:00:17. > :00:16.Tonight: at We3tminster.
:00:17. > :00:19.South West MPs give their backing to air strikes in Iraq.
:00:20. > :00:22.We'll be live at Westminster to gauge reaction and
:00:23. > :00:34.I'm grateful to the Prime Mhnister for allowing us to debate this today
:00:35. > :00:38.and calling us back here to debate. Nothing is as important for us,
:00:39. > :00:40.taking our country, regrett`bly to war.
:00:41. > :00:42.Hello, thanks for joining us this dvening.
:00:43. > :00:48.Awards for the heroes of thd M5 crash ` a formal thank you to the
:00:49. > :00:51.and women who helped at one of this country's worst motorway accidents.
:00:52. > :00:54.One of the most important fhnds ever ` the hoard of roman coins
:00:55. > :00:58.And how fetching ` the handsome hounds ready
:00:59. > :01:16.MPs from the South West havd been in the Commons today, voting to
:01:17. > :01:18.approve air strikes against Islamic State militants in Hraq
:01:19. > :01:20.As we've heard, Parliament was recalled tod`y
:01:21. > :01:23.and MPs voted by 524 votes to 4 to follow America and France.
:01:24. > :01:38.We're going in. MPs were recall to Parliament today and a huge majority
:01:39. > :01:44.voted to support British air strikes against Islamic State forces in
:01:45. > :01:49.Iraq. 524 votes to 43. On the streets of Plymouth today, there
:01:50. > :01:56.were mixed views. No. The f`ct that we're talking about air strhkes all
:01:57. > :02:00.the time now just proves th`t we've stopped talking properly. B`sically,
:02:01. > :02:08.you got to turn around and say, "right, this is it ` either you to
:02:09. > :02:12.the line or the United Nations come in and looked after these
:02:13. > :02:20.countries". I think Britain should stand on its own. I think wd should
:02:21. > :02:25.help out. We've been invited to join in. I think if it was just ` case of
:02:26. > :02:30.us going in there without the invitation, then it would bd wrong.
:02:31. > :02:34.I'm grateful to the Prime Mhnister for allowing us to debate this today
:02:35. > :02:38.and calling us back here to debate. Nothing really is as import`nt as
:02:39. > :02:44.us, taking our country, regrettably, once more to war. Currently, no
:02:45. > :02:47.troops based in the South Wdst will be involved. The Prime Minister says
:02:48. > :02:53.there will have to be anothdr Parliamentary debate if thex decide
:02:54. > :02:57.to go into Syria. Let's find out what some of our MPs
:02:58. > :03:10.have been saying about the vote Our political editor is at Westlinster.
:03:11. > :03:14.Unfortunately, I don't think Martin is able to hear us at the moment. We
:03:15. > :03:16.hope to go back to him a little bit later in the programme.
:03:17. > :03:18.The outstanding bravery of lembers of the public was recognised today,
:03:19. > :03:20.four years after one of Britain s worst motorway crashes.
:03:21. > :03:23.Awards were presented to those who risked their lives to save others
:03:24. > :03:34.Our Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers was at the awards ceremony.
:03:35. > :03:41.There is one thing that binds these people together ` being in the wrong
:03:42. > :03:47.place at the wrong time. It left them with memories that will last
:03:48. > :03:54.for ever. Chaos, explosions, smoke, debris. Fireballs, explosions.
:03:55. > :03:58.Everything you could imagind, like the worst ever cinematic experience
:03:59. > :04:02.you could ever picture. The worst crash in British motorway hhstory
:04:03. > :04:06.left seven dead and 51 injured but it could have been much worse. He
:04:07. > :04:13.obtained a wheel brace which he used to smash the car. Much worsd, had
:04:14. > :04:19.these people not rest on thdir own lives to help others. `` risked
:04:20. > :04:23.their own lives. People likd Rebecca, and of duty noble ledic who
:04:24. > :04:28.was injured in the crash but still went to treat others.
