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Welcome to BBC Channel Islands on Thursday 12th January. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Millions of pounds wasted - damning criticism of the now | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
suspended Jersey Innovation Fund, which used public money | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
There has been a complete incompetence in administration here. | :00:12. | :00:28. | |
It has simply not been followed. There are no key set performance | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
indicators to it even measure the company. | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
Booming bus use - how incentives have helped turn around public | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Flying high - the soaring numbers of birds no longer under threat. | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
And not only is it blowing a gale across the islands right now, but | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
colder air is following this area of rain and some of the showers | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
overnight are likely to turn increasingly wintry. More details | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
from me later in the programme. Good evening. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
I'm Alison Moss. A damning report's been published | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
into a States of Jersey fund that's potentially lost millions of pounds | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
of taxpayers' money. According to the report, | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the Jersey Innovation Fund, which has now been suspended, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
may have been linked The Chief Minister says he's shocked | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
and angry at the way We'll be hearing from him live | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
in a moment, but first This is one of the companies | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
that got a loan from But the start-up software firm | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
'logfiller' never paid back It's emerged six of the seven | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
companies given loans totalling ?2 million of taxpayers' | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
money are in arrears. Now the idea of the | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Jersey Innovation Fund, when it was set up under | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
the Economic Development Department four years ago, was to support | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
new business ideas. But a report has highlighted serious | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
failings in how it was run. One of those running | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
it was chief executive You may remember him | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
from the scandal around business Well, last week, he resigned, | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
with six months' pay - that's ?70,000 - and hasn't | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
responded to our calls Elsewhere in the document, | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
the author also hints at criminal links to the fund, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
saying: The fund will be investigated | :02:23. | :02:35. | |
by the Public Accounts Committee, In my time as chairman of public | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
accounts and in my time as a politician, this is the worst | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
I've seen. There's been a complete absence | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
of competent administration here, the terms of reference agreed | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
by the States have There are no set key performance | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
indicators to even measure the companies that were lent these | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
sums, so that really really is very disappointing | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
and quite distressing. Joining me in the studio now | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
is the Chief Minister, Chairman of the Public Accounts | :03:04. | :03:17. | |
Committee was calling it disappointing. This report isn't | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
easy reading. The criticism says is not fit for purpose, more should | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
have been done to protect public money. This was ?5 million worth of | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
taxpayers money, the innovation fund. Has it been a disaster? The | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
report is damning. It shows a shocking failure in management, in | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
governance, in administration. So perhaps that is a word that could be | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
used. Only 2 million of the 5 million has been spent, there has | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
been no new loans during 2015. I was angered and shot and find it | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
completely unacceptable when I read the report. Who do you blame? The | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
report is clear. It deals with feelings of administration, but I am | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
not sufficiently happy with that. As the chief executive should also look | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
to see whether their discipline measures taken. He also reviewing | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
the other grant funded organisations to make sure these feelings are not | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
replicated there. On top of that, this is the report of that | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
administration, but I want to make sure the politicians involved have | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
not added to or been involved in the conclusions that the report says and | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
I'm instigating an investigation that will be without fear or favour | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
and if it says action should be taken, action will be taken. Can the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
public trust this Government with their money? Is said this evening, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
there are questions that need to be asked and until we have the answers | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
to those questions, I can't be satisfied that the Government and | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
management is in place when it comes to money being given to third | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
parties and it is only this extra piece of work that will tell us | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
whether these feelings are more widespread and will rebuild trust. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
The idea of an innovation fund is very good for local entrepreneurs. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Do you imagine in the future a different type of innovation fund | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
could exist? The report was clear. The innovation fund is a good idea, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
it's just the management of it that failed. There are ?3 million roughly | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
left in the innovation fund, we will need to think about how we could | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
apply that, perhaps in smaller amounts to different modes of | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
companies, that will be a decision for the States to make in due | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
course. Innovation is important. It's important our economy innovates | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
and diversifies and this fund was supposed to be helping that happen. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Chief Minister, thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you. | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
An internal investigation has been launched by Guernsey's bus operator | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
after footage shared on social media appears to show one | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
of its fleet driving in a potentially dangerous way. | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
The bus is seen drifting into the centre of the road | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
and forcing oncoming vehicles to mount the pavement. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
It comes on the same day that government figures reveal | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
the number of passengers using the service has | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Love them or loathe them - Guernsey's buses are proving | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
increasingly popular with the travelling public. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
More than 1.65 million people made use of the bus service last year, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
the highest recorded figure since records began. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Well, it's ?1 to anywhere in the island, which certainly | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
helps, but how have they managed to get so many passengers | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Well, we're being told that it's because students now | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
have free transport, there's been the introduction | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
of a new bus app, and also a greater use of smart cards which has made it | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
But not everything is running smoothly on the buses. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
This footage shared on social media has resulted in an internal | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
investigation being launched by CT Plus. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
We have a contract with CT Plus, and the contract does not deal | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
with terms and conditions or how the drivers happen to drive, | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
but we clearly would show our disapproval or communicate with CT | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Plus, if we felt that an incident was inappropriate. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
But the buses are wide, we know that and I think sometimes | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
for the newer drivers to the island who drive in cities, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
rather than in small, what were once cart tracks, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
then it takes them some time to acclimatise. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
CT Plus has declined to comment further while | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
the investigation is ongoing, but elsewhere it's | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
And, these buses, which have caused so much controversy are set | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
to be replaced by these, shorter and narrower ones, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
with phase one of that plan due to happen by May. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Sark Vineyards has announced the closure of its business in Sark. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Sark Estate Management, owned by the Barclay Brothers, | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
say they have "invested millions of pounds in the project, | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
but they now fail to see any future in Sark or its economy." | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The company says in a statement the authorities in Sark "have | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
obstructed the vineyards' progress throughout". | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Guernsey's newest politician has been elected unopposed as a member | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
of the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture. | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Deputy Neil Inder was nominated and seconded | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
by the President and Vice President of the Committee. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
He replaces Marc Leadbeater, who resigned from the committee last | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
month, when Emilie Yerby wrote to members announcing her intention | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Unemployment in Jersey fell to its lowest for | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
1,280 people were registered as looking for work - | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
more than 100 fewer than the same time the previous year. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
The drop is being put down to the success of the States Back | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
to Work scheme and support from local businesses. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
It's a sight many of us take for granted - | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
watching wild birds like chaffinches and skylarks soar through our skies. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
But for the past few years, several of these species | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Now, thanks to a scheme run by researchers, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
there's been a huge increase in the number of wild farmland | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
birds in the island, as Jessica Banham reports. | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
Ready to take flight. These wild birds have spent the winter growing | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
stronger on seeds. Around 50 fields across the island have been planted | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
with crops to make sure it endangered species have another food | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
to survive the coldest months of the year. The species are declining | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
across Europe and the reason is for changes in farming practices, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
climate change and destruction of their habitats. What do we had in | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
the field here? In this field, these plans have seeds that the birds will | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
eat straightaway from, like mustard, millet and sunflowers, which you can | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
see they have been perched on top and feeding from here from this | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
position because all the little empty shells are still here. As well | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
as using this field to feed the birds, researchers sometimes catch | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
them. They picked one of these small rings on their legs which has a | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
unique number, then they can track their movements. Last winter, there | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
were almost 14,000 more birds than the year before, an increase of 54%. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Since the winter of 2013, there's been an even bigger increase of more | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
than 500%. It costs around ?100 to cover an area the size of a football | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
pitch in seeds. That cost is met by private donations, often from | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
farmers taking part in the scheme. Sign that it's giving something back | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
to the environment and the island because we are not just all about | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
growing potatoes and making money. Therefore, we want to be seen as | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
doing what is right. Researchers haven't finished painting the birds | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
spotted this winter but believe numbers are still growing. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Ultimately, they hope to take species like these of the endangered | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
list forever. The weather's getting pretty wild | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
in the Channel Islands. Here's the scene in Jersey | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
a little earlier today. Several roads | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
in Jersey were closed or blocked, including access | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
to Fort Regent Leisure Centre. Condor's cancelled its fast ferries | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
to France and England for the next two days | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
and Jersey Met Department has issued the highest level of storm warning, | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
while honorary police are urging David Braine can tell us | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
exactly what's in store. It's going to be a tricky night for | :11:35. | :11:50. | |
people tonight. It is, yes. Not only have we got these really strong | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
gusts of wind which I is damaging, we've also got some very cold air | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
that is flooding dying from the Arctic. It is a bitter winter for us | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
tomorrow. There will be more sunshine than we've seen today, that | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
is good news. There is also likely to be wintry showers around and some | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
of the showers will be with his overnight tonight. Why is it so | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
windy and cold? The air is coming from the Arctic. There are several | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
areas of low pressure coming down to the UK across the Channel and moving | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
into northern France. This one in particular is giving us these really | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
strong gusts of wind. It will eventually move away. Once we lose | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
that area of low pressure, we've still got a gusty and strong | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
north-westerly breeze. We will also find trapped within the flow several | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
lines of showers which will come tonight, some tomorrow. Those | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
showers are increasingly likely to turn to sleet or hail at times, snow | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
possible across the islands, mainly in the showers. That is the setup. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Very windy conditions overnight tonight and there is a warning | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
issued by the Jersey Met Office because of the concern about the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
strength of the wind. It's going to be pretty cold as well. Temperatures | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
to start the day tomorrow between zero and plus two. If you throw in | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the strength of wind with those kind of temperatures, with the wind | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
chill, it will feel more like -2 minus three. A bitterly cold day, | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
one line of wintry showers leases first thing in the morning then | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
there is a chance of a shower it through the rest of the day and | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
temperatures really struggling. It's going to feel colder than that | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
because it's still very blustery. The winds will ease a little bit in | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
the second half of the day. Here are our times of high water. Big tides | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
as well because we are a full moon and for those heading out to sea, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
some very, very difficult conditions agency. Big waves. Stormy conditions | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
for the servers. The winds north westerly, wintry showers, the good | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
news is it's less windy and warmer by the weekend. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
We will try and keep you updated with all the latest travel details | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
on social media. I'll be back with your | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
headlines at eight. Plymouth City Council has suspended | :14:17. | :14:42. | |
work on its road improvement scheme in Plymouth after more white | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
phosphorous grenades were found on the site in Tavistock road. Ten | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
World War II grenade grenades were found and detonated on Tuesday by a | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
bomb disposal team. An extra 14 grenades were found and removed | :14:57. | :14:57. | |
today. A court has ordered a psychiatric | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
assessment on a Devon man charged with possessing an explosive | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
substance for an unlawful purpose. Timothy Holman, who's 41 | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
and from Osborne Road in Ilfracombe, was arrested after a major police | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
operation in the town last month. A 31-year-old woman has died | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
after a crash involving a tractor and trailer near Redruth. | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
A one-year-old baby in the car survived, | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
suffering only minor injuries. It happened on the A30 near | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
the Avers roundabout last night. The road was closed | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
for around eight hours. Three men had been charged with | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
murder after a man's body was found in St Austell. 31-year-old Stephen | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
bowl was found with knife wounds in a part in Truro road yesterday | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
morning. Three local men all aged in their 20s will appear at Bodmin | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
Magistrates' Court tomorrow. A couple from North Devon say | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
they've been struggling to keep warm after a new eco-heating system broke | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
down 39 times in the last 21 months. Robert Smith's oil-fired system | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
was removed by social landlords Westward housing group and replaced | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
by one that uses wood pellets. Filling up the wood pellet | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
boiler is something He has also got used to it breaking | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
down time and time and time again. Right from the start, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
it's just been a disaster and we are now on the 39th breakdown | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
in 21 months. As a tenant, I am | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
relying on the landlord to give me reliable, | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
adequate heating, which is their job. | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Which they have not done. Robert and his partner, | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
Brian Ridgway, rent their house through social landlord, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Westward Housing Group. Brian is disabled and | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
has had five strokes. I have to keep warm in whatever room | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
I am in and it is no good me getting cold because I know I am | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
going to end up straight This room already had | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
an electric fire. The couple were also given extra | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
electric radiators and money I'm very disappointed the way this | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
has had to drag on for so long. I contacted Westward initially well | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
before Christmas about this These are two elderly | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
gentlemen, one is disabled It is highly unsatisfactory the way | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
they have been treated. Westward Housing Group has | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
apologised and has promised to reinstall oil fired heating | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
as soon as possible. It says of 75 similar | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
systems that were put in, in other properties, | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
only three have had Manufacturers Warmflow say - | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
we have established that there have been issues with the whole heating | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
system in this house, When our wood pellet boiler | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
is correctly installed, commissioned, properly maintained | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
and operated by the householder, using the correct fuel, | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
these issues do not occur. Installers Anesco | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
declined to comment. But Robert Smith says he has been | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
using the boiler as instructed, so is he confident things | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
will finally be sorted out? Until I see engineers here, | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
putting the new system in, I still have got no confidence | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
it is going to happen. A new lifeboat's been | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
launched in Devon today - we'll meet the woman | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
who paid for it. And after the rain, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
sleet and some snow, the main problem for us tonight | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
is the risk of ice, especially first thing | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
tomorrow morning. More details from me | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
later in the programme. A book created and funded by parents | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
in Cornwall to prepare children for primary school has been | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
so successful, it's gone global. are being sent to every three- | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
and four-year-old in the county. You may remember we featured | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
the picture book on Spotlight last year - it includes children | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
with Down's Syndrome and it's been so powerful the creators have had | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
enquiries from as far away Emma Thomasson has been to meet Noah | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
- one of the stars of the book. And you need to do some windows. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Can you do some windows? Noah sat on Miss Elliott's chair | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
because no one wanted to pretend to be the teacher. | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
It felt a bit giggly. He likes running around | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
and he falls over a lot. And we play on the whiteboard | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
with him and we take turns. Not one of Noah's classmates | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
I spoke to talked about him And that is exactly the point | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
the parents who created the book that he is featured | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
in want to get across. Instantly, I pick out similarities | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
rather than differences. Children will say, oh, I read that | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
book, or we have that at home. Several comments into | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
the conversation, then it might appear, oh, | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
that child, why does he look like that? | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Why has he got those in his ears? And that is really refreshing for us | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
and encouraging because we know that children of that age, | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
they haven't really formed any hard Today, she is working | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
with Vicky who is another of the volunteers who have produced | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
and financed the book. It is being sent every | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
to childminder, nursery and preschool in Cornwall over | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
the next four years. And news about the book | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
is spreading around the world, thanks to celebrities turning | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
to social media. They include the Poldark cast, | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Miranda Hart and a whole host And that kind of support | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
is something they could only have dreamt of when they started | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
producing the second in the series of books | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
from their kitchen table office. They are now being distributed | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
around the world with one of the biggest orders | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
in North Carolina in the US, where they are being included | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
in welcome bags to parents They are like any other child | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
and they should be given the same thing that you when I had | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
when we were little babies. So, how do you feel about Noah | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
being in the book and it being seen potentially all around the world? | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
It's amazing. It speaks a thousand words, | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
the pictures, just details, children going about everyday school life. | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
And it's very, very... Noah, can you show me | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
where you are again, in the book? Where you are in the book? | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
There! I'm not sure if Noah feels quite | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
the same awe as Mum... He has the more pressing issue | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
of getting back to play No has got far better things to do! | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
-- Noah. Lifeboats are a familiar sight | :21:19. | :21:30. | |
around our coast and today Exmouth took delivery | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
of a new inshore lifeboat. The current D-class vessel has | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
reached the end of its busy It's been called out more | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
than 600 times and rescued Spoligtht's Rebecca Wills | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
was there to see the end of one era It was out with the old at | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Exmouth Lifeboat Station today... The inshore lifeboat, | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
the George Bearman, taking to the water for the final time | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
as it was retired after ten years' It's been a decade in which the | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
D-class vessel has been called out 614 times, | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
rescued 466 people, 28 Also a D-class vessel | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
and also bearing George And getting a prime seat | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
to watch the new inshore lifeboat enter service was George's | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
granddaughter, Pauline. It was her donation | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
which provided by the old As they both came in towards | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
the shore, I was so proud, Sad also, seeing the first | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
one on its last trip. But hopefully, this one | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
will give just as good George Bearman was a | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
coastguard in Norfolk. He was just 38 when he | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
lost his life at sea in It is that family tragedy | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
which prompted Pauline to support My father never knew his father | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
because he was only I just wish that he had | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
lived to see what I've done with the money | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
that A fantastic legacy. | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Yes, absolutely. The D-class boat is considered | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
the workhorse of the RNLI, so the The old boat has given ten years | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
of really good service, hard service here. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
It is quite a busy station. So the new boat should | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
seamlessly take over as it has this morning | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
and give equally as good service | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
over the next ten years. It will be officially | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
named in May when hopefully, champagne, rather | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
than rain, will cover the bow. Plenty of rain in Exmouth earlier | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
today, as we have seen on the programme tonight, some of the rain | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
has turned to snow in places so let's get the latest from David. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Some snow falling, mainly above 300 metres, about 1000 feet. But even at | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
lower levels, some of the showers and it could feel quite wintry. A | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
bit of a problem with a risk of ice developing, the temperatures have | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
fallen and they will continue to fall overnight. You will really need | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
to wrap up warmly. Probably the coldest feeling day we have had so | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
far this winter. Some wintry showers dotted around as well. Some quite | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
heavy. Overnight tonight, all of the rain we have seen on some of the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
sleet and snow on higher ground, we have a risk of ice which continues | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
through the night and for a good part of tomorrow morning. Stay tuned | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
across BBC local radio for updates. It isn't just the cold. The snow on | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the ice and the wintry showers. It is also very windy at the moment and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the strength of wind is also of some concern because we have some pretty | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
high tides tonight. Some coastal flood alerts in force across the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
North Cornwall and Devon coast. Winds straight from the Arctic and | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
trapped within it, several lines showers which could affect this | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
during the day tomorrow. Saturday, a little bit less windy. A little | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
quieter. Still a bit fraught because a weather front is trapped in | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
amongst all that which could produce some sleet or even some snow over | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
higher ground. A definite change on Sunday to less cold air. Even the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
possibility of some light rain or drizzle. Temperatures will start to | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
come back up. The wings are bitterly cold. Particularly lively at the | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
moment, across the more western parts and some really strong gusts. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
They stick with us through the day tomorrow and in that flow from the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
north-west, leaving Ireland this evening and overnight tonight, some | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
more wintry showers. Don't expect everything to be clear and cold and | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
windy overnight, there is a risk of some wintry showers turning up | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
during the night. Dartmoor, Princetown, there is some snow that | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
fell earlier today. Not a huge amount but it has left a covering of | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
snow on the houses and grass and on the mauls and the vehicles. Traffic | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
moving quite nicely still at the moment but of course it will freeze | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
overnight tonight so a risk of some ice on untreated roads and | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
pavements. The main area of rain now moving into south east England is | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
now giving snow. Even right down to quite low levels. If you are | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
travelling out of the region, be prepared to run into some snow later | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
on tonight. A scattering of showers possible through the night. Sleet or | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
snow mainly over high ground. A bitterly cold north-westerly wind. | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
The risk of ice existing first thing tomorrow morning. Plenty of winter | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
sunshine so not all bad news but the risk of a few passing showers | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
through the day and of us, not very warm. With the wind chill, it will | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
feel a lot colder. A particularly windy day on the Isles of Scilly. | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
The times of high water. For our surfers, some pretty lively | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
condition out at sea. Dangerous along the north coast. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
Bulletins at 10:30pm and on your radio station from 6:30am in the | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
morning when it could be quite tricky. Goodnight. | :27:39. | :28:14. | |
..and keep telling yourself over and over, "This will end." | :28:15. | :28:14. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and groom. | :28:15. | :28:15. | |
So what if I forgot our poxy anniversary? | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
Er, I think this year was copper. 14th is poxy. | :28:19. | :28:23. |