:00:23. > :00:26.An investigation planned after Spotlight hears of a lack of
:00:26. > :00:28.dignity for people in care homes. Good evening and welcome to
:00:28. > :00:31.Spotlight. More on that story in just a moment.
:00:31. > :00:33.Also tonight: A shake up for South West education.
:00:33. > :00:36.Catholic schools consider joining forces to form a super academy.
:00:36. > :00:39.Gearing up for a challenge - an MP steps into the controversial red
:00:39. > :00:43.diesel charity debate. And why what happened here has
:00:43. > :00:50.become such a talking point. The funniest thing was on the
:00:51. > :00:53.causeway all of the lady's hair was The head of a charity that exposes
:00:53. > :00:55.poor care standards is to investigate a number of homes in
:00:55. > :00:58.Cornwall. Her announcement comes after Spotlight highlighted the
:00:59. > :01:01.concerns of staff about a lack of care and dignity for older people.
:01:02. > :01:04.In a moment we will hear from Eileen Chubb, from the charity
:01:04. > :01:08.Compassion In Care. First, here is our health correspondent Sally
:01:08. > :01:11.Mountjoy. Kate and Janice remember their
:01:11. > :01:20.mother, a quiet and gentle woman, a teacher and devout Christian who
:01:20. > :01:23.took pride in her appearance. But they say she was robbed of her
:01:23. > :01:26.dignity by the home that was supposed to care for her as she
:01:26. > :01:29.declined into dementia in the last years of her life. The sisters do
:01:29. > :01:33.not wish to name the home to avoid distressing others, so are
:01:33. > :01:43.remaining anonymous. Seeing her in the wrong clothes, with food all-
:01:43. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:48.over herself, sometimes smelling that she was not clean in the
:01:48. > :01:53.downstairs department. Seeing her with her hair filthy. They were all
:01:53. > :01:58.things that were totally alien to her. It is just that lack of basic
:01:58. > :02:03.human dignity, really, that we are all entitled to. What do you think
:02:03. > :02:08.she would have thought about it? She would have said, it is my worst
:02:08. > :02:11.nightmare. And, yes, it was her worst nightmare. It was our worst
:02:11. > :02:15.nightmare as well. Last week, Spotlight heard from a number of
:02:15. > :02:18.care workers so distressed by the lack of care they had seen in homes
:02:18. > :02:22.all over Cornwall that they chose to speak out. You are not turning
:02:22. > :02:26.or changing people regularly, not monitoring people regularly, and it
:02:26. > :02:29.is a real concern and people do suffer. The report prompted a
:02:29. > :02:37.number of families to contact us. A minority were very happy with the
:02:37. > :02:40.way their relatives were being looked after. Others described
:02:40. > :02:43.shockingly poor treatment, and some were afraid to make a fuss for fear
:02:43. > :02:46.of making matters worse for their loved ones. Jenny Moore's campaign,
:02:46. > :02:52.Your Voice Matters, aims to persuade care workers to blow the
:02:52. > :02:55.whistle on poor standards. Now she is organising a meeting where
:02:55. > :02:59.families can share their worries. Some are filled with horror at the
:02:59. > :03:06.prospect of ending their days in a care home. I am terrified,
:03:07. > :03:12.absolutely terrified. Absolutely terrified. I can't... I can't
:03:12. > :03:17.imagine, I really can't. It is just that lack of individual care, a
:03:17. > :03:24.thing. Seeing people as individuals. It frightens me to guess, because I
:03:24. > :03:31.have got no children, my sister has got none, and it's very frightening.
:03:31. > :03:34.Sorry. That report from Sally Mountjoy.
:03:34. > :03:37.Earlier, I spoke to Eileen Chubb from the charity Compassion In Care.
:03:37. > :03:40.I asked her how people can identify good homes when carers have raised
:03:40. > :03:46.concerns about homes which had been rated "good" by the Care Quality
:03:46. > :03:50.Commission. Unfortunately, my experience is
:03:50. > :03:55.that you cannot trust what the Care Quality Commission are saying about
:03:55. > :04:00.care homes. People have to really make their own judgments. Go into a
:04:00. > :04:04.home more than once, at different times, don't make an appointment,
:04:04. > :04:09.and don't rely on the regulator because the regulator is not giving
:04:09. > :04:12.people the whole picture. We have had a lot of people contact us to
:04:12. > :04:16.say they are concerned about standards of care they have
:04:16. > :04:21.witnessed, but are afraid to report them. How do we change that so that
:04:21. > :04:25.people feel confident enough to report what they have seen? As a
:04:25. > :04:29.former whistleblower, I know how hard it is to speak out in a care
:04:30. > :04:34.home if you see something wrong. Unfortunately, every day I deal
:04:34. > :04:38.with care workers and families where they have gone to the
:04:38. > :04:42.regulator with concerns and nothing has changed. Their concerns have
:04:42. > :04:46.been referred back to the care home to investigate, which is absolutely
:04:46. > :04:49.ridiculous. You are coming to Cornwall later in media. What are
:04:49. > :04:54.you hoping to achieve and how do you have to improve the level of
:04:54. > :04:58.care? As a lay person going into care homes and writing honest
:04:58. > :05:02.accounts of what they see, I think the public will have information on
:05:02. > :05:06.the charity website to give them some idea of what to look for and
:05:06. > :05:09.the kinds of things that you will find that are wrong. Eileen Chubb,
:05:09. > :05:12.thank you for joining us. The regulator, the Care Quality
:05:12. > :05:17.Commission, says it carries out regular checks and acts quickly
:05:17. > :05:19.wherever there are concerns people may be getting poor care. It goes
:05:19. > :05:25.on to say when poor care is happening, someone, somewhere,
:05:25. > :05:28.knows about it and we ask them to tell us.
:05:28. > :05:30.Catholic schools across the South West are in discussion with church
:05:30. > :05:34.leaders about creating the first Catholic multi-school academy in
:05:34. > :05:38.the country. It could mean thousands of children would leave
:05:38. > :05:41.the local authority system. The plans would involve 37 schools in
:05:41. > :05:47.the Diocese of Plymouth leaving the local authorities to become part of
:05:47. > :05:50.a new Academy Trust. They would be state-funded but independent. The
:05:50. > :05:54.South West is leading the way when it comes to schools switching
:05:54. > :05:56.status. So far, 60 other schools are already open or applying to
:05:57. > :06:04.become an Academy. Our community affairs correspondent Carys Edwards
:06:04. > :06:09.reports. A moment of prayer in an RE lesson
:06:09. > :06:12.at Notre Dame school in Plymouth. It is one of 37 Roman Catholic
:06:12. > :06:17.schools in the South West contemplating a move, en masse, to
:06:17. > :06:20.academy status. It is likely to have little impact on the daily
:06:20. > :06:22.lives of the pupils, but the plans are radical. Up to now, the
:06:22. > :06:32.Catholic church has opposed any move towards schools becoming
:06:32. > :06:35.academies. But this is different. Nationally, the Catholic Church is
:06:35. > :06:41.negotiating with government, raising big questions for us as a
:06:41. > :06:45.national church about the future of our mission. As I said before, we
:06:45. > :06:48.have gone back over many hundreds of years and had to be here many
:06:48. > :06:53.hundreds of years into the future, and therefore the decision about
:06:53. > :06:56.how we secured that in a legal framework is very, very important.
:06:56. > :07:00.Of the 37 schools in discussion with the Diocese of Plymouth, four
:07:00. > :07:05.are in Cornwall, nine in Devon, seven in Dorset. There are five in
:07:05. > :07:07.Torbay, eight in Plymouth and three in the east of Dorset. If they
:07:07. > :07:10.become academies, they will remain state-funded, but Government money
:07:10. > :07:15.would go direct to the schools, rather than via the local
:07:15. > :07:24.authorities. The academy network would then agree on how best to
:07:24. > :07:29.provide services such as personnel and finance. Teaching unions are
:07:29. > :07:35.strongly opposed to academies, saying they will need to run unfair
:07:35. > :07:38.two Tear system. We are very, very concerned because the schools
:07:38. > :07:43.coming out of local authority control will mean the services left
:07:43. > :07:46.behind will be minimal, and the danger is those schools will not be
:07:46. > :07:51.provided for very well. Church leaders insist they will offer
:07:51. > :07:55.greater support to other schools, but unions warned that as more
:07:55. > :07:59.schools leave the local authorities, there will be a loss of democratic
:07:59. > :08:03.accountability. The plans are at an early stage and there are more
:08:03. > :08:07.discussions to be held before a formal bid for the academy status
:08:07. > :08:09.can be made. A man and his mother have been
:08:09. > :08:13.taken to hospital after escaping from a fire which destroyed their
:08:13. > :08:15.home in West Devon. They were left suffering from the effects of smoke
:08:15. > :08:19.inhalation after the fire at the house at Halwill Junction last
:08:19. > :08:25.night. The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental.
:08:25. > :08:30.Neighbouring houses were evacuated as the blaze spread.
:08:30. > :08:34.Next door's is absolutely ruined, it is a burned-out shell. To come
:08:34. > :08:39.back to that will be devastating for my neighbours, I feel very
:08:39. > :08:43.sorry for them. In comparison, we have had a very, very lucky escape.
:08:43. > :08:47.The fire did not come into our House, it was in the roof.
:08:47. > :08:50.Detectives in Devon are hunting for a sex attacker who has carried out
:08:50. > :08:53.a serious assault on a woman in her 80s. Police say they are investing
:08:53. > :08:55.significant resources to find the attacker. The incident happened in
:08:55. > :08:58.the Southway area of Plymouth. The elderly woman is now being
:08:58. > :09:05.comforted by her family. Two men have been arrested and released on
:09:05. > :09:10.bail. It is obviously a very serious case,
:09:10. > :09:15.it is a terrible thing to happen, very harrowing. We have dedicated
:09:15. > :09:18.significant resources to it from their major crime team, the local
:09:18. > :09:21.teams and specialist officers used to dealing with sexual offences.
:09:21. > :09:23.A move to hand health services in Cornwall over to a not-for-profit
:09:23. > :09:26.company has been given the go-ahead today. Community hospitals and
:09:26. > :09:28.district nurses are among the services that will be transferred
:09:28. > :09:33.out of NHS control to the new business, called Peninsula
:09:33. > :09:38.Community Health. Staff unions claim it will pave the way for
:09:38. > :09:40.privatisation of the NHS, and 5,000 people signed a petition against it.
:09:40. > :09:48.However, supporters say patients will still get free care and staff
:09:48. > :09:51.will have more say in how services are provided.
:09:51. > :09:53.Spotlight has learnt that traffic policing in Devon and Cornwall has
:09:53. > :09:56.been disrupted because of fundamental changes to operational
:09:56. > :09:59.policing in the two counties. Two important road safety operations
:09:59. > :10:02.have been postponed, and traffic officers have told us they spend
:10:02. > :10:05.significantly less time patrolling the roads.
:10:05. > :10:08.But the Assistant Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall says overall
:10:08. > :10:11.numbers of traffic officers are not being reduced as a result of
:10:11. > :10:21.Government cuts. Our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall join us
:10:21. > :10:24.now overlooking the M5 near Exeter. With the scale of cutbacks facing
:10:24. > :10:29.police forces, road safety campaigners have been concerned
:10:29. > :10:31.that traffic policing would suffer and given what we have discovered
:10:31. > :10:36.in Devon and Cornwall those campaigners have been telling me
:10:36. > :10:39.they believe their fears are being justified.
:10:39. > :10:43.Devon and Cornwall Police have been fundamentally restructured to try
:10:43. > :10:47.to cope with budget cuts and the loss of 700 officers. Traffic
:10:47. > :10:51.police are no longer a separate unit and can now be sent to any
:10:51. > :10:56.emergency. Traffic officers have told us they believe that is
:10:57. > :11:00.damaging road policing. Two important road safety operations
:11:00. > :11:04.targeting dangerous lorries have been postponed. Traffic officers
:11:04. > :11:08.say they are spending less time on patrol. In one case, it made a
:11:08. > :11:13.stolen car spotted on the M5 in Devon could not be stopped because
:11:13. > :11:18.the traffic vehicle had been called in to Exeter. It is devastating
:11:18. > :11:21.news and, unfortunately, could mean we see a rise in traffic offences,
:11:21. > :11:26.in drivers taking risky behaviour that may result in more people
:11:26. > :11:30.being injured and killed in Devon and Cornwall. My members are saying
:11:30. > :11:34.that with a reduction of such a large number of officers, does
:11:34. > :11:41.specialist departments will be affected and that will mean less
:11:41. > :11:45.visible traffic officers on the main arterial route to Devon and
:11:45. > :11:48.Cornwall. Ken Williams lost his Neath -- his niece Catherine in a
:11:48. > :11:54.crash and told me of his concerns about any reduction in traffic
:11:54. > :11:59.police in. It will have an effect, and the effect on families at of a
:11:59. > :12:04.road crash fatality or serious injury is absolutely devastating.
:12:04. > :12:08.It affects hundreds and hundreds of people, and lives are changed.
:12:08. > :12:12.Devon and Cornwall is a top performing falls. We are having to
:12:12. > :12:16.be more flexible, innovative about how we use our resources, and we
:12:16. > :12:21.are having to maximise time on the street, so we are able to deal with
:12:21. > :12:25.not just the accidents and issues on the road but also incidents
:12:25. > :12:30.within towns and villages so we are there when people leaders.
:12:30. > :12:33.concerns about traffic policing come as a number of serious crashes
:12:33. > :12:38.in Devon and Cornwall rose last year. It had been declining. The
:12:38. > :12:43.police say they wear a dress that through education and enforcement.
:12:43. > :12:47.It is just over a month since Devon & Cornwall Police introduce new
:12:48. > :12:52.ways of working, and Warburg -- and what this row illustrates is how
:12:52. > :12:56.the force is struggling to maintain standards of service in the face of
:12:56. > :13:00.unprecedented budget cuts. Thank you, Simon.
:13:00. > :13:05.Stay with us, because later we will try to get to the bottom of a
:13:05. > :13:09.mysterious tidal surge. Plus: Facing the final curtain - find out
:13:09. > :13:12.why some amateur theatre groups are struggling.
:13:12. > :13:21.And more than a thousand young musicians take to the stage with
:13:22. > :13:25.A Devon MP says there needs to be an urgent review of the rules
:13:25. > :13:28.surrounding the use of red diesel. Last week, Spotlight reported on
:13:28. > :13:32.the farmer who was fined for cutting the grass of a local
:13:32. > :13:34.football club with his tractor using the low tax fuel.
:13:34. > :13:37.Now, some voluntary organisations say they, too, are concerned they
:13:37. > :13:44.could face problems. Here is our environment correspondent Adrian
:13:44. > :13:48.Campbell. Red diesel plays an important role
:13:48. > :13:53.in agriculture because it is cheap, but the law lays down rules about
:13:53. > :13:58.what it can be used for. And it does not include mowing the local
:13:58. > :14:02.football pitch, even if he were doing it as a favour. John Thorne
:14:02. > :14:08.fell foul of her HM Revenue and Customs and was fined �250 for
:14:08. > :14:16.doing just that. Do come in, please to meet you. Now he has come to see
:14:16. > :14:23.his local MP, Geoffrey Cox QC. is a really important issue, and in
:14:23. > :14:27.my view it needs to be looked at very urgently by this government
:14:27. > :14:32.and by commissioners of Revenue and Customs. John has had his fine paid
:14:32. > :14:37.by the local football club, but what will happen if red diesel
:14:37. > :14:41.cannot be used to get charitable job stern? Tractors have been used
:14:41. > :14:45.to mode pictures and recreation grounds before. Perhaps no longer.
