25/01/2017 Spotlight

An inquest was told today how a man sacrificed his own

It happened when a gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beach.

described her husband Stephen as her "hero".

Spotlight's Hamish Marshall was at the inquest

Cheryl Mellor and her family relived the moment

a loving son, husband and father lost his life.

The couple had been married for ten years.

They were having a morning of the beach, they'd been doing

a crossword and were looking forward to lunch, but then they were alerted

by a booming sound and a gunman came closer to them.

Stephen Mellor said this is real, get down, if either of us survives

Mrs Miller said that she saw an orange flame coming from the gun.

She said the gunman was looking straight at them and seem to enjoy

watching them squirm. The husband who try to get on top of her was hit

and died. She pretended to be dead in case the gunman came back to kill

her. Cheryl Melo believed she was coming in and out of consciousness.

She spoke of the horrendous pain she felt in her left arm and left leg. I

believe the gunman wanted to kill me, she said, but he didn't succeed.

I'm only here today because of the bravery of my husband. He sacrificed

himself. Steve is a hero to me. Stephen Miller's mum Dorothy Ingram

told the court that he was a loving, caring, wonderful son. This is the

second of seven weeks of hearings. The union, Unison, is taking action

over workers who lost their jobs when the NHS 111 service in Devon

was transferred from In October, the company, Vocare,

was subcontracted by Devon doctors Unison says their terms

and condition should have been protected and has issued legal

proceedings against Our health correspondent

Jenny Walrond joins me Jenny, what can you tell

us in this situation? Unison says 142 people

lost their jobs when the NHS 111 Devon service transferred

to a new provider Some of those people got new jobs

with the new provider, Vocare. But under what Unison

describes as less favourable Some people were employed

by South Western Ambulance but, again, the union says that some

of them had different And Unison says that they should

have been protected under employment There were talks through

the arbitration service, ACAS, in the run-up to Christmas

but they failed to And so, Unison has now

issued legal proceedings In a statement, they say that

workers have suffered Now this case is ongoing,

and Vocare, Devon Doctors and South Western Ambulance have yet

to respond to Unison's claims. A look at some of the other

stories making the news An investigation is underway

after a Flybe plane from Exeter reported a technical fault

en route to Edinburgh. In a statement, the company said

the aircraft landed safely and all 62 passengers

disembarked as normal. A Plymouth Argyle footballer

who was declared a rapist following a civil action in Scotland

has left the club. David Goodwillie and a former

Dundee United team mate, David Robertson, were ordered to pay

damages to the woman. The striker has now left Argyle

after asking to be released from his contract to focus

on a potential appeal Truro is aiming to become a European

Capital of Culture for 2023. Cornwall Council will spend

?500,000 on the bid. it could bring ?100 million to the

county. Critics say it's too costly

at a time of cuts to services. A court has been told the former

boss of the NHS trust that runs Torbay Hospital committed

"an extreme breach of trust" for giving work to her

husband without declaring

a personal interest. Paula Vasco Knight denies two counts

of fraud while chief executive

of the South Devon NHS Trust. Paula Vasco Knight with her husband

Stephen, wearing a green He denies one count of fraud,

she denies two counts of fraud while she was the boss of NHS

services in South Devon, including Torbay Hospital

where she was based up to May 2014. The prosecution alleged the frauds

total about ?20,000 and centre on two contracts authorised

by Paula Vasco Knight for a firm run

by her husband, a graphic designer. One was for newsletters

for ?9,000, and others The court heard Paula Vasco Knight

was also the national lead for Habib Natalie denies two counts

of assisting an offence. Gareth Evans told the court

that the prosecution's case is that Paula Vasco Knight

with the assistance of Nakhli avoided any declaration of interest

when her husband was contracted to carry out the production of

newsletters for the equality's team. The court was told that the work

on the document was never completed, even though Paula Vasco Knight

authorised a payment Mr Evans described that work

as "a complete sham" and he told the court that when a MacBook Pro

was returned by Knight, all the graphic design software

she had asked for had been deleted and the computer had been reset

to its factory settings. after a coach carrying school

children crashed in Cornwall. The coach left the A30 near Penzance

as Eleanor Parkinson reports. The coach was carrying 28 children

and a teacher from St Ives School and was just a few miles from

the town when the accident happened. Eyewitnesses say the vehicle crossed

over the opposite lane It's clear from the tracks

that the coach came over the grass verge, over this public footpath

and then came to rest, destroying fencing here

at the entrance to this field. The children were described as upset

and shocked but unhurt. The driver was taken

to the Royal Cornwall Hospital No-one would be interviewed

from the school but in a statement it said none of the children

were injured and they were brought back to school

on a replacement vehicle. It also said the coach

was travelling at a low speed The coach is owned

by Williams Travel. They haven't as yet

commented on the accident. The coach was towed away and will be

tested and examined to find out Volunteers and staff at a heritage

railway have been left shocked and upset after vandals broke

in and damaged The charity which runs

the South Devon Railway says the cost of repairing smashed

windows to its coaches will run

into several thousand pounds. We've had to replace

five train windows. That's 350 quid a pop

for the glass alone. They stole a pair of two-way radios,

that's about ?700 worth They can't use those

either because they're They even stole a bar

of chocolate which belonged It was a big trail of damage

and it's about ?5,000 all in. Hello, good evening. We're going to

need everything tomorrow, gloves, hats and a windproof because it's

going to be a busy and cold day. The winds increased today blowing the

tops of the waves here in Newquay, one of our weather Watch is taking

some fantastic pictures. It is going to be much colder than it felt

today. A very brisk wind from the South East, mainly dry and cold

enough to produce a few wintry showers. This layer cloud and rain

doesn't really get to us, but it squeezes those isobars, making it a

very cold wind. It is drawing in some low temperatures from parts of

France, Belgium and western Germany. Even though the mild air is trying

to get towards us, it's still going to be quite a cold night, another

frosty night and a bitterly cold feeling day tomorrow. More cloud

coming from the south overnight and eventually that cloud is just about

thick enough the Ord wintry flurry but nothing that the children are

going to appreciate. It is going to be a cold, dry and cloudy start

tomorrow. It will brighten up the sunshine coming through, but we

won't see temperatures much above seven Celsius and with the strength

of the wind, it will feel much colder than that. You do really need

to wrap op warmly. Friday, milder air starts to arrive, producing some

showers as that weather front comes in with a top temperature of 10

Celsius. And less overnight frost heading into the weekend, with a

chance of a few showers and the winds eventually coming in from the

South West. Have a good night. Just before we go, we're looking ahead to

tomorrow when we will be marking the 100th anniversary of the destruction

of a Devon village that was washed into the sea. Holmes had been left

vulnerable after Shingle was dredged from the area to use in the docks in

Plymouth. A high spring tide destroyed almost the entire village.

Tomorrow, we will find out more about the history and the concerns

of modern-day villages. That's all from the late team. The breakfast

team will be back with you from 6:25am tomorrow. But from David

Anae, good night. take a look at the Outlook towards

the weekend. Good evening. If you think it was

cold today, for many it will be colder still tomorrow. Cold even

when we have the sunshine today. This was one of the wonderful

weather watcher pictures we had sent in from Cornwall. It contrasts with

a cloudy and foggy eastern half of the country, and a bank of cloud.

Still foggy, but it is starting to lift. It is being pushed north and

west, this bank of cloud. That will continue through the night. We will

still have some fog sitting on the hills. Even with the cloud, it will

be a cold night, with temperatures away from the far north