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of the German flag in tribute to those who lost their lives | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
His approach to safety was described in court as "lackadaisical", | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
but today the boss of a stunt firm has avoided a prison sentence | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
after a man from Cornwall died during a human cannonball act. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Scott May, who runs Stunts UK Ltd, admitted a health and safety | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
breach following the death of Matthew Cranch from Newquay. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
He faced up to two years in jail, but received a 12 month community | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
order and the company was given a ?100,000 fine. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
A thumbs up before climbing into the canon. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
But this stunt would cost Matthew Cranch his life. | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
In front of hundreds of spectators, he was fired into the air. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
To their horror, a safety net intended to break his fall | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
He hit the ground, suffering catastrophic injuries. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
A mechanism designed to free the stuntman from the net once | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
he had landed safely hadn't been set properly. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
His parents were in court, as the firm he was | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
The council, which brought the prosecution, read | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Today's sentencing is about bringing justice for Matthew. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
We will always be grateful and thankful for his love | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
The loss of our son is a matter we can never accept or recover from. | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Stunts UK Ltd and its director Scott May admitted failing | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
I think what we can learn from a case like this is, | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the health and safety laws apply, not just to companies | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
and to individuals, but also to directors of companies. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
And if those directors are found to have fallen short of the mark, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
then they can expect to be prosecuted as well as the company. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
The judge made it clear the sentence he passed was in no way meant | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
to reflect the value of the life of Matthew Cranch, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Scott May was ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
His firm fined ?100,000, plus ?80,000 in costs. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
Is there anything you'd like to say to the family, Mr May? | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The judge accepted it wasn't a deliberate health and safety | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
breach but the risk should have been identified. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
The failure to do so resulted in a man losing his life. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Simon Jones, BBC Spotlight, Maidstone Crown Court. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with murder after a body was found | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
The victim, who's been identified as 44 year-old Gary Miller, | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
Paul Quantick who's 35 and from Union Street has | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
been committed for trial at Plymouth Crown Court. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
A second day of strike action has been held by workers at Crown | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
They're protesting about branch closures, job security | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
The post office says the action has caused minimal | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Day two of a five-day strike by Post Office staff. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
This crown Post Office in Exeter is one of a dozen or so affected | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
It's still open to customers, staffed by managers, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
said the unions, whilst they're out on the picket line. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Whilst we sympathise with the public, such | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
is the intransigence of Post Office Ltd, our members have | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
been forced to take this action and they don't take it lightly. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
They will be losing pay this week in the run-up to a very | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
While some people have accused staff of deliberately trying to disrupt | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
the Christmas period, most people I spoke to today seemed | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Unfortunately it's the wrong time of year to take action, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
but this is the only way it will get through to them. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
You know, get through to the powers that be. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
I'm all for supporting, especially the Post Office, absolutely. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
You wouldn't want to see the Post Office go? | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
You need to value these places before they go. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
I know a lot of Exeter's services have been centralised | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
So, we've got to value it, but there are alternatives now | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
There have been rumours of Royal Mail staff joining | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the industrial action, but there's no sign of that locally, | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
But unless the dispute is resolved, these Post Office workers will be | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Post Office bosses have described the industrial action | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
as very regrettable, but say it will cause minimal | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
That certainly seems to be the case here. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Scott Bingham, BBC Spotlight, Exeter. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
New research shows that one in three people in the South West | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
drinks more than the new recommended level of alcohol. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
The figures from Public Health Action reveal that more | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
than a million 40 to 70 year olds are drinking more than | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Campaigners say the cost to the NHS and the economy of alcohol | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
related problems runs into billions of pounds. | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
And for Julie and Gabby, something to celebrate. | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
Their first sober festive season for several years. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
I'm looking forward to Christmas Day, a roast turkey | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
and just a little stocking, you know what I mean? | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
A bit of telly, yeah and knowing that I'm sober. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Waking up Christmas morning without a hangover. | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
Drinking two bottles of vodka a day at her lowest, Julie's children | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Drink free now for six months, she wants others to seek help | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