:14:45. > :14:50.They have also been used to help put up Christmas lights in some
:14:50. > :14:56.towns. Maybe that is coming to an end. And what about the South
:14:56. > :15:00.West's carnival tradition? Is it in peril? This carnival takes place in
:15:00. > :15:04.October and there are all types of carnivals all over the South West
:15:04. > :15:10.in autumn. What has happened in North Devon throws doubt over some
:15:10. > :15:13.of them. Neil Austin helps to organise their Honiton Carnival. He
:15:13. > :15:18.says it is an expensive business and doubts over red diesel could
:15:18. > :15:22.make it impossible to. The red diesel works as it is, but if you
:15:22. > :15:26.have to do wait diesel it would be the end of the carnival because
:15:26. > :15:30.every carnival has got to do a lot of fund-raising to pay for the fuel,
:15:31. > :15:36.and if you have to pay a lot more fuel for the -- a lot more money
:15:36. > :15:40.for white diesel it will killing. Farmers can use red diesel to help
:15:40. > :15:45.motorists in the snow, but her HM Revenue and Customs says that once
:15:45. > :15:48.misuse is identified it is only fair to turn a blind eye. But it
:15:48. > :15:51.says any appeal from Mr Thorne would be carefully considered.
:15:51. > :15:54.Amateur theatre groups across the South West are warning that
:15:54. > :15:57.spiralling costs and falling ticket sales could put some of them out of
:15:57. > :16:00.business. Most companies will now only attempt the most popular shows
:16:00. > :16:08.because of fears of making any further losses. Our South Devon
:16:08. > :16:12.reporter John Ayres has more. Toads Stage Musical Company, based
:16:12. > :16:15.in Torquay, is holding a dress rehearsal for The King And I. Its
:16:15. > :16:20.members, both on and off stage, give up hours of their time. So
:16:20. > :16:29.image what it is like trying to fit it all of this in if you work long
:16:29. > :16:33.hours, say as a hospital doctor. will go to rehearsals and it --
:16:33. > :16:37.then go and do a night shift, or do a day at work and rehearse at the
:16:37. > :16:41.weekends. Often the work of days and a row without a day off and am
:16:41. > :16:43.at a rehearsal every night. Some people will consider �16 a ticket
:16:43. > :16:47.lot of money for an amateur production, but it's costing
:16:47. > :16:54.�52,000 to put it on. With 1400 seats, this is the region's biggest
:16:54. > :17:00.theatre. At least a third of the tickets must be sold to break even.
:17:00. > :17:03.I am sad to say that potentially our next loss could be our last. We
:17:03. > :17:06.are almost at rock bottom at the moment and could do with Major's
:17:07. > :17:11.support for the show that is going on this week at the Prince's
:17:11. > :17:14.Theatre in Torquay said that we can bolster the pots. We live from one
:17:14. > :17:20.show to the next. This, in turn, means amateur groups cannot take
:17:20. > :17:25.risks, which affects the shows they choose to do. Across the country,
:17:25. > :17:29.at the moment, there is a lack of variety in the shows that societies
:17:29. > :17:32.are doing because everybody is attempting to pull in the audience
:17:32. > :17:37.so they are doing wodges and Hammerstein shows, shows with
:17:37. > :17:41.children, shows like BT M The Beast. They are not doing the full range
:17:42. > :17:45.of shares available because the punters will not come and see it --
:17:45. > :17:48.Beauty And the Beast. For instance, next year the companies in Torquay,
:17:48. > :17:51.Exeter, Sidmouth and Exmouth are all putting on the The Sound of
:17:51. > :18:01.Music. Toads hopes that The King And I will prove popular enough
:18:01. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:04.this time to keep their funds afloat.
