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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Armed police carrying semi-automatic rifles are to patrol the streets | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
It's in response to Monday's suicide bomb attack in Manchester, | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
which killed 22 people and injured dozens of others. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The force says there is no specific threat to the region, | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
but it's urging people to be vigilant. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Simon Hall reports. | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
Officers will carry semiautomatic rifles on foot patrols in busy | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
locations such as shopping centres and train stations as part of the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
security operation put in place since the Manchester bombing. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Commanders stress it is not in response to | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
any specific threat, but a precaution | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
designed to reassure the | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
It is a proportionate response to the national threat and | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
until that investigation has allowed the threat | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
level to be reduced, I | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
think it is a very sensible option to take. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
It is normal patrolling, but it is now overtly with the | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
weapons, but I would ask the public to be reassured and not to be put | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The security situation since the Manchester bombing is | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Commanders say the armed patrols will continue | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
until they believe the threat of further attacks has eased. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
There are, of course, many public events | :01:25. | :01:25. | |
planned for this bank holiday weekend in the south-west. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Senior officers are aware of the potential | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
danger to large gatherings of the public. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
They say they are keeping security at those events under | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
review and will deploy armed officers if they need to. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
There is also the matter of the major | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
sporting finals in London this weekend. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
There, the advice is to go along and enjoy | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
yourself, don't let anything spoil the day out, but to remain vigilant. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
And commanders are already putting in place plans for the security of | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
victory parades if and when any of our teams return to the region | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
People across the south west stopped for a two minute silence today | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
to remember those killed in the Manchester attack. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
In St Columb Major in Cornwall, the church bells were muffled | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
to peel more dimly, as a reflection of the sombre mood. | :02:18. | :02:41. | |
More than ?115 million has been lost by councils in the South West | :02:42. | :03:06. | |
Figures obtained by the BBC show more than 300,000 people have | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
It comes as local authorities are still having to cut services | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
The pressure on councils to get every penny of council tax in is | :03:18. | :03:34. | |
greater than in any time in recent history. Local authorities have | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
faced cuts of 35% or more in their budgets in the last seven or eight | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
years. And against that backdrop, if they don't get this money in from | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
councils, that is simply not available for street cleaning, | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
street lighting or indeed for care for older people. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Two weeks today the polling stations open for the General Election. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
All this week on Spotlight we've been travelling across the south | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
west visiting the constituencies where the MPs were elected | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
with the smallest majorities, at the last election. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
These so-called "marginal" seats are where the political campaigning | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
will be fiercest for the next fortnight, and today John Henderson | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Who will hit the political jackpot in two weeks' time? | :04:12. | :04:23. | |
All the parties are hoping their numbers come in. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
But in some seats the gap between the winners | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
I have come to help out at a newsagent in St Budeaux. | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
Part of the Moor View constituency in Plymouth. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
It is the second most marginal seat in the | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
The Tories snatching victory from Labour last time by | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
Scratchcards are doing a roaring trade. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Few constituencies are betting on the | :05:02. | :05:14. | |
Have you worked out who you will vote for? | :05:15. | :05:33. | |
Conservatives and Labour are offering a lot of | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
sweeties, such as a lot of money for the NHS alone. | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
But in urban, predominantly working-class Moorview, | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
As soon as the NatWest closed, we noticed | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
a reduction in full fall, so how at the small businesses survive? | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Perhaps the Liberal Democrats proposals for money for schools or | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
the Greens ?15 billion plan to scrap student loans | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
will help breathe new life into the area. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
They are unlikely to tempt back from Guernsey a chap | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
who used to be a paperboy here 40 years ago. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
I left because I did not like the way the UK was going | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Ukip, also here, said they would introduce a one in one | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
This man says he would be on his way if his ship came in. | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
I want to go to an island that is low in taxation, | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
their democratic right is | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
We have an opportunity to vote and we should | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
There's a list of all the candidates standing in Plymouth Moor View | :07:00. | :07:14. | |
A special reserve has been established in Cornwall | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
which could help rescue the country's ailing bee population. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
The Cornish black bee has been described as a super bee, | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
because it can cope with bad weather and disease, | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
unlike the more common black and yellow European honey bee. | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
It might look just like any other honeybee, but if you look | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
closely, you will see they are black and grey. | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
It is hoped the Cornish black bee could be the answer to the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
honeybee's problems over the last few years. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
They are stronger, they can fly for longer, they live | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
for longer, and they are less prone to disease. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
And now the first-ever reserve in mainland Britain for the | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Cornish black bee has opened at Mount Edgecumbe. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
We are very, very keen on keeping the black genetic line, | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
because that is what's so threatened at the moment. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
colonies, ten colonies out of about 4000, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
It is a bit like the Scottish wildcat, where | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
the big problem that they have got in trying to conserve the | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Scottish wildcat is one of hybridisation. | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
So breeding centres are being set up in remote locations | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
around Cornwall to give the black bees a chance. | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Beekeeper Bob Black takes me to one of the sites they | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Yes, this will be a queen rearing and breeding centre. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
We will develop this piece of landscape to bring colonies in. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
And behind you is where our mating colonies will go in the shady area. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
So what we're hoping is that we can encourage more beekeepers to take | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
part in the programme, we can get people to work | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
with the native stock of bees, and we can provide them with | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
either nucleus colonies or Queens to restock | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
This isn't a nerdy kind of intellectual exercise. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
I know some of us sometimes get a bit excited and pretend that it is, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
but this is a hugely important for National | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
security, for our food security, going forward. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
This colony does have hybrid evidence of | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
But they say they need more beekeepers to take | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
That report by Eleanor Parkinson. Let's get the latest on the weather. | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
Hopefully more sunshine. Here is the man who can tell us, David. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Good evening. I am sure the honeybees are loving the weather | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
today. The warmest day of the year so far. 25 Celsius the top | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
temperature. The breeze on coastal locations making it not quite so | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
warm. Tomorrow is a hot and sunny day. Very high UV rays. The risk of | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
thunderstorms overnight and into Saturday, all courtesy of this | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
weather front which is a long way away but it will get closer through | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
tomorrow afternoon and into the evening. But for now, it is clear | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
skies, it is an unusually mild night overnight tonight and overnight | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
temperatures won't feel much below 16 Celsius for most of us. Already, | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
adapters have a hard -- it start for the day tomorrow. Wall to wall blue | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
sky. Very little cloud to spoil the day. Some high-level cloud coming in | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
later from the West, but that will club the skies across the far west, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
but for most of those it is unbroken sunshine. Top temperatures of 25 | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Celsius. By the time we get to Saturday, there is the chance of | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
some early showers. Then brightening up. Still quite warm and then cooler | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
into Sunday with the risk of some heavy showers around. Have a good | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
night. Banks, David. Andy will be back with you from 6:25am tomorrow | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
morning with the breakfast News but from all of us here, enjoy what is | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
left of your evening. Sleep well. | :11:01. | :11:05. |