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A ?10 million luxury hotel and spa is to be built | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Plans for the six-acre site have been at the centre of a planning | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Spotlight's Scott Bingham has been talking to those | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
To Plymouthians it's a landmark every bit | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
as iconic as Smeaton's Tower, for centuries dominating | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Today came a decision described as truly historic for the city. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
After 14 years, the City Council finally approved plans to transform | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Drake's Island into a ?10 million luxury hotel and resort. | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
Fantastic news that the committee have agreed | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
It has been months and months of hard work behind the scenes | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
in negotiation with the applicant, with various statutory | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
organisations, so we are all delighted we can give a thumbs-up | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
A colony of roosting birds which have held up the project | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
for the last few years will be given a new home at nearby | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Visitors to the island will arrive to find luxury hotel rooms | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
and suites with a bar and restaurant area, spa, gym and swimming pool. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Drake's Island is iconic, it is in a very important | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
part of Plymouth Sound and it is long overdue. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
The regeneration of the island is going to be a jewel | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
On a day like this sitting over there, nice, cold beer, | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
That'll be nice as long as they restored properly, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
and pay testament to the south-west as it is, it'll be good. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Yeah, a good thing the Plymouth and the locals and visitors. | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
It's about time Plymouth started using their waterfront capabilities. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Have you ever been to Drake's Island? | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
But these plans will allow public access to the island for the first | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
And of course the only way to get there is by boat. | :02:13. | :02:24. | |
People are starting to pay the price for dishonesty on Dartmoor. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Parking meters are going to replace the old-fashioned honesty boxes. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
The national park says, following a trial in Princetown, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
it now wants to install pay and display machines | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
after discovering the average donation was just 15p per car. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Honesty boxes have been a feature here on Dartmoor for years. | :02:40. | :02:52. | |
But soon, instead of being asked to make a donation, you might have | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
How does it make you feel, looking at this? | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
We are on a park of natural beauty and we've got this. | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
The honesty boxes at Meldon, Postbridge, Newbridge and here | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
I don't like the idea of having a parking machine there. | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
That is probably going to have to have parking meter attendants | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
coming round and checking regularly to make sure people have paid. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
It's a lot less impersonal than the pay-and-display machine. | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
The honesty box, I don't think a lot of people bother with. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
So they have got to do something if we want to preserve this | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
The honesty box in Princetown generated ?5,000 a year, | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
but that went up by 360% to ?23,000 a year when the parking | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
What we have found from our research is that the average amount of money | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
people put in as a voluntary donation is about 15p per car, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
which is next to nothing and it just isn't sustainable in this day | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
and age of keeping car parks and visitor centres and so forth | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
The proposed charges would be ?1 for up to three hours | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
The national park is hoping that is not too steep. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
Now a brief round-up of other stories making | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
A soldier serving in Plymouth with 29 Commando Regiment has been | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Jay Nava stabbed Natasha Wake to death last October | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
while her children slept upstairs in their home in Bournemouth. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
Three men have been jailed for attempting to smuggle | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
Their fishing boat, the Bianca, was intercepted off | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Michael McDermott from Ireland was jailed for 16 years, | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
David Pleasants from Grimsby for 14 years, and Gerald Van de Koy | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
from the Netherlands for 12 years, at Bristol Crown Court today. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
A man who broke into a house in Weymouth and got | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
into a six-year-old girl's bed has been found not guilty of sexually | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Bournemouth Crown Court heard 26-year-old Jervaise Kevin Jones had | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
He said he had no recollection of how he got there. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
North Devon jockey Lizzy Kelly is celebrating a huge win at Aintree | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
The 23-year-old beat the favourite, Cue Card, trained by Dorset | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
trainer Colin Tizzard, in the Betway Bowl. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
It comes after her disappointing fall at the second fence in | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
The South West tourism industry is calling for a change in the law | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
following a ruling on fines for term-time holidays. | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
The Supreme Court ruled today against a father | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
who took his daughter out of school on an unauthorised holiday. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
But in a region dependent on tourism all year round, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
there's a call for the Government to take a different | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
Holiday season in Fowey getting into full swing. | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
Families taking their breaks here have been reacting to today's | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
ruling on fines for taking children out of school without permission. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
If they really didn't want you to, they'd make them massive | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
It's almost like a little back door tax, for me. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
I think that's the wrong way to go, I don't think it encourages | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Before he started school, we came down twice to Cornwall in a year, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
and once he started school we can only afford to come once. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
And it's the impact on tourism, particularly in the so-called | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
shoulder months, that's been an issue across the south-west. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Visit Cornwall claims the policy's cost the Cornish tourism | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
There's a call to replace fines with staggered school holidays. | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
This would be the triple win and I think that's | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
where the Government, we would urge, yet again, | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
to look at other countries and see how they actually get a buoyant | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
tourism sector, more affordable holidays for hard-pressed families, | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
and having no negative impact on education. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
I think that could be part of the answer, and schools | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
already have the freedom to set their own terms. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
I don't think it will ever be the full answer. | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
I just think, fundamentally, it's not the job of the Government | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
to dictate to parents in this way and therefore we need | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Staying in these cottages this week compared to last | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
could cost you up to double, and some say it's these price hikes | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
And then click to this week and the next three | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
But those at the sharp end say it is simply a case | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
We could definitely not survive as a business on the ten weeks | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
of the school holiday trade, no way. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
I would be happy as a lark to charge the same price every week. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Happy, and if everyone was available to come every week, brilliant. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Obviously you would have winter and summer, but I don't | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
I just know that I have to get my income for the year | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
The Government says the ruling removes uncertainty for schools | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
But while Cornwall Council says it won't affect its policy of head | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
teachers taking overall attendance into account, other south-west | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
councils say they are waiting for further guidance | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Now you might remember last month we brought | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
you the story of 13-year-old Joel Sayer's from Newquay. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
He has autism and says his support dog Caddie changed his life. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Well, Joel's tale went viral on social media and now he's raised | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
more than ?30,000 for Dogs for Good, the charity that trained Caddie. | :08:53. | :09:04. | |
He is more than a friend, he is a guardian angel for me. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Caddie has brought calmness to Joel, and Joel still finds the world hard | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
but with Caddie by his side, it's a constant companion, | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
it's a constant friend, constant something that is there | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
and always there, that doesn't judge, doesn't ask questions, | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Time for the weather. Beautiful day today. | :09:25. | :09:38. | |
It has been beautiful sunshine this afternoon. More to come as well. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Another fine day tomorrow. Chilly to start with, fine and dry and more | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
sunshine. The sun has some strength because it is starting to reach its | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
peak strength. That doesn't happen until the middle of June but we are | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
halfway up the slope. Plenty of strength in the sunshine, the UV | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
index tomorrow will be four or five. This high pressure does move towards | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
the end of the week a little bit but until then we continue with the same | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
weather. Chilly tonight, clear skies, temperatures down to 3-4 in a | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
few places. Tomorrow, fine weather continues, some patchy cloud now and | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
then. Even warmer on Saturday. Southeast winds will draw some | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
warmth out of France so we may get 17, possibly 18, as top temperature. | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
For the horse racing, Aintree on Saturday looks dry. And on Sunday, | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
even warmer. That is it for us. Join us for | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
breakfast tomorrow morning. Good night. | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
race. Under the cloud for example here in Cumbria, temperatures | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
struggled to make double figures. Through the night we're going to | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
hang onto a lot of cloud across north-west England, North Wales, | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland, where | :11:31. | :11:31. |