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Severely disabled, but can they work? The questionnaire sent to | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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this family to assess their right to benefits. It is an absolute | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
insult and the government should be ashamed of their samples. I am | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
absolutely livid. Good evening. The Hallorans say | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
they're being made to feel like benefit cheats. We'll hear from the | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Department for Work and Pensions in a moment. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Also on Spotlight tonight: Not long to wait now. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Families of local commandos get ready for the return of loved ones. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
We'll be live in Chivenor. Not suspicious, but how did this | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
fire start in a North Devon school? And a country created from scratch. | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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The artist floating the idea of a The moment we cross international | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
waters, we will declare that round a new Ireland. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The father of severely disabled twins has described the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Government's "Return to Work" plans as an insult after hearing that one | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
of his sons will have to be assessed yet again, despite years | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
of continual monitoring. Kelvin Halloran's furious that he | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
and his wife provide 24-hour care for their sons, yet he feels | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
they're being treated as if they're trying to cheat the system. | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Spotlight's John Ayres has more. Daniel and his twin brother Tom | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
have a rare genetic disorder. Their father says they have a mental age | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
of three and need constant care. For 25 years, they have been | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
continually assessed and received maximum incapacity benefits. But | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
now, once again, Daniel has to prove he is not fit for work. | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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you want to fill the format? You would? The one to fill it out? It | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
is an absolute insult, an absolute insult. The government should be | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
ashamed of themselves. I am livid. Over the years, we have had so many | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
assessments and here we are in a position that does not respect of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
carers are trying to achieve. Down has no idea what is going on, it is | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
absolutely shameful. We do need smarter systems to make sure that | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
people don't receive the embarrassment and sometimes | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
humiliation of having these letters come through the post when they are | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
necessary. However, it is important, given that we have to 0.6 million | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
people claiming incapacity benefit, the government has a right to check | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
up to make sure that people need that support, or are they able to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
get back into work. The review is right, but in the case that they | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
should not have happened. The Department of Work and Pensions | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
told the BBC that people who are too sick or disabled will continue | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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Whilst the vast majority of people on benefits are gem of it -- | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
genuine, there is a minority who are playing the system. We need to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
find them and reviewed them and encourage them back into work. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Kelvin understands why the government is re-evaluating, but he | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
can't believe they have to go through it again when the outcome | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
is obvious. We have computers. Why is it there cannot be a link up | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
between national health, social services, bearing in mine we have | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
care managers, professional people that have assessed the boys a needs. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Why does it have to go to us? We should not even be on the radar. It | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
is very, very clear that Daniel does not even know the concept of | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
work, let alone going to work. Kelvin is threatening not to fill | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
out the four men protest, but he risks losing the benefits | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
altogether. Tom has not received his benefit yet, although he is | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
expecting it. Well, as we heard in that report, | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the questionnaires are being sent out because the Department of Work | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
and Pensions doesn't want claimants "abandoned to a life on benefits." | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
The new benefit was introduced in October 2008, but claiming it would | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
involve being assessed. The most recent figures show that here in | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
the south west 34 % of the people who were assessed, were deemed "Fit | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
For Work" which means they're not eligible to claim. The national | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
average was 39%. Earlier, I spoke to Marc Bush, who | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
is the Director of Policy at the disability charity, Scope, and | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
asked him what he made of the Halloran's case. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
I think the first thing to say is we completely understand the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
frustration that Kelvin and his family are going through, but | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Daniel's experience isn't a one-off. There are thousands of disabled | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
people cranny been reassessed under this programme. The government is | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
looking to move 1.6 million people of this old benefit and on to the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
new one. We understand the situation he is going to it and it | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
is a very difficult and frustrating situation. The Department of Work | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
and Pensions told us that in the south-west alone, 34 % of people | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
are were -- you were reassessed were fit to work. So it is right | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
that these people are checked to see if they can work because it is | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
good for them and the economy. is right that the government wants | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
to reform the benefits system. It is really important. However, we | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
have got concerns, like Kelvin, about the way they are going about | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
this, not just the process of how it is no divine people and getting | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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people engaged, but the test itself. It has been suggested that 65 % of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
people overturn the decision of the government. One person contacted us | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
to say that if someone is severely disabled and unable to work, the | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
reassessment will pro that up. Shouldn't people go through the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
reassessment and stay as they are after that? That is an important | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
emailed flagging that because the assessment and the test should show | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
that, however the test that the government has designed does not. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
There is lots of research that suggests that. The government has | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
had to create an independent review and inquiry to improve the system. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
We have got real concerns about the assessment they are using because | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
lots of disabled people are ending up on the wrong benefit with the | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
wrong level of support. This needs to change. Does that explain why | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
another person has e-mailed to say they have been told by their GP and | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
mental health services they are not fit to work, but have been told | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
their benefits will stop because the assessments say they are? | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Having an assessment that does not work throws up these cases, even | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
when there are two medical professionals, a doctor and an | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
assessor, who are disputing this. It is really important we get this | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
assessment process bright, that we support everyone that goes do it, | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
that we support -- so we can understand. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
70 royal engineers from 24 Commando Engineer Regiment are on their way | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
back home to Chivenor tonight after more than six months in Afghanistan. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
On deployment they've been working to provide buildings and safe roads | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
and even building bridges. This evening, some of the families at | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the North Devon base are excitedly waiting for their homecoming. Our | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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reporter David George is at there. 70 of them will be coming back this | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
evening, but a lot of them will come back over the next month. An | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
empty hangar year, it is ready for a party, welcome home signs. It is | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
ready for a party, there will be lots of families here later on and | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
they have been kind enough to welcome me around to one of their | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
houses to see them preparing themselves for the homecoming. | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
Specially for Daddy. Just a few banners to make it obvious that we | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
appreciate what they are doing. We are just looking forward to seeing | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
them. It is good enough just to seen -- say it that we missed you. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
It is there, written on a banner. You have to carry on as usual. They | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
were gone during the summer holidays so that is not usual, but | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
we did lots of things to keep ourselves busy. You have to carry | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
on. There are phone calls, letters, we are lucky. We are lucky that | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Devon is a good place for doing things. We just jump in the car. | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
The car has been used for and we are lucky we are all driving. But | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
we have kept a really busy. The girls were making those lovely | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
banners which will be here later on. Joining me is a major Bradley | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Hardwick to tell us more about what they have been doing over there in | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
Helmand Province. 24 Commando Engineer Regiment have played a key | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
part to live, fight and move over what has been a demanding six-month | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
demanding tour. They help the troops live, fight and move, but | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
tell us about the work they do, including building a bridge. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Building a bridge is one of the key aspects to allow people to move | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
around. The one they built is the biggest bridge to be built over | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
there in the last 10 years. It has allowed Afghan National Army | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
partners the freedom to move around that part of the world. It is a key | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
infrastructure which has supported the locals, improved their life and | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
making sure that they can move forward. They will all be back. 70 | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
of them, anyway. We hope to bring you the pictures of their | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
homecoming in our late bulletin. A head teacher has said she is | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
heartbroken after fire at a school in North Devon. Crews were called | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
to the small village of Parracombe this morning. The severity of the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
blaze means it could be a number of days before the cause is known but | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
it is not being treated as suspicious. Simon Clemison reports. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
This head teacher has just lost her school. The majority of the main | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
building has been destroyed. This is a tiny school in a village have | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
just a few hundred people, but it has managed to survive. The fire is | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
devastating. This is getting for this community in more ways and one. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
We can see that the roof has gone. That means the school will be out | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
of action. The local residents fought to keep the score and give | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
it a future and it is very bad news. So at this is some of what the fire | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
brigade has salvaged? They have been fantastic and they have | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
removed as much as they could from a classroom also remains intact. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
The impact is absolutely colossal. It is heartbreaking for everyone. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
The school is the heart of the community. The school was well | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
alight by the time crews arrived at 7am this morning. They may have | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
taken time for someone to spot the fire and reported. A couple of | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
hours later, and the children would have been riding for lessons. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
of the community could have been lost, which is devastating. The | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
children could have been arriving at school a couple of hours later. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
The children were taken to their sister school were held principle | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
was on offer. They are young and this could be traumatising. One | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
parent agreed to speak to us. Initially, the children were | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
pleased because they thought they might have a day off school. But as | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
the news of old, we realised that it was more serious than we thought | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
and everyone was really upset and worried. The the damage will be | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
repaired and the school will reopen, but it may take some time for this | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
community to fully recover. A new fire and rescue control | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
centre in Taunton which has lain empty for more than three years is | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
a "white elephant" according to a parliamentary committee. The centre | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
was part of the former Labour government's plan for nine large | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
regional control centres. Now the public accounts committee has said | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
the project was a "complete failure" and has wasted �469 | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
million. Later in the programme, a special | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
report from the Arctic on one man's plans to create a new nation. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Plus on the crest of a wave - Cornish sailor Ben Ainslie talks | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
about his selection for the 2012 Olympics. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
And frolicking in the waves - find out why these horses have been | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
More than 6,000 people complained to south west Water last year. It's | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
a drop of just over 30%, but it's still the second most complained | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
about company in the country. South West Water says it expects to see | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
another reduction in the number of written complaints in the future. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Members of the public will not be able to walk through a Dartmoor | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
beauty spot after a public inquiry ruled there is no right of way. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Campaigners have spent years pushing for access to Vixen Tor | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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after it was closed off by its 67-year-old Robert from Somerset | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
died when the Yarmouth the Navigator it sank in 20 seconds in | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
January this year. The inquest heard the vessel had slowly filled | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
with water after a pump failed on its journey from Dartmouth to | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Plymouth. Cornwall's Chief Police officer | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
says all forensic evidence from crimes in the Devon and Cornwall | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
will be handled by private companies from next month. Chief | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Superintendant Chris Boarland says private firms are already employed | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
alongside the Forensic Science Service. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Drivers are being warned to expect long delays crossing the Tamar | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Bridge between Cornwall and Plymouth as major resurfacing work | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
continues. The work is taking place over the next five weeks and | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
drivers are being warned to leave more time for their journey. | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
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Motorists have already been caught in long queues during rush hour. | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
You can listen to BBC Radio Devon and Cornwall for update. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
An artist on an arctic expedition to bring back part of an island to | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the southwest is now en-route to international waters. Alex | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Hartley's Arts Council-funded project is hoping to start a new | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
nation called "nowhereisland". The new island will then navigate the | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
entire 702 miles of the coast of the south west, visiting its ports | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
and harbours. Spotlight's Johnny Rutherford sent this report from | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
the High Arctic. At the position of 7842 degrees | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
north, is an Arctic island which recently became revealed by a | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
retreating glazier. This previously uncharted island was discovered in | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
2004 by artist Alex Hartley. Now he is back to take some of it away in | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
the name of art. It is good to be back. His idea is to take part of | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
the land to make a floating sculpture in the shape of the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
island. He wants to tour it around the coastline of south-west England. | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
It has come out of a retreating glacier. The glacier has moved back | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
and revealed the land. We are taking that land to make a new | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
country and that is heading south. It will gather ideas around climate | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
change, land, colonialism, migration, all of these issues that | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
could be put on to the bank cambers of Disneyland. There are 16 on the | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
expedition team helping to develop the Arts Council funded, �5,000 a | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
project. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for melting glaciers. In a | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
way, that is a symbol for climate change. The origins of this island | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
are really a symbol of the mess we have made and the failure of | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
existing systems of the Government's a nation's to solve | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
these problems. The island is a displaced nation | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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journeying south in search of its Next year as part of the Cultural | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Olympiad, the island will be towed into various ports across the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
south-west on his journey from Weymouth to Bristol. The journey | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
will be followed a man to buy a mobile members -- mobile Mosey him. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
-- mobile museum. Whether you think it is a waste of money or a great | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
project, it has got a lot of people talking about it. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
So what do you think of that project? Let us know via email or | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Twitter and we'll try to include a few of your comments before the end | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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Thank you, Steve, for your comments. Not sure I'm going to read that one | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
out! He is not very keen on the idea or | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
how it is being funded. It's time for a quick sports round | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
up now. Natalie's here with the details. | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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I want to know what Steve said now! Ben Ainslie has been officially | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
selected to represent Great Britain in the Olympics next year. The 34- | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
year-old is honoured and relieved to be selected. He said to compete | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
in home waters is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity. If he takes | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
gold, only Steve Redgrave will have taken more. But then it knows it | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
will not be plain sailing. It is never easy, the Olympics get | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
harder each time. I have the home advantage in terms of sailing at | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Portsmouth and Weymouth. The home crowd will help for sure, but it | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
will be tough. It is always tough, you have to train hard and the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
preparation has to be perfect to go have a chance of getting the metal. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
-- the medal. Marcus Trescothick has become the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
first cricketer to win the Most Valuable Cricketer Award for a | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
second time. The Somerset Captain piled up 2,518 runs this summer in | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
all competitions, in excess of 500 more than his nearest rival and | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
also held 38 slip catches. He previously won the MVP award in | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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2009. It's been another brilliant few | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
days for young Devon golf star Harrison Greenberry. He's been | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
invited to play in the prestigious Abu Dhabi Junior Golf Championship | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
and selected for the England boys under 18 performance Coaching Squad, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
which means he will almost certainly be selected to play for | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
England in the future. Among other recent successes he also won the | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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Devon EGU Scratch foursomes trophy for men. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Now if you were on to Polzeath Beach in Cornwall early this | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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Somerset needed to regroup after failing in England. They have been | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
in India less than a day, but there was no sign of any jet lag. | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Somerset had qualified for this tournament by beating the English | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
2020 final one month ago, but had travelled to India without their | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
captain and three other first- choice players because of | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
international commitments. It did not seem to matter as Auckland | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
found life hard. And at times, visibly frustrating. 126 was | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
Somerset's target. The South African was a big hit with the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
county earlier in the season and has returned for the Champions' | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
League. His dismissal started a collapse of wickets and Somerset | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
were starting to get that familiar sinking feeling. They needed a bit | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
of luck and got it, but it would still come down to the very last | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
ball. Stand-in skipper of getting the runs they needed. After all | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
their heartache, a hard win, and they have to do it all again | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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It's been another brilliant few days for young Devon golf star | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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Now if you were on to Polzeath Beach in Cornwall early this | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
morning you will have spotted some rather unusual four-legged bathers. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Mingling with the surfers were more than 30 horses from the Kings Troop | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Royal Artillery. They have travelled down from London for | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
their annual summer camp and some sea air. Eleanor Parkinson reports. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
These are some of the army's finest horses and they have swapped London | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
for Cornwall. It may look like a holiday, but it is a training camp | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
and this is the first time many of them have seen the sea. Some added | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
to the whole thing like a horse to water. Others were not quite as | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
keen. Among those heading his ex was Harlequin. He is young and was | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
given to the trip by the Queen. Did you get him in the water? | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
got him up to his knees so by the end of the week, I hope we will be | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
swimming out there with everyone else. It you think the Queen would | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
be watching his progress? watches him closely when she visits | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
the trip. But he is a bit of a cheeky chap and he tries to give | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
her a nip every time. I have been riding pepper. She is young, this | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
is her second time on summer camp. She is a water baby so she took me | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
swimming! You are very wet, aren't you? She went straight in. They | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
normally go in in pairs, but she went in with me and decided to swim, | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
I don't mine there. We have got two types of horses. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
They are all over 17 hands and the idea is that when you are at Battle, | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
you can have a greater height advantage. He is called Ben gent, | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
he is five years old and this is the first time he has seen the sea. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
After a long journey from London, these courses needed to stretch | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
their legs. The fresh air was too much for this course who decided to | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
go for a couple of extra laps. They will be in Cornwall all week and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
the public gets the chance to see them this Saturday at a special | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
open day. That is a fantastic sight. Maybe | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
not a good day for us to be on the beach, but the horses didn't seem | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
The weather is a bit miserable this evening if you are coming home from | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
work, there is a lot of wet weather around. But it is steadily moving, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
slow progress. Whilst most of us are asleep, the brain band should | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
clear. You can see from the satellite picture, these great | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
amount of cloud stretching from the south, feeding and moist, mild air | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
and giving us the rain that we have now. There is some parents, that is | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
already into the southern island. You can see clearer skies coming in | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
now. That weather front will continue to push East, slow to | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
clear for the Channel Islands and Dorset first thing tomorrow, but | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
for the rest of us, we should have a bright start, a bit misty in | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
places and then the high-pressure lives end during Thursday. Thursday | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
is not a bad day. We should see some sunshine Bury day. Relatively | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
mild as well. Already some heavy bursts of rain appearing and that | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
will continue to spread across the south-west overnight. Turning out | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
to be wet, a lot of hill fog as well. Eventually, it peters out and | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
this East. Whilst we seek some players cars, at the same time we | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
will see Mr and fog patches. The temperatures will get down to nine | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
or 10 degrees for most of us. Tomorrow morning, some at mistiness | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
and rain across the far south a Dorset. Quickly it will brighten up | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
and we should see sunny spells and to later in the day, a couple of | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
showers are possible. On the whole, for most of us, we should see | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
bright weather and some sunshine. Damages getting up to 17 or 18 | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
degrees. Increasingly breezy, especially to end the day, | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
particularly along the north Devon coast and through the Bristol | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
Channel. For the Isles of Scilly, a fine day. We should see dry | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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conditions with a sunny spells. For a work surface, as the breeze | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
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picks up, the serve well as well. - The onshore breeze will be a force | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
of four tomorrow, picking up to a force five, and into the evening it | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
will peak at a six. Mainly fair with the risk of a few showers and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
a moderate or good visibility. Here is the book has all the best of | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
this week. Thursday is a rather cloudy, but we should see some | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
breaks in the cloud. It is a dry day. Temperatures will be on the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
rise by Friday. Again, a lot of cloud around, but some breaks | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
developing. Saturday is more generally cloudy, and later in the | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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day, we will see patchy rain. Mild for the rest of the week. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
We have had an unprecedented amount of e-mails about the island. We did | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
not even give me the news room number and the phones are jammed | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
upstairs. Derek says, in my opinion, this is a waste of money and an | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
insult to those struggling financially into a's climate. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
Another person says, waste of money. Maybe it could become a floating | :27:26. | :27:34. |