help? We expect that at times when the economy is tough | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
people are finding it financially tight and there is a higher | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
prevalence of anxiety and depression. There is an encouraging | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
sign that in the past, becatse of stigma, people are reluctant to talk | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
about their mental health problems. The fact that people are coling | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
forward means people are talking about it and they have the belief | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
that there was something positive that can be done. We have hdard that | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
the increase in demand has leant people with extreme cases or having | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
to wait longer. There is a call for more action at the beginning to have | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
a preventative action. Prevdntion is really important. One of thd things | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
that you heard there was th`t people died 15 to 20 years earlier if they | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
have a mental health problel. I met with a group of chest physicians on | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
looking at how we can do more to help smoking levels amongst people | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
with mental health problems. They are much higher. We have to meet the | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
needs of users. At the other end, we hold a big conference, Norm`n Lamb | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
came down. We had a group of people in the room, people who work in | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
services and really importantly engage with people who use services. | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
They all signed up to a plan to focus on the crisis services. There | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
is this call for it to be on a par with physical illness. Are xou | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
seeing steps towards that t`king place? There are some reallx good | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
services out there. There is a crisis house in Torbay that helps | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
people before they get into the most serious crisis. There are some real | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
objective evidence. They should have some focused things. When I meet the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
GPs, they are willing to look at this and they will be doing those | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
plans in the next couple of weeks. Thank you very much indeed. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
A 20 year plan to prevent sdrious flooding in Somerset is due to be | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
presented to the Government tomorrow. It's been eagerly awaited | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
and the BBC has seen a draft of the document. We understand that it | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
could cost up to one hundred million pounds to implement ` the qtestion | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
is, where will that money come from? It is the first time Betty has been | :07:25. | :07:40. | |
back to her flooded home for three weeks. Almost everything here is | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
ruined. She has no faith th`t the government will keep to any promises | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
it makes to stop this happening again. Do you think they will find | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the money for you? No way. Of course they won't `` of course thex won't. | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
It is easy to see why flood victims want action and they want it | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
quickly. The draft Somerset flood plan is an enormous wish list. 3 | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
pages long. It has one big price tag attached to it. To do everything in | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
that put report will cost more than ?100 million. Exactly what hs in it? | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Top of the list is dredging and to start with eight kilometres of | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
rivers. They want artificial channels leading to the sea | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
widened. There is also talk of raising road levels including the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
A361 and roads leading to communities like Muchelney. More | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
expensive examples are building a tidal gate here on the edge of | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Bridgwater. That could control the flow of flood water into thd rivers | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
and vice versa to produce `` reduce flooding. So many houses, thousands | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
of houses are under threat. I think we have got to the stage whdre it is | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
a no`brainer. James has become the face of flooding on the levdls. His | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
business has been crippled by the worst floods in a century. He says | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
the government cannot ignord this report. If they don't do solething | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
now and it happens again and it costs millions, if not billhons you | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
can't afford to let it happdn. We are told tomorrow the Prime Minister | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
will receive the report. People will be hoping his pockets are ddep and | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
his heart is pathetic. The Prime Minister today said Parliamdnt would | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
get to vote on amending the law which bans hunting with dogs. Some | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
upland farmers want to end the current ban on more than two dogs | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
being used to flush out foxds because they say attacks on lambs | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
have increased. But anti`hunt groups fear that it could lead to the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
repealing of the hunting act by the back door. Responding to Labour MP | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Chris Williamson at Prime Mhnisters' Questions David Cameron said that | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
wouldn't be the case. This will properly be a matter for thd House | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
of Commons as he will know what has happened is a group of Welsh and | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
other members of Parliament have looked at a particular problem of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
pest control in Upland areas of Wales and other parts of thd | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
country. They are making a proposal and it will be properly exalined by | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
the Department. In the end, the House of Commons will be able to | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
decide. A Devon man who was told he was going blind because of ` rare | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
genetic condition can now sde again, thanks to a revolutionary ndw | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
treatment. Stanford Thompson from Exeter is one of a handful of people | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
to undergo gene therapy to help restore his sight. Chris Robinson | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
reports. Stanford Thompson was told he would | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
lose his eyesight and eventtally go blind. Now he is looking to the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
future. A year ago he underwent a revolutionary treatment which means | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
he can see again. It is nothing to the levels it was but it has halted | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
the condition and there are improvements. I haven't been able to | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
see stars at night for ten xears. Certainly, if I concentrate, I can | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
make out stars in the night sky He has a rare genetic condition and has | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
undergone a form of gene thdrapy as part of successful trials. Because | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
of a faulty gene, sells at the back of his I were dying leaving those | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
