23/04/2017 Spotlight

near Exeter tonight. gorse fire on Woodbury Common

A number of firefighters have been hurt.

It's understood one has been taken to hospital with burns and another

four firefighters are being treated for smoke inhalation.

More than 20 fire engines are at the scene as well as a number

A large area of dry heathland is alight with high winds

Roads around the Common are closed and members of the public

Spotlight's John Danks is at the scene now.

Well, this was far that some people could see as far away as the M5 in

Exeter. The late as I have been told is fire crews are now on top of this

fire and are damping down. Still 100 fire officers here. This fire is

covering a very large area. We heard about those five fire officers who

are injured. A short time ago, I was updated on the condition.

Unfortunately five of our firefighters suffered smoke

inhalation. One of those firefighters suffered minor burns

and has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks. Logistically,

it is a difficult and challenging place to put out a fire, given its

remote location. They have had to bring several water carriers to try

to fight this fire. We will continue to dampen the area overnight and

well into the morning. Watch out for those lords hopefully reopening in

the morning. We will have the latest on that in our news.

Meanwhile, three people were taken to hospital after a fire at a hotel

in Torquay last night which police believe was started deliberately.

It broke out in the basement bar of the Bancourt Hotel

More than 100 young farmers from Wales staying

there while in the resort for their annual convention.

Many were initially unaccounted for causing concerns

Two people were treated at Torbay Hospital for smoke

inhalation and another suffered a cut arm.

Guests were given accommodation at the Riviera Centre overnight.

Police are treating it as arson with intent to endanger life

We have potentially 114 people to find.

That is why we have ten appliances here.

And it was literally a physical act of walking down the corridors

In sport, Plymouth Leander's Ben Proud beat his own British record

to retain his 50 metre freestyle title at the British Championships

in Sheffield - his club-mate Tom Fannon took silver.

Proud stormed to victory in last night's final

The win secured him a place at this summer's

In the London Marathon, there was disappointment

The 43-year-old mother of two was forced to retire

2,500 school children from Plymouth have completed a mile long run

as part of the Ocean City half marathon which started

The first youngsters across the line were brother and sister.

Meanwhile three and half thousand adult runners took

As the runners set off on the gruelling 13.1 miles

around Plymouth, this city's primary school children,

from 51 schools no less, are able to complete the last mile

The other 12 have been run around school playing fields.

It seems minutes later and the first child to cross the line

is Joe Foster from year six at Trowbridge primary school.

Amazingly, his sister Mia from year four is the first

They were full of praise for each other.

There was another boy in front of him, but Joe was determined

to get in front of him and win the race.

I am really proud of her because last year she didn't

like running far, so she struggled a little bit.

But this year, she became the first girl.

Taking part for the first time, children from

It's good for us all to get together and for us to be able to participate

Winner of the adult half marathon was Jim Cole from Tavistock.

And the first woman across the line was Emma Stettin from

Great weather for running today - here's Bee with the forecast.

Well, we have a beautiful afternoon across the south-west.

Some of the cloud has broken up over the last few hours.

Tonight, generally more cloud will feed in further east.

Still the potential for temperatures to get quite low.

For most of us, just that little bit milder than last night.

Tomorrow I think will be largely dry for most of the day.

A lot of cloud starting to push in as we had through the day.

Into the afternoon, the risk of one or two isolated showers.

I think the bulk of the showers though will come

Still relatively mild when you get the brightness.

One or two spots could hit 15 degrees.

Much colder air starts to dig down on Tuesday.

The risk of one or two northerly showers and frost by night.

Have a good evening. Goodbye.

We had a beautiful day across most of UK today, but there's a taste of

winter on the way. Even a little bit of snow. Its forecast for one or two

places. This is the forecast tonight. We're watching this cold

front, this will line, this weather front. Everything to the north of

that line is cold as dreaming straight from the Arctic. --

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