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One of Britain's worst water poisoning incidents - 25 years on a | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
new report has prompted claims of a cover up. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Good evening. The report says the Camelford poisoning is unlikely to | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
cause any long-term health effects, but that's angered campaigners. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Also tonight: An inquest hears how a mother | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
drowned trying to save her son. Alison Tooby died at Northcott | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Mouth, near Bude. Both of her sons survived. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
And a bed shortage means South West mental health patients have to | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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travel hundreds of miles for treatment. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
An inquest today heard about frantic efforts made to try to save | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
a woman who drowned whilst trying to rescue one of her sons from a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
rip current in Cornwall. 52-year- old Alison Tooby from Wellington | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
died at Northcott Mouth beach, near Bude, last September. Her sons were | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
still on school holidays, but lifeguard cover had stopped at the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
beach the previous day. The coroner described the only way to describe | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
what happened on September 3rd last year as tragic. Alison Tooby knew | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
the beach well. She had taken her sons there to enjoy some of the | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
good weather, but the strong will rip currents claimed her life. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Northcott Mouth is popular in high season, but with local schools back, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
there were only around 15 people on it last September. Alison Tooby | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
went into the water after one of her son's got into trouble. The bit | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
tight track her 100 metres out to sea. A series of witness statements | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
were read to the inquest telling of the difficult situation. A woman | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
said that even the lifeguards was struggling in the water. One man | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
said he was exhausted as he tried to rescue Alison, who was face down | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
in the water. Lifeguards from another beach eventually brought | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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Alison out of the water. She was airlifted to hospital, but died | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
from drowning. Lifeguard bosses say the number of people are using | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
beaches are keep in deciding the level of cover. We provide | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
lifeguard services based on local schools. We cannot cover all | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
eventualities. The school holidays in Scotland are different from here | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
in Cornwall. We have to provide a service based on a local need and I | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
think we have got that right. Alison's family thanked those who | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
went into the water, saying there were very brave. On returning a | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
verdict of accidental death, the coroner said it was due to a set of | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
unfortunate circumstances and reminded people they needed to | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
respect the sea and be cautious on beaches that are not patrolled by | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
lifeguards. Campaigners wanting answers to | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Britain's worst water poisoning incident say they're still | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
convinced there's been a cover-up. 25 years after the Camelford | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
poisoning and after numerous reports and inquires, a Government | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
committee has concluded that it's unlikely to have caused long term | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
effects. However, it wants more research into the development of | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
babies at the time. Tonight the report has been slammed by | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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campaigners, who say it's worthless. This treatment works in come off it | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
today. Little son of the huge impact of the water pollution | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
incidents 25 years ago. A tanker accidentally dumped aluminum | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
sulphate into the wrong tank. It entered the water supply to 20,000 | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
local residents. Since then there have been concerns over the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
potential health problems. To date, an independent committee of experts | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
published its review into the incident. In general, it is | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
unlikely that there were any long- term health effects, but there were | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
certain areas with the information was strong enough to suggest that | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
further investigation should be carried out. Those key areas focus | :04:52. | :05:02. | |
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Last year a coroner said there was a very real possibility it was a | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
factor into the death of 59-year- old Carroll crossed his brain | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
contained high levels of aluminium. Hurt we do were recently resigned | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
from the committee behind the report today. It is useless. It has | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
just collected information from people as to how they felt at the | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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time. People wanted their records looked out and they refused to do | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
it. They recommendation for further research will go to the government | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
to decide whether or not it goes ahead. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Families of people who are mentally ill say too many have to travel | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
hundreds of miles for treatment because of a shortage of beds close | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
to home. Patients from Devon and Cornwall may be sent as far away as | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Southampton and Hertfordshire. Mental health trusts say they try | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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to treat people close to home, but it's not always possible. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
This woman says her son is too far away for her and her husband, who | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
both have disabilities, to visit. He was in a Devon psychiatric | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
hospital, but became unwell and is now in the unit in Stevenage. We | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
have changed her name and voiced to protect her son's privacy. If we | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
don't see him, he thinks we don't care. That is not the case. It is a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
460 mile trip which is too much for us. My son is totally isolated | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
there. Devon has no psychiatric intensive care unit and at any one | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
time around eight people are in unit outside of the area. Often | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
just over the border, but sometimes further afield. We understand it is | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
distressing for them, their families and carers, for them to be | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
treated away from home. We do everything we can to treat people | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
as locally as possible. Over the last couple of years we have half | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
the number of people who need to receive treatment away from home. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
She points out that trusts cannot provide all mental health needs | :07:31. | :07:41. | |
locally, but Devon does have eating disorder units ants other units | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
that some regions do not have. John contacted BBC Radio Cornwall when | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
his wife was sent to Southampton recently. I was gutted for my wife | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
and for myself and my daughter. We cannot go and see her unless I take | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
special time off from work. I want my wife treated in Cornwall and | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
given the best care. Cornwall Partnership Trust said it was | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
funded for 52 acute beds and when they will fall, it found the next | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
available bed out of county. It said it recognised it could be | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
difficult for families and carers and the patient is always brought | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
back to Cornwall as soon as possible. Other solutions are now | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
being looked out. The mother of a teenager swept to | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
her death during training for the Ten Tors will go without a penny in | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
compensation, despite a judge's ruling that a teacher negligently | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
got lost on the way to a checkpoint. Charlotte Shaw died in March 2007 | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
while trying to cross a swollen brook on Dartmoor. Her mother has | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
been fighting for compensation from her daughter's school, but today | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
suffered final defeat at the Court of Appeal. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
We're sorry that viewers in the Channel Islands are not receiving | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
their usual programme tonight. Its due to a technical fault. We're | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
working to fix the problem. Here are the main headlines for the | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
channel islands tonight: The former Jersey Magistrate Ian | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Christmas has lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
for fraud. Christmas is serving 15 months in prison for his part in a | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
property investment scheme. Last October the former judge was jailed | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
for defrauding an islander out of �100,000. Three other men were also | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
convicted and sent to prison - they have all lost their appeals at | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
Jersey's Magistrates Court. Ten people could lose their jobs at | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Jersey's biggest security firm after bosses wrote to staff warning | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
them of problems. G4S, which employs more than 500 people here, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
says two of it's departments have struggled since Jersey's building | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
industry's shrunk. A spokesperson says G4S is doing all it can to | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
avoid any jobs losses and is working with staff and unions to | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
find an alternative. Later in the programme: | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
The worrying decline in the butterfly population. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Plus eavesdropping on everyday conversations - the new project | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
recording life in the South West And fundraisers are go! The Fab | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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Four on a special mission from A Cornish school says it's had to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
stop using the leisure centre next door after Cornwall Council asked | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
it to start paying more than �40,000 a year. The head teacher at | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Wadebridge School says it's now being asked for a large sum of | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
money it just doesn't have. The council though says the school was | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
made aware of the financial implications when it left the local | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
authority's control to become an academy. Our Political Editor | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
Martyn Oates is here. Is it just a local row? That is a good question. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
The score says it can make some financial contribution, but what | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
the council is asking for is too high. The council is making the | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
general point that the school cannot become an Academy and at the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
same time carry on using local authority facilities in the way it | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
did before. The local MP thinks this is all about the details of | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
this particular case there. There has to be away for what that | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
involves the council and the governors sitting down and coming | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
to an agreement over affair that charge. But I have heard the | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
council had been slow in getting back to the governors. The council | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
insists negotiations are ongoing. But academies are one of the | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
government's headline policies. They are, but Labour think an even | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
bigger policy could play a role in this. I expect part of the drive | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
behind this is that the council themselves are seen enormous cuts | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
from central government and of putting charges on in various areas. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
The Conservative MP George used us says this does not represent a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
bigger flaw in the Academy programme. Every school that has | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
