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A boost for the Cornish economy as the Government gives part of the | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
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county special status. Deep disappointment. Frustration. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Mystification, I do not understand exactly how this decision was | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
arrived. But other areas in the South West miss out. Good evening | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
and welcome to Spotlight. There's a hope that hundreds of new jobs will | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
be created in Newquay. More in a moment. Also tonight. Vaccinating | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
badgers. The South West keeps a close eye on a new trial that hopes | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
to tackle bovine TB. And alongside the rescuers as they enter their | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
busiest time of the year. Tax breaks and a relaxation of planning | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
laws are being offered to tempt new businesses to Cornwall and create | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
hundreds of jobs. Newquay has been chosen as one of the Government's | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
enterprise zones. The plan is to transform the area around Newquay | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Airport into a base for firms specialising in the aviation | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
industry. But the good news for Cornwall was bad news for Devon as | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
a bid from Plymouth was rejected by the government. One business leader | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
in the city has told Spotlight he is mystified as to how the decision | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
was arrived at. Eleanor Parkinson reports. When Cornwall took over | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Newquay airfield, they spent millions upgrading the site and now | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
they want to create an industrial hub to bring in new business. This | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
is the sort of industry they want to attract, Argos to have moved | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
their operational training to Newquay, this helicopter has been | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
sold to Algeria and the pilots have been trained in Cornwall. Now the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Government has agreed to help by giving the site enterprise status, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
new companies will get tax breaks and will not have to overcome his | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
many planning hurdles. It was a good bid that recognise that they | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
could build upon the existing facilities but create new jobs. | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
There is already the airport so this is taking that foreword. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Business leaders say this could create more than 1000 new jobs. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
it comes to reality, we're talking about generating more than 1000 | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
direct jobs, quite a lot of further jobs in the sport industry and this | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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is an area where we do sadly still are one of the poorest. Many | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
businesses will be able to make the move quickly. You're talking to | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
companies about coming down here? We have got 19 active Leeds within | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the aerospace sector from various disciplines like engineering, | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
maintenance repair and operational training. It'll be interesting to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
what Newquay has to offer. there are also losers, Plymouth did | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
not succeed in its biz -- bid for Enterprise status, wanting to | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
develop five sites concentrating on marine related manufacturing. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
disappointment, frustration, mystification, I do not understand | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
how this decision was derived. Whilst business figures and | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Cornwall celebrate, even they admit that the hard work now begins, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
persuading companies that this is the best option for many companies' | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
futures. I spoke to economics expert Peter papayas and asked him | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
how much of a boost this could be. We have passed examples, this | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
policy was tried in the 1980s with some success, they tended to be | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
short-term, most of the jobs tended to come from the surrounding area | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
so there was a lot of displacement. They're quite expensive, costing | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
�23,000 for each job so it was expensive and it tended to bring | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
short-term benefit. There is talk and its -- specialising in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
aerospace. Were thus generate jobs for locals or will this just bring | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
specialists from other parts of the country? Both are possible, it | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
depends on how successful this is. We don't have a major airport in | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Newquay and I am not aware of large numbers of aerospace jobs about to | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
be swallowed up in the locality so it will be difficult to get in a | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
space engineers there. They will have to come from outside. But no | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
doubt there would be knock-on effects a local economy. They would | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
spend money in the local economy so that is why there would be a boost? | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
Quite. But there are dangers. If you just want to go for a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
particular industry, you might be turning away good jobs that might | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
otherwise lead to long-term benefits. Plymouth lost in the bid. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
What impact will that have on the city's economy? Plymouth has | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
partially lost out for a number of reasons, is going through hard | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
times. It did not help that there was convergence funding just over | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
the border. It needs all the help it can get, it is a big | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
disappointment to Plymouth. It thought it was going to get this. | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
Thank you very much indeed. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
lost its appeal against the compensation it was ordered to pay | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
following the unfair dismissal of its former chief executive, John | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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Watkinson. Mr Watkinson was sacked in 2009. He said it was because he | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
was a whistleblower over cancer treatment. The Trust said it was | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
because of concerns over his management. Mr Watkinson will | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
receive �885,000 in compensation from the Trust. Unemployment has | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
risen across the region according to figures published this morning. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Compared with the national average, Torbay has the highest rate at 4.1% | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
of the population out of work and claiming benefit. In Plymouth, the | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
figure is 3.8%. In Devon the rate is 2%. The rate also went up in | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Cornwall to 2.5%. The figure in Somerset is 2.1%. Dorset has the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
lowest rate of 1.5% and was the only part of the region to register | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
a fall. Devon chef Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall and his 10 year-old | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
son, Oscar, have been rescued after their boat got washed onto rocks | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
near Sidmouth. The TV chef has thanked the Sidmouth Lifeboat for | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
coming to their rescue near Beer Head on Monday afternoon. A | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
lifeboat crew member swam through rough seas to attach a towline to | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the fishing boat. Mr Fearnley- Whittingstall and his son are said | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
to be shaken but not hurt. It's been three days since the Channel | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Island of Jersey was stunned by a horrific knife attack. Six people | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
were stabbed to death in St Helier on Sunday afternoon, including | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
three children. A 30 year-old Polish man has been arrested and | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
staff from Devon and Cornwall Police have been assisting the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
investigation. But as Mike Wilkins reports, some in the island are | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
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still struggling to come to terms with the killings. The gentle sound | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
of children playing. For the staff, the last few days have been filled | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
with nothing but misery and disbelief. Two other children | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
killed on Sunday attended after- school clubs run by the centre. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Trust, six year-old Kinga and five year-old Julia were much loved and | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
will be sorely missed. Jehan knew them both and says they were lovely. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Both of them were beautiful children. They were from beautiful | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
families, it is complete disbelief. More details are emerging about the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
events running up to the brutal stabbing. Their two-year-old Damien | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Rzeszowska worked in construction and had taken his family back to | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Poland recently and was staying at his apartment before going back to | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Jersey. People said they were surprised to hear about the attack. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
I saw them just a few days ago. They seemed a normal, happy family | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
and this was never expected. staff and everyone are totally | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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shocked. So... It is terrible. the days pass and police continue | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
investigating, there are still plenty in the community who are | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
stunned by what has happened and many are waiting for the day when | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
this man has recovered to help provide answers. Coming up. We'll | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
have all the goalmouth action from last night's league football. Plus | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the 17 year-old from Devon who's becoming a major force to be | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
reckoned with in golf. And a battle in the skies. We'll have some of | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
the highlights from round one of the British Firework championships. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
The first badger TB vaccination programme in the country has begun. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The South West has been badly affected by bovine TB, which has | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
led to the culling of thousands of cattle. On land it manages in | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Gloucestershire, the local wildlife trust has started trapping, | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
injecting and releasing animals back into the wild. The scheme is | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
being followed closely here because at Killerton in Devon the National | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Trust also has plans to vaccinate badgers. These efforts to put | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
vaccination into practice come as the government intends to trial two | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
badger culls in the New Year with one possibly somewhere in Devon. | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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Adrian Campbell reports. The rolling hills of the Cotswolds with | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
lush pasture land share an all-too- familiar problem with our region. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Gloucestershire has been badly affected by bovine TB, like much of | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the south-west. But here the local wildlife trust has been attempting | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
to establish whether or not a vaccine for badgers could make any | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
difference. This summer, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust has | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
been setting traps for badgers on its land. So they can be held | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
briefly and injected with the vaccine for bovine TB. It is a | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
vaccine that does not work in badgers already carrying the | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
disease. But the trust intends to persevere with the project, costing | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
�30,000 over five years. Once we have got the badger in, we need to | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
do an assessment to make sure it is OK, when we're happy and it is | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
suitable, we then put together the vaccine, which we keep in a | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
portable fridge. And we vaccinate the badger. 38 badgers have already | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
been tracked down and vaccinated for bovine TB. It was on land | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
managed by the Wildlife Trust. do believe that culling will work, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
there is a vaccine and rather than talking about the subject, we | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
decided to vaccinate badgers on our nature reserve because you want to | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
contribute to the discussion rather than just simply joining the | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
argument. Many conservationists favour vaccination over Colin the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
badger. In time, they hope there will be an oral vaccine for badgers. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
But the government has said it is minded to have to trial Kohl's next | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
year after further consultations. Farmers say that vaccination cannot | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
work. The disease is so acute, it has gotten so out of control, that | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
vaccination isn't any cure. It might be a palliative preventative | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
it wrong then perfected, but the practicalities of administering | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
this are extremely difficult and the cost is prohibitive. It's | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
certainly will not cure badgers and the disease has such a stranglehold, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
you have to clear it first. Gloucestershire might be the first | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
to vaccinate badgers but Devon will not be far behind. The National | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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Trust proposed vaccination in east Devon. It's the busiest time of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
year for the rescue services in the South West. Tens of thousands of | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
holidaymakers who're often unused to sea conditions flock to the | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
region. Over the next three days, our reporter, Louise Hubball, will | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
be following the RNLI lifeguards, lifeboats and search and rescue | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
helicopters. Tonight, she's live for us on Newquay's Fistral beach. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
As you can see, a lot of people are still enjoying the beach. It has | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
been ideal conditions to learn to surf Today but unfortunately it has | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
also been ideal for weaver fish, so we have seen quite a few people | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
being stung. In Cornwall last year, lifeguards attended over 7000 | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
incidents and saved 39 lives. As part of a new series, I have been | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
looking at the work they do. Cornwall, 300 miles of coastline, a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
population that doubles in the summer months and a real challenge | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
to keep everyone safe. Over the next three days, we will follow the | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
rescue services at their busiest time. Here on the beach, out here | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
on the water... And up in the air. This is Perranporth Beach, one of | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the most popular surfing beaches in the country. Lifeguards regularly | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
trained here, aiming to reach any casualty 300 metres from the show | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
work within 3.5 minutes. This footage shows that conditions can | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
change rapidly, leaving people suddenly out of their depth and in | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
danger. It isn't like this will entail, it has current Sandrocks, | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
all sorts. Everybody is potentially out of their comfort zone. Even the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
most experienced can end up in trouble. Mike broke his pelvis when | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
he crashed into a shipping boy was out kite surfing, and an agony he | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
was too weak to swim to shore. was almost certain I would not have | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
made it, other surfers could not fly their kites. I would have | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
drowned or died. Without them, I would not be here. It's that simple. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Go down the pitch... They're keeping holidaymakers safe but it | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
does not come cheap. This year they have employed 900 lifeguards across | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
the country. Each one costs over �500 to treen and nearly �500 to | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
equip. Lifeguard cover on beaches runs from Easter until October and | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
some want that extended. What you would like to see is people coming | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
down to serve every day of the year, and outside of those hours as well | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
so it provides additional services to cover those needs. The message | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
from the RNLI is simple - wherever you are, swim at a Life Guard beach | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
and never alone. The Life Guards are now off duty but look at the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
sheer number of people in the water. The RNLI would argue they should | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
not really be there without any Life Guard patrolling the area. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
Lifeguards say this is potentially a very dangerous beach and | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
conditions change quickly, especially for holidaymakers on | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
used to the conditions. The key. He would check on the weather | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
conditions later in the programme. The administrator of Plymouth | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Argyle Football Club says he has been assured that the cash to | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
complete the sale of the club is in place. Brendan Guilfoyle says he's | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
had legal assurances over the funding of the takeover by Bishop | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
International Limited. He now wants Peter Ridsdale, who'll run the club, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
to get approval from the Football League by the end of the week so | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
the deal can be completed. On the field, Argyle and Exeter City are | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
still waiting for their first League win of the season. Both | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
teams lost last night, their second home defeats in four days. Yeovil | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
also went down at home while Torquay United won at Aldershot. | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
Hamish Marshall rounds up the action. Exeter City fans spent | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
yesterday are snapping up tickets for the visit of Liverpool next | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
week but last night they were frustrated at a poor first-half | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
display. They conceded two goals to Brentford, leaving a mountain to | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
climb. They won a penalty in the second half. And the converted but | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
could not find the leveller so it's now just one point in nine. You | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
will have one winner on the board but could not add to that, Sam | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Baldock give MK Dons an early lead at Huish Park. The Gunners had a | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
number of have chances, despite playing the last 10 minutes against | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
10 men. The more than matched them in every department, apart from the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
good finish and it was an excellent finish. In League Two, Torquay | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
United bus described the win at Aldershot as ugly in a game | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
littered by mistakes. Lee Mansell scored his third of the season from | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
range to secure the points. They had to defend for long periods but | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
held out, keeping the first clean sheet of the season and their 4th | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
in the early season table. Plymouth Argyle fans still remain to be | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
convinced over the assurances given over the sale of the club. They're | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
worried more about what is happening on the field. A decent | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
first half was followed by two quick goals by Wimbledon to make it | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
three home losses in a week. A 17 year-old from Devon has won a | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
prestigious golf competition, one which has launched the careers of | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
many of today's big names. Harrison Greenberry from Exeter picked up | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the trophy for the 2011 Boys Amateur Championship in Somerset at | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
the weekend. Since winning, he's also been selected to represent | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
Great Britain and Ireland in a major European competition later | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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this month. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has been to meet him. A | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
future in golf. 17 year-old Harrison Greenberry and his coach | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
her back on the course today after a huge victory at the weekend. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Competing against 252 players from all over the world, this was a | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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moment when Harrison became the 2011 boys amateur champion. It is | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
quite hard to put into words. It is starting to sink in. It still has | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
not fully. It is unbelievably amazing, the best I could get. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
the moon, absolutely. He has worked so hard, he put us through a lot of | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
torture through the final. Going into the 37th hole but it all came | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
right. Absolutely wonderful. It is a competition which has launched | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
many big names. This is a huge platform, it is a springboard for | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
him and when you consider Sergio Garcia, they have won this in the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
past, and we know what they have gone on to do. There will be a | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
number of doors and opportunities opening up for Harrison over the | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
next 18 months. And one has already opened. Harrison has found out he | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
has been chosen to represent Great Britain and Ireland at a major | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
European competition later this month. Organisers of the Olympics | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
in Dorset say they still need about 400 volunteers to come forward to | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
help visitors to the sailing events next year. Altogether, 800 people | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
will be on hand to give out information and assist the expected | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
crowds. This afternoon, some of the so-called ambassadors were being | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
put through their paces at the Weymouth Carnival. Our Dorset | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
reporter, Simon Clemison, was there. We have seen a full-scale test | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
event on the water but what about off the water. The population of | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
when it is expected to double during the week of the Olympics and | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
that is potentially a lot of people needing a lot of answers to a lot | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
of questions. Tonight, it is a carnival, the town has been filling | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
up this afternoon, creating another opportunity for Olympic dress | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
rehearsals. Sue and David, you are two of the 800 volunteers helping | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
people along the way. Has it been useful? Yes, loads of people have | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
been asking questions, especially about the programme. It's a lot of | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
visitors, we have been telling them about the Times events. We have | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
been working on the telly Burstall and it has drawn huge crowds. | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
People have been seeing logjams. lot of traffic control. We're not | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
getting any younger and this event will never happen again in my | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
lifetime. I want to be involved. How excited are you? I have been | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
accepted for years, since 2008, since it was announced. It just | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
grows. Your leading this team of volunteers. Is there anything that | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
will change as a result of today? Indeed, the briefing sessions will | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
have more time, three or four days in advance. Confident? Absolutely, | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
it has been really useful and a big thank you to everybody. Get | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
involved. Sarah Kennedy ending that report by Simon Clemison. In just | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
over two-and-a-half hours, the final three teams will compete in | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
the British Firework Championships. Last night, thousands of people | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
flocked to Plymouth Hoe to see the first phase of the competition. Amy | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Cole joined the judges and spectators to watch the display. | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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Her report contains flashing images. A party atmosphere with the promise | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
of the best pyrotechnic show in town. Even the big wheel that | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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A Bristol-based company were the first to light up. �22,000 worth of | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
fireworks cascading out of the skies. The company told me that | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
some of the materials they are using tonight have not been used | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
before so even they were excited to see the displays. The judges or | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
watching intently but will it be enough to impress? It had enough | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
passion... As the night went on, competitors played their trump | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
cards. Eager to create excitement among the judges. They were keen to | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
keep their cards close to the chest. We have a lot of shows to see. When | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
judging, you just see one and you go, that was fantastic, and | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
tomorrow night there might be well in the middle and you go, that's | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
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fantastic. So you have to stay cool Explosions, bursts of colour and | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
plenty of excitement. The spectators were having a ball. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
is the second year that we have seen this. We are enjoying it a lot. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
It is really huge. It's my first time in Plymouth, and visiting and | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
I thought it was amazing. My favourite was the first lot. They | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
were the best I have ever seen, really spectacular. Praise, indeed. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Just three teams remain and soon it will be their turn to see if they | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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can do any better. Stunning, as always. Now the weather. What about | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
Good news for all concerned. And we will see some more wet-weather, | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
quite widely tomorrow. But into the weekend there is some drier | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
conditions and as the day's progress, it will warm up, quite a | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
chilly day possible to borrow because we have a lot of cloud and | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the risk of patchy rain. As I mentioned, it will be largely dry | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
with some clear skies. This is a complex picture but I will simplify | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
it, one lot of cloud give rain earlier and another one will get | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
wet weather tomorrow and there's fine weather overnight and then | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
this hole in the clouds, that is Friday, a lot of fine weather | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
coming our way. We still have this troublesome weather front. Where | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
will it go? It comes from the south overnight, another pulse of rain | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
moving along means wet weather tomorrow but perhaps in a different | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
place, across Dorset and Somerset. Drier the further west you are and | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
towards the end of the day, most of us will see this clear out of the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
way. That high pressure is there for Friday's the that's the best of | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
the week with some sunshine in the morning, clouding over in the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
afternoon and the possibility of some showers and the weekend. This | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
is the rain earlier, it has moved out of the way but it does trail | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
back in towards Lyme Bay and the eastern side of Devon and into the | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
Channel. This was earlier at Paignton, we had fine weather but | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
the cloud has been stubborn to move out of the way. And the patchy | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
cloud is still around but it has not stopped people enjoying the | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
weather. You would think this was taken in the autumn, it has been | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
chilly and the wind is brisk. That is feeding in colder air and that | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
is what you will see over the next day. It will be colder and fresher, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
this is the charge. There's a lot of clear skies are coming in which | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
means with that, some fairly low temperatures and the cloud then | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
reappears from the south-east. Bringing wet weather back into the | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
South Devon and also southern parts. Overnight, as low as 10 degrees in | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
a few places so quite a chilly start to the day and foremost, it's | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
a cloudy start and the rain is pulling away from a good part of | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Cornwall and Devon but sticking with Somerset and Dorset so a wet | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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day here and quite cold also, just 15 degrees. Further west, more | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
sunshine and we should see sunny spells as well. That's the forecast | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
for the as a silly, cloudy, brighter later and the high water | :27:04. | :27:13. | |
times... And the surfing... It is usable but on the north coast, two | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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