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more than 9%. That is all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Teachers across the south`west join the walk`out over pay, pensions and | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
workloads. Good evening. Thousands of pupils | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
across the region were forced to stay at home today. Teachers claim | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
the action was a last resort. The changes in pension, the changes in | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
working conditions and pay, I haven't had a realistic pay rise the | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
fourth five years now. `` for four or five years. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Also tonight: Devon and Cornwall Police lagging behind. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The force is set to miss a key performance target to reduce crime. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
And a major setback for Plymouth's new incinerator delights | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
campaigners. Thousands of teachers across the | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
south`west have been taking part in strike action today. Members of the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
teaching unions the NUT and the NASUWT are protesting about pay, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
pensions and working conditions. Hundreds of schools have been closed | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
causing problems for some parents. In Cornwall, 107 schools were closed | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
or partially closed. In Devon, 114 schools were affected. In Somerset, | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
88. 15 schools were shut in Dorset. Scott Bingham reports. | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
With more than 50 schools across the city closed, it's little wonder this | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Plymouth play centre is busier than it would be. We've got to get extra | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
staff in for the busyness and the strike. There's older children here | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
than what we usually get. Many parents had to take time off work to | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
look after their children with no classes to attend. Maureen and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Victor have stepped in look after their granddaughters. Their school | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
was closed for the day due to the teachers strike. So we've stood in | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
because mum is at work and so is daddy. So we've taken over the | :02:04. | :02:15. | |
childcare for the day. The short notice of the strike action does | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
cause problems. While there is some sympathy out there for striking | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
teachers, those at this rally in Plymouth were keen to explain the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
reasons for the industrial action. We have not rushed into taking | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
industrial action. This has been going on since January in the case | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
of pay. And pensions has been going on for more than two years. The | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
government is not listening to us. The changes in pension, working | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
conditions, and paved. I haven't had a realistic pay rise for four or | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
five years. The younger teachers this is going to hit the most, so | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
what is going to happen to our children when the sort of children | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
`` teachers that are coming and are not the sort of standard we | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
require. David laws today said the strike was bad for parents and bad | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
for pupils. I know it's difficult to teachers that we are having to | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
reform pensions and control public sector pay but this is something | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
that is happening to everybody working in the public sector at the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
moment in order to get the public finances back under control. But | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
every school has been closed. Dartmouth Academy was partially | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
closed along with the many hundreds of other schools across the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
south`west, they will all fully reopen as normal service resumes | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
tomorrow. Devon and Cornwall Police are | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
lagging behind the rest of the region, and England as a whole, in | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
tackling crime. New figures released today show that recorded crime fell | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
by 8% across the country in the 12 months to June 2013. The Avon and | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Somerset force saw a drop of 13%. Crime fell by 9% in Dorset, in Devon | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
and Cornwall the figure was 7%. In addition, the force says it's likely | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
to miss a key performance target. Our home affairs correspondent | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
reports. This is a much loved beauty spot. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
When Andrews saw a man dumping rubbish year, he took the car's | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
registration and reported it to the police but he says they took no | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
action until he threatened to write to the chief constable. He thinks | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
the police are overstretched but is unsurprising don't meet their | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
targets. I am disappointed. And whatever is the reason, they need to | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sort it out and put it right because this is an essential and vital part | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
of our communal life together. Devon and Cornwall Police set a target of | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
reducing the overall number of crimes in the two counties by 2% in | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the year to the end of next March and they say they are not confident | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
that we'll be achieved. The reasons they say are largely due to an | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
increase in offences in the summer and more reporting of crime. It is | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
disappointing. My members are working hard and insurers how much | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
pressure they are in on the front line. We've had a reduction of 400 | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
police officers over the last two years which is starting to tell. I'm | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
holding the chief constable to account to reclaim his target of `2% | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
overall crime by the end of the year. And looking at him and | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
insisting that we develop more efficiency out of this forced to | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