:04:29. > :04:32.You crashed, you were injurdd that did it not just occurred to you to
:04:33. > :04:36.get out of the way? Yes, straightaway I wanted to get out of
:04:37. > :04:39.the car and ran but then I saw others injured are my initi`l
:04:40. > :04:44.instinct were just go and hdlp people. People were trapped and
:04:45. > :04:49.injured, crying for help, and you just can't let go and stand back and
:04:50. > :04:55.watch. Giving assistance to a badly injured man on a blanket. Every
:04:56. > :05:00.story was a remarkable one `nd yet, as one, these people said they
:05:01. > :05:03.didn't think of themselves `s brave. We weren't being brave, we were
:05:04. > :05:07.terrified. People were trapped in cars and what do you do? Yot can't
:05:08. > :05:12.just turn your back on people like that. There were awards for the
:05:13. > :05:16.emergency services, too, many of them saying it was that othdrs might
:05:17. > :05:21.of their lives. It was bound to be an emotional day. Families of the
:05:22. > :05:32.victims coming face`to`face with those who helped. A chance to say
:05:33. > :05:37.thank you, four years on. Back now to that vote in Westminster
:05:38. > :05:41.on air strikes on Iraq. Let's go back to our political editor.
:05:42. > :05:44.It's clear the Prime Ministdr wanted to be confident he could win this
:05:45. > :05:48.vote before recalling Parli`ment after last year when his pl`n for
:05:49. > :05:54.action in Syria was thrown out by a small Parliamentary majoritx.
:05:55. > :05:57.Negotiations with the Lido of Labour Ed Miliband were an important part
:05:58. > :06:02.of that process and there w`s no guarantee individual MPs wotld
:06:03. > :06:05.follow their leaders. One MP who was at 100% decided as he went hnto the
:06:06. > :06:09.debate was the former defence minister and North Devon MP Sir Nick
:06:10. > :06:15.Harvey. But he did, in the dvent, vote yes. The humanitarian
:06:16. > :06:20.atrocities that are being c`rried out by I sill in Iraq cannot be
:06:21. > :06:23.ignored. We must not make the same mistake we did with triple hn its
:06:24. > :06:27.and Rwanda and I don't think we can ignore the fact that what they've
:06:28. > :06:32.now got control over areas of ground bigger than Britain and thehr
:06:33. > :06:36.ambition is to go further and we know from Al`Qaeda being able to do
:06:37. > :06:42.that in Afghanistan, they c`n use that as headquarters for global
:06:43. > :06:44.terrorism, as we saw on 9/10. No doubt, though, in the mind of the
:06:45. > :06:52.shadow defence minister Alison C deck. Air strikes actually resolve a
:06:53. > :06:57.number of the current probldms we have with progress of ISIS hn Iraq
:06:58. > :07:02.and through Iraq. It has to be stemmed, that flow. The flow in
:07:03. > :07:12.front of it of desperate people refugees, and the only way to do
:07:13. > :07:15.that is through airpower. M`ny Conservative MPs voted against
:07:16. > :07:21.action in Syria last year, hncluding Newton Abbot's Annemarie Morris and
:07:22. > :07:26.Richard Drax. He was undecided until the end of the vote but he voted
:07:27. > :07:31.yes. I just anything we can set this out when, from what I've he`rd and
:07:32. > :07:39.read, the threat of ISIS, which is a barbaric group, is such that I think
:07:40. > :07:44.it could destabilise the Middle East, affect the United Kingdom and
:07:45. > :07:50.there is a likelihood of terrorists coming from Syria and Iraq back to
:07:51. > :07:52.the UK. As an ex`soldier, Rhchard Drax says he feels action in Syria
:07:53. > :07:57.is likely to follow this decision. It's all change at the top
:07:58. > :07:59.of the Royal Cornwall Hospital's trust again tonight
:08:00. > :08:01.after the chief executive, Lezli She was the fourth person to hold
:08:02. > :08:07.the post in just eight years. Her deputy will be
:08:08. > :08:12.in temporary charge until As Eleanor Parkinson reports,
:08:13. > :08:19.it comes as the trust faces Lezli Boswell's announcement that
:08:20. > :08:21.she would be retiring from her job as chief executive has
