Browse content similar to 29/03/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
It's just over nine months since the South West | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
In the biggest political decision in a generation, | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
nearly 53% of people here supported Brexit. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
In a moment we'll hear from some of those who'd hoped | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
But first, our reporter Tamsin Melville has been speaking | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
to people in West Cornwall, where the majority of | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
And I wanted to start a support group to protest | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
against European Union in the form of the Maastricht Treaty. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
This Penzance-based campaigner has got a file full of clippings | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
and letters detailing his opposition to the EU since the '70s. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
A founding member of Ukip in the '90s, June 23rd was something | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
With history now in the making, for him, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
It is a self-governing nation, electing our MPs, | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
who pass laws over us, governing ourselves through our own | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
courts and making our own decisions, with the MPs being responsible | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
He grew up with EU regulations and 25-year-old Newlyn fisherman | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
James Roberts was an enthusiastic Leave campaigner, unhappy | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
about quota management and access to fishing grounds. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
What we are hoping to come of leaving the EU is for this to be | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Fast forward nine months and he is anxious that Brexit does | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
now deliver on things like a 12-mile British waters limit and | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
If it doesn't, if they don't secure what we have now, | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
if they don't secure what we should be managing, you know, the 200-mile | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
It has taken this long to get to a point to have this chance | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
and I can't see it happening again, probably not my lifetime. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Cornwall's voters plumped 57-43% for Leave, despite the decades | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
The constituency of St Austell and Newquay had the highest | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
proportion of Out voters in the county. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
It seems immigration control will be a key test of Brexit success here. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
No regrets? No. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
The sooner they do it, the better. Yeah. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
We need to shut our borders off as well. | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
No, it's true, though. Yeah. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
The hospitals is on its knees because of it all, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
So do you think the UK Government is going to get what you wanted? | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
They'd better, otherwise there'll be hell up, won't there? | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Some doubts but still hope as it is into uncharted waters | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
The South Hams was one of a handful of places to vote to remain. | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
And this affiliation with Europe goes back to 1973, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
when Britain joined the Common Market. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Anna Varle has been back to Ivybridge, which featured | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
in a special film at the time, all about its relationship | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
The year we began to move closer to Europe. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
From the cars we drove to the shops on the high street, | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Here in Ivybridge, the bunting was out. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
How else do you welcome in a new era? | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
And our cameras were there as Europe rolled into town. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
As part of the film, we featured a family who hosted | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
More than 40 years on, we are back at the breakfast table | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Coming out, I am very sad to come out. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
But it isn't the same club that we joined. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
You have got to believe that, haven't you? | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
The village as it was then were so keen on joining, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
it was one of the only places in the country to hold | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Fashions may change, but for many, attitudes have remained the same. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
They believed in Europe and still do. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
And I think it's very sad what has happened. | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
They were so excited about joining the Common Market, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
But then, as now, there was uncertainty. | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
The man who organised those celebrations was Mr Condon. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
I think that we haven't had it fully explained to us. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
They are talking now, we are going to even lose the Queen. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
Someone suggested she should become the Queen of Europe. | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
Well, perhaps this might be possible, I don't know. | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
And today, there is a sense of deja vu. | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
We don't know what it means for our personal lives. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
We don't know what it means for our business lives, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
and, you know, I think everybody would like some clarity, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
so it is difficult to celebrate when you don't know what you might | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
I am sure we will look back and perhaps not in my time but in 20 | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
or 30 years' time we will look back and say this is one of the greatest | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
# Now we're in the Common Market, # All these things will come our way | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
# But judging by the prices, # You will hear the folk all say...# | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Our political editor Martyn Oates has been at Westminster today, | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
In her statement to the Commons today, the Prime Minister said | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
she hoped the UK would have a deep and special relationship | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
with the EU post-Brexit, and she hoped the UK would be able | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
to trade with the EU as freely as possible. | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
Just how freely will be a topic of intense interest for business | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
and, in a region like ours, for farmers and fishermen. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
The Newton Abbott MP and keen Brexiteer Anne Marie Morris told me | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
today she backed the government's ambition to have as good a trading | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
arrangement with the EU as we do the moment inside the organisation. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Labour's Ben Bradshaw agreed that was needed but doubts | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
the government's ability to deliver it. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Meanwhile, the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has made | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
it clear that the government cannot expect to have as good | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
a trading deal outside the EU as it does inside it. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Now of course, the real haggling and horse trading is yet to begin, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
but when it does, people involved in sectors like farming | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
and particularly very small industries like fishing will be very | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
anxious that they don't end up being sidelined or even sacrificed | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
in favour of securing a really good outcome for the big players | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
like the financial sector in the City of London. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
In other news tonight, rising costs have forced changes to a major | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
The Devon Festival of Remembrance has been held for 25 years. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
But it'll be replaced by a concert at a smaller venue | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
It is one of the most high-profile ways that Devon marks | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
the sacrifices of those who gave their lives in combat. | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
But there will be no Royal British Legion Devon Festival | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
The band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines is a big | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
attraction at the festival, but it comes at a cost, ?1800, | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
as the Ministry of Defence charges organisations including the Legion | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
It says that is according to Government policy, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
but it contributed to the festival making a loss. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
?1800 is a lot of money, especially for remembrance. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
If it was for a flower show or for a county show | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
or something like that, I could understand. | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
It is really not in line with the idea of remembrance. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Another big cost is the near-?3000 to hire Exeter Cathedral. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
The cathedral, which has its own well-publicised financial issues, | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
told us it works very hard to keep costs for concerts and other events | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
But staffing and other costs involved in keeping the building | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
open beyond its normal opening hours do have to be covered. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
So in November, this smaller venue will host a lower budget concert, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
focusing on youngsters, who the Legion sees as key | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
The young people of this country are the people | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
who are going to continue, and we looking forward | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
to a terrific concert with lots of participation of children. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
And the hope is to reinstate the larger-scale festival in 2018, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
to mark the centenary of the end of the Great War. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Hamish Marshall, BBC Spotlight, Exeter. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
The traditional practice of swaling on Dartmoor has | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
been delayed this year because of the persistent | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
At Haytor, the legally-controlled burning has only just begun, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Commoners on Dartmoor, Exmoor and Bodmin Moor have | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
from October until the end of March to burn overgrown gorse, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
but have had to rely on these last few sunny days to get the job done. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Time now for the all-important weather - are we getting | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
There is still some in the forecast for the UK but dry and bright | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
weather to be had as well, thankfully. A mixture of the two | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
tomorrow after quite a disappointing day today. Tomorrow is slightly | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
warmer, still quite breezy. Spells of rain in the West but mainly in | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
the West. Elsewhere, dry and hopefully a bit brighter. Low | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
pressure dominating in the Atlantic, high pressure across France. It is | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
tending to keep the front at bay. This is today and this is tomorrow. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Not a great deal of change in the pressure pattern but the slightly | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
more southerly wind which had helped to draw in some slightly drier and | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
warmer air tomorrow. Into Friday, the fog will have pushed through so | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
fresh conditions to end the week. Tonight, spells of rain around, some | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
quite lively. Quite blustery wind as well and cloud syncing dam, giving | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
hill fog tonight but it is mild, with temperatures easily staying in | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
double figures. Tomorrow morning starts a bit wet but with the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
southerly wind, it helps to draw the front a bit further westwards. In | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the far West, a bit of a disappointing day with spells of | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
rain, quite lively and brisk wind as well but a bit further east, it | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
should be drier brighter. Certain amounts of medium and high level | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
cloud around but hopefully fairly warm despite the breeze. A few | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
showers into Friday, quite a number on Saturday, some sunshine away from | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
them, though, and dryer on Sunday. That's how the news | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
and weather's looking tonight. The breakfast team will | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
be back from 6:25am, far. The outlook for the next few | :10:52. | :11:06. | |
days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. Quite | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
wet in Pembrokeshire for much of the day. More rain overnight tonight, | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
some rain and drizzle in northern and western areas. Wetter weather | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
moving northwards across Scotland. Some rain in the south-west, | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
shuffling towards the Midlands. Overnight, a lot of cloud around. It | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
is going to be very mild indeed for the time of year, 11-12 in many | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
parts of the country. This is an sunshine beginning to creep into the | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
south-east early in the | :11:59. | :11:59. |