06/04/2017 Spotlight


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A ?10 million luxury hotel and spa is to be built

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Plans for the six-acre site have been at the centre of a planning

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Spotlight's Scott Bingham has been talking to those

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To Plymouthians it's a landmark every bit

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as iconic as Smeaton's Tower, for centuries dominating

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Today came a decision described as truly historic for the city.

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After 14 years, the City Council finally approved plans to transform

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Drake's Island into a ?10 million luxury hotel and resort.

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Fantastic news that the committee have agreed

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It has been months and months of hard work behind the scenes

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in negotiation with the applicant, with various statutory

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organisations, so we are all delighted we can give a thumbs-up

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A colony of roosting birds which have held up the project

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for the last few years will be given a new home at nearby

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Visitors to the island will arrive to find luxury hotel rooms

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and suites with a bar and restaurant area, spa, gym and swimming pool.

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Drake's Island is iconic, it is in a very important

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part of Plymouth Sound and it is long overdue.

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The regeneration of the island is going to be a jewel

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On a day like this sitting over there, nice, cold beer,

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That'll be nice as long as they restored properly,

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and pay testament to the south-west as it is, it'll be good.

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Yeah, a good thing the Plymouth and the locals and visitors.

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It's about time Plymouth started using their waterfront capabilities.

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Have you ever been to Drake's Island?

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But these plans will allow public access to the island for the first

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And of course the only way to get there is by boat.

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People are starting to pay the price for dishonesty on Dartmoor.

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Parking meters are going to replace the old-fashioned honesty boxes.

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The national park says, following a trial in Princetown,

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it now wants to install pay and display machines

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after discovering the average donation was just 15p per car.

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Honesty boxes have been a feature here on Dartmoor for years.

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But soon, instead of being asked to make a donation, you might have

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How does it make you feel, looking at this?

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We are on a park of natural beauty and we've got this.

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The honesty boxes at Meldon, Postbridge, Newbridge and here

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I don't like the idea of having a parking machine there.

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That is probably going to have to have parking meter attendants

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coming round and checking regularly to make sure people have paid.

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It's a lot less impersonal than the pay-and-display machine.

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The honesty box, I don't think a lot of people bother with.

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So they have got to do something if we want to preserve this

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The honesty box in Princetown generated ?5,000 a year,

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but that went up by 360% to ?23,000 a year when the parking

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What we have found from our research is that the average amount of money

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people put in as a voluntary donation is about 15p per car,

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which is next to nothing and it just isn't sustainable in this day

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and age of keeping car parks and visitor centres and so forth

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The proposed charges would be ?1 for up to three hours

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The national park is hoping that is not too steep.

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Now a brief round-up of other stories making

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A soldier serving in Plymouth with 29 Commando Regiment has been

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sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend.

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Jay Nava stabbed Natasha Wake to death last October

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while her children slept upstairs in their home in Bournemouth.

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Three men have been jailed for attempting to smuggle

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Their fishing boat, the Bianca, was intercepted off

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Michael McDermott from Ireland was jailed for 16 years,

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David Pleasants from Grimsby for 14 years, and Gerald Van de Koy

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from the Netherlands for 12 years, at Bristol Crown Court today.

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A man who broke into a house in Weymouth and got

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into a six-year-old girl's bed has been found not guilty of sexually

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Bournemouth Crown Court heard 26-year-old Jervaise Kevin Jones had

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He said he had no recollection of how he got there.

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North Devon jockey Lizzy Kelly is celebrating a huge win at Aintree

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The 23-year-old beat the favourite, Cue Card, trained by Dorset

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trainer Colin Tizzard, in the Betway Bowl.

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It comes after her disappointing fall at the second fence in

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The South West tourism industry is calling for a change in the law

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following a ruling on fines for term-time holidays.

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The Supreme Court ruled today against a father

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who took his daughter out of school on an unauthorised holiday.

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But in a region dependent on tourism all year round,

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there's a call for the Government to take a different

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Holiday season in Fowey getting into full swing.

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Families taking their breaks here have been reacting to today's

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ruling on fines for taking children out of school without permission.

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If they really didn't want you to, they'd make them massive

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It's almost like a little back door tax, for me.

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I think that's the wrong way to go, I don't think it encourages

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Before he started school, we came down twice to Cornwall in a year,

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and once he started school we can only afford to come once.

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And it's the impact on tourism, particularly in the so-called

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shoulder months, that's been an issue across the south-west.

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Visit Cornwall claims the policy's cost the Cornish tourism

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There's a call to replace fines with staggered school holidays.

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This would be the triple win and I think that's

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where the Government, we would urge, yet again,

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to look at other countries and see how they actually get a buoyant

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tourism sector, more affordable holidays for hard-pressed families,

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and having no negative impact on education.

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I think that could be part of the answer, and schools

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already have the freedom to set their own terms.

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I don't think it will ever be the full answer.

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I just think, fundamentally, it's not the job of the Government

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to dictate to parents in this way and therefore we need

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Staying in these cottages this week compared to last

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could cost you up to double, and some say it's these price hikes

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And then click to this week and the next three

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But those at the sharp end say it is simply a case

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We could definitely not survive as a business on the ten weeks

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of the school holiday trade, no way.

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I would be happy as a lark to charge the same price every week.

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Happy, and if everyone was available to come every week, brilliant.

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Obviously you would have winter and summer, but I don't

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I just know that I have to get my income for the year

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The Government says the ruling removes uncertainty for schools

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But while Cornwall Council says it won't affect its policy of head

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teachers taking overall attendance into account, other south-west

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councils say they are waiting for further guidance

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Now you might remember last month we brought

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you the story of 13-year-old Joel Sayer's from Newquay.

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He has autism and says his support dog Caddie changed his life.

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Well, Joel's tale went viral on social media and now he's raised

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more than ?30,000 for Dogs for Good, the charity that trained Caddie.

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He is more than a friend, he is a guardian angel for me.

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Caddie has brought calmness to Joel, and Joel still finds the world hard

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but with Caddie by his side, it's a constant companion,

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it's a constant friend, constant something that is there

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and always there, that doesn't judge, doesn't ask questions,

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Time for the weather. Beautiful day today.

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It has been beautiful sunshine this afternoon. More to come as well.

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Another fine day tomorrow. Chilly to start with, fine and dry and more

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sunshine. The sun has some strength because it is starting to reach its

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peak strength. That doesn't happen until the middle of June but we are

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halfway up the slope. Plenty of strength in the sunshine, the UV

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index tomorrow will be four or five. This high pressure does move towards

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the end of the week a little bit but until then we continue with the same

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weather. Chilly tonight, clear skies, temperatures down to 3-4 in a

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few places. Tomorrow, fine weather continues, some patchy cloud now and

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then. Even warmer on Saturday. Southeast winds will draw some

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warmth out of France so we may get 17, possibly 18, as top temperature.

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For the horse racing, Aintree on Saturday looks dry. And on Sunday,

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even warmer. That is it for us. Join us for

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breakfast tomorrow morning. Good night.

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Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get

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even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was

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the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat

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race. Under the cloud for example here in Cumbria, temperatures

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struggled to make double figures. Through the night we're going to

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hang onto a lot of cloud across north-west England, North Wales,

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Northern Ireland and western Scotland, where

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