:08:22. > :08:24.taken many people by surprise. Lezli Boswell has declined to be
:08:25. > :08:27.interviewed about her decishon but she said she had communicatdd her
:08:28. > :08:30.intention to retire several months She said she felt it was
:08:31. > :08:36.the right time. Lezli Boswell has been imposed
:08:37. > :08:40.for just three years. She took over from Peter Colclough,
:08:41. > :08:42.who did the job for two years before resignhng to
:08:43. > :08:48.take up another post in Somdrset. He replaced John Watkinson,
:08:49. > :08:53.who was sacked from his job amid rumours he was unhappy about
:08:54. > :08:56.plans to move some cancer strgery to `` in Plymouth. Before that,
:08:57. > :09:05.Brian Milstead had the job. He resigned after
:09:06. > :09:07.the trust revealed an unprecedented We've got some tremendous stuff down
:09:08. > :09:11.there and the problem is th`t every time something like this happens
:09:12. > :09:14.at leadership level, the st`ff get disorientated, they wonder what
:09:15. > :09:19.going to happen and it isn't good But let's hope they can get a good,
:09:20. > :09:26.strong leader in, as strong as Lezli The trust has a deficit of ?1.8
:09:27. > :09:30.million and they say a dram`tic increase in emergency admissions has
:09:31. > :09:33.left them with a shortage Just a few weeks ago, Lezli Boswell
:09:34. > :09:41.said the answer was a merger between Cornwall's various health trusts to
:09:42. > :09:44.provide a more integrated sdrvice. I think the board yesterday
:09:45. > :09:47.at the AGM were very clear that they So I don't think
:09:48. > :09:54.the structure or the directhon is So after losing the Chief Executive,
:09:55. > :09:58.do you think they can still Lezli Boswell will leave her post
:09:59. > :10:03.in November. Her deputy, Andrew McCallum,
:10:04. > :10:06.will stand in as the The mayor of Torbay is coming under
:10:07. > :10:16.increased political pressurd this evening from both his oppondnts
:10:17. > :10:18.and his own party. At last night's full council
:10:19. > :10:21.meeting, he was defeated on four of the issues they were deb`ting,
:10:22. > :10:24.with many of his own party voting In some cases, he was forced to use
:10:25. > :10:30.his mayoral powers to push things through against the wishes
:10:31. > :10:32.of the full council. Our South Devon reporter John Ayres
:10:33. > :10:41.joins us now from Torquay. wishes, the mayor also pushdd
:10:42. > :12:54.through plans to put There have been further outbreaks
:12:55. > :12:57.of TB in cattle on farms at Killerton near Exeter, in spite
:12:58. > :13:00.of a trial vaccination of b`dgers. The National Trust, which owns
:13:01. > :13:02.the land, says it's not surprised. More than 500 badgers have been
:13:03. > :13:05.vaccinated on the estate since 011. The Killerton estate `
:13:06. > :13:08.20 square kilometres of land near Over the last four years,
:13:09. > :13:12.a large`scale vaccination programme Around 550 badgers have been
:13:13. > :13:18.vaccinated against bovine TB. The National Trust says it wants to
:13:19. > :13:21.show that such large`scale programmes are possible
:13:22. > :13:24.and that they can reduce thd overall We can never scientifically provide
:13:25. > :13:35.the evidence to say, "that has had this effect on bovine TB," because
:13:36. > :13:39.there are many other elements Just this week, tests have confirmed
:13:40. > :13:51.an outbreak of bovine TB here. We've taken part in something that
:13:52. > :13:55.a lot of people say is going to be It might be part of an answdr
:13:56. > :14:02.but it isn't the answer. The NFU says that vaccinnathon has
:14:03. > :14:09.a part to play among other leasures It was never thought to be ` silver
:14:10. > :14:17.bullet in areas of high infdction. Wildlife groups are keen to
:14:18. > :14:20.highlight the importance The Government was funding six
:14:21. > :14:33.projects for badger vaccination It cut them back to one to
:14:34. > :14:37.pursue the culling policy. Now, in terms of public opinion
:14:38. > :14:40.and the problems it's having with culling, it's accepted the need to
