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changes to grading and assessment. That is all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Caring for the countryside but could rural vets disappear as bigger | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
companies take over TB testing? In our practice, in our own single | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
veterinary practice, we would test 80 to 100,000 cattle per year and | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
that employs 304 vets. If I lost that, I would have to lose those | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
threats. `` three or four vets. Good evening. Welcome to Spotlight. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Faced with a ?1 billion bill for dealing with the disease the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Government is looking at putting some of the work done by vets out to | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
tender. We'll have an exclusive report. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Firefighters across the region are starting an evening of industrial | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
action. This is one of around two dozen full`time fire stations across | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
the south`west where firefighters are walking out for four hours as | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
they arrive with the Government over pensions escalates. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
And 200 people joined the search when this youngster went missing. He | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
was eventually found fast asleep under his bed. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
The health of animals in the countryside may be put at risk if | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
rural vets are pushed out of business by the contracting out of | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
TB testing. That was the warning today from practitioners who fear | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
they won't survive if the bigger companies take over screening for | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the disease at farms. BBC Spotlight has been told that hundreds of jobs | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
could go. The Government says local vets will still be involved in | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
testing. Anna Varle has the story. Deck has been TB testing for 36 | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
years. Choosing the busiest months, his practice tests up to 100 cattle | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
per day. The south`west is really a big centre of TB. There is a lot of | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
cattle tested in practice, in our own single veterinary practice, we | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
would test 100,000 cattle per year and that employs forfeits within the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
practice. If I lost that contract, I would have to lose those threats. `` | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
for vets. The Government is putting certain tests out to tender. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Businesses will be a rebel `` able to bid for the contract. The | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Government wants to reduce the private practices to ten companies | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
to cut costs. That has not gone down well with farmers. If we get | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
somebody to turn up on the farm that has no basic knowledge of farming, | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
that is not going to help. Is there going to be a language problem? How | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
are we going to work together like that? I can't see it working too | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
well, not really. The Government states that replays out of date | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
informal arrangements that are currently in place. The National | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
farming union says farmers must have faith in the system. In times of | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
economic constraint, you have to get the best rally. This is not of | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
farmers making and his devastating impact confidence in the testing and | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
those carrying it out. A survey claims that this will lead to the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
loss of a third of the workforce in the region. They claim the | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
businesses which when the contracts will decide who does the work and | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
many local vet practices will lose out. The Government is currently | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
spending ?20 million on TB testing. They say that this provides value | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
for money. They also say that as part of the contracts, there is a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
requirement that a large proportion of the testing is done by businesses | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
operating in this region. But vets here argue that it risks | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
destabilising the delivery of a TV programme at a time when it needs | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
stability. Many services delivered by the | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Government and local authorities are contracted out. I asked Robin | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Hargreaves from the British Veterinary Association why this | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
should be any different. I think the biggest risk is that tendering has a | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
tendency to drift down to the lowest price. The same trouble is always | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
putting price against Valley. The value of what is being done at the | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
moment by vets in relationships with farmers is something that has a real | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
value. `` price against value. Price is important to a scenario that is | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
costing a lot of money to a government short of it. It is | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
important to the Government and we have been doing it at a keen price. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
To be honest, that is not the critical thing. The critical thing | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
is that the veterinary surgeons currently carrying out TB testing, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
if they are no longer to be doing that, if the price gets to a point | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
where it is an tenable for a veterinary surgeon to continue that | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
the Government loses that contact with farmers. When you're on the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
farm doing a TB test, there is a conversation going on around other | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
health issues. Once you are familiar, there is a lot of | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
messaging you can do with delivering health control messages. If you have | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
got somebody coming in who is a stranger and doing a technical tusk | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
and nothing else happens, then... The Government says a lot of people | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
will come from existing practices. There is no guarantee. They will | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
find the cheapest people to do it. If they can find cheap people | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
somewhere else, it may be that they may not use vets on the ground. Is | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
that such a bad thing? Money is tight. It is very bad. If you take | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
manpower out of this, you have a lot less vet and farmer interactions. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
That is bad for animal health. If there are less bits on the ground | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and developing relationships with farmers then surveillance for | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
diseases going to get much worse. Thank you very much. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Our Political Editor, Martyn Oates, now joins us in the studio to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
discuss this story further. His Labour has anything to say? I spoke | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
to Ben Bradshaw, he was a DEFRA Minister under the last government. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
This was his roof. He echoed the concerns there. I am worried about | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
this. I am not sure why it is necessary because the local | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
knowledge that our vets here have is incredibly important when dealing | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
with potential TB breakdowns. The relationships they build with | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
farmers on what can be a very sensitive matter, if a farmer does | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
suffer a breakdown, are also very important. How they handle those | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
relationships. I think that we would lose that knowledge, that capital, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and the importance of those relationships in what could be a | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
very distressing and upsetting time for the farming industry. Some news | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
on the badger cull, a controversial part of the Government's plans. Yes, | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the extended badger cull ended today. Extended, of course, because | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
they had not managed to kill enough during the original period. The | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
other pilot is ongoing because they killed even fewer badgers there | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
against the target. The target is 70% death rate. This is advised by | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
the Government's advisers. This week, the BBC saw a government | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
document which suggested they might not make that target in | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Gloucestershire, even with the extension. And apparently, if that | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
is not happen, they are talking about more culling next year to make | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
it up to that target. That will obviously be another setback for the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Government and will infuriated its critics even more. Thank you very | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
much for joining us. In the last few minutes, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
firefighters in the South West have joined their colleagues across the | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
country in walking out on strike. The industrial action about | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
pensions, which will last until 11pm this evening, has been timed so that | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
crews will be back on duty for bonfire celebrations tomorrow night. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Managers say cover will be provided in the meantime. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Our reporter Hamish Marshall is live at one of the our busiest stations | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
in Exeter for us tonight. Hamish, as I was | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
``. This is one of two dozen full`time stations across the | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
south`west where firefighters walked out a few moments ago. We saw them | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
leaving their post this evening. They will be out until 11pm. It is | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
the latest stage of what is becoming an escalating battle with the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Government over pensions. They want the firefighters to wait until 60 | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
but they say many will not be fit enough to keep working until that | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
age. The Government says it is one of the best public sector pension | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
schemes but their union disagrees. We have made agreements that if | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
there is any nature incident, we will attend. We have avoided bonfire | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
night. We have done everything we cannot to involve the public in this | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
dispute. The Government is doing everything it can, we believe, to | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
inflame this dispute. Hamish, I was saying that this is a time of year | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
where bonfire night and fireworks celebrations, as any of those been | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
affected? It is pretty quiet tonight, compared with tomorrow and | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
into next week. I found two events this evening, both of those are | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
actually going ahead. The fire service says there is no reason not | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
to go ahead so long as the proper precautions are taking place. Follow | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
the normal precautions. If you are organising an event such as | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
fireworks, do what you would normally do. Follow the normal | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
safety precautions. As long as you do that, we will have a safe and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
happy fireworks event. Would you say it was an idea not to hold one just | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
in case? Not at all. That is not what we are seeing. We are saying | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
that if you're going to hold my bed, do it safely and you will enjoy it | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
and be safe. Who is covering the emergency calls is the main crews | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
are not? Managers, nonunion members and retained firefighters will be | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
out this evening. Much of the south`west is covered by retained | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
firefighters. The main firefighters are back from 11pm. We will watch | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
develop in this evening. Thank you. The mother of a three`year`old boy | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
whose disappearance sparked a major two hour search has told the BBC of | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
her overwhelming and heartfelt gratitude to all the people who | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
helped to find her son. 200 villagers from Abbotskerswell turned | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
out to look for Noah, alongside police teams. He was eventually | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
found asleep under his bed. Louise Walter spoke to the family. | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
It had been a night of family Halloween fun. A dead pirate! But | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
shortly after putting no, three, two bed, Elizabeth found herself in | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
every parent's worst nightmare. I went to check on him and he was not | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
there. I was searching Oliver has. I thought he had gone. I didn't know | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
what to do. I completely panicked. Eventually, Elizabeth called the | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
police. Soon search teams, a helicopter and a 200 villagers were | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
searching for the boy. Every time the police radio made a sound, I | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
felt like I was going to faint. I thought they were going to say they | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
had found him industry to something. It was hideous. Completely hideous. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
`` found him in the street. After two hours, police lifted the matters | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
of no's bed. And then I saw this fabric in the corner and it took | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
awhile to register it was too small to be a child but it was, it was | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
him. `` Noah's bed. There was no flesh showing, it was just like a | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
heap of fabric and he was fast asleep. I took into bed and did not | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
let go of him only. So thankful, so thankful for everybody. All of the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
effort that everybody putting on the support they have me, so grateful. | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Her relief was built throughout the team unity. At the end, we were all | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
crying because they found him and everybody was... It is a village of | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
heroes. They are amazing people. As for Noah, he says he was just scared | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
about his brother. I was just hiding. You were just hiding? Yes. | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
You're watching Spotlight from the BBC, tonight with Rebecca Wills and | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Simon Clemison. Take a look at the speed this boat | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
across Tor Bay ` we'll hear from its record`breaking skipper who's blind. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
And aiming to hit the winning shot. We'll find out what Guernsey's | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Heather Watson makes of the Barnstaple Open. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Millions of pounds is being invested in a new centre at an agricultural | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
college where students will be taught how to look after rare breeds | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
of animal. Bicton in East Devon is specialising in growing the herds ` | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
some which are still only small in size, as our environment | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
correspondent Adrian Campbell has been finding out. | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
Strawberry is a very special and rare cow with a pure pedigree. She | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
is a dairy shorthorn, one of just 70 in the world. She and eight other | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
colours like her have come to this college, which intends to be a | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
centre of excellence training students in the care of breeds. `` | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
she and eight four calves. We have a programme where we use embryo | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
transfer to flush Embrun was out, to put them into surrogate heifers | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
which can be any breed so we can boost the numbers very quickly so | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
that the breed does not die out. Once we lose a fix, they are lost | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
fervour. `` to flush embryos out. This is the entrance to the new | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
school. It is costing around ?3 million and is very impressive. From | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
the outset, it is a striking addition and the staff are already | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
looking forward to moving. We are very pleased with how the building | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
looks. Can you give us a look at the handover will be? At the latest at | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
the end of next week. It is not just rare cattle they specialise in at | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
this college, the students say they believe they will be learning very | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
marketable skills here as rare breeds become increasingly important | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
to agriculture in the next two years. Lecturers say there is a | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
bright future ahead for their students. Animal care strip to have | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
experience with a wild variety of animals. To make them more | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
employable, we deal with small and large animals. We teach them all but | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the importance of keeping rarer breeds alive and how they have a | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
place in the animal care industry on the farming industry. The college | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
says it is in a unique position to develop important skills for | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
tomorrow's farmers. Now, travelling at speeds in excess | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
of 95mph on the water is probably enough to phase most people. But | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
imagine doing it when you're blind. Well, former bank manager Mike | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Newman took a powerboat to full throttle in Tor Bay and broke a | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
world record to become the fastest person on water, who's blind. Mike | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
already holds the blind land speed record and becomes the first man | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
ever to hold both. Our South Devon reporter John Ayres was there to | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
watch. This is the boat, the challenge to | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
keep something like this steady at sea and at high speed. Mike has been | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
blind almost since birth. He is a big motor sports fanatic, that is | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
why he doesn't. For a few minutes or Mormons, I can glimpse into a world | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
that I would normally love to live in. It is a very physical | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
experience, very tactile. `` minutes for moments. I cannot see where I am | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
going but all of the other senses are live and heart of the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
experience. He is being helped by the boat owner. He is going to have | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
to use all of his senses, which he's good at. He needs those to survive | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
when we do not. Walking around with my eye shade, `` eyes shut, I would | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
fall over. He does not. He has all of the natural attributes to keep | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
the boat level. To break the record, Mike has two drives in a | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
street light in one direction and then back in the opposite direction. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
It is an average of the top speeds. It is measured by GPS and from the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
support board, it has clearly broken it by at least two miles per hour. | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
Speechless! It is an amazing rush. Exhilarating experience. To be the | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
fastest blind man in the water. It is a hugely emotional time for | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
family and friends. George Nelson used to teach and when he was under. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
I am proud. I know just what it has meant to him. He has been through a | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
lot to get this far and it is great, we are so pleased to be here | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
to see this event with him. Michael already holds the blind land speed | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
record at 186 mph and has performed 26 looks looks in a plane. It does | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
not stop here. He wants to break others know. `` 26 loop the loops. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
And we've heard that record has been verified at 95.18 miles per hour, as | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
measured by GPS. The UK's premier indoor tennis | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
tournament reaches its conclusion this weekend at Barnstaple in North | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Devon. As the open reaches its conclusion, where better to send | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
brave? `` Dave? Here in Barnstaple, we will be | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
talking to Heather Watson on the completion of a doubles match, | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
behind me warming up with her partner to one. We will be talking | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
to her about her current form but first, the rest of the sport. Tom | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
James returns tonight for a Premiership rugby jewel. James is | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
back and starting for the first time in four games. He replaces Tonga's | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
player, an international duty with this country. Also back is the | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
full`back. The Chiefs, now fourth in the table, face a team which is much | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
improved so they will be wary of what lies ahead. BBC Radio did in | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
his commentary. BBC radio Cornwall will follow the corner pirates. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
They look to recover from their 41`6 battering at London Welsh against | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
London Scottish. Tomorrow, and intriguing contest for plumbers | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Albion when they face Bristol at Brookfield. `` Plymouth Albion. | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
Turning to football, Yeovil Town, unbeaten in two Championship games, | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
attempt to stretch the run at Leeds United. They took care of promotion | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
plans at Nottingham Forest. Exeter city's away form is turning out to | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
be far superior than that of St James' Park. Portsmouth will not | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
present any fears. John Sheridan will be keen to add to | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
last week's win at Mansfield was another against Northampton. | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
Alan Mel returns to bury as Torquay United manager as they try to haul | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
themselves away from the bottom three. It has been a successful time | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
at the tennis Centre for Heather Watson. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
She joins me now. What you think of the facilities question work I love | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
them and this club. It is great. It is my favourite colour. And the | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
crowds here are from. We always had a good show. Does this kind of | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
tournament help you get over the recent problems that you have had? | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Absolutely. I had my first few wins in a row last week and I am bringing | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
the confidence that I came from there after some really tough | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
matches to this week. What were the problems you encountered earlier | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
this season, which using to have overcome? This season, I got to my | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
career high at the beginning of the year. I ended up getting sick, | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
glandular fever, and coming back too soon because I was keen to play. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Especially the Grand Slams. Not being fit, you know, is not going to | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
win you matches. Because I have lost a clue, `` lost a few, it took a | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
beating to my confidence and it was a domino effect and I was not | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
winning many matches. I am pleased with how I am finishing the year. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
And noticed your mother was here. How much of a support issue? It is | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
great to have her around. I have had such a tough time this year and your | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
family is or was there for you. Where are you going after this | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
tournament? I am going back to Guernsey. I am going to have a | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
holiday. In Saint Peter Port? Yes. Well`deserved, if I may say so. What | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
about 2014 is to mark what are your additions for next? My first goal is | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
to get back into the top 100. `` what are your ambitions? We wish you | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
well and every success. Thank you very much. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Heather Watson from Guernsey. She is going back home. You can see Heather | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
and Jo Anne because there is more tennis on Saturday. It starts at | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
1pm. Dave having a lovely time in | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Barnstaple. South West yachtsman Sam Goodchild | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
is preparing to compete in a transatlantic yacht race. The | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
23`year`old Falmouth skipper will set off from Le Havre, in France, | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
this weekend in the Transat Jacques Vabre race to Brazil. His co`skipper | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
for the race is Ned Collier Wakefield. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
It's the second time the pair have competed in the race, having failed | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
to finish in 2011. Meanwhile, organisers are considering whether | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
to delay the start because of a forecast of bad weather. Spotlights | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Andy Breare is in Le Havre. `` what light's. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Thousands of French ceiling fans have been coming to the race village | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
to see the boats and meet the skippers who will be setting off on | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
the race to Brazil at the weekend. Sam Goodchild and his co`skipper | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
have unfinished business with this race. Two years ago, the boat | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
suffered damage and they were forced to retire. The last time, about one | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
week and, we were in the top two and had some damage. It all kind of went | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
wrong. We had to dump the boat and it was not repairable. It took five | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
months to fix. We had to ship it back to Europe so could not carry | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
on. This time, we at the very least want to finish. I don't want to do | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
badly, as we do it. As you can see, the fleet is all here and ready to | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
go. The only sticking point is the weather. The reason is due to start | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
on Sunday at lunchtime. There are more is going around that that might | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
be postponed until Monday because of a storm that is due to hit at the | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
weekend. The final decision on that will be taken tomorrow morning. We | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
have a low pressure system that is coming in and we are going to have | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
some fairly strong winds, 45 knots, and it is whether it hits us in the | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
channel. If it is someone else will become runaway and are not doing so | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
many manoeuvres then we will be tackling into 45 knots of wind. It | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
is better to delay it. Ahead of these yachts, a 5500 mile race. Sam | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
and Ned not only want to finish this time round but are hoping they will | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
be in contention for a podium race. We have got plenty of wind here. Not | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
at the moment but coming up to stop Saturday evening? | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
The start of that race could be affected by some strong winds. Not | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
just sailors being affected. Lots of us are going to a bonfire of | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
fireworks display this weekend. It is going to be fairly windy. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Probably the quietest night will be tonight's displays. But there are | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
displays tomorrow and Sunday and it will be quick windy. Also doing just | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
that little bit cooler because of the threat of wind which is coming | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
in from the Atlantic. You can see 3`D's worth of whether on this | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
subtly. That lump of cloud is tonight's remain. A little area of | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
low pressure. `` three days. Out here, further across the Atlantic, | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
another lump of cloud will arrive on Sunday to give us some excellent. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
This is the main feature. This lawless recent awards. Develops and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
becomes a deep `` this law is racing towards us. The wind will peak at 60 | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
mph on Saturday. We will probably have the strongest gusts of wind in | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
the Bristol Channel. For all is, Saturday evening will be windy. That | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
moves away over the next 36 hours. At the moment, we have some heavy | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
rain in the English Channel. That is brushing up parts of East Devon into | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Dorset and Somerset. For the rest of us, a few showers are possible but | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
later denied, a lot of that we will move out of the way. We will get | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
some clear skies, allowing the temperatures to put down into single | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
figures as well as some mist and fairly light winds. Those are the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
overnight temperatures, anywhere from seven degrees in the | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
countryside to 11 degrees in the towns. Tomorrow morning, to not be | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
fooled too much by a bright and quiet start. Gradually through the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
day, the winds will increase, the clouds will also and by the end of | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
the afternoon, plenty of showers around. History showers also. Any | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
were inland, the costs will be around 40 mph. Particularly along | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
the coast and the Bristol Channel, we could have 60 mph winds. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Temperatures not feeling very one tomorrow. Feeling a lot colder | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
because of the strength of wind. If you are out tomorrow evening, you | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
will need a windproof and waterproof. There are plenty of | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
heavy showers around. The will feel quite chilly and it will be very | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
blustery. That is the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. Showers and | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
increasingly windy. Times of high water here. | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
If you are heading out to sea, pretty rough seas. Ferries could | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
well be affected by the strength of wind on Saturday. On the north | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
coast, these conditions are likely to be very messy, if not stormy | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
through the afternoon. The coastal waters forecast, for those aiming to | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
go out to see. This lump of cloud is a new area of low pressure. That | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
will arrive a cross was during the course of the latter part of Sunday | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
and into Sunday night. It will become quite wet again and also | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
windy. Take care of this weekend. That you, David. That is the end of | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
another Spotlight week. I will be back at 1020 5p. From everyone on | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the team, had a good evening and good weekend. | :27:45. | :27:44. | |
Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |