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A warning that cuts to traffic police will cost lives on South | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
West roads. Good evening and welcome to | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Spotlight. The police say there are actually now fewer deaths and | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
injuries - we'll hear both sides. Also tonight... | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
New flood defences for Teignmouth - �4 million to be spent to hold back | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
the spring tides. Ene of the youngest survivors of | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
the genocide joins local children to mark world Holocaust Day. -- one | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
of the youngest. And the best of England's young | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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rugby stars get to grips with Sandy A road safety charity is warning | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
that cuts to traffic police numbers across the South West could cost | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
lives. Brake is now calling on the Government to invest in more front | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
line officers. In the last year a third of Dorset's traffic division | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
has been redeployed while there has been a 13% fall in the number of | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
traffic officers in Devon and Cornwall. | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
In Avon and Somerset the number is down by 5%. But the police say | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
there are now fewer deaths and injuries on our roads. In Devon and | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Cornwall, for example, the number has halved. There were 100 | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
fatalities in 2005 and only 50 in 2010. Spotlight's Hamish Marshall | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
reports. Out enforcing the law, but | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
campaigners believe less of this is going on in the region. This woman | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
felt the impact of a crash. Three years ago her daughter died in a | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
crash. She was taken from there by someone over the drink-drive limit. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
I am still suffering greatly, and of course the rest of my family and | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
her friends, too. That terrible realisation that someone's | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
beautiful life could be taken from them in a fraction of a second. | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
Then and I was not with us any more. Police captured this motorcyclist | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
doing 140 mph, double the speed limit, on the A38. Road campaigners | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
say fewer traffic officers below low this and other dangers to go | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
one noticed. We're very worried that, by cutting | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the numbers of police, you are increasing the chances of crashes | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
on the road, potentially the number on the road, potentially the number | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
on the road, potentially the number on the road, potentially the number | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
of people needlessly killed. Devon and Cornwall police say they denied | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
lives are being put at risk, but they're having to cope with the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
loss of several hundred policing officers. We are reduce in numbers, | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
however I think it is wrong to the fair -- in fare this will lead to | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
an increase in casualties on the roads. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Police say in recent years there has been a fall in the number of | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
deaths on roads. But there is a new worry - there has been a bigger | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
rise in the number of people who failed breath tests during the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
recent festive campaign. Those who have seen the consequences of that | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
first hand all the cuts are not sending out the wrong message. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
It is so difficult to get across that message that all of us feel, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
that it won't happen to you, but it could, because it happened to our | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
family. And if you want to comment on the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
cuts in the number of dedicated police traffic officers, e-mail | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
[email protected] or contact us through Twitter, @bbcspotlight. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
The Government's controversial health reforms have met a mounting | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
tide of opposition this week. The Health and Social Care Bill aims to | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
hand commissioning powers to GPs and extend private sector | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
involvement in the NHS in a drive to save �20 billion by 2015. MPs | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
and medical professionals have joined forces to criticise the the | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Bill. One Cornish Liberal Democrat MP says it is now beyond amendment | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
and should be scrapped. Our Political Editor, Martyn Oates, has | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
been following the week's events. This is all getting very difficult | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
for the Government, isn't it? Extremely, because all of this | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Bangor Road controversy swirls around arguably the most central | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
policy area for a Conservative-led Government. Opposition from Labour | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
would be expected, they seek major restructuring is the last thing the | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
NHS needs. It is the situation, where great swathes of opinion | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
within the medical profession are increasingly hostile, that is bad | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
news for the Government. This Cornish doctor is part of that. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
do not have any trust in the Government about the NHS. I say | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
that very sadly, and the reason I say it is because unfortunately so | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
far they have not listened to us, the British Medical Association, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
the Royal College of Nurses, the Royal College of GPs, who are | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
allegedly leading these reforms, and they have certainly not | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
listened to patients. The Government insists Major re | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
structuring is essential to make these necessary savings and | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
safeguard the NHS. People like that doctors say that actually the NHS | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
is not been too bad a shape, we can secure its future without upheaval | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
on this scale. The Prime Minister reminded everybody at Question Time | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
this week that not all people in the medical profession are opposed | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
to this plan and lots of GP plot, current -- implementing the changes. | :05:55. | :06:04. | |
-- lots of GPs. There is even a suggestion that | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
some of these changes are making it more difficult for the NHS to save | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
money? This came from the health Select | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Committee, which produced a report concluding that changes are | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
distracting and disrupting the NHS at a time it is struggling to make | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
it if -- efficiencies. Conservative MPs sit on the health Select | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Committee, as well as Liberal Democrat and opposition MPs. It is | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
actually chaired by a former Conservative Health Secretary, | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
Stephen Dorrell. Peer in the South West, the St Ives MP, Andrew George, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
continues his dogged campaign within the coalition opposing the | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Bill, and he says it has reached the stage it should be binned. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
And I will be back with Sunday politics at midday on Sunday. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Around �4 million is being spent on new flood defences for the South | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Devon town of Teignmouth. The Environment Agency says the work is | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
needed because of climate change and a rising sea level. One pub in | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
particular is undergoing a dramatic facelift to help hold back the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
spring tides. Our Environment Correspondent, Adrian Campbell, has | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
been to have a look. They have got the builders and at | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the moment in Teignmouth. The construction side is right on the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
waterfront, and while local residents carry on walking their | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
dogs as normal, a �4 million flood defence scheme is being erected to | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
keep rising sea levels at bay. The landlady of this pub took us inside | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
which, with substantial reinforcements, will become part of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
the flood defences. Ours is quite extensive, because | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
the have to build into the wall and attached the flood defences to our | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
walls, it will change the outlook and we will have to have our | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
windows changed. Powers is the most intense of all the way down. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
2008, the pub and its neighbours suffered from high seas and | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
flooding. Rising sea levels have become a way of life here in recent | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
years. This photograph shows you how bad things can get here, up | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
water lapping up against the bottom of the wall of the pub, and when | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
the spring tide is High, the swans are just outside the window, | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
sometimes tapping on the window of the pub. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
On the other side of the estuary, this town already has a similar | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
flood defence scheme. The team responsible are now hoping to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
complete the Teignmouth scheme by the summer. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
The scheme put forward the now compared to the one in 2004 is a | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
lot better for the community. Community have bought into this | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
project. Support is with us, on the wall. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
They new flood defence scheme will rely on a team of volunteers to | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
make sure it works. We'd will issue a flood warning and | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
mobilise a tree in -- a trained team of experts to ensure the gates | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
are closed in time for the flood. That is a right -- that is vital. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
A artist's impressions sold the new scheme should be discreet, despite | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
-- despite flood walls up to four feet in height. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
It is now exactly six months until the Olympics arrive in Britain and | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the sailing events are held off the Dorset coast. Local organisers hope | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
the games will re-shape Weymouth's tourism industry and help Portland | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
recover from the loss of the naval base in the 90s. To assess the | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
progress so far, our Dorset reporter, Simon Clemison, has taken | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
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a former naval petty officer back When the fund Portland. There are | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
about to be reborn. -- Weymouth and Portland. The buckets and spades | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
will not be forgotten, but now they are choosing an adventure market. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
The Olympics are coming, and where once the Royal Navy ruled the waves, | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
sailors and me again when the pride of a nation. The warm glow of the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Olympics is difficult to imagine in these cold winter months, but as | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
the temperature rises, so will the excitement. Thousands are expected | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
on this beach. At the moment it is very hard to imagine. Alvin Hopper | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
has seen the seasons come and go. He was with the Auxiliary Service | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
here in the 1970s. The Navy's boat of Portland for the final time in | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
