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Marching into Merton, the Coldstream Guards are given the | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
freedom of the parish. It was an extraordinary day for small Devon | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
village. Tonight the regiment is honoured. And a couple attacked and | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
left for dead on holiday condemn the compensation they have been | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
offered. Just recognition would be, you know, we're just not forgotten. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
We did not deserve this. The state of the region's high streets, a | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
report says in some towns a quarter of the shops are empty. Devon has | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
been honouring the bravery of the Coldstream Guards today. The | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
regiment has been granted the freedom of the parish of Merton in | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
North Devon. The founder of the Coldstream Guards, General George | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Monk, was born in the village. More than 1,000 people are expected to | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
fill Exeter Cathedral this evening for a special concert. In a moment | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
we'll have more from there, but first Leigh Rundle reports on a | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
special day in North Devon. If it hadn't been for the rain, this | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
could have been a Mirage, her Majesty's most intimate body guards | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
marching through village. The whole thing's fantastic, but almost | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
unbelievable that you know, this is a little village, cold stream's on | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
the board we are vand -- Scotland. I wouldn't have missed it. Up to | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
1,000 people lined the streets as the regiment was granted freedom of | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
the area. It has been agreed by this council to grant the freedom | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
of the parish to this regiment. This is probably the biggest civic | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
event in the village's history. And weeks of preparation. The ladys | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
have sown 500 metres of bunting. And the newspaper says, cut your | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
grass and polish your brass knockers! Even the local children | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
were given the day off. When the inspector came, when he did the | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
back rank, we had to go in front of them. Was it scary? I liked it when | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
the guards came with their rifles. And I also liked it when they were | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
waving the flags. The regiment's link with herton, well its founder, | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
colonel jorblg Monk was born here 400 years ago. -- George Monk. Here | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
was the oldest ex-guardsman. I hope people remember the lads we saw, it | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
is not just ceremonial they do, they also do their time in | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Afghanistan. Having been granted the freedom of the area, what do | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
the soldiers intend to do with it? I don't know. Because I'm from | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Essex. It's not much time to get back here. For Merton this has been | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
the most historic of days. Well earlier we caught up with one of | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
the soldiers, who has been describing his experience of active | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
duty in Afghanistan. For Adam Swift today is a day to remember. He has | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
taken part in three tours of Afghanistan and is proud to bring | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
his regiment back to the South West. My regiment has such strong west | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
country roots. We were formed from here. For us to come back and have | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
the freedom of the city, everyone is very proud. Special think west | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
country guys. It -- specially the west country guys. Sergeant Swift | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
was awarded the Military Cross and was part of a recent BBC | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
documentary called Our War. The Ministry of Defence issued the | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
troops with led cams and the style wasn't something he was keen on. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
I'm kite a humble guy and I didn't want to sell -- I'm quite a humble | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
guy and didn't want to sell myself. But I thought it is an opportunity | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
for people to appreciate what the average lad goes through. They do | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
go through these things and if they come back and they are slightly | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
different. There is a reason. sergeant Swift, his family seeing | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
the material was a concern. He did want to keep a lot from me to start | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
with, to protect me from what went on. But when we knew footage was | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
going out, I found out more and more. He just wants to protect us | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
as a family and not realise what he goes through. Then it makes it more | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
anxious for us. But sergeant Swift will treasure the time he has at | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
home as he remembered his colleagues who weren't so fortunate. | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
A service is being held at Exeter katheedial. -- cathedral. Well | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
certain think presence of cold stream guards has been a sight for | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
sore eyes. People are starting to queue for concert tonight which | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
takes place at 7.30. I'm joined by a couple of guardsmen. We know the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
regiment for trooping the colour, what does the honour in Merton | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
mean? It means the same. We have taken part in Trooping the Colour | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
and the Royal Wedding. To be in Merton is a great honour. It is | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
part of our tradition of having our freedom and being able to march | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
through the town. It was a great honour and everyone enjoyed it. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Darren Hardy, what is happening tomorrow? Basically the cold stream | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
guards are getting the freedom of Exeter, which is a great Monday | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
nour. About 300 soldiers will march through the city led by the band. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
This is about midday. Later the bishop of Exeter will be blessing | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
the regimental colours. So we are looking forward to that. You have | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
been practicing for the consefrplt what can we expect? -- concert, | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
what can we expert. We had a major record deal and we were No 1 in the | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
classical charts for six weeks. And this is a celebration and it is | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
about our heroes and the pride of our nation. It starts at 7.30 and | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
you can still get tickets. We will have more in our late news. A | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
couple from Somerset who were brutally attacked and left for dead | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
while on holiday in the Caribbean island of Tobago have been offered | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
less than �3,000 each in compensation. Peter and Murium | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Green say the amount is beneath contempt. Meanwhile Spotlight has | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
learned that detectives from Trinidad and Tobago will be | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
visiting the Greens this weekend. Clinton Rogers reports. It doesn't | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
even cover our legal expenses. letter from the Trinidad and Tobago | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
criminal injuries compensation board has left them angry. Peter | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
and Muirial yum were lefpt with injuries that will be with them for | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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ever. But the amount was a little less than �2km 500. It is so unfair. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Peter, can I ask you, it has affected your wife badly. How are | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
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you feeling? I'm burnt. I can't continue to be that burden. I need | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
help. Please. Just recognition would be you know, getting, we did | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
not deserve this. This chopping as they call it. Chopping, that is | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
great isn't it? Two years ago they were attacked with a machete and | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
left for dead in Tobago. The BBC has followed their case ever since. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
At one time a local man was arrested, but later released. No | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
one has been brought to justice. Now, we have learned that this | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
weekend police from the Caribbean will fly to meet the Greens to | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
resurrect the inquiry. Not that the couple are optimistic. The one | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
lesson we have learned with the area, it disappearing -- disa peers | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
within a week. The local MP has jizz sitted the Greens here and has | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
taken up their case. I spoke to him on telephone and he was about to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
board a plane on Foreign Office business. He said he was | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
disappointed there had been no progress with the case and has | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
promised to raise it again with the Trinidad and Tobago Government. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Peter's health is deteriorating, but he says he is determined to see | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
justice done. You're watching Spotlight from the BBC. Thanks for | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
joining us. Still ahead this evening: The fears for one of the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
regions historic livestock markets. Hatherleigh faces closure. And | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
happy birthday to the Lynx. Yeovilton gets ready to celebrate | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
its famous helicopter. Cornwall has the largest number of empty shops | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
in the South West according to a new survey. The figures from The | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Local Data Company claim 25% of shops in St Austell are empty and | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
in Redruth 22%. In Devon, Ilfracombe has more than 20% of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
shops vacant, while in Torquay it's 19%. This compares to the national | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
average of 13%. Some in the business community have disputed | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the figures, so we sent reporters to one town in Devon on the list | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
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and one in Cornwall to find out more. Here in Torbay the percentage | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
of vacant shops is amongst the highest in Devon. It is not good. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
The reason why they're empty, they're too expensive. People won't | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
pay the rents. My overheads are frightening. Some weeks we're | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
working and can't get a wage from it. But what do shoppers think of | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the situation? You have lots of charity shops and cheaper shops, | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
amusements. For people that live here, I don't think it is good. | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
haven't noticed any empty shops. It wouldn't stop me. Torbay has been | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
seen as a safe harbour for shops with the tourist industry buffering | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
it. Business leaders say that is set to continue, despite the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
survey's findings. These surveys are always a snapshot in time. This | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
is not the picture we see. A number of the units are now full. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
survey suggests shops are still closing, but at a slower rate than | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
two years ago. The high street of St Austell and the town is filling | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
up. Wandering through the town we found vacant shops like this one | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
that closed when the company went into administration. Millions have | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
been spent in St Austell on trying to improve things. This is the new | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
white river place shopping area. It has housing and a cinema. But has | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
it brought people? I think it has got better. But I would say there | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
are a lot of empty spaces that could do with something there. | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
quality of shops themselves are better. But I think there needs to | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
be a greater variety to bring people in. Rather than like just | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
clothes or mobile phones. Chamber of Commerce say there may | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
be empty shops, but new retailers are showing interest. Shopkeepers | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
like Karen, who has relocated from Nottingham to Cornwall and chose to | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
open her new business here in St Austell. So what is the situation | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
like in your town centre. Contact us on Twitter. Or e-mail us. It's | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
not just the towns and cities that are struggling in the current | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
economic climate. There was news today that one of the region's | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
historic livestock markets is facing closure. Hatherleigh, in | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
mid-Devon, survived the foot-and- mouth outbreak, but now there are | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
proposals to redevelop the site as housing. From there our | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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correspondent Simon Hall reports. It was the poultry sale today. But | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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this could be among the last seen in this historic market. The owners | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
