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They gambled with the lives of 20,000 people after the Camelford | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
water poisoning. A coroner's damning criticism of the former | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
South West Water Authority. Good evening. We'll be live in | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Camelford with more on the inquest into the death of Carole Cross. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight: A bright spot in the economic gloom. The high tech | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
companies continuing to do well here, despite another rise in | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
unemployment. And opera singer Ben Luxon talks | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
about his return to Cornwall and his latest production. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
A coroner has criticised a water authority for "gambling" with the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
lives of 20,000 people following Britain's worst mass poisoning | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
incident. The water supply in Camelford was accidentally | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
contaminated with aluminium sulphate in 1988. Investigating the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
death of 59-year-old Carole Cross, the West Somerset coroner said | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
there was a very real possibility the chemical may have been a factor | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
in her death. Our reporter Janine Jansen is live in the North | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Cornwall town tonight. It is the answer they have been | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
waiting for it, it did the catastrophic poisoning caused the | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
death of Carol Cross? After 24 years, an answer. Probably. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Although there is not enough evidence to be absolutely sure. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Today the coroner said there was a real possibility that a union may | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
have been a calls in her death and after the verdict the statement was | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
read up by her widower. The verdict comes after eight years | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
fighting to discover the truth of what happened to my wife, Carol. I | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
hope the verdict today prompts further study of the long-term | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
effects of the incident to give reassurance to my friends and | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
neighbours in the town. Recently I spoke to the widow of | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Carol Cross about that fateful day back in 1988. It is a date he | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
remembers vividly. An elderly lady splashed her face with water in the | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
morning and her hand stuck to her face. The man running the Pet Shop | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
was in tears saying that his animals had died. He said he filled | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
up their bowls with water, they drank it and they died within a few | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
minutes. The river was full of dead fish, it was a total wipe out. | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
60,000 fish have died. John Stevens was the relief driver who put 20 | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at the treatment | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
works. It poisoned the mains water supply. 20,000 people were affected. | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
The accidental contamination happened on Wednesday 6th July 1988. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
The South West Water of the rot began to have its suspicions about | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the aluminium two days later. But did not get the lorry driver back | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
to confirm his mistake until six days later. Still people were being | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
told that the water was safe to drink. They finally told the | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
public's some of the truth about the contamination 16 days later. | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
This is the noticed that South West Water put in the middle of a sports | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
page in it and newspapers 16 days after the event. Still the public | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
was being told that the water was safe to drink and there was no | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
mention of the amount of aluminium sulphate placed in the mains water | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
supply. Here authority was to be privatised will foreign year. -- | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
the following year. People were told that the water was safe to | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
drink but at a public meeting the chairman was not too keen to put | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
that into practice. I would like to pass up to the top | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
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table a sample of the water. I would not like to drink it. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
man in charge of environmental health says he was not told the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
truth for three weeks. He said that was shockingly late. I think | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
everybody that I know of things it was a very disgraceful episode, a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
dreadful lack of communication. Many were told to mix the water | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
with orange juice or to boil it. The leading aluminium expert in the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
country said that that was appalling advise. It was completely | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
ridiculous. One assumes it was uninformed because balling would | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
just have concentrated the amount of aluminium Wes adding orange | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
juice would have increased the absorption of it across the gut. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Carol Cross lived in Camlough but at the time but died 16 years later. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
She had levels of aluminium in her brain that experts say we are | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
beyond belief. The leading neuropathologist in the country | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
said that Carroll had a rare form of old timers, unique across the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
world. I have only seen one remotely similar case and that was | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
in someone a lot older than Carol. She was 81 when she died whereas | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Carroll was just 59. So I have never seen a comparable case at | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
that age. Her with a were says when she died, it was his specialist who | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
suggested a link. He looked at me and said that it looked like metal | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
poisoning. And then add German doctor, a locum, took me aside and | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
said you know, we see quite a few cases of aluminium poisoning in | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
Germany. The experts are convinced. The incident must have contributed | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
to the death of Carroll crossed. To do the coroner criticised the South | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
West Water a priority as it was then for its dereliction of duty. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
He criticised the poor state of management centre should have | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
informed the public much sooner about the truth. He says they were | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
gambling with up to 20,000 lives. Today we have reaction from one | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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environmental campaigner here. I think the specialist | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
practitioners have done their job well and they're saying that there | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
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must be a link. The coroner must say that there is a definite link. | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
I feed he was deeply distressed by the way the whole thing was handled. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
To rub the coroner said that people should not fear that they may | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
become victims of this poisoning. He said there are probably most | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
people ingested none or little of the aluminium and should not be | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
worried. Again beginning to like that most people will be glad to | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
put this episode behind them. Now the offence created a lot of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
political controversy over the years. Our political Correspondent | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
is in at Westminster. Well the mistakes of the past | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
continued to cast a long shadow over the water industry in the | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
south-west. Just this afternoon MPs have been debating legislation to | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
reduce all water bills in Devon and Cornwall by �50 a year. It will go | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
some way towards correcting what everyone seems to accept is an | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
unjust side effect of privatisation. The poisoning incident dates from | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
the same era and is just as long lasting. By their the corner Lord | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
former MP for the area things that the findings today should be | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
allowed to draw a line entirely under this episode. The very least | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
the government should do now, because it was a Conservative | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
government that took those steps in the run-up to the privatisation of | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the industry, the least that the present government should do is to | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
compensate victims and make sure we get to the bottom of what exactly | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
the health effects wear. Well the corner was asking the government | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
also to provide some money towards the cost of the long-running | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
inquest. He also called for more research into the effects of | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
aluminium in public water supplies. Meanwhile the government says the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
next few months will see the publication of a major report into | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
chemical contaminants in water supplies and that report had been | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
deliberately delayed in order to take account of the verdict today. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Unemployment has risen again across the region. But in most places here | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
our figures are still below the national rate, and there are signs | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
the rise may be beginning to flatten off. With the latest, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
here's our business correspondent Neil Gallacher. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Yes, bad that it's still rising, but at least not rising as fast. As | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
always we're limited to giving you just the number actually out of | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
work and claiming benefit for each county. But we can still compare | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
like with like and draw some conclusions. The overall UK | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
claimant count rate went up to 4.2 percent. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Cornwall's rate went up to 3.4 percent, Devon's went up to 2.5 | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
percent. Dorset's rose only very slightly to | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
2 percent and Somerset's rose to 2.6 percent. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
The higher rates here are in the unitary areas. Plymouth's went up | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
to 4.1 percent and Torbay is still the one significant area here above | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the national rate, at 5 percent. Now we went to South Devon today to | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Newton Abbot where there's a careers fair all week. Young people | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
from all over Devon getting advice on the search for work which a | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
disproportionate number of youngsters find themselves caught | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
up in. No one seems to want to call back | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
and tell me what is actually wrong with my application or anything | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
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like that. It is so hard, the amount of rejections I have got. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
It comes to the point now where I am hoping someone has lost their | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
jobs so I can have it. I have been looking for work for about six | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
months and still cannot get anything. I do not want to claim | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
benefits. Although the rise in unemployment | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
is no longer as steep as it was, I guess it will be a good while yet | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
before we are looking at any actual falls. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
Although Torbay's unemployment figures are consistently the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
highest in the South West, the area boasts a number of Hi-tech | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
manufacturing companies which, despite the poor state of the local | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
economy, are continuing to do well. Chloe Axford has been to find out | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
why. Spirent in Paignton makes hi-tech | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
test equipment for navigation systems. It seems the secret to its | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
current success is that its not reliant on the UK market to stay | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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afloat. We have a global market here. As do | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
another of hi-tech businesses here. So our customers are much broader | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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than many traditional businesses who are restricted by geography. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Most jobs are highly skilled and specialised which means that many | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
of the staff are recruited from outside the area. One company which | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
does recruit locally is Gooch and Housego in Torquay. It employs 110 | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
staff making fibre optic components. We don't recruit in the local area | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
and tried to improve people's skills. We also have programmes for | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
people who require further education, we would respond to them | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
as well. Lyn Doney grew up in Torbay and has | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
been working at the company for two weeks. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
It is the first job I applied for and I have got it. With him out of | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
people added work I did not expect to get into work so quickly. Both | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
companies are too small to run their own apprenticeship schemes. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
But they say they are thinking of banding together with other firms | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
to help those out of work on their doorstep get their foot in the door. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
And we will be debating the state of the economy in the region next | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Monday night in a special programme at five past 11 here on BBC One. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
The parents of a five-year-old girl who died following a collision in | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Weymouth have paid tribute to their daughter, describing her as their | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
"beautiful princess". Lily Mae Jeffries was crossing the road with | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
her two sisters and grand mother when they were hit by two motor | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
bikes. She died later in hospital. Her family say it was a tragic | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
accident. The grandmother is still in hospital tonight. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
�21 million has been pledged to schools in Devon. The county | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
council will spend �11 million providing extra places for a | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
growing number of pupils and a further �10 million on school | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
buildings. St Austell and Dorchester have | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
failed in their bid for city status. As part of the Queen's Diamond | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Jubilee celebrations. They were among 26 towns competing for the | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
right. Catastrophic - that's the view of | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
one hotelier in Weymouth of the news that the Dorset town is losing | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
its ferry business until November at the earliest. The failure of | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
emergency work to repair cracks in Weymouth's damaged harbour wall | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
means Condor Ferries will have to sail out of Poole throughout this | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
Olympic summer. Our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton reports. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
The decorators are sprucing up the Bourneville hotel on the seafront | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
ready for the summer. Since news of the departure of Condor broke last | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
night, five guests have already cancelled their bookings. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
It is going to be catastrophic for Weymouth. When the report came out | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
we had phone calls almost immediately to cancel for the next | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
few months. One week ago council contractor has fought hundreds of | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
tons of concrete into huge cracks in the harbour surface. They | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
confidently promised that Condor would then turn this month. But | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
that has clearly failed, and failed badly. At the moment we was | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
scheduled services up until the 4th of a member and after that it | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
depends on what the cancelled -- what the council do with the birth. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
We hoped that remedial works would be sufficient but now we're in the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
position of relocating. The council owns the port so the council must | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
decide what happens next. council is forming a plan to | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
complete the refurbished the whole area around the breath. But in the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
meantime you're going to lose a million passengers for Weymouth | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
this year. Yes, we are. Just months from the Olympics, Weymouth is no | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
longer a ferry port. No longer a gateway to the Channel Islands and | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
France. Patients needing hip and knee | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
replacements are less anxious about their operations and recover more | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
quickly, as a result of a new service in Plymouth. 1,100 people | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
get new hips and knees at Derriford each year. The hospital's one of | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
just a handful running "joint schools" to prepare them for their | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
operations. Our Health Correspondent Sally Mountjoy has | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
more. Life is not easy for Elizabeth. She | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
has osteo arthritis and although she has had a right knee joint | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
replaced, the left also needs urgent treatment. It is very | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
painful and stops me doing many of the hobbies I like to build. This | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
stops me from shopping because I cannot walk very far because of the | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
pain. Her operation is due within days so | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
she and her husband have been invited to a joint school at | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
Derriford. Nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists give | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
patients a complete picture of what to expect and exercises to start | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
straight away. Even a look at the kind of joint that they will have | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
fitted. It has a plastic insects -- inset in the middle which acts like | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
cartilage. It is part of a wider programme called enhanced recovery | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
getting patients back on their feet sooner after surgery. Patients love | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
that interaction and we find it but although we give them written | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
information, there is no substitute for that one to one. Just speaking | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
to people. The fact that they can ask questions and we can hopefully | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
allay any of their fears. It was helpful, useful. It is better to | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
know what is going to happen before. Other hospitals are now likely to | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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learn lessons from Fairford and set up their own joint schools. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Exmoor's rare blanket bog has been drying out, following centuries of | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
drainage. Experts are using "spy in the sky" cameras to show how | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
conservation can improve drinking water and keep down water bills. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
But now that's being reversed as the value and importance of moss is | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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being understood. Our Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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Much of the peat beneath the surface has been dried out. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
When it rains, instead of the water running down the DoH, it will fill | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
up behind the blockages and stayed here for much longer. That is | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
crucial because the water resources will last longer and there would be | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
better wash of college even dub pilot projects have already worked | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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well. But now Dr Smith's plans have taken | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
off. Over the coming months specialised Jones will photograph | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
how the landscape improves as millions of pounds invested by | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
South West Water and others restored huge areas of the most | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
important upland water reserves in the area. The images clearly show | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
how well the project works were there other ways of checking as | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
well. In addition to the east airborne surveys, the University of | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
Exeter is monitoring water levels through these little black pipes. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
They monitor how the water is flowing around the ditch and give | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
data allowing us to understand what happens here when it rains. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
value of restoring the landscape is increasingly being understood, with | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
a real benefits expected for consumers of water in the coming | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
years. If we can get ahead of the area back, you can see how much | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
water this retains and the benefits to South West Water and their | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
partners are immense. It is hoped that aerial monitoring | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
will prove that the research works, allowing further restoration in the | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
future. Wildlife will gain from the project and climate changing gases | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
such as methane should also be locked into the peat for ever. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Onto some sport and Torquay United have shot up to second in League | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Two after another important away win last night. And there was late | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
drama at Huish Park where Yeovil Town were denied victory. Here's | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Spotlight's Dave Gibbins. Torquay United's form is | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
scintillating. Captain Lee Mansell gave them their third win in four | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
games at Rotherham and a solid base from which to gain automatic | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
promotion. At times, they had to rely on | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik's excellence as he again proved he's | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
one of the best stoppers in the division. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Despite the fog at Huish Park, Yeovil Town had a clear vision of | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
what they needed to do against Scunthorpe United. You can just | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
make out Gavin Williams scoring the Glovers opener from a free kick. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
A smart move saw Middlesbrough loanee Jonathan Franks regain the | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
advantage, making it 2-1. A sixth Yeovil win in seven games | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
was almost complete, but with 20 seconds left of added time, Jon | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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Parkin pierced the mist to earn an unlikely two-all draw. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
We're not going to let the draw today affect us mentally. I gave | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
them five minutes to be disappointed and then we are ready | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
for Saturday. There seems to be no stopping Torquay United at the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
moment as this storm into the automatic promotion places. For | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Yeovil Town there were thwarted with virtually the last kick of the | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
game. But on this performance I am sure but they will stay in League | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
One. Cornish MP George Eustice came | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
first in the annual Sport Relief Westminster Mile. More than 40 MPs | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
took part in the charity event in St James' Park. The Camborne and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Redruth Conservative MP took five minutes 28 seconds to set the | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
record. Now for a tale of double-crossing, | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
love late in life and scandal in the banking industry. But before | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
you think we have a really juicy story to finish the programme | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
tonight, we're actually talking about a play. The production is | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
called "Tin", it's all set in nineteenth century Cornwall and | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
features one of the county's best known voices, performing after a | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
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long absence. Spotlight's Matt Pengelly went along to rehearsals. | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
Tin is a story of romance, greed, and the adventures of a travelling | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
opera company, who become embroiled in a huge banking fraud. Singers | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
from the English Touring Opera are working with Cornwall's Miracle | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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Theatre. This in Street went on underground | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
but the more we researched into it, the more we got into the background | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
of the story, it is extraordinary to discover the depths that people | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
went to, down to a 1000 feet. The intricacies of the financing of | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
mining. Playing the part of Mr East, the | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
mine owner, is the famous Cornish baritone Ben Luxon. He's travelled | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
from his home in America for his first performance in Cornwall for | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
12 years. He won't be singing due to hearing problems, but he's | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
looking forward to the acting challenge. | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
It is very special. I was born just across the road of course in | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
hospital. It is very special. I always come back to Cornwall for a | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
couple of weeks at least each year. Tin will be premiered here on the | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
20th of March with 100 local singers, including representatives | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
from eight local schools, at the Heartlands site in Pool. | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
It is a pretty appropriate site, as it's right in the centre of what | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
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used to be Cornish mining country. Now time for and look at the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
Now time for and look at the weather. | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
We had some sunshine this afternoon, it has been quite pleasant today if | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
you're not right on the coast because those areas did struggle | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
with the temperatures. That was because of the cloud and the | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
onshore breeze. But the wind is already dying down at so what will | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
become colder tonight with those clearer skies. Some fog expected to | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
form. Especially across parts of East Devon and up into Somerset. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
The high pressure is beginning to move now, allowing flout to coming | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
to the west of Ireland. That will produce some patchy rain on Friday. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Then as we move through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, at the high | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
pressure finally moves right out of the way. Then we start to seek low | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
pressure take charge. And by the end of Friday, outbreaks of rain. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
There is the satellite picture from earlier today. You can see how the | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
cloud has largely melted away. Of the area of cloud coming into parts | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
of Devon has made it pretty chilly and miserable. It has been forming | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
a few waves along the seaside. And temperatures have struggled to | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
seven or eight degrees today, compared to parts of north and west | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Devon were temperatures were at 11 or 12 degrees. Tonight for all of | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
us, like wind and that mist and fog forming quickly. Once that starts | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
to happen we see temperatures dropping to as low as three degrees | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
overnight. Quite a funny start in places tomorrow. That will clear up | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
through the morning but do not expect a lot of sunshine. The cloud | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
is quite reluctant to break up. The best of the bricks will be across | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
the east of Devon, up into Somerset and Dorset. And here also the | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
highest temperatures. The Isles of Scilly, rather cloudy and misty and | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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grey. And those times of high water. For the coastal waters forecast, | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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after an easterly wind to a -- today, at the wind turns suddenly. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
On Friday, but we have some rainfall perhaps later in the day. | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
But once that sets in it will remain overnight into Saturday. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Clearing to showers, and then quite a drop in the temperatures on | :27:26. | :27:30. |