:00:16. > :00:18.The coach company involved in a fatal accident in Cornwall
:00:19. > :00:20.last month has had its licence to operate revoked.
:00:21. > :00:22.Carmel Coaches, which runs a number of school
:00:23. > :00:25.services, was being investigated for safety concerns before the `ccident
:00:26. > :00:29.Today the Traffic Commissioner has published her conclusions
:00:30. > :00:32.and says despite repeated w`rnings about safety, she's not confident
:00:33. > :00:34.the company is capable of running roadworthy vehicles.
:00:35. > :00:39.The accident in Looe is still being investigated separately.
:00:40. > :00:43.A widow says she forgives the suicidal man who deliberately
:00:44. > :00:45.drove into her car, killing her entire family.
:00:46. > :00:47.The crash happened two years ago in Torquay.
:00:48. > :00:58.Elmer Twomey has just held ` special weekend to remember her lovdd ones.
:00:59. > :01:01.We all have issues. Try to look at the glass half full rather than half
:01:02. > :01:06.empty. As thousands remembered D`D`y this
:01:07. > :01:09.weekend, we hear the vivid lemories And the sheriff of your own town,
:01:10. > :01:14.a unique prize being offered to The coach company involved
:01:15. > :01:18.in a fatal accident in Cornwall last month has had
:01:19. > :01:22.its licence to operate revoked. Carmel Coaches,
:01:23. > :01:24.which runs a number of school services, was being investigated for
:01:25. > :01:26.safety concerns before the `ccident Today the Traffic Commissioner has
:01:27. > :01:39.published her conclusions and says despite repeated w`rnings
:01:40. > :01:41.about safety, she's not confident the company is capable
:01:42. > :01:43.of running roadworthy vehicles. The accident in Looe is still
:01:44. > :01:46.being investigated separately. The decision to withdraw
:01:47. > :01:48.the company's licence now r`ises questions about school transport
:01:49. > :01:51.and other organised outings using Hamish Marshall is at
:01:52. > :02:10.the firms depot in Exeter tonight. Carmel Coaches will cease to operate
:02:11. > :02:16.here. It follows this report which has seen two of its directors and
:02:17. > :02:19.from working in the industrx for the next 18 months. The Traffic
:02:20. > :02:25.Commissioner said, in light of the Tellier 's, the company is not
:02:26. > :02:33.capable or competence to opdrate the necessary systems to ensure vehicles
:02:34. > :02:36.vehicle defects not being fhxed for vehicle defects not being fhxed for
:02:37. > :02:43.me should have been him and snow `` and that is why this licensd is
:02:44. > :02:48.being revoked. As we talked about, the coach crash in Looe, thdse
:02:49. > :02:52.findings stem from before that. The report was being prepared in the
:02:53. > :02:55.days leading up to the crash in Looe, so it is not part of the
:02:56. > :02:59.investigation, and the Traffic Commissioner was keen to make that
:03:00. > :03:05.clear today. The company th`t was operating the trip when two people
:03:06. > :03:10.died in the coach Michael w`nted to use them again for a wedding trip
:03:11. > :03:18.this Wednesday, but the trip was cancelled. We are extremely shocked.
:03:19. > :03:22.We are surprised that this has happened. Carmel Coaches had a good
:03:23. > :03:27.reputation before this, so ht is a complete surprise to us, absolutely.
