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Attacked by a polar bear: Scott Bennell-Smith from Cornwall is now | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
in hospital in Plymouth along with Mike Reid, one of the expedition | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
leaders. Good evening. We'll have the latest | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
on their condition and talk to a polar explorer about the dangers of | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Arctic expeditions. Also tonight: digging up a golf | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
course. The moment Dartmoor National Park won its long battle | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
to remove unauthorised greens. And what a welcome home. Hundreds | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
turn out to greet loved ones on the return of HMS Sutherland and HMS | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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Albion. A 17-year-old schoolboy from | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Cornwall who survived a polar bear attack and the Plymouth man who | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
shot and killed the bear are tonight in a stable condition in | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Plymouth's Derriford Hospital. A second schoolboy from Jersey is | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
being treated at a hospital in Southampton. He had to have the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
bear's teeth removed from his skull. They were part of an expedition to | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Norway when the bear attacked during the early hours of Friday | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
morning. Amy Cole reports. In the remote camp of Svalbard | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
north of the Norwegian mainland, 17-year-old a Scott Bennell-Smith | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
for sharing a tent with Patrick Flinders and Horatio chapel. They | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
were asleep when they were attacked by a polar bear. Scott suffered a | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
broken jaw and lost teeth. He is now recovering in Derriford | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
hospital. Surgeons treating Patrick Flinders had to remove that some of | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the bear's teeth from his skull. His father has praised his son for | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
punching the bear on the nose during the attack. He said he is | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
worried about his son's emotional state. To watch one of them get | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
that to two pieces by a bear, that has got to affect them. -- ripped | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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it to pieces. He tried to save the lad for -- that was killed. Concern | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
about their son is also shared by the parents of Michael Reid. He | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
sustained serious injuries to his face and neck. At the weekend, his | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
parents are revealed their son is an experienced explorer. He is Akim | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
M1 to the year and has done some big expeditions. -- a keen explorer | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
and has done some big expeditions. Like Scott, Michael is now being | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
cared for at Derriford Hospital. Svalbard it is well known for its | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
polar bear activity. We were out filming during the day and quite | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
often they would come back to discover that our trip wire was | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
triggered and there were signs of their activity. British Schools | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Exploring Society which organised the expedition says it will provide | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
as much support as possible for those affected. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
With we now is an Arctic explorer. What sort of impact has this had on | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
people who needed the sort of expeditions? I think everyone who | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
shares that have the passion for the Arctic will be deeply upset by | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
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the stories. We heard about a trip wire in that report. What sort of | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
precautions would an expedition take? British Schools Exploring | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Society have been going to Svalbard for many years, they would have a | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
very good policy. They would have protection against an incident like | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
this or career. However, seeing that, a polar their attack is very | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
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unusual. -- against this occurring. The trip wire is attached to | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
bangers around the camp. People are deeply shocked by what has happened. | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
They are also questioning why we need to be in this territory. This | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
is the territory of poorer -- polar bears. This is a very unusual | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
occurrence. I have never had an encounter like this. Their young | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
people, everyone who goes away on a project like this, shares a passion | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
to overcome a personal challenges, and a curiosity for the world | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
around us. The projects and expeditions help it to develop | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
young people. In light of what has happened, what impact do you think | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
it will have on future expeditions? I hope it will not have any impact | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
with the young people wanting to go out and explore the world. An | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
inquest will take place to understand what did take place. | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
Hopley, it will not quenched or get rid of the sense of adventure. -- | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
hopefully. A Belgian sailor has been rescued | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
after his yacht ran aground in St Ives Bay. The 26-foot sailing boat | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
ended up on its side in the surf off Hayle Towans in West Cornwall. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Here's our Cornwall reporter David George. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
It is not what holidaymakers were expecting to be taking pictures of | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
on the beach this morning. The small yacht was a ground in a big | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
swell. Both said arrives lifeboats were sent to the scene along with a | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
cliff rescue team. -- and both the St Ives and lifeboats. Conditions | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
were very rough. It was a case of thinking up Uplyme, sticking to the | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
plan and waiting for the tide to do is work. -- thinking up a plan. And | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
also whether it was saved enough to bring the lifeboat in that close. | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
This was the first to rescue for the new coxswain in charge of the | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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St Ives lifeboat. He said the crew worked well together. The Belgian | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
yachtsman was well enough to go back on board. He was exhausted, | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
heading for Ireland, but decided to head for Penzance and ended up | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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slightly lost. Here is the Belgian yacht, moored up safely but not in | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
a very calm spot in the waters off St Ives are. It looks like the | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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Heavy earth-moving equipment today dug up a golf course on Dartmoor | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
because it has no planning permission. The course has been at | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
the centre of a planning row for 15 years. The National Park Authority | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
says manicured tees and greens are at odds with surrounding farmland. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
Hamish Marshall has the story. Making a stand, but too late to | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
save this golf course. A surprise early mornings would have meant the | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
Dartmoor National Park Authority got his way. It just a few hours, | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
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the tees and greens were destroyed. It is a lovely course. Some nice | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
