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Breaking up redundant nuclear submarines in Plymouth - a public | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
consultation on the plans is about to get underway. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Good evening. We'll have reaction to the MoD proposals. Also tonight: | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Struck by lightning - this man's terrifying ordeal and how he was | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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saved by his wellies. My body was flying up in the air, not falling | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
forward, I was seeing the sky and my feet in front of me, not the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
ground below me. And why the police believe drivers | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
over 65 should consider a refresher course. We think it is important | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
that we carry out these courses to give them some hints and tips and | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
advice to keep them safe as they The Ministry of Defence has | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
announced a new public consultation on plans that could see up to 27 | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
redundant nuclear submarines cut up at Devonport. The work could be | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
worth millions of pounds to the local economy. But opponents are | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
worried about the health risks to thousands of people living nearby. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Devonport and Rosyth in Scotland are the two preferred sites, and a | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
ministerial statement put before the Commons today says the | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
consultation exercise will start tomorrow. In a moment we will get | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the political reaction. First, this from Spotlight's defence reporter | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
Scott Bingham. Plymouth has a long association | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
with nuclear submarines, dating back even before 1993 when it won | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
the battle of the dockyards against Rosyth in Scotland. The prize, the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
multi-billion pounds contact to refit the Trident fleet, work it is | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
still carrying out to this day. But the latest controversy surrounds | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
proposals in the submarine dismantling project to cut up and | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
store dismantled submarines once their service days are over. 10 | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
decommissioned submarines are stored at seven -- Devonport, seven | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
at Rosyth, 10 remain in service, 27 in all. Either Devonport or Rosyth, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
or both, have been identified as preferred site by the MoD to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
dismantle the submarines, but as well as where the work is carried | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
out, at the study will also consider how the submarines are cut | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
up to remove the reactors and where and how they are stored. All of | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
this is potential work which could be worth millions of pounds and | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
hundreds of jobs to the chosen site, but opponents in Plymouth question | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
the wisdom of carrying out such work in the heart of a city of | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
250,000 people. The public will be asked for their views during the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
six-day week consultation, which will be launched tomorrow. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Exhibitions and workshops will be out of England and Scotland. The | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
decision is expected some time in 2013. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
I am joined by our political editor. Will local MPs be lobbying for this | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
to come to Devon? Normally it would be, more work for Davenport, yes, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
please. This is a more difficult case and this is what the MP had to | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
say it earlier today. We have the skills base, 25,000 people | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
dependent on the defence interested -- industry, and it is important we | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
do as much as we can to protect those jobs, but at the same time | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
what is also important, the Government have to explain how they | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
will make sure it will be environmentally friendly and health | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
and safety will be taken into account, too. He is being measured | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
in his language because of the tricky business of balancing the | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
economic benefits against concerns about health and the environment. | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
Frankly, this is not something people like. -- people like Oliver | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Cole will want to put too much emphasis on, because they do not | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
want the area seen as a submarine graveyard. Does the Labour MP | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Alison Seabeck have the same view? This is one of the areas she | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
specialises in as her new job as shadow defence minister. She says | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
on the safety issue that the proposed new work would be less of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
a risk than the D fuelling work which goes on at Devonport at the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
moment. She agrees that Oliver Colvile that low-skilled work is | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
not the main event for Davenport, but says it should grab all the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
work it can get. Thank you very much indeed. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police are to review their investigation into the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
disappearance of the Devon schoolgirl Genette Tate after a | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
suspect for her abduction was convicted of murdering another | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
young girl. Genette disappeared in the east Devon village of | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Aylesbeare in 1978. Today, Robert Black was found guilty of | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
kidnapping and murdering nine-year- old Jennifer Cardy in Northern | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
Ireland in 1981. Black was jailed for life in 1994 after killing | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
three other girls in the 1980s when he was working as a delivery driver. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
He was linked to the Amargh killing after detectives trawled more than | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
half a million fuel receipts and found one that proved crucial. Our | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
home affairs correspondent Simon Hall has been in Aylesbeare today. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Earlier, I asked him what the prospects were of Black now being | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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charged with Genette's murder. That is the key question, of course. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
There was no obvious new evidence which came out against black in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
this trial, and prosecutors decided a few years ago they had | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
insufficient evidence to charge him with abducting Genette Tate, so | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
what has changed? The key issue is the Northern Ireland case, the | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Jennifer Cardy case, where the judge allowed bad character | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
evidence against Black, and in his case that is as bad as it gets, | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
sexually assaulting and murdering children. You can imagine the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
impact on the jury. If the prosecutors could now put Back in | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
this area at the time that Genette Tate disappeared, introduce | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
evidence against him and have the prospect of bad character evidence, | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
you could see that might raise the prospect of a conviction. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
What is the reaction to all of this? | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Genette Tate's father has said to Black, if you know what happened, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
if you were responsible for my daughter's disappearance, please | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
come out and tell us. He said the family had been through real help | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
and he wants to see an end to that. It is the view of those involved in | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
the case by and large that the truth about what happened to | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Genette Tate will only become known if it was Black, it forever it may | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
have been, comes forward and confesses. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
And the chances of him confessing? Well, he has not until now, and we | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
are talking many years, of course, so you have to say dubious. There | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
is powerful psychology behind this. In this man's mind, and he's | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
devious and manipulative, he only now has a feeling of power because | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
of the secrets he possesses, he will never be released and he knows | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
that, so these give him some feeling of influence in the world. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Would he give those it? That is something you would have to ask. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
What are Devon & Cornwall Police saying? | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
No one was available for interview, they released a brief statement | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
saying the Genette Tate case remains open, they will review the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
evidence presented in the quarter Northern Ireland, and see if it | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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A man from Cornwall has been speaking for the first time today | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
about the moment he was struck by lightning. Ian Thomas, the mayor of | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Redruth, was out with his dog when it happened, and he was so badly | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
injured he has been in hospital for a week. As Spotlight's Cornwall | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
reporter Eleanor Parkinson explains, Ian's doctor says if he had not | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
have been wearing rubber boots, he would have been killed. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Ian Thomas got up early to feed his chickens. He was walking through | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
his garden with his dog when he says he dug a huge blow to the head. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
I was conscious of the fact that my body was flying upwards as opposed | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
to falling downwards. Then everything went blank, or black, or | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
whatever. And when you came round? I don't know how long I had been as | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
I was, but I came to my senses, if I can say that, on my hands and | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
knees with my fists clenched shut my chest, head buried in the ground. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
With the help of his dog, he managed to get back to his house. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
His wife, thinking he had had a heart attack, drove him to hospital. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Doctors there found he had been hit by lightning. They even found | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
entrance and exit marks on his body. They believe the lining was | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
attracted by the metal food ball he was carrying. I was clutching at in | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
front of my chest as I would usually, and there is a suggestion | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
that the lightning targeted the bowl. But unfortunately, it hit my | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
head on the way to it. The doctors told him his life had been saved by | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
his Wellington boots, which had stopped the electricity earthing. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
The consultants said, it is lucky he is here, his words were, if he | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
was not wearing these boots it would be a totally different story. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
So it is not worth thinking about, you can't help thinking about that, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
but I am so glad he is here. those boots will stay in the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
family? He is wearing them to bed, out to dinner, everywhere now! | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Thomas spent four days in hospital and is still being treated for pain | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
in his left side. He says he and his family know he is very lucky to | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
be alive. New figures obtained by Spotlight | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
show that older drivers now account for almost a fifth of all road | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
accidents in Devon and Cornwall. In 2008, accidents involving drivers | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
aged 65 and over accounted for just under 12%. In 2010, that jumped to | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
18%. In fact, police are so concerned that they now want all | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
drivers over 65 to consider taking refresher driving courses. | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
Spotlight's John Danks has the story. | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
Stanley passed his driving test in 1965. Yesterday, 56 years later, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the standard of his driving was again under scrutiny. His driving | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
was assessed by a qualified instructor. You do get into habits. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
I think everybody does, everybody gets a way of doing things. But he | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
obviously thought I was pretty safe on the road, so it was a good | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
experience. Devon and Cornwall police believe refresher driving | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
courses are a good way to improve safety on the road. They are | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
concerned about the number of accidents involving older motorists. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Senior motorists, because of their vulnerability due to age and | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
conditions that go with old age, are an area where we need to look. | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
The fatality rate is not increasing, but the minor damage coalition's is | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
certainly something that is increasing. -- commissions. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
south-west has the highest number of pensioners than any other UK | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
region. That may go some way to explain these latest accident | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
figures. Earlier this month, Torbay council's road safety team | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
organised a driver awareness Day in Paignton, supported by snooker | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
legend Ray Reardon, who lives in the bay. You have to drive ahead of | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
yourself, not where you are now, 50, 100 yards ahead. Anticipation, to | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
see whether people will walk in front of you, whether they have | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
children or animals with them. According to the police young | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
drivers are still biggest at-risk group, but they say anyone worried | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
about their driving skills can as an instructor to take a refresher | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
course. E-mails coming in on that story | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
already. And we'd like your views on that | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
story. Do get in touch. You can contact us by email or Twitter. The | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
addresses are on your screen now. An activity centre designed by | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
teenagers for teenagers has been opened in Paignton. We will be | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
taking a look around in a moment. Also still to come: It is that meat | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
there. It is a pie, but there is a tale | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
behind it. We will be discovering its secret ingredient. | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
And sitting on the fence - the rare An emergency team from the | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Cornwall-based disaster relief charity Shelterbox has arrived in | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
the Thai capital Bangkok, where 100,000 people have been left | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
homeless following floods. They are distributing 400 boxes of vital aid. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
More than 370 people have been killed. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
A union challenge to save the jobs of 80 civilian staff at Devon and | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Cornwall Police has failed. The force announced it is cutting | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
dozens of crime investigators as part of a four-year programme of | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
budget cuts. An appeal panel ruled the redundancies were justified. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
22-year-old British bobsleigher Serita Shone, from Weymouth, has | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
fractured her back in a training crash in Winterberg in Germany. She | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
has had four hours of spinal surgery. She has just joined the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
squad after switching from athletics. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
All this week we have been looking at the health of three of the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
region's cities, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro. So far we have looked at | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
them as important centres of business, media and health. Tonight, | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
in the fourth and final film, there is a sporting theme. Spotlight's | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Dave Gibbins looks at how Exeter leads the way in the planning and | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
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commercial use of sports stadiums. Exeter Chiefs Sandy Park is the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
role model to how a sporting venue can be used to maximum potential. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
They could not have dreamed -- achieved their dream of reaching | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Rugby's Premiership had they stayed at their old ground. It was looking | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
tired and black and -- and dilapidated so they sold it for a | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
housing development and moved into a new site, costing �80 million. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
Their fore sight has paid off. Nasty in the championship we had a | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
turnover -- last year in the championship we had a turnover of | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
�4 million. This year, turnover at the end of May was 8.3 million. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Going to the Premiership has doubled. The Cornish Pirates would | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
love to achieve what Exeter Chiefs have done here. The only problem is | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
they do not have a stadium to do it. This is where the City of Truro | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
comes in. This is what the proposed stadium for Cornwall would look | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
like on the periphery of Truro. It will be the new abode for the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Cornish Pirates rugby team, eager to follow the path taken by Exeter | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Chiefs. It needs the backing of Cornwall Council for the project to | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
get off the ground. Plymouth City Council pocketed a �1.1 million | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
profit from buying back Plymouth Argyle's Home Park last week. They | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
may have lost their one asset but they have money in the bank from | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
the sale of the site, Paramount for the new owners. We can and should | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
target surpluses rather than profits, and then reinvest into the | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
club. There is no ambition on my part to take money out of the club | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
to make money from the club. These days it is not just about fans | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
coming through the turnstiles for a club to earn money. Utilisation is | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
the key to healthy finances. Exeter Chiefs had a vision and boldly went | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
where no other south-west club dared to go. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
And staying with sport and leisure now, because a new �5 million | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
activity centre for young people has opened in Paignton. As Emma | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Ruminski has been finding out, the Parkfield centre was designed by | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
teenagers for teenagers. Young people can no longer meant | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
that there is nothing for them to do in Torbay. Teenagers helped | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
design the new multi-million-pound Parkfield Centre and chose all of | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
the facilities for. I was saying to my friends and the people I know, | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
you guys are going to love this. We have been involved from the start. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
As soon as I went through those doors the other week, I literally | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
nearly lost my breath. I absolutely could not believe it. Even coming | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
up in a taxi to go to a regular meeting, the taxi driver went, wow! | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
The price of membership has been kept low to make it affordable. It | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
costs �12 to use the centre from now until March and membership | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
means teenagers get discounted bus travel to the site. Coaching | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
sessions and workshops hope to get young people involved in positive | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
activities. Youth workers are on hand to give advice and support. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
The young people in Torbay do not have many places to go to get | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
positive activities, professional support and guidance. This place | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
can offer all of that as well as some physical for and. We need to | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
focus on how to highlight young people's' positive views, and how | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
we are not all foodies -- not all hoodies. We have got D-Day | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
facilities for those who like music, but a BMX track for those who like | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
sport -- DJ facilities. Others will look on in envy at the new cycle | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
tracks. Indoors, there is a recording studio and cafes. It cost | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
almost �5 million and was funded by the government. It is one of only | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
63 youth projects in the country to get funding. I would imagine this | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
is quite lucky, because it would have been difficult to achieve in | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
this economic climate? Today would have been very difficult. The | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
timing was good three years ago when the bid was put in. The park | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
filled centre will run events over half-term to introduce people to | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
the centre and activities, but it is aimed at teenagers so some will | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
have to wait a little bit longer before they can join. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Chicken, turkey, pheasant - they are all popular meats these days. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
But one food shop in Cornwall is hoping to further broaden people's | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
tastes. The owners say they are doing a | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
roaring trade in grey squirrel meat. We sent Spotlight's Amy Cole to | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
find out what people there really think of it. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Three this food boxes made up of fresh cornice -- Cornish produce. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
The usual suspects, carrots, broccoli and... Squirrel meat? You | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
have got to be joking?! There is a project about to start to cold grey | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
squirrels from this area to reintroduce the red squirrel, and | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
it seems as saying -- it seems a shame not to make use of that made, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
so we are hoping to develop a market for other types of meat like | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
rabbit or grey squirrel. I have my squirrel meat, what do I do with it | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
now? Joanne Schofield is no stranger to grey squirrel. She is | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Canadian and apparently it is popular over there so she is making | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
me a pie. You can use raw squirrel. It is better if you slow cricket. | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Like Venice and, for example -- slow-cooked it. Like Venice and. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
That that in the pie, put the pastry on top. Here is one she made | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
area. It looks like any other pike to me, but this is Cornwall, not | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
Canada, so what do people make of I have got squirrel pie, would you | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
like to try some? No, thank you. have squirrel pie, would you like | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
to try some? I am a vegetarian! That is what they all say! | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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sorry! Let's see if these firemen like it. It is that meat there. | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
like it. You like it? Would you like to try some? What... Squirrel. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
What do you think. Like rabbit. I thought I would save the best | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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until last, I know you are waiting for me to try it so here goes. It | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
is pretty cheery. The camera men will eat anything, so, Pete, why | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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don't you have a go? Let's try a bit. Do you like it? It is very | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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nice. You are not lying? No, no! There you go, you have it. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
It will not have taken Peter Long to finish that off! That has caused | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
much amusement among the technical staff here! | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
An unusual feathered visitor to North Devon is causing something of | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
a flutter. There have been a number of sightings of a European eagle | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
owl in the Westward Ho! Area over the last few weeks. One teenager | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
captured the bird on camera when it spent the whole day in her garden. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Hamish Marshall reports. It comes close to being the world's | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
largest owl, with a wingspan of between five and six feet. This is | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
10-year-old Daphne, in captivity. But this is another European eagle | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
owl on the loose in north Devon. It is thought she has escaped from a | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
private collection. These pictures were taken by Sarah Short when it | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
spent a day in her garden. At first I thought it was just a large bird. | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
I called mum, and she said, no, it is an owl. We researched it on the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
laptop to find out what it was. He would sit there and 10 his head and | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
now and again have a wash. For this expert, it is no surprise the al | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
spent all day not moving much. They prefer the night. David has been | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
monitoring sightings, almost unheard of in this part of the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
world. European eagle owl was are difficult to train and maintain. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Every now and again we will go and presented with some food, which he | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
takes readily, but it is in a population, a very high pheasant | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
population. European eagle owl stayed very well to taking | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
pheasants. We have had phone calls and reports of it eating road to | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
already, and it is looking healthy and flying well in the strong wind, | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
so we have no concerns for its howl. What attracted the owl to this | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
garden? Perhaps this is the answer, the sound of Chalky and Fudge. The | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
good news is they were safely tucked up in their cage all day. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
There were no reports of pacts being attacked. The Owl should | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
survive the winter, but if it does get into trouble, David said he | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
would try to catch it. We will look at your e-mails on all | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
the drivers in a moment, but first an e-mail from will, whose young | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
son has made a rain gauge for his half-term holiday and has collected | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
60 mm of rain in the last 24 hours. Is that accurate? | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
It depends when he started recording, but the highest today | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
has been 30 mm. He is doing very well though, keep it up. | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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We have had wet weather today, 20 to 30 mm. The good news is tomorrow | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
it should be fine and dry, a chance to try things out. Enough moisture | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
for some mist and fog patches later tonight, but a dry story tomorrow | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
and we should see some sunshine, perhaps becoming hazy as the Count | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
gets closer. But we are between weather systems tonight. The low- | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
pressure Ms out of the way, and a ridge of high pressure, a weak one, | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
but then nonetheless, will change it into the weekend. Some light and | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
patchy rain across us in the afternoon on Saturday. But the main | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
threat of rain is on Saturday night in two Sunday. Still some rain | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
around now, some still quite heavy as it moves across the eastern | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
parts of the region. But a nice clearance further west. This was | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
earlier today in Truro, where we had a glimpse of the sunshine. With | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
a bit of brightness in the sky it has felt quite pleasant. Although | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
cooler air has followed in behind and with the clear skies we are | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
expecting some fairly low temperatures overnight tonight as | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
temperatures plummet into single figures. Some mistiness and fog | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
forming particularly in the river valleys. A lot of clear sky | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
beginning to come in which will continue overnight. The rain last | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
to peer over parts of Dorset and the Channel Islands, and some of | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
the mist and fog forming by tomorrow morning as well. Overnight | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
temperatures could be as low as three or four, not must -- not much | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
frost, but fog in areas. Further west, we should have a fine day | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
with sunshine. High cloud in the Far western Cornwall but a pleasant | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
enough day, and temperatures up to 14, possibly 15 degrees, with Mike | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
winds through the day. On to the Isles of Scilly, we can expect a | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
reasonably sunny day tomorrow, with some cloud making the sunshine hazy | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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and a gentle breeze from the south- Let's look at the forecast through | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
this weekend. Expect on Saturday to have a bright, cold start, some | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
sunshine then generally clouding over with a risk of a few showers, | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
more persistent rain into the evening. Sunday is similar, | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
brighter weather around possibly in the morning, but a lot of cloud, | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
brisk winds developing through the weekend. Slightly warmer air, 16 | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
degrees the top temperature. And if you are wondering what the picture | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
is behind, it is a salmon coming up the river, taken by Tim Smit. We | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
would love to see more of them, e- Your e-mails on older drivers, this | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
one from Jane in Bideford. If 20% of accidents are caused by elderly | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
drivers, then 80% are not. Which is higher? | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
A lot of people made that point. One says, I have come up against | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
accidents caused by impatient drivers in their mid-thirties. He | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
says, as you get older you slow down and do not take chances. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Tony says he was assessed when he retired 12 years ago and he | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
recommended. A student in Plymouth says driving | :27:29. | :27:33. |