05/04/2017 Spotlight


05/04/2017

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A campaign's been launched in Devon to fight plans for a massive

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new housing development on green fields.

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5,000 homes are planned for the Culm Garden Village

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Campaigners say it'll destroy the character of the area

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Here's our Business Correspondent, Carys Edwards.

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Nestled on the edge of the Blackdown Hills,

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Kentisbeare has been described as a sleepy rural village.

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But it's now the centre of a fundraising campaign to battle

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against plans to build 5,000 houses on its doorstep.

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Some residents believe it will destroy their way of life.

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It is very much a rural idyll at the moment

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It is going to be swamped with houses and concrete.

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It is going to be a building site for 20, 30 years.

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But that's only the start of the damage.

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To the communities that are already here.

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This map shows the location of Kentisbeare as it is now,

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A Garden Village with 5,000 homes is planned here in an area

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stretching from close to Kentisbeare right up to the M5 at Cullompton.

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It will be like any other housing estate, and we are talking

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We are not talking just a few houses, we are talking 5000 houses.

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With a minimum of probably 10,000 people.

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Phase one of this scheme, around junction 28, has now been

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submitted to the government's planning inspectorate

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It will include shops, schools and commercial space and 30%

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Growth will lead to a change in terms of the character,

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but what we will do, we will take pains to make sure that

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that is mitigated and quite sensitively approached.

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And we will look at things like landscaping, green

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infrastructure, allotments, parkland, there's a variety

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of different ways that we actually do it.

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The plans will double the size of Cullompton.

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But many in the town are in favour of a new community.

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It's going to expand the town here to a mad size, really.

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We will be joining up with Tiverton in a minute.

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I suppose it's better for the economy.

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But the group RACE, Residents against Cullompton exploitation

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So far, they've raised ?7,000 and will hire planning experts

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to persuade the government to reject or at least tone down the plans

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One of the south west's biggest charities is cutting jobs due

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The Dame Hannah Rogers Trust, known as Hannah's, has a 250 year

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history of caring for children and adults with severe disabilities.

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The charity has bases at Ivybridge and Seale Hayne near Newton Abbott.

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Hannah's provides training, work, education and care

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But the charity has run into financial problems.

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Up to 20 staff, won six of the total, are being made

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Three of a charity's five trustees are being replaced.

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We have support now in place for the future.

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We certainly have been working very closely with our funders,

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mainly the Co-operative Bank, and they are very much

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behind the changes we are making to the charity.

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And I have every reason to expect that we will.

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About 1,500 disabled people use Hannah's services each year.

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I was asked for an interview, but also took the opportunity

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It's about the people who can come here and have a good time.

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And you can buy things order lunch, and things.

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Is a place where people can give back.

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It is important to everybody, but especially when you are disabled.

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She doesn't want to just be cared for, she wants to be equal

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Hannah's 250-year history makes it one Briton's oldest charities.

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Something that has received royal recognition with a visit

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Hannah's problems stems from its purchase of the Seal Hayne site

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This turnaround plan was designed to cut costs.

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And to increase income, and so, to protect the services

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Its work and commercial events like weddings

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As the charity strives to extend the legacy

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of Dame Hannah Rogers into the future.

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On to other news in the South West tonight.

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A soldier serving in Plymouth with 2-9 Commando Regiment

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has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend.

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Jay Nava stabbed Natasha Wake to death in October

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while their children slept upstairs at their home in Bournemouth.

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A public appeal to raise money for a cancer outpatients department

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at Dorset County Hospital has broken the ?1 million mark.

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The target's been helped by donations, including ?100,000

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The England rugby player Luke Cowan Dickie is to go on trial

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at Exeter Crown Court for alleged speeding offences.

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The 23-year-old, who plays with Exeter Chiefs, is claimed

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to have exceeded the speed limit in a Mercedes near Exeter

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last summer, and to have later failed to declare

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The longest running Sunday paper in the UK, the Sunday Independent,

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has ceased production with immediate effect.

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Up to twenty full time staff will lose their jobs at the Liskeard

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office and 300 freelance reporters will lose work.

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Management at the newspaper say they're not giving up hope that

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an 11th hour investor could come in to save it.

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A poet from Dorset whose words are turned into operas about major

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news stories says his local landscape allows his

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Ben Kaye has his words about hostages, refugees

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His latest commission is for a piece about the Holocaust.

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He's been telling us how the South West inspires his work.

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Light bleaches slow as dying blood and flows remorseless to the ebb.

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All words are swept aside like weed lost within the sea's caress.

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Dorset has been my home for a long time and I find it a constant

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The countryside is such a wonderful place to fire the imagination.

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You have such open spaces and the open space allows

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They came in darkness, they came at dawn, they came

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I always start with a fact and then into those facts you start

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to weave your own imagination in a way that turns it

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into a while piece and also hopefully reflects the ultimate

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I did a piece with John McCarthy about his five-year

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Another move, another metal coffin in the base of a truck.

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I did an opera about human trafficking.

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So I've handled some pretty difficult subjects.

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The latest project is an opera about the Holocaust,

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but not just about the Holocaust, but also looking at

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Most people in the street I guess wouldn't equate a subject

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like the Holocaust or modern-day extremism or any of these difficult

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subjects I've covered with something like opera.

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But the power of the music and the power of the words come together.

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It's as effective as any in terms of getting across a story.

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Let's take a look at the weather now.

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Yes, it has been lovely. The sun is bringing out the leaves on the

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trees. Tomorrow it's a chilly start. They will be some cloud around but

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again the sunshine will break through. The reason we have got

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settled weather is this big day of high pressure and here to stay. It

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will continue until the end of the week and hold with us as we move

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into the weekend. A fair amount of clear sky at first tonight but more

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cloud drifting down from the North and overnight temperatures will dip

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down to six or 7 degrees. Tomorrow, another fine day. Cloud coming and

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going through the day but it won't spoil the day. It will be dry with

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sunny spells are many of us. The end of the week, high pressure is all

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the rest which means more settled weather. We start the day Friday

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rather cloudy but quickly the sun will break through. Some warm

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sunshine in the afternoon taking temperatures to 14 degrees. The

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temperatures get even higher than that as we head into the weekend

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because Saturday and Sunday, both these dried, 16 degrees on Saturday

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and up to the balmy heights of 18 degrees by Sunday.

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That's how the news and weather's looking tonight.

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Our next update is in breakfast from 6.25am.

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or 15. It is sunny towards the weekend and we could see the low 20s

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by Sunday. Here is Darren with the national weather.

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