:00:00. > 3:59:59Jo just about. A reminder of the top story: Scotland has asked for a new
:00:00. > :00:00.Scottish independence referendum, Tonight in the South West reaction
:00:00. > :00:09.to the imminent release The former Royal Marine,
:00:10. > :00:12.jailed for murder, could We'll be asking what lessons can be
:00:13. > :00:30.learned from his case? Persistent visits to the GP to no
:00:31. > :00:32.avail. It took four months for diagnosis by which time it was too
:00:33. > :00:35.The battle to diagnose bowel cancer before it's too late.
:00:36. > :00:38.Academics in Exeter think they may be able to help
:00:39. > :00:42.Why all is not what it seems in this picture -
:00:43. > :00:45.we'll hear from the farmer who says it couldn't be further
:00:46. > :00:54.And join us for a trip down memory lane with an archive last from
:00:55. > :01:11.Plymouth's past. The former Somerset Royal Marine
:01:12. > :01:13.jailed for murder will be freed Alexander Blackman has already
:01:14. > :01:18.had his murder conviction reduced Today, judges re-sentenced him to
:01:19. > :01:23.seven years and because of the time he's already served he'll
:01:24. > :01:24.be released shortly. Our Somerset correspondent
:01:25. > :01:26.Clinton Rogers reports now from Alexander Blackman's home
:01:27. > :01:46.town of Taunton. Any homecoming party in Taunton only
:01:47. > :01:50.to be put on hold for a short while. Alexander Blackman has already
:01:51. > :01:55.served three and a half years in prison. His previous life sentence
:01:56. > :01:58.for murder was today reduced to seven years for manslaughter and
:01:59. > :02:02.because it is commonplace for prisoners only to serve half the
:02:03. > :02:08.sentence, that effectively means Alexander Blackman has pretty much
:02:09. > :02:13.done his time. It said the High Court today, has QC said he expected
:02:14. > :02:19.him to be released in a couple of weeks. His wife was plainly
:02:20. > :02:24.delighted. We are overjoyed at the judge's decision to significantly
:02:25. > :02:29.reduce his sentence wiki can be released imminently. This is the
:02:30. > :02:34.moment we have all been fighting hard for and it is hard to believe
:02:35. > :02:42.this day is finally here. This is a case that continues to cause much
:02:43. > :02:45.debate. It has polarised opinions. There are people, including
:02:46. > :02:48.ex-military men, who believe Alexander Blackman had to be
:02:49. > :02:57.prosecuted once the video evidence came to light. Lord Ashdown is a
:02:58. > :03:01.former Royal Marine. A soldier goes on to someone else's country armed
:03:02. > :03:09.with lethal force in order to protect the law. Domestic law in
:03:10. > :03:13.Britain and international law, and when it is broken, and that is a
:03:14. > :03:17.matter for the court and the court has judged on this and regarded it
:03:18. > :03:23.as mitigating circumstances, it is not for anyone else to intervene in
:03:24. > :03:28.that process. Plenty of other people say that unless you were there and
:03:29. > :03:33.experienced the heat of battle you cannot judge. Among those a former
:03:34. > :03:40.Royal Marine who served with Alexander Blackman on that tour. I
:03:41. > :03:48.have been to see him. At home with a man who was there. Rob Driscoll was
:03:49. > :03:51.a Sergeant with the Royal Marines on the same to as Alexander Blackman.
