23/03/2014 Spotlight

Good evening. Hundreds of young That is it for now.

Good evening. Hundreds of young farmers from across the country have

been in Somerset this weekend, helping to rebuild farms and recover

land devastated by the floods. One couple, who've been farming in

Moorland for forty years, say they would have struggled to recover

without the support of the farming community. Here's Jules Hyam.

Instead of enjoying their farmstead home, the Hutchings are living in a

caravan. The view out across their farm is not what it once was. All of

this has to be cleared out, and those barn buildings back there will

have to be pulled down. It has really been awful ` worse

than awful. It took us a fortnight to realise we were in this world. It

was such a shock. Everything went. It will take months for Battens Farm

to recover ` weeks just to clear the land. But the Hutchings are being

helped by younger farmers. We're just really struggling at the

moment. As you can imagine, the cattle have been moved off. As you

can see, it's just utter devastation. We, as young farmers,

want to do our bit to help the rest of the farming community.

That has meant lifting, carrying and clearing this farm and dozens of

others like it. We came back here and thought how on

earth do we get started? Where do we get start? The young farmers have

been here now ` I think this is the third week. They are absolutely

brilliant. Police in Devon are hunting a man

who stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery from a shop in Honiton

after attacking a woman as she arrived for work. Hundreds of rings,

bracelets and necklaces were taken from Banwell Antiques at 9am

yesterday morning. Detectives say the woman was shaken but unhurt.

6,000 chickens have died in a blaze at a barn near Exeter. Firefighters

from across east Devon were called to Rosamondford Farm in Aylesbeare

this morning. Six gas cylinders had to be removed from the site.

Firefighters helped move cattle and other livestock to safety. It's

understood the blaze started accidentally.

One of Truro Cathedral's organists has been appointed as the new organ

scholar at St Paul's Cathedral. Rachel Mahon is making history `

she'll be the first female organist at St Paul's. Johnny Rutherford has

been to hear her play. Truro's pipes being given a proper

work`out. The music ` The Tocatta ` by a female Canadian composer,

played today by Truro's organ scholar who is from Toronto.

I knew I wanted to come to England to work in an English cathedral

because we don't have the same structure at home, where a cathedral

choir is singing every day. I accepted Truro's offer because they

have a famous organ, a world`renowned choir, and it is an

excellent place to work and gain experience.

But, in September, Rachel will be off to London to become the first

female organist at St Pauls Cathedral.

There is such a wide range of sounds you can make on the organ, from

very, very soft to extremely loud and powerful, filling an entire

building such as St Pauls. It's the experience of a lifetime.

So, what makes Rachel so good? She has a good connection between

her brain and her fingers, frankly. She also has a very steady

temperament under pressure, and when there are lots of people listening

to her she seems to perform extremely well.

Truro Cathedral has a strong tradition of scholars gaining top

organist positions, but Rachel is making history.

In today's rugby there were mixed fortunes for our sides. The Exeter

Chiefs were brought back down to earth with a bump following last

week's Anglo`Welsh Cup win. They were thrashed by 45 points to 15 by

reigning champions Leicester Tigers at Welford Road. The only highlights

were Ian Whitten's fourth try in four Premiership games and a first

half score for hooker Jack Yendell. While in the Championship, the

Pirates saw off Nottingham 17`11 at the Mennaye.

And, finally, hundreds of fundraising runners took part in

this year's Sport Relief event at the University of St Mark and St

John in Plymouth today. Nat and Fitz were there cheering them on. Young

and old, those taking part pounded a course of either one, three or six

miles. It was cold and it was windy but it was all for a great cause.

Good evening. It turned into a really nice day today ` fewer

showers around, some good spells of sunshine, but under clear skies the

temperatures are already taking a tumble. A very cold night to come,

and a sharp frost for some of us tomorrow morning. You can see those

clear skies persisting in the East as we go through the night, but by

the morning we've got cloud advancing towards the tip of

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Temperatures here not quite as cold,

but one or two Celsius at the coast. Towards the East, it will be colder

than that inland. As we start tomorrow morning, we'll have

sunshine just hanging on in the east towards the West, so that cloud and

rain is moving across us. Temperatures at best nine or ten.

Where the cloud comes in quite quickly, it could be colder than

that through the day tomorrow. We do have some rain around through this

week, and as you can see an easterly wind developing by the end.

Goodbye. Hello. Following today's showers,

tonight is going to be much colder. Clear skies, light winds, a recipe

for a widespread frost. Sharp showers for the next couple of

hours. From East Yorkshire to the south-east. Hail and thunder. Skies

will clear across many areas. Temperatures tumbling across rural

parts it could be as low as minus six. Not as cold across Northern

Ireland and the far south-west. Increasing cloud ahead of the

weather front pushing rain very slowly in from the Atlantic. Central

and eastern areas staying dry and