26/03/2017 Spotlight

Members of the clergy in Holsworthy That is all of the sport.

are calling on health bosses to think again over their decision

to temporarily close their community hospital.

The vicars have jointly written to the chief executive

of Northern Devon Health Care Trust demanding a rethink.

Holsworthy Hospital shut earlier this month.

There are now fears it may never reopen.

Mothering Sunday at Sutcombe church near Holsworthy.

But it's not just the welfare of mothers that's on the minds

of the congregation and the reverend Richard Freeman.

He's one of four clergy to sign a letter to the Northern Devon

Health Care Trust to protest at the closure of Holsworthy Hospital.

His main concern is that his parishioners will have to travel

They're going to be in a place that they don't know,

surrounded by people they don't know, often isolated from the people

who love and care for them, because of the distances involved.

That means at the end of their lives, when people

ought to be comforted, they're going to be alone,

Hundreds have already protested at meetings about the closure.

The letter from the clergy expresses concern that the Northern Devon

Health Care NHS Trust chose to use emergency legislation to close

They say that they want to put the care in the community but how

can you imagine running around all these roads looking

It surely would be much better to have it all in one central

If someone's had treatment elsewhere and coming back to Holsworthy,

you need that stepping stone before you go home.

Well, I think it's disgusting in an area like this where there's

so many retired people, the hospital is urgently

The trust hasn't responded to the letter yet but many

in the Holsworthy parish hope it will reconsider the closure.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was found

with significant head injuries near Exeter's Quay car park.

The 29-year-old man was found in the early hours of this morning

and is now being treated at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.

Police are trying to establish what happened and want to hear

On to football, and a great win for Plymouth Argyle as they beat

League Two leaders Doncaster Rovers in their top of the table

Sonny Bradley powered in a far post header

from a corner to earn the win, which takes the Pilgrims

It also puts Argyle 13 points off the play-off places with just

In rugby, the Cornish Pirates kept their play-off hopes

alive with five tries at the Mennaye Field this afternoon.

They beat Doncaster Knights by 34-17.

And finally, a Dorset museum designed to plunge

people into the sights, sounds, atmosphere and experience

The Castletown D-day Centre on Portland is a new visitor

attraction that offers an immersive experience, telling

the story of embarkation from a busy wartime dockyard.

Thousands of troops, vehicles and equipment left

from slipways here for the beaches of Normandy in June 1944.

A parade old vehicles took place to celebrate this weekend's opening.

What we are trying to do is create an environment that gives

the visitor an impression of what it might have been like in April, May,

June of 1944, with the arrival of thousands and thousands

of American GIs and the impact that that had on the

Well, we've had a lot of sunshine through today,

but with largely clear skies out there at the moment, temperatures

We have still got that breeze and that should keep us frost-free,

but it is still going to be quite a cool night and under clear

skies we could see a bit of a shallow mist forming, too.

It should be a dry day, again plenty of sunshine.

There will be a little bit of cloud feeding in at times.

I think through the day the winds will ease a little bit,

so with the lighter winds and in the sunshine it

Temperatures up around 15-16 degrees.

Thereafter, it turns a little more unsettled.

Sunshine and heavy thundery showers on Tuesday.

More rain on Wednesday and it turns cooler as we head

Hello there, it's not often that we have the best of the weather at the

weekend. But, that seems to be the case this time around. This week,

there will be more cloud around bringing with it a chance of rain.

Especially in the north and west, but the wind will keep warm by the

day, and it should be warm at night as well. In the sunshine,

temperatures of 20 degrees, that in the Highlands of Scotland, but here

we are likely to have a frost overnight. A cold night for many of

us, despite more cloud