of the site are proposing it be re- developed, probably as housing. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Well I think it is a terrible thing. Our communities are suffering so | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
badly and there is another what is a valuable asset that is going to | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
be lost. It is a day out. I look forward to this. It would be a | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
tragedy if it closed. It is dreadful. People come here socially, | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
a bit of business and a bit of pleasure. For us it is a day out. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
And I don't think it is needed to be redeveloped. It is important | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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that the market stays. Hatherleigh has diversified and even advertised. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Come to the market today. And support the town. The problem for | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
markets is more farmers are selling stock direct to slaughter houses | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
and the region has seen many disappear. It would kill any | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
business that people are trying to keep going or set up actually in | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
Hatherleigh. The owners of the market would not be interviewed, | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
but said the fall in the number of livestock being sold here meant the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
market was no longer viable and they had to look at other options. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
A public meeting will be hold a week on Thursday for locals to give | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
their views on what should happen to the market. Now if you work in a | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
hospital you'll know that one of the most precious resources there | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
is blood. The NHS uses 7,000 voluntary donations of it every day. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
In the South West, the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital says it's | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
leading the way in a new technique which is helping to save those | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
blood stocks. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has the story. Neil is about | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
to have major surgery. He has cancer and has to have his bladder | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
removed. It is a long and difficult operation and he could lose a lot | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
of blood. Normally that would mean relying on blood from a donor. But | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
not here. Instead they will recycle Neil's own blood. It is a logical | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
thing to happen. I'm glad, because it releases the pressure on the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Blood Transfusion Service. I know they're under pressure. Where my | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
blood can be pumped back into me, it is better and cheaper. Rather | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
than use other people's blood. is now in the operating theatre and | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
surgery has begun. As he starts losing bloorbgsd it will come into | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
this machine, -- blood, it will come into this machine and be | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
recycled and ready to be used. know patients recover from surgery | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
if they don't have a blood transfusion. We need blood in some | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
procedures, but it is also an expensive resource. Each pint of | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
blood costs �140 and that is a lot to pay for in these cash-strapped | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
days. Now all patients having planned surgery at the hospital | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
will have their own blood recycled and the hospital can keep the | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
pressure bloodstocks for emergencies. -- precious | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
bloodstocks for emergencies. While Plymouth Argyle wait to complete | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
the takeover of the club, they're already planning the next step to | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
take them out of administration. The formalities of the sale and | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
purchase should be agreed this week. After that, they'll have one month | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
to go through the procedure of satisfying the Football League that | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
they can move forward to a brighter future. The next step is for know | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
get together with Dave Jones who has been working with me on the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
financial side, to put together our business plan, based on the cash we | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
have got. Go to the league and show them that we're in a state to come | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
out of administration. That is not a simple process, but our objective | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
is to do that by 6th August. grisly discovery of 50 ancient | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
skulls in a pit near Weymouth two years ago raised lots of questions | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
about who they were and what they were doing there. But strange | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
markings on the teeth have now led archaeologists to believe they were | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Viking warriors. It's thought the horizontal lines may have been to | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
frighten enemies. Well earlier I spoke to local archaeologist Win | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
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Scutt and asked him who he thought the remains belonged to. Well the | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
suspicion is they're Vikings, because when we analysed the teeth | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
it revealed where the people had grown up. What water they had been | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
drinking. And that had got into their teeth. It showed they were | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
from a cold climate and one was probably from the Arctic Circle. So | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
we think they're probably Vikings. But you can't be certain. How did | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
they end up in what we know as Weymouth. They were probably on a | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Viking raid. There were a lot of raids in the 10th century. This was | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
probably a raid. And they have been marshalled up and round up and | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
executed. I was going say, what is the thinking behind how they ended | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
up? It is nasty. There are 54 bodies without heads. Their heads | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
have been placed alongside separately. They have been cut off | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
as heads, not as skulls. There are multiple slash marks and there must | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
have been the most ghastly mass Kerr with mates looking on at what | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
a horrible death. And they must have been naked. There were no | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
signs of buttons or anything. analysis of the teeth showing these | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
strange grooves. What do you think these grooves indicate? Well, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
dental modify kaigs is one thing that many societys have done across | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
the world. It is not that common in Europe. But there had been evidence | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
for the filing down and decoration of Viking teeth in Sweden. So that | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
is about the same date, 10th century that. H -- that gives more | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
evidence that may might be Viking. Thank you very much. Last minute | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
preparations for one of the region's biggest air shows have | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
been taking place in Somerset today. Yeovilton Air Day this Saturday | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
will celebrate the 40th birthday of an aircraft born and bred in the | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
county. As well as being a tribute to the Lynx helicopter, the event | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
will also showcase aircraft from around the world and today we were | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
given a preview of the show, as Janine Jansen reports. 40 years old | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
and not showing it -- idges age. Pilots demonstrating what the Lynx | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
is capable of. The aircraft was Somerset born and bred, designed at | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
built at the Westland factory near Yeovilton. It has become a main | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
stay of the British armed forces, excelling during the Falklands war. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Remarkably this aircraft still holds the helicopter speed record, | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
400 kilometres an hour. Today as the 21st Century Lynx was showing | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
off, two of the engineers who designed it were looking on with | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
pride. I thought it was an aircraft for the future and it still is. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Is that how you feel? Yes, I have been a believer in the aircraft | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
from the start. I said life begins at 40. Saturday's air show will | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
celebrate the Lynx's birthday and show case aircraft young and old | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
from all over the world. It is to demonstrate Royal Navy capability | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
and exposure of what the navy is doing and to just keep the navy in | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
the public eye. One aircraft that was showing its age a little was | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
the Hunter, the 60-year-old jet fighter looked agile enough to | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
start with, but then developed engine problems and landed with a | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Fire Brigade and ambulance escort. But there was no drama. Organisers | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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hope it will stay like that at the weekend. Now the weather, look | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
weekend. Now the weather, look overcast but still OK for flying. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Well we have had some wet weather sweeping across the South West | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
today. For the rest of the week we have an unsettled theme with plenty | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
of showers and it will become breezy. There is already a breeze | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
and that will feature for the rest of the week. You can see cloud | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
stretching from central France up the eastern side of England, | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
curving around the low pressure and you can see several bands of cloud. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
These are lines of showers that will affect us over the next two | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
days. The area of low pressure for tonight has a tight mix of rain and | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
showers just to the south of it. That splits into another area of | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
low pressure that comes into southern Ireland by tomorrow. And | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
we will see the strong winds associated with that and more | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
persistent rain. On Thursday we are between systems and hopefully some | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
sunshine. But also some showers. There this a line of rain. Already | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
some more showers coming into central parts of Ireland. So later | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
on some of the showers will move across the rest of us. And some | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
late unSchlein to enjoy and clear sky tonight to allow the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
temperatures to dip into single figures. But notice there is more | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
cloud coming and going through the night. But first thing tomorrow, | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
there could be dry weather with the best of the sunshine the more | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
eastern parts of Devon into Somerset and Dorset. A nice start | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
here. Tonight temperatures around 10 degrees. Some places koun to -- | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
down to eight or nine. Tomorrow, we have got a scattering of showers | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
for the morning with some sunshine in between. Much more cloud and the | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
blue becoming more widespread. That is more persistent rain. Also | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
becoming windy in the second half of the day. Specially around the | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
coasts of Cornwall and the Bristol channel. Temperatures 16 on the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
coast. But where we see some fine weather, particularly again across | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
sorm set, 18 or 19. -- Somerset. For the Isles of Scilly some | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
showers and then rain later. Become windy with possible gale force | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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winds to the end of the afternoon. For surfers the sur 6 this week | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
will be challenging. Some big waves developing -- developing towards | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
the end of the day. Becoming quite messy by early evening. The south | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
coast will have some shelter. But the wave will be large and messy. | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
Coastal waters forecast, for most of the day the swipbt winds will be | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
south-westerly force five is six, but picking up to force seven in | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the far west A mixture of sunshine and showers until that rain turns | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
up. The forecast all the way through and including the start of | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
weekend, is blustery winds, we're between weather systems on Thursday | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
and we could see mixture of sunshine and showers. More sunshine | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
on Friday. But still breezy. Saturday, with a sigh of relief it | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
could be a dry day and with more sunshine the temperatures will be | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
higher. And lighter wind, so fingers crossed for air show. Thank | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
you. For your e-mails about empty shops. One said come to lis guard | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
where it is nearer -- lis guard where it is nearer 50%. The same | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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point from Alan, who says Lisgard is a dying town. Dawn says in | :27:25. | :27:30. |