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in advance of the general election. That is all | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Modern`day slavery, tonight, dramatic accounts from victims who | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
feared for their lives. Good evening, welcome to Spotlight. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
New measures to tackle slavery aannounced in the Queen's Speech. We | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
will hear from some of those who have suffered. I was scared for | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
myself, scared for my partner, scared for my children. I know what | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
they're Were they like. Stolen to order? More than 100 pregnant sheep | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
were take anyone what's described as a sophisticated operation. Weeks of | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
preparation and one eye on the weather warning, we're live ahead of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Cornwall's biggest agricultural show. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
And could this be the best school in the UK? Pupils are certainly feeling | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
confident. The teachers always help you if | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
you're stuck. Everything else is just perfect. | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
Victims of modern day slavery in the region are warning it's a widespread | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
problem locally. 4,000 people are estimated to have suffered labour | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
exploitation in the UK. Government figures show police in the wider | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
south`west dealt with at least 20 cases of slavery between January and | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
March this year. Today in the Queen's Speech, the Government | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
announced plans to tackle this form of abuse. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
More than a decade ago, this now recovering alcoholic was offered a | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
job when he was drinking in a park. The men said he would earn ?40 a | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
day, working as a labourer and gave him accommodation in their trailers. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Buff he says the reality was very different. His words are voiced by | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
an actor to protect his identity. At the start, it was pretty good. I was | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
getting plied with lots of drink. But after a few weeks, there was | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
less and sometimes no food. I could be working from 8am through to 10pm, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
sometimes. We weren't given any hard cash to support ourselves. For 12 | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
years he worked tarmacking and block paving driveways without pay. Why | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
didn't you just leave? I was threatened with having my legs | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
broken if I tried to run away. I received beatings and witnessed | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
people being beaten in order to keep them under control. Eventually the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
gang involved in this crime was brought to justice by the police. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
While this may seem like a clear example of forced labour, modern`day | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
slavery can come in many forms. Marcus ended up selling drugs for | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
years to pay off a never`ending debt to a gang he accepted free drugs | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
from when he was grieving for his mother. They look for weak and | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
vulnerable people, so they can manipulate them and get them into | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
debt. Once you're in debt, that is it. They have got you. It's a | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
struggle to get out of it. Why didn't you go to the police? Because | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
they would hurt my family. I was scared. Today's Queen's Speech | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
included a modern slavery bill. The new measures will mean victims could | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
be paid compensation and increased prison sentences for the criminals | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
involved. The charity Unchosen uses film to raise awareness of the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
problem. Their chief executive welcomes the bill, but... Unless we | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
support and give the right accommodation and counselling and | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
rehabilitative support services for victims, we are unable to then | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
prosecute traffickers. There is quite a lot missing in the draft | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
bill. Today the Government announced funding for specialist child | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
advocates to help younger victims. Ministers say it's part of a wider | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
programme to improve support. Our political editor, Martyn Oates, | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
has been following the Queen's Speech. I asked what changes the new | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
slavery bill would make? If it makes it onto the statute books, it's | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
likely we will see people convicted of enslaving other people, serving a | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
maximum sentence of life, as opposed to 14 years, at the moment. It seems | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
that victims of slavery will be entitled to compensation and also, | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
immunity from prosecution if they're forced to commit criminal acts while | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
enslaved. This is because very often people get forced into prostitution | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
or working on cannabis farms. One of the campaigners on this is the | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
former to the necessary MP. He points `` Totness MP. It's crucial, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
he says, this is victim focussed, particularly because you need them | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
to testify in the courts. Elsewhere in the speech, an announcement that | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
will have particular resonance in one south`west town, the idea of | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
introducing charges for plastic bags. Yes, if that goes through, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
from October a charge of 5 p per carrier bag, not just to have the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
place looking tidy with less litter, but they create havoc with marine | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
wildlife. People from the Lib Dems to the Daily Mail claiming credit | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