:03:28. > :03:31.As well as running private hire services, the Company operated local
:03:32. > :03:36.bus services as well as manx school contracts. I've thought manx of the
:03:37. > :03:42.vehicles outside a communitx college today. `` I saw. The council will
:03:43. > :03:45.have to find a new way to cover these services. The princip`l told
:03:46. > :03:49.me that Looe also run some afterschool services, and hd has
:03:50. > :03:59.disbarred them as unreliabld at best. `` Carmel Coaches also run
:04:00. > :04:04.afterschool services. Would you make `` like to find out about s`fety
:04:05. > :04:08.concerns? I would like more detail. What is of paramount import`nce is
:04:09. > :04:12.the safety of our young people. I would like to knew more earlier
:04:13. > :04:17.certainly so we could have raised it with the parent body. The company
:04:18. > :04:21.has now cost 28 days to appdal against this decision, and Devon
:04:22. > :04:23.County Council will try to find new people to operate services hf that
:04:24. > :04:26.appeal is unsuccessful. An Irish widow who lost her entire
:04:27. > :04:28.family after a suicidal Polish taxh driver
:04:29. > :04:31.deliberately drove into thehr car Elber Twomey lost her unborn
:04:32. > :04:43.daughter, her son and her htsband in She's just held a "remorial weekend"
:04:44. > :04:48.in Ireland so that what she calls So far it's raised nearly ?40,0 0
:04:49. > :04:53.for the hospitals which tre`ted the Spotlight's Janine Jansen
:04:54. > :05:04.has this exclusive report. July the 6th 2012, it was the last
:05:05. > :05:10.day of the holiday in Torqu`y for this family, when life changed
:05:11. > :05:15.forever. A suicidal taxi drhver plowed into them after please try to
:05:16. > :05:19.pull him over. Elber Twomey lost her unborn daughter and her 16`lonth`old
:05:20. > :05:29.son. Ten months later, her darling husband died. I'd loved being his
:05:30. > :05:36.mother. And I loved being a wife to my husband. Remarkably, Elbdr Twomey
:05:37. > :05:43.has never given the taxi drhver after a priest friend came to see
:05:44. > :05:46.her. He asked me if I'd praxed for him, and he asked me if I would pray
:05:47. > :05:53.for him him and isolate that they could not, so he said that he would
:05:54. > :06:00.pray for him on my behalf everyday day in July would be able to do so.
:06:01. > :06:07.`` every day until I would be able to do so. When it came to November,
:06:08. > :06:14.I started lighting a candle for him. He just planted the seed of
:06:15. > :06:18.forgiveness. Elber Twomey h`s just held a weekend in Ireland soaked her
:06:19. > :06:27.beauties will never be forgotten, which included a family walk, a
:06:28. > :06:36.sponsored run and a sponsordd cycle ride. So far, they have raised
:06:37. > :06:44.nearly ?50,000. How do you stay so positive? I would say that H have an
:06:45. > :06:48.army in heaven to kick me ott of bed every morning and I am on a mission
:06:49. > :06:57.to make sure that anybody else in Ireland does not end up loshng
:06:58. > :07:02.everybody. That keeps me gohng. This weekend also saw a hurling
:07:03. > :07:05.championship for children under ten. But when Elber Twomey saw the cop
:07:06. > :07:17.named after her husband, it was too much. Just seeing that Memorial
:07:18. > :07:24.cup... Something I never envisioned, to be honest. Btt you
:07:25. > :07:31.are so strong because you hdld yourself together in front of all
:07:32. > :07:39.the children. Yes, it's I h`ve my crying done. `` but I have ly crying
:07:40. > :07:46.done. By needed to be strong for them. `` I needed to be strong for
:07:47. > :07:53.them. It was a" smiles, but tinged with sadness. `` it was a wdekend of
:07:54. > :07:56.smiles. Two men have been arrested
:07:57. > :07:59.on suspicion of murder from severe head injuries in
:08:00. > :08:01.Ilfracombe. Paramedics were called to the
:08:02. > :08:03.Two Potts area of the town late last night where
:08:04. > :08:06.they found the injured man slope. The victim and the two men
:08:07. > :08:18.arrested are all thought to be The Ambulance Service continued to
:08:19. > :08:21.work with the man, who was taken to hospital, but the injuries he had
:08:22. > :08:28.worked fatal and he was pronounced dead at the hospital sometile later.
:08:29. > :08:31.The principal of one of Devon's newest schools is accusing other
:08:32. > :08:34.local head teachers of campaigning to close her school.
:08:35. > :08:37.Joss Glossop of the Route 38 Academy near Bideford has also clailed her
:08:38. > :08:40.students are being excluded from competitive sports events with
:08:41. > :08:43.In an open letter, members of the North Devon @cademic
:08:44. > :08:51.Board have argued the free school is unnecess`ry.
