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Fire crews are expected to remain through the night at the scene

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of a major blaze which destroyed a historic pub near Bideford.

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At it's height, more than 80 firefighters from across Cornwall,

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Devon and Somerset were involved in bringing the fire at the 13th

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Five people inside managed to escape uninjured.

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It's stood to hear for 800 years, but today it was ravaged by fire.

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All the family that ran the pub could do was stand by and watch

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Sam was due to be working behind the bar this lunchtime.

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Instead she was confronted with this.

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Everyone supports it, all the community, everyone.

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Locals told me they couldn't believe their eyes.

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I've lived here all my life and to see the pub here

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like it is at the minute, it's a bit sad, especially

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I know the family really well as well.

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It must be gutting for them at the minute.

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The school playground usually falls silent during half-term.

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It was transformed as a temporary holding area

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It was a deep-seated fire in a thatch, they're always

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incredibly difficult and it's incredibly hard work

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pulling the thatch away from the property and just removing

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all the combustible material to try and deal with the incident.

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Firefighters expect to be here through the night.

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Only once the site is safe will investigators be able to get

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a good look at what caused this historic pub to be

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There's concern from police about the rise in the number

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of pop-up drug dens across the South West.

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Officers says gangs in cities like Manchester or London

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are dispatching often vulnerable teenagers to the region to sell

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Spotlight's Denis Nightingale has been investigating.

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Drug dealing may not be a legal business,

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Spying new markets, gangs branch out from big cities to create

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The young dealers travel by train, coach and car to places

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like Bournemouth, Yeovil, Plymouth and Penzance.

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Once there, they establish themselves in hotels and hostels

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and often in the homes of drug addicts.

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Former gang member Jamal was shot and knifed before

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You're taking a chance with them by off-loading drugs

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If they come back with the money, obviously that's beneficial.

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If it's a loss or that person gets arrested up there, it is what it is.

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And it can be a lot of money - ?3,000 a day.

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The young dealers are usually commanded by a single gang leader

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on a single mobile phone in what are known as county lines.

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This detective sergeant, who does not want his face shown,

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leads undercover operations to break them up.

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Quite often they will be people that are recruited from care homes

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The youngest person we've had is 14 years old and he was already on bail

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after being found in Bournemouth in a hotel room with

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Figures from the police in the south west show that last year,

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sentences totalling hundreds of years in prison were handed out

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to criminals following county lines investigations.

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We intercepted numerous people, young, vulnerable, missing people

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from the metropolitan cities and returned them back

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Many of those young people will have been recruited through social media.

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Very often they will be groomed for me that collated by these groups

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of people who want them to sell all run drugs for them,

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and they can then be exploited for that and then

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In regards to social media, I think the flip side of things

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should be promoted and shown, where a mother's sitting

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in their house crying when her house is turned upside down at 5am

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by the police, or when a family is at the graveside due to the fact

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that someone has been lost to knife crime.

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Exeter University says it is carrying out an urgent

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investigation after a swastika was found carved into a door on campus.

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The university says the graffiti and an offensive slogan were removed

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Disciplinary action against the students believed to be

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The university said any form of racist or discriminatory

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The rail operator GWR has been told to improve the training

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and assessment of new drivers following an investigation

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into a collision at Plymouth railway station.

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48 people were hurt and two trains damaged

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Jane Chandler has been following the story.

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The accident happened on a Sunday afternoon last year, last April,

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The Penzance to Exeter service, passenger train, it was pulling

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into Plymouth Station on platform six when it hit an empty train.

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Some 48 people were hurt, four of them were trained staff.

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According to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch,

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they say that the signalman had decided that both trains

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Unfortunately, he had not told the driver,

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but he doesn't have to according to the rules, and although

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the driver applied emergency brakes, he still hit the other train

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and to further complicate matters, the train driver had

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The recommendations that have been given in the report to GWR

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who owned two of the trains, and some of the other operators

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who also have to look at this, is that there should be improvements

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to the training and assessment of new train drivers.

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And that there are also improvements to the emergency door release

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There's also another recommendation, but is to Network Rail

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and that is there is a review of what's called permissive working

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What that means essentially is when you've got two trains

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who occupy the same platform or the same line at the same time.

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We spoke to GWR today and they gave us a statement and what they have

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told us is that they have been working closely with Network Rail

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to improve processes when two trains are occupying a single platform.

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They say that "the safety of our passengers and colleagues

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They have also said that they will be closely studying the report

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and they will hope to implement any of its further recommendations.

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A bell-ringer from Devon is recovering at home after a freak

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accident saw him yanked into the air by the rope of the bell

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Ian Bowman, from Widdecombe, was preparing for a service

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Firefighters had to lower him almost 100 feet through a trapdoor before

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On Saturday they took their toll on Devon bell-ringer Ian Bowman.

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The rope was going up and down through the ceiling and somehow

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the rope got behind my right ankle and took me from a standing position

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to upside down and the next thing I knew I was eyelevel with another

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So I was upside down and it crashed me back into the floor

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as the rope came down and then picked me up again.

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With a head and back injury, the emergency services decided

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a spiral staircase would be problematic, so they placed

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the mechanic from Widdecombe on a special structure

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and lowered him through this trap door, 80 feet high.

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We train a lot for this type of scenario, so these types

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of resources in the fire and rescue service are not always

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seen out and about, because these incidents,

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thankfully, do not occur a lot, however we do train exactly

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Ian's recovering at home and hopes to be back ringing bells very soon.

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It is just an accident and it could've happened to anyone,

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but I was just unlucky that it happened to me.

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It's happened and I'll get better and I can get back to bell-ringing.

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Four rare otter pups, which were born at Newquay Zoo

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at the end of last year, are now beginning to venture outside.

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The zoo has released this footage of the quartet of Asian

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They were taken for their first swimming lesson by their parents,

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which mainly consisted of the pups being dunked repeatedly

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It has been quite a blowy day today. Strong winds around but it has been

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milder at least, although it might not have felt like it with the wind.

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This week will be mild in general. Durst 's Strong winds than today. We

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have rain in the forecast as well, more especially through tomorrow and

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Wednesday. Today we have had some sunshine but that hasn't been the

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whole story today. The wind indicating this weather front

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approaching. Outbreaks of rain tomorrow morning but that clears

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eastwards. It is d j vu for eastwards. It is d j vu for

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Wednesday. Perhaps that rain heavier and foundry for a time. For Thursday

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and Friday, higher pressure building in. More cloud will feed him through

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Friday and that could bring a little bit of rain. Tonight we see clear

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spells initially. Cloud tends to build and outbreaks of rain will

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work in from the south-west. The winds slowly easing and temperatures

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typically six, seven, 8 degrees. For many a wet start to tomorrow but the

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rain turns patchy and lighter as it works its way eastwards and we see

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some things Brighton in the West. A less windy day than today and it is

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milder with temperatures in double figures. Some rain in the forecast

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for tomorrow and for Wednesday as well. It is milder and hopefully

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turning dry as we move towards Thursday and Friday. That is the

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news and weather this Monday night. From everyone here, good night.

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at the weekend it will be mild. Largely dry, perhaps a wind -- windy

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