23/01/2017 Spotlight

Two theatres are closed tonight after the company running them went

into administration, putting 30 jobs at

Shows planned at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple and the Landmark

Theatre in Illfracombe have been cancelled.

Our tickets are being held in there, because we haven't picked

the tickets up, so I haven't got any proof, have I?

They are not reading about the details of the latest

hit show, but about how to get their money back on theatre

We're very upset because we would have hoped there was somebody

here who answered questions on how we're going to get our money back

Here at the Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe the locks

were changed, the box office closed as the North Devon Theatres' Trust

It's a wonderful asset for the town, used by all sorts of different

My own niece works in here in marketing, so she will be

affected and her colleagues will be affected.

The North Devon Theatres' Trust runs the Landmark theatre

and the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple.

In a statement, the chair of Trustees told us:

All performances have been cancelled.

The North Devon Gang Show was due to go on at the Queen's

We have been doing it for 38 years, this is our 38th

It's given thousands of youngsters the opportunity to perform on stage,

to develop their confidence and their skills and to move

on in life and suddenly we are left in a vacuum.

It is unclear what this means for the employees of the trust.

Many are hoping that the theatres do manage to stage a comeback.

There are calls tonight for changes to the way private parking firms

are operating as motorists across the region say

Kevin Foster, the MP for Torbay, says he's been inundated

with complaints about one car park in particular.

Crossways in Paignton is run by Premier Parking Solutions

Our south Devon reporter John Ayres has more.

Run by Premier Parking Solutions, better known as PPS,

As you go in your number plate is recorded on camera and you have

Cherry and Donald Smith paid 80p for an hour.

But Cherry had added an extra digit by mistake

On appeal, the adjudicator said he was satisfied no payment

was made for the vehicle with their registration.

We very carefully paid the right money, we were back within 50

This sign covers every mistake you could make

Basically, if you make a mistake, you have agreed

?60 if you pay up quickly without any fuss.

The local MP has been inundated with complaints.

Very minor infractions are resulting in large invoices being set that

actually do frighten people when they arrive.

For me, it may just be on the side of the line legally,

but I think morally there are some real questions to be

Having problems with the machine, Julie attempted to put her

The final time she got it wrong and overpaid.

The threat of court action grew, the charges and fees rose to ?231.

After she appeared on BBC Radio Devon, the case was dropped.

It came to the point where I decided, you know what?

Even if I lose, I don't care, I'm going to fight this to the very end.

PPS told the BBC that it complies with all approved parking service

standards and has been working with trading standards

The company has made changes to the use of technology,

the processes for issuing tickets and the appeals process

to ensure genuine mistakes are recognised as such.

Since we contacted PPS, the company has dropped the ?100

charge against the Smiths, although just days before,

they had issued a letter threatening court action.

Janine Jansen has been looking at this for us and many

people getting in touch with similar concerns.

As you can imagine, it's a very emotive subject.

Sue Puddock: "The machine is situated against the light

Many saying how difficult the machine is to operate and people

saying how stressful it is to be fined.

We spoke to a lawyer who represents Car Park Operators and he said

there is an appeal process and it seems things are now looking a bit

Small mistakes can be made and we have implemented internal

appeals systems for the operators and external appeals systems for

They incentivise operators spotting genuine errors and dealing

with them appropriately, and I'm glad to say that

in the scenario of PPS, it seems that hopefully moving

forward, those matters will be dealt with much more leniently.

With regard to putting in the registration numbers incorrectly, he

says the technology will not recognise it if it is inaccurate.

Angela says she has sparked in that car park once, she was fined ?60 and

says she will never part in there again.

A mother from Somerset is continuing her campaign to find

out what happened to her son on the Isles of Scilly.

Tracey Clayton is convinced someone else was responsible for the death

of her son Josh on Tresco 16 months ago.

Last week, a coroner ordered Devon and Cornwall Police to investigate

Mrs Clayton has now had a private meeting

Before I take my last breath, we will know

Without a shadow of a doubt, we will find out and we will

The final resting place of Josh Clayton, aged 23,

but was his death just a terrible accident or was he murdered?

I believe it was done through third-party involvement.

His family have now spent the best part of ?70,000

They are convinced the police got it wrong.

a senior police officer from Devon and Cornwall Police,

who has assured me he will be reviewing and hopefully look for any

gaps that happened throughout the investigation.

I have thought it from day one, I still believe it now.

When Isles of Scilly police found the body

of Josh Clayton 16 months ago, they put it down

He had been attending a private party on Tresco where he had been

His body was discovered ten days later.

But last week, an inquest into his death was dramatically

This man, Leroy Thomas, told the hearing that he witnessed

Josh arguing with a group of men after leaving the party.

The coroner said the police needed to reinvestigate, which has given

Up until now, they have been asking for a new force to take

As far as they were concerned, he was a drugged up drunk that had

been washed out to sea and didn't think anything else.

The police force has issued a short statement saying: The family say

they simply want the truth and they will not stop

There's a broken arm of our family and we need to know the reasons why.

The frost is already reforming. For some it never lifted and there is

more to come through the night. This week we start relatively quiet. We

will see some frost and some fog. Increasingly windy later on this

week, particularly on Thursday and it will be a cold wind so you need

to wrap up warmly. Temperatures recover towards the weekend.

Overnight might along with the frost is the fog. It will be freezing fog

in places, particularly across parts of Dorset and Somerset. The high

pressure is still with us now. It does weaken over the next two days.

By the time we get to Wednesday and Thursday, it is beginning to leave

us and it allows the southerly or south-easterly winds to develop.

They will draw in slightly higher temperatures but not before we have

quite a raw feel, especially on Thursday. By Friday, we have a new

area of low pressure coming in. That may well produce some outbreaks of

rain. Here is the mist and fog already forming and becoming quite

thick. A pretty cold night for all of us. Nowhere is skipping the frost

and the lowest temperature between -2 and minus four. A cold start

tomorrow but more sunshine once that fog has lifted. More cloud floating

by from time to time and temperatures are getting higher than

they have been, nine, ten, possibly 11 degrees. On Wednesday we start

with some frost, mist and fog, sunny spells but increasingly windy and

the wind a real feature of the weather by the time we get to

Thursday. Just before we go, a look ahead

to tomorrow's Spotlight. We're investigating why people

are commuting further and further. We'd like to hear about

your journey to work - You can get in touch via Facebook,

Twitter and email, and compare your That's it from the late team. Have a

very good night. Goodbye. For the weekend we will have dry

weather with sunny spells and it will be a little bit milder.

Good evening. We are continuing to see huge righty in the weather.

Getting the detail right is proving to be a challenge. This was in

Pembrokeshire and other parts of the UK were gloomy throughout the day.

The fog is thickening up right