:03:52. > :03:59.He has undergone years of counselling since. It was the worst
:04:00. > :04:02.to that I did. And he says the horrors of Afghanistan will probably
:04:03. > :04:10.never leave him. I have seen some pretty horrific things but I hadn't
:04:11. > :04:15.seen them use body parts as bait or heard or seen them crucify people. A
:04:16. > :04:20.real hatred built up inside me for the insurgency and people who were
:04:21. > :04:25.prepared to use these techniques against us. Do you think that is the
:04:26. > :04:33.background against which Alexander Blackman did what he did? I think it
:04:34. > :04:37.is a contributing factor. There is no way we can argue it wouldn't have
:04:38. > :04:43.affected some of his actions on that day. When you are surrounded by
:04:44. > :04:50.lunacy, a little bit of lunacy doesn't seem so bad. Six years on
:04:51. > :04:51.and trying to settle into normal life, Rob Driscoll says he still
:04:52. > :05:05.supports Alexander Blackman. He acknowledges that what he did on
:05:06. > :05:12.the battlefield, captured on helmet colours, may have been illegal, but
:05:13. > :05:16.militarily he made the right decision in not summoning help for
:05:17. > :05:22.the Taliban fighter. Was it right for me what he did? My answer is
:05:23. > :05:26.absolutely because there is a very real chance that as he hadn't done
:05:27. > :05:32.what he did I would be walking at the main gate with a nine guys to go
:05:33. > :05:39.down and secure a route which we knew was under threat and seeded
:05:40. > :05:45.with explosive devices. That would have meant rolling those dice and
:05:46. > :05:53.potentially not coming back with all the guys I walked out with. A former
:05:54. > :05:56.Royal Marine. Alexander Blackman had hoped that once his murder
:05:57. > :05:59.conviction was reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of
:06:00. > :06:03.diminished responsibility he might be allowed to rejoin the Royal
:06:04. > :06:06.Marines. That is not going to happen. The High Court judges
:06:07. > :06:07.decided his dismissal must stand. With me now is the Liberal Democrat
:06:08. > :06:20.peer Lord Burnett who is also You also wanted him to be reinstated
:06:21. > :06:26.but it is clear from the sentencing his dismissal remains, what do you
:06:27. > :06:30.make of that? His wife always said dismissal with this place was the
:06:31. > :06:38.coolest punishment visited on her husband. The Court of Appeal says he
:06:39. > :06:41.is still dismissed. That is presumably capable of appeal to the
:06:42. > :06:47.Supreme Court and that is a possibility. But why should he be
:06:48. > :06:52.allowed back in? He stands still convicted of a serious criminal
:06:53. > :06:57.offence. A criminal offence but massively mitigated as three
:06:58. > :07:04.imminent, world renowned psychiatrists have stated. I think
:07:05. > :07:08.that matter in free and statement should be left to the service rather
:07:09. > :07:12.than the courts. What about this case and the wider implications?
:07:13. > :07:17.What lessons do you think can be learned for the court-martial
:07:18. > :07:27.process and for the stress serving personnel are under? The panel voted
:07:28. > :07:32.in the original case, when Alexander Blackman was convicted 5-2. In a
:07:33. > :07:41.civilian criminal Court that would not be enough, so we have a military
:07:42. > :07:44.covenant. Our Armed Forces personnel should not be disadvantaged as
:07:45. > :07:50.against civilians, that should change. The second point is he
:07:51. > :07:56.should have been tried by his peers, that is the ethos, and the facts are
:07:57. > :08:01.a great many people on that panel had not heard of shots fired in
:08:02. > :08:02.anger never mind many of the horrors of the war in Afghanistan. Thank
:08:03. > :08:03.you. If you're under 50 and you have
:08:04. > :08:06.bowel cancer it's possible your symptoms could be missed until it's
:08:07. > :08:08.too late . Academics from the University
:08:09. > :08:10.of Exeter hope a new diagnostic tool they've created can help identify
:08:11. > :08:13.who is most at risk. Our Health correspondent
:08:14. > :08:15.Jenny Walrond met a woman from Cornwall whose husband died