:14:41. > :14:42.expand badger vaccination and we're going to see ten new
:14:43. > :14:45.projects over the next few lonths. The National Trust says vaccination
:14:46. > :14:47.could be one of A hoard of 22,000 Roman coins has
:14:48. > :14:53.been found by a semi`retired builder Historians say the find is one
:14:54. > :14:59.of the most important ever And, as John Henderson has been
:15:00. > :15:03.finding out, the man who discovered them slept in his car
:15:04. > :15:16.for three nights to guard the site. That the find of his life. @ tiny
:15:17. > :15:21.fraction of the treasure discovered in East Devon by a semi rethred
:15:22. > :15:26.builder. They just spilled out all over. Just like hitting the
:15:27. > :15:33.jackpot? Just like hitting the jackpot, a fantastic feeling. It's
:15:34. > :15:41.the biggest kind of `` find of its kind in the country. Between 22 0
:15:42. > :15:51.and 23,000 coins. There is to tundra done hundreds of them. Smild. I m
:15:52. > :15:58.smiling all right! He made the find using trusty metal detector. The
:15:59. > :16:02.hoard weighed many kilos and bore images of Emperor Constantine, his
:16:03. > :16:07.family and other emperors. Dxperts say the Quins are the equiv`lent of
:16:08. > :16:13.a worker's pay the two years ` but who buried them and why. I dxpect it
:16:14. > :16:18.is to do with the farm office or something like a local Government
:16:19. > :16:24.office. These were the wages, maybe, of some of their employees `nd at
:16:25. > :16:28.some point, in the middle of the fourth century, things got ` bit
:16:29. > :16:32.tricky. It was not the safest of times. Whoever deposited thd money
:16:33. > :16:36.in the ground never came back to retrieve it. And when Lowrance found
:16:37. > :16:42.it last November, he wasn't leaving anything to chance. Between finding
:16:43. > :16:49.the coins and the archaeologist arriving, he slept in his c`r to
:16:50. > :16:54.guard the site. He and the landowner will share a reward when thd coins
:16:55. > :16:58.are sold. A campaign has bedn launched to keep the coins hn Exeter
:16:59. > :17:00.for stopper could be worth ` five figure sum for this find isn't just
:17:01. > :17:18.treasure. But of pieces of history. On to the sport now,
:17:19. > :17:20.and Plymouth Raiders have their sights set on winning trophies
:17:21. > :17:23.as the new basketball season gets Dave Gibbins has news of th`t,
:17:24. > :17:29.along with the rest of the sport. It is the eve of the new basketball
:17:30. > :17:32.season. More about the Plymouth Raiders in a moment. Exeter Chiefs
:17:33. > :17:34.has another Sunday blockbuster in the Premier League this weekend
:17:35. > :17:38.It's the turn of the Harleqtins to visit Sandy park, with only two
:17:39. > :17:40.bonus points separating the clubs in the Premier League this weekend
:17:41. > :17:42.It's the turn of the Harleqtins to visit Sandy park, with only two
:17:43. > :17:44.bonus points separating the club is a table.
:17:45. > :17:46.The Chiefs' international whng is back after a six`month absence
:17:47. > :17:50.through injury is. He's eagdr to show the form which led to his
:17:51. > :17:53.England call`up last debris. They said the most important thing were
:17:54. > :17:58.the Premiership games for the club and I need to be playing to put my
:17:59. > :18:04.hand up and take my position back because there are other people on
:18:05. > :18:09.the team who are playing very well. Plymouth Albion and the Cornish
:18:10. > :18:12.Pirates still await their fhrst championship wins of the se`son and
:18:13. > :18:17.they hope to get them at hole to Bedford and Mosley respectively
:18:18. > :18:23.Let's have a look at the wedkend's football.
:18:24. > :18:30.In cricket, Somerset have completed their County championship sdason by
:18:31. > :18:34.scrambling to a draw against the new champions, Yorkshire, at
:18:35. > :18:38.Headingley. They needed onlx 18 to win but clung on with one whcket
:18:39. > :18:42.remaining. Jamie Overton from North Devon was one of the survivors.
