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Spotlight can reveal the true extent tonight of the impact of TB | :00:16. | :01:37. | |
Latest figures show more than 16,000 herds are infected. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Although numbers are falling, the cost to farmers | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
and taxpayers from these cases alone is more than ?54 million. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
But is a further cull of badgers the right answer? | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
Spotlight's environment correspondent Adrian Campbell | :01:48. | :01:48. | |
Save our badgers! Campaigners stood outside the High Court in London | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
this afternoon while inside the legal arguments put forward by the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Badger Trust were being considered. The trust says independent experts | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
should monitor any future culls of badgers, as they did recently in | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
West Somerset and Gloucestershire. They'll already beginning to say | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
they will put in an independent assessment but they do not want a | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
full panel. They are halfway to where we want them to be. Let's get | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
a full scrutiny report done. It is what MPs and the public want. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
According to Defra, Devon had the most herds affected by bovine TB as | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
of May this year but at the South West counties have also been | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
severely affected. Overall, there has been a slight decline compared | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
with the same period last year, but a single outbreak costs the farm on | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
average around ?14,000, and the taxpayer ends up paying around | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
?20,000. Farming plays an important part in the South West's economy and | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
for the National Farmers' Union, today's events at the High Court in | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
London are an unnecessary distraction. They say the situation | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
here is serious and cannot be solved by controls on capital alone. We | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
have taken out 32,000 cattle in 2013, 4700 more businesses went | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
down. So we cannot go on like that. That is unsustainable. The debate | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
about the need for a badger cull have been well rehearsed over the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
years but with the next pilot culls just weeks away, it seems important | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
that the Badger Trust have lost faith in the political process. When | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
you sue figures that came out last year and then were revised `` saw | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
figures, trust has gone right at the flipping window. But at this | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
agricultural show in Dorset, views about culling badgers are mixed. It | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
would be nice to have vaccination rather than shooting badgers. As | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
much as I love to see badgers in the countryside, I do support a | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
controlled cull and I think it is the only way forward. Defra told us | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
it would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings but it | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
says it has already acted on recommendations from the independent | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
panel of experts following last year's pilot culls. We would like to | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
know what you think about the badger cull. Please get in touch with | :04:24. | :04:46. | |
Thousands of pupils from across the South West have been | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
And a school in Devon has more more reasons to celebrate than most. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
From being put in so`called special measures less | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
than a year ago, results at Westlands in Torquay are up. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
I got an A* for additional science... | :04:59. | :05:14. | |
Abigail Lawless has notched up a string of As and A*s, which is | :05:15. | :06:52. | |
Elsewhere, students at Plymouth City College | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
were celebrating a 3% improvement in their overall pass rate. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
I had this horrible doubt I would fail and I hadn't done as well, so | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
I got a C in English and a D in maths. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
I was seven marks off a C, so I'm a bit gutted | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
but I've only got to retake one paper, so November here I come. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
In some subjects here, like maths, geography and sociology, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Some notable achievements there ` and later in the programme, | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
we'll see how some of you have been celebrating your exam success. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
But academic qualifications aren't everyone's choice, | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
and in the past year Cornwall College has seen a 20% increase in | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
And nearly all of them go on to get a permanent job. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Spotlight's Leigh Rundle has been finding out why on`the`job | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Surprise Mac You get a qualification at the end of it, which is what | :07:46. | :08:09. | |
everyone wants. Becky left school at 16 and had a number of dead`end jobs | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
before she applied for an apprenticeship. She has now been | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
taken on full`time. Do not let your qualifications to hold you back. You | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
will find your way around to get the career you want. Up until December, | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
participating businesses received a ?1500 grant for each apprentice. You | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
would think it would be financial but at the end of the day, it is all | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
about getting the right people in your team. We were able to train her | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
the way that we like and to operate on the cars in the way that we | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
approve, if you like. And see that we have got a long`term employee. A | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
sentiment shared by James. That is my father, in the farmyard, and that | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
is his cousin... His firm was established in 1880. Back then, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
