05/01/2017 Spotlight

They should not make old people sleep outside,

Calls for a specialist hostel for those with drink,

Tonight, we are live in Truro - a community campaigning for action.

Also tonight, the discovery of two bodies at house in Devon.

A police investigation is underway after a husband and wife were found

This will be the straw that breaks the camel spikes have a lot of

businesses and the tone. We speak to some who

are welcoming a fall. And world's apart - the small

coastal community offering sanctuary for refugees

fleeing Syria. The chronic lack of support

for homeless people with drink and drug addictions in Cornwall

is fast becoming a huge problem Rob Nolan is now calling

for a specialist hostel in the city. Addaction, a drug and alcohol

charity, says it saw a 20% rise in referrals to their Cornish

service last year. Our reporter Clare Woodling has been

speaking to rough sleepers, who say they have been

turned away from shelters, due to their alcohol

or substance abuse. Good evening. During the day, the

cold streets here seem enchanting, but during the evening, they can be

very uninviting. The middle of winter fuel is even worse when you

have been turned away from a shelter due to dependency on drink or drugs.

It is thus getup that the people they have been speaking to want see

closed. Sonia is used to getting

by on the streets. It is not the only

habit she has, though. If we did not drink,

we would be housed within a week. Any of us who have lived

here a long time, we get put to the back of the queue,

cos they just think She is not alone in not finding

shelter due to addiction problems. They see it and they

choose to ignore it. Or they go, "It will be OK,

it will sort itself out. Of course it is not

going to sort itself out. The shortage is something the Mayor

of Truro wants to see We have a desperately urgent need

for some sort of provision. Some sort of shelter with four

people with drug and alcohol issues. There are some shelters, but people

with drug and alcohol issues, they cannot go into the shelters at night

in the end up sleeping on the streets. This has been going on for

three months. The only setting up tents. They are no setting up home.

That cannot happen. The midst be somewhere they can go up meet and be

looked after. As the late feeds, the cold weather comes in and that is

where the big risk comes. There is bigger chance of hypothermia. Also,

just frustration from people on the street. How do you feel about it?

Absolutely disgusted that human beings can treat homeless people

like this. Being an old lady myself, and another, it is terrible. We

understand that temperatures here could fall as low as five Celsius

and the people in that package, the rough sleepers, will be expected to

bed down on hard floors out on the city tonight. I am joined by the

director of operations for each charity in the city which helps

people find shelter. Is this a problem you recognise? We have to

remember that each individual rough sleepers a human being and a person

on the loan rate. They all have very different needs which very complex.

There are pressures over drug use, alcohol and mental health. It is not

just one issue. Trying to find solutions has become increasingly

difficult. What needs to change? Is there sufficient coordination

between the various services? We need to see what works for certain

things. What works for mental health does not necessarily work for a

rough sleepers. We need to sit down together and find new solutions.

Other complicating factors in that? Austerity plays a big part. There

has been a lot of cuts across many services. Everyone is trying to do

far more with far less. It is becoming very difficult. The society

has said it will work with other services offering help for rough

sleepers. Police are investigating

whether the bodies of a man and a woman found at a farmhouse

in Devon are the result of a murder, The married couple have been named

locally as Nicola and Michael Beck. Scenes of crime officers

and police search teams have been at the scene,

near Dunkeswell, all day, Remote, rural and tonight this is

the scene of a major police investigation. After being contacted

by someone with concerns, the body of a man and a woman were found at

this farmhouse. The news of the deaths have shocked those living

close by. It is a tremendous shock and surprise. It is something you do

not expect on your doorstep. We have make them socially. We found them a

very nice couple. Very pleasant and courteous. I am feeling rather

numbered by it. It was such a shock when we have the news. Officers say

they are looking into via whether this was a model followed by a

suicide. The couple involved where named locally as Nicola and Michael

Beck, who had lived at the property for around two decades. We have been

searching the properties for evidence. We are dealing with family

members of the two individuals. We have trained family liaison

officers. Neighbours say the couple had been intending to sell the house

and move on. Police say they are not looking for anyone else in

connection with the deaths and are asking anyone else with information

to come forward. Now a round-up of other news

from around the South West. Cornwall Wildlife Trust

is investigating claims that a member of its staff fired

a shotgun over the heads of these The hunt says four shots

were fired between Blisland and Bodmin Moor, spooking horses

and frightening a child. Police say no crime

has been committed. Councillors will tonight begin

examining what could be a complete transformation of Dorset's system

of local government. There are plans to replace nine

local authorities currently serving The first of the meetings,

which are open to the public, will take place in Poole

in the next hour. A meeting is being held tonight

to discuss calls for Cornish firefighters who died

in the Plymouth Blitz to be listed on a war memorial

in their home town of Saltash. Leslie Tibbs and Bernard Jasper

were among a crew of six killed in 1941, but their

names are missing. Penzance has been named

by the New York Times as one of The newspaper says the best thing

to see, aside from the scenery, It is one of Europe's last saltwater

lidos and re-opened last year, As the authorities in France begin

slaughtering up to a million ducks, to try and halt the

spread of bird flu. Poultry keepers here

in the South West are facing All poultry must now be kept indoors

until the end of February, Strict controls have already been

in place for a month and our Environment Correspondent

Adrian Campbell has been assessing the impact

of the ongoing restrictions. The different streams of easy in

influential of all had the chance of causing great problems. Some suspect

all of the open weeks could be linked to lower hygiene standards

out with this country. There is a worry about the transfer from boards

from outside the United Kingdom coming into the country.

