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and on BBC one we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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Good evening, on Spotlight tonight, what caused the collapse of a huge

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After this huge structure crashed to the ground, work came to a halt

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It's hoped a health and safety investigation can shed more light.

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We'll cross live to Falmouth in a moment.

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Also tonight - no charges over election expenses.

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There's to be no action against Devon

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and Cornwall's Police commissioner and five former South West MPs.

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Locally made and produced, sustainable.

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The ancient woodlands being revived which could mean big business

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One day, M and then walking the dog and the dog started to bark.

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And the story of the seven year old author who's

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An investigation is underway tonight after a crane

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Workers described hearing a loud crash before the site was evacuated.

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At one stage an exclusion zone was set up because of concerns

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One firefighter suffered minor injuries and was taken

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Eleanor Parkinson has spent the day at the scene.

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The arm of the huge crane lies broken on the dockside,

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just yards from the vessel that it was working on.

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It is clear from these pictures it's extremely lucky

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Local people have told us they heard a loud bang and then

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Hundreds of dock workers were told to leave the site.

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One of them describes how he was working nearby.

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We were working in the shed next door to it.

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We heard a massive bang, the whole earth shook,

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We just heard the fire alarms and then next thing you know,

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So you don't think anyone has been hurt.

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This ship, Tidespring, is the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's newest vessel.

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She's here for additional work before being put into service.

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The crane missed her by yards but you can see parts of the ship

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Ray Sprackling is a former dock worker.

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In fact, he worked on Falmouth for 28 years.

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By the look of it, it looks like one of the cables have broken.

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As you look around the docks, you see all the new cranes

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Have you ever seen a crane come down like this before?

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The fire brigrade were at the scene for most of the morning because of

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One fireman had to be taken to hospital for a precautionary check.

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Dock workers were allowed back into the yard at lunchtime.

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This accident and a exclusion zone had a big impact on this corner of

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the town. A major road was closed but things are starting to get back

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to normal and the rotating open. The group that runs the dockyard were

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not able to put up anyone for interview but said that there will

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be an investigation into how the crane came to fall. They have

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informed the Health and Safety Executive.

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After nearly two years of uncertainty, five former

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south-west MPs who are standing again in this general election -

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and the region's Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner -

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have been told they won't be prosecuted.

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It follows a police investigation into their campaign expenses

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Our political editor Martyn Oates has more.

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A big blue bus laden with a small army of Tory party

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activists lay at the heart of the election

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Conservative candidate in Yeovil, Torbay, Plymouth, North Cornwall

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and Camborne Redruth received visits from the gaily painted caravan.

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were left with ignorant versions as were left with ignorant versions as

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to whether they had paid to bust the property. -- they were left with

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lingering questions as to whether. It was the weather the bus counted

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as local as predator or as the Conservative Party claimed, national

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expenditure. In an unusual twist, Devon and Cornwall police and crime

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commission was also drawn into the row. She had previously been the

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Conservative engines into bed. She joined responsibility with the

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candidate for signing of the expense of returns. Last year, she was

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elected as Devon and, Police Commissioner, putting yourself in

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the unusual position as a police boss under police investigation. The

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Murcia Constabulary had to take the case further than the force she was

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head. I'm delighted with the result today. I want to reassure the public

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but I've had a few organisations look at what happened and it's been

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a fair and objective assessment. The Conservative Party hasn't been

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completely exonerated. It was given a ?70,000 fine by the Electoral

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these individual cases, the Crown these individual cases, the Crown

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Prosecution Service said... After months of two amending

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opponents, but those candidates, located at a game, decided to draw a

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line of trendy flag? -- after months of two amending from their

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opponents, will those candidates decide to draw the line or return

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the flag? A court in Exeter has heard how

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a Bulgarian cleaner says he wasn't jealous of his former partner

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after she started Forty three year Kostadin Kostov

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is charged with the murder of Gergana Prodanova

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in August last year. Jane Chandler reports

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from Exeter Crown Court. The prosecution alleged that

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Kostadin Kostov killed Gergana Prodanova at the flat they shared in

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Exeter on August four. The body was found at a railway embankment. It

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alleges he used her phone and faced accounts to send bogus messages

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after she died, claiming that mother had died. Kostadin Kostov claims

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that not Gergana Prodanova had taken a phone call from Bulgaria on August

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from goal and he says he doesn't from goal and he says he doesn't

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know why. In the response to this series of Facebook messages sent by

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Gergana Prodanova and he says that he can't think why. The messages

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were sent from the same unique computer IP address used at their

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flat. Kostadin Kostov says that he wasn't angry, that Gergana Prodanova

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had left for another man. He denies murdering her. The case continues.

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A brief roundup of other stories making the news in the south-west.

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Fresh talks are to be held over a dispute involving bonus pay

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for construction workers at Hinkley C nuclear power station

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in Somerset after French power company EDF intervened.

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The Unite and GMB unions had last week threatened industrial action

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after rejecting a proposed bonus scheme, describing it as derisory.

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Nearly half of drivers in the south-west admit

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to speeding in 20mph areas, according to the road-safety

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The charity wants drivers to slow down and be aware that

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children struggle to judge the speed of vehicles.

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Exeter City Football Club has confirmed that work

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on the ?3.5 million ground improvements will begin next month.

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The scheme includes replacing the 90-year-old grandstand,

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improvements to the away end, as well as the building

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of student accommodation behind the home terrace.

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One in five diabetic people in the south-west say they aren't

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being given enough test strips to monitor the amount

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Diabetes UK, which carried out a survey, warns that inadequate

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monitoring could lead to serious complications.

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Health commissioners here say they don't restrict prescriptions

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for those who need them, but Diabetes UK says, despite that,

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an increasing number of people are reporting problems

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and some patients say they've ended up paying

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Here's our health correspondent, Jenny Walrond.

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It's a routine that Tim Freeborn performs up to ten times a day.

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He has Type 1 diabetes and needs to monitor his blood-sugar levels

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to stop him from becoming ill, so when he had a letter from his

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doctor saying his prescription for test strips was being limited

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to four a day, he successfully contested the decision.

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And we realised that I wouldn't be able to survive, basically,

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without the level of testing that I do.

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In the long run, if you get the complications, you lose

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the feeling in your feet, you develop foot ulcers,

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kidney problems, that's how it happens, because you've got

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The couple volunteer for Diabetes UK and regularly come across people

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We speak to volumes of people and they come to us and say,

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We advise them to write to their GP explaining why they need that

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And their experience is mirrored by a survey

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It says 22% of diabetics questioned in the south-west have reported

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Nice guidelines say that people with Type 1 diabetes and those

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with Type 2 who take insulin or other medications that

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could affect their blood-sugars should have access to the strips.

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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency also requires drivers

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on insulin and certain diabetes medication to test themselves before

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driving and every twp hours whilst driving.

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Health commissioners in the region say they don't restrict the strips

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So why are people reporting a problem?

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It might be that a local policy has put a blanket restriction on how

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many test strips a person can receive or the type they receive.

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It might be that the people that are prescribing have misinterpreted

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what that local policy might be because it's not been

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This survey gives a snapshot of the situation here

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in the south-west and many patients' experiences will vary,

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but Diabetes UK wants to hear from other people who have had

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problems because, it says, many patients have successfully

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appealed against restrictions on their test strips.

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Still to come in tonight's programme:

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How this street artist is creating a brighter picture

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And we've had a lovely one day to day with temperatures up to 18

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degrees. Similar temperatures were tomorrow. The difference, some rain

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is heading our way. Eating disorders are often blamed

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on the social pressure to look a certain way,

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the causes are usually complex and the care given

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locally criticised. Two students from Exeter

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who have battled anorexia are calling for more support,

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with Devon and Cornwall having the third highest number of

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admissions to hospital in England. As Harriet Bradshaw reports,

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the campaigners want to see more preventative care

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made available locally. Exams fast approaching,

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but there's more on these students' Jennifer and Charlotte

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are campaigning for better services in Exeter to deal with eating

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disorders because they don't feel they've had enough help

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through their battles with anorexia. Because of the massive amount

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of hospital admissions in the Devon area, there wasn't any beds in Devon

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for me to be admitted as an inpatient with an eating

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disorder, so they sent me 4.5 hours away to the other side

