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Good evening. BBC Two, and that | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
What remains of the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter is due to bd | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Tonight, the facade of the historic building is still standing , just. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
It was destroyed in a fire which began in a neighbouring | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The fire service is now working to establish the exact causd. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
The hotel's owners say they have every intention | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
In a moment, we'll be hearing about the wider impact on Exeter, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Today began the first week hn 2 0 years without the Royal Clarence | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
Hotel standing proud in the heart of Exeter. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Plans are being drawn up to | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
demolish much of the remains of the building, but for now | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
the cordons around Cathedral Green and part of | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
We are really aware that businesses are | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
deeply affected by this incident and the public | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
of Exeter, they want to | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
come back and use the green and so we will try and get everythhng back | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
It is now three days since the fire destroyed hundreds of years of | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Police officers have been called in from | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
around Devon to staff the cordons and the Chief Constable has thanked | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
the public for their patience and understanding. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
They allowed us to get on with what we had to do, they | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
allowed us that opportunity to be professional, but if ever the public | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
were professional, they were professional | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
that we needed for time and space and those cordons | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
We have had the odd incident, but funnily enough it's | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
been the public who sorted out the people who have been a bit | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
foolish on the cordons, more than we have had | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
They have been remarkable and I would like to thank them through | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Spotlight for what they havd done, because I haven't seen that for a | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
A team of demolition enginedrs have arrived on scene. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
They face quite a challenge as our filming from a Fire Service aerial | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Hundreds of tonnes of debris litter the shell | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
of what was one of Exeter's finest hotels. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Excavators are expected on | :02:21. | :02:21. | |
site tomorrow with demolition work likely to begin, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
contractors say, in | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Engineers have not been abld to get into the innards of | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
the hotel yet, it is just too dangerous and too unstable. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
As to how long it will take to clear up the mess, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
they are unwilling to put a precise figure on it, but the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Cordons are respected to relain for tomorrow at least, | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
although the Fire Service hope they can be reduced in | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
And today at last came a little positive news about the Roy`l | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
One of the structural enginders told me he believed the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
ground floor exterior, backdrop to the photographs | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
of so many weddings, graduations and other memor`ble | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
The BBC understands that a large excavator will arrive at thd scene | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
first thing in the morning to begin the clear-up operation. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Devon and Somerset's Fire Chief told us it's too early to say | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
We are not ruling anything out at this stage, however, | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
we do know there was refurbhshment work taking place in the gallery | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
and that is our starting pohnt, but at the same time, | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
we will be reviewing CCTV footage, we will be looking to speak | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
to eyewitnesses and gain as much information as possible just | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
to understand what was happdning and what led to such a signhficant | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
The fire has had a major impact on Exeter itself, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
with many roads and shops still closed today. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Janine Jansen reports now on the effect it has had | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Normally a magnet for shoppers, but today, | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
The Chamber of Commerce says there was a 25% drop | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
in the number of people vishting the shops on Saturday. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
We are moving into that important time of the year | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
which is crucial for retaildrs, it's where they make most | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
of their money for the whold year, over the Christmas period. | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
We need to be open and we nded to get that message | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
across to the public that Exeter is open for business. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Exeter's high street has bedn closed since Friday, | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
but around 20 shops have bedn allowed to reopen. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
However, this section remains closed. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Businesses are anxious to fhnd out when they can reopen. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Local businesses mourn the loss but want lives to get | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
The owner of this shoe shop says she has been closed | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
We are obviously very, very keen to open and trade | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
and bring the business back to the city and get back to normal | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
It's very, very tragic what has happened and I am used to going out | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
of the shop every day and looking up at that beautiful building | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
and sadly it won't be there, but everybody seems to be | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
doing their best to get things back to normal. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Right now we can't open, so we're having to turn trade away, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
so we are losing money, still having to pay staff's wages | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
so there is a big impact on the business. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
The simple message in this local cake shop window sums up | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
I think that everyone has bden just poleaxed by the whole fire | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
and everyone is so emotional about it and everyone wants to do | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
something and we don't know what we can do, | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
It's sad to see part of our history go. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
A dreadful scene, I can't believe it has happened. | :06:05. | :06:25. | |
A gang that forced vulnerable people from Eastern Europe to live | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
in cupboards and garages, pay to use the toilet and forage | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
in bins for food have been jailed at Plymouth Crown Court. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Five Czech nationals were ghven prison sentences between two and six | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
and a half years for trafficking vulnerable fellow countrymen | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
The judge - who recommended they are deported after prison | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
said the gang "crushed the human spirit" of their victims. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
They were vulnerable and they were abused. | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
People from the underbelly of the Czech Republic brought | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
to houses like this one and forced to live in squalid conditions. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Some slept in cupboards or garages, foraging in bins for food, | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
required to pay a pound to use the toilet. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
These are the five Czech nationals who could well have trafficked over | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Today at Plymouth Crown Court, they were jailed for between two | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Sentencing, Judge Ian Lawrid QC told the five that what seemed to have | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
escaped them was this, that the offences centred around | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the crushing of the human spirit and the stripping away of a person's | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
The gang said they were helping those struggling | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
in the Czech Republic, but the court heard they helped | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
themselves to the earnings of their victims, described | :07:45. | :07:45. | |
If they complained, they were threatened. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
One man was beaten with a b`seball bat and had to make his | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
The defendants are guilty of the organised exploitation | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
and manipulation of a number of vulnerable victims | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
They cynically targeted people who might not immediately | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
They were then treated as commodities to be used however | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
They were forced to live in squalid conditions whilst being put to work | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
to pay off imaginary debts they had been told they had incurred. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
At the heart of this investhgation was always the victims. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
I'm glad to say they are now living independent lives. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Some of them chose to remain in the UK, some of them chose | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
to return back to the Czech Republic. | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
The judge said he would be recommending that the five | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
members of the gang be deported after prison. | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
Very warm for Halloween. And unusually warm. Temperatures have | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
been well above where they should be for this time of year. Therd is the | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
chance of more of that list and fog developing, some of that has started | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to develop now and there is more to come. We do have a change. Ht starts | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
to get colder, it is mostly dry but with winds developing from the north | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
or North West into the weekdnd, it will feel quite a bit cooler. | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Temperatures to date up to 08, 9 degrees. It is getting colddr so | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
make the most of the warmth. Fog is a problem tomorrow morning `nd later | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
on tonight, and first tomorrow, it is a tricky drive to work. @ weather | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
front arriving tomorrow. A band of cloud opens the door to colder | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
conditions. Then high presstre takes over just for a while, another | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
weather front arrives through the night Thursday and then into Friday | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
morning, this one introducing more persistent rain and into thd | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
weekend, we have lost the area of high pressure and regain brhsk | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
northerly winds, lower tempdratures and for all of us, it will feel more | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
like autumn with a strong northerly wind. Like twins tonight and the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
mist and fog developing by the morning. Night-time temperatures | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
between five and 7 degrees. Some of that fog sleuths who tear -, slow to | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
clear. There isn't a great deal on it and not as warm as today. 15 16 | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
degrees. On Wednesday it is called a still. Wednesday we could start the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
day with frost and colder towards the end of the week and drunkenly | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
more uncertain. That is it for now. Join us tomorrow morning but from | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
the late team, have a good night. Goodbye. | :10:59. | :11:00. |