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throughout the night with the BBC News Channel. Now it | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Parts of Dartmoor and Exmoor could be "returned to the wild" according | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The 25-year plan could see subsidies paid to farmers being cut, | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
allowing the areas to return to their natural state. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Our Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
The wide open uplands of the south-west are | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
But when it comes to making a profit from this land, | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Some farmers have benefited from subsidies, but since the Brexit | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
vote everything is suddenly up for debate. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
However, it shouldn't be forgotten that the uplands | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
provide us with important and often hidden benefits. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
This is sphagnum moss found here on the edge of Exmoor. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
It is really useful to all of us, because it traps moisture | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Once upon a time nobody put a price tag on this kind of thing, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Farmers and environmental groups such as the RSPB have worked closely | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
to protect this part of Exmoor over years, but they know | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Robin Milton is an upland farmer and the vice-chairman | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Let's remember it is a living, working landscape. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
I think it would be very, very poor of us to consider actually | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
any forms of what could be construed as land abandonment. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
I'm not entirely sure that would deliver what we expect. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
But abandonment and re-wilding of the uplands may be on the agenda | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
as the Government considers how to manage our countryside | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
One option could be to plant more trees. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Wildlife organisations say the Government needs | :01:53. | :01:53. | |
The uplands should be the most favoured areas | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
for government investment, cos they deliver so much more | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Flood protection, nature, all the incredible acts so that | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
people can spend their leisure time out here. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
In a way they should be the favoured areas for farming investment. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
We contacted Defra and asked them about their plans | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
They told us they couldn't say farming will continue as before. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
That's because they've just started work on a 25-year plan | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
which they aim to publish at the end of the year. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Well, this comes at a time when the farming subsidies | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
and regulations could change as a result of the vote | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Today the Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom pledged to cut | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
I will be looking at scrapping the rules that hold us back, | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
and focusing instead on what works best with the United Kingdom. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
No more six-foot EU billboards littering the landscape. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
No more existential debates to determine what counts | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
And no more ridiculous bureaucratic three-crop rule. | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more and export | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
The mother of a Devon man stabbed to death near Plymouth is calling | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
on the Prime Minister to provide answers over her son's killer. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
27-year-old Tanis Bhandari died two years ago at Tamerton Foliot. | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
At the time of the murder one of his two killers, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Donald Pemberton, was out on licence from prison. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Tanis's mother Andrea Sharpe has petitioned the Prime Minister, | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
calling for a probation service report on Pemberton's | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
Police have criticised a decision to give a prolific south-west | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
drug smuggler Christmas release from prison. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Blake Donnellan absconded and is now on the run. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
He'd been serving a 15-year sentence in prison in Derbyshire for bringing | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
huge quantities of Class A drugs into the south-west. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
The Police Federation says such criminals should serve | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Pressure is mounting at hospitals across the region with most now | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
at the highest level of alert - struggling to cope with | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
The Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske and Yeovil Hospital | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
in Somerset are now on Level Four - or Black Alert - and asking | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
people not to come to A unless it's life-threatening. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
They're also having to consider cancelling some operations. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Torbay and Derriford Hospitals are both at Level Three. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
Meanwhile the future of hospital care in North Devon drew hundreds | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
of people to a packed public meeting tonight. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Campaigners fear some acute services at North Devon District Hospital | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
could be closed and moved to Exeter or Plymouth. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Spotlight's Janine Jansen was at tonight's meeting in Northam. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Well, this is the fifth of 12 public meetings across North Devon, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
More than 300 people have turned up in Northam. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
It shows how worried people are about the future of the NHS. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
There is no doubt the NHS is going to get a shake-up. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
People here fear North Devon District Hospital in Barnstable | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
could lose some of its acute services, such as maternity, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
I think it is our NHS, it is our National Health Service. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
