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A police investigation has been launched after a Plymouth councillor | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
performed a Nazi salute during a council meeting. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Labour councillor Jonny Morris has been suspended from his party's | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
group on the Council, but is now facing calls to resign. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Councillor Jonny Morris has been feeling the heat ever | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
since the moment in this meeting to discuss raising council tax | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
when he decided to demonstrate his annoyance at proceedings | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Somebody does something like that in this chamber... | :00:35. | :00:51. | |
Amid outrage in the meeting, action was swiftly taken. | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
Afterwards, the leader of the Council's Labour Group | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Straightaway after the meeting, Councillor Morris was | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
immediately suspended, aubject to an investigation. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
So we have acted as swiftly and as firmly as we possibly can, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
because we take this sort of thing very seriously. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
But one of Plymouth's MPs says the Labour Party hasn't been strong | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
enough in its condemnation of the salute. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
This individual has done a Nazi salute in the elected | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
chamber during the middle of a council meeting. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
And, you know, I'm ashamed this has happened in Plymouth. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
And when this happens, you need strong leadership | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
and people to get out there and actually say, | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
this is unacceptable, this guy doesn't represent | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
what we stand for in the Labour Party. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Councillor Morris told the BBC that he made what he called | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
the inappropriate and offensive gesture because he was very | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
angry that the debate about whether to raise council tax | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
was, as he saw it, being closed down, with other councillors | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
He said he let that anger get the better of him, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police have said they are treating yesterday's | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
incident as a possible public order offence. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
They are now making further enquiries before deciding | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Chloe Axford, BBC Spotlight, Plymouth. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Our Political Editor Martyn Oates is at Westminster. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
The mere act of giving a Nazi salute is a criminal offence | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
That's not the case in Britain, but clearly anything | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
associated with Nazism is toxic and embarrassing. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
It remains to be seen of course what the upshot of this internal | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Labour Party investigation is in Plymouth, although it might be | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
observed in passing that Councillor Morris is no | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
During the 2014 local election campaign in Plymouth, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
he tweeted a picture of a defaced Ukip poster with the comment, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
From the Labour Party's point of view, in Plymouth, | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
the Labour Group leader Tudor Evans has reflected today | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
that this is an unwelcome distraction to say the least | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
from the mainstream political debate. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
He had hoped to be commenting on and criticising the budget | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
which the Conservative and Ukip administration passed yesterday | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
Instead, he is in a position of having to defend one | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
In other news, a manager and the owners of a Cornish pub have | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
been fined following the death of a woman from food poisoning. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
71-year-old Christine Morgan had lunch at the Clock and Key | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
She died on the way to hospital the following night. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
John Danks reports from Truro Crown Court. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Christine Morgan had gone to the Clock and Key pub | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
with her husband and cousin on the 11th of August 2015. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
She ate roast lamb, but soon after, she began to feel unwell. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
The court heard that Mrs Morgan suffered vomiting and diarrhoea. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Her condition worsened, and she died in an ambulance en | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
We were able to secure a quantity of lamb that was served to the party | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
That was then subsequently sent off to Public Health England | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
They isolated a type of food poisoning called Clostridium | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Diane Burrow from Bude who was the pub's kitchen | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
manager at the time, was fined ?750 after pleading | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
guilty to breaching food hygiene regulations. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
The pub owners, Lake Inns and Leisure Limited, | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
was handed down fines and costs totalling more than ?40,000. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
In this case, there were multiple failures, | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
possible failure to cook properly, failure to cool properly, | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Judge Simon Carr said there were systems in place, | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
probably in a brightly-coloured file on a shelf in the kitchen, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Food safety was considered, he said, but not sufficiently emphasised. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
There was simply no supervision and control for food handling. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
We encourage food business operators to always be vigilant. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Whilst that risk exists, we say, when our inspectors come round, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
we're here to help you, we're here to give you advice. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Listen to that advice, act on that advice, and these sorts | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
John Danks, BBC Spotlight, at Truro Crown Court. | :05:30. | :05:41. | |
The red deer of Exmoor are being targeted by | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
organised gangs of poachers. Exmoor National Park says it's | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
concerned by a marked increase in the number of deer being killed, | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
This week, park rangers are conducting a survey of the deer | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Long gone are the days of that romantic notion of a poacher | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
going out and having one for the pot. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
The price of venison has increased, the demand for venison has | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
increased, hence we seem to have these organised gangs coming | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
in and targeting our red deer population. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
A couple who built their own mud house in North Devon have been told | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Kate Burrows says she's allergic to modern life and can't return | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
But the Council says the building is in breach of planning rules. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
You have to look closely, but there are people | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Being plugged into a virtual reality machine, that's not normal life. | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
We're collecting water, we're chopping wood, | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Kate and Alan may be hidden from view, but they are still | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
You can't, of course, just put up a house where you want. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
This is our nest, this is our everything. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
We've sculpted it with our hands from the soil. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
If it is the good life, it doesn't come easy. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
They have to keep on topping up the mud used to build their home. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
But for Kate, it's a much better life than she had before. | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
She goes as far as saying that modern day living | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
I think it was the water and the electricity and the Wi-Fi | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
and the paint on the walls and, you know, a build-up. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
I didn't realise how ill I was until we moved here, | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
There are now many medical conditions, so is this one of them? | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
Can you be intolerant to the modern day? | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Some doctors believe you can, but the NHS doesn't | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
Multiple chemical sensitivity is a condition where the body's | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
immune and detoxification pathways become overloaded. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
We've got people that simply find they have an allergic reaction | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
to bleach and try to avoid perfumes and traffic fumes. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Living in an ordinary house, especially a new build or a house | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
that has just been decorated furnished, it becomes a big problem. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
But it's not the medical landscape which is important here. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
And the local authority says they've got to abide by the law. | :08:16. | :08:31. | |
Kate points to examples in Wales where the One Planet planning laws | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
can allow low impact homes like theirs. | :08:41. | :08:41. | |
Even if we lose everything here, I feel it's really important | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
for people like us to be able to live on their own land | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
sustainably without creating any damage. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
But having lost all their appeals, the couple now have | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Jonathan Morris, BBC Spotlight, River Cross Meadow. | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
There was only one win for our main football teams this evening. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Plymouth Argyle were hoping to end their run of Tuesday evening | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
defeats, but lost 1-0 at home to struggling Notts County. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Exeter returned to winning, with a 2-1 victory away to Crawley. | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
The first win in five games for the Grecians. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
And it was a goaless draw for Yeovil at home to Mansfield. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
In the National League, Torquay's game aginst Solihull Moors | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
Thank you, Claire. Good evening. Meteorologically speaking, this day | :09:31. | :09:42. | |
is the last day of winter. And winter it certainly has been. We | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
have had snow in quite a few places, a dusting over the high ground of | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Dartmoor, and some also in Somerset, where we saw a thick layer briefly | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
this morning. The snow has now moulded, and it is likely less cold | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
air arriving tomorrow, most that falls out of the sky will be rain. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Patchy rain, less windy, a little bit brighter later in the day. The | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
winds increase as we move into tomorrow evening. A couple of | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
weather fronts and a small area of low pressure developing in the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
English Channel tomorrow, bringing us rain. Once the area of low | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
pressure moves away, the winds become quite strong, reaching gale | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
force tomorrow evening, a blustery end to the day and a blustery night | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
tomorrow night and into the early hours of Thursday. There are a few | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
showers around this evening, but they are very afflicted. For many of | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
us it is a dry night, winds continuing to drop, temperatures | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
getting down to just two or three degrees in a few places. Patchy rain | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
moving across the south-west tomorrow morning. Brighter later in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the day. But also becoming windy. Have a good night. Thank you, David. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Spotlight's back in Breakfast from 6:25am. | :10:55. | :10:55. | |
From the late team, have a good night. | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
Good evening. We are about to head into March, the days are getting | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
longer, but are they getting any warmer? Not really. We will get | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
there in the end, but we will have to be patient, not very springlike | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
at the moment. Some showers scattered around across England and | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Wales will tend to diminish in number, a few left behind, wintry | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
showers across the north of Scotland, snow at low-level is, ice | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
as well as temperatures fall close to freezing. A cold night with a | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
touch of frost in a number of places. Plenty of sunshine across | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
southern areas first of all, but it will not last, rain spilling from | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
the south, the best brightness and eventually further north across the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
UK. Mostly | :11:50. | :11:50. |