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The train journey from Exeter to London's Waterloo | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Hong Kong company MTR and First Group have won | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
the franchise for South West trains and take over in August. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
They're set to invest ?1.2 billion across the network. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The Waterloo line is picturesque but slow. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
The news of this investment, with new and more frequent | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
trains cutting journey times from the south-west to London | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
by up to 15 minutes, has been welcomed by passengers. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
It would mean that we could get up there quicker to go to the theatre, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
which is what we like to do, go there with the children at | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
It would be excellent to give more options for people to travel | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
It's a long journey and there's a lot of stops there, | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
which leaves us all out in the sticks a little bit | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
and I believe, obviously, a direct train between Exeter | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
and London that was a lot faster would be useful for people. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Importantly, the Waterloo line is less vulnerable to flooding. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
It doesn't travel through the Cowley Bridge junction, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
north of Exeter, or the Somerset Levels, both | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
But there is no news of investment at Dawlish where the line has | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
repeatedly been cut by storms or further in to Devon and Cornwall. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
We need to have a second reliable, resilient rail network | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
here in the south-west and whilst this is definitely a positive move, | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
it is not something we should be taking focus of. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
We need to continue with the efforts of the south-west campaign, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the peninsular task force and keep very much the government's feet | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
The new franchise for the Waterloo line has been won by First Group. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
They also run trains on the Paddington line, | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
leading some to raise concerns about a lack of competition. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
The new service will begin operating from here to Waterloo in August. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
In the next few months, the government are due | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
to announce their proposals regarding what to do | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Interesting and important times are ahead for | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
While passengers in Devon and the east of the region might | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
welcome today's rail announcement, there's little, if any benefit | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
for those travelling by train from Cornwall. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Passengers in the county have been promised faster journey times | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
on the mainline to Paddington, but that's still some time off. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
John Ayres has been gauging reaction. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Rail passengers here, like fare payers right | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
across the country, want to feel like they are being treated equally. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Here in Penzance, it can feel like the nation's capital is a very | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Any rail investment will be welcomed by passengers, but Cornwall | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Penzance via Exeter via Tiverton Parkway and up | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
to Paddington is definitely the route that needs | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
I suppose if that part becomes very fast, I would probably go to Exeter | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
It is much more economical and better for me to go | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
The problem with rail travel in Cornwall is how long it | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
It is about 180 miles from London Paddington to Exeter. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
The fastest train does it in just two hours, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
that's an average speed of 90 mph, but then from Exeter | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
to Penzance it's 120 miles and that takes three hours, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
so the average speed has more than halved. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
What we need to do is get a time in the morning | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
where a train goes from Truro, St Austell, Exeter and on to London, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
that will stop all those stops, so a real commuter line if you like, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
for business people travelling up to London and one on the way | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
That will open up Cornwall to business in the | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
The investment this time is private money from the franchise operators. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
The Transport Minister, Paul Maynard, says this announcement | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
is about the South Western trains franchise and rail passengers | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
in Cornwall will see improvements to rolling stock by the end | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
NHS managers in Devon involved in controversial proposed cuts | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
to the health service are being subjected to unacceptable | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
levels of abuse, according to one local health commisioning group. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Whilst there's no suggestion of any wrongdoing, the new Devon CCG claims | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
senior staff have been verbally abused at some public | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
meetings and in the street, and says some online comments use | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
language that is physically threatening. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
We are seeing online postings of threatening and abusive behaviour, | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
staff are experiencing abusive and threatening behaviour at public | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
meetings and much more worryingly, staff are being verbally abused when | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
they are going about their business, when they are not on work time and | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
that is wholly inappropriate. Now a brief roundup of other stories | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
making the news tonight. The case of a young mother | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
