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Good evening, and welcome to Monday's BBC Channel Islands news. | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
After thousands of pounds was spent upgrading it, one of Guernsey's main | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
community facilities is attacked by vandals. I believe it's a cry for | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
help in some way. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
of stupidity. Also, the future of Jersey's | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Heritage Trust looks more stable after drastic job cuts and support | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
from islanders. And after 100 incidents of Jersey's | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
water being polluted last year, the surfers, sailors and swimmers taking | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
on the fight to keep our seas clean. There could soon be CCTV cameras | :00:41. | :00:58. | |
installed at Guernsey's new skate park after graffiti was daubed all | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
over it at the weekend. The facility in St peter Port only opened last | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
year, after years of campaigning and fund`raising by young people. The | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
island's Culture and Leisure Minister, who oversaw the project, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
says he's furious at this attack. And as Mike Wilkins reports, it's | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
not just case of scrubbing it off. Guernsey's new skate park, not even | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
a year old, and already out of action. And this is the cause ` | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
graffiti sprawled all across the polished surface. It could take | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
three days to remove it. It will take a long time to clean it up. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
They can't paint over it or use high`pressure water washer is | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
because they need to maintain the surface. This has taken workers for | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
hours and they still have not managed to shift it. The authorities | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
are being forced to buy a special substance which, it's hoped, will be | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
more successful at removing the paint. And it's not just the skate | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
park that has been targeted. These photos show other areas of St Peter | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Port that have been attacked. The island's Culture and Leisure | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Minister says he won't tolerate such behaviour. I believe it's a cry for | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
help in some way. I'm not quite sure but there is absolutely no excuse | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
for this kind of stupidity and we are, they are just two bit people | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
who do this. I have no time at all for this kind of behaviour, at all, | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
and I think I share that with many people on this island. We don't want | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
this kind of thing to happen. Guernsey Police are analysing CCTV | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
footage images from the nearby Beau Sejour Leisure Centre. And the skate | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
park is now considering getting cameras itself to prevent further | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
attacks. A UK travel company that specialises | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
in bringing holiday makers to the Channel Islands has bought Preston | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Travel, which collapsed last month. 3X Travel, based in Surrey, has | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
bought the company and plans to re`launch as Preston Holidays. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Preston Travel had been bringing around 20,000 visitors a year to | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Jersey. That's about 8% of the total number. 3X Travel, which specialises | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
in short breaks, family and group holidays to the Channel Islands, has | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
bought its entire assets, as well as its customer base. | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
EasyJet bosses say they haven't ruled out further expansion in the | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Channel Islands, as the airline launched its Jersey to London | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
Gatwick route this weekend. Here's the first aeroplane touching down to | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
a water cannon welcome on Sunday morning. The low`cost carrier takes | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
over the Gatwick route from Flybe, which stopped flying between | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Guernsey and Jersey to London due to rising costs. EasyJet says current | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
conditions at Guernsey Airport prevent it from taking over the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
service there. We looked closely at Guernsey and it presented an | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
attractive opportunity to us. Our problem is that the runway length | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
resented some operational restrictions so for the moment it is | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
not something we are able to consider, sadly, but we will see | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
what happens in the future. More than 100 employees at the | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
telecoms company Sure are facing major changes to their pension | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
scheme. That's around half the workforce ` those employed when it | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
was still run by the States as Guernsey Telecoms. Sure says the | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
final salary scheme they signed up to is no longer sustainable, and | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
plans to close it. Staff will still get the pension they accrued to | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
date, but will be asked to join a new scheme moving forward. The | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
defined enough scheme which is a salary `based scheme when you retire | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
is clearly not sustainable and we have to find solutions to address | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
that in a way that the pensioners and members are going to be, the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
value will reflect what they put into date. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Financial support from islanders has secured the future of Jersey | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Heritage, which looks after sites including Elizabeth Castle, La | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Hougue Bie and the Maritime Museum. The organisation faced a funding | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