everyone started off as an apprentice. Lots of people always | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
worked for the family and they have come into the trade and he would be | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
surprised how many people have got a bit of history in the meat trade | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
somewhere. For 19`year`old to two, this company has been a godsend. `` | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
for this 19`year`old. I quit college because I had had enough of it. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Where would you like to be in 20 years' time? Maybe have my own shop | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
and company. It would be nice. This year alone, 1700 young people have | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
been found on the job training by Cornwall College and there are still | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
200 places available. Around 99% of our apprentices are either employed, | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
employed with that business or they go on and get a job with another | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
business. And some of our learners have also go on to set up their own | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
businesses as well. So if you're GCSE results today were not all you | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
had hoped for, don't despair. Think outside the box. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
500 lorry`loads of earth will be used to create an embankment to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
protect more homes on the Somerset Levels which were left under several | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Work has begun in the village of Thorney ` | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
The first few bucketfuls of earth being scraped away | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
in a scheme that will eventually use 10,000 tonnes of soil. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Thorney's householders came to watch the start of the digging, | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
the first part of a plan that should stop their | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
If the river breaches its banks again, when the water | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
rushes down here it will be stopped and therefore protect the village | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Just a mile up the road from Muchelney, | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Almost every house had their ground floor under water. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Gradually over the day, the water crept up, went through | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
About six inches of water throughout. | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
For us personally, this is brilliant because it means | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
we can be 99% positive that it won't happen to us again this coming | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
The hill being built here, known as bund, will be around two | :11:34. | :11:47. | |
`` a bund. metres high and 300 metres long. | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
Even so, it will require 500 lorry`loads of soil. | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
It's very important and it's been a lot of hard work by a lot | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
It is very important that it's built and hopefully that will prevent some | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
The record rainfall in January and February this year gave planners | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
a top figure of just how high the waters came. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
These defences and many more are being designed to | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
exceed that height and should be finished by October in time to be | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
New figures show that house prices in Cornwall are more expensive | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
relative to average earnings than in London. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
The National Housing Federation says that over the last year, the average | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
price of a Cornish home has risen to more than ?223,000 ` 12.6 times | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
This man has been jailed for abusing two girls after he made a failed | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
suicide attempt and left a note in which he admitted his crime. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
67`year`old Reginald Lawson, from Tiverton, | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
assaulted the girls when they were aged between seven and ten. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
The court heard he was a pillar of the community. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
The Chairman of Plymouth University's board | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
of governors has stepped aside from his role whilst an investigation | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
continues into allegations of sexual harrassment of staff. | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
Judge William Taylor denies the allegations. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
The board said today it accepted his decision, | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
recognising that he has put the interests of the university first. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
Plymouth Leander swimmer Ben Proud has missed out on the final | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
of the 100 metres freestyle at the European Championships in Berlin. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
The 19`year`old University of St Mark and St John scholar | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
finished seventh in his semifinal, just two days after winning bronze | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Proud has two more events this week in which to win another medal. | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
It was the stretch of water where in 2012 Sir Ben Ainslie made Olympic | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
history, clinching his fourth gold medal in successive games to become | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Today international competitors were once again tackling | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the conditions off Dorset although they are a little young to | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Paul Brennan reports from the Weymouth and Portland National | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Sailing Academy which is hosting the Cadet World Championships. | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
Pinning their hopes and colours to the mast, these youngsters have | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
spent the last week competing fully position in the Cadet World | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
Championships. 48 countries have been taking part. It is a really | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
nice regatta and there are a lot of other nationalities. Went you are | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
out there racing one simple steak and you are at the back of the | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
fleet. It is really good fun racing against this high level of | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
competition. We are doing quite well. You are doing very well! These | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
championships were first held in 1947. Barry Steele won back in 1957 | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
with his brother, Rodney, and today was on hand to offer advice. I would | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
love to be out there doing it again. It is a wonderful sport. We have | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
done so well in Britain. We are an island nation and love it. Just to | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
be afloat and enjoy the fresh air and the inspiring others around the | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
world is just a unique thing. More people should give it. The courts | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
are certainly smiling on these young sailors, with clear visibility and a | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
force three went the positions are perfect for some serious | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
competition. `` the courts. The competition was the design of a | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
sailor who believes the world's youth should hold hands around the | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
world. With such a world class location, this area has already | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
hosted national events this year as it continues to build on the success | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
of the 2012 Olympics. It helps cement became's legacy. The Town | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
gained immense reputation both in appearance from the fantastic shots | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
on the wealth given to the sailors as well. People want to come back. | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
If we do our job right and give them a good time, they will keep coming | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
back. With one more day of competition to go, the race for the | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
trophy appears to be between Britain and Australia. There is a whole | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
calendar of major races of Dorset and big events are seen as | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
increasingly important to our tourism industry. They often sealed | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
the deal for holiday`makers thinking about booking. Out on the water | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
alone there are offence for powerboats and trawlers. This week, | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
tens of thousands of people are visiting Fowey for the Royal | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
Regatta. I believe the red arrows have been there? What would you | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
expect from a regatta? Spectacular racing, of course. Big crowds, yes. | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
The Red Arrows, well, they were incredible. But record`breaking | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
pasty eaters might be a surprise. Today, Cammack has enjoyed it all | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
and the spirit of competition was not just out on the water. `` Fowey | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
has enjoyed it all. How fast can you eat a pasty? For Andreas, it is a | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
matter of pride. He is keen to show off his skills but can he beat his | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
record from last year? Last year 49 seconds was the fastest time. If I | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
can do that or just below that I will be very happy. While he plans | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
his strategy, a host of races are out to thrill spectators. For more | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
than 100 years, the town has laid host to the regatta. Tens of | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
thousands of people come to the area. Biggar I come every year and | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
thoroughly enjoy it. We get here two hours before it starts. It is | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
beautiful. The children like the red and rose. It is nice and warm today. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
It is usually raining so it is quite good! It must be very good for the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
time, a huge amount of money spent in the local shops. A special treat | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
tonight are the Red Arrows, who never fail to thrill the crowd. It | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
gives you a birds flying the aircraft. Everybody applauding. They | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
love it. For the pasty eaters, tensions were high. For some, | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
disappointment. Two minutes 13, not amazingly happy. At least I finished | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
it. For others, a three`minute hard`fought battle. Could you eat | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
another one? No, I am done for today, thank you! And for Andreas, | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
after unbroken success for seven years, it was 45 seconds of pure | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
pasty eating glory. CHEERING | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
So what skills do you think you have? I have just got a big throat. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
The others are going, into their second minute. So you will finish of | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
the leftovers? No! I hope that hasn't put you off your past is too | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
much, but back to the more serious competition, and phrasing has been | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
going on all day. I am joined by Commander Chris Morgan from the race | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
committee. How important is this event? Very important because it is | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
our premier event of the year. We raced normally from April through to | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
the end of September, October, but this obviously is a wonderful event | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
and we get quite a lot of entries down here and we have had some good | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
sailing. What have weather conditions been like for you? Sunday | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
and Monday, the yachts raced to Falmouth and back from Falmouth and | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
that was very good. Tuesday was very good, too. Wednesday we had lots of | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
sunshine but we didn't have much wind and sailing races do not really | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
go very well with no wind. But today we have had a very good day. And you | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
are hopeful for the rest of the week? It is looking pretty good. And | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Malcolm paling from the event organisers, this event has been | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
going on for 100 years, how important is it to Fowey? Really | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
important, socially and economically. It is a time when | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
friends and family get`together. It is very important economically as | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
well. It is a tourism time. It brings a huge number of visitors, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