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of the country to go and get treatment because that's the only

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bed they could find I'd like to see more available

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services for therapy for all kinds of eating disorders so that it

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doesn't have to get to the critical point of being told, you gain weight

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or you go to hospital. According to the latest official

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data, Devon and Cornwall as a region has the third highest number

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of hospital admissions relating And it's the North Eastern

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and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group that's had

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the biggest numbers in the south-west, with 121

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admissions to its hospitals in 2015-16, almost double

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the numbers five years previous. And these students blame

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a lack of outpatient care. In response, the Devon CCG told us

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the Exeter-based inpatient unit for people with the most severe

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eating disorders is It also says that although it hasn't

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yet commissioned a dedicated eating disorders service

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but there is support for them within the overall community

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mental health service. We need people even higher up

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than the doctors to realise that there's a problem,

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to realise that the It's people's lives

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the messing around with NHS England is investing ?30 million

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nationally to enhance community eating disorder services

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for young people. Businesses in Bude in north Cornwall

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have turned to street art in a bid It started with one restaurant but,

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as Christine Butler has been finding out, it's been spreading

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to others in the town. needed. Bude is booming but can it

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also be beautiful? Sandwiched between the hoardings, this

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Peterborough says a lost customers when building work started

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door. They consider taking local door. They consider taking local

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action but then it decided to turn to street art. Never having trouble

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because they were blocked after debugging works. -- they were

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blocked because of building work. People now go because the artwork,

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it gives them on the high street. It's created a lot of interest.

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Now other Bude businesses are jumping

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From the local fishmongers to the complementary

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therapist, Steve's already got another seven commissions

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to complete - and he doesn't charge for his service, just the paint.

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Doing something that will benefit the community as a whole will be

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great. We got in touch with him and we went from there.

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The Premier Inn says its working with the pizzeria

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to minimize the disruption while it build its hotel.

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We have positive feedback. I'm not in it for the promotion. I just

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enjoy doing it. That's my payment. I do it for the price of the pain.

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Local traders hope that their pride in California image will create a

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new impact. -- they're bright and colourful images will create an

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impact and bring business. Good evening, on Spotlight tonight,

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what caused the collapse of a huge In a tiny wooded hollow

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in Devon, ancient woodland Volunteers on Dartmoor are bringing

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a derelict coppice back into use. They're using the wood to make

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items such as beanpoles - It's a process that

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takes time and patience, but as Clare Woodling found out,

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it could be good for High-tech doesn't come into it,

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but this hands-on approach is still a way to make

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a living in 2017. So say the coppicers

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here in Dartmoor. They are bringing these hazel

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trees back into use. My dream for this site is for it

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to be a fully working coppice, back to how it would have been

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hundreds of years ago when people used it for all the various things

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they wanted to make out of hazel, and the skills that they used,

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the traditional skills that actually are not as much appreciated

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as they used to be. Coppicing involves cutting

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a mature tree to the ground. The remaining stool

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grows small stems. These are harvested to make pea

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sticks, bean poles, fencing hurdles At the moment, many of these

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things are imported. Just take a pea stick or a beanpole,

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you go and look at an allotment site, there will be hundreds

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and hundreds of bamboo poles. They may have come all

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the way from China. Here in this woodland

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very soon, we will have Which are fantastic -

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locally made, locally produced, The coppice is divided into groups,

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which are cut back in rotation. This rod of hazel is exactly

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what the coppicers are looking for. It's long and straight

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and will clean easily to make spars and fencing

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and other things, too. So this is a quarter of a rod

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of hazel and we've now split it and now I just need to loosen

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the fibres and then give it a twist as a hairpin

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and now we've got a spar. It's what the thatcher drives

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into the roof material. The not-for-profit group

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behind this scheme says coppicing protects woodland,

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brings landowners and income People don't realise that a woodland

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that pays is more likely to be a woodland that stays

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because if a landowner has a piece of woodland they might just chop

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it down for firewood. Whereas if you have a really

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sustainable resource, like this, a coppice woodland,

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that can go on for every It will take the team seven or eight

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years to fully restore this hazel coppice and they hope it

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will protecting woodland A world of adventure exists in every

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child's imagination, and when inspired to put pencil

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to paper it can often produce Seven-year-old Abigail

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from Stoke Fleming Primary School did just that -

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winning best writer out of thousands of children

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in the south-west who entered Johnny Rutherford has

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been hearing her story. I needed to concentrate. I needed

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you to concentrate on the magic door and what you think about what is

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behind the magic door. Creativity unleashed.

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school near Dartmouth have certainly been inspired.

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Amoungst them is the talented writer who won this year's South West short

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story competion no mean feat when there was 9000 entries.

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When they went through the magic door, they found themselves standing

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next to a castle. They went past the castle and not, Wow. They saw a

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ferry. Hello, my name is Violet, said the ferry. Crew have you come

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from? We've come from the magic door industry. When a child realises they

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land, it gives them power and they land, it gives them power and they

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suddenly enjoy writing. The only they do that, the better because

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world in the might. How do you get world in the might. How do you get

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these dots and when you're writing? I just have ideas and I separated

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them and they come into parts. After a little while, they met a stinky

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and smelly monster with flies. I am proud and happy that I won an award.

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-- I have faith in her and she did really well. Her story was amazing

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and she really deserves it. I agree. I think she should be really proud

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of yourself. What happened in the end? They got home safely through

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the magic door and they finished walking the dog. I do like happy

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endings. Who doesn't? Lovely children.

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They are still supported offer. The pro rata monster!

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We do have a story. It's a different story for the rest of this week.

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There is some rain in the forecast. Mostly in the form of showers. Not

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everywhere. Today was fantastic. Here are some fantastic photographs.

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This is sometimes. Beautiful trees here. Also some clubbers. A lot of

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the flowers are coming out. The countryside is looking very pretty.

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In Dorset, the sunrise this morning. Digital photographs. Thank you.

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Today was 18 degrees. Tomorrow is 19. Tomorrow will have the chance of

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some showers. That will not be everywhere and most will get away

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with more dry weather. More cloud in the sky. More humid and also the

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showers are turning up. It will feel quite warm tomorrow, whether or not

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there is showers. High humidity are coming from the south. We are

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starting to lose high pressure. The source of the area, coming off the

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northern coast of Africa and heading towards us, with the higher

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temperatures and also some moisture. Expect some showers tomorrow.

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Similar on Friday and then into the weekend we have a cold front. That

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will cross as. -- that will cross will cross as. -- that will cross

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Saturday night into Sunday. This evening, not a great deal of cloud

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right now, a beautiful evening. Some late sunshine. For the first half of

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the night, clear skies but later in the night, from the south is some

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showers. They would be everywhere and they will be particularly heavy.

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It will turn misty in some places. That is the higher humidity air

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causing that. Tomorrow, some showers. It may be for the majority

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of the day it is dry with some sunshine. Once you get him because

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of an 18-19d, this will trigger some showers. There is the risk of the

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odd rumble of thunder and flash of lightning. That will most likely be

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towards the end of the afternoon and into the early evening. It will be

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quite warm and this is particularly across parts of North Devon. It --

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18-90d and slightly less warm in the south. Some clothes on the tops of

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the hills. By the cloudy for the aisles. Some brief spells of

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sunshine are possible, though. On the south coast at hammers,... On

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the north coast, deduct that the general trend is for us to see a

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change in wind direction and also in weather type of the next couple of

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days. The coastal waters forecast the ruins of east and south

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easterly. The chance of some showers. -- forecast the winds east

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and south easterly. More unsettled weather as we head into the Beacon.

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Slightly colder on Sunday. Friday, scattered showers. -- more unsettled

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weather into the weekend. The chance of persistent rain on Saturday night

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and Sunday. Sunday will cool down a bit. It will be somewhat fresher.

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Have a good evening. We hope many of you will be able

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to join us and have your say on the general election in a special

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BBC Spotlight debate. The programme will be on Tuesday

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30th of May in Plymouth. If you would like to come along

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and take part, please email [email protected] and we'll send

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you an application form. Thank you for your company on BBC

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radio Devon with the last three days. That's all of us from

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Spotlight. Good night. RADIO: 'The UK has voted to leave

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the European Union by 52% to 48. 'UKIP leader Nigel Farage

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celebrated the result,

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