:18:04. > :18:07.Hundreds of Plymouth Argyle fans had their say at the city's
:18:07. > :18:10.Guildhall last night as they fired questions to the acting chairman
:18:10. > :18:12.and lead administrator about the club's future. In a packed hall,
:18:12. > :18:15.Peter Ridsdale and Brendan Guilfoyle confirmed a deal was very
:18:15. > :18:18.near to completion to buy the stricken club, with the preferred
:18:18. > :18:21.bidder - an Irish consortium - still at the forefront of
:18:21. > :18:29.negotiations. They admitted the sale and purchase of the club will
:18:29. > :18:32.help them stabilise for next season. Without all of us together this
:18:32. > :18:37.club will not be saved, and I will do my best to make sure that
:18:37. > :18:41.happens, that we save the club, put it in the right hands and work with
:18:41. > :18:49.the community and supporters. This is what I have tried to do so that
:18:50. > :18:52.we can be proud going forward of a club going into its 125th here. --
:18:52. > :18:55.year. More than 1000 children converged
:18:55. > :18:58.on one of the region's major concert venues today for a mass
:18:58. > :19:01.celebration of all things musical. The pupils, from schools across
:19:01. > :19:03.Devon and Cornwall, took part in a concert organised by the BBC
:19:03. > :19:06.Concert Orchestra. There was everything from classical
:19:06. > :19:11.to pop, and some of the children even made their instruments from
:19:11. > :19:15.scrap. Chris Lyddon reports. An audience of 1,400 children from
:19:15. > :19:25.all over Devon and Cornwall. A Concert Orchestra famous the world
:19:25. > :19:29.over. And backstage preparing for their big moment, 28 tense pupils
:19:29. > :19:39.from Widdecombe Mallett primary. But what are they playing?
:19:39. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:21.This is it, rehearsals over, time So, after the show, a word from
:20:21. > :20:25.their coach. What about the slight? That looked so good, didn't it?
:20:25. > :20:31.They were absolutely fantastic. They had two two-hour sessions to
:20:31. > :20:35.learn all of those rhythms and get them all concentrating and watching,
:20:35. > :20:42.and getting them together with the orchestra, so it was a real tasks.
:20:42. > :20:45.The day was compared by a CBBC presenter who is crazy about music.
:20:45. > :20:50.I love the combination of an orchestra that is perhaps seen as
:20:50. > :20:54.being stuffy and in the realm of the Royal Albert Hall and the Proms
:20:54. > :21:01.getting out, meeting kids, showing them that, not only can you sit and
:21:01. > :21:11.listen and watch and have fun, but you can get involved. Jay, music
:21:11. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:14.just how it should be. -- joy. Yesterday we had reports of the
:21:14. > :21:17.tides doing some very unusual things, going out when it was
:21:17. > :21:20.supposed to be coming in, sudden rises of water in harbours and even
:21:20. > :21:28.rogue waves travelling up rivers. It's a mystery we are still trying
:21:28. > :21:33.to solve. David, any answers? I think we have an answer, but it
:21:33. > :21:38.is not conclusive. Let's have a look at what we saw at the tidal
:21:38. > :21:46.gauges. These measure what the tide actually did during the course of
:21:46. > :21:50.It is called a tidal gauge anomaly, the difference between what was
:21:50. > :21:56.forecast and what happened. If the tides were behaving, the readings
:21:56. > :22:00.would be zero. But they are not. Almost half a metre's difference,
:22:00. > :22:04.so obviously something going on with the tide. We had lots of
:22:04. > :22:08.reports, starting in Cornwall and travelling through the south coast
:22:08. > :22:12.into Devon and Dorset. So many coming in that there was clearly
