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Good evening. on the BBC News Channel. | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
Thousands of people have arrived in the South West for what is a big | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
test of one of our biggest industries. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
There were some blue skies as people came out to enjoy | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Forecasters say it won't stay completely dry all weekend, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
but there should only be some short periods of wet weather. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
Meanwhile, extra staff have been brought in at hospitals to cope | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
with an anticipated rise in demand over the weekend. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Officials are asking people to avoid emergency departments | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
unless they have a serious or life-threatening condition. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Please use the 111 service if you're not sure what to do with your local | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Those lines are being answered much quicker now, and they can direct | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
you to the service that will help you in your local area. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Two owls have been freed after getting stuck in traps | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
which use glue to catch pests. The animals are being cared | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
for at the West Hatch Wildlife Centre in Somerset. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
The RSPCA says the traps cause unnecessary suffering to pests | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The charity is urging people not to use them. | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
His primary wing feathers were stuck into his own flanks here. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Without us intervening and actually washing the glue off, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
there's no way he would ever have flown again. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
So he would have slowly starved to death or, you know, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Born in Dorset, he shot to fame predicting the results of football | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
Well, there's more science to it than you might think. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
John Ayres has been looking at an experiment being carried out | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
The point of dropping plastic bricks into this tank is to see | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
if Octavia can find her way through to the food. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
The test is repeated, and each time, she gets quicker. | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
She may not be as famous as Paul the Octopus, | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
What I could not really grasp about Paul, the World Cup octopus, | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
is how he could distinguish between the technicalities | :02:03. | :02:03. | |
of the Netherlands team and the flamboyance of the Spanish, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
or indeed, how he was able to watch the matches under | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
But the difference with this is that the testing is actually | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
real, and they believe that octopuses have intelligence similar | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Student Meghan Davitt is carrying out research for her | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
She is measuring how long it takes Octavia to work out | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Two of the puzzles that I am using for the study, | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
a simple one is clip-lock boxes and screw-top containers, | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
so she really has to figure out how to get into these boxes in order | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
to get her food, and then I'll present these challenges | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
a few weeks later to see if she has learned how to do it, and the time | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Her ability to do these puzzles has been entertaining the crowds | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Meghan will be carrying out a number of research projects for these | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Exeter Chiefs have secured an excellent 39-26 victory | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
at Harlequins in the Premiership tonight. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
They scored three tries in quick succession, | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
including this from Henry Slade, to secure the bonus point. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
The Chiefs are 13 matches unbeaten, and remain on course | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Plymouth Argyle must wait for promotion from League 2, | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
after drawing against Portsmouth late this afternoon. | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
But, as John Danks, reports it did look like today | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Argyle knew a win today would secure promotion, | :03:21. | :03:35. | |
as long as other results went their way. | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
And they started well, after this flying header | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
But Plymouth moved from attack mode into defence, as Portsmouth | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Eventually, a goalkeeping error by Luke McCormick | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
The Green Army will have to keep the champagne on ice for now. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
The Pilgrims need one point from four games | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
to guarantee their place in League 1. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Exeter City moved up to fifth place after a 2-1 win against Barnet. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Yeovil Town were beaten 1-0 at Newport County. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
In the National League, two late goals at Lincoln spelt | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
They are now just four points from safety with three games to go. | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
And in the top-of-the-table clash in the basketball, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Plymouth lost to Leicester Riders 99-69 in the BBL Championships. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
Back to the weather, and it's not too bad, actually. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Hello, and a very good evening to you. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Now, we do have outbreaks of rain through the course of tonight. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Much of that rainfall will be light and patchy in nature. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
And by the time we enter the early hours, we're starting | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Temperature-wise, we're looking at lows of nine or 10 degrees. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Now, tomorrow morning we start on a bit of a cloudy note. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
The remnants of that wet weather sinking slowly southwards. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
I suspect for the Channel Islands we will see that wet | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
weather coming and going until around mid-afternoon. | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
Cheering up, one or two sunny spells into the afternoon. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Taking a look ahead to the remainder of the bank holiday weekend, | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
and through the course of the day on Sunday it looks like we will see | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
quite cloudy skies, although I suspect we will stay | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Easter Monday itself, another predominantly cloudy day. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
It will have some breaks and brightness here and there. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Just the outside chance of a shower or two. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
And then into Tuesday looks like we could start | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
We will have bulletins throughout the weekend. Whatever you are doing, | :05:36. | :05:50. | |
have a lovely evening. Bye-bye. | :05:51. | :05:53. |