22/09/2014 Spotlight


22/09/2014

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 22/09/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

60 jobs at risk as Dairycrest announces it's closing

:00:13.:00:14.

It's one of the biggest employers in the area and the news has

:00:15.:00:21.

I have lived here all my life and Dairy Crest and its predecessors

:00:22.:00:34.

were always here and able to employ a lot of people in the town.

:00:35.:00:39.

The founder of Shelterbox appears in court again.

:00:40.:00:41.

Tom Henderson was at the Old Bailey charged with fraud and attelpted

:00:42.:00:44.

And the family from Cornwall determined to take

:00:45.:00:48.

their daughter to be a briddsmaid in Bali during term time.

:00:49.:00:55.

"Shocked and devasted" ` the reaction from the Mayor of Chard

:00:56.:00:59.

to news that Dairy Crest is closing its creamery with the loss

:01:00.:01:02.

The company says it's tried to make the site viable for many ye`rs

:01:03.:01:07.

but that's not been possibld ` despite the best efforts

:01:08.:01:10.

A consultation with the staff started today.

:01:11.:01:12.

Our reporter Andrea Ormsby has spent the day in Chard gauging re`ction.

:01:13.:01:22.

There has been a dairy here for as long as locals can remember. Now the

:01:23.:01:29.

creamery at Chard makes a r`nge of alcoholic creams but today the 0 or

:01:30.:01:35.

so staff were told the dairx would close next year. It was a bhg shock

:01:36.:01:42.

because Dairy Crest has been here for ever, I have lived in Chard all

:01:43.:01:47.

my life and as far as I remdmber Dairy Crest or its predecessors were

:01:48.:01:54.

here, so it has been quite ` big shock but obviously I think this

:01:55.:01:59.

will reverberate through thd community. Devastating for those

:02:00.:02:05.

people at this time. The unhon Unite says it is all the fault of the

:02:06.:02:10.

supermarkets. They say therd is no way a dairy can compete with the

:02:11.:02:14.

price wars in the supermarkdts. Dairy Crest have announced today

:02:15.:02:18.

that another factory in London will close with the loss of more than 200

:02:19.:02:24.

jobs. For people living close to the dairy it is a shock but not all bad

:02:25.:02:31.

news. It is sad because we have 60 local people working here, but we do

:02:32.:02:38.

hear that the actual site h`s to be converted to a greenfield shte, so

:02:39.:02:43.

we are not too unhappy about that. There will be less lorries which

:02:44.:02:46.

will be nice but the people who have worked here for this time... But it

:02:47.:02:51.

has not been financially vi`ble for some time. In Cornwall, Davd ``

:02:52.:02:59.

Dairy Crest invested in a creamery, the company said that was bdcause it

:03:00.:03:03.

was of rising sales of its cathedral city cheese. Although a depot was

:03:04.:03:18.

shut with the lost of 60 jobs, Muller says it has made major

:03:19.:03:23.

investment in Bridgwater. In Chard locals feared the impact wotld the

:03:24.:03:29.

town hard. I have lived in the village where the factory is all my

:03:30.:03:34.

life and it is a shame it is closing down. It will really hit thd local

:03:35.:03:42.

economy. It is the role on shock to the businesses. Nobody from Dairy

:03:43.:03:48.

Crest was unavailable for an interview but they said in `

:03:49.:03:51.

statement that they did not take this lightly. They say each worker

:03:52.:03:58.

has done their bit to make the plant viable but in the long term they

:03:59.:04:02.

need to make the decision to close the factory in the second h`lf of

:04:03.:04:03.

next year. The founder of Shelterbox h`s

:04:04.:04:17.

appeared at the Old Bailey `ccused of three counts of fraud by abuse of

:04:18.:04:24.

position. This was the first time that Tom

:04:25.:04:29.

Henderson, on the left, and his son John, had appeared before a judge.

:04:30.:04:34.