very often the same ones year after year and all the businesses | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
contribute to the whole week of fun. And the Red Arrows have literally | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
just flown overhead and amazed us all. How spectacular are they and | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
how important are they to us? They are the big draw of the week. This | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
is clearly our busiest day. The Town is packed. We understand that the | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Red Arrows think of Fowey is one of their favourite locations because | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the backdrop of the scenery is come from entry to their display. What | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
can we expect for the rest of the weekend? More entertainment, with | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
music, a children's Sunday, they last night at the Proms racing, a | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
giant pasty in the next half an hour or so or so, so lots more for | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
everybody to enjoy. Thank you. With the bank holiday weekend ahead of | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
this, it looks like there will be plenty more fun for everyone here. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
More on the bank holiday weather in a moment but first, many of you have | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
been in touch about our main story, the badger cull. The legal challenge | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
to it. Thank you. David Faber is what he calls a very controlled | :22:39. | :22:48. | |
cull. Michael says there is no need for a cull. He says let farmers get | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
rid of sick badgers on their land. Jackie says put a badge of vaccine | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
in food and put it outside badger sets. Thank you for your comments. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
As we have been mentioning, there is a bank holiday looming, and as | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
nature would have it, that means the weather is going to change. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
It will start well, but yes, towards the end of the bank holiday, things | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
going badly. This was just outside Exeter today. | :23:21. | :23:34. | |
Some fairly grey skies. Pretty dry ground despite showers through | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
today. But the most notable thing about this cloud is going to be how | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
much milder to write is. With all that cloud in`place temperatures | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
will not be dropping as they have done. `` how much milder tonight is. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Much milder tonight, and tomorrow will be much brighter. Plenty of | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
sunny spells coming through and it is going to be mostly dry. On the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
satellite you can see the extent of that cloud that has been screaming | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
its way across us through the day. Grey skies to be had and it is | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
thanks to this low pressure. The whole weather front is moving its | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
way across us tonight. That will lead to heavy showers in the early | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
hours but behind it, brighter skies and tomorrow is better and Saturday | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
pretty decent. But this is the feature we're keeping our eyes on. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
That is arriving towards the end of Sunday and influencing our weather | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
on bank holiday Monday. A lot of cloud around. Bright spells here and | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
there. Also if you showers. As we pushed through tonight, we will see | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
the showers tending to pep up. `` a few showers. Mostly quite cloudy, | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
quite a plus picture. Temperatures so different from the past couple of | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
nights. Down to around three or 4 degrees. In most places hovering in | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
double figures. If you early showers but they should clear away quite | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
nicely and we get some sunshine coming out behind. Still quite a | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
breezy wind admittedly and that will add to the cool feel of the day. But | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
find yourself a bit of shelter. Get out in the sunshine. Fairly | :25:25. | :25:25. | |
pleasant. But the Isles of Scilly, much | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
brighter tomorrow. Just one or two showers. Still the cool breeze | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
blowing. And if we take a look at the waves | :25:39. | :25:53. | |
for surfers... Biggest waves generally on the North coast | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
tomorrow. They will ease up a bit through the day. Generally messy | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
conditions on the North coast. With the wind coming in from the North | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
West, some of the spots on our South coast could pick up clean conditions | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
with the waves a little bit smaller. For the next few days, as you saw, | :26:10. | :26:25. | |
Saturday looks like a nice day. One or two showers, generally dry with | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
some sunshine. Sunday starts cold. We could see a touch of grass frost. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Cloud will thicken through the afternoon with rain pushing in | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
towards the end of Sunday and overnight. As I mentioned earlier, | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
it is going to be a showery and blustery picture for bank holiday | :26:45. | :26:45. | |
Monday. Would you like us to end the | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
programme with some happy news? I think so. Let's go back to GCSE | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
results. Some of you have been getting into touch with self ease. | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Congratulations to Amy. The young farmer. She e`mailed us to say she | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
has made the grades to get onto her agricultural course. Alison says she | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
was proud of her grade C in English. Also Charlotte has achieved a C for | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
her level one science exam. Heather says art is her passion so she's | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
very happy to have received an A*. And Elspeth wanted to thank all head | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
teachers in South Malton. She is most proud of her A* in English. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Congratulations to each and every one of them. We would leave you now | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
with a scene at Fowey in Regatta week. | :27:48. | :27:51. |