:08:52. > :09:00.A new school, promising a dhfferent approach to secondary education in
:09:01. > :09:04.North Devon, but in an open letter to the media, signed by the heads of
:09:05. > :09:10.13 other schools, the Acadely was described as damaging for education
:09:11. > :09:15.and an educational experiment. Criticisms that are totally uncalled
:09:16. > :09:19.for, according to the princhpal I think it might have been appropriate
:09:20. > :09:23.to years ago, when the school was still a proposal. We are now a real
:09:24. > :09:26.school and our children desdrve better than that, and to trx to
:09:27. > :09:32.actively undermine us and appeared to be seeking to campaign to close
:09:33. > :09:36.the school is entirely inappropriate, and they do not
:09:37. > :09:41.understand that kind of neg`tive behaviour in any leadership
:09:42. > :09:47.capacity. Unlike schools like this community college, the school is a
:09:48. > :09:51.free school, funded directlx by the government and out of the control of
:09:52. > :09:55.the local education authority. The head teachers on the North Devon
:09:56. > :09:59.academic board, who wrote to the press, argue that it is not needed,
:10:00. > :10:05.and it was right to let thehr feelings be known. We work hard as a
:10:06. > :10:10.group of professionals, and we stand by every word we put in the letter,
:10:11. > :10:15.and we think funding these children at the level in which they `re being
:10:16. > :10:20.funding `` being funded dam`ges children in Devon, because the
:10:21. > :10:23.funding could have been spent for the greater good. The Department for
:10:24. > :10:28.Education told us that so f`r three schools have `` free school has
:10:29. > :10:33.outperformed local schools `ccording to Ofsted.
:10:34. > :10:36.Britain's first new metal mhne for 40 years is taking shapd
:10:37. > :10:41.The Hemerdon tungsten mine on the edge of Dartmoor is costing
:10:42. > :10:44.120 people are on site as construction starts.
:10:45. > :10:46.Eventually, 200 people will run it and ht's
:10:47. > :10:49.already buying in goods and services from firms across the region.
:10:50. > :10:59.Our business correspondent Neil Gallacher reports.
:11:00. > :11:06.One of the most expensive and extensive building projects the
:11:07. > :11:12.region has seen for years. @ workforce of 120 is starting to
:11:13. > :11:19.create a mine. Most of the team is British. The people here ard largely
:11:20. > :11:22.local. There are a lot of pdople from Plymouth. Obviously, some of
:11:23. > :11:27.the things involved in a project like this, the skills base hs in
:11:28. > :11:34.this country, but the vast lajority of them, and especially the traits,
:11:35. > :11:38.are here. And some of the specialist staff is available fairly close by.
:11:39. > :11:46.This core mission of Burma grew out of the heyday of hard rock lining.
:11:47. > :11:51.`` this core mission grew ott of the heyday of hard rock mining. It is
:11:52. > :11:57.local to us and that is rard these days. Most of our projects `re under
:11:58. > :12:02.seized in weird and wonderftl destinations. To have something on
:12:03. > :12:12.your percent is a great honour. `` most of our projects are ovdrseas.
:12:13. > :12:18.Tungsten is a metal widely tsed in industry. At least 80% of world
:12:19. > :12:21.tungsten production happens in China, said China can dictate supply
:12:22. > :12:27.to the rest of the world. Experts says this mine matters. This will
:12:28. > :12:36.probably be the third or fotrth biggest mine in the world and will
:12:37. > :12:40.be responsible for much of the world's tungsten production.
:12:41. > :12:46.Dartmoor is an important landscape. This open pit mine has provdd
:12:47. > :12:52.relatively uncontroversial. There was a battle fought and lost here in
:12:53. > :12:55.the 1980s. It has taken unthl then for the economics factors to line up
:12:56. > :13:04.to make this happen. But another reason may be that in this local
:13:05. > :13:06.area, wages are very low. The local community are used to that, and the
:13:07. > :13:12.local community is here bec`use of that. There was some concern about
:13:13. > :13:15.the environment, but the overwhelming reaction was, we want
:13:16. > :13:20.this investment, we want thdse jobs and this massive support for what we
:13:21. > :13:25.are doing here in this part of Dartmoor. The mine is expected to
:13:26. > :13:30.start producing tungsten in around a year.
:13:31. > :13:33.This weekend across the South West, thousands of people have bedn
:13:34. > :13:36.And for one man from Cornwall the 70th anniversary
:13:37. > :13:38.of the Normandy landings has been particularly poignant.
:13:39. > :13:41.A Royal Engineer, he was ond of the first onto Sword Beach.
:13:42. > :13:45.And Reg Jago's memories are as vivid now as 70 years ago.
:13:46. > :14:04.We were dead scared. There hs no other word for it. We did not like
:14:05. > :14:10.to show it to our needs. `` our mates. We were laughing, but we did
:14:11. > :14:16.not feel like that. I'd did more than 200 yards in a couple of
:14:17. > :14:21.seconds, I think. 75% of us got off the beach OK. Their objective was to
:14:22. > :14:31.build a bridge at Pegasus. When we got to Pegasus, we had two options.
:14:32. > :14:37.There was the mention of so and so not being here, so you would take
:14:38. > :14:52.over. We were building bridges under fire all the time. Just pulled the
:14:53. > :14:59.corpses back and work on ag`in. The sky was black with aircraft and made
:15:00. > :15:08.us feel secure. We had confhdence we could do it because we had so much
:15:09. > :15:14.firepower. Only safe for so long, Reg was hit by a German shell. I was
:15:15. > :15:23.a blinded by the blast. There was shrapnel through my abdomen and in
:15:24. > :15:27.the buttocks and shoulder, through the leg and all, so I knew H was
:15:28. > :15:34.badly wounded, and iPod I h`ve lost my arm, because they could not feel
:15:35. > :15:36.it. `` I thought. I was tryhng to find it with my other arm and they
:15:37. > :15:52.could not find it. The pain from the stomach w`s
:15:53. > :16:00.horrific. But his battle sc`rs were not only physical. You are not
:16:01. > :16:17.normal. You're like animals. You have got to be. It is kill or be
:16:18. > :16:32.killed. You are ashamed. Yot are ashamed of what you have done. It
:16:33. > :16:47.has left its mark, hasn't it? I have never talked to anyone. I h`ve never
:16:48. > :16:54.even told my son. I don't think any soldier looking back would think he
:16:55. > :17:00.would have rather negotiated in some way and have peace. When yot go to
:17:01. > :17:04.bed, you don't sleep. You constantly see the faces of the boys you are
:17:05. > :17:10.way too are no longer with ts and you can't forget them, it kdeps
:17:11. > :17:21.running back he did together in the last you had together.
:17:22. > :17:25.Well this weekend was a chance for everyone to remember thd
:17:26. > :17:30.Among the events held was one in Torbay, where a flotilla
:17:31. > :17:37.24,000 US troops left from Torquay for Normandy.
:17:38. > :17:46.Here's a flavour of the commemorations.
:17:47. > :18:11.An awful lot, an awful lot. Just to say thank you. Marvelous. It was in
:18:12. > :18:14.Omaha. The weather could not spoil it. I think it was great. I'd say
:18:15. > :18:27.bravo to everyone who organhsed it. Some moving memories and
:18:28. > :18:32.commemorations. And you can read more
:18:33. > :18:35.about the weekend's commemorations The flood damaged Somerset
:18:36. > :18:38.village of Moorland had The Earl and Countess of Wessex
:18:39. > :18:42.spent about an hour there. It was part of a day
:18:43. > :18:45.which saw them complete no fewer then six engagements in the county,
:18:46. > :18:58.from opening a hospital to Raising the flag for a visit which
:18:59. > :19:05.was to raise morale in this battered community. It is not everyd`y you
:19:06. > :19:13.get to chat to royalty over the garden fence. Both the Earl and
:19:14. > :19:19.Countess of Wessex were gendrally `` genuinely surprised by the scale of
:19:20. > :19:23.the damage here. Just about every home here was swamped by thd
:19:24. > :19:28.floodwaters four months ago. I'd think it is really nice and a real
:19:29. > :19:32.morale booster to see everyone happy and smiling. We have had so many bad
:19:33. > :19:38.times to stop it has lifted the whole atmosphere. As well as meeting
:19:39. > :19:40.the flood victims, the Royal couple chatted with some of the volunteers
:19:41. > :19:49.who have been helping to restore homes stop there is a picture to
:19:50. > :19:58.trump them all. `` homes. If he did not ask, you do not get. Oh, wow!
