here in devon county, unlikely cornwall locals put the cream on 1st and then jam. but okay, unsuspecting brits tells a different what's 1st for joe? no, i have no idea why that was. i would say, john, i recognized for you. he did. he got it. he got it. type really totally different. yet the so our blind taste testing was inconclusive. jammed 1st for cream 1st, really doesn't matter. in the, in this british treat is delicious. either way, the next step we travel back in time to examine the history of the spartans. to find out more about this infamous for your society, we travel to the pennies peninsula situated in the south of modern day greece. there you can still find many traces of spartan culture, most notably their language, which residents strive to keep a live sparta legendary place. in the southern peloponnesian, the ancient city state was once the most formidable military force in the greek world, protected by the teacher, twist and turn on mountain regions. sparta was like a fortress. it's been almost a part of an i'm your max reporters here durham mecropo

. >> but also, devon, you can't see also devon county council found one of their great if you could onewouldn't it be better person per per journey. it was cheaper to do taxis you see exactly . so do taxis you see exactly. so we've got to have other means of transport not just buses because given the amount of shock stories we've seen with fake taxi drivers , i'd rather be on taxi drivers, i'd rather be on a bus than a taxi at two in the morning is my first point. >> secondly , yeah, there are >> secondly, yeah, there are absolutely exactly . you cannot absolutely exactly. you cannot run a bus service profitably . run a bus service profitably. that's the point. what you can do is run a bus service as a service . service. >> who are you expecting to pay for this money doesn't grow on trees, but paying £100 for someone because they want to pop to another local village that isn't on a convenient bus route. >> if you run it for anyone time when they could pay for that themselves with a car, it is not themselves with a car, it is not the franchise it and put it back into local government and

. >> but also, devon, you can't see also devon county council found one of their great if you could onewouldn't it be better person per per journey. it was cheaper to do taxis you see exactly . so do taxis you see exactly. so we've got to have other means of transport not just buses because given the amount of shock stories we've seen with fake taxi drivers , i'd rather be on taxi drivers, i'd rather be on a bus than a taxi at two in the morning is my first point. >> secondly , yeah, there are >> secondly, yeah, there are absolutely exactly . you cannot absolutely exactly. you cannot run a bus service profitably . run a bus service profitably. that's the point. what you can do is run a bus service as a service . service. >> who are you expecting to pay for this money doesn't grow on trees, but paying £100 for someone because they want to pop to another local village that isn't on a convenient bus route. >> if you run it for anyone time when they could pay for that themselves with a car, it is not themselves with a car, it is not the franchise it and put it back into local government and

this cornwall and devon are the two counties where there are more people trying to apply for firearms , around, lots of sport as well, lots of gun sport and there is a huge backlog in processing all of these applications . now the of these applications. now the problem is that the way devon and cornwall police have been deaung and cornwall police have been dealing with this is instead of saying to someone, look , you're saying to someone, look, you're going to have to wait in queue and you're going to have to wait your turn. they're issuing temporary firearms certificates , which will , dates, which will which will apply , dates, which will which will apply until the proper firearm certificate comes through. this report is said that that is complete wrong and really must stop now . stop now. >> now and just to just to give a comparison , the police force a comparison, the police force issued nearly 3700 temporary permits, which should only be used in exceptional circumstance cases. another police force, a similar sized firearms unit granted . just ten. granted. just ten. >> exactly. t

in 2017 a 25-year-old black woman named devon gray shot and killed her white boyfriend during what she said was a violent night at their home in rural shelby countyn alabama. over the course of their relationship, gray had been repeatedly and violently abused by vance. >> i saw the knife and i saw him point the gun, and i was just like, i had enough of this. >>ray's stand your ground defense was rejected, so she took what is known as a blind plea where you plead guilty, in her case to manslaughter, but you don't know what your punishment is. she was sentenced to 15 years. her story is that focus of a new podcast called blind plea. journalist and author liz flock is the host and i'm happy to say former "newshour" colleague. before we get to her legal situation, which is so well-documented in your podcast, can you tell us a little bit about her and her relationship with her boyfriend? >> devon gray was a young woman from upstate new york. she met her boyfriend john vance there. their mothers lived diagonally from each other. she found him charismatic and handy. they fell in love as she followed him or rather john took her to rural alabama to his fa

devon, cornwall, an area where we've we've done badly since 2015. we're now recovering and we're poised to take parliament three seats as well as those in the home countiesm where we are . we are. >> just the thing that struck me about these by elections was that the lib dems lost their deposits, i think in selby and in uxbridge labour, i think lost their deposit in somerton and frome. if even if there isn't a formal sort of agreement going on between labour and the lib dems, is there anything informal going on which is sort of designed to help each other out in these elections against the conservatives ? conservatives? >> well, there's no sort of grand conspiracy to gang up on the conservatives , but you know, the conservatives, but you know, the conservatives, but you know, the simple fact is that government is pretty unpopular and the electorate are smart enough to work out who's most likely to win in a particular seat. likely to win in a particular seat . and i mean, the way the seat. and i mean, the way the party signal this is by concentrating their resources where they know they can win . where they know they can win. and it was obviously the labo