It doesn't belong to the executives in North Devon Hospital, | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
And I don't think we should ask them to keep our services open, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
or the hospital, I think we should demand it. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
We are not prepared to go to Derriford. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
We don't have time to go to Exeter when somebody's ill. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
We live in a rural environment and we want our hospital open, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
North Devon District Hospital is the most remote full-service, | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
acute service District Hospital anywhere in England. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
What that means is that if you close acute services, | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
the biggest proportion of the population would have | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to travel more than 60 minutes to the next acute services hospital, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
And that figure is nearly 92% in North Devon. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Health bosses say there are no planned changes | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
They expect to reveal their proposals in the summer. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Locals will get the chance to express their views. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Well, people tonight were warned that the NHS will only exist | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
for as long as people are prepared to defend it. | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
Two former Royal Marines from Devon are setting off tomorrow as part | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
of a five-man military team to climb the highest mountain in Antarctica. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Danny Claricoates and James Nightingale both | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
James was shot in the jaw, while Danny had post-traumatic | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
stress after witnessing two friends killed by a roadside bomb. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Johnny Rutherford has been to see how Danny's preparing | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
This was a spot of training for the five-man team | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
last year in Chamonix, France. | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Their mission to raise money for the Royal Marines charity | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
by climbing the highest peak in Antarctica, Mount Vincent, | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
which is no mean feat at more than half the height of Mount | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
But for ex-Royal Marine Danny Claricoates it's much more | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
In 2007 he fought in Afghanistan and was awarded the Military Cross. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
I've come home, 18 months later went back out to Afghanistan | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
And during that tour two lads, two friends of mine in my team | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
So, yeah, that was the turning point for me. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
That's where it all sort of finished for me. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Post-traumatic stress disorder brought a premature end | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
There are days sometimes where I just don't want to get out of bed. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
You just sort of pull the duvet over your head and just, you know, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
you just want to give up on life, but by doing something | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
like this it gives me something to work towards, | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
Danny wants to use the expedition to make more people aware | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
It's about addressing the stigma, it's about educating that actually | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
We are able to own our own businesses and work for a living | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
The extreme challenge to get to the top of the bottom | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
There is a part of me that is a bit jealous, | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
I think the Antarctic would be a bit harsh for me. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Although Sarah herself is no stranger to physical challenges, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
as she won a bronze medal at the Invictus Games last year. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
I know for Danny with his PTSD, I have seen for myself | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
how much he benefits from being in the outdoors. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
We've both been to Everest base camp together. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
And personally for his rehabilitation, and just | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
for his self-confidence, his self-esteem, the benefits | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Walking axe, sleeping bag, couple of water bottles... | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
The team hope to reach the summit by next Friday. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
Cos once a Royal Marine, always a Royal Marine. | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
Time for the weather. How is it looking? There has been plenty of | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
talk today about the plummeting temperatures. It is a little bit | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
less dramatic here. Still low enough to form some frost and some bright | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
weather to start the day tomorrow. Further west you are at the quality | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
disguise and they mist frost. This weather front is slow-moving and it | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
is draped across western parts of Britain for much of tomorrow. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Keeping the sky is relatively cloudy. As we move into Friday it is | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
all change again. Westerly winds and a brother from driving bringing some | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
patchy rain. Clearer skies likely to be across eastern parts of Devon | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
into Somerset and Dorset. Could be as low as minus five or six Celsius. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Tomorrow it is split between West and East. The East has the fine | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
weather, sunshine, the West, clouds digs with us and drizzle. For Friday | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
it is a bit more uniform across the south-west. A chilly start. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Temperature is back into double figures. A lot of cloud around. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Westerly winds as we head into the weekend means wilder weather. Have a | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
good night. Our breakfast Bolton is at 6:25am tomorrow morning but from | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
us all, have a good night. -- bulletin. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Temperatures creeping up a notch or two and turning milder into the | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
weekend. A guarantee on your journey to work | :11:04. | :11:17. | |
tomorrow, if you are nipping out to the shop for a paper, somebody will | :11:18. | :11:18. |