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Britain will not be cowed, says the Prime Minister. That is | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The damning report raised serious concerns about the service. | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
Some patients have told Spotlight they're not surprised. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
You know, some of the patients really have too wait ages and ages | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
and they are not always sure if the transport is going to turn up. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Hello. Also tonight: Out with the old and in with the new. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new Holsworthy | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
market. It's all change | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
as the first animals are sold I am not one of these that things | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
old things are easy but you have to just move on I suppose. | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
the rare triplets making history in Devon. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Serious concerns have been raised about | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
the non emergency hospital transport service in parts of the South West. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
has warned the private company NSL that it must improve the service | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
after numerous complaints from patients and hospitals. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
An inspection found that transport sometimes arrived too early, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The company had failed to complete background safety checks | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
on some staff and some of them lacked proper training. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Here's our Health Correspondent Sally Mountjoy. | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
Thousands in the region rely on NHS transport to get to and from | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
hospital treatment and appointments. The firm that provides that service | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall has been failing many of those patients. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
That is the conclusion of a critical report from the Care Quality | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Commission. They found some staff did not have the proper training or | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
criminal record checks. NSL and did not listen to or act on complaints | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
and there were numerous complaints from patients and hospitals about | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
transport that was too early, late or did not arrive at all, causing | :02:13. | :02:27. | |
distress and anxiety to patients. If they are not confident they will be | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
picked up it will give a lot more anxiety and people are already | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
worried about treatment or an outcome of an appointment that they | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
have and that is obviously additional concern that they really | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
do not need. Kidney dialysis patients find the delays especially | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
hard. I spent four hours hooked up to a dialysis machine that is very | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
exhausting. I really want at the end of this time to be able to go home | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
without having to wait for possibly an hour or maybe more. NSL told us | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
it has recruited 53 more staff since March and bought nine more | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
ambulances and 11 cars to meet demand. It said the vast majority of | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
patients were transported early or on time. These company said all | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
staff undergo criminal record checks but an administrative error meant | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
that the checks were not recorded on the files of two employees. Dave has | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
now left his job as a volunteer car driver for the company and he is | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
among several volunteers we spoke to who are upset about late payments | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
and unfair new mileage rates. He said the service was better run by | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
the NHS Ambulance Service. They had the patient's needs at heart and | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
they cared about them and make them they cared about them and make them | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
feel valued whereas NSL treat them like cardboard boxes. The drivers | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
are a forgotten army. We felt drier `` valued as rivals for the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Ambulance Service. NSL says it will hold discussions with volunteer | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
drivers to try and resolve their concerns and it will give the CQC an | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
action plan early next week outlining how it will address the | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
inspector's concerns. We wanted to speak to the group | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
which commissions NHS services in Devon, where there have been | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
the largest number of complaints about patient transport, but nobody | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
was willing to be interviewed. In a statement NEW Devon Clinical | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Commissioning Group said, it is clearly not acceptable that patients | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
are continuing to experience They said they had a robust action | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
plan to address the CQC's concerns. The first animals have been sold | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
at Holsworthy's brand new livestock The town's old cattle market, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
which had been there for more than The new site has improved facilities | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
and cost more than ?6 million. Our North Devon reporter, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Andrea Ormsby, has the story. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, | :04:38. | :04:51. | |
welcome to the new Holsworthy market. We start off with Lot number | :04:52. | :04:52. | |
one... They are off. History in the making | :04:53. | :05:07. | |
for Holsworthy. Yes, it is a good day. It is a new start, that is what | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
life is all about, new starts! We are being part of history today. It | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
is also modern. It is lovely to see a large, spacious area and modern | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
facilities and easy access. I hope it will be a great success. Just one | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
week of market was missed in the handover from old to new. We have | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
got cows from Belgium and buyers from the Midlands and buyers from | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
write`down in and fenders from all over the South of England and a | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
great day and a wonderful start. With 100 years of history behind it | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the old market is still missed by some. I am not one of these that | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
forgets old things easily, not really, but otherwise you have to | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
just move on I suppose. They say so anyway. But this market I should | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
think they have put a lot of thought into it and it is laid out excellent | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
as far as I can say. The District Council invested more than ?6 | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
million to make this happen. It is the largest project that the | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
District Council have ever taken. Naturally prices go up but even | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
historically I don't we have ever done anything quite as big as this | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
even taking inflation into account. Day one of the stock market, it has | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
a long history to live up to. A multi`million pound claim has been | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
launched against two firms involved in the | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
building and design of an eco`school Pupils will now be taught in | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
temporary classrooms at Dartington Primary School after the zero | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
carbon building developed leaks. The builders are in and the once | :06:41. | :06:56. | |
green Dartington Primary School is looking a little bit they each. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Leaks sent rainwater running down the walls of the zero Carbon school | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
so that four years after it opened the solar heated classrooms are | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
empty. The 300 children will be taught for the next two years in | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
prefabs. Devon County Council is demanding ?7 million from the | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
architects and the main contractors to put things right. This parent | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
cycles across town to bring his son to the school and he fears for the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
future of green designs. I think this might put people off. If they | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
see this they might think, look at that, environmental building doesn't | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
work, green building doesn't work. In my heart I hope it does, I really | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
do. I wanted this to work and I still hope it does. I wonder what | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
the outcome will be. Some have said it was unwise of the council to | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
commission such an ambitious plan but others disagree. I think we were | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
all really excited for a zero carbon school right on our doorstep and a | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
lot of parents wanted to send their children to a school that had a | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
really strong ethos of environmental care and the children could play | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
outside and spend a lot of time outside. We can see what has been | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
achieved in the school grounds. How much will remain of the school's | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
green credentials is unclear but one pupil at least cannot wait for | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
school to return on Monday. I really do love school. So much! So, so | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
much! Neither the architect nor the contractors wanted to comment. They | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
previously denied any liability. Scientists | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
in the South West say they hope to have a cure for dementia | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
in the next ten to twenty years. A centre of scientific excellence is | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
to be created in the region to help researchers in Plymouth and Exeter | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
work more closely to find Dorothy, seen here on the left, was | :08:47. | :09:02. | |
in the land Army during the Second World War. She died four years ago | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
at home in Brixham. Her widower said she suffered from Alzheimer's the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
10`year is. There were some treatments even when Dorothy had it | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
but the NHS would not fund it at the time. It would have extended her | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
life may be by another year if she had but that means a lot to | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
families. Nearly 13,000 people have dementia in Devon alone. Today | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Alzheimer's research UK announced that the south`west would be a | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
centre of scientific excellence and is getting ?50,000 worth of funding. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Research scientists in Plymouth and Exeter are among the best in the UK. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Now they can pull their ideas together. I think it will mean that | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
ultimately we will move towards understanding the disease faster and | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
better. I know how devastating it is to have a family member diagnosed | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
with the illness. Sadly both of my grandmothers died with dementia and | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
I really hope that the work that we do every day as dementia research is | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
here in the south`west will ultimately mean that many people | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
will not see their grandparents lost to this terrible illness. With | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
current advances in research we are hoping that within ten or 20 years | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
we will be able to deliver the cure for at least most common | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
conditions. I really hope so, it is why I come to work every day and it | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
is why I am so passionate about the research that we do. A cure, or just | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
holding it back, a cure would be great, that would be a miracle. It | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
is too late for Dorothy but maybe a miracle will happen in our lifetime. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
A ceremony has taken place in Plymouth today to remember those who | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
The fleet played a vital role in keeping the country supplied | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
during World War II when ships had to contend with German U`boats. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
More than 30,000 merchant seaman lost their lives in the war. | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
During the Second World War Britain was dependent on supplies brought | :11:04. | :11:17. | |
across the Atlantic from North America. Without them the country | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
could have been starved into submission. That made merchant | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
vessels are prime target for the Germany U`boats. We do not | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
appreciate what those chaps went through during the war. A lot of | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
them never talked about it. If we can just give up one day or a few | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
hours just to remember them, that is important. This morning on Plymouth | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Hoe people came to do just that. Among those laying wreaths was | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Vivian Foster who has long campaigned for greater recognition | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
for those who served in the merchant fleet. My father was torpedoed on | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
the oil tankers and got the Lloyds Metall, MBA, and the rest of the | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
metals and my uncle Colin was torpedoed off the West African coast | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
and spent 52 days on a raft before being rescued and the youngest | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
brother, Stanley, was last across the Atlantic on the second trip | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
crossing the Elan tick. Three brothers, very significant, all | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Merchant Navy and that is why I have done what I have done to get them | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
recognised. `` crossing the Atlantic. | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
They endured some of the most perilous conditions on the Arctic | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
convoys to Russia, where temperatures dropped to `50 degrees. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
This morning in the sunshine they were all remembered. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
The triumph of hope over adversity, a glimpse of one woman's | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Plus ahead of the Invictus Games for injured service personnel, | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Find out why these new arrivals are so rare. | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
A little known manuscript has been found after 45 years, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
giving a unique insight into a life of self sufficiency on Exmoor. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
It written by Hope Bourne who famously lived | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Now the writings documenting life in a Somerset village | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Historians say it's a fascinating chronicle of ordinary life which | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
There is nothing in the world is clean and fresher than rainwater or | :13:33. | :13:50. | |
good country spring water. It was a lifestyle at odds with the 20th | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
century. For decades Hope Bourne's home was a tiny caravan on the edge | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
of Exmoor. This is my armament, the most precious and important part of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
my equipment here. She hunted her own food, shunned the trappings of | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
modern life, yet watched everything around her and was a prolific | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
writer. Now, 45 years after it was written historians have rediscovered | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
one of hope's manuscripts were packing up to move office. There it | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
was. She really was an extraordinary woman, was an extraordinary woman,. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
It is hard to imagine anybody now living in the way that she left, in | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
a caravan, on her own, with no electricity and going out to shoot | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
her own dinner and growing her own vegetables and not having running | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
water and drinking from a bucket out of the stream, she was quite | :14:50. | :14:50. | |
amazing. A village of the more Chronicles | :14:51. | :15:04. | |
everyday life in the 1960s at a time when traditions here were battling | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
modern trends. Hope Bourne would write... The radio and television | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
may bring the wider world into almost every home but here are holed | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
up in London or more in the Middle East is a far less importance than | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
yesterday's rain or tomorrow's sheep sale. Then there is the tale of the | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
faithful dogs who refused to leave their owners side even after she had | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
died on a more of a heart attack. The dogs even went to the funeral | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
and as Hope Bourne said there was not a dry our eye and even the men | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
were blowing their noses. Where the chief mourners? Yes, they sat in the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
play with everybody else and Hope Bourne makes it clear that they are | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
just a part of the story the village. Hope Bourne died four years | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
ago at the age of 91. Her remarkable tales of life on Exmoor will be | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
published next year. Quite nice to have that little step | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
back in time for a couple of minutes. | :16:14. | :16:14. | |
Some of the top tennis players from Great Britain and Europe are gracing | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
The Tarka Tennis Centre is hosting its annual Ladies' Open with prize | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Dave Gibbins reports on the importance of the tournament, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
With the US tennis open running concurrently with this one at | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
Barnstaple it gives a new breed of professional tennis player the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
opportunity to come to the fore. 15`year`old Jodi Burridge is the | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
youngest player in this event which is the fourth biggest in the country | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
behind Wimbledon, Eastbourne and Birmingham. Her mum and grandparents | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
are from Barnstable and after making it around to that had cause to | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
celebrate with grandma. She behaved quite well today. She better, or | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
else! We are very pleased she is here. It is lovely to have her here | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
so I do not see very much of them because they live in Surrey. I want | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
to go as far as I can so hopefully I can get all of the way but it will | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
be a long road and it will be tough so I have to see how it goes. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Besides Jodie's obvious promise 19`year`old Katie is another to make | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
a mark here. She disposed of the number one ranked player. To do it | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
on a hard court as well you start to think that I could be going | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
somewhere. If I keep going in this direction you never know what can | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
happen. The highest ranked British player here is Tara Moore, a regular | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
at Wimbledon she also took the first round exit in the singles. Despite | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
that she enjoys the top`class facilities at the Tarka Tennis | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Centre. I love playing here, I have had a lot of good results here and | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
unfortunately this year I could not continue at but I hope to do pretty | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
well in the doubles and I enjoyed playing here. The surface is one of | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
my favourites so coming here is or was like me home for me. With a | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
greater proportion of prize money going to other events in the ladies | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
calendar this year attracting the likes of Tara Moore is still goes to | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
show that the Tarka Tennis Centre is still one of the best centres in the | :18:22. | :18:22. | |
country. Now, to a sporting event | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
which is the brainchild of Prince Harry, and will shine a light | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
on some of the most determined The Invictus Games is | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
a new international event in London for wounded, injured | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
and sick service men and women. Well, earlier we met Steve | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
and Louisa who are two of those taking part from Hasler Company, | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
a rehabilitation unit for service They'll both be competing | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
in the archery event. Louisa began | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
by telling us how she got involved. We do a lot of afternoon activities | :18:49. | :19:03. | |
and there was an opportunity at a barracks to go and have a go at | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
archery so I went and had a go. I only shot a couple of hours and I | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
thought I liked it and I had never tried it before so one day in the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
gym a paper went around to ask if you wanted to have a go at Invictus | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Games for the training and such and I put my name down and adjust by | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
road from there. I went to Stoke Mandeville with 30 archers and we | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
all had a go. This has been championed by Prince Harry, how | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
important is it to have that sort of profile? I do not think without him | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
it could have happened. Definitely his patronage and enthusiasm and | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
William's enthusiasm as well. They have both been out there. What sort | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
of injuries and disabilities did you pick up a new armed service career? | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
I was in the Royal Marines over 30 years and training injuries in | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
combat injuries that had picked up and illnesses, it partly came to a | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
point when I could not work anymore so I entered the rehab system two | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
and illnesses, it partly came to a point when I could not work anymore | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
so I entered the rehab system two and a half or three years ago. With | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the help of Headley Court and the Haussler company they have slowly, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
with good medication and counselling it has helped me medically to get | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
back on my feet and the other bit that is conjoined with that is what | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
is life after the Royal Marines? I have been medically Recharge `` | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
discharged and a lot of effort goes into relearning how to work and | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
skills and improving and making you fit for the workplace. For the team | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
members involved, what does it mean to be aiming for the Invictus Games? | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
What has it been like in the build`up to this big event? It has | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
been quite exciting deal `` it has been quite exciting. I did not think | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
I would be able to compete on an international level and from being | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
sporty before being injured it has given hope again that there are | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
different sports I had not fought to take part in and you forget how big | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
it is going to be. When I first started I felt like it would be a | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
Sportsday author name. It has really expanded. What is personal to me and | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
what sums it up is that rehabilitation through sport is | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
fantastic and it becomes about ability, not disability, and we are | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
all finding that we may be a bit damaged and frayed around the edges | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
but we cannot do what we used to be but we can do what we can do and | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
this is helping us to find that. It all kicks off one week today and we | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
wish all the best of luck. Thank you for coming in to see us. | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
And there's more about the Invictus Games all this week with | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
David Fitzgerald on BBC Radio Devon every evening from 5.00pm. | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Rare triplets of the world's smallest primates have been born | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
The zoo believes the tiny monkeys known | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
as pygmy marmosets are the first triplets to survive in captivity | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
They're now three months old and thriving. | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Spotlight's Johnny Rutherford has been to see them. | :21:57. | :22:08. | |
Meet Meeny, Miny and Mo. Cute rather than cheeky, these triplets are so | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
tiny they could all fit in a teacup. Born at Shaldon Wildlife Trust | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
busily believes that the monkeys are something rather special. These are | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
our pygmy marmoset family and they are a South American primate and the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
world 's smallest primates so as adults they are only a few inches in | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
size and we are extremely excited for the triplets because it is | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
thought to be a first for triplets to be successfully reared by parents | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
in captivity alone. These mini monkeys live in social groups and | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
have a specialised diet which improves as `` includes sticky tree | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
sap and insects. They are part of a managed breeding programme to | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
maintain a sustainable population. Their main threats are habitat | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
destruction and deforestation. There are large parts of the main forest | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
that is being `` rainforest that is being decimated for various reasons. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
They are also caught for the pet trade. They do not make very good | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
pets despite being adorable. There are plenty of other adorable animals | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
at the trust. These has started a new experience this year, allowing | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
people to get closer to the animals. The meerkats have been | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
telling me about a new arrival. Is that right? There was great interest | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
across the whole slew as apparently the new arrival is the biggest brain | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
to body ratio of any mammal, including humans. OK, so here is our | :23:43. | :23:52. | |
new arrival. It is an Male Northern tree shrew and he will be living | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
with a female that arrived yesterday from up in Somerset and so hopefully | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
these two are going to get on that we will have some baby tree shoes in | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
the near future. Maybe they will have triplets like the monkeys. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
They are very cute. I did not know Johnny could talk to the animals! It | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
is his speciality. Now it is time for the weather and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
welcome back to David. Thank you. I have brought some sunshine with | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
me. I drove home quite late from Plymouth last night and the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
temperature was still reading 18 degrees which is good for September. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
We had a lovely day today with temperatures back up to 21 degrees | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
which is above average for the time of year and there is more of that to | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
come as well. First thing tomorrow morning maybe misty but the sunshine | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
will work through that and we will have sunny spells in the afternoon | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
with a similar temperature of around 21 or 22 degrees. Most of the | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
weather activity at the moment is a long way out to the west of us. | :24:53. | :25:21. | |
Compared to last week it is a lot more settled and this line of Cloud | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
is held out here by an area of high pressure that extends from Norway | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
right across the North Sea and covers most of southern Britain. It | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
will stay there in one form or another. It will be weaker by the | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
middle of the day tomorrow and by Friday you cannot see where it is | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
but it is effectively still there but a weather front tries to come in | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
from the north`west and it is week so we stay largely dry. | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
Moving into the weekend there are showers developing but there was a | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
lot of fine weather to have on both days. Temperatures come down a | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
little bit. This is the satellite picture from earlier today. There | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
has been a lot of cloud but for most of us a lovely end to the day. Later | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
tonight it turns a bit misty. Some low cloud will drift in and out of | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
the coast and then missed will form and by Dawn extensive low cloud | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
developing. The most of us it will start a bit grey but not as cold as | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
it has been during the night time at temperatures between 12 and 14 | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
degrees. After the mist and low cloud has gone it should improve to | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
a fine and warm day. Temperatures should get back up into the low 20s. | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
It will always be cloaked `` Kular around the coastline and easterly | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
winds will dominate tomorrow. For the Isles of Scilly we will have a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
cloudy start but it should brighten up and we will see some sunshine. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
There is haze in the air if you are heading out to see so the sea is | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
moderate because of that. Here is the outlook. As we head into | :26:40. | :27:03. | |
the weekend a lot more cloud around on Saturday and Sunday as it weakens | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
and moves away. Friday is nice though with gentle wind from the | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
north`eastern temperatures of 19 or 20 but it clouds up on Saturday and | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Sunday. Birthdays are dry but it will be cooler. We come down to | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
about 17 or 18 by Sunday. You can contact us on Twitter or on our | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
e`mail address. Have a nice evening. Good to have | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
you back. We have the film about the baby monkeys on the Spotlight | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
Facebook page if you want to share it with your friends and family. We | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
will be back tomorrow at 6:30pm. Good night. | :27:43. | :27:47. |