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The local authorities on a collision course over the waste bill. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
So could we soon have to carry a permit to go to the tip? | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The problem is people who p`y council tax | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
in one area are sometimes dtmping their rubbish in another | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Pulled out of auction, but can local save a piece of history? | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
A community in North Cornwall is rallying round to save this engine | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
house which the Duchy of Cornwall was planning to sell. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
We are on the scaffolding n`tural cathedral to find out why the | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
stonemasons working here once again. `` Truro . | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
A turf war is beginning to break out as local authorities | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
in Devon clash over who is `llowed to use which tip. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
More councils now say they don't want people living outside their | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
area coming in with their w`ste even if their homes are close by. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
It's because of the cost of disposing of it. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
At one site, Devon County Council claims about | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
a fifth of carloads come from the neighbouring authority of Torbay. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
It's now considering banning those residents. | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
Other authorities are also concerned about the bill being left | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
But trying to identify wherd everybody comes from won't be easy. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
In some parts of London people have to carry | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Here's our Environment Correspondent, Adrian Campbdll. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
At the Brunel Road Recycling Centre in Newton Abbot, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
people arrive with all kinds of rubbish they want to disposd of but | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
In fact, quite a lot come from Torbay, which has an | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
independent authority responsible for managing its own waste. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
They are much friendlier to start with. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
I can then go on to Newton @bbot and see my dad. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
They should be encouraging us to recycle. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Devon County Council says it is quite happy | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
for anyone to come to one of its centres to pick up a bargain. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
But it is not happy about people from outside the area | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Devon says at the site around 20% users come from Torbay. | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
It is claimed that costs Devon's taxpayers more than ?190,000 a year. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
But Devon residents who we spoke to at the site said they think trying | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
to control who brings the rdcycling here would be impossible to enforce. | :02:30. | :02:43. | |
I think you should be able to take it anywhere you want, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Torbay says local authoritids in Devon have worked togethdr over | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
They say problems began at a Plymouth site. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Torbay says this site is the first to control who brhngs | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
in waste and says that has to be cooperation between authorities | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Do we have to start getting petty and saying, ?Actually, if you live | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
We will send you on a 20`mile detour to go to Newton Abbot.? | :03:08. | :03:19. | |
What is the environmental ilpact on that? | :03:20. | :03:20. | |
Plymouth told us it had introduced changes a year ago, it says it is | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
under financial pressure and says every tonne of waste that goes into | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
In some London boroughs, residents already have to show a pass when | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Perhaps it could be commonplace in the South West. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
A community in North Cornwall is being trged to | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
rally round to save a historic engine house which the Duchx | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Prince Charles' estate has temporarily postponed | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
an auction to sell off the site near Tintagel to give locals | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Just outside Tintagel is north Cornwall's only | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Used to haul slate and pump water until the 1890s, it's popul`r with | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
tourists and dog walkers, but now the owner, the Duchx of | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Cornwall, is planning to sell it and the 45 acres of land it sits in | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
The auctioneers for this site say they had `lready | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
had a lot of interest, mainly from individuals both locally and further | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
afield, keen they say to own a slice of the iconic Cornish countryside. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
But the community only found out about | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
the sale when they saw the signs and after approaching Prince Ch`rles' | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
estate the auction that would have been held today has been postponed. | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
They should have let the parish council know what the antichpated, | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
so we could be aware of the situation. I don't know what we | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
could be aware of the situation I don't know what it on hold. It is up | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
to the parish people and sed what they think. | :05:04. | :05:04. | |
The proposed sale isn't going down well, because it was a group | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
of volunteers who back in the 1 70s raised the funds and put in the work | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
One of those is Councillor John Lugg, | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
who says they won't be able to find the ?40,000 guide price and hopes | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
I would like them to just ldave us alone and we will look after it I | :05:25. | :05:45. | |
hope can try and raise finances to do just that. We need time. The | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
second thing we need is to not push us, they don't need to. Havd not | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
done anything with it for 30 years. `` they have. | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
It's highly unlikely any individual could live here, | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
because of a preservation order and public access would be maintained. | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
But the Duchy of Cornwall s`ys it is keen to listen further to community | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
stakeholders, which is why it has agreed to | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
In the meantime, there's plans for a public leeting | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
For two years, details have been kept under wraps of | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
a pyramid scheme which 10,000 people across the South West were duped | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Today the case was made public as three women pleaded guilty to | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Victims, including some in Torquay, were conned into handing ovdr | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Our reporter Steve Brodie h`s been following the case throughott. | :06:35. | :06:47. | |
Secret filming where people think they are going to get rich puick. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Often through pictures like these. The spoils enjoyed by some. It | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
sounded absolutely fantastic. There was no way I would lose. I was told | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
it was backed by major solicitors and barristers in the Bristol area. | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
It was all legal. It took in 10 000 people, most of whom lost their | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
money. It's turned over ?20 million. The then Office of Fair Trading | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
brought prosecutions against 11 women using new legislation | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
targeting pyramid schemes for the first time. It is illegal to operate | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
or promote one. In a trial two years ago that we can only just rdports, | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Laura Fox, the chairman of, was jailed for nine months as w`s the | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
treasurer and venue organisdr. Another woman Sally Phillips was | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
handed a suspended sentence. You may be happy to put your ?3000 hn and | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
you may be happy to lose yotr ? 000, but the people you get involved in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
it, friends or relatives, how happy would you be for them to lose their | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
?3000? On trial last year, two women admitted promoting giving to take, | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
while someone else was cleared of same. Three more women pleaded | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
guilty to operate and promoting the scheme. One refused to commdnt as | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
she left court. Mary Nash dhd apologise to her many victils. | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
Sorry. The facts remain. Don't do it. Just don't do it. If it is too | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
good to be true, it is. It hs a big con. It doesn't matter if a friend | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
or relative, you stand to lose your money. LS and for those thinking of | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
getting involved in the futtre. `` a lesson. | :08:59. | :08:59. | |
It's being reported tonight that the European Commission is to ghve the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
green light to plans to build a new nuclear power station in Solerset. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
The Commission is investigating whether the deal between thd | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
British Government and the French power company EDF to buy eldctricity | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
from the new Hinkley C amounts to an illegal state subsidy. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Tonight, the Commission wouldn't comlent on | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
But one local MP told the BBC he was now "totally confident" | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers has been | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Look at the number of bulldozers already on site | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
and you'd be forgiven for thinking the deal is already done. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
They've already started exc`vating 4.2 million tonnes of earth here, | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
enough to fill 1300 Olympic`sized swimming pools. | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
The company is keen that thhs isn't seen as arrogance. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
That in some way the Europe`n Union decision is a foregone conclusion. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Because, if it isn't, on the other hand, you don't do all of | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
this, you don't invest ?1 bhllion, unless you are pretty confident | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
An unconfirmed reports from Brussels tonight suggests that inquiry into | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
whether the price the Government paid them for new nuclear address | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
breaches competition laws h`s come down in favour of Hinkley C. | :10:15. | :10:29. | |
While neither the company, nor EU officials will confirm or | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
One local MP says Hinckley will be built, | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
We're depending on Ukraine and gas from Russia. | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
We have to grow up and tell Europe where they can stick it and get | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
Unsurprisingly, antinuclear campaigners see it differently. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
They point out that EDF still does not have investment partners signed | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
up and they doubt they will get them. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
I personally do not see it being built. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Investors are looking the other way, pension funds are taking | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
the money into the new revolution, the solar revolution. | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
EDF insists investors will come on board, once the European hurdle | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
The Commission is expected to make a formal announcement | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Scientists mapping the lake with a robot that can... They are looking | :11:21. | :11:41. | |
to see if there's anything that could indicate links. A tinx boat | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
that can think big. It is a curious cat, crammed with sophistic`ted | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
electronics, using a sonar to peer into the depths. If anything grabs | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
at Ascension, it investigatds, because it can think for itself `` | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
its attention. Experts say ht could be useful for detecting anything. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
half a tonne. It is on a le`d and the team are bringing it | :12:14. | :14:23. | |
That?s what they want to become if their numbers add up thex may | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
The aim is to take students who have a huge amount of potential hn | :14:27. | :14:42. | |
mathematics that are keen to learn and wants to embrace a new world | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
working `` a way of working. The sixth form school takes students | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
from all corners of the South West. There's also physics | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
and next year they plan to hnclude Classes are small. You won't get the | :14:59. | :15:17. | |
same attention anywhere elsd. You will get things that are tahlored to | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
you. Because you earn in an environment where everyone wants to | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
learn the same things as yot, it is a stretch to learn it, but when you | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
do it forces us together. A real sense of achievement when you | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
complete something. It is qtite different here. Lectures ard quite | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
laid`back. Even their canteen area is geared | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
for creativity and problem solving. three A`levels from the school | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
and a fourth personal choicd which Who along with The University | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
of Exeter sponsor the school Teachers feel relaxed mind hs a | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
focus mind. Can you help me with my son's maths | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
homework? If you read Lord of the Flids when | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
you were at school, you might just find your children or grandchildren | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
are still studying it. And while there has been a debate | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
over whether there need to be more books on the curriculum, thd family | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
of William Golding, who's from Cornwall, have been marking the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
anniversary by loaning his literary A literary classic read | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
by millions all over the world. There have also been | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
two film adaptations. It was also a stage play | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
and a recent contemporary d`nce tour The story of a group of English | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
schoolboys marooned on a tropical island started life | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
like this, hand written by It was rejected by ten publhshers | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
and one literary agent. When we read | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
a good novel we are impressdd by the polish and the finish and | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
what we do not see is the struggle I think you could see that hn Lord | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
of the Flies and the added drama of trying to get the thing | :17:21. | :17:33. | |
published and having readers writing things like ?rubbish? | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
and ?dull? along the top of it. Absolutely, the draft brings to life | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
the process and reminds us that art Golding persevered and eventually | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
one agent took a chance. So to | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
a certain extent he was confident. But I don't think he imagindd that | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
it would become the sort I mean, 60 years later, and we | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
are still receiving the bendfits. And now fans | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
of the book can benefit, too. The manuscript is going on show | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
in the South West. I still meet the grandchildren of my | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
friends who are doing it at school. It is an extraordinary thing | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
and he couldn't have imagindd that. Everyone from Stephen King to | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
The Simpsons has been infludnced There are TV series like Lost that | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
are clearly influenced by it. You can look through this unique | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
piece of literary history bx contacting the Special Colldctions | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Team at the University of Exeter. From railway lines reopening, | :18:43. | :18:54. | |
to people finally moving back Recovering | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
from last winter's weather has Truro Cathedral was hit by high | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
winds which sent some of thd David George reports | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
on the work being carried ott to repair the Victorian building's | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
north`west tower. Truro Cathedral, once again | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
partially cloaked in scaffolding. While the camera gets a ridd up | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
in the lift we have to walk the 200 Below, shoppers go | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
about their business unaward Stonemasons are using traditional | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
techniques just like the men who built the cathedral | :19:28. | :19:39. | |
more than a hundred years ago. It is a mallet and a chisel. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
Traditional tools. In the New Year storms, high winds | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
sent parts of the stonework crashing to the ground, this is one of | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
the bits that fell onto a footpath. It was very serious. It happened in | :19:57. | :20:09. | |
the middle of the night and thankfully no one was around when it | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
fell. But you have to take hmmediate action, so close off area around | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Weatherstone fell and we managed to get the scaffolding and the work | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
under way. `` where the stone. They are pieces of stonework that were | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
here, sitting in the middle of this arch and that is what crashdd down | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
earlier in the year. Instead, a new trace route stone has been put | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
here. Right next to it, you can see a sample of the type of erosion we | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
are talking about. The cathddral has a historic problem. The original | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
architect used Bastogne for a lot of the high`level stonework. `` Bath | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
stone. He was advised against this. But he went through. The kex feature | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
has had a problem since 1920 with stone a religion. `` the cathedral. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
We have tried various different stones in the cathedral. | :21:14. | :21:14. | |
Once worked, the new stones are carefullx fixed | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
The work is costing ?130,000, the scaffolding alone costs ?80 000, | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
and it?s being paid for from the Government?s World War One | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
They say they have another three weeks of work to do. It will be | :21:26. | :21:39. | |
mid`October before people start to see all of this scaffolding coming | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
down. That's an incredible sight, isn't it? What do the Royal Albert | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
and BBC Radio Cornwall have in common? | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Well, singer Alfie Boe has sung in all of them. | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
The tenor paid a flying visht to our Plymouth and Truro studios today. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
He's used to the bright lights of the West End and Broadwax, | :22:09. | :22:21. | |
and singing to his legions of fans at sell`out concerts | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
across the world at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
But today it was the more humble setting of | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radho Cornwall in which we found @lfie Boe | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Serenata is described as a revival of the golden era of Italian song | :22:37. | :22:51. | |
and features well known hits such as Volare and Mambo Italiano. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
For Alfie, it's been a labour of love. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
I love these songs. I grew tp listening to them, I studied them, | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
I've heard a lot of different artists throughout time sing them | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
from people like Elvis and Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Pavarotti and Domingo. Thesd are songs that are natural and | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
beautiful. They are very rolantic. Everybody has grown up listdning to | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
them . Alfie is also in the South West | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
promoting his latest UK arena tour, which takes place in Novembdr | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
and December. Sadly, for his army of fans here, | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
it doesn't include a date Cardiff is the closest. | :23:39. | :23:53. | |
Unfortunately. Saying that, there is no reason why we shouldn't plan some | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
sort of showdown here for you guys. `` show down. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
So it seems Alfie will be South West bound again sometime in the future, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
That is good news, isn't it? Time for the weather now. One qudstion | :24:06. | :24:23. | |
for you, what is it all abott? See what I did? I get it. He is | :24:24. | :24:35. | |
underwhelmed. Anyway. Good dvening. We mention showers yesterdax, they | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
have been around, some across the Channel Islands. Some appro`ching | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Plymouth. More to come overnight. The main focus of the shower | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
activity for us is tonight, because tomorrow move away and north. Warm | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
and humid tomorrow, some sunshine and the risk of an isolated shower. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
The risk is a high one tonight, Met Office have put a warning ott for | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
hefty downpours of rain and flashing of lightning. `` flashes of | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
lightning. It is mainly a fdature for the middle of the night. Some | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
showers crossing the Channel in the small hours of the morning. Lots of | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
cloud on the satellite picttre. There should be some sunshine in | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
between. This area of low pressure moves a little bit closer over the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
next 24`hour is. It starts to retreat away from us as we go into | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
the weekend. An improving story Cool and fresh air. A big area of | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
high pressure is back on Sunday so a fine day, but a bit cold during | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
the night. We have been unusually warm so far, tonight is no | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
exception. Strands are bringing if you showers, overnight tonight the | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
focus of the showers, some turning up across Dorset and Somersdt and | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
the risk of the odd rumble of thunder. A mild and misty nhght | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Temperature is no lower than 16 or 17 Celsius. Tomorrow, a misty start. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Sunshine will break out herd and there. We won't see too much in the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
way of showers, cannot rule out the possibility, but through thd | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
afternoon again it will feel quite warm. Top temperature around 24 | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Celsius. Warned the Septembdr. That is the forecast for the of Scilly. | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
`` pretty warm. Not much for the surfers. Coastal | :26:40. | :27:03. | |
waters forecast, the winds `re mainly from the East tomorrow, | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
showers and a bit of sea mist around, moderate or poor Ms ability, | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
improving the West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The outfit has a go | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
through the weekend, it gets better. `` poor visibility. A risk of | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
showers, slightly cooler and certainly fresher. Perhaps better | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
visibility, as well. Have a good evening. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
We are back from ten tonight, big night here on BBC News. Stax tuned. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
For now, have a lovely evenhng, | :27:44. | :27:48. |