:08:16. > :08:30.from the disease aged just 34. It's an idyllic spot to build
:08:31. > :08:33.a dream home but Emma Matthews's dreams of the future were shattered
:08:34. > :08:35.when her husband Martin was diagnosed with
:08:36. > :08:37.terminal bowel cancer. It had taken a year
:08:38. > :08:41.to get diagnosed. He went to the GP about 15 times,
:08:42. > :08:44.phone calls as well, Martin always kept asking if it
:08:45. > :08:53.could be cancer or not and they kept saying
:08:54. > :09:01.they were 99.9% sure it wasn't. Emma's father was also diagnosed
:09:02. > :09:04.with bowel cancer but it was caught Martin managed to build
:09:05. > :09:07.their dream home but died GPs find it difficult to diagnose
:09:08. > :09:21.bowel cancer in the under 50s because it is less common in young
:09:22. > :09:24.people and the symptoms are similar They don't get a good service
:09:25. > :09:33.and actually suffer as a result. Your chance of surviving colorectal
:09:34. > :09:36.cancer as a young person should be better because by and large
:09:37. > :09:40.you are healthier but that is not Around one in 20 cases of bowel
:09:41. > :09:59.cancer are in people aged under 50. There are 2500 new cases each year
:10:00. > :10:02.in the UK and the symptoms are so common they account for one
:10:03. > :10:08.in 12 GP appointments. This new diagnostic tool helps GPs
:10:09. > :10:12.identify who needs further tests, by evaluating the risks
:10:13. > :10:14.from different Professor Hamilton hopes it will be
:10:15. > :10:22.incorporated into GP's computer programmes and automatically flagged
:10:23. > :10:27.up at risk patients, and if it can speed up diagnosis
:10:28. > :10:30.it can improve chances of survival. When caught in early stages,
:10:31. > :10:33.90% of bowel cancer patients survive An organic farmer from Devon
:10:34. > :10:46.is angry with Tesco for using He says he's never supplied
:10:47. > :10:51.the supermarket and using the picture is creating an image
:10:52. > :10:54.that isn't true. Tesco has removed the
:10:55. > :10:56.image and apologised. Spotlight's Andrea
:10:57. > :11:11.Ormsby has the story. Martin Godfrey is passionate
:11:12. > :11:13.about his farming methods. I can produce a lot of food
:11:14. > :11:25.from a small area of a very high standard, very nutritious,
:11:26. > :11:30.direct to the customer. When a picture of him
:11:31. > :11:36.pulling carrots was used The image couldn't be so far
:11:37. > :11:44.removed from the reality, me pulling carrots by hand
:11:45. > :11:51.in a field which doesn't To grow carrots for a supermarket
:11:52. > :11:59.is highly matter glazed with big tractors and it is OK for them
:12:00. > :12:04.to use but it needs to represent He says he has never worked
:12:05. > :12:15.for Tesco and was surprised to find the picture of him being used
:12:16. > :12:17.on their website. The supermarket chain got
:12:18. > :12:22.the image through an agency. A spokesperson for Tesco says
:12:23. > :12:24.the supermarket works tirelessly to support farmers and suppliers
:12:25. > :12:29.and is sorry for any upset caused. Martin says Tesco has also offered
:12:30. > :12:38.to donate ?1000 to a local charity. He says he is happy
:12:39. > :12:40.with their response but want all supermarkets to change how
:12:41. > :12:43.they represent themselves in future. Don't use pretty pictures
:12:44. > :12:47.to gain customers. It is not favour of the former
:12:48. > :12:50.starter working hard doing what they is right,
:12:51. > :12:56.looking after our soil Martin has invited Tesco
:12:57. > :13:02.representatives to come and see the work he does on his six
:13:03. > :13:16.acres in Devon. A leading figure in the South West
:13:17. > :13:19.fishing industry says it will be a "betrayal" if the government fails
:13:20. > :13:22.to ban foreign fishing boats from within 12 miles of the shore
:13:23. > :13:24.after Britain leaves the EU. The government, though,
:13:25. > :13:27.is refusing to confirm it will treat this as a "red line"
:13:28. > :13:29.in the Brexit negotiations. Here's our Political
:13:30. > :13:47.Editor Martyn Oates. This thing, like a miniature
:13:48. > :13:48.polystyrene bodyboard is all that many people in the UK
:13:49. > :13:51.will know about cuttlefish. You may think that whoever
:13:52. > :13:54.is in the business of producing these is involved in the most niche
:13:55. > :13:56.of niche industries, Dressed in his juicy flesh,
:13:57. > :14:00.the cuttlefish is one of the south-west fishing
:14:01. > :14:03.industry's star turns. It is the most important
:14:04. > :14:06.species landed in terms If that fact has passed
:14:07. > :14:13.you by its probably because like so much British fish
:14:14. > :14:16.it is whisked away for sale After Brexit, British fishermen
:14:17. > :14:20.want to be able to catch more fish, principally by clawing back
:14:21. > :14:22.the quarter currently They also want to carry on selling
:14:23. > :14:30.the vast quantity of species like this into the European single
:14:31. > :14:37.market as easily as they do now. I have come to the Legion's great
:14:38. > :14:41.fishing port to meet the chief executive
:14:42. > :14:45.of the Cornish fishing organisation. I asked him what losing tariff free
:14:46. > :14:49.access to the European Most important would be
:14:50. > :14:57.the nontariff barriers. If we have problems logistically
:14:58. > :15:04.getting your product into the continental market it
:15:05. > :15:12.causes a headache. Slow down at the borders causes
:15:13. > :15:18.problems with dealing with Early indications suggest that other
:15:19. > :15:25.EU states will be wanting continued access to fresh in British waters
:15:26. > :15:28.in return for British fishermen Access for foreign boats within 200
:15:29. > :15:34.miles of the sure will involve a lot of haggling but fishermen pointed
:15:35. > :15:43.out that before Britain even joined the UDP and community,
:15:44. > :15:45.the British government unilaterally agreed foreign boats
:15:46. > :15:47.within just 12 miles. They see that agreement can
:15:48. > :15:49.and must now be revoked. Only last week the fishing
:15:50. > :15:51.minister wouldn't confirm that the government intends
:15:52. > :15:53.to do that. There are many things we are looking
:15:54. > :15:56.closely at and have not made final decisions yet which is why
:15:57. > :15:59.that is no announcements will people will have to be more patient
:16:00. > :16:02.but rest assured we are looking closely at these issues including
:16:03. > :16:04.the 1964 convention. It is slightly worrying
:16:05. > :16:06.they are not prepared to commit Maybe it is about negotiating
:16:07. > :16:11.strategy, maybe they are genuinely not sure, but one thing is sure,
:16:12. > :16:16.we do not expect that same degree of negotiation for the beach
:16:17. > :16:18.to the 12 mile limit. That is for the inshore fleet
:16:19. > :16:23.and should be managed for the benefit of those guys
:16:24. > :16:26.and anything less than complete exclusivity would be seen
:16:27. > :16:32.as the trail, not too strong a word. Recent reports say the Prime
:16:33. > :16:35.Minister is now planning to revoke the 1964 agreement but many are now
:16:36. > :16:38.wondering just how much influence and industry employing 11,000 people
:16:39. > :16:40.nationwide will be able to wield once Brexit negotiations
:16:41. > :16:43.begin in earnest. Volunteers are being trained
:16:44. > :16:45.this week to help catch, count and control the number
:16:46. > :16:48.of foreign crayfish infesting The Signal Crayfish from America
:16:49. > :16:51.were brought to the moor to be But as Spotlight's John Ayres
:16:52. > :16:55.reports things didn't turn out It's a painstaking
:16:56. > :17:02.process monitoring Twice a week, volunteers are donning
:17:03. > :17:08.waders to check the traps and keep So what we do, we remove these pods
:17:09. > :17:22.which facilitate breeding, and this guy was done at some
:17:23. > :17:24.point last year. We also mark them for
:17:25. > :17:30.their site of origin. They need the numbers to come down
:17:31. > :17:34.because they are causing huge damage One example you can see behind
:17:35. > :17:38.you is burrowing into the river They also have an impact
:17:39. > :17:46.on fish populations They have been responsible
:17:47. > :17:51.for reducing the number of native It was back in the 1970s
:17:52. > :18:03.that the government department at the time decided it
