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News !t qix. It is 'oodbye from me and on B@C | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Top of the class. Guernsey's government set to fund free | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
preschool education for all at a cost of around ?2 million a year. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Cracking crime. Police say recorded crimes in Jersey are at their lowest | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
since they started counting them. Flying high. Airline Aurignx | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Flying high. Airline Aurigny announce plans to spend ?3 lillion | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
announce plans to spend ?3 million replacing its Trislanders whth | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
these. There's good news tonight for | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
parents of young children in Guernsey. There is bad news and good | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
news for the Easter weekend. Sunday and Monday, a lot more cloud with | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the potential of rain. A full forecast later in the programme. | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
There is good news tonight for parents of young children in | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Guernsey. The Education Department Guernsey. The Education Department | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
is proposing free preschool education for all at a cost of | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
around ?3 million a year. Under the plans, children would get 14 hours a | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
week of free education for 38 weeks before they start primary school. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Mike Wilkins reports. 15 hours a week at a nursery | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Mike Wilkins reports. 15 hours a week at a nurserx like | :01:19. | :01:18. | |
15 hours a week at a nursery like one in St Peter Port can cost up to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
?400 a month. When we filmed these children at the Monkey Puzzle | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Nursery last year, that's what their parents were paying. But now the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Education Department wants to bring Guernsey in line with England and | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
closer to Jersey where all children receive some free nursery education. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
We are miles behind everywhere receive some free nursery education. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
We are miles behind everywhere at the moment, as far as preschool | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
education is concerned, and we must catch up. Even if we get this | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
through, it's just the start. We are way behind the other jurisdictions. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
We are way behind Europe. It's proposing that all children would | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
get 15 hours a week of free education for 38 weeks in the year | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
before they start primary school. But at a cost of ?2 million a year, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
is it something the public feels would be money well spent? @t the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
moment, there are a lot of working mothers who have to go to work to | :02:12. | :02:12. | |
make ends meet. That will ghve mothers who have to go to work to | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
make ends meet. That will give them make ends meet. That will give them | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
a lot of peace of mind that their children are being educated, and | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
save, and progressing. I've got two grown children, 15 and 16. It | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
save, and progressing. I've got two grown children, 15 and 16. Ht is a | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
lot to pay. It is money well spent, and that is from my perspective. But | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
there are even more pressing needs, given what is going on in hdalth at | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
given what is going on in health at the moment. I think it is a good | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
idea. It will be good for the authority to do that. The Education | :02:43. | :02:43. | |
Department is keen to highlight how Department is keen to highlight how | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
it feels Guernsey's lagging behind other countries. It'll now be up to | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the States and those holding the purse strings to decide if free | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
preschool becomes a reality or not. Recorded crime levels in Jersey are | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
at their lowest since policd started counting them. The force's annual | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
counting them. The force's `nnual report shows there were 3,172 | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
recorded crimes in 2013. Th`t's a drop of 17% on 2012. But the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
drop of 17% on 2012. But thd island's force still has a lot of | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
challenges, as Jen Smith reports. Jersey Police have had a busy year. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Although the overall number of recorded crimes has dropped, the | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
number of incidents officers are called out to has not. The good news | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
is theft, burglaries and assaults are all down. There's been a 32% | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
are all down. There's been ` 32 drop in crime after nights out, a | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
31% reduction in drug offences and fewer burglaries. But some things | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
have seen a rise. Road deaths and domestic violence | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
are on the up. There's been a 9% rise in the number | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
of serious injuries on the hslands roads compared to 2012. And a 50% | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
increases in fatalities. Three people died last year including this | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
fatal accident at Mount Bingham which killed a 42`year`old tourist. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Jersey Police say it's too lany We Jersey Police say it's too lany We | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
were praying hard to keep those figures down. We have a campaign | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
running at the moment, which is focused on two wheels, cyclds and | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
focused on two wheels, cycles and motorcycles. Now that the wdather is | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
improving. Incidents of domestic improving. Incidents of domestic | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
violence are also up. Last xear violence are also up. Last xear | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
officers went to more than 1,100 officers went to more than 1,100 | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
cases. A rise of 6% on 2012. But after high profile campaigns by | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