become an academy has been given extra funding. Those schools that | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
have become academies have not wanted to turn back. But | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
occasionally, there are teething problems. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Theoretically, more Cornish schools could find themselves in this | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
position because at least half of its secondary schools are academies. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
It's potentially fatal, but despite that, experts say epilepsy is a | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
much misunderstood condition. Now one Devon man who suffered from it | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
for years without realising it is helping to raise awareness of the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
illness in the hope of changing public perceptions. Spotlight's | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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Carole Madge has been to meet him. Tending his allotment on the edge | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
of Dartmoor is a therapeutic pastime for David could win. For | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
two decades he had no idea he had a serious condition, but 10 years ago | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He lost his job as his health | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
deteriorated. It feels hideous. Imagine how you feel when you have | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
a bad dose of flu. Multiply that by 10. You have headaches like you've | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
never experienced before and you are absolutely shattered. You sleep | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
a lot afterwards and every muscle in your body aches like mad. It is | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
incredibly painful. New research has shown there is poor | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
understanding of the condition and public awareness has not improved | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
over the last decade. There are still some people who think that | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
epilepsy is contagious, which it is not. There are also people who | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
think it is caused by evil spirits which is ridiculous. But these | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
beliefs are still out there. After undergoing an operation, Dave no | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
longer suffers from seizures and the hopes that this campaign will | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
help to make life easier for people like him. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Some of the South West's rarest butterflies are at risk after one | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
of the wettest years on record. Our region is of particular importance | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
to some species, such as fritillaries. They bore the brunt | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
of the bad weather and now face the real threat of extinction in some | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
parts of the country. Our Environment Correspondent Adrian | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Campbell has been meeting those fighting for their survival. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Burning some of the course back at this butterfly reserve in | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Dorchester is an effective way of helping the butterfly population. | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
They need all the help they can get after be worse year on record for | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
all species, including this Brown spotted fritillary. Our volunteers | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
have been cutting back the scrub and vegetation. We have finally got | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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some signs of spring. It has been a very cold spring. What you think | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
about the issue of climate change? I think it is a real problem. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Evidence is demonstrating that it is happening and for a number of | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
species and all of our wildlife it is a problem. This chalk grassland | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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act as an an important habitat for a work butterflies. They help to | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
pollinate crops and they also provide a thing source for other | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
species, such as bats. Today there was no sign of butterflies or their | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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larvae, just this one Riga LEA caterpillar. -- just this one | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
caterpillar. It has been muddy and wet for months and months. I cannot | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
remember a lovely day out. Bankster volunteers, efforts are being made | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
to help our butterflies, but what they really need is a hot summer. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Are you ever tempted to listen into other peoples conversations? Well | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
now you can with a new BBC Feature called the Listening Project. This | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
week, BBC Radio Devon have been playing recorded conversations | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
about a wide range of topics, all which will end up being part of the | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
British Library's oral archive. Nicola and her son Jordan agreed to | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
be recorded as Jordan's great-great grandfather did a similar project | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
just after being a firefighter in the Second World War. Johnny | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Rutherford travelled to Torquay to earwig on a conversation about | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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joining the army. So tell mum why you have collected this memorabilia. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Because it was used in a real battle. One day I'd like to join | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
the Army. What you think you like to do in on me? I'd like to be a | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
sniper. You know it is not a game and you might be asked to take | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
someone's life. It all comes with it. Do you think you could look | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
someone in the eye and pulled the trigger? -- and pull the trigger? I | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
know it is a hard one. It would take some thought, but yes. I know | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
that you like guns and everything and you go to a gun club. You are | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
good about being, but when you are just shooting at targets, they go | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
down and come up. It is not the same with the person. What attracts | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
you to it then, wanted to go into the forces? I just want to protect | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
you guys and it's the routine and the lifestyle under opportunity -- | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
and the opportunities it gives you. I'd rather die saving someone's | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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live and not taking someone's life. I don't know what to say. As a | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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sniper, that is what you would be doing. I would be saving more lives, | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
I don't want to say it, but for the greater good. For someone who is | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
only 13, you have some heavy thoughts. When I was your age, I | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
was playing with my Barbie dolls. But that is you. Used to watch | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
Disney every day. Guilty as charged. And you can hear more of Nicola and | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Jordan's chat and other people's conversations on various topics on | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
BBC Radio Devon over the next few weeks. Or if you want to join in on | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
the listening project the website address is bbc.co.uk/thelistening | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
project. Now, if you have been out and about | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
today, you may have spotted a rather distinctive pink Rolls-Royce | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
making its way from Cornwall through the South West. And inside | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
four very well-known car enthusiasts - Chris Evans, James | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
May, Gary Barlow and Professor Brian Cox. They are on their way | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
from Lands End to John O'Groats to help raise a million pounds for a | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
cancer charity. Eleanor Parkinson caught up with them just before | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
they set off. Take for men, a pink Rolls-Royce | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
and a fabulous number plate and you have the perfect way of raising | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
money, and attracting a crowd. Chris Evans, James May, Gary Barlow | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
and Professor Brian Cox are driving the car from Land's End to John | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
o'Groats in one day. The whole idea has been cooked up by Chris Evans, | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
whose mother has just been given the all-clear from breast cancer. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
People are affected by cancer in different ways. Breast Cancer Care | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
is not but biggest charity, but they do a lot of work, so we want | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
to raise their profile. Julian Maurice says the charity is a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
lifeline. When I was first diagnosed, I was supported by a | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
group of nurses at my local hospital, so obviously, terrific | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
support. They were there at the end of the phone when I needed them. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
a radio DJ, a famous singer, a scientist and a car enthusiast - | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
what will they talk about on their 870 mile journey? Physics. I'm | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
hoping to get to the last year of an undergraduate degree by John | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
O'Groats. What will be your main topic? The charts this week. | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
what about batka? It is a fantastic way to get around the country, | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
especially if you are going from one end to the other and this | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
particular charity stunt being is not difficult. It's not going to be | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
one of the great human achievements - some men drove a car. The Faber | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
list for set off just after 10 o'clock. They cannot hang about | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
because a certain Mr Evans has a radio show to do in London tomorrow | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
morning. Going in a Rolls Royce isn't too bad! Good luck to them. | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
And now the weather. We have got some good weather to | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
look forward to for a change. Lighter winds and we will see some | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
sunshine. There is a big slot of clear sky down to the South West of | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
ours. It is a big area of high pressure and it is heading away. We | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
do see this weather system trickled past ask, so don't expect clear | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
skies all night. They could be some patchy rain. It is moving steadily, | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
so by the time you get up tomorrow, would have gone. By pressure is | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
also with us for the weekend. The showers we have seen today have | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
been lively, but almost all of them have gone and it is a lovely end | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
two the day. This was Exeter earlier today where there was some | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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sunshine and shelter from the blustery wind. It is very pleasant | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
this evening, a quiet end to the day. Even the wind will ease off | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
overnight. Tonight, here comes the patchy rain I mentioned. It would | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
disappear soon after dawn and the winds will drop. Temperatures no | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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lower than eight degrees at the start of the day. For the rest of | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
the does some long spells of sunshine to enjoy. The winds on | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
lighter, so it will feel warmer even if the temperatures are not | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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that much different. 14 degrees the maximum. The overnight showers will | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
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disappear and and make way for -- and make way for sunshine. A good | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
day in the Isle of Scilly with great visibility and lots of | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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sunshine. Here are the times of high water. Expect the surf to ease | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
off. There have been some big waves and the South West will have the | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
best tomorrow, although it will be quite choppy. And here are the | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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coastal waters. As we head into the weekend, we have got this area of | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
high pressure which means settled weather on Saturday. This weather | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
system will gradually moving during the course of the day on Sunday. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Fairly slow progress on that. Bright and cold on Sunday morning | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
and then increasingly cloudy with patchy rain, especially for Devon | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
and Cornwall. Here is the summary. Pleasant weather for the next | :25:49. | :25:59. |