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Millions of pounds of further cuts - councils get ready for another | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
round of savings and they want know where you think the axe should fall. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Good evening. We'll be live in Sidmouth where a public meeting is | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
being held tonight and finding out if the private sector in the region | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
is offsetting job losses in the public sector. Also tonight - the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
increasing effects of extreme weather. Researchers say our region | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
is more susceptible because of the older population. And, giving up | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
more of its secrets - the latest amazing discovery about this | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
ancient coffin. Councils across the region are preparing for another | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
round of cuts totalling millions of pounds. As the savings made last | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
year begin to take effect, local authorities are embarking on a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
series of public consultations on where the axe should fall in the | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
coming year. The challenge will be even greater for councils this year | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
after the cuts already made. Plymouth City Council reduced | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
spending by more than �10 million this year and needs to save an | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
additional �20 million over the next two years. Torbay made cuts | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
totalling �9 million this year and is about to start consulting on | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
further savings of between �8 million and �11million next year. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Cornwall Council is saving more than �88 million this year, but | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
hasn't decided on the level of cuts next year. However, it's committed | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
to finding savings of �170 million over four years. In Somerset, cuts | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
of �34 million have been made this year. They say next year's cuts | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
won't be as significant, but haven't yet agreed a figure. In | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Dorset, �31 million has been cut this year. Next year the savings | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
will amount to around �16 million. And tonight, Devon County Council | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
begins consultations on cuts totally �40 million next year on | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
top of this year's savings of �54 million. The first public meeting | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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is in Sidmouth and Simon Hall is there tonight. The meetings have | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
been titled, tough choices and it's not hard to see why. Tens of | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
millions of cuts made and still more to come. That can only mean | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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one thing - service suffering. Along -- alongside the natural | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
commodities it's a natural place, but cuts have had a significant | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
impact. Holly Webb is seeking work and isn't being helped by cuts to | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
bus subsidies. It's so hard to survive with the way the wages are. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
I don't really understand how people can survive on what we are | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
getting at the moment. Life is pretty hard for us. Robert is | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
unhappy the library is now open fewer hours. It seems to be a focal | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
point for the community and just to have it reduced in hours is | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
affecting the community, I suppose. Rupert has seen the school bus | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
service for two of his sons withdrawn. To me it seems | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
inevitable with the news of banks closing and collapsing and so on, | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
and I just guess that is the time we living through. It's not war, | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
but it's economic war, I guess, you might say. In a previous | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
consultation, people said their priorities were, protecting | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
children, caring for older people and supporting those who care for | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
others. Street lighting, tourism promotion and subsidies for public | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
transport were areas identified for cuts. We know where the cuts should | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
be taken from the people, in the eyes of the people of Devon. We had | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
to take a very large cut last year and if you see the responses that | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
the people gave us in relation to the way we set the budget, we were | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
pretty close to what people asked us to do. That is what | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
consultations are about and that's what the people of Devon expect us | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
to do. Concern for Sidmouth and other communities are cuts are | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
being imposed on cuts. 54 million this year and 40 million more next | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
year. A series of the meeting are being held across Devon in the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
coming weeks and the council say they're committed to listening to | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
people's views and acting upon them, so they asked for anyone who thinks | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
they may have a couldn't buction to make to come along -- contribution | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
to make to come along. The private sector is struggling also. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Statistics showed the British economy didn't grow as quickly as | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
expected between April and June, going up by 0.1%. The Federation of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Small Businesses is blaming the slow economic recovery on continued | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
tight lending by the banks. That's despite the Government's promise to | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
make things easier for small businesses. A case of hard cheese, | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
perhaps, but Francis is unimpressed. He's owned the Delhi here for -- | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
deli here for 23 years. He got back from holiday and found out his bank | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
is increasing the service charge and he's livid. I have no overdraft | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
with the bank. I don't need it because I use my own money, but my | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
service charges went from �480 to nearly �1,000 a year overnight. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
There was absolutely no comeback whatsoever. We help the banks | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
remember. Remember, we bailed them out with our money. Lloyds still | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
have a lot of our money and they are not allowed to give us anything | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
back to help us. It is just immoral. Lloyds TSB has told us that Francis | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
has been receiving a discount on his service charge and now it's | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
ended. The bank says it apologises for not giving him satisfactorily | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
notice of the changes and is offering an inconvenience payment | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
of �250. The Federation of Small Businesses in Devon says borrowing | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
is tougher now than its ever been. -- it's ever been. We measure the | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
