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earlier this evening. There will be more on that and any development

The family of a young doctor from Devon, who took her own life,

have called for action to deal with what they call

25-year-old Rose Polge walked into the sea after talking

about the pressure of her job as a junior doctor at

Torbay Hospital, from where Hamish Marshall now reports.

Rose Polge was a junior doctor here at Torbay Hospital.

It said tonight that her loss has been felt very deeply

and described her as a dedicated member of staff.

The hospital also said it was not aware of the distress she were

Rose Polge was 25 and a talented doctor, but she was doubting her

abilities, although she was said to be progressing well.

Today, her family arrived at the coroner's court to hear

of the events which led to her death earlier this year.

A statement by Rose's boyfriend was read out at the inquest.

He said he was woken by her on February 12th.

She said she had been walking the beach.

He described her as distressed and also being concerned after 11

He said she was having self-doubt about her profession

and she asked him if he would stay with her if she left the profession.

Later that day, Rose drove to Anstey's Cove to end her life.

She had looked at suicide sites on the internet and left two notes.

One we understand made a reference to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt,

Rose's body was found in the sea off Weymouth six weeks later.

In a statement, her family made their concerns about the workload

The coroner returned a verdict of death by immersion in water.

He said he was satisfied that Rose had intended to take on life.

Tonight, Torbay Hospital has extended its steepest sympathies

to Rose's family and said, "We take our duty of care

for all of our staff very seriously."

A hospital statement went on to say, "We continue to work with staff

groups to develop new ways in which we can enhance the support

A Devon MP is calling on the NHS to try new ways of reaching out

to people who are thinking of taking their own lives.

The Commons Health Select Committee says the number of lives lost due

to suicide in England is unacceptable and remains

the biggest cause of death in men under 49.

The committee, chaired by the MP for Totnes Sarah Wollaston,

also says that a government suicide prevention strategy for England

in 2012 didn't result in any improvements.

The key message here is that suicide is preventable and what we heard

from one witness very powerfully was when she said, "It wasn't my son

that was hard to reach, it was the services that were hard

to reach," so let's make sure those services are available,

that people know about them, there is better communication,

that everybody across the whole system is working together

to identify why this is happening and how we step in to prevent it.

A look at some of the other stories making the news today.

Detectives say a man found dead at a Plymouth flat on Saturday had

He's been named as 44-year-old Gary Miller.

Police are tonight still questioning a 35-year-old man

A man and a woman have been arrested in Kingsbridge in connection

with a series of thefts of pay and display machines.

Police say at least 19 have been found dumped after being forcibly

removed with angle grinders from car parks across Devon and Cornwall.

A court has heard how a stuntman from Newquay working as a "human

cannonball" died at a daredevil show due to health and safety failings.

24-year-old Matthew Cranch died when a safety net failed

to catch his fall at Detling in Kent in 2011.

Scott May and his company Stunts UK Ltd are due

Eight Cornish towns are teaming up with the Fire Service and the police

Footage from the cameras will be recorded and monitored by staff

based at the Critical Control Centre in Tolvaddon.

It'll be funded by the town councils via council tax

and as Tamsin Melville reports, it's being hailed as

We can zoom in that close that we can read the menu

on a restaurant, so the actual clarity is brilliant on this system.

State-of-the-art CCTV cameras across eight Cornish towns,

running 24 hours a day and live monitored for 44 hours a week

from here at the Fire Service Critical Control

There are towns in Cornwall that are working in partnership together,

but as far as we are aware, nationally, there is not eight town

councils that have come together to create a network such as this.

This is the CCTV camera in the centre of Camborne.

There's 80 of these cameras across the eight towns

in West Cornwall signed up to the project and it's

costing the taxpayers in those towns ?33 an hour.

The town councils are sharing that cost and the community is paying

via their own part of council tax bills, after cuts put a stop

It gives us tremendous opportunity to contribute towards the safety

of residents within Cornwall, not only to consider

and identify and look at crime, but also to protect the vulnerable

CCTV, seen here, is said to have played a crucial part in convicting

two men for the murder of soldier Dave Curnow on a night out

But where some say it is an invaluable tool,

others say it violates privacy and question its effectiveness.

If you are doing nothing wrong, you have absolutely nothing to worry

about and I think it is definitely a deterrent there for people

who are considering committing crime, or being involved

Those involved say there's scope in the future for other Cornish

This time next week many of you will be clearing up

the debris from Christmas Day, but you may well run into problems

recycling the wrapping paper as it may not be as easy as you think.

There a whole raft of rules that councils are now imposing,

as Harriet Bradshaw has been finding out.

You've got your decorations, gifts and set aside time

Well, those of us who are organised have.

But when the big event is all over, what happens to all that

For the first time in Exeter, the City Council is asking you not

to put your Christmas wrapping paper in the household recycling bin.

Officers say it is too time-consuming for their team

to separate it from better quality paper here in Exeter.

The paper mill that actually turns your old paper back into fresh

newsprint can't handle this material and it can actually degrade

the quality of the paper that they are trying to recycle.

We send out our paper for recycling in 25-tonne loads

and if there is a concentration of this type of wrapping paper,

that whole 25 tonnes is rendered unable to recycle.

Instead they advise you personally take it to an alternative

recycling centre in the city, or just chuck it in the bin.

It is disappointing that the council can't take it in the household

recycling, because in so many areas areas they do take it,

but people can drop it off at the recycling centre.

Hopefully they won't make a special journey, but there are lots of other

ways we can reduce our need for recycling at all

For example, these are calendars but they could be magazines.

This is last year's paper that I saved and last year's binding.

Time now to take a look at the weather, and Bee's

here with the forecast for the week ahead.

We have had a lot of cloud across the South West today. It should be a

frost free night but towards Christmas, we will start to see a

bit of a change. Turning rather unsettled. Fairly dry conditions for

the start of December but you can expect more rain towards Christmas.

That should shift some of the mist and low cloud plaguing us for the

past few days. This weather front brings a bit of light rain. For most

of us, a doll and damp night but it should be frost free. Tomorrow, it

will be dry with some sunshine. A lot of low cloud about but it should

break up in places and then this brings in a spell of rain. Wednesday

we have a bit of uncertainty thanks to this weather front. Expect a wet

day on Wednesday with outbreaks of rain. Thursday a lot of cloud,

slightly breezy with patchy rain but Friday we are keeping an eye on.

Swinging weather front across as so into Friday and Christmas eve,

saying rather blustery with heavy showers at times but on such date we

should see more sunshine. Some cloud and rain out there tonight. It

should be frost free. Temperatures down to three or 4 degrees. A fairly

grey start tomorrow. A lot of low cloud. Some of that will persist.

Sunshine once again will be quite limited and it will feel less of,

temperatures of seven or 8 degrees. Wednesday we have this weather front

bringing in some way but it will turn milder and we have those strong

winds as we head into the weekend. Heidi Davey will be back just before

6.30am tomorrow in BBC Breakfast, with the latest news from around

the south west. From all of us here on the Spotlight

late team, goodnight. The rest of the weekend, some rain

around, windy, but with dry and bright spells.

Heavy weather is brewing, it will not reach us just yet. It will take

a good few days before the stormy weather reaches us. At the moment,

it's just potential, nothing is certain, but it will be different to

what we've had over the last few weeks, it's been so calm. We have a

jet stream raging out of North America making a beeline for the UK.

It