for this. As you say, there'll be particular pleasure in the Devon | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
dawn who went plastic bag free. All the shop keepers decided not to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
issue them. In the summer, the European Union proposed strict | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
targets for reducing plastic bag use. Now the Government is getting | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
in on the act as well. People just re`use them all the time. It's not | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
really a problem. People come in with a handbag and they've usually | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
got one or two shopping bags folded up inside. So it's not really a | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
problem at all. It hasn't caused any problems. Also changes to national | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
parks in the pipeline. Yes. There are proposals to make the people who | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
sit on them elected. Of course, they're very much like local | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
authorities, in particular, they have the power to grant or re`fuse | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
planning permission. Currently the people who make those very important | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
decisions are all appointed, either from the local councils or the Thank | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
you Government. . Thank you. An experienced detective | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
sergeant with Devon and Cornwall Police has been dismissed for gross | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
misconduct. Our home affairs correspondent joins me now from | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
police headquarters. What more can you tell us about this case? There | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
were two reasons for his dismissal. The first was a data protection | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
issue. He had accessed the police Police National Computer to car | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
require out unauthorised checks on people. The second was about police | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
vehicles. He used them for his own personal interests and What does | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
business. The force have to say about this? They've not done any | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
interviews on this. They have given us a statement. It confirms that a | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
serving sergeant has been dismissed with immediate effect. It adds that | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
it follows a thorough investigation. The statement goes on to say that | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police expect the highest standards from officers and | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
staff. And this officer's behaviour was so low it warranted immediate | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
dismissal. Does this mark a dubbing line in dealing `` toughening line | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
with dealing with police misconduct? This is a detailed statement. Take | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
two things from that, first of all, clear concern and annoyance within | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police about what this officer has done and the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
potential for damaging the force's reputation and secondly, a clear and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
straightforward determination to send out a message: This will not be | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
tolerated. Thank you. 24 youth centres are at risk in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Devon, according to new plans for the service announced today. The | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
County Council had proposed closing 32 centres to save 1. ?1.7 million. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Following consultation, the authorities says it will look at | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
providing eight locals hubs across the county. That means around 50 | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
posts will go. The remaining youth clubs will have to be taken on by | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
local communities. There is a pot of ?300,000 to take the services on in | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
their area. We want them to work with the most vulnerable in those | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
areas, but to be open access in those towns and also, work with the | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
wider community youth provision. We've had tremendous response to the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
consultation. Over 100 expressions of interest that want to actually | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
deliver from youth provision in their areas. It's very much up to | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
our youth hubs to work with that interest. Now farmers from across | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the region are preparing for one of the main agricultural shows of the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
year, The Royal Cornwall Show gets under way tomorrow. Final | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
preparations have been taking place at the site this afternoon with | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
animals receiving a last`minute wash and brush up. Hundreds of traders | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
have been putting finishing touches to their stands. Thousands of | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
visitors are expected over the next three days. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
One thing they'll all be hoping for is fine weather and no repeat of the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
scenes at the Devon county show, where rain and mud forced the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
organisers to cancel the final day. Joining me now is Chris Riddle, the | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
secretary of the royal Cornwall show. Grey skies behind you, Chris. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
What preparations do you have in place should the weather take a turn | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
for the worse? Well, we're starting off from a much better position than | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
sadly, they were at Devon. There's a good draining site. We've had | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
blustery showers today. Up until that point it was quite dry. Nothing | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
really worrying us. Good forecast tonight and tomorrow. It should be a | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
great start to the show. In my time of visiting the show, I remember one | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
occasion where the Saturday was cancelled because of the weather. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Are you confident that's not going to happen this year? I think it's | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
highly unlikely. That was 21 years ago that happened. Thank you for | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
reminding me! No, we have got lots of plans in place, if things get a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
bit sticky here or there. We don't see it as a problem. We have got | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
lighter soil here. I think things are looking good. The car parks are | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
in excellent order and today has gone well. We've had a busy day. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Lots of people putting final touches to things, which is great to see. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
After that event, 21 years ago, what changes, if any, did you put in | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
place. Have you got insurance if you had to cancel a day at the show? No. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
It's not something we do. We tend to look on ourselves as our own | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
insurers from that point of view. Bearing in mind that was the first | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
time we'd cancelled a day in over 200 years of the show existing. It's | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
really something that is not a huge risk, but obviously, the risk is. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
There we wouldn't foresee that being a problem this year. In those past | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
years, I suppose, there's lots more hard road, buildings and so forth, a | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
modern show ground, fit for purpose. We would like to think it stands | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
most things. We will keep our fingers crossed. Thank you very much | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
for joining us. More than 100 pregnant ewes have | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
been stolen from a farm in Cornwall in what's described as a | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
sophisticated operation. The sheep were taken in batches over several | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
months. The National Farmers' Union says sheep rustling is on the | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
increase. Walk on. Jeremy runs a large flock | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
of sheep on his farm. Before lambing, he had more than 1600 | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
animals. They were over win terd on various farms in the area. When they | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
brought their pregnant ewes together for lapping, one of `` lambing, one | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
of the shepherds noticed some were missing. He said, funny thing is | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
we've scanned 1600 and we only have 1500. We didn't think anything of | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
it. But actually, recounted all the flocks and everything that had | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
lambed and there were 100 missing. The galling thing is, it's about 20 | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
sheep that are missing from each of the five flocks. Because there were | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
up to 200 in each flock, we didn't notice at the time they'd This flock | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
gone. Has been part of a three`year breeding programme to produce a | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
sheep called a hybrid aberdale. The genetic make up means the ewes are | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
more likely to produce two lambs at birth. The National Farmers' Union | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
say sheep thefts are on the increase. There have been 60,000 | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
sheep stole anyone the UK during 2013 and since 2011, sheep thefts | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
are up by 170%. That's because the price of meat in the shops is very | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
high. That doesn't mean the farmer is getting that money. The shoppers | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
are paying for it, so somebody is selling it somewhere. This farmer | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
said the thieves would have had to use a sheepdog and trailer to steal | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
his animals. The NFU is asking people in rural areas to be extra | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
vigilant and report any unusual activity. | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
Coming up: The school short listed as primary of the year, plus, D`Day | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
remembered as the 70th anniversary approaches, one man recalls the | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Normandy landings. And a chance to look at this | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
1,000`year`old book and unravel some of its riddles. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
More and more new businesses in the south`west are being given a | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
financial kickstart through crowd funding, when people invest a small | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
or large amount of money online in return for a share in the company or | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
some other award. Companies appeal for investment via internet crowd | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
funding platforms. Two of the leading ones in the UK are based | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
here in the south`west. The sun is shining and the sausages | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
are sizzling, but this is no ordinary party. Here in Chagford | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
they are celebrating raising ?15,000 through internet crowd funding to | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
pay for a new dairy for their goats. It was eight weeks. We hit our | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
targets with two days left. Last week was nail`biting at times. Just | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
feel massively humbled to be honest. Each of the guests at the party are | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
crowd funders, people who've invested amounts from as little as | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
?40 each, in return for a reward other than money. In this case, it's | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
a T`shirt, bag or cheese. I always want to have local, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
organically`grown food. I want to know the Providence of my food. This | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
is the perfect thing to support. I get a weekly contribution from the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
farm for my money. It's win`win. The farm raised its money through the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
crowd funder website. It's been named by the crowd funding centre as | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
the UK's number`one rewards based platform. It operates from Newquay. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
We work with businesses, community groups and charities who have great | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
ideas, but want to make something work in their local communities. We | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
help them to raise money from the community around them. What's | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
fascinating is the sheer variety of projects you can invest in. From a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
