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Lucky to be alive ` the teenager who was one

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of 17 people injured when they were hit by a car at a cruising dvent.

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Good evening, shocking foot`ge we're about to see shows the moment the

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Facing a lengthy prison sentence after stealing from a charity.

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You set out to deliberately defraud the public. I did not.

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A Devon man pleads guilty in court to pocketing money meant

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Heartache for vulnerable adtlts after they're told their

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And cause for alarm ` the dog who swallowed a watch.

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A 16`year`old girl has been talking about her

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"lucky escape" after she was hit by a car and knocked unconsciots

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Megan Whitlock was one of 17 people injured

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in the incident in the B car park at Derriford on Saturday night.

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She's spoken exclusively to Spotlight's Scott Bingham.

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And we should warn you that Scott's report shows footage of the impact,

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which some viewers may find disturbing.

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The moment a red Ford Fiest` ploughed into spectators at the cat

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meat just before 10pm on Saturday night. 16`year`old Megan Whhtlock

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struck the windscreen of thd vehicle. She remembers little about

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the collision. I was watching the cars and Ben I felt really dizzy,

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like I'd been hit. Then I opened my ice. Loads of people were crowding

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around me. People were taking pictures. Obviously, then I was in

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the ambulance. She suffered cuts and bruising but knows it could have

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been so much worse. I've had my arm and back checked. It's just a case

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of waiting for it to heal. H think I'm pretty lucky, really. C`r

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enthusiast Stuart Bell was `lso at Saturday's meat. There's a time and

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place for it. People try to do it harder, longer and faster. @ccidents

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are going to happen. Similar events have been taking place at the Crown

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Hill retail park for a numbdr of years. They are organised bx social

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media. Saturday's events took place without the knowledge or consent of

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B with their landlords, who owns the site and car park. Police often

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attend the gathering is, watching from a distance. These events have

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gone on for a period of timd, over several years, with no incident

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happening. We do have to police them as a city, not just a car p`rk. As a

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result of previous incidents, we do need to review how we policd these

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and work with the local landowners to see how we can ensure safety and

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mitigate the risk of these dvents, that have clearly shown how

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dangerous they can be. Officers they 17 people were treated in hospital

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after the collision and 19 xou `` a 19`year`old man was arrested on

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suspicion of dangerous drivhng and has been released on police bail.

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The veterans' charity Help for Heroes have condemned a Devon

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fundraiser who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds from them

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as "devious and calculated" in the way he exploited public goodwill.

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Christopher Copeland today `dmitted carrying out an 18 month fr`ud,

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recruiting teams of voluntedrs to collect money at shopping cdntres

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A senior detective said Copdland was "motivated by pure greed".

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Our home affairs corresponddnt Simon Hall reports from

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Help For Heroes captured thd nation's heart when it was set up to

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help injured veterans. At an increasingly high profile sdries of

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events, it has raised ?200 lillion and has attracted supporters

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including the Royal Family `nd celebrities. Today Christopher

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Copeland from Devon admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of

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pounds from the charity. I'l feeling very humble at the moment. Would you

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like to apologise for what xou have done? Absolutely. It was not my

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intention. How can it not bd intentional? I try to do solething

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that was really good and I lessed it up. How could you messed solething

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up, you would if rodding hundreds of thousands of pounds? It was not

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intentional. You set out to deliberately defraud the public of

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hundreds of thousands of potnds I did not. Explain how it could have

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been a mistake. I cannot. I really have nothing to say. That is leave

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it at that, I'm sorry. Ye assemble teams of volunteers to colldct money

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at shopping centres across Dngland and Wales and kept the monex. He

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stole a total of ?300,000, the court heard, over an 18 month perhod. I

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think his motivation was grded. I think he has seen an opporttnity and

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`` whereby he can pull in v`st amounts of money over a long period

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of time. It is pure greed. Help For Heroes told us:

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Help For Heroes says such fraud against charitable fundraisdrs `` it

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is now working with police to recover some of the stolen loney.

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Copeland will be sentenced on the 15th of September. The judgd told

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the court, it was difficult to imagine a more aggravating feature

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of the case and stealing from a charity like Help For Heroes. He

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warned couplings that he faces a lengthy prison sentence.

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A second man has been chargdd in connection with the murddr

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of a 17 year old footballer in Kingsbridge.42

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year old Lee Dent was chargdd earlier this month with murdering

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Alex Peguero`Sosa at a taxi rank in the town.

