:00:09. > :00:13.A campaign's been launched in Devon to fight plans for a massive
:00:14. > :00:16.new housing development on green fields.
:00:17. > :00:18.5,000 homes are planned for the Culm Garden Village
:00:19. > :00:24.Campaigners say it'll destroy the character of the area
:00:25. > :00:31.Here's our Business Correspondent, Carys Edwards.
:00:32. > :00:33.Nestled on the edge of the Blackdown Hills,
:00:34. > :00:36.Kentisbeare has been described as a sleepy rural village.
:00:37. > :00:39.But it's now the centre of a fundraising campaign to battle
:00:40. > :00:44.against plans to build 5,000 houses on its doorstep.
:00:45. > :00:48.Some residents believe it will destroy their way of life.
:00:49. > :00:51.It is very much a rural idyll at the moment
:00:52. > :00:56.It is going to be swamped with houses and concrete.
:00:57. > :00:59.It is going to be a building site for 20, 30 years.
:01:00. > :01:01.But that's only the start of the damage.
:01:02. > :01:04.To the communities that are already here.
:01:05. > :01:07.This map shows the location of Kentisbeare as it is now,
:01:08. > :01:13.A Garden Village with 5,000 homes is planned here in an area
:01:14. > :01:19.stretching from close to Kentisbeare right up to the M5 at Cullompton.
:01:20. > :01:24.It will be like any other housing estate, and we are talking
:01:25. > :01:29.We are not talking just a few houses, we are talking 5000 houses.
:01:30. > :01:31.With a minimum of probably 10,000 people.
:01:32. > :01:38.Phase one of this scheme, around junction 28, has now been
:01:39. > :01:40.submitted to the government's planning inspectorate
:01:41. > :01:46.It will include shops, schools and commercial space and 30%
:01:47. > :01:53.Growth will lead to a change in terms of the character,
:01:54. > :01:56.but what we will do, we will take pains to make sure that
:01:57. > :01:59.that is mitigated and quite sensitively approached.
:02:00. > :02:03.And we will look at things like landscaping, green
:02:04. > :02:07.infrastructure, allotments, parkland, there's a variety
:02:08. > :02:10.of different ways that we actually do it.
:02:11. > :02:13.The plans will double the size of Cullompton.
:02:14. > :02:16.But many in the town are in favour of a new community.
:02:17. > :02:23.It's going to expand the town here to a mad size, really.
:02:24. > :02:28.We will be joining up with Tiverton in a minute.
:02:29. > :02:30.I suppose it's better for the economy.
:02:31. > :02:40.But the group RACE, Residents against Cullompton exploitation
:02:41. > :02:45.So far, they've raised ?7,000 and will hire planning experts
:02:46. > :02:49.to persuade the government to reject or at least tone down the plans
:02:50. > :03:00.One of the south west's biggest charities is cutting jobs due
:03:01. > :03:05.The Dame Hannah Rogers Trust, known as Hannah's, has a 250 year
:03:06. > :03:08.history of caring for children and adults with severe disabilities.
:03:09. > :03:13.The charity has bases at Ivybridge and Seale Hayne near Newton Abbott.
:03:14. > :03:19.Hannah's provides training, work, education and care
:03:20. > :03:25.But the charity has run into financial problems.
:03:26. > :03:28.Up to 20 staff, won six of the total, are being made
:03:29. > :03:36.Three of a charity's five trustees are being replaced.
:03:37. > :03:39.We have support now in place for the future.
:03:40. > :03:43.We certainly have been working very closely with our funders,
:03:44. > :03:46.mainly the Co-operative Bank, and they are very much
:03:47. > :03:50.behind the changes we are making to the charity.
:03:51. > :03:56.And I have every reason to expect that we will.
:03:57. > :03:59.About 1,500 disabled people use Hannah's services each year.
:04:00. > :04:10.I was asked for an interview, but also took the opportunity
:04:11. > :04:18.It's about the people who can come here and have a good time.
:04:19. > :04:23.And you can buy things order lunch, and things.
:04:24. > :04:29.Is a place where people can give back.
:04:30. > :04:34.It is important to everybody, but especially when you are disabled.
:04:35. > :04:38.She doesn't want to just be cared for, she wants to be equal
:04:39. > :04:44.Hannah's 250-year history makes it one Briton's oldest charities.
:04:45. > :04:46.Something that has received royal recognition with a visit
:04:47. > :04:52.Hannah's problems stems from its purchase of the Seal Hayne site
:04:53. > :04:59.This turnaround plan was designed to cut costs.
:05:00. > :05:01.And to increase income, and so, to protect the services
:05:02. > :05:06.Its work and commercial events like weddings
:05:07. > :05:10.As the charity strives to extend the legacy
:05:11. > :05:18.of Dame Hannah Rogers into the future.
:05:19. > :05:20.On to other news in the South West tonight.
:05:21. > :05:22.A soldier serving in Plymouth with 2-9 Commando Regiment
:05:23. > :05:25.has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend.
:05:26. > :05:28.Jay Nava stabbed Natasha Wake to death in October
:05:29. > :05:31.while their children slept upstairs at their home in Bournemouth.
:05:32. > :05:38.A public appeal to raise money for a cancer outpatients department
:05:39. > :05:41.at Dorset County Hospital has broken the ?1 million mark.
:05:42. > :05:43.The target's been helped by donations, including ?100,000
:05:44. > :05:59.The England rugby player Luke Cowan Dickie is to go on trial
:06:00. > :06:01.at Exeter Crown Court for alleged speeding offences.
:06:02. > :06:04.The 23-year-old, who plays with Exeter Chiefs, is claimed
:06:05. > :06:07.to have exceeded the speed limit in a Mercedes near Exeter
:06:08. > :06:10.last summer, and to have later failed to declare
:06:11. > :06:18.The longest running Sunday paper in the UK, the Sunday Independent,
:06:19. > :06:20.has ceased production with immediate effect.
:06:21. > :06:24.Up to twenty full time staff will lose their jobs at the Liskeard
:06:25. > :06:30.office and 300 freelance reporters will lose work.
:06:31. > :06:32.Management at the newspaper say they're not giving up hope that
:06:33. > :06:39.an 11th hour investor could come in to save it.
:06:40. > :06:42.A poet from Dorset whose words are turned into operas about major
:06:43. > :06:45.news stories says his local landscape allows his
:06:46. > :06:51.Ben Kaye has his words about hostages, refugees
:06:52. > :06:56.His latest commission is for a piece about the Holocaust.
:06:57. > :07:02.He's been telling us how the South West inspires his work.
:07:03. > :07:06.Light bleaches slow as dying blood and flows remorseless to the ebb.
:07:07. > :07:13.All words are swept aside like weed lost within the sea's caress.
:07:14. > :07:17.Dorset has been my home for a long time and I find it a constant
:07:18. > :07:24.The countryside is such a wonderful place to fire the imagination.
:07:25. > :07:27.You have such open spaces and the open space allows
:07:28. > :07:34.They came in darkness, they came at dawn, they came
:07:35. > :07:41.I always start with a fact and then into those facts you start
:07:42. > :07:45.to weave your own imagination in a way that turns it
:07:46. > :07:50.into a while piece and also hopefully reflects the ultimate
:07:51. > :08:02.I did a piece with John McCarthy about his five-year
:08:03. > :08:13.Another move, another metal coffin in the base of a truck.
:08:14. > :08:27.I did an opera about human trafficking.
:08:28. > :08:33.So I've handled some pretty difficult subjects.
:08:34. > :08:39.The latest project is an opera about the Holocaust,
:08:40. > :08:43.but not just about the Holocaust, but also looking at
:08:44. > :08:52.Most people in the street I guess wouldn't equate a subject
:08:53. > :08:57.like the Holocaust or modern-day extremism or any of these difficult
:08:58. > :09:02.subjects I've covered with something like opera.
:09:03. > :09:05.But the power of the music and the power of the words come together.
:09:06. > :09:17.It's as effective as any in terms of getting across a story.
:09:18. > :09:19.Let's take a look at the weather now.
:09:20. > :09:34.Yes, it has been lovely. The sun is bringing out the leaves on the
:09:35. > :09:38.trees. Tomorrow it's a chilly start. They will be some cloud around but
:09:39. > :09:43.again the sunshine will break through. The reason we have got
:09:44. > :09:47.settled weather is this big day of high pressure and here to stay. It
:09:48. > :09:53.will continue until the end of the week and hold with us as we move
:09:54. > :09:58.into the weekend. A fair amount of clear sky at first tonight but more
:09:59. > :10:01.cloud drifting down from the North and overnight temperatures will dip
:10:02. > :10:07.down to six or 7 degrees. Tomorrow, another fine day. Cloud coming and
:10:08. > :10:17.going through the day but it won't spoil the day. It will be dry with
:10:18. > :10:20.sunny spells are many of us. The end of the week, high pressure is all
:10:21. > :10:25.the rest which means more settled weather. We start the day Friday
:10:26. > :10:29.rather cloudy but quickly the sun will break through. Some warm
:10:30. > :10:33.sunshine in the afternoon taking temperatures to 14 degrees. The
:10:34. > :10:36.temperatures get even higher than that as we head into the weekend
:10:37. > :10:43.because Saturday and Sunday, both these dried, 16 degrees on Saturday
:10:44. > :10:46.and up to the balmy heights of 18 degrees by Sunday.
:10:47. > :10:47.That's how the news and weather's looking tonight.
:10:48. > :10:50.Our next update is in breakfast from 6.25am.
:10:51. > :11:03.or 15. It is sunny towards the weekend and we could see the low 20s
:11:04. > :11:05.by Sunday. Here is Darren with the national weather.