who was killed by a speeding driver in a head-on crash near Bodmin, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
was heard at Truro Sabrina Bellman, who was on holiday | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
from Hampshire, was on her way home from a Christmas pantomime | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
with her family when 31-year-old Daniel Smith from St Teath hit them | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
on Boxing Day in 2015. He's admitted causing death | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
by careless driving, The trial began today of a Plymouth | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
soldier accused of stabbing 26-year-old Jay Nava | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
of the Royal Citadel is charged with murdering 26-year-old | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Natasha Wake in Winchester Crown Court heard Natasha | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
was stabbed after she discovered he was being investigated | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
for a sexual offence. Four small banks in Devon | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
are closing this week because they say they're getting | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
fewer customers through the door Lloyds is shutting its branches | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
in Dartmouth, Salcombe, It's starting a new mobile service | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
in the areas affected. Work starts tonight on a ?250,000 | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
scheme to install average speed cameras on the A38 and A380 | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
at Splatford Split, near Exeter. Highways England says the cameras | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
along a two and a half mile stretch of the eastbound carriageway | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
will improve safety. They're famous for building dams | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
and now it's claimed beavers could be the answer | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
to our flooding problems. A six-year trial at a secret | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
location in Devon has Our environment correspondent | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Adrian Campbell has been The return of beavers | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
to the River Otter in East Devon has But in another part of Devon, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
at a secret location sealed off by electric fencing, | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
another group of beavers The results of their hard work over | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
the past six years can There has been a dramatic change | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in the landscape where they have been living and working, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
with the creation of This is one of 13 dams along a 200 | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
metre stretch of this watercourse and you can see there is evidence | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
of recent activity When you look closely you can | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
see how big and deep Researchers from the University | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
of Exeter have been monitoring the way the beavers have | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
changed the watercourse. The black lines represent | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
the new dams and the areas of blue are new pools which all slow down | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
the flow of water. You can see the dam that runs | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
along the face there. Mark Elliott says this project has | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
shown how beavers can provide When water surges at the top | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
of a site during a flood, those ponds and the dams hold | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
the water back and it comes out here much slower as the dams | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
are slowing the flow of flood water It can only help to reduce the speed | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
of flood water coming down into the communities that live | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
in the lower parts of the catchment, The University of Exeter's | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
data shows flooding can The chopping down of trees | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and building of dams seems to work. Conservationists are keen | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
to persuade politicians that areas of flooding might benefit from this | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
type of natural engineering. Time to take a look at the weather. | :08:36. | :08:51. | |
We have had some gorgeous weather, David. We have had temperatures | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
today, 16, 17 degrees. Will that last? Probably, but not necessarily | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
dry with sunshine. A change perhaps to more unsettled weather and we are | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
expecting to see some showers tomorrow. Some sunny spells during | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the course of the week and right at the end, it turns colder. One | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
weather front coming in by the end of the night. It will produce a | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
fuchsia was. It brushes past us on its way northwards. What follows is | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
more persistent rain which will be around tomorrow evening and | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Wednesday. Thursday we draw up some warmth from Spain and Portugal so | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
temperatures slightly higher by Thursday. Higher temperatures | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
through western France crossing the Channel towards us and we could be | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
up to 16, 17 degrees. A weather front will move through on Friday | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
introducing colder air. It is not particularly warm tonight. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Temperatures not as low as last night but certainly five or 6 | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
degrees in a few places. Showers will trick trickle across northern | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
parts of Devon into South Wales and what replaces that is brighter skies | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
for a time. 14, 15 the top temperature. More persistent rain to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
end the day. The same weather system will be with us on Wednesday, so | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
they could be a rather cloudy day with patchy rain around. Some warmth | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
and brighter weather on Thursday and then that fresher, cold air arriving | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
by the end of the week. Have a good night. The breakfast bulletins | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
stopped just before 6:30am tomorrow morning. Goodbye. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
showery on Saturday, dry and brighter on Sunday and if we go back | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
to the temperatures in the next couple days, you see those highs on | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Thursday. He is John Hammond with the national | :11:02. | :11:17. | |
this cyclone Debbie crashes onto the Queensland coast with | :11:18. | :11:18. |