:18:04. > :18:05.would be a good idea to give farmers a chance
:18:06. > :18:09.to diversify and have another industry and they could
:18:10. > :18:12.try and raise money. What they didn't know was just how
:18:13. > :18:15.invasive it would become and the damage it would do
:18:16. > :18:17.to the local environment. What they didn't expect at the time
:18:18. > :18:21.was that the crayfish would walk on land and could survive outside
:18:22. > :18:24.of water for up to six months. They left the ponds and made
:18:25. > :18:29.their way into the rivers. It is actually a criminal
:18:30. > :18:32.offence to return them, they are so damaging
:18:33. > :18:35.and it is illegal even to transport them alive in case they escape
:18:36. > :18:40.and get back into another To do this work
:18:41. > :18:48.they need volunteers. I love anything to do with the great
:18:49. > :19:00.outdoors especially where I live, and also with doing a degree
:19:01. > :19:03.anything that I can find out The larger males are cannibalistic
:19:04. > :19:13.and are being sterilised and put back under a license
:19:14. > :19:14.to help control numbers. All others are being trapped
:19:15. > :19:17.and destroyed humanely. An animator turned puppeteer has won
:19:18. > :19:19.?50,000 in a competition in Germany. Barnaby Dixon has created his
:19:20. > :19:22.own puppets and films He's already getting interest
:19:23. > :19:44.from international programme makers. This is the unique creation of
:19:45. > :19:50.Barnaby Dixon and he has got his own U-tube CDs. First we have to cross
:19:51. > :19:56.that bridge and if it collapses and I die I would like you all to write
:19:57. > :19:59.letters to Somerset County Council. He went to the carnival last year
:20:00. > :20:06.and goes for lots of walks around the river and canal and is various
:20:07. > :20:12.levels of an appropriate. Barnaby Dixon studied animation and decided
:20:13. > :20:18.to build puppets and his hands so he could make films for the Internet.
:20:19. > :20:22.You work all this stuff out as you go along so not only does the puppet
:20:23. > :20:28.get built, you build its range of motion at the same times when it is
:20:29. > :20:38.finished you are nearly there. I have finally the puppet. His film
:20:39. > :20:44.went viral. To do that motion, that is eBay's work and stop motion,
:20:45. > :20:54.whereas this happens as quickly as you can perform it. He won the
:20:55. > :21:01.German TV competition. I won ?50,000 which is a lot of money, but that
:21:02. > :21:06.will go towards equipment, towards lawyers fees in terms of patent
:21:07. > :21:11.thing and it is just terribly expensive. So far he has relied on
:21:12. > :21:16.crowdfunding to support his work meaning he can spend hours creating
:21:17. > :21:20.characters like this dinosaur. When you are in control of every aspect
:21:21. > :21:30.of creation, you are the authority and it is very freeing. With offers
:21:31. > :21:36.from the US to make a TV series, his self belief is paying off. If you
:21:37. > :21:40.are good enough at anything and you like it and other people like it you
:21:41. > :21:43.can make a living doing anything. If you find a way to make it viable,
:21:44. > :21:50.but that is the tricky part. Some of the oldest film footage
:21:51. > :21:53.of Plymouth features It's been put together by a Plymouth
:21:54. > :21:58.historian who's been collecting There's some lovely pictures - this
:21:59. > :22:02.is the area around Derry's clock - look how busy it is -
:22:03. > :22:04.and hardly recognisable today. David George has been watching
:22:05. > :22:23."The Story of Plymouth City Centre". If we had ambled across what was you
:22:24. > :22:28.rode in 1925 would have been knocked flying by all those horses and
:22:29. > :22:32.trams, the only thing left is the clock itself, built by the mere of
:22:33. > :22:38.Plymouth in honour of the 1862 royal wedding. He got it built as a public
:22:39. > :22:45.water drinking fountain but the taps never worked. The clock does, more
:22:46. > :22:49.or less. It was referred to as the four faced deceiver because wherever
:22:50. > :22:55.you stood told a slightly different time so people could always complain
:22:56. > :23:03.if they were late or not plate. This footage came from the police, the
:23:04. > :23:08.first ever CCTV? They filmed it because in 1925, this was said to be
:23:09. > :23:13.the busiest junction outside London. Not many people had cars but there
:23:14. > :23:18.were trams and horses and carts and this was a familiar scene on the
:23:19. > :23:26.streets of Plymouth right up until the Second World War, and in fact
:23:27. > :23:31.the Co-op run their last horse and cart in 1954. The clock is one of
:23:32. > :23:36.the few features in Plymouth to survive the wartime bombing and the
:23:37. > :23:43.city planners. Plymouth took the unusual decision to start again. The
:23:44. > :23:48.Duke of Cornwall Hotel is one of those buildings to survive both. The
:23:49. > :23:55.railway station, which used to be just across the road, plainly did
:23:56. > :24:00.not. It is said the rich and famous, including Walt Disney and Bing
:24:01. > :24:03.Crosby, would get off transatlantic liners in Plymouth and catch the
:24:04. > :24:08.train to London from here because it was quicker than staying on board
:24:09. > :24:14.until Southampton. They say nostalgia isn't what it used to be
:24:15. > :24:19.but will historians look back on our 2017 footage with a misty eyed and
:24:20. > :24:30.say, didn't Plymouth look quaint? Answers on a postcard. Love seeing
:24:31. > :24:31.how places have changed, some almost recognisable still. Now looking
:24:32. > :24:41.ahead to the weather. Good evening. Some sunshine over the
:24:42. > :24:47.last few days, it is now all change as the rain turns up. Some time yet
:24:48. > :24:52.to be quite heavy. First thing this morning we had a lovely start to the
:24:53. > :24:55.day, the Channel Islands saw some glorious sunshine to greet everyone
:24:56. > :25:00.first thing. That is now changing and the rain is coming and it could
:25:01. > :25:07.be around tomorrow, mostly in the West, some patchy rain and rather
:25:08. > :25:15.cloudy and breezy. Breaks in the sunshine now and then. A lot of
:25:16. > :25:19.cloud queueing up, currently over most of southern England, producing
:25:20. > :25:25.outbreaks of rain, some heavy. One weather system moves away but
:25:26. > :25:28.another follows. It stays just to the west and although the area of
:25:29. > :25:31.high pressure has been moved across to France it is still close enough
:25:32. > :25:37.to keep southerly winds calling for this week, drawing up warmth from
:25:38. > :25:44.Spain and Portugal and from Thursday, we could have pretty high
:25:45. > :25:50.temperatures, possibly even 19, and all change on Friday as a cold front
:25:51. > :25:59.comes through. This is the satellite picture from this afternoon and you
:26:00. > :26:04.can see the brighter colours. Before that, there was some hazy sunshine
:26:05. > :26:10.but already a feel of cloud with the daffodils looking fantastic. And
:26:11. > :26:20.along the coastline, pretty good although the breeze has whipped up,
:26:21. > :26:24.a fresh southerly breeze. Further inland, this is Exeter with plenty
:26:25. > :26:32.of blue sky. For the least the sunshine has held on for longer and
:26:33. > :26:36.is producing some effects. Some wet weather for this evening with this
:26:37. > :26:41.band of rain fast moving, sweeping through accompanied by some strong
:26:42. > :26:47.winds for a time. Once it gets through, things start to calm down
:26:48. > :26:53.and a lot of cloud, a mild night, misty over high ground and the
:26:54. > :26:58.overnight temperature down to 11. A head start with the temperature
:26:59. > :27:04.first thing tomorrow and some rain but persistent rain to the west of
:27:05. > :27:07.us. Some breaks developing in the cloud particularly afternoon when
:27:08. > :27:16.the sunshine comes out for an hour or two, giving temperatures of 14
:27:17. > :27:27.Celsius. Cloudy with rain off and on through the day. Finally, very messy
:27:28. > :27:28.conditions along the south coast but clean socks to be had along the
:27:29. > :27:41.north coast. It is your fault it is raining.
:27:42. > :28:15.Thanks for watching, see you tomorrow, good night.
:28:16. > :28:20.A middle-aged woman chasing after a teenage boy...