1995 with the loss of 45,000 jobs. -- the Navy sailed out of Portland. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
There were a lot of families, and most of the population of Portland | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
are connected to the Navy, because of the hundreds of years they were | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
here. Those accommodation blocks over their were turned into luxury | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
flats. The other bloc over there they are still working on. If the | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
Navy had not left, the Olympics may not have come. The sale in the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Academy is built a stone's throw from where helicopters once landed. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Looking at it now, knowing what it was like in its heyday, between | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
1957 and 1999, there were helicopters here, and now we see | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
lots of York's, what a transformation. Albarn is part of | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
the past, but we must's future - he now works in the tourism industry, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
selling a screen in the summer. Could I have a small, soft ice- | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
cream? And old-fashioned staple, but in modern settings. This | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
seaside resort is trying to cash in on the excitement to be had on the | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
water, without neglecting what true here people originally. What was at | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
some kind -- one time a small coast town in England will be | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
internationally known after these events. Is that a good thing? | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
think it is a good thing. everyone has embraced every step of | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
the journey to 2012. 30 years of roadworks in 18 months caused | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
uproar. Short-term pain, but will there be long-term gain? Can Dorset | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
bring in a new type of visitor in 2013 and 2014? Inspired by the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Olympics, bolstering the tourism industry for years to come. I don't | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
know where I will be in 20 years' time, but in 20 years' time I think | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
we will still be developing with. And we will have the Olympics to | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
thank? Yes. Weymouth and Portland may be about to broaden their | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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horizons, and it is a short time There's a cold weekend in store. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
David will bring us the details live from Torbay. Find out why he's | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
there later. Plus, one of the youngest survivors of the holocaust | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
helping tomorrow's generation understand the horrors of the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
genocide. And we'll find out how the South | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
West's rowing hopefuls are preparing for the Olympic. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Oil explorers have told the BBC they could be drilling off the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Dorset coast in two year's time. Wessex Exploration say they could | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
be on the verge of a major discovery. The company had already | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
bought the rights to search on- shore, but now they are investing | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
in new licences which will allow them to explore for oil off-shore | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
here in the South West. Plymouth City Council has signed a | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
deal to keep the British Fireworks Championships in the city for | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
another six years. The spectacular two-day event is now in its 16th | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
year. The 2012 competition will be a Champion of Champions final. The | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
event costs the council around �90,000 to stage, but it insists it | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
is money well spent. OK, the council does not get money | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
directly back, but we do help secured jobs, it helps build the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
economy and it helps a track's other events, a lot of those we do | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
not have to pay for. Those also help secured jobs and investment. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
A new multi-million pound headquarters for Cornwall's Air | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Ambulance is about to open. The 25- year-old charity flies 1,000 life | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
saving missions a year. Its new �1.9 million permanent home is | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
nearing completion on the edge of Newquay Airport. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Many across the South West are today remembering the thousands | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
killed in concentration camps in World War II. As part of events to | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
mark Holocaust Memorial Day, children have been meeting in | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Exeter to share the work they have been doing at school with one of | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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the youngest survivors of the If you saw a starving child, would | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
you give your share? If you saw them take her baby, would you say a | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
word? Not if you listened to Hurst Green, pretend it wasn't heard. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Children remembering the victims of a Holocaust in their own words. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Schools across Devon have been working towards this exhibition at | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
the Guildhall in Exeter, designed to make people stop and think about | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
what happened. It is upsetting and depressing people were put through | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
that. Just for being innocent and their race and what they are. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
really important we can remember it and acknowledge it, but also try to | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
make sure it does not happen again. They got to meet a concentration | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
camp survivor. She is believed to be the oldest survivor of a | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
holocaust. Three weeks before my birth, my mother was on the train, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
the coal truck, or put to the skies and filthy. She was on that train | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
for three weeks with no food and hardly any water. After the war, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
when similar trains were discovered, they opened them and found piles of | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
corpses within them. In 1945, the Germans blew up the gas chamber. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
Had I been born a few days earlier, presumably, I would not be talking | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
to you now. He is to relate this will never have a chance of | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
repeating its of -- history like this. Will never have a chance of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
repeating itself. Time for a look at the weekend's | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
sport now with Dave, who has been at Sandy Park today in rather | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
illustrious company. We are here at Sandy Park, just as | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
England Saxons have finished their final preparations for tomorrow's's | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
game against the Irish Wolfhounds. It is a final pocket kick-off, and | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
we are joined by two familiar faces, Tommy Johnson of Exeter achieves, | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
Matt Hopper formerly of Plymouth Albion and the Cornish pirates. Tom, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
our special visit to play or your home ground? It is very special, | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
always an occasion where you run out in front of a really good crowd, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
and to do it with an England shirt on will hopefully be a special day. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
You have played for the England seniors, although you did not win a | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
cap because it was against the Barbarians. You have played against | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
the big-time atmosphere, what is it like being involved with the top | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
team? It is great being involved with the Saxons. We played in the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Tatchell Cup in the summer, and to get another taste is very enjoyable. | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
Matt, he is from Exeter, born in Exeter, and to play here, to put | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
that white shirt on representing England must be a little special | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
for you, is it? It wasn't something I probably envisioned in the near | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
future, but I always had confidence in my ability that it would happen | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
one day. To come to Exeter has been the City of -- racing on the cakes, | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
I will probably see some familiar faces in the crowd. What do you | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
look for from occasions like this? The main thing is to be part of a | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
winning Saxons team. We have trained pretty hard this week and | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
we have a set of set objectives. Personally, just have a decent game | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
and put a stamp down, a bit of a marker and continue in their good | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
form I have been in. Best of luck for tomorrow evening. It is crucial | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
for goalkeepers, as well, I would imagine, and Brent Bilic has been | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
listed -- receiving let it -- lessons on this art from the | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
England standing coach. Sandy Park will host the England | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Saxons, at one of the most important players is the kicker. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
This is the England Saxons coach, also has a future England caps to | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
his name. How important is taking? For it is very important, it is not | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
just about converting tries and adding to the value of the Saxons | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
score, but it allows teams to that pressure. Get through the ball more, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
chase your foot over the post, so we're not stopping dead, we're | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
going through the ball, get a bit of hip movement through, and then | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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see if you can think about getting the foot chasing the ball. What a | :19:48. | :19:57. | |
short! While the Exeter chiefs continue their campaign at wondered | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Wasps tomorrow, the Cornish pirates and Plymouth Albion look to improve | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
their position in the championship. They have a juicy contest in | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Penzance on Sunday against London Welsh in third. If Albion when | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
tonight, the will of the Birmingham club. Whichever team loses, they | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
will be in the relegation play-offs. Exeter City can put a feather in | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
their cap if they overcome League One leaders Charlton Athletic at St | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
James' Park tomorrow. They have lost only twice this season, while | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
City look to keep some distance from their rivals below them. They | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
include Yeovil Town, who will move out of the bottom four if they beat | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
out of the bottom four if they beat Preston. If Torquay United get the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
better of Northampton, they can go forth in League Two. That will help | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Plymouth Argyle, who have a Plymouth Argyle, who have a | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
difficult game at Port Vale. It is exactly six months to the start of | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
the London Olympics, and four rowers will be hoping to qualify | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
for the Great Britain squad. Marcus Bateman and Bill looking for | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
McInnes Meyer are looking for a place, and Helen Glover and Annabel | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Vernon are looking to make the cut. Finally, Plymouth Raiders go for | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
their eighth consecutive league win when Glasgow rocks a visit on | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Sunday afternoon. It is a 5pm kick- off tomorrow, for international | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
rugby, England Saxons against the Irish Wolfhounds. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
This weekend members of the RNLI will be out and about raising money | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
to buy new lifejackets for crews around the South West. One of the | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
events will be held in and around Torbay. | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
David's in Brixham tonight to find out more. | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
Today is SOS day across the country for the RNLI. Behind me is the | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
latest, a state of-the-art class lifeboat. Here is a much bolder | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
live board, and in it are the crew of the Torbay life then. Mark, tell | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
us about the sport -- this boat. This is similar to what was here in | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
1866, paid for by the people of Exeter. It is an open lifeboat, 10 | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
oarsmen, completely different to what we have known. -- what we have | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
now. Why is it here today? It is a challenge for us to run this | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
lifeboat, and it gives the modern people a taste of what it is like | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
back in those days and appreciate what they had to do to get to see. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
What is your plan tomorrow? We will road from St Mary's Bay into | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Brixham harbour, then through to Torquay. The Wives And Girlfriends | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
of the Torbay lifeboat court are all all -- also involved in this. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
We will be dressed in traditional dress, pulling the boat insurer | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
from Paignton in to Torquay. You're trying to raise money for new life | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
jackets. What is wrong with the life jackets you're wearing? This | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
has been in service about ten years, and the RNLI have put a task to | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
each station to raise enough funds to purchase a new set, modern, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
state-of-the-art lifejackets for the crew to go out and seek -- to | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
it to go out to sea safe and sound. We wish him all the best. That was | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
me speaking to the Torbay lifeboat crew earlier this evening. You can | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
see the difference in size between the two whistles. It is hard to | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
imagine that small lifeboat was out rescuing similar-sized ships the | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
current wave boat goes out regularly to a rescue. This evening | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
there is a cold wind from the there is a cold wind from the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
north-west, that means it will be cold. Let's start with a summary of | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
this weekend. We have the cold air seeping in, cold start with some | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
sunshine, then the possibility of a rain on Sunday. To the west, there | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
is cloud, a weather front Smalley making progress towards us, but | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
very slow progress. -- slowly making progress. Showers will stay | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
with us for the first half of the evening before fading away through | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
the night. By lunchtime tomorrow, we have high pressure close by, | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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being a fine day. By lunchtime on Sunday clouding over, patchy rain. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
You can see where the showers have been in the last few hours. Still | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
some sharp downpours of rain. As the showers clear to the south, | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
tonight's forecast is clear and cold, and quickly that temperatures | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
will get close to freezing widely across the South West. We have a | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
risk of ice overnight, quite a high risk, particularly on minor roads | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
and pavements that have not been treated. Tomorrow, a frosty start | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
and an AC one -- icy conditions. Top temperature of six or seven | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
Celsius, not warmer, lighter winds and normally winds. -- northerly. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
For the Isles of Scilly, decent spells of sunshine, later in the | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
date more cloud. Winds again from the north. The times of high | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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water... The demurral we still have some choppy water on the north | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
coast. Generally quite a cold day to be in the sea. Coastal waters | :26:10. | :26:19. | |
forecast, quite quiet tomorrow. That is tomorrow. For the outlook, | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
we are expecting a change into Sunday, more cloud around. That | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
will produce patchy rain. Over high ground that could give us some snow | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
or sleet. Cold into Monday, cloudy and drizzly, and next week because | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
gradually getting colder and colder. By midweek next week we could have | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
four or five Celsius. four or five Celsius. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Throughout the day you have been letting us know what you think of | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
the cuts in the number of dedicated traffic police. Jack emails to say, | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
now those who use mobile phones, drink and drive will assume that | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
they have less chance of being caught. | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
A former traffic officer who is now on general policing duties and has | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
asked us not to use his name says, we are deeply interested in | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
reducing the number of collisions involving death and injuries on our | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
roads and the misery they leave behind. Sadly, we have been | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
thwarted from this important task. And Jeremy in Honiton emailed to | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
say, if there is police presence on roads then more lives will be at | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
risk and the bad drivers will not be the ones whose families are | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
destroyed by their actions. Thank you to everyone who took the | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
trouble to get in touch. That is it from us tonight and this | :27:32. | :27:36. |