:18:43. > :18:46.We are up close and personal here at the city College in Plymouth with
:18:47. > :18:51.the Plymouth Raiders. We're on the eve of the new basketball sdason so
:18:52. > :18:54.I wonder what lies ahead. You don't get the long and the short
:18:55. > :19:05.of it in basketball. Mainly the long! Tall, lean and very mdan
:19:06. > :19:14.players. I play centre. I play the powerful. I play forward. I'm Dave
:19:15. > :19:18.Gibbons. I don't play basketball because I'm not tall enough.
:19:19. > :19:24.Plymouth Raiders have plentx of new talent at their disposal for the new
:19:25. > :19:32.season, which starts tomorrow with Bristol Flyers. When you look at the
:19:33. > :19:36.top teams and the lower tier teams, the top teams are really pl`y
:19:37. > :19:39.defence at a level that you expect them to be winning championships.
:19:40. > :19:45.I've made sure that I've got that message across, every singld time,
:19:46. > :19:49.to these boys. Eight new pl`yers have been brought in from all parts
:19:50. > :19:55.of the world ` America, Australia, Canada and, er, Birmingham. We've
:19:56. > :19:59.both played against Plymouth before in the past so we know what it's
:20:00. > :20:03.like to have the fans against us but now we're excited to have the fans
:20:04. > :20:07.with us. What's the court lhke? It's good. It sounds a lot different to
:20:08. > :20:10.what I'm used to in England but it's probably one of the best in the BB
:20:11. > :20:15.are so it's exciting to plax there every week. The players are spectre
:20:16. > :20:22.to go as high as they can and they've got the personnel to do just
:20:23. > :20:24.that. `` are expecting. Dave Gibbons a giant in sports
:20:25. > :20:26.broadcasting! A Plymouth yachtsman is gearing up
:20:27. > :20:28.to compete in one of the biggest single`handed races
:20:29. > :20:30.in the French sailing calendar. In a few weeks' time,
:20:31. > :20:33.Conrad Humphreys will be on the start line of the
:20:34. > :20:35.Route Du Rhum transatlantic race. Spotlight's Andy Breare
:20:36. > :20:45.has been to meet him. Ten years ago,
:20:46. > :20:49.Plymouth's Conrad Humphreys competes in a single`handed round
:20:50. > :20:52.the world yacht race. Fast forward ten years,
:20:53. > :20:54.he's in his early 40s and a father. He has a new boat and is
:20:55. > :20:58.about to go it alone once again The first challenge `
:20:59. > :21:02.the transatlantic Route Du Rhum a favourite on the French y`chting
:21:03. > :21:05.calendar and a race he once started I started the Route Du Rhum
:21:06. > :21:09.in 2002 and I didn't complete it. It's always been a bit
:21:10. > :21:12.of unfinished business for le. It was also the start
:21:13. > :21:15.of my solo career and we're here in arguably one of the toughest
:21:16. > :21:18.races, to be able to launch back into solo sailing and I think
:21:19. > :21:22.the Route Du Rhum is a great start. The Route Du Rhum is held every four
:21:23. > :21:26.years and sets off from a French Another familiar face lining up
:21:27. > :21:33.at the start this time round is Sir Robin Knox Johnston, agdd 7 ,
:21:34. > :21:37.the oldest skipper in the r`ce. But for Conrad, this marks the start
:21:38. > :21:41.of a new solo racing campaign which could see him competing in
:21:42. > :21:47.the next Vendee Globe in two years. That's an itch that is
:21:48. > :21:50.never really gone away. I always said that I would be back
:21:51. > :21:54.to do it with a really good campaign, a really good budget, and
:21:55. > :21:59.I think there's a real opportunity More than 40 yachts will be lining
:22:00. > :22:15.up alongside Conrad on Novelber 2nd on the French coast in
:22:16. > :22:19.a race he is hoping will mark a new Now, we've had a summer
:22:20. > :22:27.of music festivals ` Woodstock, Glastonbury, Beautiful Days,
:22:28. > :22:30.Chagstock ` to name but a fdw. Yes, move over, humans ` Devon's
:22:31. > :22:34.dogs are about to have some fun A ball is being held for our
:22:35. > :22:38.canine friends to raise mondy for a Well,
:22:39. > :22:52.our very own newshound Andrda Ormsby Piper is in for a pamper. Hd's off
:22:53. > :23:00.to Woofstock and wants to bd top dog. Absolutely. We're doing what we
:23:01. > :23:03.can to get Piper the king of the walk status so he's having `
:23:04. > :23:08.pampering session this mornhng. He's being spruced up by Lucy. Hd's got
:23:09. > :23:15.his bowtie already to go and it s fair to say he's quite excited.
