17/02/2017 Spotlight

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Tonight on Spotlight: The random act of kindness

We are just overwhelmed with the support that when there are such

generous people out there. It's amazing.

Life for Stanley and his family has been transformed,

thanks to the generosity of a local garage and anonymous benefactor

Also tonight: speaking out for the first time.

One man's powerful account of the abuse he suffered as a child.

I want closure on this. I want to be able to put it to bed and say that

it happened and there is nothing I can do about it and get on with the

rest of your life. Hoping to carve out his career

again, the Devon skier recovering from revolutionary surgery talks

to us about preparing And a singing sensation,

the teenager from Cornwall who's gained a devoted worldwide

following. Daisy Clark will be

here to sing live. We begin the programme tonight

with a story of generosity which has made a huge difference

to a terminally ill Devon boy. We featured two-year-old

Stanley Murphy from Newton Abbot He has Tay Sachs disease which means

he can't move and suffers seizures. His parents were struggling

to transport him to appointments as they didn't qualify for help

under the Disability Living Allowance because Stanley

is under three-years-old. Well, after we featured their story

an anonymous benefactor and a local Hamish Marshall has been

back to see the family. Little Stanley suffers

from Tay Sachs disease. He can't move much, has seizures

and needs constant monitoring. This was a couple of months ago,

when getting him to the car If you want to go out for a walk,

you know, to the seaside or something, it's not nice,

knowing that you're going to cause a seizure

putting him in the seat, Emnma and husband Kevin had been

refused government help for a motability vehicle as Stanley

was not age three or above. They now, though, have a special

buggy and an adapted car. He doesn't have a seizure

when we put him in the vehicle or take him out of the vehicle,

so he is much more comfortable. It's a lot easier for us to go out

and about as a family and also we don't have to compromise

on which equipment we take with us, We don't have to leave anything

behind that he is comfortable, Just wheel him in, lock him down,

make sure it's secure and off we go. Just to see him comfortable in

the car, driving around is amazing. Funding for the vehicle

came from a local garage and an anonymous benefactor,

who was annoyed that the system wasn't helping a young boy

because of an age restriction. Just so grateful, just

absolutely so grateful. We're just overwhelmed

with the support when there's such generous people out

there helping us. Stanley's life may be

limited, but it seems that Now to a development

which could help to ease A new operating theatre and a suite

for day surgery have The new facilities are run

by a private company but will treat NHS patients and it's hoped

the extra capacity will mean an additional 1,000 operations

a year will be carried out. Our Health correspondent

Jenny Walrond had a preview. This is our new endoscopy suite

where we will be looking to treat in excess of 3500 NHS patients every

year. As of today a new theatre and day surgery suite at peninsular NHS

treatment centre are literally in operation. It is treating NHS

patients, but is run by an independent provider, care UK. You

choose to come here, you choose to have your elective surgery and

choose the date you want to your surgery here so we can almost

guarantee you will have the surgery on your date of choice.

There are currently 136 operating theatres in the South West 's main

hospitals and while this is not a huge increase in capacity for the

region the centre hopes to perform an extra 1000 operations per year.