scheme to rehabilitate retired race horses, to a community sports | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
pavilion, and a company that will deliver organic salad boxes to your | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
door by bicycle. Will of Wave Length Surf magazine has used crowd funding | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
to raise money. Wave Length has a large community. That community can | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
be tapped into by crowd funding in a way that a bank can't understand or | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
won't necessarily put any value to. Crowd funder's sister company in | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Exeter works on a model a bit like Dragon's Den, where people invest | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
money in return for a share in the company, rather than reward. Through | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
it, people have invested ?6 million for south`west businesses this year | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
alone. But there are risks. We make it abun doesn'tly clear that this is | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
a high``` abundantly clear this is a high`risk investment. Crowd funding | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
is still in its early stages and commentators say it's too early to | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
tell which platforms will be market leaders, as eBay did with online | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
auctioning. Could the South West become the crowd funding equivalent | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
of Silicon Valley? The goats are still chewing that one over. | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
For many British veterans, this year will be their final official | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
pilgrimage to Normandy. Thousands of troops embarked for the invasion whi | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
changed history. `` which changed history. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
We've been speaking to veterans, who made their contribution to the | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
operation and who remember being part of the D`Day landings. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
Archive: Now the flood of pictures of the invasion have started, we add | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
length to our news reels so we can give fuller detail of the front | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
offences, when from England came the conquest of German`occupied | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Normandy. Operation over`Lord, the mission had | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
been kept top secret. War ships joined amphibious craft to | :17:33. | :17:48. | |
make a decisive move on German`occupied France, among them | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
was Harold Ball from Paignton. We were the first to open up the | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
barrage with the 15`inch guns onto the German shore batteries. If I'd | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
have been Jerry, I'd have been frightened to death. She was | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
shelled, bombed and narrowly missed being torpedoed. No doubt a lot of | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
us were scared. We were only 18, but we'd got a good crew. She was a | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
happy ship. A about thely happy ship and a good ship. Every man knew his | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
job and every man turned to and the discipline, it was just natural. | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
Back in Cornwall for a Service of Remembrance. Veterans from the | :18:51. | :19:03. | |
American 29th infantry division. They left this place for an assault | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
on Omaha Beach. On the beach I was very fortunate. I came in on a | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
British navy landing craft assault. Two of us made it to the beach. Two | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
others were shot before they even got out of the water. The 29th | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
division suffered heavy losses. Many men came here as soldiers. Many men | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
would stay away. Many men will never come home again. All this week, | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
people across the South West are paying tribute. | :19:40. | :19:49. | |
You can hear more D`Day stories on BBC Radio's difb and Cornwall | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
tomorrow morning. One of the most unusual books in the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
world is making a rare public appearance at Exeter cathedral. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Written towards the end of the 10th century the Exeter Book is the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
oldest surviving collection of English literature and it's going on | :20:08. | :20:08. | |
display. Sorry about the problems we seem to | :20:09. | :20:23. | |
be having there. Time now for a quick look at the weather, though. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Fingers crossed for The Royal Cornwall Show. David is here with | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
the detail. It's been awful today. People at the | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
show today, it's been cold and windy and wet. The good news is, it is | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
much better for tomorrow, which is the first day. Good evening to you. | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
It's been pretty miserable today. More cloud and rain around than we | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
originally thought. There is some light at the end of the tunnel. It's | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
beginning to clear from the more western parts of Cornwall and | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
hopefully, tomorrow is a largely dry day. Risk of a shower or Friday. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
Risk of a shower heading into the weekend. That's tomorrow's weather, | :21:00. | :21:00. | |
mainly fine, hazy sunshine. biggest difference ` it will feel | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
warmer. Some parts of the south`west today have got no more than 10 or 11 | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
degrees. That's pretty low for the month of June. A look at the show to | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
start with. For tomorrow, a fine day, 16, 17 degrees, the top | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
temperature. On Friday, even warmer. But quite a brisk south`east wind. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
We may see showers early in the day. It brightens up in the afternoon. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
The greatest threat of showers is on Saturday, perhaps in the morning. | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
Things improve into the afternoon. Now, low pressure is out here to the | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
west. This is the dominant feature as we head towards the end of the | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
week and into the weekend. It's that area of low pressure that draws up | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
some warmth from Spain and Portugal. That's the reason for the higher | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
temperatures. We could have some of the highest temperatures we've seen | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
so far this year on Friday. The low pressure is there on Friday and into | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
Saturday, generating some showers. We will have to keep a close eye on | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
those. For the immediate future, the rain that we have now, which has | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
been troublesome, is beginning to move away. It's taking its time. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Later this evening, there's the risk of showery outbreaks of rain, until | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
after midnight, before it all clears. Later in the night, it turns | :22:10. | :22:25. | |
Cilicy. Over`` it churns chilly. `` it turns chilly. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
It's a cold start to the day tomorrow, but it should be a fine | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
day. Patchy cloud will come and go. It's not going to be wall`to`wall | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
sunshine. High level cloud into the far west. Still dry for west | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Cornwall. For most of us it's a better day. A top figure of 17, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
possibly 18, degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, after sunshine in the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
morning, it will cloud over. High`level cloud coming in. Briefly | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
some hazy sunshine. The breeze picks up here too. | :22:57. | :23:14. | |
There's the coastal waters forecast. The winds are from the south or | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
south`east. The outlook is for showers as we | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
head into the weekend. Saturday we are a bit concerned. We have an | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
early warning from the Met Office about potentially very heavy showers | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
forming on Saturday. Stay tuned to the forecast, of course. Have a good | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
evening. Thank goodness you're always there | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
when the technology fails us, once again. Now back to that story about | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
the unusual book in Exeter. Normally locked away, today the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Exeter Book was unbound and among the first to marvel at its | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
treasures, a Canadian student. This is the book. This is probably our | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
best known and probably our most important holding in the cathedral | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
library. It was donated by Exeter's first bishop. It's an anthology of | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
poems in old English. There are only four of such anthologies in the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
world. This is probably the oldest of them. So,if you like, this is the | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
oldest book of English literature in existence. I think it's fantastic. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
It's really a dream come true for me to see it. I never expected I would | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
get this opportunity. On this page, as it happens, you can | :24:37. | :24:54. | |
see some Runic There are letters. No illustrations, no colours or titles | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
to the poems or, for that matter, the 96 Anglo`Saxon riddles, some of | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
which feature on the High Street sculpturement The contents of this | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
book are not found anywhere else. If this book were lost between a | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
quarter and a third of all English poetry known would be unknown. So, | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
it's very important indeed. This summer, the Exeter Book will be on | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
show the first Wednesday afternoon of the month. | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
Now schools are used to eagerly anticipating results, but for one in | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Plymouth, it's nothing to do with exams. Prince Rock Primary has made | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
it to the short list for a national award, which could see it crowned | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
Primary School of the Year. I'm Bailey. And we're going to show | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
you around Prince rock school. This is where the little ones play. | :25:49. | :26:03. | |
This is our art room, where we create mini artists. | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
This is one of our year two classes and they're reading a story. The | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
dinosaurs are coming. As stories go, Prince Rock Primary has been a page | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
turner. We had a fantastic year last year. We became a national teaching | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
school. We had our third straight outstanding in a row, against the | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
back drop of major building work in the school. That was why we were | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
nominated. We're up against five other schools. They're all going to | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
be very good. There's 25,000 schools in the country, to have made the top | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
six is fantastic. We're delighted to be in the mix. But what do the | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
pupils like about it? I know just who to sc. The teachers always help | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
you, if you're stuck. Everything else is just perfect. The thing I | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
like most is we go on lots of trips, so we can experience going to farms | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
and zoos and thingedz like that. Pupils and staff singing from the | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
same hymn sheet, quite literally. # Amazing grace, how sweet the sound | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
# The winner of the Primary School of | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
the Year award will be announced early next month. | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
All the very best of luck to them. Good luck. Just a reminder, full | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
coverage on BBC Radio Cornwall of The Royal Cornwall Show tomorrow and | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
we're there for Spotlight as well tomorrow at 6. 6.30pm. That's all | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
for this evening. I'm back with the late news at 10. 30pm. Bye`bye for | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
now. When the first travellers crossed | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
America, they were faced with this - The very nature of | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
the American personality was defined. Ray Mears explores | :27:59. | :28:13. | |
the land behind the Hollywood legend and discovers the wild | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
that made the West. | :28:17. | :28:20. |