30/07/2014 Spotlight

a UN school and a crowded marketplace in Gaza. That is `ld

from The controversial artist is

backing plans for 750 homes. This is going to increase the

population by 20%. It will lake the town more viable.

It's hoped increased testing and more support for treatment could

And diving into the medal places at the Commonwealth Games ` Plxmouth

750 new homes could now be built in Illfracombe on land owned

The development would incre`se the size of the North Devon town by 20%.

Spotlight's Janine Jansen is there for us tonight.

Damien Hirst is reportedly the world's richest living artist. Last

year he deleted this statue. `` donated. Today planning perlission

was granted to build 750 holes. Do people think he is taking over the

town? There is the Galilee which sells his

work. And there is this giant sculpture. Bat there is the art

gallery which sells his work. This is going to increase the

population by 20%. It will lake the town more viable. This is a

development that Damien Hirst is personally involved in. It will not

just be a suburb. There are plans for a primary school and a ledical

centre and space for businesses People have broadly welcomed the

proposals. It is brilliant. It will bring 800 houses. It can only be for

the better. We need younger people coming in and shopping and laking

the town more relevance. Not everyone is happy. Todax members

of the public voiced their concerns. They are proposing 75

houses and making a small area for employment. There is no guarantee

there will be any employers coming in at all. You have got to get the

employment first. The developers say there is scope for 350 jobs. The

amount of affordable housing being offered is currently 10%.

We tried to get hold of Damhen Hirst for his response, but we have had no

word from him. His architect says he wants to build something th`t he is

proud of and homes that he would like to live in. Further pl`nning

meetings will follow to address the concerns raised today. It whll take

between ten and 15 years to complete this development.

Spotlight has learned that a significant threat to jobs still

hangs over the Land Registrx, an important employer in Plxmouth

and Weymouth, despite a dechsion not to go ahead with privatisathon.

Management has written to staff saying it may be 15% over c`pacity.

Our business correspondent Neil Gallacher reports.

The Land Registry has long provided some of the most most highlx valued

jobs in Plymouth and Weymouth. Just like the Met Office it's a trading

arm of the civil service. 640 staff work at Derriford in Plymouth where

its main computer systems are based and another 200 staff work on the

Granby industrial estate in Weymouth. All talk of privatisation

was shelved by ministers earlier this month, but we've seen details

of the jobs threat that still hangs over the organisation from changes

management are planning. An e`mail from the chief land registr`r says,

over the next couple of years we estimate that the efficiencx

we can deliver will create capacity to free up approximately 15$ of the

workforce. That capacity max result in people being redeployed on to

other work, but that may also mean some staff reductions. The d`mail

adds that any staff reductions are very unlikely to be achieved through

natural wastage alone. 15% of staff in Plymouth would be nearly 100

jobs. On the other hand there were fears among unions that

privatisation might have taken out four times as many posts.

We are glad that the threat of privatisation and more Draconian

cuts has gone, at least in the short term. My members will be concerned

at what the cuts mean because we can't see where they're going to

come from. The union says workloads

have increased at the Registry which records all property deals hn

England and Wales. No Land Registry managers were giving

interviews. The police watchdog has refdrred

the death of a Plymouth man to the Crown Prosecution Service,

after interviewing the officers who'd responded to

an emergency call to his hotse. The Independent Police Complaints

Commission says two officers went to Andrew Pimlott's home in Honicknowle

in April last year. Mr Pimlott sustained serious burn

injuries and died later in hospital. The Crown Prosecution Service will

now decide whether one officer should face criminal charges

in connection with his death. A mural painted by Rolf Harris in a

dressing room at Plymouth's Theatre Royal is to be covered up. Ht

follows his conviction for ` series of indecent assaults against girls.

Harris painted the self`portrait in 1994 when he starred in Jack and the

Beanstalk. A theatre spokeslan said it was currently protected by

Perspex, but that it will bd covered A pilot scheme is under way

in Cornwall in a bid to tackle About 1,400 people in the county are

currently known to have the virus, The scheme aims to increase

testing and offer more Cornwall was chosen

because the population is more stable than many other parts of the

country and this makes assessing the If it?s successful it will be

rolled out across England. Ronnie is 64 and lives in St Ives.

He has been aware he's had hepatitis C

for ten years. He has had treatment in the past, but it didn't work

and now he has developed liver cancer.

I thought it was some sort of blood disease, like any other

blood disease that I would go away. I did not realise it was so complex

and needed so much treatment. I have got tumours on my liver now and I

need to re`engage with the hepatitis team and get it sorted

out. Stuart Smith is leading the

new project. He says what they want to do in Cornwall is to track down

as many people as possible before they develop more serious sxmptoms

by using a joined up approach between a drug and alcohol charity,

the community, and the medical services.

The message in the community will encourage a lot of

people to come forward and get tested. We are going to be `ble to

engage people that we know who have got hep C to get in touch whth us

and now ask them if they would like to get re`engaged

with the hospital. Hepatitis C is

contracted mainly through injecting drugs, but it can be caught in other

ways involving needles and blood such as tattooing or blood

transfusions. Around 215,000 people are known to have the virus in the

UK. 20,000 of them are in the South West and around 1,400 are in

Cornwall. It cuts across all social classes

and can be hard to diagnose without a test because it is often

symptom`free. There are several

different things that are going on here. First of all, awareness of the

disease. People are aware about hepatitis C and they `re

aware about risk factors for acquiring the virus.

Something that you may have done in your tdens

injected drugs on one occashon, but now you are a banker at the age of

40, you could have hepatitis C and be completely unaware of thd

disease. At this moment hep`titis C treatment is changing quite

radically. In 2015 there will be pills available for hepatiths C

treatment that you take for about 12 weeks

with a 90% plus cure rate. If

successful in Cornwall, the national charity supporting the pilot plans

to roll the scheme out across the country with the aim of wiphng out

hepatitis C within 15 years. We spoke to someone from thd

hepatitis C trust. It is wonderful. It is an exciting partnershhp. It

will increase testing and treatment rates throughout Cornwall. We are

all very excited about it. What caught `` what sort of diffdrence

could it make? It could makd a vast difference. This could make a huge

difference. It is sometimes different `` it is sometimes

difficult for people to know that they have hepatitis C. What is the

potential treatment? There `re various treatments. A big p`rt of

this project is a service that will enable people who have been through

treatment to be matched with a person that is going through

treatment. In Cornwall transport can be difficult. We are thinking that

when we have lots of people matched up together they can providd support

to each other and therefore increase the compliance on treatment. Because

those symptoms remain head for many years what sort of people are you

aiming this at? Who should be getting tested? There are a growing

number of people who were confessed `` who were infected in the 197 s.

Anybody who had a blood transfusion before 1992 should get in touch

They need to follow that up. Anybody who has injected jugs. We h`ve got

an ageing population of people who may have had it for 30 years. They

are reaching a tipping point. It is urgent that people get testdd.

The company which will run the new incinerator being built in Plymouth

has told the BBC the waste will have to be transported to the Netherlands

MVV, which runs the plant, says it?s still looking

for a local solution but th`t could take a year or more to sort out

Our Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports.

Construction of the new plant is underway.

It will go from the site towards the docks at Plymouth. It will be loaded

onto ships. It will go to Holland. It will be taken to a site West of

Amsterdam. MVV has been unvdiling the new community space close to the

plant. A local councillor told as the waste ash should be processed

locally and as soon as posshble It is odd that heaven is happy to send

the waste to Plymouth and is not willing to accept the ash. Bat that

Devon is happy. We are moving house because we do not want to r`ise our

trials in close proximity to this plant. In a few years peopld will

not even notice. MVV says the majority of the waste is nontoxic.

For now it is keen to show off the enormous fire grate which whll

create the ash. The hot gasds go up above us into the furnace. Then we

turn it into useful energy. It is the waste ash that relains a

problem. People here celebr`ted when MVV was told it could not go ahead

with plans to treat the ash at a nearby quarry. No MVV is looking

elsewhere for local storage for the waste.

The South West is celebrating further success in the

So far, Plymouth Leander swhmmer Ben Proud tops the region's medal

He was victorious in the men's 50m freestyle, and 50m fly.

He also has a bronze medal for his part in England's 4X100m

Divers Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow took silver in the women's

There was silver too for Devon's Natalie Melmore on the

bowling green, where Sam Tolchard took a bronze in the men's pairs.

Back in the pool, and Exeter's Liam Tancock took

Celebrations are being planned in Devon to honour

He trains with the Plymouth Leander club and goes to the University

Emma Thomasson has been getting reaction to his success.

Plymouth's golden boy. He slashed through the water to claim his third

medal last night. He won thd first gold last Friday. He also took a

bronze medal in the relay. H am really happy with that. There are

plans to celebrate his achidvements at the start of the autumn term when

he is back studying. Athletds in these events do not mature tntil

their mid`20s. He is achievhng the success at a young age. We `re

hopeful that he can go all the way. There is already a place in the Hall

of Fame at the University. He has delivered 100%. This institttion is

sport mad. He is officially the fastest man in the water in the

Commonwealth. There are high hopes when he gets to take on the rest of

the world at the 2016 Olymphcs. South West success in

the water continued today, `s Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow took silver

in the ten metre synchro diving As Brent Pilnick reports,

they almost came away with After their flight home madd an

emergency landing last week, they are used to delays. That is just as

well because our problem with this cooling equipment held up the

contest. But the Plymouth jewel took the

read. But then the Canadian pair put in an

excellent final dive. The Plymouth peer were just over

three marks behind and had to settle for second place. We did not expect

a medal so we are pleased whth silver. It is the tightest of

margins in the toughest of fields. We are really pleased with silver.

Nobody dies at their best. `` nobody performed at the best.

Tomorrow there will hopefully be more medals.

Let us talk more about this fantastic success.

How are they feeling about just missing out on gold? They wdre

ecstatic about getting a Commonwealth medal. Their training

had not gone so well during the week. They have had a fantastic year

on the world circuit. They were first after all four rounds. In the

final round they did not produce their best score, but they felt they

had done enough. They felt deserved the gold. They were not expdcting

the goals, but they felt th`t they deserved it.

And they are in the individtal event tomorrow.

This is a massive event. Thdy want to get the medals. It is a big scale

competition. As long as she holds her nerve she will be fantastic

Tom Daley will be appealing. That was confirmed today. `` Tom Daley

will be taking part. He will be showing everybodx that he

is still number one in the world. The Chinese will not be there. He

will be wanting goals in thd individual. `` wanting a gold medal.

And lining up beside him is another diver for Plymouth.

It is a real treat for him to be there. I have watched him train He

will be fantastic. Meanwhile Devon's Sophie Tolchard is

one match away The bowler from Torquay's Khngs Club

is part of the England team that have made it to the semifin`ls

of the women's triples. Meanwhile her brother Sam is through

to the last eight Silver medal`winning bowler

Natalie Melmore has the chance of getting on the podium for a second

time after making it through to the Now have you ever heard of `n Olly,

a flare or a turn`down ? Don't worry,

neither did our reporter Chloe Axford, but after a sdssion

at the South West's newest hndoor And as she found out,

The Lodge in Newton Abbot, has been designed as a safe place for young

people to skateboard, scootdr and BMX and hopefully learn some

useful life skills in the process. Welcome

to The Lodge. Devon's newest indoor skate park. This is one of the

teenage volunteers here. He has just qualified to teach skateboarding.

They are not just giving us a skate park. They are giving us a community

to work into. It is keeping kids from doing bad stuff. They

are just helping us. I would ask anybody to

pick up one of these sports because you just can't get enough joy out of

it. The Lodge is a social enterprise

designed in an era of counchl spending cuts to be self funding.

The woman behind it says shd wanted to be a safe space for young people

to hang out and make their own. The name has come from the

young people because they w`nted to be a place they can call thdir own,

a place that they can come, like a second home to them. A lot of these

young people are disengaged young Good evening. We have got a change

in the forecast. It is more unsettled. It is cloudy with the

risk of showers. There will be a few showers around the middle of the

day. The cloud has been extdnsive. But at least it has been drx.

Tomorrow there will be more cloud in the sky. More persistent rahn on

Friday. A lovely evening thhs evening. The cloud bands th`t drifts

down will bring showers by tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow there will be a lot of cloud. There will be a line of

showers. Some sunny spells possible, but not a great ddal of

sunshine. Commonwealth Games it is not a

particularly good day tomorrow. Turning more shabbily on Frhday And

we have a similar weather p`ttern. Temperatures where they shotld be

for this time of year. We have been talking about the

success of this region at the Commonwealth games. We will be

speaking to the swimming co`ch who has been key to this success

tomorrow. Goodbye.