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Now, 22 year old Henry Felton, from Fore Street, in Kingsbridge,

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has been charged with assisting an offender and perverting

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Two of Cornwall's main healthcare providers are considering mdrging to

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Peninsula Community Health `nd the Cornwall Partnership NHS Fotndation

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Trust provide community healthcare and mental health services.

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Families of vulnerable adults say they'll take legal action to stop

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a specialist residential care home from closing.

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Bystock Court, which cares for more than 40 people in Dxmouth,

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Relatives are worried their loved ones won't be able to

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Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has this exclusive report.

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Tom Spicer is 42 and has lived here at Bystock Court for more than 5

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years. Today he found out that they would close. Are people worried

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Yes. Is anyone excited? No. Tom needs space. He has a lot of friends

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around here, a lot of peopld he has known for a long time. I know that

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he was happy here. What happens next, I don't know. That re`lly

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worries me. These are the most vulnerable people in our society. We

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really do have a responsibility to care for them. Relatives gathered

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outside this afternoon after hearing the news. We are really concerned

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about the vulnerability. People who have lived in sheltered

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accommodation and wish to lhve in sheltered accommodation of their

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life are suddenly out into the community. They will have stpport

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that it is not going to be the same as the community they have had. It

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people open to abuse, I'm afraid. In people open to abuse, I'm afraid. In

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a statement, Devon sheltered homes said a decision had not been made

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lightly. They say, with a ntmber of customers, a similar servicd will

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not be viable in future. Thdy plan to provide care in smaller houses.

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I'm beside myself, I really am. I am so upset. At the end of the day it

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is pen pushers sat behind ddsks that don't care what is happening. I

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would like these decision`m`kers to take my brother for the weekend and

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look after him. They were to really understand what this place `ctually

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means to people like my brother The relatives say they will now take

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legal action to try to keep Bystock Court open.

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There's anger in North Devon this evening over plans for a power plant

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that would turn thousands of tonnes of rubbish into electricity.

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The development, near Great Torrington, would be the

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Local people are worried about both its size and about noise levels

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People here are worried abott what is planned for advanced not far from

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the end of the garden. Just over this had `` just over the other side

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of that tree, it's just going to be at the other side. A scheme that

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would turn rubbish into powdr. My concerns are the noise, the visual

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impact. It is going to be enormous. It is not a small plants, it is

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going to be enormous. I don't think people realise. I feel absolutely

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heartbroken. The couple's btngalow and scrap metal business is next to

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the landfill site which will soon be filled. A gasification plant is now

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instead. It will be heated tp to instead. It will be heated tp to

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create electricity. The schdme's chimney is bigger than the local

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church spire. The owners of Dick Morris Devon waste management argued

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that the noise and visual ilpact would be limited by the sitd, which

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has been excavated and is strrounded by trees. It takes time and landfill

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is rapidly running out. Tre`ting the waist and getting energy and heat

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from it is a viable long`term solution. A government inspdctor

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will decide later this year on the project's future. Locals sax after

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years of living with landfill, this is the last thing they wantdd to

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happen. It's been another busy day

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at the Commonwealth Games for There's been

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a fifth bronze medal for our competitors, it's make or break for

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Devon's Giselle Ansley in the hockey and Plymouth's Ben Proud eyds up

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more success in the swimming pool. With all that and more, we can join

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Spotlight's Dave Gibbins who's in Hi, Natalie. Here we are on the

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banks of the River Clyde. Wd start with the man he was proud to be

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called Ben. After winning gold at the weekend, in the 50 metrds

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butterfly, the question is can he repeated that sort of performance in

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the 50 metres freestyle? Th`t is the semifinal line`up tonight. He

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qualified this morning and loves on to the final tomorrow. This is one

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of Ben's most favourite events. I mean, it depends how everxone else

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is swimming but the 50 freestyle is I'll just see how it goes

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and expect good things. The Aussies took a two no h`lf`time

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lead, adding another one in the second half. It is all not lost for

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England because they have bdat Scotland on Wednesday and they will

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progress to the semifinals. Giselle Ansley bridge is a defender in the

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England team. She knows what needs to be done.

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All we can ask for is a really tough performance out there

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We're obviously moving forw`rd to the next game,

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So, yeah, it's looking really positivd.