We are trying to take sensible precautions to limit the risk

of spreading this virus, so we are not going into

the henhouse, but Jane has kindly agreed to film her hens,

My girls have been kept in their henhouse for the last month

and it has been a case of keeping them, sort of, entertained as best

I can, with various chicken treats and nice clean bedding

I have to said, they're coping extremely well, but they'd much

If that is what we have got to do then that is simply what we have to

do and the inconvenience is much less inconvenient than an outbreak

of avian flu. As well as caring for her hens,

Jane is also the founder of the British Hen Welfare Trust,

which has rehomed more than 500,000 She understands the importance

of these continued high It is not so much that the hens are,

you know, vulnerable to mixing with wild birds.

It's actually them moving around on ground where wild

birds have defecated, so that's where the spread of

disease is at risk, the risk exists. The H5N8 strain of the disease has

been confirmed in recent weeks at a poultry farm in Lincolnshire

and in Wales and it's also been Still to come tonight,

the local football club giving away Find out why this Argyle player has

been running around Plymouth today. Traders in one Cornish town

are warning that a major shake-up of their business rates could be

the final straw for many of them. From April, some shops in St Ives

will have to pay hundreds But while the changes will leave

some paying extra, others Tamsin Melville has been to meet

some of the winners and losers. Packed out for the New Year,

but there are some stark warnings from shop owners in St Ives,

facing bigger business-rate This will be the straw that breaks

the camel's back for an awful lot of businesses in the town that

are struggling already. The tax is based on the yearly rent

for which a property could be let and the so-called rateable value

is reviewed by the government every five years, to reflect changes

in the property market. In St Ives town centre,

it is leading to some big rises. Neil has owned this fish

and chip shop just back His business-rate bills will be

going up by around ?400 a month. They perhaps see that St Ives

is the jewel in the crown of Cornwall and so it's

buoyant and rich. It's very quiet in the

winter months still. A lot of businesses, you know,

will struggle to survive. And at this restaurant just down

the road, it means finding The people owning these

properties are not having It's the business owners

that are paying them, so it's a win-win situation

for the owners of the properties and a lose-lose situation

for the business owners. Businesses here in St Ives

are losing out, but it's definitely In fact, the government

says three-quarters of businesses are either

going to stay the same Like here in Torquay,

where a general fall in the amount businesses are paying

is being welcomed as a John's rates bill should be

going down by ?300 a month, meaning he can keep price

rises in check. But he has got every sympathy

for those facing increases. It's the one tax you

have no control over. It does not link in any way,

shape or form to your performance, so your business performance,

and so it is a cost. The government says there

will be transitional help In St Ives, there are plans

to oppose the changes. It may not be on the scale of some

parts of the UK, but the South West has a long history of welcoming

families from countries In the 1960s, Spotlight reported

on a small group of people from Poland who had made a new life

at a camp near Newton Abbot, having been deported from their

homes during World War II. In the late '70s, families

fleeing the Vietnam War We followed some of them,

as they got used to And now, as John Danks reports

from Bude, the South West is The war Syria in has been going for

more than five years and claimed more than 250,000 people. The images

of suffering have travelled all over the world. And no Greek community in

Cornwall is hoping to help some of them. Seeing these awful pictures

last year of all the migrants droning that really made me feel we

must do something. Merely runs a refugee support group. They are

helping to resettle to community families under the community

sponsorship scheme, launched by the government last year. The people

they do not all of them towns and cities. We think it is one of the

most beautiful places to live. It is a very healing place. The people are

nice here so they will get a warm welcome and be well supported. Like

always god knows how desperate the situation can get for those fleeing

war-torn countries. He recently volunteered on a boat helping to

save migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean. I have helped these

families out in the ocean and for them to be welcomed into my home

community, I am very cloak proud and pleased. Enough money has been

raised to settle one family Syria from. If all goes well, the family

could be here by Easter. It is easy to forget that, before

the days of television, the only way of knowing what Britain looked

like was either to visit the towns and villages yourself or look

at photos and artwork. But those still images can

be just as revealing. Here is a very quiet Lyme Regis,

nowhere near as busy as it is today. There are carts, not

cars, here in Polperro. And what about a donkey

ride in Clovelly - These are the works

of a South West painter. John Shapland was prolific and, yet,

forgotten - until now. Andrea Ormsby has been having

a flick through a new book, Exeter's Lost Artist,

which is the culmination of 40 years The life and work of John Shapland,

recorded forever in this book. Shapland, his wife and their 12

children lived in Exeter. What you're looking at is just

a small collection of some of the items that was actually found

in the John Shapland studio. Across the floor was paintings,

etchings, picture frames, For years, the artist

and his family travelled all over the country in an open-top

car, painting hundreds and hundreds of scenes.

