19/04/2017 Spotlight

The daily dangers of working at one of the region's prisons.

Officers at breaking point speak out...

Staff coming into work run the risk of ever going home safely.

They going to have to come into work and expect to

were swept to their deaths. a father and daughter

An inquest hears how they were washed off rocks in Newquay.

Their family say it's left a void which can't be filled,

The Lions roar for an Exeter Chief player -

a childhood dream come true for Jack Nowell ahead of a summer

And the sweet smell of success - the nine year old entrepreneur

Verbal and physical assaults, fear for their own safety

Two serving prison officers in Dorset have decided to speak out

over what they say is a daily threat of attack due to overcrowding

work at Portland prison and young offenders institute.

Andy Dubber says he has been "knocked out" and Tony Walker says

The government has pledged to recruit more prison staff

and says it's working to tackle the "drugs, drones and phones"

But some officers say levels of violence are the worse

I been in the service now offer 24 years and I've never known anything

like it. The issues that we have to deal with on a daily basis are not

what you would expect of a normal job, where you expect to go home

safely at the end of the day. Imagine going to work expecting to

be attacked fearing for your safety. Prison officers openly battered and

bruised. On the other hand, you got to do your job, which is to

challenge prisoners bad behaviour. The pressure is on as phenomenal. It

is rare for prison officer to speak to the media, but they feel it is

important that the public knows reality of life behind bars. They

feel that the job has become tougher with the availability of spice. It

is a powerful synthetic drug with devastating side-effects. Two I was

knocked out by a prisoner coming out of a spice attack, he head-butted me

from nowhere and not me clean out. This is the story of one prison by

the sustaining many jails. The attacks have gone up with issues

like overcrowding and understaffing. The Ministry of Justice recognises

those crowding issues at jails like Exeter and Channing's would, but it

says that there are no staff shortages, at least here at

Portland. They add that these are long-standing issues, but officers

feel that time is running out. We are at crisis and something needs to

be done urgently to sort that out. The threat to the staff is massive.

A mother has described the moment her family's lives

"changed forever" after she, her husband and their two-year-old

daughter were swept into the sea while fishing off rocks

Rudy Bruynius and McKayla drowned after conditions changed suddenly.

Today a coroner recorded verdicts of accidental death.

Eleanor Parkinson is in Newquay for us tonight.

These are the rocks were the Bruynius family was fitting.

It was supposed to be a happy afternoon out Freddie De Bruyne 's

family. But, they were caught out by a sudden change in the weather and a

day out ended with two deaths. These are the rocks were

the Bruynius family was fitting. Lucinda Bruynius said that

as the family were setting up their rods, the sea suddenly

became much bigger, She said as she shouted

to her two young boys to move higher onto the rocks,

two waves suddenly swept her husband and her two-year-old girl

McKayla into the sea. She said McKayla was strapped

into her pushchair, she said somehow managed to set her free,

because she saw her in his arms. When she next saw him,

he wasn't moving. She thought he was unconscious,

so she tried to hold his The alarm was raised by a couple

who were picnicking on the rocks. Lucinda Bruynius and her husband

were pulled from the water McKayla was found by

the inshore lifeboat. Both father and daughter

were airlifted to hospital. Rudy died that evening,

McKayla died four days later On the 19th of August 2016,

our lives changed forever. We were fishing off rocks in Newquay

when the sea conditions changed We did not have time to react

to and my sons and I have been left Rudy was a loving husband

and a wonderful father. He leaves a void which

can never be filled. McKayla, our gorgeous,

beautiful baby, is for ever in our hearts and the pain myself

and the boys feel at losing Lucinda Bruynius says she's very

grateful to the RNLI, the emergency services

and the people of Cornwall She says she hopes that others can

learn from their tragedy. The RNLI launched a respect the sea

campaign after hearing that many people who drown in the sea never

intended to go in the water in the first place they say being swept off

rocks is a real danger. Between now and the 8th of June,

the South West will become a key battle ground after MPs voted today

to back the Prime Minister's call Last time round, yellow became blue

as the Conservatives wiped These are some of the constituencies

the Tories will hope to hang on to and which the Liberal Democrats

will want to win back. We'll talk to our political editor

about their chances in a moment. First, our reporter Hamish Marshall

has spent the day on a road trip visiting three Devon constituencies

to gauge the strength of feeling. He's been to Exeter,

the South West's sole Labour constituency,

Torbay and Plymouth. 50 days from decision day and

composer Max shoes do you want to be income June the 8th. The parties

have seven weeks to make their pitch. This is Exeter, a small red

dot in the largely blue political south-west. It was one of only three

places in the south-west to vote remain in last year 's referendum.

So, what did people to think about going to the polls again here? I

think she's doing the right thing. Whether I will vote for her is

another matter. This will be the new referendum it will tell us which

really country lives. The snap election has got 18-year-olds

first-time voters by surprise. Of the CI will have to brush up because

it hasn't mattered to me before. Down the road, things are different

in terms of MP and the referendum result. For 18 years, Torbay was

held by the Liberal Democrats and they will hope to win this seat

back. But, there is a problem, Torbay had the strongest vote in the

south-west for Brexit, with 63%. We need to be England, Great Britain,.

Just looking at the options, up to now she has not let me down, Theresa

May, just doing a good job. Some are considering switching parties. If it

helps keep the European ID together then, yes, I would do that. Well,

we've made it to Plymouth. Nationally, a lot of the talk has

been about the problem is that the Labour Party is facing. Here, they

have hopes of winning both of the city. They are regarded as very

marginal. There is one problem though, the city voted 60-44 Brexit.

I think we are stupid to get out of the EU. It is a multicultural world

now. It will be interesting to see that the outcome is. I think if it

is going to happen, people fighting against it isn't going to help. To

get your vote, all sides will be fighting hard in the next eight

weeks. Our Political Editor Martyn Oates

has been following events in Westminster, where MPs this

afternoon voted overwhelmingly in favour of a general election

on 8th June. So will the South West be

as exciting and nationally Well, despite that cursing victory

for Conservatives over Lib Dems, crushing victory, it might look as

if the Conservatives are in a dominant position, but some of the

majority is a small, and the 2015 election was fought against a very

specific backdrop which is now disappeared. The Lib Dems were very

badly damaged by the decision to go with the Conservatives five years

earlier, the Conservatives did very well in that election having

hammered out the slogan that if you voted you risked having SNP and

Labour running the country. So much has changed, since then, that

frankly that all seems ten years ago. Particularly, the Brexit wrote,

which is the reason that we are having this election at all, so I

think both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will have a lot to

play for. Especially the Conservatives, defending the seat,

quite a bit to worry about. Where the key battle grounds be? Well, as

always attention will be focused on the most marginal seats, where the

defending candidate has the smallest majority. Top of that list is,

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, where the majority was just 523 votes,

just down the list is symbolised Yeovil and Torbay which are in the

top five. But, because so much has changed in these years, it's not

just the matter of looking at mathematically and technically

marginal seats, I think the Conservatives will regard all of

those seats are they took from the Lib Dems as marginal in practice. We

are also hearing today from UK and the Green party that they are

looking at potentially not standing candidates in some seats to either

help or hinder the defending Conservative candidate. The big

lesson we draw from the dramatic political events here and abroad

over the last couple of years is that voters have any enormous

capacity to surprise politicians, pollsters and journalists by not

doing what they're expected to do. Indeed plenty to keep and eye on in

the next few weeks. A round-up of other stories making

the news in the South West... Detectives investigating a fire

at a Grade One listed stately home near Beaminster have arrested

a 68-year-old local man Parnham House suffered a significant

amount of damage in the blaze. lessons after shaving his head

for a cancer charity. Fifteen year old Taylor Jones,

was told by Launceston College in Cornwall that his extreme

hairstyle was unacceptable The college says Taylor was advised

to have his hair cut to a "very A Conservative MP has called

for cars in Cornwall to have the flag of St Piran

on their number plates Scott Mann was speaking

on the issues at a Westminster Hall Jack Nowell has become the first

ever Exeter Chiefs player to be The 24-year old was today named

in the 41-man squad for the summer The first the Cornishman

heard of his inclusion was when the touring party

was announced on television. And as Andy Birkett found out,

there was quite a celebration. Jack Nowell, Exeter

Chiefs and England. To be named in that is

obviously a massive thing for myself and for

I'm very excited, it's any rugby players dream.

Not only play into the country but a chance to go on

tour with the Lions is massive and to be given a chance now is go

It's a chance the popular Cornishman has

Everyone around the club is naturally delighted.

To have a current British Lion in your team is

For it to be one of the players that has come to your

academy system and have only played their Premiership rugby year at one

club and becoming international here and now become a British line, it

doesn't really get any better than that from the club's perspective

for me as well, the fact that it's happened to such a good

Despite his rapid rise from mini rugby at the Pirates through Truro

College to now becoming a premiership and England regular, he

To be honest, I was home this weekend,

they treat me the same as

and take bike rides along the green and things.

Identical bid to much different, but their role

It's nice to be able to share that with them.

Can you just talk me through this Jack about your dream of being a

You notice a shirt no? Yes I am wearing the shirt. I was given on a

tour when I was younger, but I was never as I be wearing one in my

career. Delete that now though. A nine-year old from Cornwall has

been getting to grips with the ins Has made her own stall in the market

Austin and has even divined her own marketing strategy. To run any sort

of stored in your stock so there is a trip down to the local

cash-and-carry, and wants you got that you need to spy on somebody

sell it. When I saw them her local market. I've got Kit Kat lollies,

penny sweets, sherbet and everything. She's doing this to

raise money for Mary Carey which helps people with terminal misses.

In his own: 01 hygiene certificate and dad Steve has sorted out her own

marketing study. It was her idea. She's been copying the anti-bin

doing this kind of thing since he was two really. She started this

years ago with her first sticker shock and now she asked me to make

this sweet shop for. The market is run by the local town council, Leben

impressed by your ingenuity. This young lady, what and entrepreneur at

such a young age. I take my hat off to her. Especially for the charity

that she is raising money for. And even at the tender age of nine, she

is already coming up with their own sales techniques. It would be

quicker to serve people, these sweets equal a pound, so it would

take me ages to sell these as individually but how about these ?1

packs. They would love to her own shop and by the looks of it she

knows exactly what to do to make it happen. A successful businesswoman

in the making their I think. Lots of people start in the market don't

they? A 17-year-old fisherman from Cornwall at is the subject of a

documentary that has won the in International film Festival.

Spotlight has gone to meet the people who made the film.

A weather-beaten face, the sort of face you read about from good

writers. Shot over a period of three years, this portrait of fisherman

Malcolm Baker has won plaudits in Britain and America. Last month, it

picked up on the ward at San Francisco's International Ocean film

Festival. The idea for the film came about when Austrian Leo cataract

came to work in Cornwall. I was fascinated by his life his work and

I got to know him a bit better which then became me not going back to

Austria so I would just like to stop and stay little bit with Malcolm

which we did for seven years. But Knockin was initially reluctant to

be the subject of the documentary. He won in the end. The traditional

skill set Malcolm learnt are celebrated in the film. But in call

centre day, there is no one to follow him when he retires. That's

the downside of it, now, really. But that's life I suppose. But some

skills are being passed on through the's project. These children from

Austria on and exchange programme benefit from Malcolm's has a

experience. It's about how people see changes for young people living

here. There are so many people in the film that it is a community

film. Those 25 in a string... But what was the hardest part of being

in the film from Malcolm? Two trying not to square swear. The film makers

are trying to arrange some local screening soon. I like his style.

Now in the last hour and a half the 20 17th tool ships regatta has got

underway in South Devon. The race features some of the world's largest

sailing ships. This was the scene in the Torbay at the start of the first

leg to Portugal. We've seen some lovely blue skies, but what are

conditions like the overs. Here's the forger. The winter get that

strong, but nice calm seas. That's not going to change that much, the

fine weather continues. Quite a big change come the weekend I'll come to

that in a second. Perhaps more cloud around them recently but we've had

some lovely sunrises and sunsets. This was Dorset in the morning, some

lovely flowers and courts in flower. This was the sunrise this morning in

Charlestown. Glorious condition through most of us, there has been a

bit of cloud floating around but it continues to be fine this evening.

Overnight, there is a bit more in the way of cloud coming our way and

that will drift across us by the morning. So there is a bit more

cloud around tomorrow morning how much rain we will see but I think

little if any and the cloud should break up with any tool either

sunshine through especially in the afternoon. This area of high

pressure is pretty strong and is weakening the low pressure coming

from the north. By the middle of the day on Friday we do have weather

systems trying to make progress. This is the one that arrives on

Saturday which brings a band of cloud and returns northward. So

Sunday looks like it will be a largely fine day. Quite a big change

on this weather front as it comes down from the North later, overnight

on Sunday night and into Monday. We leave the area of high pressure and

for those that need it the could be some significant rainfall on Monday.

Until then lots of fine and dry weather and relatively mild. As that

weather front arrives on Sunday into Monday the cold air flights in, so

make the most of the warmth that were going to see over the next few

days because it does cooldown early next week. That is the weather front

that I am talking about that will bring cloud later. This was earlier

today on Dartmoor where it was fine, but it hasn't spoiled what was a

lovely day for most of us like Hayes and slightly reduced visibility

because of the Hayes, hopefully the visibility will improve over the

next few days. Dry and bright for all of us after quite a chilly start

first thing this morning. Overnight, there is some clear sky, but

eventually the cloud will start to creep in from the north. Very little

rain coming out of that cloud but it will have in effect on temperatures.

Not quite as cold, with overnight temperatures down to 4-6 . Tomorrow

should be lovely, mostly dry, a few showers possible along the northern

half of Devon, most of us getting away with a lot of dry weather.

Patchy cloud, sunny spells, and a top temperature of 12 - 13 degrees.

For the Isles of Scilly, I nice day after a cloudy start and should

brighten up in the afternoon. High water times as you see here, very

little for our surfers, the service mole at the moment. For the tall

ships, very calm seas in the English Channel. Wins tomorrow light, no

more than 43 and generally fair with good visibility. Before forecast for

the weekend, 13 to 14 degrees but by the time we get to Monday it

habitually. Have a good evening. News on our late news of the new

tungsten wire on the edge of Dartmoor, from all of us have a

lovely evening, good night.