:00:11. > :00:11.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:12. > :00:13.The building industry says thousands of new construction workers
:00:14. > :00:16.are needed in the South West if the region's to meet
:00:17. > :00:21.A building summit says carpdnters, bricklayers and architects `re some
:00:22. > :00:28.It's predicted that construction work in the wider South West
:00:29. > :00:33.will increase by 4.4% - the highest in England.
:00:34. > :00:38.26,000 new jobs will be cre`ted over the next four years to reach
:00:39. > :00:42.a total of 257,000 - the highest it's ever been.
:00:43. > :00:49.Our business correspondent Carys Edwards reports.
:00:50. > :00:52.Lewis Mayes is 16 and working as an apprentice carpenter
:00:53. > :00:54.at Sherford, the new town near Plymouth, where 5000
:00:55. > :01:07.I thought I would just be sweeping up, getting materials for the people
:01:08. > :01:09.I'm working with, but I'm actually doing carpentry,
:01:10. > :01:14.But there are not enough workers like Lewis in
:01:15. > :01:22.Decorator Clifford Hill, now in his 50s, says younger
:01:23. > :01:26.We're going to retire, so the younger generation
:01:27. > :01:30.need to keep coming in, and it is really important,
:01:31. > :01:34.because if we all retire and there is nobody following us,
:01:35. > :01:38.well, it would be no go, wouldn't it?
:01:39. > :01:41.There's increasing pressure to build more and more homes
:01:42. > :01:44.like here at Sherford, to help solve the housing crisis,
:01:45. > :01:48.but as housing demand grows, so too does the skills shortage
:01:49. > :01:54.in the construction industrx here in the South West.
:01:55. > :01:57.Today, a building summit has been held in Plymouth to address
:01:58. > :01:59.the challenges facing the industry, and how best
:02:00. > :02:05.Along with major house-building at Sherford and Cranbrook,
:02:06. > :02:07.there are road infrastructure projects in Cornwall
:02:08. > :02:09.and the upcoming Hinkley nuclear power station.
:02:10. > :02:13.It's estimated there will bd around a quarter of a million jobs
:02:14. > :02:17.in the industry by 2020, 26,000 of them new,
:02:18. > :02:22.A few years ago, we had the austerity period,
:02:23. > :02:25.and people left the area, they have left the construction
:02:26. > :02:28.industry, and now we are trxing to get people back into it,
:02:29. > :02:31.and that is becoming more and more difficult.
:02:32. > :02:33.We have a delivery target that we need to meet
:02:34. > :02:35.for the government and local housing targets to provide,
:02:36. > :02:38.and if there are not enough people to build those homes,
:02:39. > :02:41.we are delayed in giving those homes to the community.
:02:42. > :02:46.We have lots of apprenticeships on our books, not
:02:47. > :02:48.just apprenticeships, but jobs in the city.
:02:49. > :02:51.Among the solutions is this job shop, to encourage recruits
:02:52. > :02:53.of all ages as well as more apprenticeship schemes and higher
:02:54. > :03:01.But with demand far outstripping supply,
:03:02. > :03:10.Leif Tarry is from the Construction Industry Training Board.
:03:11. > :03:13.He says there are huge opportunities for people wanting a career
:03:14. > :03:19.We have around 6000 jobs that we expect to need everx year
:03:20. > :03:21.in the next five years across the south-west.
:03:22. > :03:24.Key areas would be around 500 new bricklayers.
:03:25. > :03:28.We're expecting to build around 30-35,000 houses in Cornwall.
:03:29. > :03:32.I think the really interesthng area is of those 6000 about 2500 will be
:03:33. > :03:37.back office technical jobs, IT jobs, really interesting
:03:38. > :03:40.jobs that perhaps aren't always associated with
:03:41. > :03:44.Not just the things people imagine, hands-on jobs.
:03:45. > :03:48.Absolutely and one of the mdssages we want to get out to peopld
:03:49. > :03:50.who want to join the industry, or returners, or parents,
:03:51. > :03:53.teachers, is to say this is a dynamic, forward-looking
:03:54. > :03:54.industry with huge variety, huge potential.
:03:55. > :04:00.You mentioned looking for the next five years.
:04:01. > :04:02.Of course for lots of peopld there's a degree of uncertainty
:04:03. > :04:06.Can you understand how that may put some people off?
:04:07. > :04:08.Absolutely, we've had some tough economic times over
:04:09. > :04:12.What we know in the south-wdst is we've got a really
:04:13. > :04:16.The plans for housing in Cornwall stretch over 20 years,
:04:17. > :04:21.Obviously we have Hinkley on our doorstep and that's
:04:22. > :04:23.a long-term project, and thdre are other infrastructure projects.
:04:24. > :04:25.We expect some news about railways fairly soon.
:04:26. > :04:29.So there's a lot of long-term work to be done down here.
:04:30. > :04:31.I think as an industry we have a good, robust
:04:32. > :04:35.forward-looking balance, if you like, of work coming forward.
:04:36. > :04:38.We heard from some very young people at the beginning of their
:04:39. > :04:41.Should they feel optimistic for the next few decades?
:04:42. > :04:43.Absolutely, I think if you come into construction and you'vd got
:04:44. > :04:45.the right attitude, the sky is genuinely unlimited.
:04:46. > :04:49.I met a man today, a similar age to me admittedly, but he had
:04:50. > :04:51.come in as a bricklayer and he was managing a ?200 lillion
:04:52. > :04:54.project and that's what construction can bring to people.
:04:55. > :04:57.It's not all muddy boots - there's a lot more to it.
:04:58. > :05:00.And we want to see a lot more women into the industry as well.
:05:01. > :05:02.That's another area for growth, I guess.
:05:03. > :05:04.It sounds like there's lots to talk about.
:05:05. > :05:09.Health care services in Devon have been described
:05:10. > :05:12.as being at crisis point, as MPs attacked proposals
:05:13. > :05:16.It's part of a strategy to tackle a ?100 million annual
:05:17. > :05:21.overspend at Devon's largest Clinical Commissioning Group.
:05:22. > :05:23.Concerns were raised in a parliamentary debate.
:05:24. > :05:27.The government acknowledged Devon faces difficulties, but said
:05:28. > :05:30.services aren't keeping pacd with the changing needs
:05:31. > :05:36.Here's our political editor, Martyn Oates.
:05:37. > :05:38.It was Anne Marie Morris, the Newton Abbot MP,
:05:39. > :05:41.who described health care in Devon as being at breaking point today.
:05:42. > :05:44.She and others of her colle`gues also said one of the fundamdntal
:05:45. > :05:48.problems is that the governlent simply doesn't provide enough
:05:49. > :05:51.funding for somewhere like Devon to recognise the particular
:05:52. > :05:55.challenges of providing health care in a highly rural area.
:05:56. > :05:59.Her colleagues Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox said
:06:00. > :06:02.that very rural hospitals like North Devon District won't be
:06:03. > :06:05.sustainable going forward unless the government changds
:06:06. > :06:09.the funding formula and givds them special treatment.
:06:10. > :06:13.He described the present levels of funding as wholly inadeqtate
:06:14. > :06:17.As you'd expect, many MPs today were particularly keen to stave off
:06:18. > :06:21.cuts in their own constituencies, but there was a warning
:06:22. > :06:24.from the Tiverton and Honiton MP Neil Parish, who said that rather
:06:25. > :06:27.than a falling out amongst themselves as to where the cuts
:06:28. > :06:31.should fall, and possibly rhsking each of them being picked off
:06:32. > :06:34.in turn, they should all stand together and oppose
:06:35. > :06:43.Mobile phones mean fewer people are using call boxes and BT has
:06:44. > :06:45.decided to pull the plug on hundreds of them across the region.
:06:46. > :06:48.The problem is there are sthll many areas with a poor
:06:49. > :06:56.Jenny Kumah has been to one community on Dartmoor.
:06:57. > :06:58.For these walkers, payphones on Dartmoor are a necessary
:06:59. > :07:05.You may well end up with a flat battery and not be able to get
:07:06. > :07:08.a signal or something like that so I think having them is vdry good,
:07:09. > :07:13.if only to make emergency calls, if nothing else.
:07:14. > :07:16.There are lots dotted around, some are overgrown, not maintained,
:07:17. > :07:19.and obviously, I see the other side when the telephone company
:07:20. > :07:23.want to cut costs, but I thhnk if there is any way of fundhng them,
:07:24. > :07:31.According to BT, payphone usage has dropped 90% over the last ddcade.
:07:32. > :07:38.But it's easy to miss this payphone here at Badger's Holt on Dartmoor.
:07:39. > :07:42.Through here is another of the boxes that's threatened with clostre.
:07:43. > :07:45.Making our way through the foliage here.
:07:46. > :07:49.So the figures show that thhs has been used a couple of dozen times
:07:50. > :07:54.Why do you think phone boxes like this one across the moor
:07:55. > :07:59.This is situated in a vallex, and we have very high
:08:00. > :08:01.sides to the valley, so there's no mobile signal.
:08:02. > :08:03.This might be someone's onlx chance of getting emergency servicds
:08:04. > :08:11.BT says it will not take aw`y a service in a remote locathon
:08:12. > :08:17.The company is also giving communities the chance to adopt
:08:18. > :08:21.a kiosk as an alternative to removal.
:08:22. > :08:25.Here in Belstone, that idea has received a ringing endorsemdnt.
:08:26. > :08:27.A local group has raised funds to put life-saving
:08:28. > :08:33.We pre-empted the fact that BT may want to finish with it,
:08:34. > :08:37.as it wasn't used at all, so we wanted to hang onto otr phone
:08:38. > :08:41.box, and make it look a bit more attractive, and used for very good,
:08:42. > :08:49.Some good news today for thhs Dartmoor community in Postbridge.
:08:50. > :08:52.They were threatened with the loss of this phone, but BT has
:08:53. > :09:04.The firm has even been perstaded to give it a lick of paint too.
:09:05. > :09:06.Some football news now - and Taunton Town have made history
:09:07. > :09:10.tonight by qualifying for the first time in 35 years for the first
:09:11. > :09:13.The Peacocks beat Hemel Hempstead 1-0 to secure their place.
:09:14. > :09:16.But it wasn't to be for Torpuay - the Gulls went down
:09:17. > :09:27.Both games were replays after draws at the weekend.
:09:28. > :09:37.Time for a look at the weather. Good evening. We've had lovdly
:09:38. > :09:41.pictures of sunsets, more to come for the next few nights bec`use we
:09:42. > :09:45.have high pressure coming otr way, settling things down and thdre is a
:09:46. > :09:49.great deal of rain in the forecast. Winds easing for tomorrow. @nother
:09:50. > :09:53.cold start. The chance of p`ssing showers but most of the day for most
:09:54. > :09:56.of us is dry. This is the area of high pressure. It settles across
:09:57. > :10:00.western Britain by lunchtimd tomorrow. It moves closer bx the
:10:01. > :10:05.middle of the day on Thursd`y. Still there really by the middle of the
:10:06. > :10:09.day on Friday. Whilst most of the weather action is across western
:10:10. > :10:13.Scotland and Ireland, for others, we will have cold nights and
:10:14. > :10:16.potentially some frosty mornings from Thursday morning onwards.
:10:17. > :10:19.There's a few showers possible overnight tonight, but they are
:10:20. > :10:23.fairly isolated. Most of thd night is dry. There's a fair amount of
:10:24. > :10:28.clear sky. There will be a breeze, just enough to stare the air so
:10:29. > :10:32.temperatures should not fall below 5-6dC. Chilly, bright start
:10:33. > :10:36.tomorrow. The showers will turn up, they'll be light and fleeting. The
:10:37. > :10:42.winds won't be as strong as they have been, mainly from the 04
:10:43. > :10:45.Northwest and 12-13 will be the top temperature. Those are the
:10:46. > :10:48.temperatures we can expect for the rest of this week. Cold at night
:10:49. > :10:49.with the risk of frost and ` keen easterly wind developing by the
:10:50. > :10:52.weekend. Good night. That's all from us
:10:53. > :10:55.here in the south west. From everybody on the late team -
:10:56. > :11:11.have a good night. Good evening. As you've just seen
:11:12. > :11:15.from your local outlook, not a huge amount changes over the next few
:11:16. > :11:20.days. The weather patterns will be blocked again. What is driving that?
:11:21. > :11:23.It's a deep area of low pressure, the remnants of hurricane Nicole in
:11:24. > :11:27.the Atlantic. That's heading towards Greenland. Set to pile up the snow
:11:28. > :11:31.here, metres of it in the next few days. It's dragging a lot of warm
:11:32. > :11:35.air into the North Atlantic on the Eastern flank. What that does is
:11:36. > :11:39.build this, high pressure. That s not going to move a great deal over
:11:40. > :11:43.the next few days. To the east, low pressure in place. That means
:11:44. > :11:46.Eastern England always prone for further showers through the rest of
:11:47. > :11:49.this week. For the rest of the UK, largely dry, some sunny days, but
:11:50. > :11:50.also rather cool nights