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A big rise in deaths from liver disease, much of it is alcohol- | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
related. Good evening. In parts of the region, deaths have risen by | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
more than 50% in a decade. Also tonight, making a splash - the | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
multi-million pound Life Centre described as one of the best | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
facilities of its kind. It was amazing. I just thought, wow, this | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
is going to be brilliant. And residents patrolling their own | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
streets, is it policing on the cheap or a good way to tackle anti- | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
social behaviour? There's been a big increase in the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
number of people dying from liver disease in the South West. Although | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
fewer people here die than most other parts of the country, new | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
research has found there's been a rapid rise over the last decade. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
The increase in many parts of the South West is well above the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
average for England. In Plymouth there's been an increase of nearly | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
53%, in Dorset 51, Somerset 45 and in Cornwall just over 31%. There | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
were also increases in Devon and Torbay but these were lower at | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
19.5% and 8%. Alcohol plays a part in around 45% of all deaths from | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
liver disease in the South West compared to the national average of | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
37%. The figures come in the first ever national report of its kind | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
published today. In a moment we'll hear from one of its lead authors, | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
but first Jane Chandler reports. Lesley Harris' husband David was | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
just 62 when he died of liver disease last year. They'd been | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
together for 40 years. The lived at St Agnes in Cornwall. She's says | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
alcohol played a big part in his life after he retired. I think he | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
lost his identity. He certainly lost confident and went from that | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
he quite enjoyed a drink and then it got to "I need a drink to be | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
happy and have a laugh" and then it was "I have to have a drink" and | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
then it made him drink more because he was feeling guilty and depressed, | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
he knew what he was doing was not right. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Understanding what's happening with alcohol-related liver deaths like | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
David's is complex. The South West still has the lowest amount of | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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people per head of population dying from liver disease. But there's | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
been a huge rise in the last decade. The Harbour Centre is a charity | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
that works with people to overcome addiction. It takes referrals from | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
across the Plymouth area. We have seen many referrals a year on year | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
we see an increase in referrals. Lot of young people coming in and | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
week no a client who died in their mid-twenties due to alcohol Concern | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
Sion. Harbour says they aren't shocked by | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
the figures for alcohol-related liver disease in the South West | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
because of what they've seen. It is a sad reflection on a number | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
of units of alcohol drunk nationally. People drink more at | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
home now, it is cheaper in supermarkets are people can afford | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
to drink at home. And problems can begin there. Lesley hopes that by | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
sharing her story today, she may help others avoid heartache in the | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
future. He was a lovely man. 200 people came to his funeral. It is | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
horrendous and I can't begin to tell you how awful it is. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
The report's authors say efforts must now focus on tackling the | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
causes of liver disease, sooner rather than later. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Earlier I spoke to Dr Julia Verne, one of the lead authors of the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
report and asked her if there was any explanation as to why there had | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
been such a rapid rise in liver disease here. Window that over a | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
third of the cases are alcohol- related -- we know that over. Also | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
obesity and risk-taking with respect to drug taking over the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
past few decades. You have mentioned alcohol really plays a | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
part in liver disease but it is not the only reason, is it? No, not at | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
all and one of the concerns recently is the effect of obesity | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
on the liver. It causes fatty liver disease and terminal liver illness. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Not all types of liver disease are lifestyle-induced and there are | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
some people who have auto-immune liver diseases and some of the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
problems are that liver disease and death from them is very | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
stigmatising. That is one of the things we would like to overcome. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
So we have got the facts and figures from this report, what | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
would you like to see happen as a result of your findings? We are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
hoping that this report will raise the profile of the disease and in | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
particular deaths from it among the general population and particularly | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
among half professionals, GPs and hospital specialists. What we are | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
hoping it is that end of life care for patients dying of liver disease | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
will be improved and to do this, we will need to understand the very | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
special needs that liver patients have in relation to the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
stigmatisation that is associated with endstage liver disease, the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
fact that many come from deprived backgrounds, from marginalised | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
groups. Perhaps because of their lifestyles. But the important thing | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
is that everybody has a right to a normal death and we must improve | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
end of life care for the disease patients. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
A charity and campaign group for pensioners has reacted angrily to | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
the news that tax-free allowances for older people are being frozen. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
The news was announced in the Budget yesterday. In a moment we'll | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
hear from our political editor Martyn Oates, but first our | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
correspondent Simon Hall has been getting reaction in East Devon. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Dart's Farm shop is popular amongst older people who are a little | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
better off, exactly those who will be affected by the freezing of the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
tax allowance. Angela Lock retires this week after 36 years with the | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
fire service. She fears losing money for her retirement under the | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
change. It is hard for people who have worked all their lives and | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
some people are in more watch and positions, lots of people will | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
suffer and go without. I think it is totally unfair. It does come as | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
a bombshell. One bit of the Budget that was not leaked beforehand and | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
I think there will be millions of pensioners out there who are just | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
shocked that the Chancellor can take money off them while listening | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the tax burden for the richest in our society. I think it's appalling. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
A Budget seminar this morning heard the tax change will affect tens of | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
thousands of retired people in the south west, and cost the region's | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
economy millions. Currently, older people can have an income of | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
�10,500 per year before paying tax. That will no longer increase in | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
line with inflation. The Government estimate more than 4 million people | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
will be affected each losing an average of over �80 pounds next | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
year. The pensioners will not be able to spend that money in the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
economy and that will have a knock- on effect in the businesses in the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
South West. The businesses themselves are feeling the pinch | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
through increased fuel prices and the Chancellor said he would not | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
change the fuel price in October of 3p. The freeze in the tax-free | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
allowance for retired people comes into effect next April. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
The Chancellor described this change as a simplification of the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
tax system. He said nobody would receive less cash than they do at | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
the moment and that older people would benefit to significant | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
I'm joined now by our political editor Martyn Oates. How are the | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Government parties reacting to all this criticism? As Simon said | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
yesterday, he described the Chancellor describing it as a | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
simplification which said he was almost doing the pension as a | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
favour. He also said that nobody will lose in cash terms. | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
Technically true but they will lose out in real terms in the long term. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Conservative MP Ben two painted a more general picture that George | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Osborne was painting. We are about to have the largest operating in | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
the basic level of pension. We have preserved many of the things that | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Labour attacked as being under threat such as the winter fuel | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
allowance, the free prescriptions and bus passes, the free TV | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
licences for the pensioners and so on. Labour say that we have a | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
budget now where one headline, tax for very richest, is cut over the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
50 p top rate. At the same time we see a merger like this which | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
affects people on much more limited means. -- a measure which means. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Pensioners at the bottom end of the earnings scale will be hit by this | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
tax. It is not fair in the same way that other taxes and removal of tax | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
credits is not there and on top of that you have got all sorts of | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
other hits for the West Country. Other MPs are keen to point out | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
that lots of pensioners are not affected? | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
That is correct, 50% of all pensioners will not be affected and | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
even the richest 10% and that leaves the 40% in the middle. All | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
the main parties tend to say they have got a great deal of time for | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
people in that middle section and they tend to tiptoe around them. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Not least, perhaps, because they can play a critical role in | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
determining which of those parties get to govern the country from | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Westminster. A thank you. The BBC has learned that Condor | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Ferries - which recently pulled out of Weymouth when the port became | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
unsafe - hasn't had a written contract with the council for 20 | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
years. Condor has moved all its services to Poole until at least | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
November because of the problems with the harbour wall. Weymouth and | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Portland Council says a contract with the ferry firm was put on hold | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
when redevelopment plans stalled. The lack of a contract means no | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
compensation is payable, and also means Condor has no legal | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
obligation to return if the port is rebuilt. | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
A �46.5 million sports centre has been officially opened in Plymouth. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