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Congratulations to Sam. His clubmate from the bowling club in Torquay, he

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was 25 today, happy birthdax. She won her first round Paris g`me

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against the Cook Islands. On to athletics and the Cornish athlete,

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Jemma Simpson, who now resides in Oregon in the United date, was fifth

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in her heat today. She was the 2th fastest in the 1,500 metres. The

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final is tomorrow night at Hamden Park. That'll be around 10pl. It has

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been a busy day here in Glasgow There will be more family at the

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same time, same place, same channel tomorrow evening.

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A racehorse trainer is celebrating after scoring a hat trick

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Martin Hill says it was his best result to date.

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His jockey Hayden Frost says winning is in his blood.

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Not surprising when you consider his father won the Grand National

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Three winners in one fantastic day at Newton Abbot.

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One Devon jockey, Hayden Frost, and one trainer, Martin Hill.

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All local, all the owners wdre local, ridden by Hayden who I've

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His dad rode my very first winner in 1979 or something.

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Hayden's dad is none other than Jimmy Frost from Dartmoor.

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What do you think has rubbed off on you from your dad?

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We just get on a horse and ride first and then worry

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about what was supposed to be said or done afterwards.

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Would you like to win the Grand National?

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Martin says three winners in one day is big news, espdcially

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It would be the same as Martin Pipe or Paul Nicholls winning streak

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on the day because, as a percentage of what we got

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They don't come much better than this.

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Next tonight, a rare insect has stopped a Devon village

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The scaly cricket is so important that work can't go

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ahead in Branscombe on repahrs to damage caused by the winter storms!

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Some chalets were left hanghng in mid`air by the bad weathdr.

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But Natural England says thd species is important because it's only found

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Spotlight's environment correspondent Adrian

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Branscombe Beach was devast`ted by this winter's storms.

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Beach huts were left hanging in thin air and since then,

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there's been a concerted effort by local people to reconstrtct

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On a sunny day such as todax, you expect to see lots

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of people enjoying themselvds on the beach but, when it comes to scaly

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crickets, it's very difficult to find them here amongst the shingles.

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Scaly crickets are a rare phenomenon which

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I think the scaly crickets have a lot to do with it.

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If it wasn't the scaly cricket, I think Natural England might look

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at things differently and might allow the National Trust

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to let us move some of the shingle up the beach, which

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would be the natural thing to do to support the topple afore shore.

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The shingle out the water's level can be washed away, whereas

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if you pull it back up you got a chance of more shingle to build.

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One of the people with a ch`let on the beach says the scaly cricket

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is effectively making it impossible for him and his wife to rep`ir

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It's also because the great storms in Februarx damaged

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quite a lot of the chalets `nd the infrastructure and the roads.

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We are now being told that we can't do remedial work, possibly

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Natural England confirmed it's very well aware of the potential delays

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to the re`profiling of the beach after the winter storms.

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It confirmed it has requestdd a survey be carried out abott

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the scaly cricket, which it says has a particular impact and importance

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within Branscombe and the special site of scientific interest here.

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A retired pub landlord who lost his ?500 watch, found it again when its

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Yes. Terry Morgan was planning to spend

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the vet to retrieve it for him, although in the end the dog managed

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Spotlight's South Devon reporter John Ayres has the story.

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A timepiece ticking away inside an animal might seem

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like something from Peter P`n, but this was no fairytale.

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He thought his dog Charlie might have something

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to do with it but he had not expected him to have eaten ht.

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I lost my watch, couldn't find it anywhere.

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Later in the afternoon, I heard the alarm going off.

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I moved the dog and pushed around and put my ear to

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his chest and could hear the alarm going off inside him.

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Terry Morgan is retired now that used to be the landlord of

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This was because of this that he found his w`tch

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And it still goes off now and you haven't changed it?

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Charlie was taken to the vet and Terry was facing

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They said I would have to ldave them overnight, they would operate

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Do an x`ray first and see what's what with hil.

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They rang me at 9 AM and sahd he has coughed the watch up.

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So they did an x`ray to makd sure there was nothing else inside

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Now moving home is never easy but it's even harder if you're taking

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But the South West Film and TV archive has done just that!

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It took them six weeks but they're now in new premhses

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1935 and Plymouth celebrates King George V's Silver Jubilee. The film

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captures not only a unique dvent but also accords `` records what the

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city looked like a few years before a German bombs rained down on it.

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Just as Old Street were destroyed, old ones were created. Thesd films

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and thousands like them werd until recently stored at the Royal yards.

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The South West Film and TV @rchive has moved out to make way for a new

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hotel. We have over 20,000 reels of film.

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We have tens of thousands of tapes, as well. Planning how to move all of

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that material to three diffdrent locations within our new prdmises

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was extremely challenging. The collection now lives in Catherine

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Street in Plymouth city centre, which was once home to BBC radio

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Devon. Older news items frol West for a TV, DFW and the BBC are now

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held here. It gives me great pleasure to open

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the tame our bridge. The films `` it appears that the nature of TV hasn't

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evolved much over the years. We still have Royal visits and man`made

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and natural disasters. Therd are plans for a new heritage centre in

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Plymouth in a year's time. @ multi`million pound developlent on

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the site of the city's musetm could be ready archive ends up

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permanently. We are intending to create a major visitors attraction

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that secures the city's historic collections. We want to use those

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collections to really tell the story of Plymouth. What was making the new

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16 years ago this week? An dscaped convict on Dartmoor and a robot

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cricket bowling machine at ` boy's School in Tavistock.

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We had temperatures of 28 ddgrees on Saturday. That shows you thd

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difference. Good evening. For most difference. Good evening. For most

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of us, you will appreciate that because it has been pretty worn and

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uncomfortably warm night. Nhght`time temperatures this week much lower.

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Temperatures tonight around 13 or 14 degrees. The week ahead is not

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completely dry buddies `` it is cooler. Dry for most of the week but

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we will see some showers develop towards the end the week. Until

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then, some fine weather arotnd. Not a completely blue sky as we saw last

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week. Certainly not the samd heat. One weather system Mr Flint would

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not overnight and through the day tomorrow. This is a clutch of

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showers we have seen recently, moving away into being this channel.

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This line of showers is a f`irly weak affair, arriving in thd

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afternoon tomorrow. It incrdases the amount of cloud in the sky. We might

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see a shower after that. For Wednesday, fine and dry. Showers we

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have seen today have been pretty lively. Nothing compare to what we

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have seen the south`east of England. Over the top of Dartmoor, otr

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cameraman caught a glimpse of some heavy showers. Every now and then,

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we got a drenching over Dartmoor. Some fairly spectacular clotd

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structure as well. The clear skies that we havd now

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will continue overnight. We may see a few showers drifting into words

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the coast. Much of the night is clear and dry. A few degrees Celsius

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colder than last night. He struggled last night, temperatures will be

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cooler. Over the high ground, temperatures down as low as 12

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degrees. Tomorrow we will h`ve the best of the sunshine in the morning.

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By the afternoon, all this cloud By the afternoon, all this cloud

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coming down from the North. Perhaps a few showers drifting into the

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north coast of Cornwall and Devon. Remaining dry. The highest

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temperatures are we hold onto the sunshine for longest. Part of the ``

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parts around Torbay up to 24 degrees. Most of us around 20 or 21

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degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, a bright morning much more in the way

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of cloud in the afternoon. Not as breezy as today. Signs of hhgh

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water, at Penzance it's 60 4am. For our starters, more weight this week

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compared to last week. Up to about four feet. Cleaner on the south

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coast. The sea temperatures still doing very well at around 18

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degrees. The coastal waters forecast, the winds are

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north`westerly forced three to four. The outlook is turning a little bit

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more unsettled as we head towards the end of the week. It is lore

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chance of a few showers turning up on Thursday. They will be lhght and

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fleeting, very isolated. An increasing chance of widespread

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showers as we move into Friday. Wind direction is from the West with

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Northwest, all the way throtgh this week. That means lower tempdratures

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during the daytime. Perhaps a bit We will be back with the late news

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and weather at 10:25pm. That's all from us for now. Have a lovdly

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I leave the ashram, travel halfway across the world to find my father,

:27:57.:28:00.

Oh, well. As Vashrati says, gotta keep smiling!

:28:01.:28:08.

We don't tend to use the bathroom together here.

:28:09.:28:11.

All right, well, I'll catch you later.

:28:12.:28:12.

This ashram of yours, it might be a cult.

:28:13.:28:16.

I take it back, he's definitely Cuckoo's son.

:28:17.:28:19.

I just feel like my whole body's been taken over by an alien.

:28:20.:28:30.

She's my age. She's four years younger than you, Mum,

:28:31.:28:40.

Nine of 'em made redundant. What?

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