03/04/2017 Spotlight

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An 18-year-old agriculture student has pleaded guilty to two

charges of animal cruelty, after being secretly filmed kicking,

hitting and stamping on a cow and a newborn calf.

Owen Nichol, from Taunton, told a court today he was "absolutely

Sally Challoner's report contains footage of the assault

This is the shocking footage that led to today's court appearance.

In it, Owen Nichol, aged just 18, is seen kicking and hitting a cow,

throwing and stamping on a calf just two days old.

Today, Nichol, who was an apprentice stockman and keeps his own sheep,

pleated guilty to two charges under the Animal Welfare act.

The magistrates were shown the footage in court and a statement

was read out by a specialist vet who said this was the worst example

of abusive behaviour he had seen in a 35 year career.

It happened on this dairy farm in Taunton, filmed on a hidden

camera by the campaign group Animal Equality.

Nichol was sacked straightaway and the farmers now run extra

I've been an inspector 26 years and it sort of hackles

You can talk and say how somebody has been hit,

but to actually see it yourself, there's something sort

of primal about it and, yeah, it's not very nice.

Owen Nichol will be sentenced in three weeks and was told a jail

term and a ban owning livestock was a possibility.

A brand new tanker for the Royal Fleet Auxilliary has

arrived in Falmouth for fitting out work as part of a multi-million

RFA Tidespring and her three sister ships are a new generation of tanker

designed to refuel the UK's new aircraft carriers.

The work at Falmouth will help secure 300 jobs at the shipyard.

Spotlight's David George is there for us tonight.

RFA Tidespring arrived in Falmouth at the weekend after a seven-week,

14,000 mile voyage from the shipyard where she was built in South Korea.

This ship and the other three like her will carry out

refuelling and resupply at sea with the new carrier,

HMS Queen Elizabeth, or any Nato military vessel.

These ships are designed to support those ships at sea so they can carry

greater amounts of aviation fuel and diesel to keep

Refuelling at sea meets big ships moving at speed close to each other,

a difficult and dangerous manoeuvre but the Tidespring

Down below are 17,000 cubic metres of diesel and aviation fuel

and the cargo fuel comes up from the control room,

out through the replenishment rigs and that pumps fuel

The ships were built Daewoo in South Korea in a contract worth

?150 million of that has gone to UK companies who have provided much

What we need to do now is put in specific mission

sensitive equipment, which is the weapons

and communications fit which needs to be done in a UK yard.

It will take about four months to get her into specification

and then we will continue on bringing the ship

This contract valued at ?20 million is good news for the Falmouth Yard

Secures our workforce for a year, but the infrastructure

around the community, hotels, tourism, a great

opportunity to secure economic prosperity for Falmouth

The tankers will arrive in Falmouth for their four-month customisation

one after the other over the next 18 months.

After that, Falmouth hopes to get the contract for the ongoing

maintenance of these ships, which will secure even more jobs.

A court's heard how a six-year-old girl from Weymouth woke her parents

to tell them there was a man in her bed.

It's claimed the intruder sexually assaulted her.

Jervaise Kevin Jones, who's 25, denies sexual assault.

The prosecution told a jury here at Bournemouth Crown Court that

Jervaise Jones broke into a house in Weymouth through a kitchen window

He then went upstairs where he allegedly sexually

assaulted a six-year-old girl who was asleep in bed.

Giving evidence via video link, the girl, who cannot be

identified for legal reasons, said she could not remember some

The jury was told that after the alleged assault,

the girl went into her parents' room and said there was a man

in her bed and she explained to her mother what he had done.

The girl's stepfather then discovered Jervaise Jones

asleep in the girl's bed, naked from the waist down.

The police were called and Jervaise Jones was arrested.

Jervaise Jones has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting

a child and he denies trespassing with intent to commit

The trial is expected to last three days.

There were celebrations today in a number of coastal areas

across the south west as ?15 million in government grants

Ilfracombe's watersports centre will benefit,

as will a new visitor attraction on Portland, and a heritage

Hamish Marshall reports from Cornwall.

It has been a landmark in Looe for centuries,

but the sardine factory is to undergo

Inside, the years and its links with fishing show, but soon this

Part of the scheme is a training restaurant to pass on vital skills.

We have got a number of good restaurants in Looe,

but we have got a distinct lack of training facilities

and we will be working with a local chef who will look to train people,

local people, local children, people at student level

and hopefully they will go on and stay in Cornwall.

?1.1 million of a grant means work can start soon.

The whole project will include a museum, fishing store

and an outward bound centre to give it an all year round use.

One of the quirks of this old building is that its back wall

is actually the rock face and one of the plans is that the climbing

wall as part of the Outward Bound Centre will be made up

History is not a thing of the past in Plymouth.

?2 million has been handed to help turn these plans into reality.

The whole bill for the history centre in North Hill is ?34 million.

Apart from this wonderful view, which changes

This building under St Ives bus station has won the jackpot.

?3.5 million means it can be turned into office accommodation

with a view and a half for small local businesses.

But actually trying to coordinate that in a place where real estate

is very expensive and often disappears from the market almost

before it has come onto the market means that to be able to actually

acquire a property that has got the space and the views

and the potential that this building has got is literally

a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for St Ives.

It is hoped people could be doing business here in little over a year.

Let's get to the weather. David is here. It looks like we have got some

fine weather to look forward to. Our weather for the week ahead has a

little bit of rain tonight and tomorrow, once we get rid of that,

not of dry weather to be had. It is a dry week, it is also Easter

holiday. Patchy rain overnight tonight. There will be some sunshine

for the week ahead. Cloud amounts will come and go. These two weather

systems giving us the rain. They are moving quite fast. They dwell over

parts of Dorset and Somerset first thing tomorrow. But this area of

high pressure will move in, gets closer and closer. This is

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, just gradually moving right over the

centre of England. By the time we get to Saturday and Sunday, we are

drawing up some warm air from Spain and Portugal, so perhaps warming up

also. Rain overnight tonight. It is not completely dry by the morning

because that second system will produce a view showers through the

early hours and we wake up to quite a lot of cloud. Eight or 9 degrees

the minimum temperature. Tomorrow after those first few showers drift

away, it brightens up and the second half of the day looks fine, dry with

some sunshine. Cloud of biggest drop in -- a bit stubborn but for the

rest of us, a fine afternoon. 11 or 12 for most of us. We might get 14

or 15. That is the forecast. It gets warmer towards the end of the week

and it is effectively a dry story. Have a good night. That is it for

the moment. Join us tomorrow morning from 6:25am. From us, good night.

is remaining settled. It will feel fairly warm and dry as well.

Good evening. Some rain spreading in across the Atlantic overnight. As it

does so we will see some fresh Atlantic air following on from

behind. The pollen levels will drop but the temperatures will also drop.

Some rain to go with the cloud. It is moving its way from west to east.

Drying up