There's an Olympic-sized pool, aerial assault course and a | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
competition-standard climbing wall. Olympic hopefuls Tom Daley and | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Tonia Couch will train there and several Olympic teams will use it | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
as their training camp. John Henderson was there for the opening | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
ceremony. Dizzying heights for a dazzling display. Plymouth's Life | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
Centre opened with a bang. Everyone got stuck in. And Plymouth's club | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
divers showed off their talents at their new home. Brother and sister | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Evie and Oscar are six and five and not scared of top board. All ten | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
metres of it. The city's most famous diver wasn't around. But | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
this purpose-built pool should ensure even more Tom Daley's. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
think it is the best dining facility in the country. It will be | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
great for the Games but in terms of the facility and feel-good factor, | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
this place has it all. Those lucky enough to get in first loved it. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
is amazing, I just thought, wow, this would be brilliant. Research | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
found more than half of Plymouth's population don't do any exercise. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
No excuses anymore - you can do just about anything at the Life | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Centre. The climbing wall is 15 metres high. In the basement | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
there's an eight lane bowling centre. The stats are impressive - | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
but at �46.5 million is it worth it? Probably the best public | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
leisure centre in the country at the moment. If that this will not | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
inspire people to come in and get more active, -- if it does, then it | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
is money well spent. Arguably such a major investment is about | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
attracting more people into Plymouth. It's off to a good start | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
- the Canadian diving team and the Lithuanian swimming team are here | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
ahead of the Olympics. But these sharks in the 50 metre pool are | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
from Wembury Primary School. What do you think of it? Brilliance | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
great. I think the swimming pool is his great. The children could not | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
wait to get in and they could not contain their excitement. They are | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
having so much fun. The Life Centre is the biggest investment in | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
leisure facilities in the region, and after a flying start. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
People power in Falmouth coming up in a moment as volunteers take to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the streets to help keep the peace, also still to come - the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
painstaking restoration of an 18th century home. The work to bring | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Sherborne House back to life. And a fascinating insight into the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
history of daffodils as Cotehele celebrates a golden treasure. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
A civilian patrol made up of volunteers will be taking to the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
streets of Falmouth in Cornwall, to help the police in their battle | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
with anti-social behaviour. The Street Watch scheme is the first of | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
its kind in the South West but is already up and running in big | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
cities such as Manchester. Meet the Street Watch volunteers. These | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
residents of Falmouth and Devon & Cornwall Police force's latest | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
weapon against anti-social behaviour and low-level crime. This | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
area close to the beach gets very busy in the summer. Local residents | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
say with that comes a rising anti- social behaviour such as drinking, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
the to-ing and dog fouling. But now they have their own civilian | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
patrols. Rebecca is a shop assistant and Diana is a town | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
council. -- town councillor. they have been given special insurance | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
and high-visibility jackets and training. They can hand out advice | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
and patrol the streets. I think it is a good scheme getting the | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
community involved and you can speak to people when you are | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
walking around. People know you are there. If they need help, they will | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
come to you anyway so you can help them with what are the problems | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
they have. If you came across a problem, perhaps a dispute, have | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
you had training for that was back yes, they have taught us but if it | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
is something that is really hostile, to walk away and get the police to | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
deal with it but if you feel you can communicate with them, if they | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
are young, maybe get them to listen. Some people might say that this is | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
just bobby on the beat on the cheap. Of course, we are facing cuts and | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
we will have fewer police officers and we have to prioritise where we | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
put those officers. But this is part of a bigger picture, part of | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
the "big society", growing recognition of the importance of | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
the voluntary sector and of skimming it is taking charge of the | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
areas they are living. Street Watch has already been trialled in | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
Hampshire and Manchester. And is expected in other towns around the | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
South West who may have their own All this week we've been meeting | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
some of the lucky people in the South West who've been chosen to be | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Olympic torchbearers for London 2012. Tonight it's one of our very | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
own camera operators, Alec Collyer - one of two members of the entire | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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BBC staff - to carry the Olympic Hello, I am Alec Collyer and I I am | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
a editor here in Plymouth, I am really excited to run with the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Olympic torch on behalf of the BBC It was last August at the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Corporation launched its search to find two members of staff who could | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
make a real difference in their committed -- who had made a real | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
difference. He is a founder member of the Dartmoor search and rescue | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
team. We are out training every Wednesday and we respond 24/7, 365. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
We have had call-outs on Christmas Day. It was this huge commitment | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
that was recognised by his employer. The work he does for the rescue | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
group is so important for this part of the world and I know that he can | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
be liable to be called out at any time of day and night. He gives up | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
so much of his time. It takes hours of training but I know that his | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
passion is ordinary people, tourists, people who live here and | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
so they can get out on to that wonderful environment and enjoy it | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
safely. Alec's getting ready to run part of the torch relay on the 27 | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
per of May and it is fair to say he is looking forward to it. How many | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
times have the Olympics come to Britain? How many chances do we get | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
to run with the taut? Fabulous. -- with the torch. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
The Devon modern pentathlete Heather Fell has been modelling | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Team GB's 2012 competition kit. The launch at the Tower of London today | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
showcased the new kit which has been designed by Stella McCartney. | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Heather's still unsure whether she's made the Olympic squad. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
might be why I am not as excited to put it on, I do not want to allow | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
myself, we do not know if we are all there. That is what I am | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
working towards. It is completely a six way race still. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
BBC South West has unveiled its coverage for the Olympics this | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
summer. Highlights of our coverage will include a special extra half- | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
hour programme from Weymouth on 12th July when the Olympic torch | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
relay arrives in the town, as well as coverage on Spotlight and BBC | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
local radio of the torch as it travels through the South West | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
after its arrival in Cornwall on 19th May. During the Olympics | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
itself we will bring you special programmes from Weymouth, where the | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
sailing events take place. In football, it's transfer deadline | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
day for loan signings and Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle have | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
bolstered their attacking options as they bid to avoid relegation. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Paul Tisdale has signed Alan Gow who's a former Plymouth striker. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
He's recently been released by Notts County. City have also | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
brought in Shamrock Rovers midfielder Rohan Ricketts. Argyle | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
have swooped for Bournemouth veteran Steve Fletcher, who's spent | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
17 years there. The 39-year-old joins the Pilgrims on loan until | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
the end of the season. Exeter Chiefs have announced that | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
top point-scorer Ignacio Mieres has signed a new contract at Sandy Park. | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
The 24-year-old Argentinean international, who's scored 240 | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
points this season, has agreed to stay with the Chiefs until the | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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summer of 2014. I think the club has big projects for the future. I | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
think we can be a lot better than what we are doing today. We are | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
doing OK right now but we can be a lot better still. I think we should | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
be pushing towards that. Work has started to restore a once- | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
magnificent stately home in Dorset. Part of Sherborne House dates back | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
to Tudor times, but for the last 10 years the people of Sherborne | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
haven't been able to see the Grade 1-listed building. Spotlight's | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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Sherborne House in Dorset, as it has not been seen for years. It has | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
been shrouded in scaffolding and plastic while its fate was decided. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Today though, the sound of work. are hoping to get rid of the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
scaffolding before the end of this year of. It will be ready for | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
occupation in the summer or autumn of 2014. We are here on the roof of | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Sherborne House and you can see the chimney stacks are in quite a poor | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
state of repair, they will need to be rebuilt entirely. With the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
slight now off, it is the first time these roof timbers have seen | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
daylight since 1720. Inside, painstaking restoration work as | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
well. On the beautiful murals. the moment what we are trying to do | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
is carry out the surface cleaning. There have been a lot of overpaids | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
and restorations on the painting -- over-painting and restorations. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
mural is nearly 300 years old and is the work of Sir James Thornhill, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
a Dorset man and an eminent artists who also painted son Paul's | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
Cathedral. -- St Paul's Cathedral. It is a great piece of work for | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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Sherborne House. They hadn't seen the Caledonian Hall so they wanted | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
to win Diana's favour so it circulates around that mythological | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
story. The project should be That is a major decorating job, | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
isn't it? The Tamar Valley's historic | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
daffodil-growing industry is being celebrated this weekend at Cotehele | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
house in Cornwall. More than 200 varieties of the spring bulb are | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
now in flower, many are over 100 years old and give a fascinating | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
insight into what used to be a thriving industry. Spotlight's Ali | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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Chitty has been to Cornwall for a Until the Second World War, the 10 | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
a valley in Cornwall competed with the west of the county and the | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Scilly Isles as a metaphor for our growing. Flowers filled the fields | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
and whole families were involved with picking them for their journey | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
down river and trains to London. They were sold in full bloom and | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
centrally heated houses meant that flowers were sold in but a lot | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
earlier. These plants are here as part of | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the war effort. In some field, they were ploughed up and turned over to | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
vegetable growing but the farmers, thinking they would want to save | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
some of the more valuable bulbs, planted them in the hedgerows so | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
they could repeat the field once the war was over. Sadly the growing | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
industry never returned but the daffodils do every spring to | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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remember this part of Cornish For the past 10 years, Cotehele in | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Cornwall has been building a collection of the flowers that used | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
to be such a vital part of the local economy. They know of 200 | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
varieties, all of which used to be locally grown and many have been | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
sourced by the local community. lot of the research has come from | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
people living locally. The daffodils have been named, | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
positively identified and you have got a bit of a story with those | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
which brings it to life and back home to what has changed over the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
past couple of hundred years. Preparations are now under way for | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
a weekend of daffodil celebrating or you could just wander lonely as | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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a cloud, or with your family, and Beautiful rays of sunshine, but | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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they? Lovely to see at this time of Some fairly low temperatures along | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
the south coast with a stiff breeze coming off a relatively low C and | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
the patchy rain has made it feel Mr decidedly miserable. In Somerset, | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
as temperatures of around 17 degrees. Into the weekend becomes | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
dry, bright and warm. With high pressure sticking with us. I will | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
show you where the cloud has been today, little circulation of the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
cloud here and that is the area of low pressure moving away from us | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
overnight and that takes the rain and cloud with it and by the time | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
we get to tomorrow morning, apart from a bit of patchy mist and Lo | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
cloud, we are looking forward to a fine and dry day. Into the weekend, | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the high pressure comes back. It will be with us on Sunday as well | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
with east or south-east winds. There's the picture in somewhat | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
more detail, you can see where we have had the line of rain. It has | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
hardly moved at all cost part of the East Cornwall and West Devon. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
It is moving slowly tonight but across the north and east of Devon, | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
we will see some sunshine. This was Budleigh Salterton from earlier | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
today where there was a very keen south-west breeze churning up the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
sea and it has been bracing on the coast, just 11 or 12 degrees with | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
hazy sunshine as well as the rest of Central and North Devon who | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
fared quite well with the sunshine. The breeze has held the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
temperatures down here in North Devon with light winds we have seen | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
some of the best temperatures. The warmest day of the year so far as | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
well. More that hazy sunshine tomorrow but still that breeze | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
along the south coasts of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall which will make | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
it feel a bit chilly here put away from the curse, we should see a | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
great deal of fine weather. -- from the coasts. So Mr Al fog patches | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
should form by the morning so quite a -- some mist and fog patches | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
should fall. Tomorrow, we have got the mistiness briefly in the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
morning and then it goes away and sunshine comes and almost unbroken | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
sunshine for some of us through tomorrow with perhaps some patchy | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
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low cloud floating around in took Torbay and Lyme Bay. Temperatures | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
of around 15 or 16 Celsius in some places and with the breeze from the | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
South East, and in the sunshine we can enjoy some splendid spring | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
weather. For the Isles of Scilly, some mistiness Elena's in the day | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
and and Brighton dry with the breeze quite fresh here -- bright | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
If you're heading for the beach, the conditions on the north coast | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
will be good for our surfers, around three feet but choppy on the | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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south coast with the breeze. Quite a thick haze in the air, | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
inland as well as by the coast. Moderate visibility because of that. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Here's the outlook, fine, dry, and we will see lots of sunshine | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
through the weekend and to start next week. Easterly winds in charge | :27:20. | :27:25. |