:19:59. > :20:07.That is U2 yes. That is a good one. `` that is you to. Yes. That is a
:20:08. > :20:14.good one. The water is gone, but there is a lot here to see. It was
:20:15. > :20:19.probably no coincidence that the Royals also visited one of
:20:20. > :20:24.Somerset's most popular tourist estimations, cheddar, a welcome
:20:25. > :20:29.boost in a difficult year. The combination of those two words,
:20:30. > :20:37.Somerset and floods, is unfortunate, but there is no truth to thd rumour,
:20:38. > :20:41.if you like. As nice as usu`l. `` business. There was also a cider
:20:42. > :20:47.orchard to visit and a visit to burn him to meet search and rescte
:20:48. > :20:56.volunteers. All in a day's work really, and brings a whole new
:20:57. > :21:02.meaning to Royal variety. Two young divers have one thtled
:21:03. > :21:09.this weekend. The story of Vincent won the women's ten metre thtle
:21:10. > :21:14.while the new ten metre chalpion is Matt Dixon. Tom Daley could not
:21:15. > :21:24.defend his title as he was defending his title in the chopper he was at a
:21:25. > :21:30.shotgun he was a competition in New Mexico `` he was at a competition in
:21:31. > :21:34.New Mexico. I am amazed. I `m still over the men. I have just got my
:21:35. > :21:38.medals and they can't believe it. I really wants to go to the
:21:39. > :21:43.Commonwealth Games, it means so much to me, but the announcement will be
:21:44. > :21:54.next week for team selection, so I hope by him in it, but I will have
:21:55. > :22:01.to wait and see. The price of Sheriff is being raffled to help
:22:02. > :22:05.raise money for a community art centre. Our correspondent rode into
:22:06. > :22:31.town to find out more. What is all this I hear abott a
:22:32. > :22:37.sheriff? Is the first prize given to the winner of the Jerusalem raffled
:22:38. > :22:41.for a him or her to become sheriff of this here town for one whole year
:22:42. > :22:48.will stop should the winner be a horse owner, the tether `` course
:22:49. > :22:53.will be tethered, and they can come to the bar and demand their free
:22:54. > :22:58.pint or whiskey or bourbon, which they are allowed the first Londay of
:22:59. > :23:03.every month. And the Sheriff's rights do not end here. The Sheriff
:23:04. > :23:09.can have a free sausage roll on the first Monday of every month. And the
:23:10. > :23:14.very `` the blacksmith knocked up a symbol that no Sheriff can be
:23:15. > :23:18.without. I have had to make a sheriff badge, which is the first
:23:19. > :23:24.one of the kind that have ever made. It also gives the person who wears
:23:25. > :23:27.it the ability to stand on the corner in the town looking
:23:28. > :23:32.important. Proceeds from thd raffle are going to a arts and herhtage
:23:33. > :23:36.centre and organisers say that anybody is eligible to win first
:23:37. > :23:39.prize except people from thd neighboring town. There is ` long
:23:40. > :23:49.history of rivalry between the two towns. I am not sure if people would
:23:50. > :23:53.accept a sheriff from the other town. There is nothing like a
:23:54. > :24:03.sheriff badge to fire your imagination. Come on, horse I think
:24:04. > :24:08.this one is lame! He is mord than lame. It is worth it just for the
:24:09. > :24:12.sausage roll. Fantastic. Soleone who is very good at looking important on
:24:13. > :24:20.street corners is with us now for the weather. I try not to, `ctually.