Our main acute hospitals are facing a lot of pressure from emergency

patients and social care shortages. In the last three months of 2016

more than 1100 operations were cancelled in the hospitals of the

South West. More than one in ten people still hadn't had the

operation four weeks later. While the idea of private providers

carrying out NHS work is not everyone's cup of tea, some

patients, including Chris and Nick Harris, jumped at the chance. We

were given an appointment and came to see a surgeon and he assessed

everything there and then and said you need an operation, your

decision, have it or not, and that was it. Within weeks, in, done,

finished. It comes down to choice. Patients have the right to pick

where they are treated when they are first referred and this expands the

choice of little further. A man from Cornwall has given

up his right to anonymity to tell Spotlight how he was drugged

and abused as a child. In his moving account,

which you may find upsetting, Justin Stubbings describes how

he was injected with a drug which left him unable to move

whilst he was a patient So far almost 100 people have

contacted the police to say Justin Stubbings lives

a quiet life in Cornwall Back in the 60s he was a patient

at a psychiatric hospital, Aston Hall in Derbyshire,

after he had attempted The superintendent

psychiatrist at Aston Hall One night Justin Stubbings says

he was taken to a small padded room He injected me in this

arm with sodium amytal, then he injected me in the other arm

with something that And then placed a pad over my face

and dropped ether underneath my nose and then I fell backwards

into sort of semiconsciousness. He said I'm going to take

you back to your childhood. He would take me back

to a memory where my brother And I was screaming and rolling

about in trying to stop this from hitting me

and I remember that vividly. Did it feel like you were

being hit at the time? And I can remember putting my hands

behind me to try and stop When he woke up he found

his hands had been tied Medical records show that

Justin Stubbings had been injected with sodium amytal,

described as a truth drug, but even then there were concerns

about this treatment as it had never The police in Derbyshire have now

interviewed almost 100 people who say they were illicitly drugged

and abused as children They say they are now reviewing

hospital records and seeking There were people shuffling

about with big scars where they had had lobotomies and there's

a guy down... I looked out of the window

and there was a guy down in the exercise yard

in a straitjacket, screaming. And I didn't know if I was ever

going to get out of there. That's how they described me,

"a slight, timid boy." Doctor Kenneth Milner,

who had no training as a children's psychiatrist, worked at Aston Hall

for almost 30 years before he died. Justin Stubbings says that he hopes

that by talking openly about his experience

he will encourage That was Eleanor Parkinson speaking

to Justin Stubbings. A man's body washed up

at Perranporth has been identified by police as that

of Stephen Lloyd Thomas from Truro. Emergency services were called

to Perran Sands last week. The 43-year-old's death is being

treated as unexplained by police. Police are appealing for anyone who

saw him before his death to contact him. -- to contact them.

Plymouth rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke has retired

from professional cycling, citing a lack of motivation.

Now if you were travelling between Shaldon and Teignmouth

today, you may have wondered what the diversions were about.

For the first time in almost 15 years, Shaldon Bridge was opened

for some essential maintenance and our reporter Paul Brennan was

Diversions in place, hi-vis jackets on, and everything

Now, although the bridge is rarely open these days,

there is a legal requirement to ensure that it stays

in good working order, should it need to be listed

in good working order, should it need to be lifted

to enable the passage of vessels through.

Slowly and carefully the section on the Teignmouth side is lifted,

with cranes in place to support, but it's the pure muscle power

of these two chaps that crucial to this task.

We tried to do this work about last October but unfortunately

there was something went wrong with the winding mechanism so we had

Local historian Viv Wilson gathers material to mark this replication.

Local historian Viv Wilson gathers material to mark this rare occasion.

She has written extensively about the life and times

The opening span of the bridge was essential to the river life

and a tremendous amount of industry that was flowing up and down.

We had the granite, the clay, all sorts of minerals

from the Teign Valley and that throughput place was

After just two hours the job is done and everything is shipshape.

Let's see if it's another 15 years before the bridge opens again.

The weekend may have started for many, but for one

Roy Handford still puts in six days week.

He'll be telling why he has no plans to retire.

And Daisy Clark is in the studio with us. The Cornish teenager who

posted her song on social media, only to be offered a contract. That

really is something to look forward to.

It's time for the sport now, and Natalie's here with

The Leyton Orient captain Liam Kelly has yet to respond to a charge

of violent conduct which was brought by the FA yesterday.

It relates to an incident at Home Park earlier this week

when a ballboy was pushed to the ground in front

The 27-year-old midfielder could face a lengthy ban.

His reponse was expected by 6.00pm this evening.

The hearing should be taking place right now.

Back on the field, the Pilgrims will be keen to return

to winning ways when they make the near 800-mile round

Exeter City host Stevenage, while Yeovil travel to Cheltenham.

In the National League, Torquay face Barrow.

If you can't make the games you can tune into your local BBC radio

There are no Six Nations games this weekend which is a bit of a bonus

for the Exeter Chiefs with a couple of returning internationals,

as they travel to Worcester, having not lost in the Premiership since

When the teams met earlier in the season the Chiefs put more

than 50 points past the Warriors, scoring nine tries in the process.

But Worcester stunned champions Saracens last weekend and should

provide a much tougher challenge at the Sixways tomorrow.

We are both really fighting for something. Worcester are fighting to

prove that they can climb out of the relegation zone and accelerate

forward as a club and we are fighting because we want to

consolidate a place in the top four and they want to be back in post

season games and that makes for a really good fixture.

Elsewhere, the Championship resumes after a week's rest.

The Cornish Pirates face a trip to second-placed Yorkshire Carnegie,

Plymouth Albion will hoping to give the students a lesson

A professional skier from Devon has become the first person to have

revolutionary surgery on both his knees.

Jai Geyer has had internal knee braces fitted in the hope he can

return to the sport he loves quicker than expected.

His injuries were a year apart, and he's now doing well

So is he ready to pull on a pair of skis again?

I'm a little way off doing that, although I am hoping to put skis

That is kind of as soon as you can possibly do it.

Obviously the skis are very aggressive on the knees

and on the joints but with all the conditioning and

the rehabilitation, we can make everything very robust and off-load

the joint and get back to action as soon as possible really.

Your ambition was always the Olympics in 2018,

we're a year away, is that completely off the table?

If you are looking at the preparation in an Olympic cycle,

what's the best I can do in these four years to build up to this?

Doing both knees in the middle back-to-back seasons is an awful

preparation that I came back successfully from my first

injury and I qualify for the World Championships

so I know what it takes but at the same time the time window

You were featured in The Times last week, a the photo shoot,

That was amazing, really bizarre experience and very much

outside my comfort zone but the team there at The Times were incredible,

But the photographer there did a great job and I was really happy

Actually behind-the-scenes I spent nearly two hours

that day in ski boots, completely naked for that

and in fact there's a guy who was cut out of the shot

at the end who was holding me up to get in that position.

What he visioned was an action shot, so to try and recreate

that was going to be quite a challenge at we got

Really I am continuing to focus on my rehabilitation.

I go back to Scotland to see Professor Gordon Mackay

who was the surgeon who did the operation on my knee.

His pioneered a new method, an amazing method which really

accelerates the healing, so I go back up and get another MRI

and then I go back to London for my rehabilitation

at Bisham Abbey and continue the hard work.

Well, good luck and hopefully you'll get where you want to be.

And finally basketball, and if you're a Plymouth Raiders fan

you might like to know that their game against

the Surrey Scorchers this evening is being streamed tonight on the BBC

Tip off is at the Surrey Sports Park is at 7.30pm.

That is the sport. Foxy will be having a good time tonight.

Now on average we spend 47 years of our life working,

but for our next story we're going to hear from a Devon man who's

Roy Handford may be 94, but is still working six days a week

Our reporter Andrea Ormsby has been to see him.

Meet Roy, the 95-year-old dishwasher boy. My worst thing is my eyesight.

But you can see enough to get the nice and clean? Yes. I. I hope I

have. He works with his daughter and granddaughter at the Green Lantern

cafe in Torrington. What is it like working with all your family? Nil it

is nice. Lovely. You have to say that! He has to say that. I enjoy

it, that's why haven't retired. Everyone loves him, all over the

world to get fan mail. He has had letters from Australia and New

Zealand and all of that. They come into the cafe and this in pictures

they have taken in the cafe back with a letter. He has his own little

fan club. Guild how you getting on? Nice to see you again. Roy enjoys a

chat with the customers and he will tell you about the time when he was

in the Royal Navy and he helped to transport shall -- troops to shore

in the D-Day landings. We transported the troops across and as

fast as we could be got back again and then we were drafted in to take

the Yanks across. This is Roy 's second job, he started his first

when he was 14 and he didn't miss a single day until he retired at 65.

He started here one week later. I have just looked after myself, more

or less, that's all. I have got no secret. It's just that I have never

smoked or drunk in my life and that is it. Roy starts at 730 every

morning and does at least a ten hour day every day but Sunday. He can't

wait to get back to work. He never smokes and never drinks.

That is the secret. A teenage singer from Cornwall

is on the verge of international stardom after almost six million

people around the world watched an online video

of her singing in her bedroom. Just five months ago,

18-year-old Daisy Clark posted her acoustic version

of Olivia Newton-John's song It was spotted and shared

by the talent platform Well, today the single

has been released by We'll be speaking to Daisy

in a moment, but first here's a clip OK, this is my attempt

of an acoustic cover This has been my head all day

so we'll see how goes. And we will hear more of that song

in a moment. Is this what you expected after that posting? Not at

all. I had the craziest time ever with people contacting me and say

they loved the song but totally good. Very good. How did it come

about, the moment that we saw there? What made you sit down in your

bedroom and recalled that song? I have always loved grease and

performing arts, singing, dancing, acting, all of that stuff and it was

near my mum 's favourite film and we always love to watch it and the song

had just been in my head. I literally just sat down and pressed

record and uploaded it and then music round saw it when I uploaded

and they were amazing. They give young artists like me and amazing

platform and exposure to get their music out there. Presumably that

wasn't your aim. We went aiming to get picked up in that way? It was a

happy coincidence. It is or was been my aim with my career to be a

songwriter, be a singer and just kind of get my music out there so it

just came with it and it was amazing. All of the papers are

saying you have only left Cornwall twice in your whole life but surely

this is not true. When I spoke to last November on radio call will you

are heading up to London then and you come to Devon now, so it must be

a bit of a social whirl for you. There are a lot of articles saying

stuff but I have been outside of Cornwall before but obviously it is

very small in Cornwall and we are not big travellers. I have been to

places only a few times. I have been to America are a couple of times but

that has all kind of come with YouTube and performing. Next week is

very busy for you. Most definitely. This is one of the busiest weeks

with the song coming out today, it is crazy. We wish you well without

me know you are going to perform it live for us in just a moment and

with virtually on playing it and I haven't been able to get my head --

haven't been able to get out of my head ever since. We look forward to

hearing you in a moment. First we will see what the weather has in

store for the weekend. Holly has the forecast.

Thank you very much. It is finally Friday, thank goodness and it has

not been as nice today as it has been over recent days. Some of us

have seen is a brightness but for many of us it has been cloudy and

grey overhead. To the north of any high ground we have seen the cloud

breaking up more, for example here in Okehampton. This weekend we keep

the mild feel but the air is quite moist and it is largely dry. There

could be a bit of rain but it is more likely to fall overnight and we

could see a bit here and there. Cloudy for the most part and some

bright spells are likely to come through at times. The high pressure

stays in charge. Week weather fronts push in and we could see a bit of

rain by night and there could be mist and fog at times as well.

Fairly cloudy but bright spells here and there. Overnight we have the

risk of low cloud and the fog patches forming. A bit of showery

there and for most of us it stays there and for most of us it stays

pretty mild. Tomorrow morning it could be a murky start. The mist and

fog should lift. North of Exmoor and Dartmoor we could see Sunny spells

coming through and those areas have the best chance of that. A bit of

rain. Not much of that but it would come to the north coast later in the

day. It is mild and we expect temperatures to pick up to 12 or 13.

A cloudy day for the Isles of Scilly tomorrow with the risk of showery

rain but not in any great amount. These are our times of high water.

The waves along the north coast are bigger than we have seen for wild.

Conditions and a southerly wind but choppy on the south coast and six

feet here. Southerly winds of three to five and it will fear west

south-westerly later. Occasional mist and fog patches will reduce the

visibility to poor or very poor at times and the sea state is moderate

or rough. This is how it shapes up as we head through the next few

days. I know it doesn't look very inspiring but bear with me. We have

got milder in place and it gets milder at the beginning of next

week. There are rumours of 16 or 17 degrees for the beginning of next

week but it won't be for us, but we are in the same mild air mass. On

Sunday the best chance is to the east of any high ground but

elsewhere sunny spells could come through as well. It will be largely

dry and any rain is likely to be on Saturday night or Sunday night.

Overall the winds are quite like so when sunshine comes through it

should feel fairly pleasant and quite a lot like spring. Mild into

the beginning of next week but turning cooler and more typical

towards the middle of next week. Thank you very much.

That is all from Spotlight tonight but now for a real treat we have

Daisy Clark singing live for us, her version of Hopelessly Devoted To

You. Have a good weekend. # guess mine is not the first

heartbroken. # my eyes are not the first to see

-- cry. # I'm not the first to know there's just no getting over you. #

I know I'm just a fool who is willing. # had to sit around and

wait for you. # but baby can't you see? # there's nothing else for me

to do. # I'm hopelessly devoted to you. # but now there's nowhere to

hide since you pushed my lover side. # I'm out of my head. # hopelessly

devoted to you. # hopelessly devoted to you. # hopelessly devoted to you.