deliver reduction in crime across the board. Devon and Cornwall | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Police's position in the league table of forces has been slipping as | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
well. It has had to cut more than 400 officers because of budget | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
reductions. One feature of this story is the keenness of the Police | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
and Crime Commissioner to try to demonstrate he is holding the Devon | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
and Cornwall force to account. That is an important part of his job and | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
suggest the feeling that he hasn't been demonstrating at robust early | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
enough. Earlier, I spoke to David Zinzan, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
the Deputy Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police. I started by | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
asking him about the force failing to hit its key target to reduce | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
crime by 2%. There are two sets of statistics out today. The Office for | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
National Statistics figures go up to the end of June which show a 6% | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
reduction in total crime, but we had a very busy summer and we've | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
released our own statistics which show a 4% reduction. So we are still | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
in reduction for total crime. I don't have a crystal ball and I | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
don't know what it's going to look like in March. There is some areas | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
with increased crime and others with drops. You're kind of blaming the | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
summer but the summer happens every year so why aren't you better | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
prepared? That's not the case at all. Every summer there is an | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
increase in crime and last year was a low increase because of the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
weather, and because of the weather this year, we've had a large number | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
of visitors and with that comes the potential for crime increase. The | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
crime goes up in summer and down in winter. So we expect a drop to take | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
us through to March. You've slipped in the performance league table as | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
well. The chief constable said he wanted to make Devon and Cornwall | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
the safest place to live in England. You are now 12 unlikely to go | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
further. I disagree. We are currently ranked 12th out of 43. We | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
are not complacent. We have a very ambitious target. There are other | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
forces doing better than us in some areas but some crimes have gone down | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
spectacularly, burglary ten `` 14%. Robbery 12%. Some spectacular | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
reductions. More people are reporting crime, which is a good | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
thing, but have you got the resources to deal with that? Yes, we | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
have had ?47 million worth of cuts which has been very difficult, and | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
400 police officers and 414 police staff less. We are responding | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
magnificently but we are finding it difficult. But we are doing our best | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
and we are looking at how we deliver our services, looking at new ways of | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
doing that, looking at innovative ways of doing our jobs but it is | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
difficult. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Well, as we heard there, Devon and Cornwall Police, like many other | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
forces, has faced cuts in police numbers. But some areas in the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
south`west are beginning to take on new constables again. Dorset has | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
just announced a recruitment drive, following Avon and Somerset's lead. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
But the police still face significant financial pressures, so | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
how are they able to take on new officers? Our Dorset reporter Simon | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Clemison has been finding out. In 2009, Dorset froze and so, too, | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
did police recruitment. The force is still facing harsh economic | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
conditions but after four years, there is some thought. There have | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
been announcements to take on new constables from outside. That gets a | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
warm welcome from this father who wants to join the police, and | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
couldn't. He is worried about changing rates of pay. It would be | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
nice to work for those, but we will see what the conditions of pay will | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
be. Because it is changing. And you never know whether it will go down | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
or up. The partial melting of the recruitment freeze is significant | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
because Dorset still has to make a million pounds worth of cuts to its | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
budget. It has shed ?14 million, which has led to the lost of about | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
500 jobs, but at least 500 `` 24 new recruits could join. It would be | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
good to give more people an opportunity to join, but we need to | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
recognise this is a small recruitment against an overall | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
picture of a substantial reduction. Why take on some more staff went | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
finances are tough? If they don't, the workforce is simply ages. There | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
are a lot of people leaving the police. They have to looking at | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
bringing in new blood at some time. Now is as good a time as any. There | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
are still cuts to come and police forces don't know their funding | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
beyond 2016, so this could be seen as a risk because it adds to the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
cost, not reduces it. It's a small number of officers in the boost to | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
morale might be worth every penny. `` and the boost to morale. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
There's been another setback for the badger cull which many farmers in | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
the region had hoped would help tackle TB in cattle. The number of | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
badgers culled in the Gloucestershire trail area has | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
fallen far short of the figure the government says is needed. Only 30% | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
were killed during the six week cull. The target was 70% Our | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Political Editor Martyn Oates is with me. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
The Somerset trial also failed to meet its target. How much the | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
setback of these figures? Arguably the most embarrassing it. These two | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
pilot Coles had to be postponed for 12 months because they didn't know | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
how many badges there were in each area. Last week, it emerged only 60% | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
against the 70% had been culled. In Gloucestershire, it's been much less | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
successful. How important is this? Well, the government has insisted | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
all along this 70% mortality rate in each zone was essential to achieve a | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
modest impact on TB in cattle. With the other side of the coin being if | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
you kill too many, your break social groups, and they will spread further | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
afield, causing more TB in cattle. So after these results, what sorts | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
of political reactions have there been? Having insisted all along | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
they've got every detail right, the government is saying they are | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
learning as they go along, and they say the culled time might have to be | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
longer. `` the cull might have to take longer. Thank you. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
The police are investigating after the bodies of six mute swans were | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
found on of banks of Restronguet Creek in Cornwall. The police say | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
they had been beheaded and their injuries couldn't have been caused | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
by a wild animal. They believe they were killed intentionally and | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
illegally. Swans are a protected species and the police are asking | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
anyone with information to contact them 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners, | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have called on the Russian president | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
to drop piracy charges against three Greenpeace detainees from Devon. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Alexandra Harris, Iain Rogers and Kieron Bryan are among 30 people who | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
were arrested following a protest at an offshore drilling platform. The | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
letter to Vladimir Putin says charges against them should be | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
dropped. The government has confirmed that | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
two of the region's coastguard stations will close next year. The | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency will shut Portland in September 2014. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Brixham will close two months later. MPs have raised concerns about the | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
move. The government insists it will modernise the service. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
The Independent television production company TwoFour, which is | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
based in Plymouth, is merging with the Welsh group, Boom Pictures. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Senior executives based at Estover are taking key roles in the enlarged | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
company. TwoFour has made its name producing programmes such as the | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
Fixer, with the famous hotelier Alex Polizzi. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
The company which will run Plymouth's new energy`from`waste | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
plant has suffered a major setback. It's been told that it can't send | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
ash from the incinerator to a quarry at Buckfastleigh for recycling and | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
it now has to decide if it will appeal against the decision. Local | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
people say they're delighted by the news. Our Environment Correspondent | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
Adrian Campbell reports. Buckfastleigh seem to be in a | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
jubilant mood today. Local people were celebrating the decision by the | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Planning Inspectorate which appears to support their arguments against | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
the use of the local quarry as a recycling centre for waste ash from | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
the new incinerator still being built in Plymouth. I am so thrilled | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
with this outcome. Having spent a lot of time having listens to all of | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
the enquiry, and at the same time listening to the schoolchildren the | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
road `` across the road playing, that is what it's about. Protecting | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
their future here and the community. It's fantastic. I am overwhelmed, I | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
don't know what to say. Julia rang me up first thing and said, "are you | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
sitting down? " and it's very difficult to believe. The first | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
sentences I'd dismissed the appeal, so it is real! The new energy from | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
waste plant were are still under construction will take waste from | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
Plymouth and some other parts of Devon. After incineration, there | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
will be lorry loads of ash which will have to be taken away from the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
energy from waste plant. Tens of thousands of tonnes of bottom ash a | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
year. If it doesn't go to Buckfastleigh for a cycling, it | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
might have to travel as far as Gloucestershire. MVV Energie, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
wanting to bring the bottom ash for a cycling here, didn't have anybody | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
for interview, but they told us they were disappointed in reviewing the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
decision before deciding on a possible challenge. Local | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
environment campaigners say it is time for MVV Energie to give up on | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
the plants for Buckfastleigh. They have to issue a challenge in the | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
next six weeks. My understanding is they wouldn't get that in front of | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
court for another year so I'd imagine they are out of time. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Campaigners in Buckfastleigh have celebrated today but they still have | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
to wait and see what MVV Energie does next. | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
In a moment we'll be indulging in a sport of monkeying around. | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
The final send`off for the art project that's being auctioned for | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
charity. And stepping back in time, the | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
school children experiencing a World War Two evacuation. | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
It's getting increasingly difficult for young people to get into farming | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
due to the high costs involved. But a Devon farmer has launched a unique | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
new scheme to help give more of them a step on the ladder, and it | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
involves giving each of them 100 sheep. Anna Varle has the details. | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
It has been two months since Johnny got the start he needed. These 150 | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
sheep would have cost up to ?15,000 to buy, money he didn't have. Due to | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
being so young, I don't have special credits with the bank, I don't have | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
any reputation with them, so it would be very hard for me to get a | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
loan. This scheme helps a lot. It saves me that massive cost. This | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
idea is the brainchild of this man. The dealers young farmers read with | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
his ewes, then they give the scheme back 200 lambs and the rest of the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
sheep they can keep for themselves. Once we get to 1000 sheep, we will | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
be getting back 500 ewe s, so we can take this scheme forward, as a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
scheme that can be nationally recognised, with people coming in | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
without having capital. It's not just the cost of livestock which | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
prevents many young people entering the industry. The high price of land | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
and feed cost is also a factor. Experts say there is a shortage of | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
new recruits with the average age of a farmer now 58 and with challengers | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
of food security and climate change, a report by the Royal Agricultural | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Society of England estimates 60,000 new entrants are needed over the | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
next decade. A dish consumers tell as they want British produced food, | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
so we need schemes, any schemes that will in courage people and get over | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
the start`up costs. Mike hopes that by using a new breed of sheep which | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
is largely self`sufficient, it will soon expand to operate on a | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
nationwide basis. Now, if you've been anywhere in | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
South Devon over the summer, you might have seen some brightly | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
coloured silverback gorillas dotted around the landscape. It's been part | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
of an art project around Exeter and Torbay, and now all 30 gorillas have | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
been brought back to Paignton Zoo for a final send`off before being | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
auctioned for charity. Our South Devon reporter John Ayres has been | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
to see them all on parade. They range from the bright and | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
colourful to the weird and famous. These gorillas have been painted by | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
a number of artists all in their own different styles. They going to | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
disappear soon, though. They will be auctioned to raise money for gorilla | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
conservation. For some of the staff involved, it's a homecoming. Every | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
one of these gorillas, I know their names, who made them, why they were | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
made, and where they spent the summer. And to think they will be | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
disbursed and sold off, it is a bit emotional because we've invested so | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
much effort into this and given so much, it's going to be hard to see | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
them go their separate ways. They were commissioned as part of | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
Paignton zoo's 90th anniversary. The zoo printed 50,000 maps showing | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
where they were. They were gone within a couple of weeks. The | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
gorillas are all back together and it's the last time they will be on | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
view. It's great. We had a great summer looking at all of these | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
gorillas. And you've enjoyed them as well, haven't you? Yes! This is my | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
favourite, this one is my favourite. She's got all different colours | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
she's got mountains and flowers all over her. I really like her. My | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
first favourite one is hanky`panky. Because he looks smart. Due to the | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
teachers strike on school closures, there was an unusually high number | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
of children around today who got the chance to get up close. It is | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
fabulous to stand in the zoo today and see all of these kids coming up. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
They know the names as well. It's not just us. They know the names, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
they know where they saw them, so you can tell how well they followed | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
the trail during the summer. The zoo plans to keep one of the gorillas | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
but the rest will be auctioned off on November the 6th. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
What a fantastic project! What did that little boy like again? | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
I don't know! Something about a holiday... | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
A former holiday camp in Cornwall has today been transformed into a | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Second World War classroom. 90 school children were evacuated from | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Plymouth and transferred to Maker Camp near Millbrook to learn about | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
everyday life in the early 1940s during the war. Johnny Rutherford | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
reports on how history came alive for 21st century youngsters from the | :21:15. | :21:26. | |
city. It's not that far from limited Maker | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Camp, but it seems a world away from these children `` for these | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
children. They visit the countryside of Cornwall as World War II | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
evacuees. The World War II theme is very important in their stage to | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
curriculum, and it is always a popular subject that schools always | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
focus on. They can really get those kids to empathise with what it's | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
like to be a child evacuated. What utter players to take some then | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
here, where kids have been coming on holiday since the 1900. Maker Camp | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
was founded in the 1920s on the instigation of Lady Astor. To get 's | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
it gives to experience the countryside and break away from home | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
or school. Thousands of children from Plymouth, Cornwall, west of and | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
further afield, like this group in 1967, enjoyed a week's field trip. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
We get more in a week than what we could do it over to them in six | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
months at school. When we came here, it was a weak adventure. I did get | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
homesick. But it was so exciting to us that I enjoyed it thoroughly. And | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
came back two other times after as well. It all stopped in the 80s. 12 | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
years ago, a trust was set up so the site could be saved and used by | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
local communities once more. Tens of thousands of e`bill implements know | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
and love this camp and I was told when I came over here I didn't need | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
to sell Maker Camp to the people of Plymouth, I just needed to tell them | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
it was open again. What we want to see is to make connections between | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the older generations and the new generations. Today the children had | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
workshops around the camp, including drama, reconstructions, and good old | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
singing. And they definitely had smiles on | :23:27. | :23:42. | |
their faces. We had rations. So they wouldn't have had things to eat like | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
we do. It's like an adventure, exploring through history. It was | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
fond farewells for some, but many are staying for a sleepover. | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
Time for the weather now. Some fabulous blue skies and it was very | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
warm. And it stays that way. The little boy said he was talking | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
about hanky`panky on holiday. Trust you to say that! | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
Good evening, we've got some brighter weather through the weekend | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
ahead but I think tomorrow we will have some cloud around, producing | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
some rain every now and again. Perhaps some early rain across | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Cornwall, brightening briefly for some time before more rain arrives. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
It stays mild, temperatures stay up at 16 or 17, but it will be a breezy | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
day, too. When you look at why we've got unsettled weather, we've got | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
this great big area of low pressure taking up most of the Atlantic. It | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
will throw us a weather system a long way away from us. That will | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
move towards us tonight, and bring us some rain. The heavier rain is | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
lying to the West of the Isles of Scilly. Through the morning, it | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
moves in. Through the weekend, both days we expect to see some showers, | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
hopefully some sunshine in between the showers. It remains mild and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
frost free. There have been some sharp showers and there are still | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
some left for this evening. Across Somerset and Dorset, and the main | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
problems here will be mist and fog forming. Some could be quite thick. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Contrast that to the cloud and patchy rain coming into West | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
Cornwall with freshening winds. It is a range of overnight | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
temperatures. 10`15. This rain band will move northwards through the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
day, a few splashes of rain elsewhere, then brightening up with | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
sunny spells before that more persistent rain moves into the early | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
evening. It is breezy, not overly windy. The strongest winds will be | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
in Cornwall, and the temperatures are back up to about 15 or 16. If | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
you get some breaks in the cloud, particularly in the north of Devon, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
you might see temperatures as high as 17. Still, above average for this | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
time of year. The forecast for the Isles of Scilly is generally cloudy. | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
We will see some patchy rain on and off joining the day, the strongest | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
winds will be across the islands. Times of high water. With the winds | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
from the south`east, we should have some usable surf on the north | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
coast. The weather won't behave in terms of sunshine, but at least the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
surf will be clean. Rather messy along the south coast because of | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
that breeze. For the coastal waters broadcast, the winds are | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
south`easterly, rain at times with moderate visibility. It is a bit | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
misty cowpats see, too. The forecast for the weekend, pretty | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
straightforward. It stays relatively mild. We will see some showers, | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
difficult to say when they will be. It is breezy, though. Although there | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
will be showers around, there will be sunny spells, too. Monday is very | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
similar. Temperatures around 17 or 18. For the gardeners, no frost in | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
the forecast for the moment. Have a good evening. Thank you. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
That's all from us. There will be an update at 8pm. Our | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
late news is at 10:25pm. From all of us, good night. | :27:45. | :27:46. |