22/01/2017

Download Subtitles

Transcript

:00:14. > :00:15.Good evening. now time for the news where you are.

:00:16. > :00:17.Campaigners who raised tens of thousands of pounds

:00:18. > :00:20.to fund a legal challenge against the building of a wind

:00:21. > :00:23.turbine in a Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

:00:24. > :00:28.are celebrating victory after a three year fight.

:00:29. > :00:30.The plan for land at Frogmore near Kingsbridge was for

:00:31. > :00:32.a 112 foot turbine - smaller than this one

:00:33. > :00:38.Locals were angry that South Hams councillors approved the proposal

:00:39. > :00:44.But the Secretary of State has now overturned that decision.

:00:45. > :00:53.You really have to think long and hard, what is my understanding

:00:54. > :00:56.of it, and am I correct in thinking that the council would make

:00:57. > :01:00.You have to have a lot of faith in yourself,

:01:01. > :01:02.especially when you are asking the local community to fund

:01:03. > :01:05.and invest in what you think is a bad decision.

:01:06. > :01:08.We all know renewable energy is needed, we all want green,

:01:09. > :01:20.clean, efficient energy, and also on the economic grounds

:01:21. > :01:23.of the agriculture industry, we know dairy farming

:01:24. > :01:26.is going through a bad patch, perhaps it is a little better now,

:01:27. > :01:28.but everything to reduce those costs will help.

:01:29. > :01:31.There could be a 2% rise in the portion of council tax used

:01:32. > :01:34.to fund the police to bring more officers into Devon and Cornwall.

:01:35. > :01:37.The rise could see an extra 40 officers being employed at a time

:01:38. > :01:40.The Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez told today's

:01:41. > :01:43.Sunday Politics that, if it happened, it would be

:01:44. > :01:48.A family's been reunited with a memorial bench

:01:49. > :01:50.which was swept out to sea during storms at

:01:51. > :01:54.It was carried 60 miles from Port Isaac in Cornwall

:01:55. > :02:00.The woman who found the bench used social media to track down

:02:01. > :02:02.the family of the teenage boy it remembers.

:02:03. > :02:16.Archie Thomas died 32 years ago today, at the age of 15.

:02:17. > :02:19.He came with his family to Port Isaac for holidays every year.

:02:20. > :02:23.He liked nothing more than to stand with the fishermen chatting

:02:24. > :02:25.away for half the day, so when he died, we wanted

:02:26. > :02:27.to have this memorial bench for him there,

:02:28. > :02:32.somewhere that was so important to him.

:02:33. > :02:35.the bench was found by Cathy, out walking her dogs.

:02:36. > :02:40.I straightaway saw it was a memorial bench, which I have empathy

:02:41. > :02:42.for the family bench because our brother died eight years

:02:43. > :02:48.Which is why I knew this had to be somehow found,

:02:49. > :02:53.It's one of those things that's brought us amongst

:02:54. > :03:00.And also made so many contacts with old friends,

:03:01. > :03:02.it has reopened our eyes and ears and hearts to Archie.

:03:03. > :03:07.Help to get the bench back to Port Isaac came

:03:08. > :03:09.from another North Devon family with their own commemoration bench

:03:10. > :03:16.For them to turn up and find it gone would have been awful for them.

:03:17. > :03:19.So at least they know what has happened to it,

:03:20. > :03:24.they have been able to bring it back to where it is rightfully

:03:25. > :03:27.A real sense of homecoming, isn't it?

:03:28. > :03:39.Thanks to community spirit and amazing connections,

:03:40. > :03:45.Archie's bench is back where it belongs.

:03:46. > :03:47.Twitchers have been out in force in Devon

:03:48. > :03:52.The Bohemian waxwing is more usually seen in eastern Europe but in recent

:03:53. > :03:54.days has been spotted close to the A38 at Heathfield

:03:55. > :04:01.It's said to be too cold for them in Russia.

:04:02. > :04:03.Cold here too. Here's Bee with the forecast.

:04:04. > :04:14.We already have some murky conditions towards the East,

:04:15. > :04:16.but for most of us tonight, for the West,

:04:17. > :04:20.It will give some isolated shippers, we could see them turning slightly

:04:21. > :04:32.For most, it is going to be a frost free night, certainly

:04:33. > :04:35.for towns and cities, but rurally we could dip below freezing.

:04:36. > :04:38.For most of us tomorrow the cloud will break up

:04:39. > :04:42.Are the least, for parts of Dorset and Somerset,

:04:43. > :04:45.we could get some freezing fog, which could take its time to clear.

:04:46. > :04:47.For most of us, though, another beautiful day.

:04:48. > :04:49.Dry and bright, a lot of sunshine, temperatures up

:04:50. > :04:53.And it looks as if this week is going to be rather settled.

:04:54. > :04:56.Again we have got the risk of freezing fog patches first thing

:04:57. > :05:05.We do see wind picking up as we head towards the weekend,

:05:06. > :05:13.Good evening. If you are dreading the trudge back to work in the

:05:14. > :05:18.morning I'm not going to help matters. There is the prospect of

:05:19. > :05:20.nasty, freezing fog over the next couple of days. Quite localised but

:05:21. > :05:22.tricky