local people around here. It is a nice socially run club. It gives | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
people the opportunity to get into golf who might not have had that | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
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opportunity otherwise. At �4 a round, Reddacleave Farm could be | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
the cheapest course in the country. Proceeds go to charity. The diggers | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
are levelling of what used to be a green. The National Park Authority | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
said the screen cut into the hillside and ruined the landscape. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Their impact on the landscape is quite marked. The manicured | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
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landscape is significantly different from the landscape around. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
The order of the course vet with national park a authorities last | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
week. His daughter thinks the authorities had been heavy-handed. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
My father willingly showed them around. Showed them the word he had | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
done on the greens. They never commented. They have gone away, | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
waited until my parents are away on holiday and then have come in and | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
demolished everything. authorities say they did not know | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
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about the holiday, but the owner has had plenty of chances to comply. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Police say a serious traffic accident at Manadon roundabout in | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Plymouth is likely to close the road for several hours. A | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
motorcyclist has died in the accident which also involved a | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
lorry. It happened just after three this afternoon. Diversions are in | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
place. A community scheme to target rural | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
crime in Devon is being extended by the police. New figures suggest an | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
increase in the amount of theft from farms across the South West | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
over the past year. The insurer NFU Mutual says rural crime cost the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
region more than �8 million in 2010. This report from Spotlight's Leigh | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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Rundle. Any problems? This dairy farmer | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
disturb thieves who turned up at his property in broad daylight. | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
car park was full. They just drove right past to the back of the sheds. | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
When we went to see what they wanted, they drove off after be | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
confronted them. A few days later, we found out they had taken some | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
batteries. They would have taken more if they had not been spotted. | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
It is the sort of opportunist crime that has cost the local community | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
up to �8 million in the last year. They seem to know when nobody is | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
there. When the farmer is out harvesting and they come into the | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
yard. What measures can for mistake to try to counter this problem? | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
They can get tracking devices fitted. Immobilisers on tractors. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
And take the key out every night. So purity cameras and a thermal | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
imaging devices now form part of a comprehensive deterrent. -- | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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security cameras. This farm is now a golf course. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
We've got all the sport still ahead in the programme. As the new | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
football season gets underway, we'll assess how day one went for | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
our sides. After a summer of discontent, something to celebrate | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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for Argyle fans. Why is the There were jubilant scenes at | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Devonport Naval Base today as HMS Albion and HMS Sutherland returned | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
to their home port. They've been on a four-and-a-half month deployment | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
which has seen them on active service in the Gulf. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
1000 people were on the dockside waiting for their loved ones. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
HMS Albion at anchor in Plymouth Sound. She is one of the navy's | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
larger vessels and has to wait for high water to dock. For the ship's | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
company, Time for a last meal before being reunited with loved | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
ones. It has been hard work at times, but we have had some great | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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times along the way. The ships were part of a small feet on exercise in | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
the Gulf. -- small fleet. HMS Albion was also used it to support | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
Nato operations in Libya. Readiness to respond is clearly an important | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
element. The fact that the ship responded so quickly from a | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
training deployment into being ready to protect attack helicopters | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
was a highlight. This is a delicate process. There are high winds and | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
it is a small space to navigate in two. A right royal may be welcome. | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
What is it like having Dad home? Good. It has been a lot busy trip, | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
lots of uncertainty. It is like to get on to the family. What have you | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
got planned? I have got a very long list of jobs that had been building | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
up. But we will also go on holiday. My parents have brought champagne. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
It feels as if he has been a way for four years. The ship's company | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
has leave to look forward to before reporting back for duty. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Devonport-based HMS Portland is to become the first warship to be | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
commanded by a woman in the history of the Royal Navy. 39-year-old | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Lieutenant Commander Sarah West will become the first female | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
commander of a frontline warship in the 500-year history of the service. | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
She will take charge of the Type 23 frigate in April next year. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
To the sport now and, if you hadn't noticed, it was first day of the | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
new football season on Saturday. Although sadly we didn't have any | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
wins to celebrate, two of our sides produced spirited fight-backs to | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
pick up points. Earlier Chris Hargreaves joined me to look back | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
at the action. Pretty good. I think we chose the | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
right game. There was one big talking point. | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
think there were disappointed at Exeter about this. He could have | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
been arrested at for that. It was a definite sending off, perhaps a | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
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penalty. The result serves it -- sums it up. | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
The first of the comebacks. Plymouth Albion did well. Minor | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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debutants playing for Plymouth, unbelievable. -- Nine the debutants. | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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And it them a wonder goal. The belief must have been sued for him. | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
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-- the relief it must have been A great shot of the 1200 fans that | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
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went. Torquay clawed their way back from two of goals down. Yes, they | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
