23/02/2017 Spotlight

Welcome to Spotlight. Tonight, the threat from cybercrime, a warning

that the south-west is too complacent. The region needs to do

more to protect itself. If criminals are targeting your .co .uk e-mail

address, they're not know that you're in Devon or Cornwall, they

know you're in the UK and that is probably all they know. It's no

respect of Geo graffiti unfortunately. Also tonight, Beijing

for children in a sink, one mother reveals problems of the new heating

system in town. Plans for a major overhaul of funding to boost the

economy. And famous for Spotlight and the Antiques road show, Q School

in's own collection is up for auction.

The South West is complacent when it comes to the threat

That's the warning from the Head of the UK's Cyber Crime Unit.

Mike Hulett was speaking at a major conference in Plymouth where local

businesses were told the dangers need to be taken more seriously.

More than ?3 million was lost to internet fraud in just

six months last year, with more than 1,700

People's ordinary bank accounts are also being targeted.

In a moment, we'll hear from the man leading the fight against online

crime, but first this report from Scott Bingham.

From breaking into your car to breaking into your computer.

Crime is changing, with ever more cyber

If businesses are hacked, they can lose

all their information, with demands for ransoms to get

the data back running into thousands of pounds.

And the south-west is said to be leaving itself vulnerable, as a

digital world brings attackers with big-city expertise.

Bank and credit card fraud means no one is immune.

Here at the cybercrime conference, they are trying to give businesses

and the public sector the skills they need

to defend themselves from cyber attacks.

It's very much like health and safety, you get the wrong advice,

you can put your organisation in a really bad place.

Just like any other industry, you get the outcomes where you say

you will get advisers that won't tell you the right thing

That's one of the key thing, to understand that advice is advice.

This is the Hack Shack, where all day a series of workshops

have been taking place to demonstrate just

the kind of cyber attacks we might fall prey to.

Behind me, a live, real-time map, showing cyber threats

You can see the United States, China, countries all

Some of the things they can do here, they're demonstrating how easy

it is to crack a password on your wireless routers

it is to crack a password on your wireless router

and they are also sending out test phisihing e-mails to see how many

Whilst the focus is frequently on technology, many experts say

we humans are often the weakness in the defences.

Attackers can take advantage of human behaviour so much easier

than they can maybe carry out an attack via technology.

So a lot of this is about understanding the threat and it's

And none of us is immune to the threat.

One speaker today said, "Even if you live in a quiet

countryside village, once you go online, you're never far

Scott Bingham, BBC Spotlight, Plymouth.

Well, as I mentioned, Mike Hulett is the head of operations

I met him during today's conference in Plymouth and asked him

what proportion of crime is now online.

Almost half of all recorded crime now is related

Whether that is by a cyber offence or by some kind

of cyber enabled fraud, almost half of all reported crime

now is involving cyber in the Internet in some way.

Is there a danger, do you think, are you witnessing the fact that

because people think, well, I'm in the south-west or I'm

in the north-east or somewhere remote and rural,

away from a big metropolitan area, that I am less vulnerable to this?

Is there that sort of, almost complacency

towards it in some places like the south-west?

Complacency is exactly the word I was going to use.

I don't mean to sound harsh to people that may be victims

of cybercrime but it can feel that if you live in a nice area

of the country such as this, where statistically you probably

are less likely to be a victim of certain types of crime,

if you're connected to the Internet then you are connected

to the rest of the world and that is a fact, unfortunately.

So if criminals are targeting your .co.uk e-mail address for example,

they're not to know that you are in Devon or Cornwall,

They know you're in the UK but that's probably all they know.

It's no respect of your coffee, unfortunately.

It seems very easy to become a victim of cybercrime,

one click on an inappropriate e-mail and you could be a victim.

What are the things, the key things that people need

to do to protect themselves, to be aware of, so that

OK, there's a number of things that people can do.

Unfortunately, the fraudsters and the cybercriminals are very smart.

We've seen them evolve over the last few years,

so some of their campaigns are much more targeted.

It's not necessarily the shotgun approach that has

But there are things that individuals do to help themselves.

The first thing I would say is, make sure that you use some

There's lots of companies out there, who, for a relatively

small amount of money, will provide an antivirus product.

Every time you get an e-mail through from your computer company

saying please update, there's a reason for that,

it's probably because there's been a security flaw identified somewhere

in the system that the company has patched for you.

If you don't download that update, then you are potentially

If we are the victim of a burglary or a physical assault,

Who do we turn to if we are the victim of cybercrime?

OK, the essential reporting point for all cybercrime is Action Fraud.

The website for that is www.actionfraud.police.uk.

Having that central point as well can help to spot

So if you've received an e-mail and you've been the victim of crime

locally here in the south-west, the strong chance is that that same

thing has happened to someone else around the country.

By having that the central point where people report into,

it helps us spot trends and maybe deal with the bigger organised crime

gangs that are behind some of these scams.

Mike Hulett, thank you very much indeed.

One of Britain's most ambitious "district heating schemes"

has hit problems in the new Devon town of Cranbrook.

The unique scheme works by heating hundreds of homes from a central

power station that sends hot water to everyone.

But a number of people living there say they can't always run

One mother says she's been forced to bathe her four

More from our correspondent Neil Gallacher.

Any of us with four children under four might expect

If three of them were triplets, it would be unavoidable.

But Emma Rosey has been more than normally stressed

because of Cranbrook's unique district heating system.

She's one of a number of locals saying it doesn't

It can be fine for a while, you think everything is good,

and then all of a sudden we've got no heating.

Or we try to bathe the children and we've got no hot water.

I've been spending about three weeks now consistently trying to bathe

District heating means Emma's house and all the others have their hot

water and their central heating provided through a giant network

of pipes fed from a single source on the edge of the new town.

We work very hard to make sure that all of the residents on Cranbrook,

schools and community buildings that are connected,

are listened to and engaged with, with their problems.

We sit down with regular customer sessions to listen to their concerns

But are you able to assure people that there aren't

going to be years of these problems, going forward?

Of course things will always take time to bed down and this

We take it very seriously and we will work as hard as we can

to sort any problems out that come up.

What they've built here is unique in Britain.

Much of its energy comes from renewable energy sources

It also means that e-on have a monopoly -

Emma's brother lives at the other end of Cranbrook

I mean, we do get quite a lot of time where we have to run our shower

or our taps for at least ten minutes to get hot water through,

I think it's pretty rubbish that we're left with no option

option but to use e-on, and so do quite a few other

It's obviously too large a scale for e-on to deal

E-on told us Emma's issue may lie her house's internal

plumbing system rather than their heating network.

Even so, they've called a public meeting to discuss

The town itself is growing fast, with 1500 homes already.

Its development has been praised as innovative but it is certainly

Neil Gallacher, BBC Spotlight, Cranbrook.

Its been revealed today how much Government money's coming

to the south west for projects to boost the economy

There was delight in Devon and I Somerset, which received nearly

twice as much as expected, but his appointment in Cornwall.

When you arrive, that's my biggest beef, it's tired, its dilapidated.

If it's true that first impressions count, today Plymouth had reason to

celebrate. Sprucing up the area outside the station is on the list

of ten projects across Devon and Somerset in line for some government

cash. This is an ideal way in which to spend government money because it

will leave in huge amounts of private sector investment.

University are keen to get involved in the project, they want to site a

new faculty here. We're talking about the freeing around ?50 million

of private sector investment and it will transform the entire site. The

money coming down the tracks do here is bid for by business leaders and

it is for projects to boost the economy and create jobs. Six local

enterprise partnership areas across the wider south-west are airing ?191

million. In our area, this is how it breaks down. Dorset is in line for

19.5 million. Devon and Somerset will pocket 43.5 million, and

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are getting eight been -- 18.03 million.

Cornwall actually bid for ?127 million, so there are some tough

decisions on what projects will get the cash. We are clearly

disappointed it's not more. We absolutely need further investment,

whether that be in infrastructure, directing business, skills. We still

need that investment. One thing I would say is that on a per capita

basis, we are about on a par with many other areas. In Devon and

Somerset, funds for ten projects instead of the hoped-for 27, but

some are happy it's more than expected. Some disappointment for

Cornwall. I think it's very important to look again at the

quality of bits, the more tangible the better, and in elation to some

of the bits in Devon and Somerset, lots of joint ventures, people

working together, and government likes to see that. I think that's

perhaps a lesson that could be learnt elsewhere. Work continuing of

these improvements near Saltash. Cornwall Council today branded

today's settlement shockingly small and disappointing.

Now a brief round-up of other news tonight.

A woman's died following a fire at a bungalow in Wadebridge.

Firefighters managed to get her out of the building and she was taken

to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.

Officers have praised the "brave attempts" made

to make way for a ?75 million redevelopment -

The city council says it needs more time to finish its bid.

Construction on the new leisure complex and a new bus station had

been due to start at the end of next month.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency says people calling 999

in South Devon will still get help, despite a dispute with

members of the Dartmouth Coastguard Rescue Team.

It's understood two senior members have quit

The team is responsible for cliff rescues.

It's thought the dispute centres around changes to their procedures.

Justin? Volunteering for the BBC. And I'm still volunteering in a way!

I used to back-up horse manure and sell it by the side of the road. Did

you! Very useful. Well, matching up those looking

for the first rung on the employment ladder with the jobs available

hasn't proved easy in But that's all changing,

thanks to a group of teenagers at Treviglas Community College in

Newquay. Christine Butler has been catching

up with the schoolgirls turned The teenagers that could help out

coastal resorts in peak season. Paige cleans surfboards

and was lucky enough to be I help wax them and I helped just

sorting out the wetsuits, helping people get

the wetsuits, the rash vests. And then on the last surf

of the day, I go out with the group and I kind of help them there,

like push them onto the waves and help them stand up and just help

them feel confident in the water. Abigail mucks out all the time

at home but is now feeling she wants Well, I have horses at home

so I have a lot of experience with them and I don't

mind hard work. And although I don't have goats,

I think I could get used to them. I've advertised before and you only

get one or two people reply and you end up choosing somebody

that may not be wholly suitable for the job,

but you're restricted on choice. Back in the classroom,

the schoolgirls learnt to set Soon to be launched online,

linking employers with teenagers. Teenwork Cornwall is basically

a meeting place for employers and employees to connect

and find jobs. And it's all done over social media

and a website which will be With this system, the employer

advertises vacancies on the website. The student picks a job

and gives them a call. Teenwork is even improving

the prospects for those Because we are only Year 10,

it's kind of hard because we don't really have much experience,

but we are having lots of meetings with different employers and getting

lots of different opinions. And so we, it's definitely

an experience, and we are learning Farmer Rob has already

subscribed to the scheme. This Teenwork thing,

they are almost coming to you. They are looking for work,

so you've got a guarantee that out of the pool of people you're

going to get someone that you want, or someone that is actually

interested in what your advertising. If it's the employment market

Abigail wants to attract, she's already getting a bit

of a nipple! Christine Butler, BBC

Spotlight, Newquay. Still to come in

tonight's programme... an international photojournalist

reveals his images at And join me later when I'll be here,

learning a feud dance steps from the guys at Lord of the Dance.

The late Hugh Scully is fondly remembered as a presenter of this

programme, as well as Nationwide and of course Antiques Roadshow.

But away from the screen, he was something of a collector

himself and this weekend his collection of antique framed

Graham Bazeley, who was a friend of Hugh's, is the auctioneer

and he gave us a preview of what will be going

Well, Hugh Scully was an avid collector, as you can see here,

of political cartoons from a particular period.

They were 18th-century, early 19th century,

the reigns of George II, George I, George II,

George III, up until the reign of Queen Victoria.

The cartoons were a way of criticising the court

and the ongoings of the government at the time, and therefore some

of them are quite, well, shall we say, bawdy,

and some of them are quite rude, in the nicest possible way!

ARCHIVE: Napoleon Bonaparte described us

We've also been called a nation of goalkeepers.

But are we, I wonder, on the point of becoming

I remember Hugh from the beginning, Nationwide and Spotlight

And then eventually, of course, hosting the Antiques Roadshow.

The one subject we've not really done so far

So I'm using this opportunity to speak to John about that.

And John, you know all the old wives' tales

about soaking your rings in gin and scrubbing...

This particular one is very interesting.

They obviously knew that he collected 18th-century cartoons.

We've been on the air for so many years now that we are beginning

Hugh Scully also made quite an extensive collection of maps.

I would call them the 17th century version of a satellite

They are for coaching maps and they are in strict form and it

This one is particularly old, dating from around 1640.

Illustrated here with this castle, in a little vignette there.

We're really lucky to have this collection and it will come under

the hammer on Saturday morning in Penzance.

Looks like a massive collection. Very extensive, wasn't it?

He's had a ringside seat during some of the biggest moments

As a photojournalist, Tor Eigeland has captured

images of news events from around the globe.

But he's now settled in Dorset and is showing his work

at Duke's Auctioneers in his new home town of Dorchester.

Our reporter Claire Vera has been to see some of the moments

You try to transmit feelings, events.

You don't fake anything, you do it straight.

For more than half a century, Tor Eigeland has been

putting a thousand words into a single picture.

It was hot and this desperate mother didn't know how

ARCHIVE: Joyous followers of Fidel Castro sweep

triumphantly through the Cuban capital, hours after...

In 1959, Tor witnessed Castro's arrival in Havana,

Tor, living closely with his subjects, here

is saddened by the loss of some of the worlds he's captured.

A lot of the things I've covered definitely do not exist any longer,

In a way I wish I hadn't met all those people.

As you can see what has happened to Syria, it really,

Well, he may have travelled the world, but all roads have

eventually led to Dorset, where he is putting on his first

exhibition, so local people can see his work.

I think it's just amazing for Dorchester to have an exhibition of

such global significance. Tor has had an amazing career. I wouldn't be

surprised if we really had a wide range of people coming in to see it.

His later work features laces more familiar to us, but Tor Eigeland is

still learning. I think it is a blessed, calm corner of the world.

People here are very lucky to be here, I think.

Now, get ready for a spot of Celtic music and fast dancing.

Yes, Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance has

It's part of the 20th anniversary UK tour,

which is visiting more than 20 venues.

So we thought we'd send our one Irish reporter

Johnny Rutherford learn a few Irish steps from one

Have a look at what I'm wearing. I'm not quite sure why, why am I wearing

this? Well, you're Irish, we might need you in the show tonight, you

must at dancing! Tonight? For a lesson.

CHUCKLES Faster than me! But let's be

serious, you're here for four nights, it's the middle of the tour,

it's a new style of what has been done for 20 years. What's new? Well,

Michael Flatley released the show in 2015. We put new choreography in

there, new hand movements, new beats. We've got new costumes, new

set, lighting, sounds of these great graphics as you can see behind us.

We're really excited just to take you around the world again. That

does sound very exciting. And out here, Plymouth pavilions will be

absolutely packed to be able to watch a show as good as this.

It is very impressive, isn't it? I thought Johnny did a good job. Going

back to his Irish roots! Now, performing Lord of the dance and

bringing us the weather at the same time, David, over to you! You need

to get those legs up a bit more! Hello, good evening. It's been a

pretty wild day. Perhaps not too bad for us, a normal blustery day

really, although the gusts of wind have been pretty lively, but other

parts of the country have been battered by Storm Doris, which has

now left us and moved away to Scandinavia. You've been out taking

pictures of rough conditions, this picture sent in by Keith of Paul

Townend beat channel so long in Somerset and Devon we have had

pretty lively conditions. -- this picture of Porthtowan Beach. Peak

gusts up at just shy of 70 mph. Not unusual to see those gusts of wind

but a much quieter day to look forward to tomorrow, just that

cooler, slightly fresher air has arrived after the low pressure has

moved out of the way. The main setup for the next 24 hours is for a ridge

of high pressure coming over us. Compared to the conditions we've

seen today, it is quite a bit for tomorrow. This was along the north

coast today, where our cameraman went to Jabbar with

-- Trebarwith Strand. The waves dangerous along the coastline but

very quickly I think these scenes will calm down in the second half of

the night and tomorrow we will lose the strength of the wind. It is that

clear sky that will allow temperatures to fall away, that is

already happening this evening. The ridge of high pressure with us for

perhaps just one day because the weekend forecast is pretty

unsettled, one weather front coming in from the West on Saturday

bringing some outbreaks of rain and another will follow as we move

through Sunday. Behind that, to the north of this cold front, it's white

on here suggesting that some of the showers in Monday and Tuesday's

forecast could turn wintry and perhaps a return to some overnight

frost. Frost is possible to night with a good deal of clear sky but I

think temperatures will not get much lower than around two or three

degrees. The further west, the higher the temperatures, so parts of

Dorset and Somerset may see a brief frost first thing tomorrow morning.

For all of us to marry a pretty good day, there might be few showers

around but I think the wind is much lighter than they have been, nothing

to worry us too. Perhaps more cloud around later in the day but we

should see temperatures back up to nine or 10 degrees. The forecast for

the Isles of Scilly, a bright start but turning cloudy with the risk of

a few showers later in the day. The times of the high water, Penzance...

And for most of our beaches, the waves are still quite big and still

a bit choppy with those north-west conditions along the coast between

four and six feet but nothing compared to what we've seen today.

There is our coastal waters forecast. As we head into the

weekend, there is a lot of cloud, relatively mild and breezy with the

winter and the south-west and now turning colder on Sunday night and

into Monday. Have a good evening, back to you.

Thank you, Lord David! Back with the late news at half past ten. Hope you

can join us then. From all of us on Spotlight, goodbye.