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Welcome to BBC Channel Islands. Today's headlines. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Five years of decline. Why Jersey's economy isn't picking up, and what | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
the government's going to do about it. We want to have a financial | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
plan. We've got to make sure money goes into the economy. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Plus, calls for skateboarders to put safety before fashion and make | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
helmets compulsory. Two decades of heroic deeds. We meet | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
the man celebrating 20 years as a lifeboat volunteer. | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
For five years in a row, Jersey's economy has been in recession. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Figures out today from the States show last year the island's economy | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
shrank to its lowest level since 1998. It also paints a worrying | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
picture for the finance industry, as it's the chief cause of this fall. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Tonight, Jersey's government says the island has nothing to worry | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
about. But that view isn't shared by everyone, as Pam Caulfield reports. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
It was the year work was starting on the Millennium Dome, and Bill | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Clinton was denying an affair with his intern. Celine Dion was topping | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
the charts as well. Events may have moved forward since 1998, but | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Jersey's economy has now gone backwards, shrinking to the same | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
size it was then, around 15 years ago. Today, the States released the | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
Gross Value Added figures, which measure Jersey's economic activity | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
last year. They show it went down by 4%. That means the island's been in | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
recession for five years, and in that time the finance sector has | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
shrunk by a third. It's a statistic those working in finance says | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
shouldn't be taken lightly. As Jersey's main industry, it makes up | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
nearly half of all economic activity in the island. Last year it declined | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
again by 5%. I think sometimes the government is a little bit too | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
optimistic, or they don't actually face up to the problems ahead of | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
them. This has implications for every single person on the island | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
and I'm quite confident we will get through it and the people of Jersey | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
will get through it. But we are concerned and we will do something | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
about it. One area which has been growing is hospitality, by 3% last | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
year. Currently, it only accounts for a small proportion of economic | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
activity, but that could change. We've invested, as owners and | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
operators, about £250 million. There is a big drive in that sector and we | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
have seen this. Tourism is changing in Jersey. We've got to go for the | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
short break market. It is a huge market in the UK and we are not even | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
scraping the surface. Meanwhile, Guernsey's economy has fared better. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
While it's measured differently, it did also shrink last year. Revenues | :03:09. | :03:21. | |
are up but GDP is down. If you look at the UK, Scotland is also | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
contracting and England is growing. Jersey's figures may be out today, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
but they're already nine months old. And for those struggling in these | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
tough economic times, they might simply be telling them what they | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
already know. Well, Senator Alan Maclean is | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Jersey's Economic Development Minister. He joined me earlier and I | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
began by asking him why Jersey was struggling to return to economic | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
growth. Well, it is five years that the | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
global economy has been suffering so Jersey is no different. We are an | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
export economy, and these figures are from 2012. What we are seeing in | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
2013 is a degree of optimism seen by the OCD and local surveys carried | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
out. So Guernsey is doing better, how do you explain that? We have to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
look at the bands of the economy. There is a heavy reliance on the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
financial services industry and the banking sector. For us, the low | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
interest rate environment has a particular impact which has | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
perfected these figures. You're like heavily on finance, too heavily? I | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
don't think so. It is a strong part of the economy, and the environment | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
of low interest rates has had a particular impact on these figures. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
We need to put that into context. As economic develop and minister, what | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
will you do to develop the economy? We continue to ensure that we | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
support businesses through agencies like Jersey business that was set | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
up. We've established the innovation fund. We are looking to ensure | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
capital projects are brought forward in the medium term. And the | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
financials financial plan goes into the economy into a timely fashion. | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
So, when we will see jobs? It is happening already. £60 million of | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
spend is going into the economy this year. The major projects need to get | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
started as quickly as possible, and that is the construction industry, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
one of the biggest impact on last year 's figures and it is an | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
important part of the economy. Senator Alan Maclean speaking to me | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
earlier. More news now. Unemployment in | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Guernsey has risen by 15% in the last year. The latest figures show | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the number registered as unemployed in June was 411. That's up from 357 | :05:40. | :05:54. | |
in June 2012. There are calls for young people to be forced to wear | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
helmets if a skateboard. Mike Wilkins reports. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
It's new, fast and, in some eyes, seen as extremely dangerous. Broken | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
bones, strains and lost teeth are just some of the injuries people | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
have suffered already at the skate park. But when skateboarders | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
acknowledge their sport is on the edge and not part of the mainstream, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
do they think helmets are really necessary? It is a skate park, not a | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
playground. I think it is going to stop the teenagers coming, which we | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
don't want to do. We want encourage them to be here. It everyone's | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
personal choice. There are people that are for and against it. I've | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
set —— I'm sitting on the fence of it. It's a matter of time with the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
kids, whether or not they will fall off. It will eventually happen. I'm | :06:46. | :06:58. | |
a child. I still skate at my age of 37. And maybe I should wear a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
helmet. Under—tens have to wear helmets and today the driving force | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
behind the skate park acknowledged it may have to rise. I believe there | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
is certainly room for 15—year—olds and under. What we have to be | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
careful as we don't want to frighten them away from the skate park. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Statistics show that when they don't use the skate park, they will use | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
all sorts of other public places and they will damage themselves even | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
more. It is very much a dilemma for us. The Extreme Sports Association | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
is meeting next week to discuss what can be done. But in the meantime, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
there's a supply of helmets at the skate park cafe for those who wish | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
to wear one. Guernsey FC are in action tonight | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
against Chipstead at home. The UK side are currently placed two from | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the bottom in the Ryman South League and last year finished 20th in the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
League. The Green Lions currently are in fifth. You can join me in our | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
late news for the result of that. For now, this is the BBC in the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Channel Islands, and coming up later, drama on the ocean waves as | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Sir Ben Ainslie helps the US team in the America's Cup. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
You may not recognise his face, but Andy Hibbs from Jersey is | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
celebrating two decades as a local hero. He's been a volunteer with the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
RNLI aboard the St Helier lifeboat for 20 years. A fisherman by day, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Andy has been on countless emergency calls in his time and says he has no | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
intention of stopping. Chris Harrison went to meet him. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
For Andy, this is not just a job. It's a part of his life. For 20 | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
years, he's put his own life at risk in order to save others. | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
Unfortunately, the RNLI has put the retirement age up to 65 so I could | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
do another 24 years. Whether I will do that or not, I don't know. I will | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
probably handover to some youngster first. I'll keep going and see what | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
happens. Andy comes from a family with the sea in their blood. He has | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
followed in the footsteps of his father, who was an RNLI coxswain for | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
30 years and his mum Cheryl now works here in the RNLI shop. You are | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
very proud but deep down you are in genuinely scared and you pray and | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
hope they come back safely. At the end of the day, that is what you | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
join the RNLI for and you know what it is about. The beeper goes and you | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
go. And you're grateful they come back safe and sound. For many, the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
RNLI is an essential service, but it costs thousands of pounds to keep | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
afloat. And most of that money comes from ordinary islanders. In terms of | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
running the lifeboats on the island, it's costing something just under | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
£90,000 a year. We are meeting those costs because people are very | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
generous, and we generally have enough money to cover costs without | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
having to refer back to the UK. Andy Hibbs is always on call but says | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
he's got no intention of hanging his life jacket up just yet. | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
Congratulations, Andy. Doing a fantastic job. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
Time for a look at the weather. We've got some cloudy skies coming | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
our way tomorrow. The cloud today hasn't produced much. A few showers | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
possible tonight and quite misty tomorrow with a risk of further | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
showers. The area of high pressure is now beginning to influence our | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
weather, throwing a lot of cloud across much of the southwestern | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
corner of the English Channel, across northern France, too, | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
generating showers. Not many, though. Tomorrow is a similar day. A | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
lot of cloud and the threat of showers late in the day. And those | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
showers will be around on Friday. Friday morning, it should be trying | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
bright. The showers overnight tonight tend to fade away and | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
turning misty. Overnight temperatures down to as low as 12 or | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
13. Like winds. Tomorrow, a lot of cloud. It might brighten up with | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
sunny spells, but then we see more cloud coming in, with a few more | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
showers. Still warm, though. Temperatures anywhere from 20 to 22 | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
degrees. Winds mainly from the east. They will be moderate. The winds, | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
East or southeasterly, three increasing, four. Times of high | :11:32. | :11:44. | |
water. And for the surface, the waves up to two or three feet and | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
mostly clean with those easterly winds. On Friday, a bright and dry | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
start, a bit misty with some sunny spells. 22 or 23, the temperature. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
Easterly wind picking up, bringing us more cloud Friday night into | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Saturday. Saturday looks like different. Cloudy with outbreaks of | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
rain, cooler with a brisk south—easterly breeze, and then the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
risk of some showers developing. That's on Sunday, too. Goodbye for | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
now. That is the news and weather from | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
the Channel Islands. Have more after the news at 10pm, but now we joined | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Justin and Clare. Have a good evening. Goodbye. | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
The CQC will visit the hospital again to assess it on four other | :12:35. | :12:35. | |
standards which it failed at its first inspection. They are | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
respecting and involving patients, patient care and welfare, staffing, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
and hospital records. The Russian president Vladimir Putin | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
has said Greenpeace activists were not pirates but did break the law. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
It follows a protest against arctic oil exploration. Two campaigners | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
from Devon are still in custody in the Russian port of Murmansk. Alex | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Harris and Iain Rogers were detained after several protestors boarded an | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
oil platform. Devon County Council is warning that | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
radical Dementia patients in Cornwall are | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
set to benefit from £1.3 million of Government funding. The cash from | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the Department of Health is going to both the Royal Cornwall Hospitals | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Trust and Peninsula Community Health. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
The Devon poet Alice Oswald has become the first writer to win the | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
£25,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. Ms Oswald, who lives in Dartington, | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
won the prize for her poem Memorial, a reworking of Homer's Iliad. She | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
said she was very surprised and grateful for the win. | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
The man in charge of coaching the England swimming team for the next | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
Commonweath Games says he's honoured and excited about the new role. Jon | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Rudd is Director of Swimming at Plymouth College and also head coach | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
of Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. He came into the studio a little | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
earlier to tell us more about his new job. Congratulations. How do you | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
feel? I feel really honoured. It is such a great thing to be asked to | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
lead your country in something as significant and iconic as the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Commonwealth Games. So, yes, I have known for quite a bit. I was | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
really, really pleased when I got asked a couple of weeks ago and I | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
have had to keep things quiet until the official announcement. How hard | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
was that? It was ready tough. I told one or two people because I needed | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
to that I had to trust them to keep it under wraps but now it is out | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
there and this honour, what do you put it down to? What makes you an | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
outstanding coach? oh, goodness. First of all, I have a great team. | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
The people who work with me are fantastic. My sister and coaches —— | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
my assistant coaches do an awful lot that goes on behind the scenes that | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
maybe people do not recognise. The system itself is superb. I have | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
great support at Plymouth College, my employers, and we have created a | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
great scheme there with kids from all around the world coming into | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
work with us and Plymouth Leander, the club, they are starting to work | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
more closely with the University of him and the University of Saint Mark | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
and St John body developed under the athletes under 18. I have a lot of | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
help. I also have a love for the sport. It is my 25th year of doing | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
before. Each year, I learn and develop and I think the athletes | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
benefit from that. What about the connections —— the commitment you | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
mention? How will they be infected by the new role? They won't be | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
impacted at all. This is a simple admin role for me. I will be | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
answering e—mails and taking phone call. It'll get a bit more as we | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
approach the games but the main thing is there is a short camp | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
before Plaistow and landowner and it is less than two weeks of full on | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
commitment and a few hits and pieces before then. Is it too early to say | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
what England is the fact chances are? How is the team looking and | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
developing? I have had a look at how we sit on the rankings with the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Commonwealth rankings and it is not too bad. Scotland are audibly | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
equally as strong as England. It will be very tight between the two. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Australia are the superpower and they are the ones we have to take on | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
almost in every event. And then you have Canada, New Zealand, South | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Africa, also very strong swimming nations. It'll be a challenge, it is | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
certainly not a competition. But I hope that England will step up. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
It'll be nice for some of the English swimmers to be standing on | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
the podium again. They didn't have the best of the world championships | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
of the Olympics but we have a great system and great people in place to | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
help move that forward. I would like to do my bit with the England team | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
to do that. It certainly sounds like a good challenge for you. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Congratulations again. Thank you. Veterans of the Second World War are | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
currently commemorating the 69th anniversary of the largest airborne | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
operations of all time. Arthur Shackleton from Dorset was a glider | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
pilot in Operation Market Garden and has recently returned to the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
battlefields of Holland to pay his respects to his old colleagues. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Spotlight's John Ayres has been to meet him. In 1944, there was a plan, | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
a force of 86,000 men made up of paratroopers, air and ground units | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
set out to seize control of Bridge and River crossings in Germany and | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
the Netherlands. It was hoped it would bring the war to an end. | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Arthur Shackleton was applied a pilot. His job was to transport | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
equipment to Holland. They were not expecting much of a fight. They told | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
us the troops there were a few German elderly men, and artillery —— | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
Artillery Regiment in training and a few German ad hoc troops that had | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
knocked about in France. In fact, they were so optimistic that some of | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
our generals took the golf equipment. Dead job was to secure | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
the landing zone but things were going wrong. They were ordered to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
capture the bridge but they became —— became under heavy fire. German | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
machine guns, mortars bombs, everything. Within an hour, three of | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
us had been killed. We were told to retreat back to the little village. | :18:49. | :19:02. | |
There, we formed a perimeter. It was became the headquarters. Thousands | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
more were injured or taken prisoner. They were ordered to pull out. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Arthur Shackleton was shot in the solder. This machine can came. | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
Someone hit me on the shoulder. I was on the floor. I couldn't tell | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
what it was, there was nobody there. And I said, are you OK? No answer. | :19:31. | :19:44. | |
I'm not sure how many were there but they were all dead. He did get back | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
safely and was treated in Brussels and Birmingham. Mr Shackleton | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
recently returned to Arnhem for every union and to remember his | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
colleagues who did not come back. —— for a reunion. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
The sailor Sir Ben Ainslie, who trained in Cornwall, has been | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
credited with turning around the US America's Cup team ahead of the | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
final race in San Francisco. The team, seen here on the right with | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
darker sails, had been losing badly to their rivals New Zealand who | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
needed just one more win to take the Cup. But after drafting in Sir Ben | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
as their tactician, the Americans won seven races in a row, forcing a | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
decider in the final race. Well, Andy Breare has spent the day | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
in Falmouth, close to where Ben Ainslie began his career and where | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
another major sailing contest is taking place. | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
Good evening. We are in a motif peeled. In it are some of the | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
fastest boats and best sailors in the world. Today, they have been out | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
on the water, doing what they do best, competing at the highest | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
level. If the Americas cup as the Formula one of sailing, this is | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
forming Mila three. Each boat with a two—man crew competing at a speed of | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
30 knots off the Cornish coast. There is a whole new side to this | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
board where there are wings, if rent materials and they are going on | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
these twin whole catamarans and reaching speeds that are really new | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
to the sport. These ideas and concepts have been around for a | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
while but what they are doing with the boat now and what they are able | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
to do, it is wild how fast they can go. There are eight teams from eight | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
countries, each desperate to lift the cup. So far, it is the French | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
who are leading the way. We are first tomorrow —— now but tomorrow | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
is another day. It is another game. We will see. But it is already nice | :21:51. | :22:02. | |
for us. The vote goes fast. —— the boat. Especially downwind when the | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
flying boats go 30 knots. When you are starting to really fly the two | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
halves, you get more pressure. This afternoon, the teams have been back | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
in the race village making repairs and talking cat six, ready to get | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
back on the water and do it all again tomorrow. —— talking tactics. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Joining us now is the fastest man in the world on water at the moment, | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
and that is Paul Larson. You are a bit of a speed merchant, what do you | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
think of this? This is fantastic. I have been a big fan of this. To have | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
it in the UK, the last two weeks have been so busy, we have hardly | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
slept. Everyone is fine to get ready and we had to be a part of it. We | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
are pretty happy to be helping the British boat be part of this amazing | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
event. Disses Web Ben Ainslie load to sail. —— this is. These are the | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
water is exactly where he started to sail. It was quite a while ago. He | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
has certainly moved on to the biggest and fastest boat out there. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
It is quite strange that we are doing what is popularly doing little | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
America's Cup and he is in San Francisco going for it. Everyone | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
standing around here will be crowded into his old yacht club, sitting | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
there, seeing if he can pull this off. Is this good for sailing? | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Well, you never know where innovations will take you. We are | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
here to find out. We are certainly making leaps and bounds in progress. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Thank you for joining us. Racing continues tomorrow and goes on till | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
Saturday. Let's find out what the weather has in store for the sailing | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
—— the sailors here. The wind could be doing —— could do with being a | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
bit stronger. There is a slightly stronger breeze tomorrow but it is | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
generally quite cloudy. A risk of showers —— throughout. A little bit | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
of sunshine breaking through. It is still relatively mild. Even the rain | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
today has been mixed in with some quite warm air so we haven't seen | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
temperatures drop quite so much. When you look at the big satellite | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
picture, there was a lot more going on now. It is a very compact | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
picture. There are several strands of cloud spinning around this area | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
of low pressure off Spain and Portugal. It is, lamented —— it is | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
complicated because it can bring us showery rain. That is what we have | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
seen today. There will be another one tomorrow. The low pressure is | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
somewhat closer as we move into Friday and Saturday so effectively | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
we are now much more unsettled. There is more of a wind developing | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
on Friday and into the weekend and some of the showers could turn out | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
to be quite heavy on Saturday and Sunday. Let's look at that in | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
somewhat more detail. Here is the rain we saw today. It is now moving | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
through parts of Central Dorset and clearing away eastwards later on | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
this evening. It is left behind a lot of cloud and that is low cloud, | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
beginning to sink down over the tops of the hills and moors and very | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
murky conditions overnight tonight. If you are travelling to mind, Bob | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
is going to be a problem, particularly hill fog. It is quite | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
misty and murky and as you can see, by the morning, Apache light rain | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
continues. Temperature is no lover than 30 degrees for most of us. | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
Murky, great start to the day tomorrow. A promise of sunshine is | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
pretty limited. It may brighten up a wee bit across central parts of | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
Cornwall. But along the south coast, especially, the mischievous and fog | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
will go in and out of the coast. Poor visibility. Temperatures still | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
ready good. Above average. 18—20d. For those sailors in Falmouth, there | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
is slightly more of the reasons. A southeasterly wind. For the Isles of | :26:27. | :26:38. | |
Scilly, expect some early shower was and briefly some sunny spells but | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
the risk of fog matches continues throughout the day here. Times of | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
high water. And for our surfers, facility not to | :26:45. | :26:58. | |
bad. To —3 feet. Slightly more choppy. Still a relatively quiet | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
conditions. There are the coastal waters for cost. Showers and missed | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
with generally moderate or paupers of the litter. It's me for a time, | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
on Friday, brighten up quite nicely. Not a bad day. The survey, all cloud | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
and outbreaks of rain and then some showers as we move into Sunday. City | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
much unsettled for the next few days. Have a good evening. That is | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
Spotlight tonight. There is back with the headlines at eight o'clock | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
and our late news at 25 —— 10:25pm. We | :27:45. | :27:46. |