He called them brunotypes. These are what you would

really need to see. This was the end result

of the family's work. What you're looking at here,

with the brunotypes, nobody knows of their existence.

This is a revelation. We are seeing scenes

that will have changed beyond all recognition,

some of them, so they are very nostalgic.

They are also historic. The work will go on show

at an exhibition in March at the newly-opened

Exeter School of Art. John Shapland was the headmaster

of Exeter School of Art back in the turn of the century,

so rediscovering all the works and having all of the artefacts that

Peter has unearthed and presented in his book and at the exhibition

is going to be a really important and exciting connection

with the past, as we look For those interested in art,

the author says this book will be a revelation and can be considered

as quite a coup for the South West. Good to see he is getting some

recognition at last. Plymouth Argyle finally appear

to have the funding for their It may please the fans, who rely

on the increasingly out-of-date 1950s stand, and it could

also help to transform But it is not the first time such

an announcement has been made, as our business correspondent

Neil Gallacher explains. Three saves a modern stadium, fourth

side terracing which cannot be used understand from the 1950s. This area

finally all accept that redevelopment which could transform

Plymouth Argyle. Not just the bigger stand, but conference facilities, as

well. We should bring income even on non-match days. Today's announcement

is possible because of further investment from the most important

overseas supporter. I first came here in 1966. I stood at that end. I

left at the age of 18 to go to university. I have been following

the mother since. This is a labour of love. This has been a long time

coming. We have been planning this ever since we took over the club

five years ago, so it is a very important day. The club chairman has

not only been planning it, he is also announced that before. There is

an aspiration to finish off the stadium. We will start work in

autumn this year. We will be in a position to do that and that is what

we are certainly planning. I am not going to make the mistake of

committing to another date. Their skin never took least because it

relied on income from commercial outlets which never took place. This

is being funded by additional investment. In other words, you can

see where the money is coming from? Exactly. I am an investment

professional by trade. The new investment today is clearly not been

made on commercial terms. This is being made on soft terms. This is my

contribution to Plymouth Argyle and to the city. A few years ago, all

that matters was for it to survive, first as a business and then as a

weak side. Both of these objectives have no been achieved and this could

be the moment that opens a door into a greater future for the club into

the 21st century. A new stadium is something

for Pilgrims fans to look forward to in the longer term,

but more immediately excitement is building for their FA Cup match

against Liverpool this weekend. Tickets for the game are now

highly sought after, so when one of the players,

Paul Arnold Garita, decided to hide five of them around the city today,

it prompted a frantic search. Here are the magic tickets. Good

luck, everyone. And we will meet some of the winners

lucky enough to find the tickets Did you know that was one head in

here? I did not, as Charlie! Now, it might not be spring yet,

but spring has certainly sprung This ewe has given birth to quads

on a farm near Truro. Farmer Treve Gay knew there

were four on the way after a scan. And it is not the first

time, either. Last year, the same ewe had five

lambs all in one go, Now, we can catch up

on the latest weather outlook. Good evening. There are clear skies,

and that means temperatures will be following.

There is some cloak, which will bring in some outbreaks of rain.

Although Weill, we have weather fronts trying to approach from the

West. That somewhat takes the sting out of these areas of low pressure.

The high pressure is pushed out of the way for the middle of the day

tomorrow. At the time we get into the "Mother had a pleasurable

re-establish itself. There will also be a lot of cloud with it. Quiet

conditions going into the weekend. The wind will freshen going into the

head of this band of rain. It will bring higher temperatures but a lot

of cloud. You can see the structure of that cloud, thickest to Cornwall.

We had a lovely sunset. Of course, it gets down pretty early at this

time of the year. A lovely view of the crescent moon. The sun has set

and the cloud will continue to approach from the West. Later in the

night, the cloud just taking off from the odd bit of drizzle.

Generally drive for most of us. High temperatures to the West 7-9 C. To

the east, temperatures just dropping down below zero. A rather cloudy day

tomorrow. That will produce a few sports of rain and drizzle.

Temperatures finally inching up towards double figures. Here is the

forecast for Scilly. He ran the water claims. Not much for people

who like surfing. There are in the coastal waters forecast. The outlook

for the weekend is quite and also slightly warmer. That doesn't sound

too bad. We are back with headlines

at eight o'clock and the late news at 10.30pm.

Bye for now. We're looking for someone

who can sing, someone who can move. Someone who can keep an audience

on the edge of their seat.