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The region's only air link to London undelert as easyJet says it won't be | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
taking off from Newquay to Gatwick. It had been hoped that the company | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
would take over from Flybe but it says the route isn't viable. We will | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
assess the implication for the region's economy. Also tonight a | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
marksman involved in the badger cull claims he was threatened by a | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
protestor with a weapon. The police are investigating the claim, one | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
anti—cull campaigner has told us any protests must be lawful. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
In this country we should be allowed to protest as long as we do it in a | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
legal and peaceful way. And pay your fare, and play fair. Taxi users | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
being asked to pay up front for their journeys. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
The region ——s only air link to London looks more at risk than ever | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
after easyJet announced it won't take over the Newquay—Gatwick route. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Flybe's abandoning the route, the service could simply disappear. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Spotlight's business correspondent reports. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
It is something the region has taken for granteded for years, the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
south—west's air link to London as we know it today, is run by Flybe, | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
who go to Gatwick and back three times daily. Flybe's Gatwick landing | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
slots are being taken over by easyJet, who today said they don't | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
want to maintain the service. The future of the region's air link is | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
more in doubt than ever. I am gutted at easyJet's decision. I | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
think this will be a blow to bidses big and small across Cornwall, and | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
to think that just in a few months time that link won't be there any | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
more, I think it will be a shock to businesses and a blow to the | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
economy. Hopes had been high that jet were close to announcing plans | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
for some sort of Newquay—Gatwick service from April. Many in the | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
local business community thought the future of the link was more or less | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
secure. We were certainly given the impression, please don't say | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
anything outspoken, because that will jeopardise the sensitive talks. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
I know that the talks have got fairly way, a long way down the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
track. Something must have been nearly right, it is added | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
disappointment when you have been in negotiation for that long, that it | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
hasn't come to fruition in the end. EasyJet told us today in a statement | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
that they carefully and thoroughly examined the commercial viability of | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
offering year round services on the route. Unfortunately, after much | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
consideration, all the evidence Keirly shows there is insufficient | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
demand. —— clearly. So, Flybe will continue on the route | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
until the end of March, and after that, the region's air link to | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
London is currently a blank. But Cornwall Council, which owns the | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
airport certainly isn't giving up. It is talking to other airlines | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
about the route. How confident is it that it will be able to find another | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
operator to keep it going? We are disappointed that easyJet are chosen | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
not to maintain the route operated by Flybe, but we are sure we can | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
bring in another operator to cover those routes, and we are working | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
with other operators as well as central Government. One option is to | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
see if the government will take the unusual step of releasing public | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
funds to subsidise a continuing air link. This might be possible, as it | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
is? The north of Scotland, on the grounds that Cornwall's remote, and | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
the link is vital for economic development. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
But that is a complicated business. EasyJet themselves already operate | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
some services out of Newquay, including to Southend, and they are | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
planning to expand these. Southend is is a London service of sorts but | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
it is far from the Newquay link that the region has known since the days | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
of Bryman airways. Neil is with me now. If neebgy airport loses | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Gatwick, it only has two—year round destination, Manchester and the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Isles of Scilly. Can the airport survive? There are other scheduled | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
destinations in the summer. Liverpool and Southend. That is it. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
This is a council owned airport. When we speak to people in Truro | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
they can were quick to question the role of the council It is limited. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
It won't do anything for Cornwall's tourism or business. If we are | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
subsidising that, it is wrong. Think it would be better if someone | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
else ran it, rather than the council, really. They are building | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
it bigger and bigger but stopping all the flights so I don't see the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
point of building it bigger. As we heard in the report the council | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
seems determined to turn things round, can it? Possibly p as a cost. | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Few people in Cornwall will criticise it if it manages to | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
preserve the link into a real London airport. The cost is it costs | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
several million a year for the council to subsidise the airport, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
that is on top of tens of millions of European money that have gone | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
into the airport to expand it. At the moment, Newquay Airport is | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
looking like a gamble which hasn't paid off. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Thank you very much indeed. Next tonight, the police are | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
investigating claims a marksman involved in the controversial badger | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
cull in Somerset was threatened by a group of protestors. The incident is | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
said to have happened on Exmoor near Wheddon co,z off —— Wheddon Cross. | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
The passions aroused by the cull have led to protests, the vast | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
majority, like this, have been peaceful. But now comes a report of | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
criminality. Avon and Somerset police say they | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
are investigating threats against a marksman on Exmoor. This happened | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
about two clock in the morning. The police say the man was surrounded by | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
a group of up to eight protestor, torches were shone into his face and | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
he was threatened, including with a long thin item which may have been a | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
weapon. A badger, which had been shot in the cull, was also taken. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
At secret world wildlife rescue they look after injured badger, here they | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
oppose the cull peacefully and are critical of any protestors who break | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
the law. I think if people are activists a and they do things that | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
are illegal. They put our feelings at risk. In this country we should | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
be allowed to protest as long as we do it in a legal and peaceful bay. I | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
think once activists get hold of these things they endanger that. We | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
are stopped three, four, five six times a night in our vehicle, you | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
would have to be crackers to be driving round with a gun. So this | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
didn't happen. The gun incident didn't happen. And the threat? If | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
you are by yourself and six people turn up and masked up you might feel | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
threatened, you might run off, you may say to people I felt threatened. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Maybe you did. The trial cull is entering its final day, the police | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
say the threats to the marksman happened on the 14th September, near | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Wheddon Cross, the man was not injured. | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
Avon and Somerset Police asking anyone withes information about the | :07:24. | :07:35. | |
incident call 101. It has been described as a silent | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
killer, round 50 people in the UK die from carbon monoxide poisoning | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
every year. In the pastst months alone, four people in Cornwall have | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
lost their lives. Many others have been made ill. The County's Fire | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Service is backing calls for detectors to be made compulsory as | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
they are in Scotland where new gas pliernss are fitted. | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
—— appliances. These days Frances relies on central het heating run by | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
electricity, several years she she was lent a portable gas heart. It | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
was her only form of heating. One days she be ban to feel ill. Fluey, | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
a bit shivery, a bit shaky. And this went on a while. I went to the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
doctor, he said you probably have a virus. How long were you feeling | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
like this how long were you being poisoned? I would think probably | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
months, six weeks, probably, because of course the more shivery I felt, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
the more I put the heater on, to try and keep warm, and the worse I felt. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Frances was in fact being poisoned by her heater, high levels of the | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
gas can kill within hours. In February, an elderly couple and | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
their daughter died from carbon monoxide poisoning in their home | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
near Camborne, in the same month, a woman and her three dogs were found | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
dead at the guest house she ran. Carbon monoxide is produced from | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
basically the incomplete come bussion from fossil fuels. It could | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
be gas appliance, wood burning appliances or oil fired heating. You | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
can't smell it or taste it. It is odourless and without any early | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
warning, then obviously you will never know it is there and it will | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
poison you. This is the device the fire brigade say can save your life. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
It's a carbon monoxide detector, and when it picks up traces of thes | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
poisonous gas, it emits a high pitched bleep. In Scotland a new law | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
means that people fitting solid fuel or gas appliance also have to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
install detectors, alongside them. The Fire and Rescue Service in | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Cornwall say lives could be saved if this law was extended to the whole | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
of the UK. A Royal Marine Tain trainer who | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
admitted three offences of ill—treating new recruits in Devon | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
has been spared a prison sentence. Peter Clark was responsible for | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
instructing marines at the commando training centre. He admitting | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
bullying subordinate, he has been fine £1750 and given a reprimand. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Two former director of a currency exchange company which collapse have | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
appeared before Southwark Crown Court. Edward James the ex—mayor of | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Glastonbury and Peter Benstead have been charged with fraudulent trade, | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
and false accounting. Crown Currency Exchange went bust in 2010. It was | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
adjourned until November 19th. Non—emergency ambulances across the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
south—west are being run by three different private of ray for, until | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
now an NHS Trust the South West Ambulance Service Hazard held the | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
contract, taking people to and fro hospital appointments. Torbay will | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
run the Patient Transport Service in south Devon. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
A taxi firm in do society with unpaid fares running into thousands | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
of pounds says it has had enough of passengers who don't pay up. Weyline | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
in Weymouth is taking action by launching a play fair pay your fare | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
campaign. Spotlight's Hamish Marshall report, some will be asked | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
to pay before setting off. Vaughan has been a cabbie for four weeks but | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
he has fallen victim to a growing trend. Known in the trade as bill | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
inging. It was a bit of a shock. I had only been working several days, | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
I had been prewarned, about potential incidents, and when it | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
happens to you, you put in that situation, where you ared to either | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
or, you can approach them and ask for the money or you put it down to | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
experience. Good afternoon Weyline. Vaughan's company has launched a | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
campaign and passengers may be asked to pay before they start their | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
journey. We do follow it up, which etake it seriously, we won't give | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
up, because if they find it too easy, they will do it again, and | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
there are serial offenders out there and each company is getting to | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
gnome. Other cab companies in Weymouth are adopting the scheme | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
too. Taxi drivers tell us all the time it happens to them, so, yeah, | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
when, when you have got like teenagers jumping in a cab at night. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Sometimes they don't have any money. Most things you have to pay up | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
front. I wouldn't be offended. Both cab companies and the drivers who | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
are mostly self—employed lose out from non—payers. And people who | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
don't pay their fares are of all ages. The recent fraud act has made | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
it easier to work out whether someone is a non—payer or not. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Police are reminding those who don't pay their farers, that is it is not | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
only a criminal offence, be you could be arrested for it. Vaughan | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
used the CCTV in his cab and internet to track down his fare | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
dodger and got him to pay up, rather than go to court. | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
It has been dubbed the Tesco tax, a new levy that councils can impose on | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
supermarkets and big retailer, the aim of the levy is to raise money | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
that can be ploughed back into helping the local economy. It has | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
been welcomed by small business, who see it a a way of helping them | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
compete. North Devon council is the latest to consider introducing it. | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
Feeling the heat, but not from the ovens. Some independent traders | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
here, say they are worried about the dominance of the supermarket chains. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Unfortunately it is not very fair on the smaller businesses now, the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
large supermarkets, with all their buying power, their advertising | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
power, their influence on the general public and free parking it | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
it is making it difficult for town centres. North Devon council, like | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
others, is looking at the idea of a retail levy, on the largest outlets. | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
It could raise over £600,000. These supermarkets, they are surrounding | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Barnstaple. We are inundated with them, and I think it would be | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
appropriate for a contribution to be made by supermarkets, to help keep | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
the town centre alive. New laws means councils can request | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
the powers from Government to charge the levy but there is a concern what | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the economic impact could be The worry is large retailers will not | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
locate in this area, that is not good for business generally and pun | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
prices. The town centre opinions on the principle of a levy are mixed. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
As a opper I understand that the high street is suffering hugely, | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
because of the supermarkets that are, there is so many of them, so I | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
do have an understanding of that, but I am not sure how I feel about | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
taxing them that much. That seems a lot. The supermarket also do fine, | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
the big companies will do fine, there will always be people willing | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
to shop there. It is the small ones that need the support. It is a great | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
idea. I feel divided. One I wouldn't want the food to increase that much | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
more, but secondly, I would like to see the town as it used to be, years | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
ago. I mean, the small businesses are going and it is is not as good | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
now, as it was. Temperature Government is also | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
concerned the levy could lead to price hikes. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
The British Retail Consortium who represent the supermarkets say | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
retailers already contribute significant amounts of national and | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
local tax. A charity in Cornwall has placed | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
more than 50 life—saving cardiac machines at venues across the Cowen | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
toy. The defib ray lor —— defibrillators are designed to be | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
used by people with little or no training. One has been installed at | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
the Hall for Cornwall. On stage, theatre staff are preparing for a | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
performance of Mansfield Park. In the cafe, the life—saving public | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
access defibrillator has been installed on the wall and a number | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
of staff have been trained to use it. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
We are in the middle of Truro, we are open day an night, and it is | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
important to understand that this is for anybody to use, anybody in need | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
of this device can walk in off the street and collect it from us. The | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
machines are designed to be used by anybody and the automated system | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
will talk the userly the what to do. Remove clothing to expose bare skin. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
If there is a suspected cardiac arrest, pads are applied, and it | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
measures any electrical activity in the heart, if it detects it will not | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
shock even if the button is pressed. People who think they can do any | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
they can't. It must be frightening for somebody who has never | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
approached one before, but it is simple to use. The charity says | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
Cornwall is catching up with cities like Plymouth which already has a | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
large number of public access defibrillator, this one was paid for | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
in part by Truro's Lion's club. Details of each machine are passed | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
to the Ambulance Service, so that 999 operators can tell callers where | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
the nearest one is, the aim is to have 200 of these devices in | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Cornwall, by next year. And the charity has a whole team of | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
trainer, they have arranged public training sessions at fire stations | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
across Cornwall, and they are going to be working in school, so soon, | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
they hope, there will be a generation of people who do know | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
what to do in an emergency. Some sports news and Exeter City's | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
new Chief Executive says he hopes the club can emulate the success of | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
the rugby club. Guy Wolfenden comes from a cricket background. He will | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
be working to raise revenue and improve the team's success without | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
going into debt The rugby club is in one place and the football club | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
should be in a similar position, I am looking forward to the challenge | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
of being able to help develop the ground and develop the fan base, and | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
work with Paul and the team in developing the best football and the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
best stadium for the fans to come and enjoy the game here. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
There is another big test for Yeovil Town. Third place Leicester City | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
come to Huish Park as the Somme set team bid for only their second win | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
of the season. They have been lucky while Leicester are one of the | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
favourites for promotion. BBC some Shetland have full coverage from | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
7.45. The National Trust says it is | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
pulling out of one its of its newest properties in Devon because not | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
enough people are visiting it. High Cross House opened to the public | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
last year. It was one of the first modernist houses in the country but | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
it hasn't proved a hit with the National Trust faithful. High Cross | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
House was designed in 1932 as what modernists describe as a machine for | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
living. Unfortunately it hasn't proved a machine for attracting | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
visitor, it opens last year, but just 21,000 people came to see it, | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
with a similar number this year. We are disappoint at the fact we are | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
closing the house, we opened with a sort of blaze of glory last year, we | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
had a lot of publicity, the visitor numbers have not been as high as we | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
hoped. And so it is not sustainable for us to carry on forwards. High | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
Cross House was designed by William his cars: It was one of the first | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
modernist houses in the country, full of sleek lines and functional | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
furniture. The National Trust says it wanted to take on High Cross | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
House as an experiment, opening it up for the public to view, but also | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
using it as a showcase, for artists to exhibit and sell their work. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Unfortunately, it has decided that experiment didn't quite work. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
High Cross House will be handed back to its owner, the Dartington Hall | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Trust. We are sad, but my view is it is better to have tried and failed | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
than not to have tried at all. It was an innovative way to use the | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
house. The aim is to keep using it. We will look for add new partner who | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
wants to use the house like this, in an innovative way and hopefully | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
keeps it open to the public as well. Until a new partner is found anyone | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
keen to see this has until the end of the year before it closed. | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Now, a man who suffered a stroke 17 years ago is the artist behind a | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
unique exhibition at Exeter Cathedral. Mark Ware has put | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
together 900 images of the building to reflect its 900 year history. The | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
film will be accompanied by musicians. | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
A 900 year time line for Exeter Cathedral. The man behind these | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
images says despite a severe stroke 17 years ago, life has changed in | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
some ways for the better. In terms of seeing thing, I think I am in the | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
here and now, like as with most disabilities, when things are | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
painful and I struggle I have to concentrate on walking, on balance, | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
on seeing so I am aware of sound and temperature, and the visual | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
appearance of thing, and that helps with Miss Artwork, because that is | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
one of the most important things with artists to be aware of what is | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
there opposed to rely on your memory. St will to sound will be cop | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