criteria by the amount of new money, not old loans being torn up and | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
replaced. That is just circulating existing lending. Banks, when they | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
cancel an agreement and set up another one, as far as their | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
concerned, that is new money. To us, it's not. Keeping the banks at bay | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
is this restaurant owner in Plymouth. He opened six months ago | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
and says his menu is packed with good-quality food which he's able | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
to sell at a reasonable price. didn't have a bank loan. I didn't | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
want to bring an impression on myself and I wanted the guests to | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
feel the benefit. It was a small cafe and we have progressed and now | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
we do fresh food and a full menu in the evening. I understand we are in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
a recession and the restaurant is Taylor made to allow people to eat | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
here regularly. Gary has a clear strategy, but he likes others is | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
having to work hard at making ends meet. Earlier, I spoke to our | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
political editor at the Conservative Party Conference in | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Manchester and put it to him that there has been more grim news for | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
both the private and public sectors today. Yes, indeed. Today, the | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
Office for National Statistics announced that the economy | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
nationally is growing pour slowly than predicted. The crisis in the | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
eurozone also and we have had gloomy news closer to home recently. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
The last report from the south-west observatory suggested that in | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
August private sector output in the south-west contracted for the first | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
time since 2009. All that is putting the Government in an even | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
more difficult position? It is, because Labour have been very | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
critical of the Government's deficit reduction programme, saying | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
it's too fast and aggressive since the outset. It is now saying that | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the latest downturn is proving them right and the Government needs to | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
put the brake on the cuts and provide some kind of package of tax | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
breaks to stimulate growth. The Conservatives say that Labour was | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
addicted to debt. The Prime Minister in his speech today said | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
that the deficit reduction programme is essentially one big | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
bail out for the Labour Government and specifically the Government are | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
saying that the tax breaks that Labour is suggesting would push the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
country �20 billion further into debt. The Government has announced | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
new measures to boost growth? has. Some measures this week. The | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Chancellor's promising 800 million of central Government money to | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
local authorities to provide a council tax freeze next year. He | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
sketched out some kind of Government-support plan to get more | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
credit flowing into small businesses and more Government | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
money to support scientific research The Government says these | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
are all things things which can be achieved without deviating from | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
their austerity programme, but the question is whether they're enough. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Dorset County Council has today decided it will be cutting the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
number of school lollipop patrols that it pays for. Ten will be cut | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
next year, in a move to save �35,000. The council will continue | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
to help pay for 51 patrols. Parent launched a protest campaign when it | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
was originally feared all crossings would be affected. Students in | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Cornwall could get bursaries to help them go to university under | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
plans being considered by the council. 4.5 million could be set | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
aside to help the brightest pupils and those who have lost out since | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
the Education Maintenance Allowance was scrapped. Here at the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
university of Plymouth this year's freshers have just missed out on | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the tuition fee rise, but from next September, students face fees of up | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
to �9,000. Some of these sixth formers in Cornwall are now | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
weighing up whether to go to university at all. If there wasn't | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
going to be the rise I would have been more proactive about going and | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
looking at what I want to do, because I'm thinking of teaching, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
but I haven't been so because of the rise. I want to do music tech | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
at uniy, but when they announced the rise it definitely made they | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
think again about how I was going to - whether I was going or not. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Considering of doing a year in industry scheme and getting money | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
together, because of the rise in tuition fees. It just will help me | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
a little bit when I get there. Cornwall council wants to use money | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
generated by renewables as well as European funding to help bright | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
pupils stay in education. It's a way of getting extra cash into the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
system to support Cornish youth to. What schools and students have been | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
very good at doing in the last few years is raising the standards of | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
GCSEs, so they are above the national average. We are not seeing | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the take-up carried on into higher education, so we want to address | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
that gap and make sure corning coming from the area isn't a | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
barrier. The council hopes the plan could be up and running by 2013, | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
might help at least some of the sixth formers of this year | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
Philadelphia their dreams. -- fulfil their dreams. Still plenty | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
to come on the programme tonight. Including, the egg extremely | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
important subject of how long to -- the eggstremely important subject | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
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of how long to boil an egg. Are you a Roundhead or cavalier? Scientists | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
have discovered that areas with a large elderly population could be | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
at most risk from extreme weather. Researchers believes we could be | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
more susceptible to heat waves. Last week, people glocked to the | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
beaches, as we enjoyed -- flocked to the beaches, as we enjoyed the | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
heatwave. Researchs are -- researchers are now saying we could | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
get more of them in the south-west and it's a particular concern for | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
the elderly. This is led by Durham University versity and a university | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
in Edinburgh. They say by 2030 the south-west will be made up by 30 to | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
40% of older people and those are the ones most at risk from | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
heatwaves. In the south-west it is one of the areas where the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
temperature tends to be milder and warmer and that is one of the areas | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
that might see the most frequent events in the future which are | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
important for older people's care, because it may impact on other | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
people's health and they may need to use more services. We are | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
thinking about how it may be possible to maintain health and | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
social care delivery to sometimes remote and rural communities. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
work is useful to local authorities and the NHS. In a statement, NHS | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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Here at Age Kerb they issue a leaflet giving advice about how to | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
cope in a heatwave. I guess the advice we would give is to listen | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
to the local forecast and make sure they have the basics in the house, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
medication, food, and help to keep themselves cool. If it's a hot day | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
and the livingroom is particularly warm, pull the curtains and maybe | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
take cool washes. Drink plenty of fluids. It's very important that | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
people don't Dee hydrate. Don't forget the rain. Researchers say | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
coastal areas will be at a higher risk of flooding by the 2050s. A | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
south-west mews seem has made a discovery about one of the own | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
exhibits. Until now, a mummified boy has been the star attraction at | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
tower key Museum, but it's been discovered that the coffin he's | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
lying in is in fact 1,000 years older, from the same period as king | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
Tutankhamun. It is hard to believe that not so long ago something so | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
incredible was hidden in a cupboard gathering dust. At one time the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
mummified boy was thought to be a fake. Not only is the boy a real | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
human mummy, something very rarely displayed, but the museum has now | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
discovered that the coffin he's been lying in outdates him by | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
another 1,000 years. It's quite common in ancient Egypt to re-use | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
coffins, so the previous occupant might have been turfed out and re- | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
useed in a later period by someone else. This coffin has plenty of | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
signs of re-use. The fact that the coffin's made from a single piece | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
of wood and has a great level of detail suggests this was originally | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
made for someone from a rerich family, probably Royalty. The Mummy | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
was donated by lady Leeds of the Singer family, better known for | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
their suing machines. She travelled to Egypt many times and collected | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
it probably in the 1920's and gave it to us in 1956. The inscriptions | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
have been rewarked over tile and are badly damaged -- reworked over | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
time and have been badly damaged, so they don't know who the boy was. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
This is what he was thought to look like. The children have been | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
getting a chance to get up close. thought it was kind of creepy as a | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
bit funny. He had a Beetle on his chest when he was wrapped up. | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
saw him in a tomb thing. He was between the age of two and six. | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
have learnt lots of Egyptian stuff. The discovery came about after The | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Mummy and coffin were examined by an expert from Bristol University. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
He is cataloguing every artefact held by British provincial museums. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
You can never learn too much Egyptian stuff! On to sport now and | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
the south-west is left without any representative in this season's | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Football League Trophy. It's as a result of Exeter City and Yeovil | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
Town exiting the competition last night. I think it's fair to say, | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
most of the region's teams have had a non-descript start to the season. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
It was exemified last night when Exeter City, who reached the semi- | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
finals last season of the tournament, went out to Swindon | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
Town, who were in a division below them. They were 2-0 down by half | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
time and only this delicate finish brought any solace from a | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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disappointing evening. But at least we saw the touch-line antics of | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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Paolo diDanio. -- Di Canio. This match included an own-goal here. | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
The response came in the form of Steve Maclean and Max Amer goals. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
With Torquay unite the and Plymouth Argyle also going out in the first | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
round, there will be no talk of Wembley in this trophy. Let's hope | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
the situation improves. The biggest question of the night - how long | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
does it take to boil the perfect egg? It might seem like a simple | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
task, but it appears there is an exact science. Whether you like | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
soldiers or dipping your chips, schoolchildren in Dorset think | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
they've cracked it with a little help from the Royal College of | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Chemistry as we now report. When boiling an egg, timing is | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
everything. Oh, no! It's the difference between triumph and | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
disaster. For this group of students, they have taken to the | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
lab to find the perfect formula. And, they think they've cracked it. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
The big question is, how long does this have to boil for? We found out | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
that the optimum boiling time was six minutes throughout the whole | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
experiment. How many goes did it take you to find out that? We had a | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
lot of trial and error, so I think 14 trials was what we went for. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Perfect. You have been looking at soldiers and the perfect soldier. | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
What did you find? We found that applying margarine made them | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
stronger than when you applied butter. The research has been | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The members have been | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
impressed by the students' findings. Here's the science bit. For six | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
minutes you need enough time to have a chemical reaction happening | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
in the white and not the oak. -- yolk. The protein will go hard and | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
the yolk will remain soft. optimum boiling time and toasting | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
time two-and-a-half minutes. The big question is what does it taste | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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like? Yum, perfect! I'm hungry now. Eggs for tea tonight, I this. If | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
you are in Falmouth you will have been asked just one question, are | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
you a Roundhead or Cavalier. The people of the town had to decide | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
whether their loyalties lay. The event was organised to mark 350 | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
years since the town was given its official charter. Eleanor joined | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
the Army and she nailed her colours to the mast and marched with the | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
king. These Royalists may be young, but they're committed and they are | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
marching to do battle against the Parliamentarians. There's plenty of | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
encouragement along the way. Are you prepared to battle for the | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
king? Yeah. Battle to the death? Yeah. But I must do my duty by the | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
king. I must! Before the Calf leers get to the battleground, there are | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
plenty of reminders of what might lie ahead if they fail. Falmouth | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
was the last stronghold for Charles I and people were rewarded by | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
receiving a Royal Charter. We have to save the king. Calf the king. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
am going into battle here and we are going to battle with the other | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
team, who are going to come soon. They are not here at the moment, | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
but we are going to win. The civil war lasted for eleven years, with | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
the final showdown at the Pendennis castle. People know about that, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
with the likes of one of the leaders, gren village and his | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
trusty side -- sidekick and the fact they've got the children | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
together and have a sense of their history and what it's all about is | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
brilliant. The schoolchildren of fat mouth managed to get the war | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
done and dusted in about half an hour, but it still ends the same | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
way. The king is defeated, tried and executed. But the story doesn't | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
end there. Charles II rewards the people gi giving them a town | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
charter and 350 -- by giving them a town charter and 350 years on they | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
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are still celebrating. It's time for the weather. A few people have | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
emailed saying because of the number of berries on the trees they | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
reckon we are in for a harsh winter. Any truth? It's an old wives' tale, | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
but history has shown that if we do have a lot of berries we tend to go | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
into severe winters. Did you bring your bringproof? Yes. There is wet | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
your bringproof? Yes. There is wet weather outside. I haven't needed | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
to use mine for a few days, but the rain's back in and it's swept in | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
and coming into western Devon and once the cold front goes through | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
for the rest of the week, it is breezy, but also quite a bit colder | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
and remaining unsettled, although by Friday it is generally a dry day, | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
but chilly north-west breeze. When you look at the picture, racing in | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
across us is this thin stripe of cloud. There is quite heavy rain in | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
that. That is moving through steadily for the next few hours. It | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
will march across southern Britain and move into northern France by | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
the time we get to tomorrow and once that happens it will brighten | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
up. Tomorrow morning, we could have some sunshine, but one or two | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
scattered showers. Those will become quite heavy in the middle of | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
the day. Friday, a weak ridge of high pressure, so as I mentioned, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
it's a mainly dry by, but with the winds it won't feel very warm. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
There is the cloud structure from earlier today. It's a bit of a mess. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
A lot of cloud around. Brighter colours in there. They are now | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
coming into the Devon and Cornwall border and moving over much of | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Devon over the next couple of hours. This was earlier today, not far | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
from Okehampton, where we got shots of the berries that we mentioned. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Also, the sky looking a lot more threatening than it has recently. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
There is a lot more cloud around. That cloud is now, as I mentioned, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
producing outbreaks of rain. That rain band and the drop in the | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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temperatures will bring a much more autumn al feel -- autumnal feel. By | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
the end of the day we could have gale-force winds on the north coast. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
You can see the rain here. It covers most of us by the middle of | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
the night. Into the early hours it peters out and moves east. There | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
will be clear skies to the end of the night. Brisk west and north- | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
west winds and overnight temperatures down to ten. A few | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
places, particularly well-sheltered parts, might get as low as eight or | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
nine. After a reasonable start, it clouds over with showers. The | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
showers quite widely spaced by the afternoon and by the end of the day | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
just one or two of those showers left behind on what could be a dry | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
end to the day, even with late sunshine. Brisk winds. If anything, | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
they increase through the day, becoming strongest as we move into | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
the early evening. They are from the north-west, so we'll need to | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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Messy conditions, although the surof becomes clean when the wind | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
changes direction, but the north coast will be on the choppy side. | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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Blustery conditions on Friday. Friday is mainly dry. All change | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
again on Saturday, with more cloud and outbreaks of rain, but a little | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
warmer into the weekend. Tomorrow, it's the first in our series of | :26:14. | :26:18. |