It costs you your self-respect, your morals and your values, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
which actually, to be fair, is what we lose. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Now 22, Gabby's drinking started to spiral out of control at 16, | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
starting with binges and leading to her losing her job last year. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
She's also in recovery, thanks to treatment from charity Addaction. | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
If it gets to a point where, you know, you're losing jobs, | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
to just think, is it really worth losing all of that for something | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
It's the season to be merry, but according to figures | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
from public health action, too many of us are drinking more | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Across the south-west region, one in three drink | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Here in Cornwall one in ten are deemed to be high risk, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
that's drinking double the recommended guidelines. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
And those figures are likely to be even higher in the future | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
as the government's recommended limits changed this year. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
For both men and women, the number of units a week is now 14. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
That's equivalent of six pints of lager or six | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Any weekend you go to any of towns in Cornwall, | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
and you are there late at night, you would definitely say binge | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
drinking needs addressing and that's why we have volunteers on the street | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
But more than that, it's so easy to buy alcohol, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
you click online and it gets delivered to your door. | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
Most people now are drinking more at home than they do | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
And that's where we get real health problems. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Drink responsibly, that's the message. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
It's been a day for celebration in Torbay | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
as the last of the Normandy Veterans finally got their war | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
The Legion D'Honneur is awarded by the French to all servicemen | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
who helped Liberate their country from the Nazis. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Some veterans in Torbay have had to wait two years after applying | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
but as John Ayres reports, this afternoon it was | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
It's been quite a wait, but finally today the last | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
of Torbay's Normandy veterans waiting to be honoured, | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
Been better immediately after the war, but anyway here we are. | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Late in the day, late hour, you know. | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
There were far more who deserved a medal than me. | :08:15. | :08:26. | |
I was lucky, I was able to go through without being killed. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
You know, it was privilege, luck, I don't know what you would call it. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
The French government wanted to thank all the servicemen | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
who helped liberate the country from the Nazis during | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
They decided to offer the medal to all living | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
The problem was, the French and the Ministry of Defence had | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
twice as many applications than they were expecting. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
E-mails got lost, then they would write back and say | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
we haven't got the address of the recipient, only his name | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
and then it would be, we've got his name but not the recipient. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
I can only assume there has been the demand. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Sadly, seven of our veterans died before they manage to receive | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Sadly, seven of our veterans died before they managed to receive | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
There was also a medal for Rob Barber, but he couldn't be here. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Awarding these medals is something the French really wanted to do | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
and although these veterans had to wait, they are very | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Well time now to take a look at the weather and David's | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
It would be nice in the run-up to Christmas to talk about something | :09:25. | :09:36. | |
see anything in the wake of snow, see anything in the wake of snow, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
ice or frost in fact. It is a mild picture this week. Patchy rain, bit | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
breezy tomorrow. Temperatures still in double figures. A weather front | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
and I'd is producing outbreaks of rain. It clears for a time, but then | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
comes back again during the course of the day. A more definite change | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
is on Thursday, but perhaps the just one day. Another area of low | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
pressure is rising across the Atlantic to give us some windy | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
conditions on Friday. It is wet overnight. The rain petering out in | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the second half of the night but lost to clear from Dorset and | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Somerset. Clear skies behind it to get that bridges into single | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
figures. Briefly tomorrow, some brightness and breed sunshine before | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the rain returns. Quickly arriving by the end of the morning and into | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the afternoon. Blessed windy in the second half of the day. -- less | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
windy. Just a few showers, otherwise mostly dry. Then the risk of heavy | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
rain and windy conditions on Friday. Have a good night. | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
Heidi Davey will be back just before 6.30 with the latest news | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
country it's worth knowing the national forecast. Over now to | :10:52. | :11:09. | |
Tomasz. So, the weather's going to blow a | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
few cobwebs away in the coming days and maybe a few other things, as | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
well. How stormy is it going to get? For most of us probably not too | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
terrible. It is, however, going to be very nasty across parts of | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Scotland on Friday. The clouds are racing across the Atlantic and we | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
will see a storm by the time we get to around about Friday and then | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Friday night. At the moment we have a weather | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
front crossing the country, we have | :11:41. | :11:42. |