14/01/2017 Spotlight

The Conservative MP for Totnes Sarah Woollaston, who chairs

the Commons Health Committee, has criticised her own government over

It follows comments from Theresa May, who expressed frustration

at the failure of more GP practices to open seven days a week

amid growing demand on NHS hospital services.

But Dr Woollaston today took to social media, accusing

the Prime Minister of making GPs the scapegoats for an

Devon Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has been holding

taster sessions for potential recruits as it looks to take

on the first full time firefighters for eight years.

Around 200 people took part in the sessions

in Exeter and Taunton, which included demonstrations

of breathing apparatus and fitness tests.

The service is looking to recruit 16 firefighters.

We've had a period of time where we haven't

recruited because we had to

look at our resourcing against the backdrop

But now we know we've got an ageing workforce of operational staff

reaching towards the end of their career, and we need

staff to employ now, start training them now so they can

replace that workforce in the future.

A former fire fighter who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress

disorder is now helping others with PTSD through the

Glen Gorman found that his love of taking pictures

Now, as a successful photographer, he's set up free workshops to help

emergency service and military personnel with mental health issues.

Johnny Rutherford has been along to his studios in Liskeard.

Have a feel of the camera, get a feel of the weight.

Sharing a passion that helps soothe the pain.

And if you look through the eyepiece and press the shutter release button

He is running workshops to sharpen the mind of

people living with mental health issues, by focusing on something

which can be enjoyable and rewarding, photography.

In 2003 I was diagnosed with PTSD as part of

One of the things I found helped enormously

was immersing myself into my hobby, which is photography.

It helped to divert my attention away from some

of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts I was having.

You get a different perspective just by altering your angle slightly.

The free workshops are geared to support

people living with mental health issues, like Mike Cruz, who was a

policeman in the Metropolitan Police.

In a couple of cases I was really bad with stress and had time

When you feel those days coming on, you

can feel yourself going into like a black hole, if you like,

and it's nice to not go beyond the rim.

So if you can find you're on the rim and

actually divert it by doing something like photography, you can

potentially stop yourself going into the black hole.

The workshops include displaying finished

photographs with a possible exhibition in the future.

campaign alive in a six goal thriller at Home Park.

Exeter City are just four points outside the play-off places

after an impressive 3-0 win away at Grimsby.

And Yeovil drew 1-1 away at Wycombe Wanderers.

In the National League Torquay were beaten 2-1 at home by Woking.

In rugby, the Exeter Chiefs will try to keep their faint hopes

of staying in Europe alive when they take on

They're playing tomorrow, there's full coverage on BBC Radio Devon.

In the British and Irish Cup the Cornish Pirates beat Ospreys 34

points to 10 and Jersey beat Cardiff Blues 55-10.

In League One, Plymouth Albion beat Esher at Brickfields

We've finally seen some decent spells of sunshine today

across the South West and unlike yesterday

those winds have been a little bit lighter.

on the north-westerly breeze overnight.

Quite a bit of cloud, a lot of low cloud forming as well.

These are the values for the towns and cities.

Still relatively cold air across the top of us,

so we could see a bit of frost rurally.

That means we could have a bit of ice first thing tomorrow.

Any wintery conditions tends to turn to rain as we go through the day,

For most of us it'll be grey, cloudy, damp and

Most places make it into double figures with

Milder and largely cloudy for the start of next week.

We should see brighter conditions return on

Wednesday, but it will turn that little bit colder.

Our next news is at 6.20 tomorrow evening.

Getting the detail of this cold snap is proving to be challenging and

will continue to be so over the next 24 hours. Ice around across eastern

parts after the earlier showers then rain pushing in from Northern

Ireland across Scotland and a period of snow across eastern Scotland

temporarily. It will extend into northern Wales and England too. A

chilly night across the East, much milder. Tomorrow, everything nudges

further east which gives us an issue because a period of snow across

Lincolnshire and