crisis a few years ago, and was forced to cut jobs and reduce | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
opening times. Since then it's completed a three`year deal with the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
States, where both parties match funding 50/50. Emma Chambers has | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
been speaking to Heritage bosses about the future, ahead of the start | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
of this year's summer season. The future looked bleak for Jersey's | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
biggest tourist attractions when the group in charge of them suffered a | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
severe funding crisis, which left it ?1 million a year short. Fast | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
forward four years, and now the future is looking a lot brighter. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Even though the castles and museums still have reduced opening hours, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
the number of people visiting them has increased by 13%. That's because | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the three`year agreement Jersey Heritage made with the Government to | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
match public funding with self`generated income is providing | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
stability. There has been some reduction in the level of service we | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
are providing which in the future we will look to add a rest back up, but | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
that change has produced a great deal of money and investment from | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
the states which has allowed us to deliver more change on the sites, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
which was a long time coming. That in turn has delivered more use from | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
tourists and locals. Over the last five years, the membership scheme | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
has had the biggest boost, from 2000 to 9000. It's this support from | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
locals that's enabled a number of investments in the service for this | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
year, including a move into digital technology. We have created a | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
virtual pocket museum and it is a 3`D up, actually an augmented | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
reality app, which means we can upload parts of the collection in | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
3`D files. From Celtic coins to an ongoing ice age project, Jersey's | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
sites already span vast swathes of history. But the organisation is | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
looking to the future, and a funding model based on much firmer ground. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Three people have put themselves forward as candidates in an Alderney | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
States by`election. It follows the death of States member Paul Arditti | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
earlier this year. The three facing the public vote are Tony Barnes, Lin | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Maurice and Norma Paris. Voting takes place on Saturday the 12th of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
April. A Sark hotelier says bookings this | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
spring are 71% up on the same period in 2013, and that's mainly due to | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the BBC series An Island Parish. Half of those who've booked at | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Stocks for a summer holiday this year told staff they're fans of the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
series. Sark Tourism says website hits increased a thousandfold in the | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
24 hours after each show in the six`part series was aired. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
You're watching the BBC in the Channel Islands. Good to have you | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
with us. Later in Spotlight with Justin and Natalie, the young | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
engineers who built this radio`controlled four`by`four to win | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
a national competition. Stay tuned for that, and a forecast | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
in a few moments. Surfers, sailors and swimmers have been braving dirty | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
waters in Jersey today as part of a new environmental campaign. Blue | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
Fish is aimed at highlighting the risks of polluting island waters | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
after more than 100 incidents were reported last year. Jen Smith | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
reports Luckily, these were the worst. Luckily, not | :07:58. | :08:10. | |
things you regularly find in Jersey's waters. And that's the | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
point. Jersey's Environment Department hopes this unattractive | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
lot will make you think about what you throw down the drain. People | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
disposing, washing out their paint pots and you will suddenly get a | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
blue or white coloured stream so that has an impact on water life. It | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
also has an impact on our drinking water, so Jersey Water take the | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
water, the rain that falls on the island to provide clean drinking | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
water and we want to ensure it is protected. More than 100 incidents | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
of water pollution were reported to Jersey's Environment Department last | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
year. Surfers like Arlene Maltman say raising awareness is the best | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
way to stop it getting worse. We don't want to end up like France, | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
for example, where after a storm, the beaches can be closed and it | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
becomes dangerous for swimming or surfing, you can catch things like | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
hepatitis. The campaign's about keeping our island waters clean and | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
ensuring we don't pollute what comes out of the tap. Howard Snowden from | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Jersey Water says with so many people on a small island, this is a | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
challenge. It can, because we are living within catchment areas. They | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
have bigger reservoir systems in the British Isles and are scarcely | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
