11/01/2017 Spotlight

Three people have been arrested, after the body of a man was found

A murder investigation was launched after the discovery in the early

This tent marks the spot where the body of a man was found

Dozens of police officers arrived at the park just after five

Turo Road, Bridge Road and Edgecombe Road were

Teams of specialist police have spent the day carrying out

Including here, at nearby Cosgarne Hall, which

The Major Crime Unit are currently at the scene and I've spoken to

Detective Inspector Ben Beckerleg, who is part of that team, who has

confirmed that a 24-year-old man, a 22-year-old man and a 21-year-old

man have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody.

People living in the nearby block of flats say they're

The lights woke me up, the flashing lights,

So we didn't know what was going on until we heard it on the radio

I thought St Austell was a pretty safe area,

Last week as well, because there was a death up the road.

I didn't think it was this rough, to be honest, but, yeah,

I woke up and I was like, oh my God.

Very few details about the man have been released.

Police say a forensic postmortem examination is being carried out

on his body to try to establish how he died.

They say next of kin are being informed and then

it is expected that the police will release the age and name

The inquest into the death of a man in the Isles

of Scilly has been halted, after new evidence came to light.

23-year-old Josh Clayton went missing after a party in 2015.

The coroner today halted proceedings, calling

Josh Clayton's family turned up for day three of this inquest,

not sure which direction it would take.

Yesterday, Leroy Thomas, who worked as a painter and decorator

on the Isle of Tresco, who had been at that party that

Josh was last seen at, told the court that he saw Josh

in an argument with a group of foreign men.

Up until this point, Devon and Cornwall Police

have treated the case as a missing-person enquiries.

Josh's body was found ten days later, washed up

A postmortem found no drugs in his system and alcohol

times the driving limit, but cause of death could not be confirmed.

The barrister representing the family said right

from the outset they had voiced their concerns about

We heard how a potentially key piece of evidence,

a bloodstained shirt found on Josh's body, had not been retained

Today the barrister called for the case to be

referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions and said

the family had no confidence in Devon and Cornwall Police

to conduct an effective investigation.

The barrister representing Devon and Cornwall Police said that

everybody who attended the party that night had been spoken to,

and nobody had mentioned this altercation involving Josh before.

He said they'd also spoken to Mr Thomas on two previous

occasions, and this new account would now need to be corroborated.

The inquest has been adjourned and suspended

The isolation faced by farming families dealing with dementia has

been highlighted in a study by Plymouth University.

Researchers say rural communities are disadvantaged when it comes

to caring for people with the condition.

They hope the study will lead to greater community help.

Here's our environment correspondent, Adrian Campbell.

Sitting around the dining-room table, this South Devon farming

family are looking back to happy times.

Eric Smerdon farmed near Rattery in South Devon

and was a keen contributor to community life.

His family recall him coming to see how construction

was going when the village hall was built 20 years ago.

Eric's family say that in his later years he struggled

Regardless of the time of year he could always see snow outside,

you know, he'd look out the window and he'd say that there's

That appeared to be something, you know, which sort

Eric didn't sleep well and I used to say, I think you need to get

up and see the sheep, if they're lambing and things,

and they weren't, but he would wake up in the night, thinking things

Luckily I forget a lot of it and I'm glad I do.

The study by Plymouth University highlights the risks in isolated

places, with many dangers, including heavy machinery

Relatives do most of the caring but others in the wider

There are people who come to the farm regularly who can

also help, actually, as part of that informal network

of support, so people like vets, people like feed merchants,

tanker drivers, who often come to the farm on a regular basis,

can actually help to spot when things are not quite right,

help to raise a concern with the key people who need to know.

The study says families are reluctant to ask for support

but all of us need to be aware of dementia and how to help.

Well, I'm joined now by Ian Sheriff from the University of Plymouth,

and chair of the Prime Minister's rural dementia group.

Ian, we have heard about the problems there.

The solution, and I think we were discussing this with Richard

and Claire only the other day, that we've now got to sort

of energise rural communities to get behind some of the isolation factors

You know as well as I do some of these farms

that we're talking about were deep in the heart of Dartmoor,

I've had phone calls from around the country from hill

farmers who have said, thank goodness you've got

And one tragic sort of story I heard from one farmer was that

because his wife had dementia he had nobody else around at the time

so he had to take his wife in the tractor with him

And we all know how dangerous or at risk you are on a farm

environment, so a lot of things about risk as far as I was

Traditionally farming has always been a family business.

I suppose we've got fewer younger people going into farming.

Having fewer younger people around, is that a problem for the older

Well, I think what it means is that you haven't got anybody to hand down

or help with some of the tasks around the farm, and you've only got

to look at the paperwork that farmers have to complete,

and if you think about if somebody's in the early stage of dementia,

this can become very, very complicated, and I've heard

stories from my colleague Joe Jones from Community Farming

where they have gone in and helped the farm or the farmer

So it isn't just a simple, you know, my goodness me, we must get some

Because they're in a single, sometimes single-person

environment business, if that person is in the early

stages of dementia we've got some major problems on that farm.

You've got the research, what happens now?

I'm in the Prime Minister's group and our task is to find the issues

We've got five dementia-friendly parishes on our border

here and currently five parishes working together are

supporting 64 families where a person has dementia.

If I could energise every parish council in the country,

and there's 700 parish councils in Devon and Cornwall, that's

an army, and if they could just think about what they could do

for their rural communities as far as dementia goes, we've cracked it.

OK, Ian Sheriff, thank you very much for joining us.

Time for the weather. Is it going to snow?

Just a little bit. Most of us will see some rain, we could have sleep

mixed in as well. Tomorrow, wet and windy. As the rain clears eastwards

we could see it turning to snow on the back edge. Largely on the high

ground but some flurries on lower ground. Will bring the rain, through

the morning it will be wet and windy. As it clears eastwards we

have much colder air behind so we could well see sleet and snow.

Pretty wet from the word go, rain pushing and, fairly strong blustery

winds. The focus on the snow parts of Dorset and Somerset, maybe --

mainly over high areas. We could see one to wintry showers behind that.

Tonight into Friday -- Thursday night into Friday we have the risk

of wintry flurries and ice on the roads first thing on Friday. It will

be a cold start on Friday, those westerly winds but more sunshine

than tomorrow. Temperatures, we struggle, and towards the end of the

day we could get showers feeding in from the Northwest so we could see

another spell of sleet and over high ground will stop a lot of weather

over the next few days, it is worthwhile keeping an eye on the

forecast. Tomorrow we start off with rain but it could turn to sleet and

snow on the back edge. Friday, much colder, but it turns that bit milder

as we head towards the colder, but it turns that bit milder

as we head towards the end of the weekend.

The breakfast bulletins start at 6:25am but from the late team have a

peaceful night. Goodbye. potentially leading us into a chilly

start to the weekend. Time for the national weather prospects if you

are on the move. Good evening, a lot going on with

the weather in the next few days, numerous weather warnings in for so

buried in mind if you have travel plans. Lots of isobars on the chart

overnight which means it will be windy for all. The strongest winds

in Scotland, lots of wintry showers with snow getting down to

increasingly low levels and some wintry showers in Northern Ireland

and northern England. A cold night for Northern England, particularly

in more rural spots, frosty and I see for some and some of the snow

really blowing around over higher ground in Scotland. Strong wind and

further snow to take us into tomorrow. It may well make for some

tricky travelling conditions. The forecast for tomorrow in the

southern half of the UK's quite tricky. We have got mild air bumping

into colder