did well. They played well on the day. It was looking like a bit of a | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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calamity at this point, but they That was a great finish. Great | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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composure. He is a big chap! Yes! I think he will be talking about this | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
for the next 10 months. Are you looking forward to the season? | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
cannot wait! And our teams are back in action | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
tomorrow evening as the League Cup kicks off. Exeter are playing | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Yeovil who lost 2-0 to Brentford at the weekend. Plymouth are at home | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
to Millwall and Torquay also have Championship opposition - they're | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
away to Southampton. Devon shooter Georgina Geikie has | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
earned Great Britain an extra place in the women's 25m pistol event at | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the 2012 Olympics. The 26-year-old achieved the required qualifying | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
standard at the European Championships in Belgrade. As host | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
of the Olympics, Team GB already had one place for the event. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Geikie's success means that two British shooters will now compete. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
In cricket, Somerset have made it to finals day of the T20 cup for | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
the third year in a row. Somerset's allocation of tickets for the four | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
team event at Edgbaston on August 27th go on sale tomorrow. But as | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Alistair Durden reports, don't hang about if you want one. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
On a roll and favourites to go all the way. The win over | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Nottinghamshire means that Somerset have not lost in 11 matches. | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
Success on the field is good news of it. It has been a tough season | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
financially. We have had a four are washed out to matches. The final | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
stage is a real bonus for us. It will help the club financially, but | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
more importantly, we want to be there in the final. The bad news | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
for the fans is a small allocation. The club will get a share of the | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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gate receipts, but the players will get the prize money. And they are | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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hitting form at the right time. Key The rest of the squad have a week | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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off. Supporters can begin at the scramble for a ticket to watch them. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Dartmouth held its biggest street party at the weekend in honour of | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
the humble brown crab. Almost 400 people had a crab lunch, watched | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
cooking demonstrations or learnt how to catch the local delicacy. | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
Emma Ruminski went along to find out more. This is not a great place | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
to be a crustacean, it is the only thing on the menu, crab. Although | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
many of us like eating it, few know how to prepare it and perhaps shy | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
away from buying it whole. These demonstrations are designed to | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
teach people how to get the most meat out of a crab. How to dress it | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
and which bits to avoid. Some bits are poisonous, is that true? That | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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There are lungs, but they are not poisonous, just a bit bitter. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
clue is in the name. It is always less messy if you get someone else | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
to prepare your crab. Dartmouth has had a long association with crab | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
fisheries. Some fishermen have kept the tradition in their family since | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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the beginning of last century. They land a lot of brown crab here. | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
There are about 500 pots on the seabed here. Around 50 per cent of | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
what they catch today could end up It is estimated that just 10 per | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
cent of crab landed here is consumed in Devon. The Festival | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
hopes to support the industry and encourage growth in the local | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
market. It is about celebrating South Devon crab. It is one of our | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
best resources and not enough people know that. We are trying to | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
tell everyone in the UK just how good it is. They claim that South | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Devon crabs are the largest and have the sweetest meat. They | :22:39. | :22:49. | |
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certainly have enough diners along It looks lovely! | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
We hear a lot about the loss of traditional habitats for native | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
British wildlife but on one Somerset estate, they've proved | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
that it is possible to reverse the process. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Just a year ago, this field at Barcroft Hall in South Petherton | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
was filled with rubbish and derelict buildings. Now, they're | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
calling it the Field of Dreams. It's been opened up to the public, | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
entry is free and so far more than 1,500 people have been to see it. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
The older ones have welled up because it reminds them of a long- | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
forgotten past, the younger ones have never seen anything like this | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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before. Isn't that looking wonderful! Gorgeous. | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
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There was not a bad day for a Isolated showers at first tonight, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
but they will tend to ease away and clear spells will develop through | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
clear spells will develop through the early hours of tomorrow morning | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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as this high pressure gradually edges in towards us. This weather | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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system could head its way towards us over the next 48 hours. It | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
should be a pleasant day tomorrow. By Wednesday, at lunchtime, bad | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
weather system will be pushing towards us. We can see some cloud a | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
bubbled up at times during the day. It was enough to bring a few | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
showers, but not as heavy as yesterday. We will see a few | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
showers lingering into the first part of the night, but very few and | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
far between. The cloud will tend to dissolve it through the early hours | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
of the morning. Temperatures will drop quite a low for this time of | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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year. Around nine or 12 Celsius. Tomorrow, a bit of a chilly start | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
for the day, but it should soon warm up as a sunshine gets going. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Sunshine will be with us through the day. Today I did feel a little | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
on the cool side, tomorrow should feel warmer. Temperatures of 19 | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
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Celsius. The Isles of Scilly, it will be warm and dry as well. A | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds | :26:12. | :27:09. | |
Thursday, that cloud will continue to thicken with a few spots of | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
light rain and drizzle. For Friday, still a rather cloudy, but | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
generally dry for most of us. Temperatures of 20 degree. We have | :27:22. | :27:25. |