anyed by four musicians is. I think it's a very unusual experience, for | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
people, we don't know how it will pan out, because it is | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
multi—dimensional, think that will be the photography is MiF sent and | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
of course we are seeing things in the Cathedral, which we have never | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
seen before because it is done with tell photo lens, and in three | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
dimensions and we are adding a fourth dimension, which is one of | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
sound, of music from all these different periods. He has managed to | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
capture hidden areas that we never would have had a chance to show off. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
He has got immersed in the life of the place. He spent time with our | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
stonemason, with our library and archive, a lot of time in the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
visitor department and he is part of our community and part of the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Cathedral story. The project, called 900 Years of | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Light opens tomorrow evening at 7.30 and runs for three nights. | :23:19. | :23:31. | |
Very powerful images. Lovely music as well. Lovely. It is time for the | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
weather forecast now. David is here. A bit of a wet one. Yes, good | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
evening, it is causing a few problems on the roads as well. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Leaves blocking the drains and standing water, some of the faster | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
routes the spray is giving poor visibility. Tomorrow, it is much dry | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
e but we haven't seen the last of the rain. Still misty, and there | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
will be more rain tomorrow evening, tomorrow night, and into Thursday. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
So, we still have a weather warning valid mostly for Thursday, the rain | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
band we have at the moment will fer out as it moves away through this | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
evening and overnight. Some dry weather, but that warning is valid | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
for Thursday, some of the rain early on Thursday could be torrential, | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
even with the risk of thunder, so tomorrow, we are between weather | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
system, so hopefully a bit brighter, certainly a lot drier than we have | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
seen, but there are great clumps of cloud round the United Kingdom at | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
the moment. The area of low pressure is now close enough to feed in quite | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
a few shower, now, some round this evening there is a first band of | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
rain moves away, then we are between systems for the middle of the day | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
tomorrow, but by Thursday, as the low pressure gets o closer, not only | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
will it be windy, it is likely to be particularly wet, especially on | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Thursday morning. Here is that rain that we have seen | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
earlier today, it has peeled away from the Isles of Scilly and here a | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
bit of late brightness, but for the rest of us we have that cloud and | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
further showers to come this evening. They will probably continue | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
for the next few hours before finally dies away, and moving | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
northwards through the night. So a bit drier, turning misty, if there | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
is any clear sky it will be filled in with mist and fog and hill fog | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
becoming extensive, a thick layer of cloud low to the ground, right | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
across the south—west, southerly winds, and another mild night too. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Overnight temperatures no lower than the between 14 and 16 degrees. That | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
is pretty usual for the month of October, to see night—time | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
temperatures so high. For tomorrow, misty, grey again, briefly some | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
breaks in the cloud, they are most likely in Somerset, the north of | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Devon, for the rest of us, a lot of cloud and particularly the south | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
coast, that cloud is extensive, that low cloud, misty on the coast and | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
out at sea and some more rain coming back in the end of the afternoon and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
early evening. Now the rain overnight into the small hours | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Thursday morning, could be heavy, even with the risk of hail and | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
lightening. There are temperatures. It is mild despite that cloud and | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
despite a keen breeze from the south, we will get to 18, possibly | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
19 degrees again, so another warm day despite all that cloud, and the | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
showers in the forecast. For the Isles of Scilly here, I expect to | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
see bright weather briefly but misty and further wet weather, setting in | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
to the end of the afternoon and into the early evening. Breezy here too. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Times of high water, Portland, that is at 5.35 and 17.43. | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
Surf has been small but good today. It is better tomorrow. The north | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
coast will have up to six feet and clean, the wave period is round | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
12—13 second, surfers know that is good news. Slightly more choppy | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
along the south coast with that breeze. | :26:51. | :26:51. | |
Here is the coastal waters forecast. So quite poor visibility, it has | :26:51. | :27:08. | |
been that way all week and it will continue until we start to get a | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
clearance. It comes on Friday, so after that wet day on Thursday, | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Friday a few showers round, we get a change the wind direction, the wind | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
becomes more westerly, that is cleaner air for us, hopefully better | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
visibility and high pressure comes back for the weekend, so a bit of | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
wet weather but come the weekend the sunshine will be out and it will be | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
dry. Thank you. If you have a look at the Spotlight Facebook page you | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
can see the film looking back over 50 years of Spotlight and we are | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
back with you 6.30 tomorrow. Good night. | :27:41. | :27:43. |