26/02/2017 Spotlight

Headteachers fear the latest round of council cuts in Cornwall

could result in the system failing the most vulnerable children.

Schools are going to have to pay for some services for children

with special educational needs which were free in the past.

It's part of the ?30 million of cuts the council is making

to children's services over five years.

Our political reporter Anna Varle has more.

Learning to read and write - something which comes

easily to many, but for one in ten of us

She is getting one-to-one help at school because of her needs.

But help for children with special educational needs

Cornwall Council is looking to make savings, which means that schools

like this will have to pay more for services to give children

I am very worried that in two years' time our schools will not be solvent

in order to provide a basic education for every single child,

so I am doubly worried for the children who have special

educational needs and who need additional support, but our budgets

If things don't change or cuts keep being made,

Children are going to leave school having not achieved

their full potential, and that to me is terrible.

The council says educational psychologists will continue

But could children like Sophie be facing a lifetime of struggling

A man from Jersey has been killed in a skiing

Police say 57-year-old Mark Le Sueur, known to many

as Frank, who came from Trinity, was skiing off-piste

He died while being airlifted by helicopter to hospital in Grenoble.

The Foreign Office is offering support to his family.

A former soldier from Dorset who helped a boy with a rare facial

cleft has become the first British citizen to receive

Wayne Ingram, from Weymouth, raised ?140,000

for the boy, who he first met on Army patrol

Stefan Savic, now 18, has undergone a series of operations

Mr Ingram, a South Western Ambulance Service paramedic,

said receiving the award was a humbling and

And in rugby, the Cornish Pirates clinched a bonus-point win

when they took on Rotherham Titans in the Championship this afternoon.

Conditions were difficult at the Mennaye Field

John Stevens went over in added time to secure the bonus point.

Final score, Pirates 34-5 Titans, extending the Pirates' unbeaten run

A memorial service has been held today to commemorate the wartime

efforts of a teenage girl from Devon.

Kitty Trevelyan died a hundred years ago tomorrow, and today her name

was finally unveiled on a war memorial in her home

village of Meavy. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby reports.

A hundred years, almost to the day of her death,

Kitty Trevelyan was just 17 when she left the Dartmoor

Until now, her name had not been recorded

I feel very overwhelmed and happy and it is the end

For more than 50 years, Sue Robinson has been visiting

Kitty's grave in France and trying to find her family.

I was watching Spotlight, that is how I found out about it.

And I am glad that she has been honoured.

It is sad that her life was so short, and she didn't

have the advantage of seeing what happened after the war.

It is quite amazing, really, quite emotional.

And for the first time, Sue has seen a picture of Kitty.

In my head she was beautiful, and when I got the picture

she was everything I wanted her to be.

It would not have mattered what she looked like,

but she looked exactly as we thought.

Kitty signed up as a volunteer to work in the Army canteens

in France but died of pneumonia two years later at just 19.

She shall not grow old, and at the going down

of the sun and in the morning, now we can remember her as well.

Here's Emily with the latest forecast.

We have fairly unsettled weather of us over the next few days.

Some rain clearing to the east tonight, followed on by some drier

and clearer weather for a time, but then some heavy

These could turn a touch wintry across the moors.

It is a fairly cool night, lows of five or six Celsius.

A very blustery start to the day tomorrow as well,

heavy showers on and off throughout the day.

The risk of some hail and thunder, again turning

wintry across the moors. There will be some sunshine

in between, but it is going to be breezy and cool throughout the day,

We will keep some showers through Tuesday, but there will be

It does turn less cold by the end of the week and it is a little bit

Good evening. The fifth named storm of the season has been affecting the

west of the UK, and it was named Ewan by the Irish meteorological

service because that is where the impact was expected, but it has been

quite wet for some and the wettest weather is moving northwards across

the North of Scotland and the stronger winds go with that. Strong

winds pushing away towards the east with showers and then further

showers behind overnight, and some of the showers will contain some

wintry weather. It will be quite cold for the North and west of the

UK, 2 degrees in Belfast and Glasgow. Not too chilly for