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Tim Smit, is no longer running the attraction on a day-to-day basis. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
It is also emerged that another senior executive is leaving. We will | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
look at why the changes are being made and what it means to one of the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
region's best-known tourist attractions. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Police launch an investigation after it is claimed officers turned up in | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
the wrong town. They were called to a burglary in Combe Martin but ended | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
up in ill -- in Ilfracombe. Another beauty Queen row after | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Torquay joins the line-up to host Miss World. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
BBC Spotlight has learnt that Sir Tim Smit's role as chief executive | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
of the Eden Project has come to an end. The attraction, which has seen | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
a drop in visitor numbers, has admitted his day to day rule will be | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
diminished but insists he is still head of the organisation. David | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
George looks at the growth of the Eden Project and the unorthodox | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
figure behind it. The Eden Project opened in March | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
2001. It was an immediate success with a claimed million visitors | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
passing through the doors by June that year. The famous domes were | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
based on bubbles which are able to settle on any surface, even the | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
rough floor of a clay pit. Even's aim was to be a showcase for the | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
world 's's most important clients -- plans. Education is a high priority | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
and entertainment has played a part. The Eden Sessions are hugely popular | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
and in July 2005, the venue hosted part of the live eight series of | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
concerts. Tim Smit has been the driving force behind the Eden | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Project and he is forthright when defending even against those who | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
questioned the amount of public Monday used to fund it. We've got | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
467 staff here, up to 700 in summer, and in the South West, we're | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
in the top 20 employers, so Cornwall and Europe made a really good bet on | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
us. Gaynor Coley started at the Eden Project in 1997 is rector, becoming | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
managing director three years later. Until this year, Tim Smit and Gaynor | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Coley rejoined Chief Executive 's. Last year, visitor numbers fell | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
substantially. The project and blames the six -- the success of the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Olympics and expects numbers to rise again this year. Eden has produced a | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
continual flow of eye-catching ideas at finding the funding for those has | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
proved ever harder as time goes by. Our business correspondent Neil | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Gallacher is with me now. Gaynor Coley is going, Tim Smit's role is | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
changing. What is happening? It is difficult to be sure because Tim | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Smit has not yet spoken, so we are in the realms of conjecture, but | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
looking at the house record, he is moving sideways in the organisation | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
and it looks as though he has moved down. He was chief executive, then | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
George Chief Executive, and now he is chief executive of a subsidiary. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Eden stresses he will still lead the organisation, but it looks as though | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
his day-to-day role has reduced. What is your feeling? It is | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
difficult to answer with certainty until we know whether he chose this | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
for himself, he is 58, or whether others chose, but it is the kind of | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
change we have seen in other capital attractions which opened | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
successfully to tourists and then find they struggled to maintain ace | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
steady-state, an iceberg to one recovery specialist who point out | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
that there are different phases in the life of some organisations, and | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
at different times you need different people in charge. You have | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
creative people coming with great ideas, the excitement of setting it | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
up, and then do have the daily running of it to make sure the costs | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
are not exceeding the income, to make sure the cash flow is always | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
there, and that is exciting for some people but it is not usually | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
exciting for the creative types. Don't write Eden off yet. It is | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
still attracting way more visitors than any other attraction and I will | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
be surprised if there is not more fight in Tim Smit yet. | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
With more news, here is Natalie. Staff at one of Somerset's biggest | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
hospitals are worried by an increase in the number of young people eating | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
treatment for legal high drugs. Staff at Musgrove Park Hospital say | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the wide variety of substances makes it difficult to treat patients | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
effectively. This report starts with the story of one woman whose health | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
has been damaged by drugs. To protect your identity, we changed | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
her name and her words are spoken by an actress. My mum carers, and it | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
destroyed her to watch her daughter ruling herself. Jane knows what | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
drugs, legal and illegal, can do to you. The regular heartbeat, chest | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
pains, impaired vision, so her message to others is simple. It's | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
not worth it. You might think it is at the time, but it isn't. You never | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
know what's in them. You could be told something -- sold something | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
classed as AMT but it could be cooked with something different, and | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
you could be dead. Parents often ask how to tell their children legal | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
highs can harm them when they are sold legally on the streets and on | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
the internet. The answer may lie in places like this, Musgrove Park | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Hospital in Taunton, which has seen a surge in emissions of people who | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
reacted badly to legal highs. know what he's taken? For this | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
accident and emergency doctor is seeing at least two cases a week | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
now, and her biggest problem is not knowing what she is dealing with. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
don't know what chemical compound the taken, and they aren't entirely | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
sure, so as such, we can't treat easily. We have to treat the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
symptoms as they present and we don't know what line the going to go | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
with their symptoms. That must make it impossible as a medic? I have | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
seen cases where we actually lost a patient from a legal high. At the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Taunton Association for the homeless, legal highs have become a | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
problem in the last six months. Here, they say battling a menace | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
that has the word legal in its title is almost impossible. By definition | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
as a parent, it is harder to have that conversation with your children | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
when you say, don't use that, because they will turn around and | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
say, the -- but it is legal. No one has an easy solution to the problem, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
but everyone we spoke to agree is doing nothing isn't the answer. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Devon and Cornwall police are investigating claims that officers | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
missed an opportunity to catch burglars in the act because they | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
went to the wrong town. Officers were called to a break-in at a shop | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
in Combe Martin but despite three phone calls, they went to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Ilfracombe. Andy Breare reports from Combe Martin. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
This is the shop where the perjury happened in the early hours of last | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Friday morning. The owner says had police got to the right address when | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
told, the thieves would have been caught red-handed. Sue Sussex has | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
owned her shop for the last 42 years. This is the first time it has | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
been broken into. While the burglary was in progress, a passer-by dialled | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
999 to reported, but police were dispatched to Ilfracombe, around | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
five miles away. Not only do they not send police cars out, if they | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
had come when that guy rang, they were still in my shop for over an | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
hour after that, and they would have been caught red-handed. According to | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
the CCTV footage, these were in in the shop for an hour and a half, and | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
stripped this entire rack of cigarettes and tobacco, and made off | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
with some spirits. About �5,500 worth of stock. Since the break-in, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Sue has upgraded security and says it has left her feeling shaken. | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
feel vulnerable. The robbery itself would have been bad enough to cope | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
with, but to realise it need never have happened... The police are | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
currently studying CCTV footage of the incident, and Sue is offering a | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
reward to help catch the thieves. A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
police said a complaint about the call has been received and is being | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
investigated. Anyone with information about the burglary at | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
the shop should contact police. Torquay could host the Mr and Miss | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
World competitions, bringing with them a boost to the local economy | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
worth thousands of pounds. Organisers have visited the town to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
see if it is suitable, but opponents say it will take for Bay back to the | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
dark ages. Two months ago, Mr England was | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
crowned here in Torquay. The organisers considered -- considered | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
the event such a success we are considering Torquay for Mr and Miss | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
World. They have been working with local charisma groups to see if the | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
town will be a civil venue. This world event puts Torbay on the world | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
stage with 74 countries in the world coming over here with all their | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
press, seeing this beautiful place, encouraging business here. Torbay | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Council supported the Mr and Miss England even to the cheering of | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
�7,000 because of the publicity. The council estimated it was worth | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
�500,000 in positive exposure, at taxpayer support has been questioned | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
and opponents described these contests as denigrate array. They | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
accept it is not the same as it was in the 70s, but on a personal level. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
I feel it denigrates the human form. Do we want to send that message to | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
young people that they have to be sylphlike, to be able to slink | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
around looking bronzed and beautiful. I am not saying they | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
don't look fantastic but is that the right message for our young people? | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Mr and Miss World competitions have taken place in Africa, South Korea, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
and China. Delegates are looking around Torquay to see if it is | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
suitable for the comp edition. Editors and is expected at the end | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
of the year. A blood cancer charity has warned | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
that a shortage of young male bone marrow donors in the South West is | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
putting lives at risk. The Anthony Nolan Trust says there are just over | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
4000 people on its register. The family of 19 your old boy whose life | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
was saved by a transplant is urging donors to come forward. Jumping for | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
joy. Just two years ago, nine-year-old Dominic Doyle began a | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
fight for his life. It seemed he had already eaten leukaemia once when | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
his parents received the news they dreaded. The consultant rang, and I | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
knew it wasn't good news. She said, I am sorry but it is back. Dominic | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
had to undergo a gruelling second course of chemotherapy, but they | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
knew there was only one thing that could save his life, a bone marrow | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
transplant. They then faced the agonising wait for a donor. As we | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
got past the second month, we were getting nervous. They said we can | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
carry on with this for about six months, if we don't get a donor then | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
we will have to think about the worst things. We had to discuss | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
where, if it came to it, where we wanted him to die. After three | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
months, a match was found and now, after three birthdays in Chris | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Buttle Assembly in hospital, he is cancer free. The family don't know | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
who the donor is that the eternally grateful. We got someone who managed | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
to save Dominic's life. He is a superhero are a life-saver. We know | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
he is out there and saved our little boy 's life, so all I would ask is | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
that more come forward. It could save somebody's life like yours. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Yeah. A man from North Devon says a council planning dispute over his | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
wolf reserve could mean the death of his beloved pack and end years of | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
international research. Shaun Ellis now has to find a new home for his | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
wolves and fears that many are too old to move and may have to be | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
destroyed. The council says further work is not acceptable in an area of | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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outstanding natural beauty. Johnny Shaun Ellis moved to Devon with his | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
balls to set up a reserve and carry out research on these misunderstood | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
animals. He fears all that could come to a sad end because the | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
council says banning controls have been breached. The inevitable is the | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
Wolves will be distracted. That is why we appeal to people with this | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
decision that you are not just dealing with something put up, a | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
logistic building, you are dealing with peoples livelihood and animals | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
lives. North Devon district Council said missed analysts carried out | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
further works and after careful consideration the application was | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
refused. They said it is in an area of outstanding natural boutique and | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
cited traffic issues. We have had condolences so far that we are going | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
and we call this home. I have been here 13 years. Now the search is on | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
to find somewhere that will not have the same council planning | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
restrictions. I like to think they would see common-sense, we are going | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
maybe enough for them and we hope they give us courtesy and the time | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
we need to safeguard the walls. says he will do what we can to save | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
the pack. A singer songwriter from West | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Cornwall is about to embark on an ambitious tour of the UK and the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
United States. Sarah McQuaid who lives near Penzance will be away | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
from home for almost three months. She's just been performing at the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
Sidmouth Folk Festival and popped in to have a chat with us on her way | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
back to Cornwall. She started by telling us about her tour. | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Well, we start off in the UK, I am playing a festival in Wellington | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Road on the 31st of August and then I am all around the UK including | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Scotland and the South of England and also of places for three weeks | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
and then an eight week tour of the USA. We start off and finish in | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Texas, fly to the UK, and then a couple of gigs in Cornwall and a few | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
more further north and then I finish on the first December. That will be | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
64 shows in all. It is extraordinary and how does the reaction from the | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
audience differ, you are going from Cornwall to taxes and Denver, what | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
reaction is there? There are more vocal in the USA they holler and | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
make noise, they do not do that in England. And then you think did they | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
like me? And then they say they loved it and buy the CDs. You are | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
playing at special venues in the states. Yes, a cafe which is | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
legendary on the folk scene and the first time I have played there. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
were born in Spain, you lived in America and Ireland are now living | :17:15. | :17:24. | |
Cornwall. Where does the most musical influence come from? With | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the exception of Spain because I only lived in Spain for two years, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
but everywhere I have lived has had a strong influence. I first album | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
was traditional Irish staff and the second one was the American music I | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
grew up with and third album last year was mostly my own songs and | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
they are influenced by places I have seen on my travels in England. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
have a busy few months ahead. Good luck and come back safely to | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Cornwall. Thank you so much. And Sarah will be singing for us at the | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
end of the programme. Now for the second in our summer series visiting | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
parts of the region which presenters from Spotlight and BBC local radio | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
have never been to before. Tonight it's your turn, isn't it? Yes, I | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
went to a fishing village in North Cornwall that's become extremely | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
well known recently for two main reasons. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Just up the coast from where I was born and bred is this now famous | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
fishing village and I cannot believe I have never been here for but I | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
have always wanted to come here because I like Martin Clunes. He | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
isn't here today so I will make do with John instead. Charming! Hello, | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
my lovely. Will you give me a tour? Yes, a look around. Lead on, kind | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
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here. That is the old school. Stunning. I think the first port of | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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call must be Doc Martin's house. is nice but I think he is out on | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
call. Martin Clunes? They have finished the series now. Where is | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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it? Down here. Lead the way.This is it. Yes, his cottage. Who lives | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
there? No one, it is a second home. But it is used for filming. Yes, it | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
is a pretty cottage. It is gorgeous. It must be the most photographed | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
house in the area. Yes, probably in the county. Hordes of tourists come | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
up and down. How many more people has the house brought to the | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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village? A colossal amount of you. What is it? Oh, my word. A | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
barometer. Although we watch Spotlight, we don't take much notice | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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of David. We rely on this. It is not goes curly. Me too.Awful for the | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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moustache. How do you control it? are you? Fine. Nice to meet you. | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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This is nice. The sun is coming out. Very nice indeed. I was getting fed | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
up with the rain ruining my hairdo. It has been a lovely summer. A bit | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
of a shock because I expected a bad summer but I sold my fishing boat in | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
March expecting another bad year but this has been the best summer for 25 | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
years. What is this about a film being made. That is what they are | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
saying, the guy who directed Doc Martin is coming. A personal friend | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
of ours! He is determined to make the next movie here which they say | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
will be about us. Who will play you? George Clooney has been mentioned. | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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And what about you? It would have been you will bring but he is dead. | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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Computer graphics! This is the alleyway. And this was the narrowest | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
street in the world according to the Guinness book of records 30 years | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
ago. Crikey. We would not get here two abreast. I know quite a few | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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had a fantastic day in Port Isaac with John Cleve as my guide. You may | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
wonder where he is but I feel lost without him. He is inside because it | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
is not just the Fishermans friend and Doc Martin with talent here, the | :23:06. | :23:16. | |
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whole village has. Tonight is open we hope will mine again. # Thank you | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
very much. A lovely place. I can't believe you have not been before. I | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
will go back. They do not need David's weather, they have their own | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
arrangements. I will have a word with him. Fishermen always know best | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
but let's look at the next couple of days. Rain is likely but it is | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
mostly overnight. Tomorrow, feeling fresher, breezy on the coast but it | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
is mainly dry story. A lot of cloud coming in at the moment and that | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
cloud is rain bearing clouds, patchy light rain overnight, low cloud and | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
hill fog developing. As the weather front sweeps across us, it is an | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
overnight feature because by tomorrow it is in the east and we | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
have a ridge of high pressure although we will see more wet | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
weather later on Saturday night and into Sunday and this runs through | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
channel but most of the rain in the night-time. The picture from earlier | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
today, that cloud invaded from the West, it is producing light rain | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
across West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This was earlier today | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
where there was plenty of sunshine. Most of us have had a lot of | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
sunshine. Plenty of water coming down the rivers so no concerns about | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the water supply, plenty of people out enjoying a breezy day in places | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
but a fine day. I hope you have a spare change of clothes! Not quite | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
the blue skies that we have seen today and ride but fine weather to | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
enjoy. The cloud will produce some rain, it start of light but on the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
moors it will be more persistent and a bit heavier but by morning pretty | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
much gone. Just a few showers dotted around. Overnight temperatures, 15 | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
or 16. Tomorrow, a cloudy start, the risk of showers, brightening up, the | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
South of Devon and sunshine comes out and it will feel pleasant. 20 or | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
21 degrees. A brisk north-westerly breeze. The Isles of Scilly, a cool | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
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breeze, mostly dry, cloud in the day, the times of high water: The | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
surf is choppy. Two to three feet and clean. The outlook, the rain | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
will come in during the course of Saturday night and into Sunday so a | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
change then for damp conditions that apart from a few showers on Sunday | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
and Monday it is mostly a dry story. Have a good evening. That's all from | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
us for now - we'll leave you now with Sarah McQuaid singing "The Sun | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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Goes On Rising" Have a good evening. # And the time will come when I | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
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