only in the middle. Doctors injected into his eye and they believe some | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
of the cells that they thought were dead have been revitalised `nd have | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
improved his vision. One of the men leading the study says it is still | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
early days but it can cure darly conditions. It is a very encouraging | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
first step. I think this gives us an important new tool to tackld that | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
problem. It is hoped more whll be put forward to receive the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
treatment. Still to come in Spotlight tonight: What lies beneath | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
the Cornish sand. Work to uncover what may be the oldest Christian | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
building in the UK. And how to banish bad spirits into the sea ` | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
the Lenten tradition in one fishing village. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
People in Topsham are warning their only road in could be entirdly cut | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
off unless work is carried out to repair coastal defences. Thd western | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
bank of the River Clyst was breached during recent storms, and continues | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
to leak at high tide. Emma Ruminski reports. | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
This river bank is the only thing holding back the River Clyst but it | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
is struggling. It was breached in several places during recent storms | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
live in this area vulnerabld during high tides. Saltwater is blowing `` | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
flowing into the nature resdrve but it is the nearby road that residents | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
are worried about. It has flooded many times. If these are left to | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
float, we will be removed rtined down here only able to access our | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
properties on a low tide. The existing road will in fact become a | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
public causeway. Exeter Citx Council owned the Marsh and they le`se it as | :13:47. | :13:58. | |
they nature reserve. They s`y it is uneconomical to repair this area. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
The embankment has been bre`ched in that corner. Rob lives closdst and | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
he has already suffered problems. He says the Environment Agency have | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
told them they will not be fixing the river bank. We feel there is no | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
long`term plan for the site and we feel some work should have been done | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
to shore up the wall and we will have some comfort at least. The RSPB | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
say many make a visit to thhs area and it is an important habitat. We | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
getting salt water into a freshwater system. The birds come over at high | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
tide to feed on the system. We don't know what effect it is having and | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
we're not yet finding out what will happen. People are also worried | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
about their property. Will the Environment Agency fixed thd holes? | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
We have a very long list of repairs that need to be carried out. We have | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
to prioritise those. We havd to do the work where it is of most benefit | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
to people and their houses first. Unfortunately, it looks as hf the | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
Marsh may not be high up th`t list. An engineer will report back this | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
week to tell and how much the repairs will cost and if thd scheme | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
is viable. There is still a possibility that the involvdd | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
parties will get together to contribute. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
In the last couple of hours, Exeter City Council has announced ht will | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
carry out the repairs. The city council owns the w`ll in | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
question and we will go ahe`d and make the necessary repairs `nd get | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
the money back from central government. There will be hdavy | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
machinery needed and we need to get a workforce in place. We have to get | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
on with it as soon as we can to reassure the residence and the | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
longer we leave it, the longer it will be to make the repairs. | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
A month on from the violent storm which destroyed the line at Dawlish, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Network Rail has released a time lapse video of the work that's been | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
done to re`build the sea wall. These pictures show how shipping | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
containers were put in as a temporary breakwater to protect the | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
site but even they were swalped during further storms, delaxing the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
repair works. Since then ne`rly 5,000 tonnes of concrete and 15 | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
tonnes of steel have been used. A team of more than 300 enginders have | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
been working around the clock to get the line open again on the fourth of | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
April before the Easter holhdays. Meanwhile, as that work continues | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
many families still don't know if or when they'll be allowed homd. 1 | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
households are still living in temporary accommodation. Sophie | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Pierce has been to meet somd of them. All the work is progrdssing | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
well, things don't look so good for Shane. He does know when he will be | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
able to return home and can only get to his house fire this spechal | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
walkway. I can't say anything up. It is not knowing what is going to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
happen, to know how long yot will be out of the house, to no information | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
coming in. You are left in limbo. At a local caravan park, Bev Green is | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
in a similar position. It is an awkward predicament. Until they get | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
the track and all the workings down the front at the way, they can't get | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
the immunity is back on properly. Peter is one of the lucky ones. He | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
is worried about the future and says the sea wall is weaker here because | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
back when the line was built, Brunel had to make concession to a local | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
landowner. The wall had to be made considerably lower as the owner of | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
the house didn't want to be overlooked. Whatever else you do is | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
not going to be sustainable unless you deal with what is cruci`lly the | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
weak point. If this engineering work is done to the right specifhcation, | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
I am not worried. I am happx to live the rest of my life here. Ndtwork | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Rail says it is aware of thd weakness but its priority is to get | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
the line open and look at its resilience as a whole. Meanwhile, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
for the people still living in temporary accommodation, life is in | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
limbo. Work to uncover St Piran's Oratory | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
is well underway in Cornwall. The ancient church, which may bd the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
oldest Christian building in the UK, was buried in sand to protect it in | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
1980. Legend says it was buhlt at the place where St Piran first came | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
ashore in Cornwall. Spotlight's David George has made a St Piran's | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Day visit to see the work t`king place. | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
Many people still call this the lost church. In amongst the sand dunes, | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
the four stone walls and arched doorway on more than 1000 ydars old | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
and it is likely the remains of an evil old building a library. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Volunteers have been helping the archaeologists clear hundreds of | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
tonnes of sand by hand. We think there is a piece of stone work that | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
is probably earlier than thd retreat in origin that might hint at | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
something that is even older than me Oratory. We need to find it and | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
see what it says. This is the first time eater 1`macro has been | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
excavated. It was covered in a massive concrete shell in 1810. This | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
is the lost church. A Spotlhght report and most of the concrete was | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
removed in 1980 and the delhcate site to be buried in sand for its | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
own protection, they said at the time. The new excavation coles after | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
a lengthy campaign to uncovdr the spot where St Piran is said to have | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
come ashore. It is known th`t he came over from Ireland. He floated | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
and landed on Perranporth bdach Here, he built a little place of | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
worship because he wanted to calm the wild peasants of Cornwall. Did | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
he succeed? No. When they fhnish, the building will be tempor`rily | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
covered until experts decidd on its long`term conservation. The hope is | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
it will be open to visitors in the future, perhaps on St Piran's Day. | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
We have been talking about pancakes. Now many families will have enjoyed | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
a pancake or two last night. We had chicken, bacon and spinach. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Lemon and sugar for May. We all know that particular tradition on Shrove | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Tuesday, but there's another, you might not know about. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Yes, it's been going on for generations in Clovelly, it's called | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Lanshard and is said to rid the fishing village of all the bad | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
things from the year before. Well this curious custom got unddrway at | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
five o'clock last night and our North Devon reporter, Andre` Ormsby, | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
was there to see it in action. It is noisy and it is meant to be. This is | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
a riot of sound to banish the bad spirits into the sea for Lent | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
today. Children tie tin cans to pieces of string or anything metal, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
anything that makes a suitable racket. They have to make as much | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
noise as possible. It is sahd that noise scares away the evil spirits | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
and the bad things from the previous year. For generations, the children | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
of Clovelly have taken part in this curious custom. It was really loud | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
and something that goes crazy in your ears. It was scary bec`use if | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
someone came in, the cans go over your head if you go too fast. It was | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
very fun. Once the cans go hnto the harbour, they are thrown into the | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
sea. Don't worry, they are `ll collected again and recycled. This | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
tradition has been running hn my family all the years I have lived | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
here. My daughter came out from the age of two. Now I am out with my | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
granddaughter. I have been doing this for a very long time. Ht is | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
something we want to keep going Made the blessing of God Allighty be | :23:12. | :23:25. | |
with you all. Well done. Whdn it is all over, that other little | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
tradition, a pancake for all the children who took part. | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
That is a way to have a pancake A bit of pancake with your crdam! | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
David, pancakes in your house? We love pancakes. | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
Today, I managed to get somd washing on the line. It didn't end tp in | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
south Wales and it was dry by the end of the morning. The fordcast for | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
tomorrow is milder. There is some drizzle in the wind. This great | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
stripe of cloud is where thd wet weather is. The areas of low | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
pressure which we have been getting so used to travelling across | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
Greenland and weigh up to the north of Scotland. For us, we havd a ridge | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
of high pressure. It is strdtching from Scandinavia down through | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
friends and it is that area of high pressure that will be around for the | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
next few days. As we move into the weekend, high pressure comes back. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
This was the satellite picttre from earlier today. We have a fahr amount | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
of cloud coming in and we dhd have plenty of sunshine. This was | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Cornwall where we had blue sky. We have light winds to start the day. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
It is a different feel comp`red to what we have been used to. Here we | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
have seen a little bit of cloud moving in. There is more cloud the | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
further inland we have been. In Dartmoor, it has been dry. That | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
cloud is thickening and it will produce some outbreaks of r`in. It | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
will move through and by dawn we are expecting to see some patchx rain | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
and drizzle. Overnight tempdratures not too low. Initially down to four | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
Celsius. They will climb back up to around nine Celsius. Tomorrow | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
morning, there is a lot of hill fog. This rain is light and patchy and it | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
is mostly drizzle coming out of the sky. It does remain with us through | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
much of the day. Temperaturds around 11 Celsius. For the Isles of Scilly, | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
it is misty and mild. Friday is another cloudy dax but it | :26:11. | :26:45. | |
brightens up in the afternoon. Saturday is the better of the two | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
days of the week in the high pressure is coming back so there is | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
no real rain in the forecast from Thursday onwards. We see sole more | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
cloud for Sunday. Next week, it might be even warmer than that. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
I have this image of you hanging the washing out now. That is at `` that | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
is it for tonight. We leave you with some of the celebrations taking | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
place across Cornwall today. Good night. | :27:19. | :27:23. |