populated, things like the Pennines and Yorkshire moons. Jersey, we are | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
pretty much inhabited across the island. So while Jersey's waters | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
might not look like this, the message is, keep it clean if we want | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
to keep it that way. Whether time now. A lovely day yesterday. It was | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
some of the highest temperatures we have seen so far this year. 16, 17 | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
degrees. The thunderstorms in the last couple of hours have brought | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
temperatures down but we are mostly an evening feature and will move out | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of the way later tonight and then we have a misty start to tomorrow. Then | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
some sunny spells and feeling warm in the sunshine again. On the face | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
of it, there is quite a lot going on. Lumps of cloud all around us, | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
one moving through the Cherbourg peninsula at the moment is a line of | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
showers and could come close to us in the next few hours. After that, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
the shower activity drives down. There is low pressure to the west of | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
over Germany and Poland and that over Germany and Poland and that | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
doesn't change much this week with low pressure moving up to the west | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
of us and a threat of showers. These showers are quite lively. Don't be | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
surprised if we don't get another rumble of thunder or lightning for a | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
short while tonight, but then later the mist and fog will turn up, some | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
of the fog quite thick tomorrow morning. Tomorrow a misty start, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
some of that in low cloud and mist reluctant to move out of the way but | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
it will improve and by the end of the afternoon, the sunshine will be | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
back out and it will feel warm. For coastal waters, it is mainly an East | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
or south easterly force for misty and then becoming mainly fair. The | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
times of high water, at St Helier it is 8:23am. Not much waste for | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
surfers and quite clean. A warm day on Wednesday that there will always | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
be a threat of showers in the next few days, but generally we will get | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
away with it, quite an increasing risk of showers towards the weekend. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Thank you, David. That it for now. I am back with the headlines at 8pm | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
and again with the news at 10pm. From us, by for now. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
who built this winning car. And preparing for passengers again, the | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
volunteers giving Dawlish station a make over. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Drug and alcohol addicts are being encouraged to try abstaining instead | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
of relying on substitutes such as methadone. The ?15 million project | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
is being run by charities in Devon. Jenny Kumah has the details. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
What's new about this service in Devon is that it deals with both | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
drug and drink problems. Before, drug and drink problems. Before, | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
these issues were dealt with by two separate organisations. Former drug | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
users and alcoholics have helped to shape the service so it can better | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
meet people's needs. I've been speaking to one of the people | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
involved in this project. He had been a heroin and methadone user for | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
28 years. My brother gave me a definition. He said, "It's like when | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
you started taking drugs, you shut down. And for 20 years, you were | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
shut down and you just woke up again." And that is exactly what | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
it's like. It's like I'm reborn, in a way. Seymour chose to come off the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
heroin substitute methadone but he says that many addicts have been | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
left to linger on this prescribed medication for too long without | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
enough help to come off drugs completely. And that's what this new | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
service hopes to sort out. There will be a big emphasis on | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
abstinence. There will be a great emphasis in the new service... That | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
will continue to provide substitute medication for people... But as part | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
of a plan. And part of that plan will be that it will be on a | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
reducing basis over a period of time, dependent on their needs. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Addiction is a growing problem. Around 15,000 people are dependent | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
on drugs and around 26,000 have a drink problem. This is predicted to | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
rise by 4% by 2030. The authorities also say the nature of addiction is | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
changing, with dependency on over`the`counter prescription drugs | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
rising as well as the number of professional women drinking harmful | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
amounts of alcohol. Jenny there. | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
As Justin mentioned, the new cricket season is just around the corner and | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
today, Dave Gibbins has been to Somerset County Cricket Club. Here | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
he is with their plans for this year and the highlights from the | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
weekend's football and rugby action. This report contains some flash | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
photography. Well, the cricket season starts in earnest in a couple | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
of weeks' time for Somerset and this is part of their pre`season | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
reparation, showing off their Championship attire in front of the | :14:20. | :14:20. | |
press followed shortly by their press followed shortly by their | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Twenty20 kit. More about that in a moment. But first, the rest of the | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
sport. Yeovil Town has slipped, I am | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
afraid, to the bottom of football's Championship again. | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
afraid, to the bottom of football's It was imperative that they got the | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
better of relegation rivals Barnsley at the weekend. But they crashed to | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
a 4`1 defeat. A mistake by Byron Webster late in the first, which was | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
doubled by a tasty finish to leave them floundering in a game they | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
could not afford to lose. This could not afford to lose. This | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
player instilled some life into Town but that was quickly undone as | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Barnsley grabbed another two goals to end the contest. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
After two wins last week, Exeter City are back to square one | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
following a one goal loss to Accrington Stanley. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
While Torquay United's life as a league club is nearing its end. City | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
goalkeeper was left wanting from a corner kick, as Accrington scored | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
the only goal. Despite the result, Exeter are still seven points away | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
from danger. Torquay have only six games left to | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
preserve their league status and a 1`0 setback, this time play`off | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
content to Southend, leaves them seven points away from the clear. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
Exeter Chiefs's hopes of finishing in the top six of this year's Rugby | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Premiership and a place in the revamped European Cup are almost | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
over. Meanwhile, the Cornish Pirates have | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
needed ten straight wins in the league over south`west rivals | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
Plymouth Albion. Here's Ben. `` Brent. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Since Plymouth Albion last beat the Cornish Pirates in the league, there | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
has been two Winter Olympics, a change of government and a Royal | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Wedding. And their wait to beat their Cornish neighbours is going to | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
go into its fifth full year after Saturday's close loss. After Albion | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
had taken an early lead with tries putting the visitors in front. `` | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
lead, tries put the visitors in front. Iain Grace got Albion close | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
before this late try from Tom Kettle sealed the win against his old club. | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
We've come up here today, there is a great crowd. We really enjoyed being | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
in front of it and I feel like it had a bit of a derby game feel, as | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
well. It was coming and going, coming and going but thankfully we | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
got the result. A bit frustrating. We crossed the line twice, got the | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
ball rolling, put it down twice and the referee failed to see that | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
twice, which frustrates me as well. That's potentially 10`14 points but | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
somehow the officials have missed it but everyone else has seen it. So | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
I'm not happy with that either but we made two mistakes. `` too many | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
mistakes. Meanwhile, Exeter's hopes of a top six Premiership finish are | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
all but over after losing 14`13 to Gloucester. This late try set up a | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
kick to win it for Gary Steenson but it drifted just wide to leave the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Chiefs in ninth place. Well, the press conference has just | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
finished in the Long Room and we are on the balcony of that same | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
building. Joining us is the county captain of Somerset. You've got two | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
new coaches, David Hutton and also Jason Kerr, a familiar face to | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
everybody at the County ground. What do you think they can add to the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
team? It has been quite an easy progression. Jason has been involved | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
and been here for a long period of time. So that has been a natural | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
progression in a way. The bowlers have been working with him closely | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
during winter times. And then Dave has been a great asset for us. As | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
soon as he became available after his time at Derby, it was a natural | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
progression. We wanted somebody of his calibre, international | :17:47. | :17:47. | |
experience, coaching experience around the world, and the fantastic | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
batting coach that goes alongside that. Now, there has been a lot of | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
speculation and talk a good positive talk, about the twins Jamie and | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Craig, from North Devon. Has that talk been premature of them perhaps | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
earning their first England test caps question marks become a look, I | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
think it is not in thoroughly premature. `` test caps? Look, I | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
think it is not necessarily premature. All this with the England | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
team have had a tough winter. It is natural people are going to start | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
looking to the next group of players and the next use players on. They | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
have every chance. There are good cricketers and I am sure somewhere | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
along the line, whether this is in order season after, that both of | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
them will match up and be good enough to make the next step. `` | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
