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Saved from the sea for a while longer - the scheme to prevent this | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
happening again. Good evening. Over 200 homes along | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
the Dorset coast will benefit from today's green light to shore up the | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
coastline. Also tonight... | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Are young people with eating disorders being let down? | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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One mother says her daughter nearly died because there was no help. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
The mortality figures for anorexia are 20%. In that sense, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
statistically, she stood a better chance of surviving cancer than | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
anoraks the club. -- anorexia. And saving the pennies - the old- | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
fashioned postal service offering old-fashioned prices. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
A �20 million scheme which hopes to stop hundreds of homes in Dorset | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
slipping into the sea has been given the go-ahead. Over recent | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
years, there have been land slips at East Cliff in Lyme Regis and | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
some properties have only very small part of their gardens left. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
We are in the eastern part of Lyme Regis. We are higher on the | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Jurassic Coast. The main road could be affected by coastal erosion. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
This area is out of bounds. It is too dangerous. These houses could | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
be the next to go into the sea unless something is done. Unless | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
something of -- after years of campaigning, something finally has | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
been done. Lyme Regis have been battling the elements and losing. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Bruv false have taken large areas of land and houses. Gardens like | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
this one could be next. Chris and his wife Jane moved here six years | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
ago. They had feared they may outlive their property... Where we | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
are, we've got one house in front of us and then there is a cliff. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
That has used to have two fields in front of it and those two fields | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
have gone. It is amazing, when you think of it in terms of how you | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
look across the field and all of a sudden, they have disappeared. That | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
has happened in the last 60 years. Where is it going to stop? Over the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
last decade, other parts of the town have been given protection. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
These gardens have special pellets below ground to make them stable. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Father coastal protection is in place for the town centre. -- other | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
coastal protection. Now, the �20 million programme will see the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
eastern part of Lyme Regis protected. The error 380 properties | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
affected and it is the main road from the East. The town would be | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
cut off if we did not protect that route. It is an important thing and | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
of course, utilities, pipes and cables, were also in the just so it | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
is critical to protect it. It will see a new 390 metres sea wall, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
stabilisation of the cliffs and drainage works. Being the Jurassic | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Coast World Heritage Site has meant extra effort have to be made to | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
reduce the impact but ensure that cliffs survive. The works, which | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
should give 60 years protection, will start in the next few months, | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Garda pace next year and be completed in 2014. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
-- gather pace. Locals are police. One person told me they fear when | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
they are in bed at night and they hear the cliff falling. That is | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
hopefully now going to be a thing of the past thanks to this scheme, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
which will be paid for by the District Council, the Environment | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Agency and the government, which should put a generation or two's | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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minds at rest. The latest inspection of Dartmoor | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Prison has highlighted cold cells and damp, shabby buildings. A new | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
report into standards at the jail says there aren't enough activities | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
for prisoners. It also found negativity from some inmates | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
towards those from ethnic minorities. But inspectors say | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
safety within the prison has improved. The use of illicit drugs | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
is reasonably low and the prison's diversity work is getting better. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
A conman who was captured on CCTV stealing from letterboxes in | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Somerset to fund his lavish lifestyle has been jailed for four | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
years. 47-year-old Kevin Castle from West Buckland stole residents' | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
personal details to apply for credit cards in their name. He | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
admitted to 26 charges of fraud. Tents from ShelterBox are being | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
used by doctors in the Republic of Congo after an arms depot exploded. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Thousands of people were left injured and homeless in the capital, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Brazzaville. Tents from the Helston-based charity are being | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
used as temporary operating theatres. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The NHS is failing young people suffering with anorexia in Devon, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
says the mother of a girl who almost died from the eating | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
disorder. Jaqui Flicker says it would have been better if her | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
daughter had cancer rather than anorexia, because she'd have got | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the right treatment faster. Jaqui has now set up a group in Exeter to | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
support other families whose children may have anorexia or | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
bulimia. This girl is 17 and funny and smart, | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
doing six A-levels. She is recovering from anorexia, which | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
made her dangerously ill. It is scary, realising what I was doing | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
to myself. It is scary looking back on pictures and seen what I looked | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
like. I had no idea at the time how awful I looked. Telly is not alone. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Six years ago, Jaqui Flicker's daughter, then 12, also had the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
illness. She said there was not enough support from a health | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
service and even cancer would have been better. There is an | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
infrastructure around cancer services, their support, social | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
workers, doctors. Within an instant, you are referred to a specialist. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Treatment starts and the plan is arranged and there is no problem | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
accessing services is -- in the same way as for eating disorders. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
In December, they set up a support group. Parents are not the problem | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
but they are part of this edition. What is happening is that they are | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
not including parents in its edition and not giving them | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
adequate skills and help and support to support their loved ones | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
with an eating disorder. NHS Devon said it is listening to children, | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
parents and health professionals and said its leading disorder | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
and said its leading disorder Service has benefited from recent | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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increases in funding and feedback More help is coming for anorexia. | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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For telly, the recovery continues. 30 years after the Falklands | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
conflict, could we do it again? Stay with us to hear what the | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
experts think. Plus... My mother came from Birmingham to have me in | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
secret and then went back to continue her life. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
And find out how the wild swing in temperature has confused the bees. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
The 30th anniversary of the Falklands War has reignited the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
debate about whether or not UK could retake the islands should | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Argentina invade again. As the sabre-rattling from Buenos Aires is | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
stepped up, one pressure group has warned the Falklands are more | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
vulnerable than at any time since 1982. But how well-defended are | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
they and how likely is another invasion? | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
30 years ago and Argentina had just invaded a small group of Ireland | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
8,000 miles away in the South Atlantic. -- Ireland. The British | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
government decided to send a task force of more than 120 ships and | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
10,000 personnel to retake the Falklands. Within 48 hours, all | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
these guys came back so it was tremendously encouraging. Everybody | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
was ready and willing. It was an amazing achievement. One of the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
most amazing achievement in naval history, to send all of those | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
forces and sustain them. 100 days later, we were back and we had one, | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
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but it was an extremely close run thing. Victory came at a cost. 255 | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
British troops were lost along with four warships and many more vessels | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
were damaged. The Falklands conflict has been the subject of | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
intense study by analysts and historians ever since. One question | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
prevails, could we do it again? This commander was a Royal Navy | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
logistics carve their -- logistics officer. He is part of a pressure | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
group fighting defence cuts. have only got 19 frigates and | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
destroyers. That is a ludicrously small number. You have probably | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
only got six or seven available. That is not Navy. That is a | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
flotilla. We certainly have fewer warships, | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
but it is not necessarily about not first. In the Falklands we had to | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
aircraft carriers but now we have none. We could never recapture it | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
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now. It is ironic, because we have got better and more helicopters | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
spots than in 1982 but it is utterly amazing. Two new characters | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
with -- to new carriers are due on stream, but not before 2020. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Current warships like this destroyer are more capable than | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
their predecessors but whether the Argentinians invade or not, the | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
numbers might still count. We have got commitments elsewhere that they | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
don't have. Let's say will frigates, we might only have one frigate. | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
Could we use that to see off an Argentinian economic action at the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
-- against fishing vessels? That is a big problem. If the Ministry of | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Defence maintains the boffins are better protected than ever before. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
They have an airfield, home to four RAF fighter jets and defended by | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
more than 1,000 troops. It says there is no evidence of any current | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
credible military threat. A family of five from Saltash have | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
been treated in hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning. Two adults and | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
three children, all under the age of five, were taken to hospital | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
suffering from headaches and sickness. Fire crews were alerted | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
after a carbon monoxide alarm went off at the house. This is the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
latest in a number of incidents the Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
have dealt with in recent months. Joining me from Truro is Dave | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Carlisle, who works in fire prevention with Cornwall Fire and | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
Rescue. Thank you for joining us. Sounds like this family had a lucky | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
escape? It certainly was. Corben month -- carbon monoxide is known | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
as the silent killer. What the family had was a carbon monoxide | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
alarm, which alerted them to the problem, enabling them to evacuate | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
the premises and seek medical treatment. Yes, a very lucky escape. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
I understand you have seen a spike in the number of cases you have | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
been dealing with in terms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Is there | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
a reason for this? There has been an increase and as fire crews will | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
tell you, they have been attending were incidents. It may well be | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
linked to economic times, and people are opening up old | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
fireplaces, burning solid fuels, and perhaps the maintenance and | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
testing regime they normally would have had for appliances is falling | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
by the wayside. This may not have been the case in the most recent | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
incident but it has been in some of the incidents that we have attended | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
recently. How easy and these things to put in your house and how | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
expensive are they? Carbon monoxide alarms can be readily bought in any | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
superstore or supermarket and they can be very easily fitted just as a | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
smoke detector can. They are a life-saver. If you have a gas | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
boiler, or the central heating, and opened fire have any type, we | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
recommend you fit a carbon monoxide alarm. It could see you and your | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
family. The Labour leader Ed Miliband was | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
in Exeter today campaigning ahead of next month's local elections, | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
when a third of the seats on the city council will be contested. Our | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
political editor caught up with him. Today with Ed Miliband's second | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
visit to Exeter in little more than a year and his enthusiasm for | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
Devon's county town is entirely understandable. Seducing the City | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
of Exeter ranks among New Labour's more notable conquests. Previously | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
it was in a rock-solid relationship with the Tories and then in 1997, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Ben Bradshaw won its heart. He is still the city's MP and it has the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
largest number of seats in the City Council. They are 18 to slip the | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
metaphorical ring on the finger and take overall control on 3rd May. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Everywhere else in the region, voters intended to put the red rose | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
back on the shelf. It is about places where there has not been a | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Labour tradition and that is what you are pointing out. Exeter has | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
established a Labour tradition through Ben Bradshaw on the work of | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
the council and we want to spread to do that is talk about the issues | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
which are relevant to people in the south-west, whether it is train | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
fares are energy prices, or fairness in taxation. In second | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
place are the Tories, but they are a long way from getting their feet | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
under the table here at the Civic Centre. The fact that Ed Miliband | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
is in Exeter shows that Labour fancy their chances, doesn't it? | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
They might fancy their chances but we also fancy our chances. We will | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
wait and see. Labour is 19 and we are 11, so we would have to paint | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
Labour seats to really take it but we will not take control about it - | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
- this year, there is no question. If you are in Plymouth, were a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
third of the seats are up, there would not be much to say about the | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
Lib Dem presence because there is not know -- there is not one. In | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Exeter, the third party at Westminster has nine seats and they | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
are slapping at the Conservative's heels. The last big successes | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
predated the coalition. 2008 was an extremely successful year for the | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
Lib Dems. We won five seats. We are looking to repeat that performance. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
If we made advances from that it would be spectacular. Labour, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Tories and Lib Dems plus the smaller parties and independents | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
now have a month to with their electorate. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
The extent of the hardships some unmarried mothers suffered in a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
hideaway home in Cornwall where they were sent to have their babies | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
has been uncovered by a BBC investigation. Rosemundy House in | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
St Agnes has been a hotel since the mid-Sixties, but from the 1920s | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
until then, 1,800 babies were born there, many of whom had to be | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
adopted. Caroline Adams has been talking to some of those whose | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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lives were profoundly affected by this chapter in our history. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
I was born here in 1953. My mother came down from Birmingham to have | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
me in secret and then went back to Birmingham to continue her life. I | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
was left here and put into care. Phil Frampton was one of 1,200 | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
babies born at Rosemundy house between the 1920s and 1960s, when | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
it closed. I was mixed-race and the Welfare Society said there was no | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
chance of adopting or fostering a mixed race, Cannard, black child in | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
the West Country. People do not know about this experience, I did | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
not know about this, about the way young people were treated in this | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
country, in England, even just 50 years ago. Some of the stories are | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
absolutely harrowing. Jam, who does not want to be identified, had to | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
be a promising career when she became pregnant. She remembers the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
sense of isolation of the young mothers like her who came to this | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
hideaway home. One night we were all fast asleep in bed and suddenly, | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
we heard the most Brown -- blood- curdling noise you could imagine. | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
The noise continued. Eventually, three or four of us got up and came | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
down and there, just here, on the floor, was one of the girls and she | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
had just had her baby. Whilst a lonely birth like this was not | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
typical it was common for the young mothers to be pressurised into | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
giving up their babies. Around half were put up for adoption at that | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
time. Live within Nos 4 was was hard for the girls who ended up | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
there -- live with a nose for walls. Were we were made to feel third- | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
class citizens. We had to scrub the floors. That place was kept | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
immaculate because of the girls who live there. One of those girls was | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
left's mum, she got to keep her baby. Revisiting where she was born, | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
F found it hard to hear how her mother was treated. My mum never | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
talked about it because I would never talk to her, because it upset | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
her. It is very deep-rooted. Listening to jam and Phil, I can | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
understand why she did not want to talk about it. This is story in his | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
writing a book about the home's history and has heard similar | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
stories from many of the mothers he spoke to, some still feeling the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
shame many years later. I know mothers to have come to St Agnes | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
and want to go to the Rosemundy House to see where they gave birth | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
to their baby and they have been afraid to ask people in the village | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
how to find it, because they are worried that people would suddenly | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
realise or think that they were mothers from the home. Phil face | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the humiliation his mother must have suffered all those years ago | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
but with that, he has a renewed admiration for her determination to | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
have them. It has really enlightened me has strong yen | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
mothers were to come here and face up to the type of harrowing | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
treatment which they were given in order to have their children. It | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
makes me feel very emotional, it makes me feel quite sad but it also | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
makes me feel quite joyful at the spirit of young women, at the | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
spirit of young people who survived this type of experience. Also, | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
joyful but hopefully, young women do not have to go through this any | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
more. Phil Frampton ending that report by | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Caroline Adams. You can hear more on this story in a special | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
programme called The Crying Shame tomorrow at 12 noon on BBC Radio | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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Devon and on Good Friday after 1 o'clock on BBC Radio Cornwall. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
It will be a compelling programme, Piper sound of it. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
South West beekeepers say the unseasonal and extreme weather has | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
been confusing their colonies. The queens started laying their eggs | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
when the temperatures were higher last week but they, and the flowers | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
which were blooming early, are having second thoughts. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
If you take a lead inside a be hired at the moment you are likely | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
to see a lot of honey. -- take a look inside a beehive. They are | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
active when they would not normally be. You would understand why they | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
are confused. Temperatures at Exeter airport were around 15 | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Celsius on the 22nd and 23rd March. They rose a few degrees and stayed | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
there before taking off to reach nearly 21 degrees. They fell back | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
dramatically on April 1st. When it goes cold again, they close down. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
It is an interruption in the process. The Queen can be lying | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
between 1015 hundred eggs a day when the temperature is right and | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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then when it goes cold, she slows down to. A hot spell was very | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
unusual. Normally, you would not normally have your box for the | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
honey on. Last week, they were going mad but this week, there is | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
hardly any art. At Kellett and has near Exeter, some flowers are a | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
month early. -- At this National Trust house. It is confusing and | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
worrying. A lot of the magnolias came out really early and got hit | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
by the frost and lost all of their pebbles. -- petals. For now, the | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
bluebells will have to try and keep their chins up and the bees will | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
have to Batten down the hatches hoping for sunny days ahead. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
An enterprising man from Cornwall has started up his own postal | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
service after the Royal Mail announced it was raising the price | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
of a first-class stamp to 60p. He is now delivering letters in Bude | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
and outlying villages at less than half the price and his chosen mode | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
:22:44. | :22:47. | ||
of transport is somewhat unusual... Every morning, Graham hops onto his | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
penny farthing bike and set off into town. He collects his post. He | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
has three postboxes in Bude and MPs them three times a day. -- MPs. | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
Hello, how you? I am fine. bicycle may be more than 100 years | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
old but it is not slow. He says the key post a letter early in the | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
morning, it should get to its destination imbued before the day | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
is out. He has a letter to deliver to this shop. Fantastic. It gives | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
an alternative way of sending post. We try to promote independent local | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
business and they have claimed is happy to do it for us, we are happy | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
to use it. -- if Graham. Graham decided to start the postal service | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
after the Royal Mail announced that the price of a first-class stamp | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
was going up. He says he can do it for 25p. I have my own stamps and | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
my own frigging system. People pay 25p to get a later -- a letter | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
delivered. I have postboxes and stamps for sale in town. It seems | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
as if the old fashioned service is proving a winner. He has delivered | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
150 letters this week. He just needs to keep his bike well-oiled | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
so he can keep up with demand! Some people are asking if he | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
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Let's take a look at the weather... It has turned cold. I suppose it is | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
what you will expect. April is characterised by showers and there | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
will be more tonight. The rest of this week is less cold. It is also | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
brighter after the cloud today. There is cloud on a satellite | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
picture. This cloud is covering most of southern Britain. We have | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
had some late sunshine. It is mean Bering cloud and the main line of | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
rain, which has given some snow over Wales, is sinking South with | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
this evening. For us, mainly rain, perhaps sleet over Exmoor and | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
Dartmoor. Tomorrow, it is moving away. It will take away be cloud -- | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
the cloud and giving us a bright day on Friday. Tonight, | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
temperatures well below. Showers to continue but in between, there are | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
clear skies. This was earlier today, when we had some sunshine. There | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
are showers around. The sunshine and the warmth of last week has | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
moved everything along and a lot of the flowers are now blooming. In | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
the distance there are Sharratt around. This evening, we will have | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
a similar weather pattern. The now clear skies in between the showers | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
to allow the temperatures to get fairly low. The forecast is for | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
those to continue, perhaps stayed away for a time before a more | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
persistent rain drifts back in. There is a range of temperatures on | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
the west coast. A man, we could see two degrees. A cold start to | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
tomorrow. Sunny spells briefly in the morning and showers dotted | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
around. They will move away from West Cornwall in the afternoon. The | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
clearance comes in from the north. Temperatures, a little higher. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Still the chilly north-easterly breeze meaning you will have to | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
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There have been big waves of short but we're sure, not too bad. -- big | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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The outlook, a bright and dry day on Friday, more cloud on Saturday, | :27:20. | :27:28. |