:24:21. > :24:28.We have had a few showers through the weekends, but otherwise a
:24:29. > :24:31.reasonable Saturday and Sunday. High pressure is coming back this week to
:24:32. > :24:37.settle things down and give us some more about June sunshine. It stays
:24:38. > :24:41.warm, but much drier. From Wednesday onwards, the high`pressure takes
:24:42. > :24:44.charge. At the moment, an area of low pressure is throwing a few
:24:45. > :24:49.showers towards us, and we will continue overnight. The low`pressure
:24:50. > :24:53.travels up to the north of Scotland, and what replaces it is this area of
:24:54. > :24:58.high pressure, which develops into a major sale of high pressure across
:24:59. > :25:01.southern Britain from Wednesday onwards on the but it keeps us try
:25:02. > :25:06.and find for the rest of thhs week. A few showers out of a the loment.
:25:07. > :25:12.They been gradually coming tp through the South today. Sole
:25:13. > :25:16.showers are certainly possible. Earlier today, we head some
:25:17. > :25:23.beautiful blue skies. This was in the Exeter area, where we hdad
:25:24. > :25:27.sunshine and patchy` levels. With the levels `` with the landscape
:25:28. > :25:33.looking... Everything looks really splendid in the summer sunshine
:25:34. > :25:38.Strong sunshine as well. Thd UV index is at its highest it will be
:25:39. > :25:43.at any point during the year. Enjoy, but be careful in thd
:25:44. > :25:47.sunshine over the next few days Overnight tonight, we get one line
:25:48. > :25:50.of showers that is brushing through the central part of our reghon,
:25:51. > :25:56.another line of showers, thhs one a bit more angry, with even the odd
:25:57. > :26:02.rumble of thunder, and by d`wn, most of it moving out of the way.
:26:03. > :26:05.Temperatures of a leading or 12 degrees, no lower than that. For
:26:06. > :26:13.tomorrow, a risk of showers in the morning, but the sharpest produces.
:26:14. > :26:17.Showers are most likely through the north of Devon. For the rest of us,
:26:18. > :26:21.come the end of the afternoon, a reasonable and to the day, ` bit
:26:22. > :26:25.breezy at first, and a top temperature of around 17 or 18
:26:26. > :26:28.degrees, but a few places mhght get up to 19, and it will get w`rmer
:26:29. > :26:33.each day this week as the pressure comes in. The forecast for the Isles
:26:34. > :26:40.of Scilly, a few showers, btt otherwise, mainly dry, and the times
:26:41. > :26:49.of high water, at Penzance, that is at 254. For our surfers on the waves
:26:50. > :26:54.are usable on the north coast, because the winds will be
:26:55. > :27:01.south`westerly. They will bd mostly clean. The winds are from the South
:27:02. > :27:06.or South West, forced eyes, or an increasing six for a time, lainly
:27:07. > :27:11.fair and generally good vishbility. Here comes the fine weather, here
:27:12. > :27:13.comes the sunshine. We see high`pressure developing from
:27:14. > :27:20.Wednesday onwards. A pretty comfortable temperature for us to
:27:21. > :27:23.stop 72 in Fahrenheit. `` for us. The winds will fall like as well and
:27:24. > :27:30.will be cooler around the coastline. Some fine weather to look
:27:31. > :27:34.forward to. Have a good evening A promising outlook. Thank yot for
:27:35. > :27:39.that. That is all for now. We will have an update at eight o'clock and
:27:40. > :27:42.our ladies is at 10:25pm thhs evening. From all of us, good night.
:27:43. > :27:52.Goodbye. THROWS VOICE: 'A weekly treat
:27:53. > :28:00.of all the best bits of Radio 2 ' But that isn't quite
:28:01. > :28:13.the end of the story. ..then...
:28:14. > :28:19...he landed... ..and in a flurry
:28:20. > :28:31.of feathers, they were gone. But that isn't quite
:28:32. > :28:33.the end of the story. Perhaps you'll dream
:28:34. > :28:36.of a great adventure.