police and charities encour`ging victims to come forward, it was | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
expected. We take it as a positive measure. In the sense that it | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
expected. We take it as a positive measure. In the sense that ht shows | :04:41. | :04:40. | |
measure. In the sense that it shows that we are starting to unddrstand | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
domestic abuse better. Many years ago, you'd deny it existed. But | :04:45. | :04:45. | |
police say their biggest ch`llenge police say their biggest ch`llenge | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
is tackling so`called legal highs after recent deaths linked to | :04:49. | :04:49. | |
various psychoactive substances. We various psychoactive substances We | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
need to work very closely with need to work very closely with | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
education, parents, and the youngsters to stop them getting | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
involved in this stuff. It's really dangerous, and it's going to be one | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
of our priorities. After three consecutive years of falling crime, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
the police don't expect the numbers to drop much further. But they say | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
they certainly won't be resting on their laurels. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Jersey States members should be paid according to how much responsibility | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
they take on, says the island's Treasury Minister. At the moment, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
every States Member is paid the same salary of ?42,600. Plus up to ?4,000 | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
salary of ?42,600. Plus up to ? ,000 in expenses. But Senator Ozouf | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
argues that isn't enough to tempt more capable and high`earning | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
businesspeople to run for office. And has added an amendment to a | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
review of government plans. The average cost of living hn Jersey | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
The average cost of living in Jersey has risen by 1.7%, a lower figure | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
than forecast for the first quarter of this year. But the rise hn food | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
prices and housing costs means those prices and housing costs me`ns those | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
on lower incomes are feeling the pinch. Government figures suggest | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
for those in the bottom 20% of earners, the cost of living has | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
risen more sharply by 2% ovdr earners, the cost of living has | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
risen more sharply by 2% over the past year. We are always looking to | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
ensure that the inflation rdmains low so that goods and services are | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
as affordable as possible, based on the earnings people have. There are | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
always more things government is seeking to do but you have to | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
balance what you can afford, in terms of the services you are | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
providing, and what is realhstic. providing, and what is realhstic. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
And I think that balance is more or less reasonably struck, but there is | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
always room for improvement. The airline Aurigny's announced ?3 | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
million plans to replace thd The airline Aurigny's announced ?3 | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
million plans to replace the current fleet of Trislanders. It wants to | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
buy three second`hand Dornier 228. buy three second`hand Dornier 228. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
And is asking the States to either lend it the money, or guarantee a | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
loan. They'd be used on the Alderney route. Penny Elderfield reports. | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
It's goodbye to these. And hello to this. Aurigny's replacement for the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
old Trislanders. The airlind wants to buy three second hand Dorniers | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
for the Alderney route. They'll cost around ?3 million. But should save | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
around ?100,000 a year becatse the Dorniers are cheaper to run, and | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
maintain. But even with that saving, it won't make the Alderney `ir link | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
profitable. Neither of the route from Guernsey to Alderney or | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Alderney to Southampton makd money. Alderney to Southampton make money. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
So we are just trying to reduce the amount of losses that we incur on an | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
annual basis. If you're thinking where will the millions needed come | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
from, that's where the Statds come in. They're being asked to either | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
in. They're being asked to dither guarantee a loan for it, or lend | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Aurigny the money. There ard guarantee a loan for it, or lend | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Aurigny the money. There are a Aurigny the money. There are a | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
limited number of options for the route. So, we are satisfied that we | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
have looked at all those options, and that we have reached thd | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
and that we have reached the conclusion that it is the bdst | :08:01. | :08:01. | |
conclusion that it is the best aircraft. Having flown betwden the | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
aircraft. Having flown between the Islands for decades, the end of the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Trislanders will really be the end of an era. But for some perhaps the | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
big question will be what whll big question will be what will | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
happen to Joey? Something that's still not been decided. This is BBC | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
Channel Islands. The rapidlx growing Channel Islands. The rapidly growing | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
plant that will be 60 feet tall in a few months' time, that is coming up | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
later in Spotlight. ?NEWLINE Jersey later in Spotlight. ?NEWLINE Jersey | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
rugby club have signed ten players ahead of next season. The fhve | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
ahead of next season. The five existing and five new players to the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
first team squad have been recruited with a focus on what they c`n bring | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
with a focus on what they can bring to the sport on and off the field. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
The signings have been confirmed just two days before the cltb's | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
crunch match this weekend. They face London Scottish in their last home | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
game of the season at St Peter on Saturday. Failure to win cotld see | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
their battle for championship survival over. | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
It is a huge game for us. Wd survival over. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
It is a huge game for us. Wd are going to need as much support out | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
there as possible. It is a final for us, the last game here, so let's go | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
out there, not concentrate on the smaller aspect, but tried to go out | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
there and tried to get the right result. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
And you can listen live to Jersey's match against London Scottish on BBC | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Radio Jersey from 2pm on Saturday. And we'll have a full match report | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
here on BBC Channel Islands News on Tuesday. | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
Meanwhile, Guernsey Football Club also have a big match this weekend | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
which could set them on their way also have a big match this weekend | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
which could set them on thehr way to promotion from the Ryman South | :09:31. | :09:31. | |
League. The Green Lions plax League. The Green Lions plax | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Faversham at home on Saturday Faversham at home on Saturd`y | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
afternoon. If they win, and certain other teams playing that dax | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
afternoon. If they win, and certain other teams playing that day lose, | :09:38. | :09:37. | |
other teams playing that dax lose, they could be guaranteed a top five | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
finish. That'd mean a place in the play`offs for promotion to the Ryman | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
Premier League. The weather time. David has the | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
all`important Easter weekend forecast. I think this Eastdr | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
weekend, it is a weekend of two halves. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
The good days will be Good Friday and Saturday, and not so good on | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Easter Day and also on Monday. A lot more cloud on the second half of the | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
weekend. We have had 18.7 degrees today, that was in Jersey, so it | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
won't be quite as warm a generally colder up with some sunshine | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
won't be quite as warm a generally colder up with some sunshind with | :10:21. | :10:20. | |
colder up with some sunshine with the afternoon. That cloud is coming | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in through the afternoon, spilling in from the north`west. That failure | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
of cloud will be across us for eight good part of the night. Then | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
high`pressure re`establishes itself across us as well as the rest of the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
UK. As we move into Saturday and then Sunday, what we are watching | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
very carefully is not what's happening out here, but what is | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
happening over here. This area of low pressure will trickle across | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
northern parts of France and coming Sunday, what we are watching very | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
carefully is not what's happening out here, but what is happening over | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
here. This area of low pressure will trickle across northern parts of | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
France come into the eastern side of England the wind is changing | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
direction, coming north, and then north`easterly, and overnight | :11:09. | :11:08. | |
temperatures no lower than eight or temperatures no lower than dight or | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
nine. We might have some talent bob around, but breaking up by the end | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
of the morning into the aftdrnoon on Friday. Not as warm as today. 12 or | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
13 as the top temperature. Keen breeze. `` keen breeze. There is | :11:25. | :11:40. | |
some clean surf. The outlook is fine and dry on Saturday. The big change | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
comes as we come into Sundax and comes as we come into Sunday and | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Monday with both days quite cloudy and cold with outbreaks of rain. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Finally, one of the pictures you've been keen to send in, Pembroke break | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
on Guernsey. It is lovely. `` Pembroke B`y. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
I am back at ten o'clock. Rail ?4.5 million in compensation. | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
The trains might be running again at Dawlish, but the bills for the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
damage here, it seems, keep rolling in, too. Coming up later in the | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
programme. Fighting for survival. Find out why it will be a | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
make`or`break Easter weekend for two of the region's football sides. And | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
it's full steam ahead for a special weekend on this South Devon rail | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
line. The sign says it all. In 2007 all | :12:37. | :13:08. | |
the shops in Modbury stopped selling plastic carrier bags. It was done | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
over a matter of about four weeks. From beginning to end. We got the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
date wrong, we stop using plastic bags. Then we had the Modbury bag, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
that came out. Then, we have also that came out. Then, we have also | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
got our own bags, and people, I think we educated people into using | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
baskets and things like that. The big problem with plastic bags is not | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
just that they hang around ages making the place look messy, like | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
this book in Modbury, they `re good at finding their way to deceive. | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
this book in Modbury, they are good at finding their way to decdive And | :13:50. | :13:49. | |
at finding their way to deceive. And while water is a great life giver, | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
these things are anything btt. Once these things are anything btt. Once | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
in water, plastic bags pose a huge threat to wildlife, causing | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
countless deaths. So bearing this in mind, to the trailblazers in Modbury | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
think that the European Parliament decision is a good thing? I think | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
so, because then of liberty would follow suit and nobody would think | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
any different when they go into one shot that this charging for banks, | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
and then when the shop does not give you any other bags at all. Xou | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
and then when the shop does not give you any other bags at all. You have | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
just got to take a shopping bag shopping with you. The ban on bags | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
in Modbury was the result rdsult shopping with you. The ban on bags | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
in Modbury was the result result of a voluntary agreement betwedn | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
a voluntary agreement between shopkeepers. Now the Europe`n | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Parliament has agreed to set a more stringent target to reduce the use | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
of plastic bags, but to allow member states to impose compulsory ban on | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the most polluting type of bag where they see fit. Where Modbury leech, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
it seems, Europe follows. People in it seems, Europe follows. People in | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Newton are calling for government money promised for repairs to storm | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
damage to be made available. This evening, people have held a rally on | :15:05. | :15:16. | |
new and green. The sign says, give us back our beach, and in Ndwlyn, | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
us back our beach, and in Newlyn, people want the promenade b`ck, | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
us back our beach, and in Ndwlyn, people want the promenade back, as | :15:21. | :15:20. | |
people want the promenade b`ck, as well. People have called for urgent | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
action to make the permanent repairs needed. We have a beautiful place | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
and it relies solely on tourism and we cannot expect tourists come down | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
and see this. Who wants to come and see this and their money? The | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
damaged happened over two weeks in damaged happened over two weeks in | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
February, as huge seas undermined the sea wall. Local businesses say | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
that it has affected trading. For a number of weeks, it seemed that to | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
anyone walking along the promenade, it seemed as if it was closd, you | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
anyone walking along the promenade, it seemed as if it was close, you so | :15:57. | :15:57. | |
you had to turn around and walk back again. Some progress has bedn made | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
again. Some progress has been made and the path is now open ag`in, | :16:01. | :16:01. | |
again. Some progress has bedn made and the path is now open again, but | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
it has taken two months to do that and we are at the point now where it | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
should have been within a few days should have been within a few days | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
of the storm. There is no rdason should have been within a fdw days | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
of the storm. There is no rdason why it could not have been as open then | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
as it is right now. Around 30 locals are been helping clean up the area, | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
and a petition has been signed. There was lots of debris lyhng | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
There was lots of debris lying around. Now, through people power, | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
the influence of people, th`t allows me to go to the council, and we have | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
been able to do a lot in thd last couple of days. Cornwall Council's | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
leaders said that apart from emergency repairs, no for the work | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
can be carried out, until money promised by the Government is | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
received. It added that the council cannot spend money that it does not | :16:51. | :16:51. | |
have. The Easter period is ` cannot spend money that it does not | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
have. The Easter period is a busy one for sport and the south`west. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
There could be one or two rdlegation There could be one or two relegation | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
issues settled for the region's football clubs. With that and the | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
rest of the key events over the holiday weekend, here's Spotlight's | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
Dave Gibbins. Time is slipphng away from Yeovil Town's bid to stay in | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
the Championship. With quarterback games left, the Somerset side have | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
to make up five points if they are to reach safe ground, starting at | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Blackburn Rovers tomorrow. Plymouth Argyle's fading challenge for the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
League Two play`offs can be was sedated at very tomorrow. The | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
pilgrims are four port software they want to be. `` four points off, | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
where they want to be. I have done it before. I have got to be strong. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
I have got to keep the team that I think is going to win us thd game at | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
home. Exeter city are only two points away from the bottom two | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
relegation spots, one of whhch points away from the bottom two | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
relegation spots, one of which is occupied by Torquay United. City | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
must upset the odds at third placed Chesterfield tomorrow. For a long | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
time, we have felt ourselves to be on the wrong side of a performance. | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Torquay United are isolated at the bottom and drop into non`league | :18:11. | :18:11. | |
Torquay United are isolated at the bottom and drop into non`le`gue all, | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
especially if they lose to Dagenham and Greg Ridge tomorrow, and at | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Exeter on Monday. The Exeter Chiefs are trying to maintain their seventh | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
position in the Premiership, by overcoming Sale Sharks at Sandy | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Park. It would mean they take a closer step to a play`off, to the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
revamped European cup for next revamped European cup for ndxt | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
season. The 17`year`old WinServer from Longwood in the wants and is | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
season. The 17`year`old WinServer from Longwood in the wants `nd is 60 | :18:46. | :18:45. | |
from Longwood in the wants and is 60 points ahead of her nearest rival, | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
Emma Wilson. Imagine as a l`st points ahead of her nearest rival, | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Emma Wilson. Imagine as a last two races on Good Friday, and whsh | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Emma Wilson. Imagine as a l`st two races on Good Friday, and wish to | :18:53. | :18:53. | |
retain her advantage and retain the national pride. `` Imogen h`s. | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
retain her advantage and retain the national pride. `` Imogen has. Now | :19:03. | :19:02. | |
national pride. `` Imogen h`s. Now this sounds like something out of | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
science fiction. It's a plant whose shoots are growing at the rate | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
science fiction. It's a plant whose shoots are growing at the r`te of | :19:08. | :19:07. | |
science fiction. It's a plant whose shoots are growing at the rate of a | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
foot a day and will reach around 60 feet tall in a few months' time. But | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
feet tall in a few months' time But the giant is quite harmless and | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
you've probably eaten it. Spotlight's David George has been to | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
a beautiful garden on the banks Spotlight's David George has been to | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
a beautiful garden on the banks of the Helford river to find ott more. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
the Helford river to find out more. Some say this is the nearest you can | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
get to the Himalayas without travelling to Nepal. This year, the | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
travelling to Nepal. This ydar, the huge flowering trees and shrubs are | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
looking better than ever, btt huge flowering trees and shrubs are | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
looking better than ever, but even looking better than ever, but even | :19:36. | :19:36. | |
this primordial looking gunnera is not what we have come to sed. | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
this primordial looking gunnera is not what we have come to see. We are | :19:39. | :19:39. | |
not what we have come to sed. We are looking at musso bamboo, and it is | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
enormous. This monster is only a baby. It has grown to this height | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
which is just over two metres, seven which is just over two metres, seven | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
foot six, in 14 days. And its diameter has got to be a good six | :19:59. | :20:12. | |
inches, something like that. Its Latin name suggests it is edible, | :20:13. | :20:13. | |
but it is a bit tough, isn't it It but it is a bit tough, isn't it It | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
would be if you had it at the sort of size, but they harvest them fresh | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
and young, so they harvest it and and young, so they harvest it and | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
round about a metre high, and break them off with a stick, and where | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
it's Blitz on, that is what you would have in your stir`fry. It is a | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
tender, new shoots. It is yummy for tender, new shoots. It is yummy for | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
animals. Here, they have to protect the shoots from squirrels and | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
pandas. It also makes useful scaffolding and is used to make | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
scaffolding and is used to lake tower blocks in the far east, and | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
you can make paper with it `s well. You can probably just pick out these | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
fine hairs on it. Later in the growing season this will pedl | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
fine hairs on it. Later in the growing season this will peel off | :20:52. | :20:51. | |
growing season this will pedl off and form paper which, in China, | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
growing season this will peel off and form paper which, in Chhna, they | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
actually use for writing ond. They coal this part of the garden the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Bamboozle, and the musso balboo here will be around 60 feet tall by July. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Which is a lot taller than him and his dad. That is incredible. It is a | :21:11. | :21:23. | |
beautiful spot. The theme is delivering the goods, and they will | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
be showing off the different types of trains and services that were so | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
popular in a bygone age. We took a ride from Buckfastleigh to Totnes, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
to see why erupts team still fascinates so many. `` why the era | :21:37. | :21:46. | |
of steam. The steam train is, for many, a living creature, a | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
fascinating piece of machindry. fascinating piece of machindry. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
People working here say that their office is seven miles long, from | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Buckfastleigh, the top this. The train is really lovely. It hs | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Buckfastleigh, the top this. The train is really lovely. It is so | :22:01. | :22:00. | |
train is really lovely. It hs so picturesque. As a kid, I was | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
interested in it, and it st`ys picturesque. As a kid, I was | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
interested in it, and it st`ys with you. It is lovely. When you look at | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
the history of it, when you realise we are in a royal carriage, it is | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
quite exciting. The South Ddvon Railway trust turns over ?3 million | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
a year. There are 600 volunteers. Colin is one of them. He st`rted | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Colin is one of them. He started working here in 1963. It is | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
something different, unique. What was an everyday occurrence, is now | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
something special. Another volunteer, John, is living his | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
dream. As a little boy I watched steam trains and all my lifd, | :22:46. | :22:46. | |
dream. As a little boy I watched steam trains and all my life, I | :22:47. | :22:47. | |
steam trains and all my lifd, I wanted to work with them. And it | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
took me 61 years. Before I could actually work on a railway. My | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
father said, there was no money in it, so I had to go and be a plumber. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
And after 61 years I managed to get to where I wanted to be, as a boy. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
This weekend there is a four`day gala, celebrating the biggest users | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
in bygone days, great. They would carry all manner of good, c`ttle and | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
cold, you name it, it came by rail. We are using a heritage diesel fleet | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
from the 1960s and we will be running a number of different break | :23:28. | :23:28. | |
trains. Steam train enthusiasts running a number of different break | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
trains. Steam train enthusi`sts say trains. Steam train enthusiasts say | :23:33. | :23:32. | |
that you could bottle the slell trains. Steam train enthusi`sts say | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
that you could bottle the smell of steam, oral and smoke, you would be | :23:36. | :23:45. | |
a billionaire. `` oil and sloke Plenty going on in the south`west | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
this weekend. But we all want to know what the weather is going to | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
this weekend. But we all want to know what the weather is gohng to be | :23:52. | :23:52. | |
know what the weather is going to be like. How was it looking? Not so | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
bad, but probably not try all the way through. The Easter weekend can | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
be split into Friday and Saturday with fine weather to enjoy, Sunday | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and Monday, cloudy skies and the possibility of rain. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
It will be fined and some sunshine tomorrow, then in the sunshhne we | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
tomorrow, then in the sunshine we will see temperatures up to 16 | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
Celsius. More cloud has come will see temperatures up to 16 | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
Celsius. More cloud has comd in Celsius. More cloud has come in | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
through the day`to`day. That is covering a good part of Britain. The | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
whole lot will sink South into France overnight tonight. Then the | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
skies will clear and later ht France overnight tonight. Then the | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
skies will clear and later it will become quite chilly. A few places | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
like the Somerset Levels could become quite chilly. A few places | :24:35. | :24:35. | |
like the Somerset Levels could get down to three Celsius. That is the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
forecast for the middle of the day tomorrow. High pressure is back in | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
charge, still with us on Saturday, but we haven't on the usual | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
direction for an area of low pressure, coming across frol | :24:50. | :24:50. | |
pressure, coming across from northern Italy, moving across | :24:51. | :24:51. | |
Europe, drifting into the eastern Europe, drifting into the eastern | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
side of Britain, by the timd Europe, drifting into the e`stern | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
side of Britain, by the time we Europe, drifting into the eastern | :24:57. | :24:56. | |
side of Britain, by the time we get to the middle of Sunday, so a change | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
to cloudy, breezy conditions on Sunday. The first half of the day | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
might be dry, but the second half of the day could turn out to be | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
might be dry, but the second half of the day could turn out to bd quite | :25:09. | :25:08. | |
the day could turn out to be quite wet. Looking at the structure of | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
that cloud, in a little more detail, we have some spots of rain coming | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
out of that band of cloud. Overnight tonight, keeping that blanket | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
out of that band of cloud. Overnight tonight, keeping that blankdt of | :25:21. | :25:20. | |
tonight, keeping that blanket of cloud covering us for the fhrst | :25:21. | :25:21. | |
tonight, keeping that blankdt of cloud covering us for the first half | :25:22. | :25:21. | |
cloud covering us for the fhrst half of the night. And then, towards | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
born, we have clear sports coming into northern parts of Devon, but | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the most of us, temperatures holding up quite well, at around six | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow, cloudy start with the cloud quickly breaking to allow | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
the sunshine through. It will be nice with warm sunshine to enjoy. | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
There is enough temperature contrast between the sea surface temperature | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
and the land and generate an onshore sea breeze, so a lot of the | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
coastline will struggle with temperatures, at around 11 Celsius, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
and it is in land that we see temperatures, at around 11 Celsius, | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
and it is in land that we see the highest temperatures of 16 Celsius. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
For the Isles of Scilly, another fine, dry Davison sunshine, and a | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
gentle north`easterly breeze. fine, dry Davison sunshine, and a | :26:12. | :26:12. | |
gentle north`easterly breeze. The times of high water... | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
See temperatures have risen over the last couple of weeks. That sunshine | :26:21. | :26:36. | |
has held, see temperatures at between 10`11 Celsius. And the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
coastal waters forecast... This is the outlook. Saturday is a | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
lovely day. Sunday, clouding over, particularly Sunday evening, quite | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
wet with outbreaks of rain settling in. And the breeze will freshen up | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
from Sunday into Easter Monday, and Mundy itself is cloudy with | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
outbreaks of rain. We will have to make the most of the next couple of | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
days. There will be lots of clear skies, so gardeners beware, because | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
there is every chance we cotld skies, so gardeners beware, because | :27:15. | :27:15. | |
there is every chance we could see quite a widespread frost, unusual to | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
see at this point in April, but the frost is certainly possible. And | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
finally, thank you for the photographs you have sent in over | :27:26. | :27:26. | |
the last couple of days. Thhs is of the last couple of days. Thhs is of | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Newquay harbour, from Julie Teller. Keep them coming in. Rain on a bank | :27:31. | :27:42. | |
holiday? We have got it all. Spotlight is back on Tuesdax. Have a | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
lovely Easter. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |