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A stricken cargo ship off Cornwall ` investigations continue to find out | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
why it started sinking. Good evening, welcome to Spotlight. The | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
crew of the Sea Breeze had to abandon ship ` tonight it's still | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
not clear why the vessel began taking on water. Also tonight: | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Concern about plans to closd three children's homes in Devon. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Campaigners say the plans aren't in the best interest of the most | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
vulnerable young people And Cornwall council makes more than ?300,00 a | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
year because their parking lachines don't give change. Disgusting | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
really. Clever. Unscrupulous. Thank you. Efforts are continuing tonight | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
to stabilise a cargo ship which started sinking off the coast of | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Cornwall. The crew of the Sda Breeze had to be taken to safety bx | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
lifeboats and a rescue helicopter after the vessel began taking on | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
water off the Lizard. The ship has now been towed to the sheltdred | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
waters of St Austell Bay and salvage crews have been attempting to repair | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
the damage in a bid to keep it afloat. Spotlight's David Gdorge | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
reports. The Sea Breeze is `nchored two miles off shore in St Atstell | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
Bay. She is surrounded by other vessels, including a dive boat, a | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
vessel which has brought pulps on board and the salvage tug. The team | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
are working on the vessel. We have seen them moving pipes around, part | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
of the pumping operation th`t is going on. We have had a radho call | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
to say that they're putting divers into the water right now and we have | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
been asked to stand off. Whhch of course is what we have done. The | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
coaster was on the way from Liverpool to Shoreham with ` cargo | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
of limestone when the drama started yesterday morning. The Sea Breeze | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
broadcast a May Day that was received by Falmouth coastgtards. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
They sent lifeboats and a Royal Navy rescue helicopter. All of those | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
vessels and the helicopter had cameras on board, so we can see what | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
happened. The fisheries protection vessel HMS Tyne also assistdd. They | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
put crew and pumps on board, but they were unable to handle the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
quantity of water. She was low in the water and as the pumps weren't | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
maintaining the water level. They're only small pumps and not designed | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
for that amount of water. Whth conversation with the coastguard and | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
ourselves, it was decided the safest thing was to evacuate all | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
nonessential crew and then we took everyone off. So we took all six | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
crew off. I understand the problem is one of damage to the sea water | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
inlet valves. That has causdd the vessel to start to sink. Wh`t the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
divers are doing is trying to put a patch over the sea water inlet. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Rescuers say conditions werd good with little wind and a low swell. If | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
this had happened in the storms of a few weeks ago, there might have been | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
a Jr. Different ` very diffdrent outcome. Tonight the ship is dead in | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
the water with the team washing on `` working on board. And David's | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
been following developments all day and joins us now from Fowey. David, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
what's the latest tonight? Well the first development is the divers from | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
the Royal Navy, those experts, have managed to weld a patch over the sea | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
water inlet. The ship is now safe and we are told she is stable and | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the pumping is continuing. But she is still dead in the water. The | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
engine room and the ship's systems have failed, because of the water. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
The question is where she whll be toed, it o' O'`` towed. Disdugses | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
about that will `` discussion about that will continue. Plans to close | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
three children's homes in Ddvon are being described by campaigndrs as | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
not in the best interests of the county's most vulnerable yotng | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
people. The County Council wants to place more children in family | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
settings such as foster card rather than institutional homes. The move | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
follows concerns raised abott two of the homes by Ofsted inspectors. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Here's our political reportdr Jenny Kumah. Lee moved to Devon after | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
spending his entire childhood in care. He spent time in children s | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
home as well as with foster families. He feels homes can play an | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
important role. When you're in a predicament like the childrdn out | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
there, your in what is essentially the worst position you've ever been, | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
taken away from your familids. Sometimes if you just plonk them in | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
with foster carers, then it can be really traumatic, because c`re homes | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
can take that away. You go hn there, you know you're in with othdr | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
children, who are like`minddd, are in the same situation, that you can | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
talk to. Two of the children's homes facing closure are now emptx, | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
following critical Ofsted rdports. But Blossom Corner in Exeter has | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
been rated good by inspectors and is still being used. Campaigners want | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
this one to at least remain open. I think our real concern is that we | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
are going to lose the expertise of very dedicated staff at a place like | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Blossom Corner, that they are able to cope with children with highly | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
complex needs and I believe that it is in their setting that it is | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
better for them than in the private sector. But the council says it | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
costs ?1,500 a more to placd a child in Blossom Corner is, rather than a | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
private children's home. Devon County Council wants more children | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
to be looked after in familhes by foster careers, rather than in | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
institutional homes. But opposition councillors are worried abott | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
whether the council can recruit enough foster carers with the right | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
skills to make this happen. The council says it is growing hts | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
foster team and these changds will be positive. We have looked at the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
past evidence and actually placing children in an environment with | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
foster carer placement and that family`type structure for md is the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
best solution wherever posshble and I'm quite comfortable that we can | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
top that up and buy independent places as and when the need arises. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Opposition councillors will try to overturn the council's decision to | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
close the three children's homes at a special meeting tomorrow. The | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
South West Ambulance Servicd Trust today extended the non emergency 111 | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
phone service across the whole of Devon. The service was inithally | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
launched in parts of the cotnty in September last year. It now replaces | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
all GP out`of`hours numbers in Devon. It's designed to be tsed when | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
there is an urgent medical need that does not warrant a 999 call. The | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
spell of dry weather has brought relief for flood victims in | :07:11. | :07:23. | |
Somerset. More train servicds are opening. But as Clinton Rogdrs | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
reports there is still a long way to go. The train standing at T`unton | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
station is a clear sign that things are beginning to return to normal. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Following the floods that m`de this stretch of line between Taunton and | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Bristol impassable, today for the first time trains were runnhng over | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
it again. Although for now ht is still a reduced service. Thdre | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
remains a lot of water on the Somerset Levels, but much ldss than | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
there was. 33 million tonnes of water today. But that is a third of | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
what it was at the height of the floods. We have got a good forecast | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
for the next week and we have had a number of days without rain. So it | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
gives us the chance to take a lot of water off. It also means th`t the | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
environmental agency can st`rt scaling down their pumping | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
operations. These huge Dutch pumps are about to be dismantled. The road | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
will be closed while they'rd taken a I way tonight. `` taken awax | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
tonight. There is relief in the village that was marooned for ten | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
weeks. But at last some roads are drivable. You don't have to put on | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
the wet weather gear and walk for miles. The main road linking Taunton | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
and Glastonbury remains closed. The Environment Agency said it hoped to | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
have all roads re`opened by the end of March. For this company, that | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
can't come soon enough. Thex face a 12`mile detour. It is costing in | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
extra fuel and expenses for the drivers to keep them away from the | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
depot still. Flood victims will be counting the cost financially and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
emotionally for many months to come. Few here are expecting to bd home | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
before Christmas. Still to come tonight: The money made by ` council | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
from parking machines which don t give change. Plus, a double first | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
for Exeter Chiefs ` they finally beat rivals Bath and book a cup | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
final place. And find out why these brave swimmers have been taking a | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
dip inspired by Agatha Christie The South Western Ambulance Service is | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
easing the strain on hard`pressed hospitals by allowing paramddics to | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
treat more people at home. Only 43% of their patients are taken to A | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Today, senior NHS leaders s`id more ambulance trusts should follow the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
example of the South Western service. Our Health Correspondent | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Sally Mountjoy has this report. Pamela is reading over her diary for | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
last Boxing Day. This a when she fell at home, causing an injury to | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
her leg. But the paramedics didn't take her to hospital. They treated | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
and dressed her wound at hole and arranged for the district ntrse to | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
call. I would prefer not to have to go to the A and from I have seen | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
on the screen, they are kept so busy with things happening that somebody | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
to come to the house is marvellous. Perfect. The number of patidnts | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
emergency departments are sdeing is growing. Last winter royal Cornwall | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
and Derriford hospitals reached the highest levels of alert. Today, the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
NHS confederation, which represents health service manager, said more | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
paramedic should be trained to leave patients at home. What we w`nt to do | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
is see that paramedics can see and treat the whole person, so that is | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
about their medical, mental health and social needs. In a placd like | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
the South West where the tr`ining exists, you can see that it is | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
successful. In the north`west, ambulances take 75% of their | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
patients to hospital. The average for England is 64%. But herd in the | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
South West, ambulance crews take just 43% of emergency patients to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
A The ambulance service campaign to reduce the numbers taken to | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
hospital began in 2011 and now it is paying dividends. This year, 24 000 | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
people will not go to an emdrgency department. I think that has great | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
benefits for the ambulance service and looking that the patient's | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
journey through the hospital it does save resources across the sxstem. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
They say most patients prefdr to stay at home and by keeping less | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
serious cased out of the hospital, those who need to be there can be | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
seen faster. More than ?300,000 a year is being made by Cornw`ll | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
Council because their parking machines don't give change. The | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
authority says stocking mord than 250 pay`and`display stations with | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
change would be too problem`tic and costly and says it reinvests the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
money overpaid by drivers in road maintenance and other transport | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
projects. But, as Tamsin Melville's been finding out, not everyone's | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
impressed. How often does it happen to you ` you find a car park space | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
and you start scrabbling around because you can't find the right | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
change? Well it seems in Cornwall Council's car parks this is | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
happening a lot. The authorhty has more than 250 pay`and`displ`y | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
machines in its car parks and new figures show people not getting any | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
change from these is netting the council more than ?300,000 ` year. A | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
bit disgusting really. Yeah, I mean not everybody can afford to lose | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
money, can they? Well I might think it's OK if they spent that ?300 000 | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
or something useful. They do reinvest it into transportation so | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
for the roads. Into society. Yeah, well, I wouldn't really want it to | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
be my money! Because I only had ?3, I think I should get another 40 | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
pence of time. But I think their machine would be well capable of | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
that. They cannot say that xou haven't been warned, but thd warning | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
is so small compared with the very big thing saying "welcome". Clever. | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
Unscrupulous. Thank you. Thd council says the logistical problems of | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
stocking all machines would be too costly and points out there is a | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
cashless mobile phone systel available. You just used thd mobile | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
phone system, what was that like? Terrible. It was too long, luch too | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
long`winded. There must be `n easier way of doing it. Wouldn't that just | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
be bringing the right changd? Yes, it would. The council also says it | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
would like to introduce a pay`as`you`go system where xou pay | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
on exit. In Devon at the region s biggest hospital, staff are fighting | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
plans to more than double their parking charges. They're dud to rise | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
to ?2.50 a day, making Derrhford the most expensive of all the l`rger | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
hospitals in the South West. Unions say it'll force people to look | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
elsewhere for work, because they can't afford to pay more. There s | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
now an online petition against the new prices which could come into | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
force next month. Emma Thom`sson reports. Working out the monthly | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
budget. Jenna is a health c`re assistant at Derriford and with a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
baby on the way, money is thght She said the increase will mean spending | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
half a day's pay on parking every month. It's going to be verx | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
difficult, because me and mx husband both work at the Trust. Therefore | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
that's an extra ?40 to find every month, which we are going to go | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
without, because I'm a shift worker, so I can't get to the hospital any | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
other way or form, because H would have to get two buses and therefore | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
leave really late or really early when buses don't run. But bosses at | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
the hospitals say the chargds have been frozen for the last five years. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
We do understand that everybody has very specific things in thehr life | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
and car parking needs to fit into that. So it's never going to be | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
popular to increase charges. In fact, it's so unpopular that the | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
unions have launched an onlhne petition. In the first day lore than | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
800 people signed it. We have heard from people who have just h`d just | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
had their rents raised so they can't afford either that or these parking | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
charges and said they will leave the Trust. For a Trust that strtggles to | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
recruit anyway, that is a rhdiculous situation to be in. Most of the main | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
hospitals in the South West have a sliding scale for charges. For staff | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
like Jenna who earn around ?16, 00 a year, the monthly deduction from | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
their salary at the Royal Ddvon and Exeter Hospital is ?15.40. The is | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
halved for using the park and ride. It's ?6.50 at Torbay, ?6.20 in North | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Devon and ?15.15 at Treliskd. At Dorset County Hospital and `t | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Musgrove Park there are fixdd monthly fees regardless of what they | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
earn. Charges could also go up for patients and visitors once the board | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
has met at the end of the month Increases are always contentious, | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
but with the strength of fedling among staff here, the hospital | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
certainly has a fight on its hands. There's been a lot of reacthon to | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
the parking stories tonight. On Derriford, Geraldine's been in touch | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
via our Facebook page. She says hospital staff shouldn't have to pay | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
anything to park! Another comment here asks why should nurses and | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
doctors get reduced parking? Normal working people have to pay `t least | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
?2 a day and they earn loads more than normal people on minimtm wage. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
You've also had lots to say on Cornwall Council getting ?300,0 0 a | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
year, because its parking m`chines don't give change. Leon asks why | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
don't they use the money to repair all the pot holes? Ann says maybe | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
they could cut the cost of parking now? Mark suggested donating the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
300,000 to local charities. And Roger's been in touch via F`cebook. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
He says: "Make sure you havd change in the car! If you don't have change | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
you have a choice ` pay a lhttle over the odds or go somewhere else | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
to park!" Onto the sport now and history has been made by Exdter | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Chiefs over the weekend and Dave's been to Sandy Park to mark the | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
occasion. Exeter Chiefs are celebrating their first appdarance | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
in a cup time as a Premiership club. It is taking place at their home | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
stadium against Northampton. Of course these will be just two of the | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
shirts the players will be wearing in that special occasion. At the | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
12th time of asking, Exeter Chiefs managed to overcome a team they have | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
never beaten in the Premiership In the last minute Bath had thd chance | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
to level the score at 22`22. But they missed the penalty and the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Devon club celebrated a rard triumph over them. Their first sips 197 . I | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
live here and to me it is mx backyard. It is nice and I don't | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
think for one minute when wd were asked if we would host it dhd anyone | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
think we would be in the final. But it is for us to make the most of the | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
opportunity. Two tries from the full back set the can have cheeps up for | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
a `` Chiefs up for the final. When you think of where they havd come | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
from the old ground and now being in the final, they deserve everything. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
We have been waiting a whild. Burr we can't wait. What does it mean as | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
a fan watching your team here on your home ground? It is brilliant | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
that we are actually at homd and in the actual final. It is really good. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
They will be underdogs against a team who have beaten them twice this | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
season. But their record ag`inst Bath wasn't too good either. It has | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
been a disappointing weekend for the South West's football sides, apart | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
from Yeovil who beat Sheffidld Wednesday 2`0. Miller's two goals | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
sent them on their way. But their relegation rivals all won and keeps | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Town two points o' away frol safety. Plymouth missed the chance to go | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
into the play offs as they suffered a 2`1 defeat at Bristol Rovdrs. | :20:15. | :20:27. | |
Rovers took the winning points to ensure Plymouth stay two pohnts off | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
the top seven. Exeter City slipped to fourth from the bottom of League | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Two after they were held by Dagenham and Redbridge. Nichol gave City the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
lead, but that was undone in the second half. Six minutes into added | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
time i Richards rescued a point Torquay United are heading for none | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
league football after going down again. They're 12 points from | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
survive. And the regional football programme tonight at 11. 20. It is | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
called Late kickoff. Thank xou. It's been a gorgeous day for a dhp ` just | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
the job for a group of wild swimmers who're recreated one of Agatha | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Christie's favourite swims, in Torbay. We sent our very own Alec | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
Collyer along to test the w`ter Growing up in Torquay, Meadford | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Beach is where Agatha Christie used to go for a nice dip. Perhaps she | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
and friends even had a small party there. Isn't it a superb dax for a | :21:43. | :21:57. | |
swim? Yes, darling, let's go and join the waves. Lets! Three, two, | :21:58. | :22:09. | |
one ` yeah! Devon Wild Swimlers did a half mile swim to Shag Rock and | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
back to raise awareness for Sport Relief. Well everyone will `gree | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
it's a good cause, but the camaraderie and fun you get instead | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
of doing a sponsored walk or whatever, this gives you an | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
opportunity to enjoy it as well whilst you're doing some good. | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
Jackie swims in the sea every day. How is the water today then? | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Stunning. Stunningly cold or stunningly nice? It's perfect. It's | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
beautiful. I don't know if Hercule Poirot ever went wild swimmhng. He | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
probably had more sense! And as the swimmers returned a plot st`rted to | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
form. Archie, darling, I have just had a superb idea for a new novel. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
It's called Murder on Meadford. What a wonderful idea! I can't s`y I | :23:05. | :23:17. | |
actually remember the book. It looked beautiful. It was like the | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Mediterranean. But I bet it was chilly. Will the sunny weather | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
continue? The sea temperature is about nine degrees. You would notice | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
that. Yes. We have had tempdratures of 18 degrees through the wdekend. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
That is good for the first week in March. It is a little bit cooler for | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
today and it is colder later this week. But the main story has to be | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
one of fine and dry weather. That is the message to get across. Some | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
sunshine around, but some chilly nights as well. When you look at the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
satellite you can see where all the weather is going. It is heading with | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
this line of cloud straight up towards the Faroes and Icel`nd. That | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
is where the low pressure is heading. The reason we are settled | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
is because we have a big arda of high pressure. It doesn't change | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
much for the next few days. It does draw in some cloud tomorrow. We will | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
have more cloud to start with. But it should break up. This is the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
middle of the week, Wednesd`y, when we remain fine and dry with | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
sunshine. This was the cloud picture from earlier, you can see there | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
isn't a great deal of cloud for much of Devon and Cornwall. For Somerset | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
and Dorset the cloud has bedn thicker and that is heading our way | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow we could have a cloudy start. But let's | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
take you back to last week. When we had a bit of a different scdne | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
across Dartmoor. Something we don't see often. These picture were sent | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
in pi Simon `` by Simon. Thdse are starlings, it is almost likd a cloud | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
in the sky. Today we have h`d some sunshine and a large part of South | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
West has had glorious weathdr today. The sun has been out. Some haze in | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the air. Just reducing the visibility. But it has been very | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
pleasant and although the sda looks very inviting, the sea tempdrature | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
at the moment is quite a bit down at around nine degrees. And thd | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
forecast tonight, more cloud will come in from the east and blanket | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
emost of the south`west by tomorrow morning. Temperatures down to three | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
or four degrees. Tomorrow, the cloud will be reluctant to move. But it | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
will break up and in the afternoon we will see some sunny spells with | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
temperatures up to 12. A few places might get to 14 degrees. And for the | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
forecast for the Isles of Scilly, a fine and bright day. Just a bit hazy | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
with a brisk north`easterly breeze. There are the times of high water: | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
For surfers the surf will bd clean, but not very big. But a remhnder of | :26:23. | :26:34. | |
the tea temperatures of `` sea temperatures. The winds are from the | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
east, force four or five. And a dry week. After quite a misty start on | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Wednesday, we will have sunshine again. More cloud though on Thursday | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
and Friday. Thank you. Loving your work! Now just before we go we'd | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
like to tell you about a new series on BBC South West starting tomorrow. | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
It's almost eight weeks since we last had a through train to Plymouth | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
or Cornwall. Yes, the repairs at Whiteball tunnel, followed by the | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
collapse of the sea wall at Dawlish cut off much of the South Wdst. But | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
was the region always so vulnerable? 60 years ago we had alternatives to | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the coastal line. Now rail bosses have been told to look into possible | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
inland railway routes. We'll explore the options starting tomorrow on | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
your BBC local radio station and on Spotlight with our business | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
correspondent Neil Gallacher. And a big thank you to everyone who got in | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
touch in our search for the family of Herbert Algarve, the diary writer | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
we featured. We have got an interesting lead that we ard | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
following up. More to come through the week. Good night. | :27:43. | :27:45. |