this season or the season after that. We wish the very best of | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
luck. Their first County Championship game is at Taunton | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
against Yorkshire, on Sunday April 13. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Lovely, you know summer is on its way when Dave has his pink, | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
short`sleeved shirt on. Is that the sign? | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Well, the clock did go forward. A group of budding engineers from a | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
school in Devon who built a radio controlled 4x4 car has just won a | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
national competition. The pupils from Clyst Vale Community College | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
pitted their vehicle against 26 other teams and overcame them and | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
some rather large obstacles. John Danks has the story. | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
This radio controlled car can tackle almost any awkward surface. What | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
might surprise you is that it was designed and built by these guys. It | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
has two wheel steering and 4`wheel steering, that you can turn off | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
remotely using the transmitter. That is the electronic side of things. We | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
also have a carbon fibre body shell and also carbon fibre chassis. The | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
car was built for an engineering challenge is run by Land Rover. The | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
year nine pupils travelled up to the company's divine quarters in | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
Warwickshire to take part in the national final. They were | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
interviewed by expert engineers from across the engineering sectors, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
aerospace, money factoring, production. The level of answers | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
they were given to their judges were phenomenal. The level of intensity | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
that they were scrutinised and was massive. They not only had to handle | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
the pressure but there were a few surprises. Especially on the course. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
We were not expecting it to be over a car. They were going inside and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
outside and on top of a car. After overcoming all of the obstacles, and | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
competitions from 26th other teams, it was a man who claimed the trophy | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
and the ?1000 rise. There were so many teams that I did not think | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
there was much chance of winning and I am still wheezed that we actually | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
won the whole competition. `` amazed. While success things and, | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
they are already planning to engineer and other when next year. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
`` another win. We never did things like that while | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
I was at school! I wish we had. Now as we heard earlier, Network | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Rail has confirmed that the rail line through Dawlish will open as | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
planned on Friday. Work is now underway to get the | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
station, which has also been closed, ready ahead of the big day. And a | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
group of green`fingered local volunteers has been giving it a make | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
over. Spotlight's Chloe Axford joined them this weekend. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
People here in Dawlish describe the town's train station as their | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
lifeblood. That is why they want it to look as good as possible when the | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Spotlight is on it when it reopens later this week. I want these just | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
to go over the edge. They need to be a bit higher. Local gardener and | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
broadcaster Toby Butland is leading a team of volunteers, giving the | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
platform is a floral make over. I grew up in Dawlish, live here in | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Dawlish, live your now and am very proud of that. It is just shocking | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
to see it go down at heel and almost washed away on the seafront. It is | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
important to me to bring it back. This is one thing that can make a | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
please look like it is back on its feet, open for business. It is plant | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
and colour. As well as a planting project, work is underway to spruce | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
the station up ahead of its reopening. There are new canopies | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
and the whole station has been newly painted. It is a very heavily used | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
station. Even though it is, you know, just a seaside town. A lot of | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
people commute, both southerly and northerly. The last two months have | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
been quiet from attic to the town, with the evacuation that took place. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
`` quite traumatic. Let's get Dawlish going again. Network Rail | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
has confirmed that the mainline through Dawlish will reopen on | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Friday, following weeks of round`the`clock work to repair it. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
It says work is progressing well, although there are still some | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
challenges ahead. It is looking good. I am looking | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
forward to seeing their handiwork on Friday because Spotlight will be | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
coming live run Dawlish station. We will also hopefully be on one of the | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
first passionate dreams. Passenger trains. You're also going | :22:59. | :23:11. | |
engineering project that has been engineering project that has been | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
going on has been taking place. We'll go behind the scenes there as | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
well. That is coming up on Friday at well. That is coming up on Friday at | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
six 30p. You're going to see those lovely | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
views out of the train window. Let's have a look at the weather. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
views out of the train window. Let's The papers happens in that it is | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Mediterranean heard this week. Is Mediterranean heard this week. Is | :23:30. | :23:30. | |
that right? No. Do not believe everything you | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
read in the newspapers. We did have a warm day yesterday but I think | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
14 degrees 15 degrees at best, and 14 degrees 15 degrees at best, | :23:46. | :23:45. | |
that is nothing like the that is nothing like the | :23:46. | :23:46. | |
temperatures in the Mediterranean. Not really true! Good evening. We | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
have had some warmth and some sunshine through the weekend. It has | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
been a very pleasant weekend. The highest temperatures have been | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
across parts of Somerset but I will come to those in just a second. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
First, the forecast for this week. It is mild but I would not go | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
overboard and call it warm. There is some rain in the forecast, mainly in | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
the form of showers. We continue with the risk of those showers | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
pretty much every day of this week. Hopefully some fine weather in | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
between those showers. We certainly between those showers. We certainly | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
The top temperatures was 18 degrees. The top temperatures was 18 degrees. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
so far from south`west England. Many so far from south`west England. Many | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
other locations for 16 or 17. Lots of cloud. Areas of low pressure, | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
be a feature of the week ahead. be a feature of the week | :24:38. | :24:37. | |
Every now and again, we will get a Every now and again, we will get a | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
strand of cloud thrown up by that area of low pressure, bringing the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
line of showers. We have one of the moment. That will move out of the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
way overnight tonight and before the next one arrives, coming through the | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
English Channel in the afternoon tomorrow, there should be a lot of | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
dry weather around. There is much in the way of wind, meaning it will | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
turn a misty and even for the first thing tomorrow morning. Either time | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
we get to the middle of the week, a weather system off the Atlantic will | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
bring us some more persistent rain. A lot is happening. The next 24 | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
hours or so, I think there will be a lot of dry weather. The showers that | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
we have now are quite lively. We have given some fairly torrential | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
downpours are, even your flash of light. The whole lot is moving | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
northwards and later on tonight, it becomes dry and then misty and then | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
foggy by tomorrow morning. In fact, some of the fault could be quite | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
thick for those travelling early in the day. Visibility is between 50 | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
and 100 metres. That really could cause some travel worries early in | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
the day. Later tonight, it will be forming and around early tomorrow | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
morning. Stay tuned to a local radio for | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
updates on that. Overnight temperatures... For most of us, it | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
will be a fine day tomorrow after that fog has gone. There is that | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
next line of showers coming up from the south. Late in the day, coming | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
into parts of Cornwall and so they can. Although there are a few | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
showers dotted around and it is just a line of cloud, rather than any in | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Thames River Pageant winds are also coming around. They're becoming a | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
bit more easterly on the strongest will be across West Cornwall and the | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Isles of Scilly. Temperatures getting up to 15, maybe 16 degrees. | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
17 is possible across northern parts of Somerset but not quite as warm as | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
yesterday. On to the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. Here, I think, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
mainly dry with cloudy skies. Breezy day with the threat of a few light | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
showers. Those times are now of course in | :26:31. | :26:45. | |
British summertime. For our suffers, the south coast is likely to have | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
some of the biggest waves but not very clean. The strongest winds will | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
be in the far west. There is a coastal waters forecast. Mainly fair | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
but with the risk of showers later in the day. Also the possibility of | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
some sea fog patches around line Bay and Corby. They could be slow to | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
move out of the way. That is the forecast for the rest of this week. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
`` and sea fog patches around the coast. There will be some longer | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
spells of rain possibly but hopefully a bit of sunshine in | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
between. Have a good evening. Not quite Mediterranean. Thank you, | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
David. BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcasting a | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
special programme from Brussels tomorrow. James Churchfield and | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
Debbie McRory will be live at the EU Parliament building, asking what | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
Europe has done for Cornwall. That's live from 6am tomorrow morning. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
Parliament Sounds good. We are back at 6:30pm | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
tomorrow. Have a lovely evening. Thank you for watching. | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
Good night. | :27:45. | :27:46. |