On the first charge the two are related to have conspired to commit

:04:35.:04:41.

fraud over a five`year period from 2007. A second similar charge

:04:42.:04:44.

involves an alleged conspir`cy between them and the Aaron Jarvis

:04:45.:04:52.

between 2010 and 2012. `` D`rren. Tom Henderson has been accused of a

:04:53.:04:58.

third count of fraud involvhng misuse of a credit card. Thd fourth

:04:59.:05:03.

count he faces is the attempted theft of 1000 tents which bdlonged

:05:04.:05:10.

to Shelterbox. During the short hearing at the Old Bailey the

:05:11.:05:14.

defendants only spoke to confirm their names. None entered any plea.

:05:15.:05:21.

Tom Henderson founded the charity in 2000 and was made an OBE in 201 for

:05:22.:05:28.

services to humanitarian aid. He left the charity in July 2002. It

:05:29.:05:32.

continues to run under a new management team. The three

:05:33.:05:36.

defendants will next appear on December the 19 bath and argument

:05:37.:05:41.

over where the trial will t`ke place will be had. The prosecution has

:05:42.:05:49.

asked for it to be held nearer to Cornwall because the witnesses are

:05:50.:05:54.

all from there and the hearhng in London would be expensive.

:05:55.:06:02.

Torbay Council's planning to cut the number of children it looks

:06:03.:06:05.

There are currently 314 youngsters in care in the area and the

:06:06.:06:10.

council wants to reduce that figure to 180 over the next five ydars

:06:11.:06:13.

It's also looking to reduce the number of children housed in more

:06:14.:06:16.

expensive residential placelents, using foster care instead.

:06:17.:06:18.

Pub and club goers across Ddvon and Cornwall could be breathalysed

:06:19.:06:22.

at the start of their night out as police try to tackle the growing

:06:23.:06:26.

Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner, Tonx Hogg,

:06:27.:06:29.

says the number of weekend drink`related incidents in the two

:06:30.:06:31.

Now he's keen to trial a scheme used elsewhere in the country whdre

:06:32.:06:38.

people are refused entry to pubs and clubs if they fail a test set

:06:39.:06:41.

Plymouth University says the ceremonial chairs it's ordered

:06:42.:06:47.

will cost less than the ?150,00 widely reported last week.

:06:48.:06:51.

A prototype is seen here with the acting chief executive,

:06:52.:06:54.

The university says the seven designer chairs whll

:06:55.:06:58.

The expense has been queried by some staff and students.

:06:59.:07:07.

Major structural defects have been found in two piers in Torbax,

:07:08.:07:09.

It says if they're not repaired thex could

:07:10.:07:13.

It's estimated more than ?5 million is needed to carry out the work

:07:14.:07:19.

The matter is due to be considered the by

:07:20.:07:21.

It is important that we address this in the next five to ten years. We

:07:22.:07:34.

should make a start with thd planning for that so we don't have a

:07:35.:07:39.

major problem later on but we can't deal with. The good work we are

:07:40.:07:44.

doing at the moment is essential so that talky and Torbay don't have any

:07:45.:07:48.

major problems with flooding in the future. `` Torquay and Torb`y.

:07:49.:07:58.

A judge has criticised Somerset County Council over the way staff

:07:59.:08:01.

dealt with a severely disabled woman who was not allowed to return home

:08:02.:08:04.

after bruising was spotted when she was in a respite care placelent

:08:05.:08:07.

Judge Nicholas Marston said council social services staff had f`iled to

:08:08.:08:10.

respect the human rights of the woman and her family.

:08:11.:08:12.

He suggested that social workers had not carried out a

:08:13.:08:14.

"proper investigation" into the cause of the bruising.

:08:15.:08:16.

A father from Cornwall says he's shocked and surprised that he's been

:08:17.:08:19.

refused permission to take his six`year`old daughter ott

:08:20.:08:21.

The headteacher of St Agnes School said the wedding

:08:22.:08:25.

of the child's uncle was not an "exceptional circumstancd".

:08:26.:08:27.

Spotlight's David George has been to meet the family.

:08:28.:08:33.

I am during Katie and uncle Dan holding hands.

:08:34.:08:40.

Daisy's picture of what she thinks her uncle's wedding will look like.

:08:41.:08:50.

She is excited about the wedding in Bali next May. She needs nine days

:08:51.:08:55.

off during term time is but the head teacher says this is not thd

:08:56.:08:59.

once`in`a`lifetime event th`t our policy allows. It is not solething

:09:00.:09:08.

we take lightly, our child's schooling is something we t`ke very

:09:09.:09:13.

seriously. To be told that xour brother's wedding is not an

:09:14.:09:15.

important life event was rather shocking. Daisy enjoys school and

:09:16.:09:21.

does not want to miss any btt she does want to be a bridesmaid. I love

:09:22.:09:30.

learning, doing writing to learn my handwriting and doing all sorts of

:09:31.:09:35.

projects. The council says ht is up to individual headteachers to `` to

:09:36.:09:43.

decide on what are exceptional circumstances. Teachers'

:09:44.:09:44.

representatives say it is not an easy decision. It makes lifd rather

:09:45.:09:51.

difficult for head teachers and governors, which is why thex will

:09:52.:09:56.

have a policy which states what they feel to be exceptional circtmstances

:09:57.:09:59.

but there is no real guidance on that. Daisy's father has already

:10:00.:10:08.

spent ?3000 on the tickets. The headteacher said she did not want to

:10:09.:10:14.

take part in interview until she had spoken to the family but shd said

:10:15.:10:17.

the governors of the school had been careful to implement the `` be

:10:18.:10:22.

Department for Education guhdelines in a fair and careful manner. `` the

:10:23.:10:28.

Department for Education. And here at Spotlight we'd

:10:29.:10:31.

like to hear what you think You can get in touch by emahl,

:10:32.:10:34.

Twitter, or Facebook. The addresses you need are `ll

:10:35.:10:37.

on your screen now. And do remember to leave us

:10:38.:10:39.

a contact telephone number or Hemerdon tungsten mine near Plympton

:10:40.:10:51.

is aiming to be selling the valuable The developers say they're now

:10:52.:10:54.

halfway through construction and hope to be up and running

:10:55.:11:00.

by next July. But,

:11:01.:11:02.

as former BBC Radio Devon presenter Dave Wills reveals on tonight's

:11:03.:11:04.

Inside Out South West, Hemerdon is just the latest in a long lhne

:11:05.:11:06.

of metal mines on Dartmoor. Hemerdon on the slopes of D`rtmoor.

:11:07.:11:16.

Underneath here is one of the largest tungsten deposits in the

:11:17.:11:21.

world. A state`of`the`art mhne is being developed with the promise of

:11:22.:11:26.

more than 200 jobs. It will be a far cry from the last time metal was

:11:27.:11:31.

mind on Dartmoor. Nearly all traces of that are long gone. The surface

:11:32.:11:40.

lodgings of one gold mine h`ve been restored by volunteers. This was one

:11:41.:11:46.

of eight little minds looking for the same stuff. It is a flaky form

:11:47.:11:53.

of iron oxide. Around here ht is called shiny ore. It was discovered

:11:54.:12:05.

that when added to paint it became rustproof. It was used extensively

:12:06.:12:11.

by great Western on there iconic bridges. It became valuable stuff,

:12:12.:12:19.

two tins would set you back 100 quid. Sadly, paint manufacttrers go

:12:20.:12:26.

elsewhere for their shiny ore these days. It became an economic old to

:12:27.:12:34.

mine here but the mines are still down there. `` uneconomical. This is

:12:35.:12:46.

a good example of the stuff we were mining. It is very pliable, look.

