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Families of the Devon people held in Russia after a Greenpeace protest | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
call for more help from the Foreign Office. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Good evening. The families held talks with officials this afternoon | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
and raised concerns about a lack of contact with their loved ones. We | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
have not heard from him for four breaks which we think is | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
unacceptable. We have told the foreign office that. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight: The battle against breast cancer ` we hear from the | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
woman whose moving story has attracted more than 160,000 | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
followers online. And have you seen this cat? Minx's | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
owner claims she's been kit`napped. The police are treating her | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
disappearance as theft. The families of three people from | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Devon who are being held in Russia accused of piracy have been meeting | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
with the Foreign Office. The detainees are part of a crew of 30 | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Greenpeace protestors who were arrested following an incident at an | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
offshore drilling platform. Tonight, the labour MP for Exeter Ben | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Bradshaw has told us David Cameron needs to get on the phone to | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Vladimir Putin as a matter of urgency. Our political editor Martyn | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Oates reports. It all began at this protest for | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
weeks ago organised by Queen Preece `` Greenpeace. 30 members of the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
crew are being held by the Russian authorities. They include Alex | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Harris and Ian Rogers, seen here behind bars in court. Also in | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
custody is Kieran Brian, a freelance video journalist who was being | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
employed by Greenpeace. They are accused of piracy, a charge which | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
carries a 15 year prison term. Today there plight was raised in the House | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
of Commons. We need to follow the case extremely closely and that is | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
the `` that is what the Foreign Office is doing. We are seeking | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
daily updates. That is feeble. Seeking updates is in effect doing | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
nothing. I am astonished the Prime Minister has not picked up the phone | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
to Vladimir Putin. He should be making absolutely clear to them in | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
private that their behaviour has been completely unacceptable and if | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
these people are not released soon it will do damage to bilateral | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
relations and Russia's image in the world. Relatives of the detainees | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
had a meeting later in the day with Foreign Office officials. We have | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
not spoken to him for four weeks. It is unacceptable and we have told the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Foreign Office. Things like letters were raised quite prominently. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
People want to hear from their loved ones. It is understandable. In terms | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
of the bigger picture, the Foreign Office are working very hard to make | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
sure that we are being represented. Nobody from the Foreign Office was | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
available for interview. In a statement, they said that it would | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing process and they do not | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
comment publicly on individual consulate cases. | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
The number of people out of work and claiming benefit in the South West | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
fell last month to its lowest September level for five years. But | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
it's still higher than it was before the credit crunch began to bite. The | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
latest national unemployment rate, going by the narrow definition of | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the claimant count, is 3.2%. In Cornwall, the equivalent figure is | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
down to 2.1%. In Devon, it's down to 1.5%. In Dorset, it's down to 1.3%, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the lowest in the region. And in Somerset, it's down to 1.7%. The | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
urban unitary areas here have rates much more like the national one. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Plymouth's latest rate is down to 2.9%. And Torbay remains the only | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
area with a rate above the national figure at 3.4%. So, the numbers are | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
moving in the right direction, but important questions remain about | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
wages in the region, as our business correspondent Neil Gallacher | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
reports. This is a story of gradual recovery | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
in the economy across the south`west but also of personal recovery from | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
redundancy for this scaffolder. Spotlight first met him in 2009, | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
shortly after the firm he worked for had gone bankrupt. He was | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
temporarily working for another scaffolder. The last recession, it | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
was bad. My family struggled a little bit. But I have not had any | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
experience of this before. His journey has brought him to the point | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
where he has now his own boss and he is employing eight other people. `` | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
here's now. He says that the local economy bears little resemblance to | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
that of five years ago. It is a lot stronger. We are inundated with | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
work. But you have always got to worry about taking on more people | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
because you do not know what is around the corner. We are working to | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
150% all of the time. Long overdue. Recession is always come to an end. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
It is very good news. But you have to take it with caution. There has | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
been a lot of poor quality jobs created, part`time, low paid. We | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
have enough of those. This work is certainly not part`time but he | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
admits it is not highly paid. We are not charging as much as we should be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
charging. We are making enough money to grow as a business. The economy | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
is not out of the woods yet as the current fears about a US debt | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
default demonstrates. For now at least in this corner of West Devon, | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
things are looking a little sunnier. | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Nearly half the people who are renting in the South West are in bad | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
housing according to Shelter. The charity says there have been more | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
than 13,000 complaints against private landlords in the region in | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
the last four years. It's launching a campaign to get more local | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
councils to take action against rogue landlords. Alison Johns | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
reports. 75`year`old Grace used to live in this rented property in | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Cornwall. The charity Shelter took these pictures. She complained about | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the conditions after going to her doctor with chest infections. The | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
bedroom was damp. The walls in the back, off the kitchen, off the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
second bedroom, they were single block walls, there were big cracks | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
in them. They were black with moles. After she left the property, she had | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
to go to court to get her deposit back. Shelter says thousands of | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
people in the south`west are living in damp, cold the there dangerous | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
properties. In the last four years, there were thousands of complaints | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
about private landlords in Devon. These pictures were not taken at | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
Grace's house but show some of the conditions Shelter has found in | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
privately rented homes across the country. There is damaged demand for | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
privately rented accommodation because there are not enough homes | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
to go around. There is an opportunity for O good fun `` for | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
rogue landlords to take advantage. Sometimes they harass their | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
tenants. This council has already allocated ?100,000 to the department | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
which tackles bad landlords. When you see what a difference that money | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
can make, impact people 's lives, being able to start turning them | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
around and get them into some accommodation that is fit for human | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
habitation. I spoke to a woman in another part of Devon about problems | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
with her former landlord. She wants to keep her identity secret. My | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
clothes went mouldy. Food was going mouldy in containers. My brother had | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
to go into the living room from the bedroom to sleep. My son was in the | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
dining room. My mother and I had to put up with what we had. I was | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
washing walls down with bleach all of the time. We had the fumes from | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
the bleach and the moles as well. Disgraceful. The landlord was | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
ordered to make improvements. Most of the councils in the south`west | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
have already signed up to the campaign by Shelter. Today it is | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
asking the rest to do so. We've already been contacted by one | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
landlord who says that often tenants leave the properties in a terrible | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
state. She says she's spent a fortune on good homes for tenants | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
but has to deal with drugs, fights, constant complaints from neighbours | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
and trashed rooms. If you'd like to get in touch with | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
us, you can do via e`mail. And do remember please to leave us a | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
contact telephone number or e`mail address. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Coming up: How the region's schools will be affected by strike action. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Plus, one young woman's amazing determination to deal with breast | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
cancer. And we're off in search of some | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
spectacular Autumn colour on Dartmoor. | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
The Information Commissioner has ruled that the Council of the Isles | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
of Scilly breached the Data Protection Act following the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
suspension of a headmaster. He was suspended from his post at the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
school in May last year and has strongly protested his innocence. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
The Information Commissioner says the council acted unfairly in | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
sending three reports to the empty containing private information. | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
Campaigners opposed to a new incinerator which will turn much of | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Cornwall's waste into energy say they'll carry on fighting even | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
though construction is now well under way. Cornwall Council says | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
it's been losing around ?1 million a month because of delays to the | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
scheme, but the plant should be working from 2016. Our environment | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Traditionally, this area of Cornwall has been best known for its clay | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
workings. Take a look over year and you will see things changing. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Engineers are working on a striking addition to the landscape. This is | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
how it is predicted the new energy from waste plant will look once it | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
is fully operational by May, 2016. At the moment, the diggers are busy | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
excavating a massive hole which can store three or four days of rubbish. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
The company running it says that the park will generate a lot of energy. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
It would produce for export, after the energy we have used on the | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
site, almost 70 megawatts of power. What is that in a number of homes? | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
About 20,000 houses which is not insignificant. We have made | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
provision in the design of the facility to provide heat for the | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
clay industry which is very near the site. The side of the construction | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
work has upset local campaigners who fought against it since the planning | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
application for the plant was admitted in 2008. I do not think it | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
is value for money. The council contract, it was completely biased | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
in favour of the contract. It is outrageous that taxpayers have got | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
to foot the bill. It is expected to deal with much of Cornwall's waste | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
for the next 25 years. Sceptics say there are more modern ways to deal | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
with waste other than burning it. One woman's fight against breast | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
cancer has attracted more than 150,000 followers online. Laura | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Cannon from Salcombe in Devon was just 22 when she was diagnosed last | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
year. This summer she underwent a double mastectomy and a gruelling | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
course of chemotherapy. Laura has been writing about her experience in | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
a blog called Laura Louise and her Naughty Disease. We'll hear from her | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
in a moment. But first, here are some extracts from the blog. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
February, the 22nd. I told you pigs could fly. A mixture of new tablets | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
and a love for water has improved my chemotherapy experience. | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
Pink lipstick was an absolute must. August the 14th. I saw my plastic | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
surgeon on Monday when he looked at his handiwork, the words ding`dong | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
came out of his mouth. That has got to be good news, right? I have been | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
working out how to rock the very short hair look. It is difficult to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
feel feminine. I've been talking to Laura who | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
started by telling me about the moment she was diagnosed with breast | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
cancer. The day I found out was pretty tricky. I was pretty numb. I | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
did not really listen to what the doctors said when they gave the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
original diagnosis and what the action plan was. My main concern was | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
that I did not want to cry because I did not want to worry my mum who was | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
in the same room. I focused my energy on that. Then the blog came | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
about. What started it? My mum suggested it might be a good way for | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
me to write stuff down. It was also good for family and friends because | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
so many people were asking me questions. I did not really have | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
time to tell them all. A good record for them. What difference did it | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
make for you being so open and public about your disease? I don't | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
know. I think it was quite liberating. It was nice to be so | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
honest and have someone tell the story from a positive point of | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
view. I tried to be positive. Obviously, there were times when I | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
maybe wasn't. But I wanted to approach it with that sort of | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
attitude. You tell the story of various difficult stages of treating | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
the disease. The moment your hair was shaved off. There are | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
photographs of that. That must have been particularly difficult. Why did | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
you decide to share something so intimate? Because I wanted to make | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
that moment memorable. I had my hair shaved into different styles, a | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Mohawk. I wanted to look back and laugh and have some funny things to | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
remember, not just remember it as the really sad day when my hair | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
went. Something as simple as putting the scorer on, you detail in the | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
blog. A lot of women take it for granted. That was quite a | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
milestone. A really nice day, to be able to put mascara on. Something I | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
missed doing. I did not have eyelashes. What feedback have you | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
got? 150,000 people reading it. What feedback you getting? Luckily, only | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
positive. I have had feedback from relatives, people going through | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
similar things, from different cancers, saying, thank you for being | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
positive, thank you for providing something for us to read that is | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
nice rather than depressing. I think... It has been really nice. | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
Where do you go from here? First of all, the treatment. You are on | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
radiotherapy at the moment. Something you were hoping to avoid. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Having to have radiotherapy for quite a long time. It should not be | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
too difficult, the doctors tell me. Five weeks. I plan on detailing | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
side`effects and that sort of thing. We wish you well with the treatment. | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Thousands of teachers across the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
south west are due to take part in strike action tomorrow. Members of | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
teaching unions the NASUWT and the NUT are protesting about pay and | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
pensions. Hundreds of schools across the region are expected to be | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
affected. In Cornwall, 104 schools will be closed or partially closed. | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
In Somerset, the figure is 79. In Plymouth, 52 schools will be | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
affected. In Devon, it's 43. And 19 in Torbay. Dorset were unable to | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
provide us with figures, but the advice is that all parents should | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
check with their child's school. John Henderson reports. | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
On the eve of a teachers' like, a rally in Totnes. For many taking | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
part in the industrial action, there is a pity for parents and anger | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
towards the government. It is the second time I have gone on strike in | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
the last 20 years and I do not do it lightly. I believe it is worth | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
campaigning and fighting for it. There is little doubt that a strike | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
by teachers can be highly disruptive. Outside one school this | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
afternoon, parents were making plans. I had to say to my boss, I | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
cannot come in on Thursday. I also tried nursery and they are closed as | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
well. My options were completely stumped. Described annoying because | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
most working parents have got to take days off. `` I think it is | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
quite annoying. I am having to use my daughter's dance studio. We get | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
charged ?60 a time for taking the children out of school. Obviously, | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
are we going to get compensation back? | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
The government has defended its plans to reform pay structures, but | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
unions say it is not just about pay. We are taking the action with | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
great regret. Unfortunately, if we do not stand up on this time, we may | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
not get the chance again. Education could be irrevocably changed | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
forever. Parents are left picking up the pieces when the schools close. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
A special live page will feature on Devon and Cornwall's BBC websites | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
with the latest developments, reaction and comment on the strike | :19:02. | :19:15. | |
across England. A man from Cornwall is appealing for | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
help after he says his cat was kidnapped. The cat, Minx, | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
disappeared last month from her home in Lostwithial. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
But then several weeks later, letters were sent saying the cat had | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
been taken away so she could start a new life in the country. The police | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
are treating the case as theft. Eleanor Parkinson reports. New `` | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
this man spent months looking for his cat, Minx. She was only just | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
recovering from an operation and he feared she had been run over. A | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
series of letters revealed that she had been taken to a new home. A | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
letter was received by the shop, purporting to be written by the cat. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
It was saying that she had met these people and they lived in the | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
countryside and the cat wanted to go and live with them in the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
countryside. Later it goes on to say that I am missing you all, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
especially my dad, please let him know I am OK. Minx is very | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
well`known in the town. Spent time in shops and she would accompany her | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
owner to the local to sit on a bar stool. People in the town say she | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
should be returned. Always here in the street or in the doorway of the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
social club. She used to follow her owner in and sit on the bar stool. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
When he came out, she would come and sit by the side of him. She followed | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
him back home again. I have been putting posters up. Nigel is hoping | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
his poster campaign will help in his quest to get her back. Police are | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
treating it as theft. Understandably, the owner is upset | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
and they ask anyone with any information to contact them. | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
Although many of us are sad to see the end of summer, autumn does bring | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
its own seasonal rewards, particularly as the leaves start to | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
change colour. Apparently, we could be set for a | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
dazzling display this year. Emily Wood has been to a garden on the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
edge of Dartmoor to find out more. Today has been a typical mix of | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
autumn weather was. Thankfully, the sun did come out in time for my | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
visit to the garden to meet up with the head gardener and to find out | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
why we get the change of colours that this time of year. As autumn | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
approaches and the temperatures change, the chlorophyll stops going | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
out to the leaves and they become less green. The other chemicals | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
stored in the leaves which are in the reds and yellows spectrum become | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
more visible. For best autumn colour, you needed to be dry and | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
sunny and dry and cool at night. Apparently, these trees will | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
guarantee a range of autumnal colour. They are displaying the | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
spectrum you would expect, green, read, purple, bronze. Other species | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
of trees express other colours. Strong yellows, strong reds. This is | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
a pinky orange. As well as a good range of colours, there has been a | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
bumper crop foremost through fruit trees as well `` bumper crops for | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
most fruit trees. This is covered in fruit. Still quite green. This is | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
one of the latest things to turn. It will go bright yellow in a couple of | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
weeks. Heading properly into autumn and over the next few weeks we will | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
be seeing spectacular colours in the region's Gardens and hopefully | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
having some fine weather to go out and see them. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
I do love the colours that this time of year. You can see that report on | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
the Facebook page again if you want to. Let as see what the weather has | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
in store. The weather is going to remain | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
reasonably kind to us tonight and tomorrow. A bit of a change on | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Friday. Tomorrow, breezy, the risk of a few showers. Equally, plenty of | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
sunshine to enjoy. The main area of rain, the great thick line of cloud | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
has moved away from us this afternoon. Clear skies further out | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
to the west bringing us a fair amount of clear skies tonight. This | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
lump of cloud may come through the Bristol Channel overnight. A line of | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
showers will cross us. Tomorrow, even though it does not appear | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
straightaway, there is a weak ridge of high pressure over southern | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Britain are keeping us effectively mainly dry. It will change by | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Friday. Friday, several weather systems queueing up to bring us | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
rain. This area of low pressure is taking up much of the North | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
Atlantic. Staying on settled into the weekend. There is the picture | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
from earlier. You can see how quickly the rain moved out of the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
way. For a large part of the afternoon, some of us had almost | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
unbroken sunshine. Showers around now which will pep up overnight. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Drifting into parts of North Cornwall, through the North Somerset | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
coast, the Bristol Channel and along towards the M4. Enough clear skies | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
to give a glimpse of the almost full moon as well as perhaps allowing the | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
temperatures to fall. The only thing that. That is the strength of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
reason. Quite windy overnight. `` the only thing that will stop that | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
is the strength of breeze. Tomorrow, a fair amount of sunny spells. The | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
risk of a few showers. Fairly isolated. Lengthy spells of sunshine | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
in the afternoon. The breeze continues to drop. It will take time | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
but eventually it will become less windy. The winds will come round to | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
becoming southerly. Temperatures higher than we should expect at the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
time of year. Make the most of tomorrow. That is the best advice. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Quite a big change as we move into Friday. The forecast for the Isles | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
of Scilly, some sunny spells. Small chance of showers. Less windy in the | :25:42. | :25:53. | |
afternoon. Times of high water... If you are heading for the beach to do | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
surfing, I think it is likely to be a bit on the messy side. Find some | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
shelter perhaps and you might get some decent surfing in. The south | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
coast is similar. Rather messy. There is the coastal waters | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
forecast... Winds from the West. Backing around and becoming | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
south`west. Decreasing through the day. Fair but with the risk of | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
showers. Generally very good visibility out at sea. This does not | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
look too promising, does it? Showers to camp and perhaps even more | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
persistent rain. `` showers to come. The temperatures are pretty | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
good. Remaining frost free overnight for the next few nights. But it will | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
stay on settled. Some quite frequent showers on Saturday and Sunday. The | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
heaviest rain is reserved for a large part of Friday. Quite a wet | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
day and windy too. Some sunshine in between the showers on Saturday and | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Sunday. Staying relatively mild. Have a good evening. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Before we go, the BBC has revealed its plans to mark the momentous | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
events of World War I. And the story of the home front is integral to | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
that. Here in the South West, we're asking for your help in telling the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
many local stories of the first truly global conflict that helped | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
shape today's Britain. So, if you have a World War One | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
story you'd like to share, please do get in touch. | :27:26. | :27:37. | |
Very important story to tell and we would like your help in doing so. We | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
are back at 6:30pm tomorrow. Good night. | :27:44. | :28:13. | |
You ask us to get behind you and why should we? | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
You're punching above your weight, aren't you? | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
He wouldn't do that to me because he wasn't that sort of a man. | :28:19. | :28:25. |