:23:16. > :23:19.Piper is going to party to classic songs with dog related titlds. They
:23:20. > :23:23.will be hot under the collar if he misses a competition where he will
:23:24. > :23:29.get a judge his own treats. But it isn't just about fun for Piper, who
:23:30. > :23:32.was a rescue dog. Dogs like this only get seven days before they re
:23:33. > :23:36.put to sleep in the pound and we went to one at a rescue and picked
:23:37. > :23:41.up two hours before he was to be put to sleep. He has a home to go to but
:23:42. > :23:46.for everyone we take out of the pound, there are probably sdven
:23:47. > :23:51.eight, nine, ten others who don t make it out. There will be VIPs `
:23:52. > :23:55.very important pets ` but none more regal than these. We're going to
:23:56. > :24:05.have the king and queen turn up tomorrow in style, with our
:24:06. > :24:10.fantastic driver. He's laying down on the job! The driver is done in
:24:11. > :24:14.and Piper is pooped but between 10am and five BM tomorrow at Marwood Hill
:24:15. > :24:23.Gardens near Barnstaple, thdy'll be ready for Woofstock. `` 5pm.
:24:24. > :24:34.I've seen it all now! Let's go to our own top dog with the we`ther.
:24:35. > :24:40.We've got quite this weekend with nothing to give us much in the way
:24:41. > :24:44.of rain. Quite a lot of clotd around and a bit misty first thing in the
:24:45. > :24:48.morning but mainly dry. If `nything, we do need some rain and thdre is
:24:49. > :24:52.nothing that's going to appreciate over the next days. We've still got
:24:53. > :24:56.high pressure. It's weak but it is there nonetheless. All thesd weather
:24:57. > :25:00.fronts get pushed across to the north of Scotland. This week system
:25:01. > :25:02.is across us at the moment through the English Channel and will be
:25:03. > :25:05.stubborn to move out of the way tomorrow but it would eventtally get
:25:06. > :25:09.pushed out of the way and it's a brighter day on Sunday but for
:25:10. > :25:13.tomorrow, a lot of cloud around and a spot of drizzle in the wind.
:25:14. > :25:18.Briefly some sunshine. That was the satellite picture from earlher. The
:25:19. > :25:23.south coast certainly had bdst of the weather. There was some sunshine
:25:24. > :25:26.here and some lovely quiet conditions out at sea. The winds
:25:27. > :25:35.have been generally light over the last week or so so just the gentlest
:25:36. > :25:38.of waves and a good view. The sea temperature is still around 70
:25:39. > :25:43.degrees, still reasonably comfortable to stick your toe in and
:25:44. > :25:46.have a swim, and with quiet weather around this weekend, no big waves
:25:47. > :25:51.and nothing for surfers to appreciate. Enough clear skx later
:25:52. > :25:55.to let the temperature get hnto single figures. A bit misty with
:25:56. > :25:59.even some fog forming, which could be stubborn to move first thing
:26:00. > :26:02.tomorrow. Not everywhere, btt some of the Falkirk could be quite
:26:03. > :26:06.thick, with night`time tempdratures in the towns and cities arotnd 1 or
:26:07. > :26:14.12 but in the countryside dhpping into single figures. Tomorrow is a
:26:15. > :27:47.great, misty, murky start. The improvement is slow and