:12:47.:12:59.

Dartmoor's workable deposits all but ran out in 1969. Manufacturdrs of

:13:00.:13:03.

rustproof paint now have to go abroad to get their supplies of iron

:13:04.:13:11.

oxide. You can see more of that on Inside

:13:12.:13:18.

Thanks for joining us this dvening ` there's plenty still ahead

:13:19.:13:21.

It's been an action packed weekend on the water ` from gigs battling it

:13:22.:13:25.

out in Newquay to a massive, possibly record`breaking sahl

:13:26.:13:27.

off Weymouth in memory of a much`loved Olympic gold med`llist.

:13:28.:13:30.

Out. Join me back on dry land, where this Devon vineyard could bd in line

:13:31.:13:34.

for a record vintage. It's time for the sport now,

:13:35.:13:39.

and Dave's here with some momentous Now, it's not very often we can

:13:40.:13:42.

say this ` all our four senhor Commentators from BBC Somerset

:13:43.:13:55.

and BBC Radio Devon describd the joyous occasions, including

:13:56.:14:00.

Torquay United's SIXTH consdcutive What a stunning individual goal

:14:01.:14:02.

from Joel Grant. That was a bit

:14:03.:14:17.

of individual brilliance and he has got that and he worked

:14:18.:14:21.

hard today as well so it was a Argyle having to play through,

:14:22.:14:25.

nice turn by Morgan and a goal! Marvin Morgan turned really

:14:26.:14:36.

well inside the area. Thomas... I thought he was offside,

:14:37.:14:38.

no flag. What a good goal from Nathan Thomas,

:14:39.:14:47.

must be a big question mark Chance here for Exeter,

:14:48.:14:54.

the ball has gone over the keeper, Graham Cummins has got it,

:14:55.:15:01.

three in three for him. Butterfield has gone forward,

:15:02.:15:09.

Moore`Taylor's gone forward, Good ball in again,

:15:10.:15:12.

it is headed down and in, Who is it running away? Jordan

:15:13.:15:15.

Moore`Taylor! Young, then,

:15:16.:15:23.

will take this fourth corner. Headed across by Aaron Downds

:15:24.:15:24.

and into the back of the net! Cameron plays it back

:15:25.:15:29.

across goal and it is an own goal! I'm afraid the same can't bd said

:15:30.:15:40.

for our Championship rugby teams. The Cornish Pirates are now bottom

:15:41.:15:51.

after a third straight defe`t, Plymouth Albion are two places above

:15:52.:15:54.

the Pirates after also losing for Despite scoring only one trx to

:15:55.:16:01.

Gloucester's three, Exeter Chiefs' Gareth Steenson put

:16:02.:16:07.

over five penalties to help them to The Chiefs, who were top

:16:08.:16:10.

after edging home 25`22, And there was competition

:16:11.:16:17.

on the water too. More than 600 rowers from

:16:18.:16:23.

across the South West were out in force in Newquay this weekend for

:16:24.:16:26.

the county pilot gig championships. The weather was nigh`on perfect for

:16:27.:16:29.

the racing, enjoyed by 90 crews The pulling power of Cornish pilot

:16:30.:16:32.

gig rowing. This is the last race of thd men's

:16:33.:16:47.

County Championships at Newpuay From 90 crews, six have

:16:48.:16:51.

made it to the final. Gig rowing is a Cornish passion

:16:52.:16:53.

that is fast catching on. Newquay Harbour the picturesque home

:16:54.:16:56.

of gig rowing. The club was founded here in 19 1

:16:57.:17:00.

and now the sport is spreadhng. Teams from Swanage, Bristol

:17:01.:17:03.

and Southampton are competing Over 600 competitives alone,

:17:04.:17:05.

and on top of that you have spectators, shore parties, tmpires

:17:06.:17:17.

afloat, we have the lifeboat station, all of the catering,

:17:18.:17:21.

the ladies that do all that. We float on a tide of goodwhll,

:17:22.:17:25.

it is not organised entirelx The final is two laps

:17:26.:17:28.

of a triangular course a mile On board each gig,

:17:29.:17:37.

six burly rowers giving it their all, the cox navigating using every

:17:38.:17:43.

trick in the book to get thd edge. It is very easy to lose where you

:17:44.:17:49.

are and to accidentally hit somebody else so it is a difficult r`ce

:17:50.:17:57.

but thankfully it all paid off Cheers for Falmouth A, the

:17:58.:18:00.

County Championship champions. Finally from me, Somerset fhnish

:18:01.:18:15.

their county cricket season tomorrow It's the first of four days

:18:16.:18:18.

as Marcus Trescothick's boys aim to Or should that be the start of

:18:19.:18:41.

autumn on a high? Thanks to everybody who has got in

:18:42.:18:45.

touch to talk about the little girl being taken out of school. Graham

:18:46.:18:50.

says it seems desperately unfair to deny her the chance to becole a

:18:51.:18:58.

bridesmaid, especially given the training days teachers give

:18:59.:19:01.

themselves. Tony says teachers are not `llowed

:19:02.:19:05.

holidays during term time so why should their pupils have thdm?

:19:06.:19:10.

Header from Somerset says she thinks the little girl should be allowed to

:19:11.:19:16.

be a bridesmaid. If she can't go there the whole ceremony should be

:19:17.:19:20.

`` could be ruined for the family. It may be autumn

:19:21.:19:23.

but the weather today across large parts of the South West

:19:24.:19:26.

has been absolutely glorious. Yes, wine producers here

:19:27.:19:29.

in the region are really re`ping Spotlight's Emma Thomasson hs

:19:30.:19:31.

at a vineyard in south Devon. It has been beautiful sunshhne all

:19:32.:19:41.

day today near Totnes. In 2004 the

:19:42.:19:48.

English Wine Producers' Org`nisation estimated that 1.9 million bottles

:19:49.:19:49.

were sold, bringing in ?18 lillion Ten years on, more than thrde

:19:50.:19:52.

million bottles are being produced The estate here is part of that

:19:53.:20:08.

success story. Just right for the picking. These

:20:09.:20:13.

vines have been nurtured here for over 30 years and the weathdr has a

:20:14.:20:18.

massive part to play in being a make or break harvest. Cracking start to

:20:19.:20:26.

the year, the bards started very early, followed by some beattiful

:20:27.:20:32.

flowering. I have been here for 20 years and these are by far the best

:20:33.:20:35.

grapes we have produced on the estate. How does your vintage

:20:36.:20:42.

compared to previous years? We normally crop around 60 tonnes a

:20:43.:20:47.

year, around 60,000 bottles. This year it looks like around 100

:20:48.:20:52.

tonnes. I am delighted and this weather is absolutely beauthful

:20:53.:21:01.

This is the estate selection. After some rainy summers in recent years

:21:02.:21:04.

the boss has something to celebrate. We have good grape

:21:05.:21:10.

varieties. The recession of the last ten years was potentially dhfficult

:21:11.:21:21.

for us but the sales kept going people still wanted that spdcial

:21:22.:21:25.

bottle for the special occasion and that has really kept us going and we

:21:26.:21:28.

have come out the other sidd with hardly any wine left, actually! We

:21:29.:21:34.

are very pleased to have a big crop this year. A large part of the crop

:21:35.:21:41.

will be used for sparkling wine which has seen the biggest growth.

:21:42.:21:45.

Something everybody here hopes that wine lovers will continue to have a

:21:46.:21:50.

taste for. What has been really interesting

:21:51.:21:53.

spending the day here is seding how they process the wind. The guys you

:21:54.:22:00.

saw in the film will be herd until midnight processing the grapes that

:22:01.:22:05.

have been picked today. If xou consider 100 tonnes of grapds are

:22:06.:22:09.

picked this season, that is a lot of late nights, and sadly for them

:22:10.:22:14.

every single one of them is going to be sober.

:22:15.:22:19.

Isn't she lucky being there? It looks glorious.

:22:20.:22:26.

It has, and I can testify that it has been that glorious outshde for

:22:27.:22:32.

the last two weeks. I am glad you had a nice holiday,

:22:33.:22:44.

the South West is looking lovely. Good evening. Morning temperatures

:22:45.:22:47.

across the region quite a lot warmer than yesterday. As soon as we start

:22:48.:22:54.

to see these cold nights, vdry quickly the leaves will start to

:22:55.:22:59.

turn. More cloud in the second half of the week, mainly dry and becoming

:23:00.:23:07.

more breezy. Looking at the satellite picture, there is not a

:23:08.:23:11.

lot going on at the moment. There is one stripe of cloud coming through

:23:12.:23:16.

Northern Ireland, a cold front that will get to us probably overnight

:23:17.:23:24.

into tomorrow night. It slowly pushes the high pressure aw`y and

:23:25.:23:28.

the two bands of cloud becole one system around Wednesday. For us

:23:29.:23:35.

tonight it is clear but it has been a beautiful day today with `lmost

:23:36.:23:43.

unbroken sunshine for most of us. This is the ex`estuary, where it has

:23:44.:23:51.

been a lovely day. Temperattres up to 20, 20 1 degrees. The

:23:52.:23:56.

temperatures last night werd that much lower but for most of ts today

:23:57.:24:02.

the temperature has been unbroken. Overnight tonight, with the clear

:24:03.:24:06.

skies, very quickly it will cool down and we will see those

:24:07.:24:10.

temperatures drop into single figures. A few shallow mist patches

:24:11.:24:16.

developing but apart from that the skies remaining clear and bx the

:24:17.:24:20.

morning we will see daytime temperatures starting at around 428

:24:21.:24:29.

degrees. `` four up to eight. Tomorrow we have a nice day to start

:24:30.:24:34.

with, increasing cloud throtgh the day, medium and high level, drifting

:24:35.:24:39.

in from the North West. That weak weather front is beginning over the

:24:40.:24:44.

Irish Sea, bringing a few spits of rain as it approaches us. That will

:24:45.:24:48.

be a feature overnight tomorrow night and into the small hotrs of

:24:49.:24:55.

Wednesday morning. Temperattres tomorrow up to about 17 or 08 for

:24:56.:25:02.

most of us, 19 possible, but are largely warm and fine feeling day,

:25:03.:25:08.

but with a bit more of a brdeze developing. The Isles of Schlly

:25:09.:25:14.

mostly fine and dry with sole warm sunshine and top temperaturds of

:25:15.:25:18.

around 16. The times of high water...

:25:19.:25:26.

This week the surf is also going to pick up so after some poor

:25:27.:25:33.

conditions in recent weeks we could have up to about one or two feet and

:25:34.:25:41.

clean but expect that to increase as we move into Wednesday and the

:25:42.:25:45.

latter part of the week. Thd coastal waters are mainly from the West or

:25:46.:25:49.

Southwest, fair and generally good visibility. The shape of thd weather

:25:50.:25:55.

as we move towards the end of the week is to increase the amotnts of

:25:56.:26:05.

cloud. Another cold tonight but not as low as they have been.

:26:06.:26:12.

More comments about the pardnts who want to take their daughter out of

:26:13.:26:22.

school. It is OK to have non`pupil days so if the school can h`ve days

:26:23.:26:28.

off so can the children. Another one says the school is utterly

:26:29.:26:32.

ridiculous. We will leave you tonight whth a

:26:33.:26:38.

look at the spectacular world record attempt for the largest sailing

:26:39.:26:50.

event ever .

:26:51.:26:56.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS