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Good evening, welcome to BBC Channel Islands. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I'm Charlie McArdle. The headlines tonight: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Man arrested on suspicion of murder following the death | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The victim and the man we have detained were known to one another, | :00:07. | :00:22. | |
there is no suggestion that the wider community should be in fear. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Growing up in Guernsey - young people's survey | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
reveals significant number are unhappy and stressed. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
More than 100 players from 15 nations are in Jersey | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
for the European Squash Championships. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
And after what has been quite a miserable day today, the rest of | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
this week looks very promising. High temperatures as well. I'll have all | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
the details later in the programme. A man's been arrested on suspicion | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
of murder after a woman was found Police were called to a residence | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
on Victoria Street this morning. Our reporter Luxmy | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
Gopal is there now. full picture of what happened is | :01:04. | :01:20. | |
still unknown at this early stage, but we do know that at 10:50am, a | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
member of the public called the emergency services, the police | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
arrived to this house behind me here on Victoria Street in the St Helier | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
where they found the body of a middle-aged woman. We don't know her | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
age or other details about her because police say they can't | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
publicly confirm her identity until the spoken to all the members of her | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
family. This is a very fast developing situation and the few | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
hours ago at 3pm, a 57-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
He had been questioned in police custody. He and the victim knew each | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
other and police made their statement at the headquarters if you | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
hours ago. This is the burly early stages of a murder investigation, | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
led by my colleague, a UK Home Office pathologist will attend the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
island to undertake postmortem is in order to help determine the cause of | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
death. Specialist family liaison officers have been appointed to work | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
with and support the family. We are not yet in a position to be able to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
confirm the identity of the victim. Forensic work is likely to be | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
ongoing at the scene in the Victoria Street for some time. A major | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
incident room has been established here at police headquarters. As you | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
heard, these are the very early stages of the murder investigation | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
and there's not much more the police can tell is, they don't know how she | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
died, when she died, or if anyone else was involved. They do say that | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
public safety isn't a risk. Officers have already spoken to significant | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
witnesses, but they are still appealing for anyone who may have | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
heard or seen anything in the past 24 hours, what is very a usually | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
quiet residential street in St Helier, to come forward. Thank you. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
We will bring you any more developments in this story in our | :03:18. | :03:18. | |
late bulletin at 1025 this evening. A 61-year-old man who grew up | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
in Guernsey has been jailed Keith Baker and his wife Caroline | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
had kidnapped a woman with severe learning difficulties | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
in 2004 and subjected her to eight years of horrific sexual assaults | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
while keeping her captive The victim was emaciated and kept | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
in squalid conditions. Baker has been sentenced to 15 years | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
in jail and a further five years That's how some young people | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
in Guernsey view life. That's according to findings from | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
the latest young people's survey. While the majority are content, | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
a significant number say their emotional health is suffering. | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
Mike Wilkins reports. This generation has grown | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
up with the internet And latest research shows | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
that in Guernsey some I think with the increase in social | :04:09. | :04:24. | |
media we face pressure is not only with image and the spread of a | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
certain way you are supposed to look, but also possible bullying | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
personally, I haven't ever experienced this, but I know people | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
who may have felt targeted by certain online. -- certain messages. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
There's a significant number who are unhappy | :04:43. | :04:43. | |
Of the 800 respondents, almost a quarter said they didn't | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
like themselves and more than a fifth said | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
More than half of 16 to 18 year olds believed | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
But experts say it's difficult to leave for young people to close | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Free you and I might have experienced friendship issues, for | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
example, when you got home and shut the door, unless they fall due on | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
your land line, you didn't have to deal with that in the evening. For | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
our children and young people now those issues present themselves 24 | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
hours a day, seven days a week, through social media and the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Internet connectivity. That exacerbates the issue and it's very | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
difficult for our young people to shut the door on the things that are | :05:31. | :05:31. | |
presented to them. But despite these pressures, some | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
people say they're doing all right. The 21st century has made us very | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
resilient, despite what young people say -- survey might suggest. There | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
is a lot we can take from it, we are resilient, we will pick ourselves up | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
regardless of the situation we are in and most young people are | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
positive about the future. Their school days may soon be over, | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
but it's hoped that the findings from this survey will help equip | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
future students to cope Jersey's planned new hospital | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
could be paid for with existing reserves of money rather | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
than through borrowing. A scrutiny panel suggests | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
using the so-called Rainy Day fund, which currently stands | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
at ?800 million, whereas the original plan | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
was for the States to borrow up to 400 million to cover | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
most of the costs. If you are happy taking on the risk | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
of a ?400 million debt, over and above what we already have, and this | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
will take us up to over a billion in liabilities, that the estimate, if | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
you are happy doing that, then fine. If you're not happy, this gives an | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
alternative. The BBC highlighted the increasing | :06:48. | :06:48. | |
number of sexting cases being reported to Jersey Police | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
in yesterday's programme. They are now dealing with incidents | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
involving making and sharing indecent images of children | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
under 16 every week. Not only is it illegal, | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
but there are warnings of the dangers that come with it, | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
as Emma Chambers explains in our second exclusive | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
report into sexting. It's a trend that's growing among | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
young people in Jersey, making friends and even | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
relationships from behind a mobile But it seems the barrier of a screen | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
is making under 16s more confident in what they text | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
and what they send. Essentially speeding up the flirting | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
process by sharing explicit images Jersey Police are warning | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
of the dangers these children are putting themselves in, | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
not only online but when those digital conversations | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
turn into reality. There are cases potentially | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
when young people do turn up to that meeting, | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
knowing in the back of their mind that actually they probably | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
have to, in their mind, albeit they don't, but they feel | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
at the back of their mind maybe they have to go through something | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
they're really not comfortable with because of the image they've | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
sent and the position that they put themselves in, and that's a really | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
dangerous situation. A situation children's charity | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Jersey NSPCC are worried about. They are warning young people not | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
to send the indecent photo or video in the first place, | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
but also what can be However, if they're not | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
prepared to do that, and they do post it online, | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
and that is where it's obviously a real concern for us because that | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
then can cause that child or young person to be further | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
exploited or possibly bullied You can contact Childline and speak | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
to an NSPCC counsellor who will be able to look into having that | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
image removed online. They believe education is key | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
to make young people realise what they should | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
and shouldn't share. Volunteers are needed | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
to help monitor standards The island's Home Affairs Committee | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
is looking for three new recruits to join | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
the Independent Monitoring Panel, a role which involves observing, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
listening and reporting back on life It's to make sure prisoners | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
and prison staff are For the first time, Jersey | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
is hosting part of squash's The event is being held in | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
St Clement for the next four days. Russia, Israel and Sweden are among | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
the countries taking part, and it's a first for Guernsey, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
which has sent a team over. It's fast and furious | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
and even though Jersey's relatively new to the European Championship, | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
the island is making its mark Jersey was granted international | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
status by the World Squash Federation two years ago | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
and the sport hasn't It's been an amazing | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
experience for our players. It's really given them | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
a different mindset coming into events like this and, | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
like you say, to hold it in This is a chance for Jersey squash | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
players of all ages to get a taste for international sporting and it's | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
giving young talent Jersey has also been | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
inspiring its sister island as this is the first year Guernsey has | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
entered the European As a team, we really | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
didn't know what to expect when we came into this, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
we didn't know where we stood. Certainly in the next few years | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
and over the next season, we know where we've got to get | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
to now and our players know Maybe we'll tweak our selection | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
criteria very slightly. I think it's a learning curve for us | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
and we've really enjoyed it so far. Players may be working up a sweat | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
but they have another three days Let's take a look at | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the weather with David Braine. It looks like a summers day. Was | :10:47. | :11:09. | |
that taken today? A few days ago. It is going to be better than this, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
quite a bit of cloud around today which has been stubborn to break but | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
it will overnight tonight and we are looking at good weather thereafter. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
A fine, dry day tomorrow with some sunshine and light winds. The | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
temperatures could be higher but we can't have everything. High pressure | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
in charge, nudging closer to Earth. This is the middle of the week, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Wednesday, by Thursday it is over the south-west of England and the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Channel Islands. Very little wind and fine bright weather. The | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
difficulty will be to estimate how much cloud we are likely to see. The | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
layer of cloud we have had today is breaking up nicely and will continue | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
to move into France. All the clear sky across Cornwall and Devon will | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
cross the Channel towards us later tonight. There will be breaks in the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
cloud before that really good clear sky arrives, it will turn quite | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
chilly overnight tonight with temperatures down to eight or 9 | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
degrees. Inland, temperatures could get down to five or six. Tomorrow, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
patchy cloud around in the morning and then the sunshine comes through. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
By lunchtime or just after, plenty of sunshine to enjoy, lighter winds | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
from today and temperatures of 12 or 13 in the shade but feeling warmer | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
than that in the sunshine. Those are our times of high water. For our | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
servers, the waves are huge but it will be a clean surface. The coastal | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
waters forecast... Look at this, this is how the temperatures fear | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
over the next few days. Gradually climbing up and getting up to around | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
17 or possibly 18 degrees by Saturday. One is coming, we just | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
have to be patient and a lot of fine weather to enjoy with a good deal of | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
sunshine. Try and settled over the next few days. A man has been | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead at a | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
property in place-mac. -- St Helier. Residents were called to Victoria | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Street this morning. I am back at 8pm and 1025. Good night. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
research. And they could just as easily we discover that sort of | :13:31. | :13:31. | |
inspiration here. It was a tragedy in which hundreds | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
of men lost their lives when HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
were bombed in the Indian Ocean 75 years on, the sinking of those | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
two Devonport based cruisers, by Japanese aircraft | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
in the Second World War was commemorated during a special | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
service today, with wreaths laid | :13:51. | :13:51. | |
on Plymouth Hoe. Time to remember in Plymouth. 75 | :13:52. | :14:07. | |
years on from a devastating assault on the Indian Ocean. Was Easter | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Sunday. HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall boat sank in 20 minutes | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
from coming under attack from Japanese dive bombers. More than 400 | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
men died. Among them the father of Derek Bickford. I remember listening | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
to the radio and hearing about it and then collapsing in the chair, | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
what I was only eight years old at the time. As I understand history, | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
they didn't realise that things were around them because they did not | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
have the radar, that they have now. HMS Cornwall was built in Devonport. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
HMS Dorsetshire was built in Portsmouth in 1926. Their loss was a | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
huge blow to the Royal Navy. The names of all those who died on the | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
two Devonport -based cruisers are listed here. Winston Churchill went | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
on to describe Easter Sunday raid as one of the most dangerous moments of | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
the war. Given that we lost HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall and | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
then Hermes, the following day, with about 400 people lost in the water, | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
it was a very significant point in 1942. Some survivors were reunited | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
with the HMS Dorsetshire, Benjamin Martin, seen here in the middle. He | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
had been transferred to Durban in 1941. When HMS Dorsetshire sank, | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
many of the crew ended up in Durban. And he took care of some of those | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
there. And they had two weeks' leave before they had to go back to sea on | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
a new ship. Because Easter is late this year, the association says that | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
the ships, those who died and those who survive will be remembered on | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Easter Sunday, throughout the South West. Remembering the crews of HMS | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall. Now coming up later, | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
a partnership working I put him through his paces, and he | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
put me through mine. Yes! And the Penzance pensioner | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
using pedal power to raise money Now, how did you learn | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
maths at school? With a calculator, a slide rule | :16:27. | :16:38. | |
or maybe even an abacus. Well a school in Cornwall has come | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
up with what they think is the perfect way to help | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
the children with their sums. I wish they had these when I was at | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
school. They've adopted two orphaned lambs | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
called Charlie and Titch and caring for them has become | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
a real education. Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
has been to see how School is simply more fun that a | :16:59. | :17:10. | |
couple of lambs. They don't know the rules of hopscotch but they are good | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
at skipping and chase. This school has adopted Charlie and Titch after | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
they were adopted and caring for them is a full-time job. They have | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
to be fed every few hours. You put the bottle on top of the land so | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
that it can suck it down, and it is easier if you hold it by the Chin so | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
that it does not leave its mouth, and they have got teeth, even though | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
they are baby. So they could actually give you a bit of a bike. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Yes. They don't use them for biting people. They are just for biting | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
leaves and grass. What happens when you are feeding them? It sucked my | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
finger! Did it think your finger was a bottle? Yes. The benefits to the | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
children are fantastic. Lots of maths involved. They have two way | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
out the milk powder and the water to mix with it and get everything in | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
the right ratio and then they have two way the lambs, then you have got | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
all be looking after animals and taking care which is good for | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
children, as well. So how do you weigh a wriggling land? Can you pass | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
me the land? The scale now say 62 kilograms. How much is that? The | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
lamb weighs nine kilos. I think he's right. These lambs are getting | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
bigger every day so when they get too big for the classroom, what | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
happen? The head teacher says that the children will make the decision | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
so they might just be added to the school register, after all. What a | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
brilliant idea. We could have some lip -- we could have some lambs at | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Spotlight! And what are the chances | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
of getting it? Well a 19-year-old from Dawlish | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
has done just that - combining her love of animals | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
and the military Helen Fewings is a student | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
at Bicton College and, as Heidi Davey reports, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
to have secured the prestigious role at such a young age | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
is quite an achievement. Helen has always wanted to work with | :19:11. | :19:22. | |
animals. When she was 16 she enrolled in a college animal care | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
course. As well as food, what can you give them? Leafy vegetables and | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
insects, and bar. Bicton College is known for its strong ties with the | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
agricultural industry but the campus at Budleigh Salterton has set up a | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
military academy. For Helen, that was the perfect opportunity to take | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
a second course and test out her yearning to have a career in the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Army. Two years later, she has landed her dream job. You're only | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
19. That is a hard unit to get into. You went through several rounds of | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
interviews. What was it like to be told that you were making the cut? | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
He got to the final 60. 60 people, and 20 dogs, week-long interviews. I | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
walked away, high hopes, then I got a call one morning, good news, I | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
have passed and they told me that I would start training in October. It | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
is thanks to the academy at Bicton that she was fully prepared for all | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
aspects of military life. What we do here, we prepare students for | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
potential recruits and it is the plastic to see how successful Helen | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
has been. That is our goal at the end of the day. What Helen has | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
experienced is coming through the animal care side, I potentially | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
being interested in the military, what we then offer is that exposure | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
so that Helen can see what we do. Helen has already made plans for the | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
future. Yes. I want to work with explosive search dogs. The most | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
dangerous bit. We will see what happens as time goes on. They make a | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
great partnership, don't we? -- don't they. | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
Now as we get older some of us may think about slowing down a bit. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
But that's not for George Inns from Penzance. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
He's about to get in the saddle and cycle | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
He'll start in the bustling city of Bo in Sierra Leone, | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
before crossing the border into Liberia, where | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
he will end on the palm fringed beaches of Robertsport. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Did we mention George is 88 years old?! | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
His trip is to raise money for the UK charity Street Child | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
which helps some of the poorest and most vulnerable children | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Spotlight's David George has been to meet him. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
George Inns taking a training ride on the cycle path. He's no stranger | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
to let the bike rides. He has cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
four times. The last time, seven years ago, when he was 81 years old. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
He will soon be smote -- swapping St Michael's Mount, Cornish coast for | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
the rough roads and tracks of Sierra Leone, a country and people close to | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
his heart. I went there as an engineer in the early 50s. And I | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
enjoyed my time there. It was a very interesting and beautiful country. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
The people are very friendly and cheerful and very resilient. George | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
has always followed the fortunes or should that the misfortunes of the | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
country. He has been upset to see the aftermath of the ebola outbreak | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
there and wanted to support charities in the country. They do | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
educational work for children which is very seriously needed because it | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
is a very poor country. George is taking part in the 196 mile cycle | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
challenge with his grandson and another eight riders who have signed | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
up. It will take place at the end of the dry season so it could be hot | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
and wet. A bit different from today's brisk and bracing weather. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Do you mind if I join you? Lead the way. People keep mentioning your | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
age. You are 88. I am, yes. But I don't think too much about my age. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
It is something that comes to all of us unfortunately and you just have | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
to make the best of it. Not think, I am too old to do this or that, just | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
go ahead and do it. I have got a lot more cycling to do, yet. The man is | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
an inspiration. He certainly is. Good luck to George. It is going to | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
be hot and wet, possibly, when he does that challenge. The weather | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
conditions they're the perfect today, though. | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
Good evening. High pressure is coming our way. That means settled | :24:12. | :24:25. | |
and dry weather. It is a dry story. We're going to look back briefly, | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
now. March was quite an unusual month across the British Isles. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Certainly one of the mildest. Reckons going back to 910. -- 1910. | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
It was something like the fourth or fifth warmest March on record. A | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
poor start on a cool night. You will have noticed the change, slightly | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
cooler air today despite the sunshine. The risk of some frost. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Fine and dry and we will have that sunshine back, as well. There is | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
some cloud of wind, but it is gradually dissipating. It is to the | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
rest of us at the moment, allowing some cloud to bobble around the top | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
of it. Hence the patchy missed earlier on today. This is the middle | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
of the day tomorrow. By the middle of Thursday, it is across cars, and | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
by Friday it is well and truly across southern Britain. Not | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
everyone will see sunshine. But at times you will get some of that | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
sunshine and it will be warm, as well. You will notice some chilly | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
nights over the next few nights. This is a satellite picture from | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
earlier today. Some spots of rain affecting northern France, but most | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
of the weather we have now with broken cloud and clear skies. This | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
was earlier today up on Dartmoor, where some sunshine came through | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
eventually but it was rather cloudy and felt quite cool because of it. A | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
brisk northerly breeze and it has not been overly warm. It did not | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
stop some walkers and backpackers enjoying some dry weather although | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
there was some drizzle first thing this morning and it is going to be | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
chilly for camping on Dartmoor tonight because those skies will | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Claye. That cloud is now beginning to dissipate. We will have fairly | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
clear skies overnight. Temperatures quite low for the month of April | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
with temperatures getting as low as three Celsius in some places. On the | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
coast, a bit milder and in the towns and villages, five, six Celsius. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Tomorrow, plenty of sunshine, lighter winds than today, and | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
although temperatures initiate will be the figures we show you here, in | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
the sunshine, out of the breeze, considerably warmer at perhaps 12, | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
13 Celsius. For the Isles of Scilly, bright and dry with some sunshine. | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
And the times of high water... And for our surfers... And the coastal | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
waters forecast, the wind from the north-east, for three to four with | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
good visibility. And here is the picture for the rest of this week. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
The cloud comes and goes, that'll be the way of it over the next few | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
days. Have a good evening. There is a lovely film on our Facebook page | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
about the little lambs and learning at school. You can log onto that | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
now. But from all of us here, good night. | :27:41. | :28:02. | |
HORN BEEPS That car. | :28:03. | :28:05. |