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South West MPs have been describing their shock | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
after being caught up in today's terror incident at Westminster. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Some were in Parliament at the time while others were in nearby offices. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Our political editor, Martyn Oates, was at Westminster | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
as events unfolded just yards from where the attack took place. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
I was filming on the green outside the Palace of Westminster - | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
that'll be very familiar to viewers, it's where a lot of the broadcasting | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
from Westminster comes from - just a few minutes before people | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
started shouting and running down the street away | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
from Westminster Bridge and New Palace Yard, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
that's the end of the complex where these incidents took place. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
I got back here into the building at BBC Westminster - | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
and it's also where ITV and sky and the other broadcasters | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
have their bases - and, from that point on, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
people were largely restricted to the places they were in when this | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
incident took place - so, obviously, the Houses | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
A number of people also taken to safe places nearby, | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
I'm told 1,000 people, in fact, were held in Westminster Abbey, | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
including the Cornish Lib Dem peer Lord Tyler. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
You've been speaking to some of our MPs. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Well, a lot of our MPs have offices which overlook Westminster Bridge. | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
I spoke to the researcher of one South West MP who witnessed | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
the events involving the car on the bridge, and she said | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
she was too upset to describe what she'd seen. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
I also spoke to the St Austell and Newquay MP, Steve Double, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
another MP who's got an office overlooking the bridge. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
He said he'd heard the splash of the person falling | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
into the Thames and also heard the gunshots and was then told that | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
Now, people were released from here relatively early. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
I'm told the MPs and the peers were held much longer | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
because many of them are potentially witnesses to this event, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
so the police will want to be clear as to what they know. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
And tonight, Martyn, what's the mood like generally in the area? | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Shock, obviously sorrow at the fatalities that we know | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
about already, great admiration for the police and | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
I suspect, though, questions will be asked quite quickly as to how | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
it was possible for a terrorist to actually get inside | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
I go through this security every week. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
And I think it will be quite surprising that somebody | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Martyn Oates in Westminster, thank you. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
A number of armed police are in Barnstaple tonight. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police say they're dealing with an ongoing | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
incident in the Bear Street area of the town. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Cordons are in place but officers stress there | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
A teenager from Liverpool has been remanded in custody after appearing | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
before Exeter Crown Court, accused of murder. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
The body of Jonathan Povey was found at a flat in Bridge Court | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
19-year-old Delton Jones is charged with killing the 47-year-old, | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Poor mobile phone signals are still leaving too many rural | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
people in the Dark Ages, according to the Conservative MP | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
Neil Parish says the South West has some of the worst mobile | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Tamsin Melville has been to a mobile not-spot in Cornwall. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Our beautiful South West - known for its coastline, | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
scenery, food and drink, oh, and something else. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Here at Porthtowan on Cornwall's north coast, like many | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
of the regions not-spots, it's a case of seeking out a patchy | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
When there were plans for a phone mast here a few years ago, | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
some of the community didn't want it and the application was withdrawn. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
I think people quite like the fact they can sometimes come down | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
and switch off and not be bombarded by phone calls. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
I mean, obviously, we have Wi-Fi that's fully available, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
but I think, in the main, people quite like the relaxation. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
But for those running businesses, out and about and reliant | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
on their mobiles, it can be a different story. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
If other people come to ring me and I've got my phone on me, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Anything incoming, they're just not going to get a signal to ring me, | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
Devon MP Neil Parish wants more done to help businesses | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
and individuals like constituent John Tuck from Membury. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Registered blind, he's unhappy he can't have a smart meter | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
because it relies on a mobile signal to send meter readings | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
The signal is inadequate to be able to even basic | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
The former Prime Minister, David Cameron, has spoken | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of his struggle with a poor mobile phone signal when he regularly | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
holidayed up the coast from here in Cornwall. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
And the government says it understands the frustrations, | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
which is why it's made it a legal requirement for the mobile phone | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
network operators to provide at least 90% of the UK with voice | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
coverage by the end of this year and says there'll be | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
The trade association representing UK mobile operators says ?2 billion | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
is being invested by companies to reach this target and also says | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
rural areas will always present infrastructure providers with unique | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
circumstances, such as challenging topography and sparse population. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
Ministers say they're also making it easier to roll out new mobile | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
infrastructure to tackle not-spots and deliver the connectivity | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
people need, wherever they are in the country. | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Wildlife experts are monitoring a whale for the next 24 hours | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
after it was freed from fishing gear off the south Devon coast. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Coastguard teams and conservationists worked to untangle | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
the humpback after fishermen reported they'd seen its tail | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
was trapped in lobster pot ropes near to Blackpool Sands. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
It's been in Start Bay for more than three weeks. | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
She was trying to avoid us at first but, after a while, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
as she was getting tired, I think she sort of seemed | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
to realise that we were there to try and help. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
So we were trying to haul the rope up on board the fishing boat | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and also with the help of the RNLI crew as well, and we were able | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
to get it high enough up out of the water, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
They're big animals, really powerful, and you just have | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
to respect that and be so careful around them. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
If she suddenly spooked or startled, she could easily have | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
overturned the boat, people could have been in the water, | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
it could have all ended in tears, so absolutely the right thing | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
to report it to the people who can help. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
The coxswains of two Cornish lifeboats have been talking | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
about the unique operation to tow a stricken freighter to safety. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
The Penlee and the Sennen Cove lifeboats pulled the ship to safety. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
David George has been to meet the two coxswains. | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
The 88-metre freighter Lady Alida, with seven crew on board, | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
had lost power and was being blown onto rocky Gwennap Head off | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
In the early hours, the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats were sent | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
to the scene to tow her to safety - the first time the two boats had | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
It wasn't easy with the weather conditions as well but it worked. | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
We did what we had to do, we stopped the boat | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Many hours later, the crews were at the Penlee lifeboat station | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
when they were called to the ship a second time because she was | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
I don't think we had more than a couple of sips of our tea | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
and we were asked to go again, she was dragging anchor | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
and travelling at a knot towards the land. | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
The 3,600-tonne ship is more than 60 times heavier than the lifeboats. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Both of the lifeboats are equipped with these huge diesel engines | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
The combined power is 2,500 horsepower. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
So they've got plenty of pull, even to toe a big ship, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
a 3,000-tonne ship like the Lady Alida, but power alone | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
The biggest issue for us was keeping the lifeboats in the right place | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
without hitting each other, so the boys on the deck | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
had a lot of work to do and they did a really good job. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
This might have been a job for a coastguard emergency tug, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
which were stationed around the UK coast until they were | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
With the removal of the constant presence of the tugs, | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
we've known that, eventually, we would get involved | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
It's given us a lot of confidence that, if the same happened again, | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
we could at least keep a ship in a position and hopefully prevent | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
The ship is alongside in Falmouth docks, waiting for repair. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Time for the weather now. Here's David with all the details. | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
It has been less rough at sea today, the winds had been much lighter. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
They pick up again tomorrow though and tomorrow, and on Saturday. Early | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
brightness but rain will move westward starting across Dorset and | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Somerset and heading towards Cornwall. It will also become windy. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
All around this area of low pressure which will move away from us by the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
time we get to the weekend. High pressure for both Saturday and | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Sunday. The biggest problem we have got overnight is a lot of clear sky, | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
very little wind and pretty cold. Temperatures down to one or 2 | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
degrees above freezing. A good chance we will see frost overnight | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
and mist and fog. Fairly low temperatures, just one or 2 degrees | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
above freezing. That gives us the risk of ice on untreated roads and | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
pavements. Patchy rain moving across us join the course of the morning, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
brightness in between and showers will follow. A freshening | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
north-easterly wind developing with nine or 10 degrees the maximum | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
temperature. Tomorrow we celebrate world meteorological day and the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
theme this year is clouds. I will show you some of the pictures that | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
have been sent in. Settled weather to look forward to into the weekend. | :10:44. | :10:50. |