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Good evening from Spotlight. so it's goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight, Devon and Cornwall Police are heavily criticised for letting | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
They've been rated inadequate after failing to report more than 17,000 | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
We'll speak to the man in charge of sorting it all out. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Also tonight: a breath of fresh air is often the best medicine. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
We'll find out how patients are benefiting after being | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
You wait ages for one and then 30 come along at once. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Millions of pounds are invested to provide new bus | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Primary school children have been considering the biggest | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
High Speed two I think the meaning of life is, some people say it's to | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
have children, but I think is to be happy and make a difference. | :00:50. | :01:08. | |
Some of the most serious crimes are not being properly recorded | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
In a highly critical report, inspectors say victims are being let | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
down and the force has only made limited improvements | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Senior officers have told Spotlight they accept the report's | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
conclusions and insist victims are "at the heart" of their work. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
We'll hear from a deputy chief constable in a moment. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
First, here are the key findings of Her Majesty's | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Emergency, which service? Call the police to report a crime, but in too | :01:32. | :01:47. | |
many cases, staff don't treat the information they are given as they | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
should, not officially recording and a third straightaway, and that | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
matters. A victim may benefit from getting immediate help, or they | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
could potentially find themselves in more danger if there is a delay in | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
the response. It all depends on how officers view claims being made, but | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
inspectors say the current situation is wholly unacceptable. The report | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
estimated that more than 17,000 crimes are not | :02:09. | :02:36. | |
being recorded every year. They include rape, sexual offences and | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
violent attacks. A survey found that crime reporting processes were | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
convoluted and staff don't understand the basic crime reporting | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
principles. Inspectors believe it to be a sister big failure and have | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
read the Devon and Cornwall police inadequate, saying many victims are | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
being let down. Well, Devon and Cornwall's Police | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
and Crime Commissioner says she takes the report very | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
seriously and has already set up a new group to look at ways | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
to improve the recording of crime. James Vaughan is the Deputy Chief | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Constable with responsibility for recording crimes | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
for Devon and Cornwall. I asked how he could reassure | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
victims who'd been let down by Devon We don't believe that | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
we've let victims down. In the vast majority of cases, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
victims have come forward, an investigation has taken place, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
people have been safeguarded and they've been given | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
a good service. But do you accept that if you don't | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
record straight away something, for instance, as serious as a rape, | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
that victim doesn't get the support straight away that they need, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
and that is where HMIC says You dispute that, but that's | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
what HMIC SAY in their report. I accept that that's what it | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
says in their report. There are 27 cases highlighted | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
in the report where a report of a serious sexual offence | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
was recorded as a crime. In all of those cases, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
the victims were taken under the wing of Devon | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
and Cornwall police. They were provided with | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
safeguarding activity. They were referred to victim | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
services and victim care and a range of investigative | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
processes were undertaken. One recommendation the report says | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
should be implemented immediately is a sexual offences liaison officer | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
assigned to all victims What progress are | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
you making on that? My goal group that I run yesterday | :03:58. | :04:10. | |
gave me reassurance that in every case of a serious sexual assault | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
and rape, a specially trained sexual offences liaison | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
officer will be deployed. One of the limitations currently | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
is that we can't make that deployment of the initial deployment | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
and get them there within minutes. So despite it saying | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
in the recommendations that wherever possible, these officers should be | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
deployed as the first responder, you are saying that not every victim | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
of a serious sexual assault will immediately be | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
responded to by a sexual With the current levels | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
of resources that we have, and taking into consideration | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
the sparsity that the Devon and Cornwall geography lends, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
it isn't possible for us today to make the first initial response | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
to any serious sexual offence that of a specially trained sexual | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
offence liaison officer. One of the themes that comes | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
through the whole report is that officers often don't know | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
the correct procedures for reporting crimes at the initial stage, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
and there is after that a lack of supervision from a senior officer | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
on whether the crime was recorded What is being done to address | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
what appears to be a lack of understanding of the system, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
which your own officers reported back in the feedback | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
is being convoluted at times? Yes, that's a fair description | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
of the complex rules It's my job as the Deputy Chief | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Constable to understand those rules and ensure | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
that they are complied with. There is a great deal | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
of further work to do. Again at my goal group yesterday, | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
I saw plans to revisit training for all front line officers, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
and those plans have been Deputy Chief Constable Vaughan, | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
thank you very much for joining us. A report on crime recording | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
at Avon and Somerset police The force was judged as "requiring | :05:53. | :06:05. | |
improvement" after failing to properly record more | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
than 13,000 crimes. A little bit of Westminster | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
came to Cornwall today, as the cross-party committee | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
on Exiting the EU held It comes just a day | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
after the Government won a vote giving them the go-ahead to trigger | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Article 50 and is part of an inquiry into how the UK | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
negotiates its position Well, today political, | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
business and agricultural leaders from across Cornwall | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
were asked their opinions on Brexit. Our political reporter | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Tamsin Melville listened to the debate and joins us now | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
from County Hall. Yes, Cornwall was just the latest | :06:37. | :06:48. | |
stock for this committee of MPs who are going around the country, | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
getting opinions on the implications of Brexit. It is not clear whether | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
they will come back to any other south-west counties or speak to the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
public here, so we decided to take this debate out onto the streets. My | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
colleague Neil Gallaher has been out and about in Plymouth. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
This cafe looked as good as anywhere. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Like many people, the assistant manager thinks Brexit | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
could go either way, but she is concerned | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Hopefully, it shouldn't affect us too much. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
We've got Spanish chefs downstairs as well. | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
So it would be a bit sad if it does mean everyone's got to go. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
And they are really good, hard workers. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Outside, no concerns for one taxi driver, | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Actual trade, believe it or not, has gone down a lot | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Because some people will have a lot more money to spend, probably. | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
A stone's throw away, there's a big tourism | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
What about the leaders of the hospitality industry? | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
We were quite reassured by the Prime Minister's statement | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
that there wouldn't be a cliff edge, that there would be transitional | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
arrangements, but we absolutely need to make sure that the decisions | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
For example, we'd be concerned about any suggestion | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
that we withdraw from the customs union, because that would provide | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
particular difficulties at the ports and airports. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Back at the cafe, one Romanian is worried about his own future. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
People say if you work here and all is legal | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and I pay my taxes and everything, I get to stay. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
But other people, like Romanian people, say no. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
If it goes through, you just go out. I really don't know. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
And on the cafe terrace, I heard one opinion | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
I think yes, in hindsight, did I make the right decision? | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
I wasn't fully aware of what the EU was totally all about. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Because I didn't think it was going to happen, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
and I think a lot of people did that, voted out. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
But there must have been a reason why you wanted to vote out. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
You must have been fed up with something. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Like you say, there must have been something at the time. | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
But afterwards, finding out different things about the EU, | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
like the farmers were going to lose money, as I say, a lot of people | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
voted out thinking it wasn't going to happen, | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
and I must admit I'm one of those people. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
The Government, of course, insists that funding | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
The yes vote in the referendum was 51.9%. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
There's no way to be sure how many people like Lorraine | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Or, come to that, Remainers who would now rethink. | :09:42. | :09:57. | |
There is a busy still a lot of uncertainty out there because of | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Brexit. But here in Cornwall, the various sectors have got together | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
and produced this glossy document talking about both the risks and | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
opportunities of Brexit. A committee of MPs today said they were very | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
impressed with that can-do attitude. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Keating | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
today was that Cornwall voted to leave despite all those EU millions | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
it has had over the years and what could or should be done about this | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in the future, post-Brexit. The committee says it is going back to | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Westminster very clear on the messages from Cornwall. Whether | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
those messages have any impact on the future is less clear. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
For as long as you can remember, a prescription from the doctor has | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
probably involved tablets and medicine bottles like this. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
The old prescription charge has risen to a shilling per item, but | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the doctor gets no more. Costs are rising for all of us - for the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
healthy, the sick, for the chemist, for the doctor. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Since the late 1940s and '50s, continuing advances in science have | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
But in recent years, there's been a different | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
and there's evidence it can help reduce the pressure on the NHS. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
It's called social prescribing and is when a GP seeks to improve | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
a person's health by, for example, referring them for exercise. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Our health correspondent Jenny Walrond joined one walking | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
I've really got a lot more in control of my diabetes | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
through this and various other activities that I've done, | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
One of the major things is just the company. | :11:27. | :11:41. | |
We can have a laugh, just being with other people who've | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
It's certainly a step in the right direction, | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
but why does it need to be initiated by a GP? | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
This gave me a reason, and I've stuck to it, and other | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
You don't need it, but if they don't provide it, you haven't | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
The fact is that we are spending huge amounts of money | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
on prescription medication and a lot of it sometimes doesn't work and can | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
So anything we can do that gets people away from that, | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
makes them feel better and keeps them healthy, | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
150 people have taken part in this pilot by St Austell healthcare, | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
There are plans to expand across Cornwall and include other | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
And some think that GPs linking their patients to these | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
voluntary groups will play a big part in the future of the NHS. | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
We now know that exercise is, in the words of the royal colleges, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
the important people, the miracle cure. | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
So we have about 15 million people getting medicines, | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
and many of them are fantastic medicines, but they all | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
The working group here in St Austell have already seen the health | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
benefits of social prescribing, and those behind it are hoping | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
that their ambitious plans to extend this pilot will soon be realised | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
What's thought to be the largest device in the world capable | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
of harnessing the power of the sea and converting it into electricity | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
is to connect to the wave power research project off the coast | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
The multi-million pound prototype will arrive next year. | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
Meanwhile, a scale model is currently being tested | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
as our Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
This is the dream, an array of devices to harness energy | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
In New England, a huge prototype is already being built. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Now the company backing the design is testing a scale model | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
By 2018, the first vessel should be connected to Wave Hub, | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
Each turbine could generate twice as much electricity | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
It's the size of a Boeing 747, and we're putting in tremendous | :14:05. | :14:19. | |
masses, the weight of a freight train moving through. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
the freight train powers on through and then as the vessel | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
pitches the other way, it powers back the other way, | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
and we can convert that rolling motion directly into electrical | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
Wave Hub is an undersea electrical socket linked to the National Grid. | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
It's cost tens of millions of pounds to put on the sea bed, | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
and this announcement marks an important development | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
in its history, because so far, it hasn't sent any electricity | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Unfortunately, there hasn't been any electricity | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
We have worked very hard with several technology companies | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
to try and enable them to demonstrate their | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
But with the plans we're hearing about today | :14:58. | :15:14. | |
As you can see, this scale model is doing well in the tests | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
it is undergoing in the tanks here at Plymouth University. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
The real thing itself will be 60 times the size of this. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
The American backers of this scheme believe it's important to think big | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
to produce the amount of clean and affordable electricity that this | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
country and the rest of the world will need in the coming years. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
the philosophical questions being posed to children. | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
I am here at Bowhill primary in Exeter, where children are being | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
asked some of life? Biggest questions. Like what is art, and | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
what is bravery? Now, red double decker buses might | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
be synonymous with London but from today, a state of the art | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
fleet of double deckers will be part Bus operator First Kernow has | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
officially unveiled its new fleet, having spent ?7.4 million on them - | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
they come complete with tables and free wi fi, | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
but will they actually Lucie Fisher went | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
along for the ride. Certainly true that they don't want | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
people to miss the fact that these buses are being launched. So how are | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
they going down with locals? Fantastic. It's great to have new | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
things for Cornwall. I think the future is buses for Cornwall. We | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
need to have more to get around. Surprise to see a red bus. Well, | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
it's a red bus! Nice. Caught the tinner, they have been carefully | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
branded with a Cornish list. And there is no. The idea is that these | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
will be modern buses for the modern world, so they are fitted with USB | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
ports and in the next year, they will be contactless, so you can pay | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
with a card. Is a major investment at ?7.5 million, but has it come at | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
another cost? Did you cherry pick services, to have those most | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
profitable? No. We have obviously put these vehicles onto our busiest | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
routes. That is, and commercial business sense. We have got to make | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
these buses pay for themselves, but the ongoing plan is to obviously | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
start to improve the rest of the network. We are in the process of | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
designing the network and working out how to do smart ticketing so | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
that people can buy products on both networks, and we are looking at a | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
rich network which covers as comprehensive and area as we can. | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
Overall, feedback here has been possible. Top -- positive. Any | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
improvement in public transport is good for us and good for the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
environment. We get so excited now every time we are driving down the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
A30. Oh, tinner! There is this big red thing coming at you, and they | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
are shiny and new and just lovely. A mixed martial arts fighter | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
from Somerset is heading stateside It's a sport with a fast growing | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
international audience and now former plasterer Mark Godbeer | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
from Bridgewater has his sights set on glory - | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
and possible riches. It is the most brutal | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
of fight sports. But with the high risks | :18:36. | :18:51. | |
come high rewards. Especially for the biggest | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
stars, like the bearded Irishman Conor McGregor, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
now said to be worth A million miles away, | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
you might think, from this small industrial estate in the middle | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
of rural Somerset. But inside a converted workshop, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
a former plasterer has stars, Do you get scared when | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
you get in the ring? I think that's what I'm addicted | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
to, the fear factor. So, yeah, I suppose I am a bit | :19:19. | :19:31. | |
of an adrenaline junkie. This is Mark Godbeer, | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
who in the sport of mixed martial arts is already at the top | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
of his game in this country. Finally, out of Somerset, | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
England, Mark...! And in less than a month's time, | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
he will be heading off to Las Vegas, to Las Vegas, stepping | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
into what is the Premier League of his sport, UFC - | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Ultimate Fighting Championship. I'm representing the UK now, | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
not just little old Somerset. So I'm happy, really | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
happy to be here. My journey has just begun, | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
so let's see where it takes me. Those who work with him, | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
sometimes painfully, believe he has what it takes to make | :20:16. | :20:16. | |
it in a sport which is in essence a mixture | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
of boxing and kickboxing. He's been through every single | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
person in the branch division, And without sounding | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
arrogant, there was no real It's a long way from Somerset | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
to Vegas, but Mark will take That is a proper American name, Todd | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
Duffy. Great philosophical | :20:42. | :20:59. | |
questions are being posed It's hoped grappling | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
with difficult concepts will help The trial is being run | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
by the University of Exeter and five primary schools in the city | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
are taking part. I'd like to know, what's | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
the meaning of life? If you're a parent, | :21:16. | :21:26. | |
you will know all about answering difficult questions, | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
so you may smile wryly now the tables are being | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
turned on the children. But the truth is, whatever that may | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
be, that these youngsters are doing a good job, | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
whatever good means. I think to be good, it | :21:48. | :21:48. | |
means that you have to be Obviously, there's different | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
opinions of good, so good to you can be doing the simplest thing, | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
like walking instead of running Big questions are being posed | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
to the children as part of a philosophy project designed | :22:00. | :22:14. | |
to get them thinking. Today, they are debating | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
what it is to brave. Bravery is doing something | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
you're scared of doing, without being prompted to do it, | :22:20. | :22:20. | |
and knowing that you're going to be A postgrad student at University | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
of Exeter is behind the scheme, which is being tried out at five | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
primary schools in Devon. At the heart of these sessions | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
is the sense that children can learn to disagree with each other, | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
but in a way that's rational so they don't get | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
argumentative about it. It's not about everyone | :22:44. | :22:44. | |
having the same opinion, because when they leave school, | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
they're going to face those situations and those sort | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
of questions all the time. If you rob a bank but it's in a town | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
that no one lives in... It's hoped that the weekly sessions | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
will improve communication Certainly, young minds | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
do like to enquire. Clearly a question | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
with many answers. I don't know where to begin with | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
that one! We have that debate in the newsroom every day. But we should | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
always end with the weather. And what is whether, David? | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
At the moment, it's mostly cold! It is certainly chilly today. We have | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
had a temperature is no more than four or 5 degrees for most of us. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
But you have been out taking your photographs. This is a beautiful | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
shot of the blue skies we saw earlier today. Not so sunny towards | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
Somerset. Temperatures really have struggled today, especially across | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
parts of Dorset and Somerset. Slightly less cold as you get | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
towards the coast line, but for all of us, it has been pretty chilly, | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
still in the grip of winter. But not all of our plants are paying | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
attention to that. This is Ka Hayes, where there was some sunshine, and | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
the flowers seem to be coming out, the Magnolia 's and other flowers | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
beginning to appear. These pictures were filmed by our cameraman | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Tristan. A beautiful, springlike day here, but but the temperatures have | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
not reflected those figures. We have been pretty cold right across the | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
south-west today. If anything, it's going to get colder. Tomorrow, it | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
looks like we will see some sunshine, but briefly, plus more | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
clout than we have seen today and the risk of wintry showers. And for | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
all of us, it's going to feel very cold indeed. The reason is in an | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
area of low pressure across Spain and Portugal which is staying | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
stationary and whilst that happens, it draws air from the east, and that | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
is to leave will continue not just for tomorrow, but continuing into | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
the weekend. As an area of high pressure settles in across the north | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
of Ireland, we draw in the air from southern parts of Scandinavia, from | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
Poland and eastern parts of Germany, where temperatures today have not | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
been much more than one or 2 degrees above freezing. So it's going to be | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
cold. There is also the chance of cloud embedded in that flow, | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
generating showers. There are a few tonight, mostly along the south | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
coast, where they will probably fall as rain. But if you get higher up, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
particularly the southern slopes of Dartmoor, they could fall as sleet | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
and snow. It will be a cold night for all of us, temperatures hovering | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
around freezing for most locations. The breeze helps keep temperatures | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
up, but a frost is possible. More showers tomorrow, mostly through the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Channel. A few creep into parts of Dorset and Somerset, and they will | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
have a wintry flavour. A flurry of snow is possible. Temperatures may | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
get up to 5 degrees but for most of us, it will be below that. And with | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
a brisk wind from the East or Northeast, it will feel bitterly | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
cold. One of the warmest places in the country is likely to be the | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Isles of Scilly. But it will not feel that one, because it will be | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
windy. And for our surface, there are some | :26:19. | :26:33. | |
clean surf. The waves are not very big now. The forecast for the | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
coastal waters keeps the wind is going right through tonight and | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
tomorrow. It is mainly an easterly, becoming north-easterly. Generally | :26:45. | :26:56. | |
good visibility outside the showers. The weekend will gradually get | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
warmer, but temperatures will not change a great deal. The only real | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
change is on Monday, when we see slightly less cold air coming from | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
the south-east and temperatures back up. For the weekend, birthdays are | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
predominantly dry, with the risk of some overnight frost. A brisk winds | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
from the East. Next week, it looks like we will start to see a change | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
as we see more at coming up from the south, but that is a long way away. | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
For the moment, it is cold. That is it from us, but Andy will be | :27:27. | :27:37. | |
here with an update at ten and we will all be back at 6.30 tomorrow. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
From all of us on Spotlight, good night. | :27:42. | :27:52. | |
OK, everyone, have you got your bamboo sticks? | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
If you just paint what you want to paint, | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
I've turned around, my painting washes away. | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
..and take on The Big Painting Challenge. | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
Remember, you're not painting a pond. | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
Before I met you, I was a civilised woman. | :28:15. | :28:46. | |
Now I don't even know what that means. | :28:47. | :28:49. |