:00:00. > :00:12.very much again at the Emirates Stadium. Natalie Perks.
:00:13. > :00:16.More than 140,000 people have signed a petition started by a Devon man
:00:17. > :00:19.calling for changes to the way mortgages are approved.
:00:20. > :00:22.Self-employed roofer Jamie Pogson wants mortgage lenders to make
:00:23. > :00:25.payment of rent count as proof an individual can meet
:00:26. > :00:30.The number of people supporting his call means it
:00:31. > :00:35.John Henderson has been to meet him.
:00:36. > :00:39.The kitchen, even a toy one, is the heart of any home.
:00:40. > :00:44.But getting on the property ladder is frighteningly expensive.
:00:45. > :00:47.After ten years, Jamie Podson is a fully paid-up member
:00:48. > :00:52.I've averaged it out for about ?450 a month.
:00:53. > :00:55.Because I've been in sort of smaller houses, big houses.
:00:56. > :00:59.But I've averaged it out over ?450 a month.
:01:00. > :01:02.It's working around the sort of 80 grand region.
:01:03. > :01:06.So it's quite a lot of money to sort of throw away and I could be halfway
:01:07. > :01:10.But soon, Jamie's quest for home ownership will come here,
:01:11. > :01:17.The Plymouth roofer started this petition, making paying rent enough
:01:18. > :01:20.proof that you are able to meet mortgage payments.
:01:21. > :01:23.It's received over 130,000 signatures, meaning it will have
:01:24. > :01:29.If the law does change, then a lot of people will be able
:01:30. > :01:40.Because I know people who pay their rent on time but they can't
:01:41. > :01:44.But whether the debate will actually change anything is a moot point.
:01:45. > :01:46.Banks and building societies tightened up mortgage applications
:01:47. > :01:50.In a statement, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says that
:01:51. > :01:52.while regular payment of rent may be a helpful indicator,
:01:53. > :01:58.it cannot be used in isolation as a landing risk assessment.
:01:59. > :02:00.Other factors include the size of deposit,
:02:01. > :02:02.the valuation and condition of the property, the borrower's
:02:03. > :02:05.employment record, the reliability of their income and their credit
:02:06. > :02:13.record and given that the average house price in the UK is over
:02:14. > :02:16.?200,000, some say that cautious approach is on the money.
:02:17. > :02:20.Nobody has a right to be given a mortgage.
:02:21. > :02:24.You may have a basis upon which to complain about
:02:25. > :02:28.the reasons which were refused, but you're not enforcing a right
:02:29. > :02:30.by groaning about the fact that you weren't lent money.
:02:31. > :02:33.So now, Jamie will have to sit it out in his rented home,
:02:34. > :03:06.Johnny Morris, a Labour councillor major Nazi salute after conservative
:03:07. > :03:08.members voted to end the debate. Tonight, Mr Morris to apologise
:03:09. > :03:09.unreservedly, confirmed he'd been suspended from the Labour group for
:03:10. > :03:11.suspended from the Labour group for three months.
:03:12. > :03:13.The Isles of Scilly Council has agreed measures
:03:14. > :03:15.to tackle a financial shortfall revealed today.
:03:16. > :03:17.At a meeting, ?600,000 of savings were outlined.
:03:18. > :03:20.Council tax will be increased by just under 5%, but the budget
:03:21. > :03:22.for next year will still carry a deficit.
:03:23. > :03:25.I think most councils in the country would be champing at the bit
:03:26. > :03:29.to get a ?309,000 deficit, however, the cap is obviously
:03:30. > :03:33.greater than that but this is what we've got to do.
:03:34. > :03:35.A lot of decisions have got to be made and sadly,
:03:36. > :03:38.we're the ones who've got to make them.
:03:39. > :03:40.I don't think for any councils anywhere in the country this
:03:41. > :03:45.Our Political Editor Martyn Oates is at Westminster and has been
:03:46. > :03:49.speaking to the MP for the Isles of Scilly.
:03:50. > :03:52.We hear a lot about the worsening financial problems facing rural
:03:53. > :03:56.Derek Thomas, the St Ives MP, whose constituency includes
:03:57. > :04:01.the Isles of Scilly, says the council of the Isles
:04:02. > :04:03.of Scilly faces all of those challenges and many more thanks
:04:04. > :04:05.to its geography and its small population.
:04:06. > :04:08.But it's worth remembering that most of the rural councils who say
:04:09. > :04:12.they're in really dire straits tend to be district councils,
:04:13. > :04:15.so with relatively limited responsibilities.
:04:16. > :04:18.The council of the Isles of Scilly, though, is a unitary authority,
:04:19. > :04:21.with all the extra duties and responsibilities that come
:04:22. > :04:28.In the past, there have been debates and disagreement as to whether even
:04:29. > :04:32.somewhere the size of Torbay with a population of more
:04:33. > :04:36.than 130,000 is really big enough to be viable as a unitary.
:04:37. > :04:39.The council of the Isles of Scilly, though, is a long-standing unitary,
:04:40. > :04:41.though with a population of just over 2,000 people.
:04:42. > :04:46.When I go over there, I'm conscious that nearly
:04:47. > :04:49.Everything I see, touch, or feel, or use is
:04:50. > :04:55.And the case we've been making to the government is just that,
:04:56. > :04:57.that they have significant responsibility that other
:04:58. > :05:04.They have a real challenge to meet those, and the government needs
:05:05. > :05:07.to recognise those as slightly different to maybe Cornwall Council,
:05:08. > :05:10.What the council needs the government and I need
:05:11. > :05:14.the government to do is to move much more quickly and to recognise that
:05:15. > :05:16.while it's a small community, their needs are urgent
:05:17. > :05:18.and they are pressing and they must be resolved quickly.
:05:19. > :05:25.Mr Thomas has raised this issue in the comments and privately
:05:26. > :05:27.Mr Thomas has raised this issue in the Commons and privately
:05:28. > :05:29.with the Community Secretary Sajid Javid.
:05:30. > :05:32.He said Mr Javid accepts that the Scillies is a special case.
:05:33. > :05:34.And he says that officials from Mr Javid's department have been
:05:35. > :05:36.in the Scillies over the past fortnight.
:05:37. > :05:40.He said he is hopeful the government will come up with some kind of plan
:05:41. > :05:42.to provide extra assistance to the Scillies before the end
:05:43. > :05:51.But that is, of course, is just a few weeks away.
:05:52. > :05:55.Contaminated silt dredged from Devonport Dockyard will be
:05:56. > :05:59.dumped further out to sea instead of close to shore at Whitsand Bay
:06:00. > :06:04.Silt waste, which potentially carries zinc, mercury and lead,
:06:05. > :06:07.will be dumped at a site known as Plymouth Deep.
:06:08. > :06:09.Fishermen say they fear it'll affect their livelihoods
:06:10. > :06:13.but environmental campaigners are pleased.
:06:14. > :06:17.Today is a great day, because we set out to try to get
:06:18. > :06:19.the dumping in the bay stopped, and that's exactly what's been
:06:20. > :06:22.happening now with the designation of a new dump site.
:06:23. > :06:28.If it has to go in the water, surely taking it further out
:06:29. > :06:30.Flybe wants to increase the number of women working
:06:31. > :06:34.Currently only 10% of the workforce at the Exeter-based airline
:06:35. > :06:41.The company has been talking to local schoolchildren in a bid
:06:42. > :06:43.to get more girls to consider it as a career.
:06:44. > :06:50.Now, if you want to do it, I'm sure you will do it very well.
:06:51. > :06:53.I see you have a uniform on the aircraft.
:06:54. > :07:01.The Flybe new Chief Executive, began her career as an
:07:02. > :07:04.aviation engineer before working her way up.
:07:05. > :07:06.Today, she's meeting pupils from nearby Cranbrook high school,
:07:07. > :07:13.keen to encourage more girls into this traditionally male profession.
:07:14. > :07:19.We are supporting diversity in the workforce, to create
:07:20. > :07:27.Today, 31% of our workforce is female, but we are
:07:28. > :07:31.still only 10% of female pilots or female engineers and we're
:07:32. > :07:33.trying to do everything to push that further.
:07:34. > :07:35.Charlotte grew up in Exmouth and recently completed
:07:36. > :07:45.I've always been mechanically minded and from a young
:07:46. > :07:48.age, working on some sort of machinery or engines or anything,
:07:49. > :07:51.it's been a passion of mine and
:07:52. > :07:54.that's what I've wanted to do, so I thought, why not start
:07:55. > :07:58.There was a time when women working in the aviation
:07:59. > :08:05.industry could only hope to beat cabin crew but that is now changing
:08:06. > :08:08.Emma and Charlotte are just some of the women working there at Flybe's
:08:09. > :08:12.They are still a relative minority but the company says they are hoping
:08:13. > :08:15.These are some of Flybe's current engineering apprentices.
:08:16. > :08:24.There are currently seven girls out of the 109 on the
:08:25. > :08:26.There are currently seven girls out of the 409 on the
:08:27. > :08:30.So this top set of rivets here, at the counter sinks.
:08:31. > :08:32.So has today's physics inspired tomorrow's workers?
:08:33. > :08:34.I found it really interesting and exciting and
:08:35. > :08:37.I think that when I'm older, I think that being a pilot would be
:08:38. > :08:40.There are now more job opportunities for
:08:41. > :08:46.Tomorrow, to mark International women's Day, Flybe is
:08:47. > :08:50.It's newsworthy now, but the hope is that
:08:51. > :09:03.Onto Football now and Plymouth Argyle were unable to stop their run
:09:04. > :09:05.of Tuesday night match defeats - that's despite changing
:09:06. > :09:08.to an all-white kit in the hope the players would be more
:09:09. > :09:12.They lost 3-0 at home to Blackpool, their third
:09:13. > :09:16.Time now to take a look at the weather and David's
:09:17. > :09:35.If you're living high up, you know how misty and murky. Hill for is
:09:36. > :09:37.becoming extensive. Tomorrow, damp and misty but at
:09:38. > :09:58.least it's mild and temperatures are on the rise. A weather friends
:09:59. > :10:01.across as tomorrow, quite a breezy day so we end up with a fairly
:10:02. > :10:03.miserable day, outbreaks of rain, windy conditions, less windy,
:10:04. > :10:05.brighter on Thursday, same sort of thing on Friday with winds from the
:10:06. > :10:08.south. Hopefully a few breaks in the low cloud. But we have an extensive
:10:09. > :10:11.this sheet of clouds tonight. Behind it, plenty of drizzle or light rain
:10:12. > :10:23.in the wind, blustery winds from the south-west and as I
:10:24. > :10:27.mentioned, a lot of low clouds, both the risk of coastal land hill fog
:10:28. > :10:29.and temperatures no lower than between 27-10d. Tomorrow morning,
:10:30. > :10:37.damp start, not much chance brightness tomorrow. Grey, overcast,
:10:38. > :10:40.rain off and on. Thursday a little bit brighter, most of the rain down
:10:41. > :10:43.here in the south, southern parts of Cornwall, south of Devon, North
:10:44. > :10:45.Somerset, parts of Dorset, late sunshine and it stays mild into
:10:46. > :10:48.Andy Breare will be back just before 6.30am tomorrow morning
:10:49. > :10:50.with the latest news from around the South West.
:10:51. > :10:52.But from everyone here on the Spotlight late
:10:53. > :11:08.rain on Saturday. The national picture now from Nick Miller.
:11:09. > :11:13.It looks like next week high pressure will become a player again
:11:14. > :11:17.in our weather, settling things down for some of us for a time but until
:11:18. > :11:22.then it is low-pressure, rain moving across the UK overnight but not wet
:11:23. > :11:26.all the time. Many of us at a fine day today, this was at you from West
:11:27. > :11:29.Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern England and Northern Ireland will
:11:30. > :11:35.farewell tomorrow, after this frontal system has pushed on through
:11:36. > :11:37.the UK with rain. But as it does, it introduces milder air so for the
:11:38. > :11:39.rest of the week we