:22:12. > :22:21.something going on. The first port of call was when it was first --
:22:21. > :22:27.where it was first reported. anything was that on their causeway,
:22:27. > :22:32.all of the ladies' hair was stating on end with the static. On the
:22:32. > :22:36.island, it was eight inches to a foot higher than the West. It was
:22:36. > :22:42.pouring in like a tyrant rather than a gentle meeting in the middle,
:22:42. > :22:45.as normal. In true red, a fisherman reported that the river he was
:22:45. > :22:50.fishing on an reversed direction for a few minutes and then carried
:22:50. > :22:57.on as normal. Along the coast, more reports coming in and unusual
:22:57. > :23:00.goings-on in Millbrook. It was quite violent, in a way. My Dinky
:23:00. > :23:05.was moving around with the water coming in and rushing in the late
:23:05. > :23:10.and I wondered what was going on. All sorts of things crossed my mind,
:23:10. > :23:15.pressure, seismic events, and I wondered what was going on. But
:23:15. > :23:21.within 15 minutes it was all over. So we needed to talk to a few
:23:21. > :23:23.people to find out what was happening. We started with the
:23:23. > :23:27.hydrographic Office, they said there was nothing expected to be
:23:27. > :23:31.unusual about the tides. The Met Office was the next port of call,
:23:31. > :23:38.they said they didn't think anything in the weather could have
:23:38. > :23:41.caused such a change. The Geological Survey, we asked them if
:23:41. > :23:45.there was any seismic activity in the Atlantic or around the UK, but
:23:45. > :23:51.nothing was happening through the weekend will yesterday. So we
:23:51. > :23:55.enlisted the help of an expert and went to Plymouth University. They
:23:55. > :24:02.are quite rare, and it is probably not a tidal phenomenon, it is more
:24:02. > :24:06.likely to be a tsunami of some kind. Obviously it is quite mild. It is
:24:06. > :24:12.probably not due to run earthquake, which is the normal source, it is
:24:12. > :24:17.more likely to be a submarine landslide. So what Mark means is
:24:17. > :24:21.that deep under the ocean off the continental shelf, a steep slope
:24:21. > :24:25.too much deeper water 200 miles west of Land's End, there may have
:24:25. > :24:30.been a slip of the sand or mud well beneath the sea that caused a
:24:30. > :24:35.movement of the water. Some final evidence to pack -- back that up
:24:35. > :24:39.his from Studland Bay. There was a ship operating there doing some
:24:39. > :24:42.survey work, and they experience a series of high and low tides in the
:24:42. > :24:47.space of a few minutes, and that really is good evidence to suggest
:24:47. > :24:50.it was a minute tsunami. We had so many comments from people
:24:50. > :24:55.yesterday, they will be relieved in some ways that something was going
:24:55. > :25:00.on and they were not imagining it! I think that is the main thing, and
:25:00. > :25:04.that is probably what the cause was, a mudslide beneath the ocean floor.
:25:04. > :25:13.But if you have any pictures or any more information, we would love to
:25:13. > :25:17.Let's get back to the weather, which has been kind to us today and
:25:17. > :25:21.will be later in the week as well. A line of cloud has caused some
:25:21. > :25:26.problems in the east, generating heavy showers, but it is moving
:25:26. > :25:31.away from us. We have some more showers to come on this weather
:25:31. > :25:35.front. Once that is out of the way, the high pressure dominates. This
:25:35. > :25:38.is lunchtime on Wednesday, and by lunchtime on Thursday it has moved
:25:39. > :25:45.across much of southern Britain and will be with us into the start of
:25:45. > :25:50.the weekend, too. A fine evening to enjoy this evening. A lot of clear
:25:50. > :25:55.skies, so it will be colder than it has been overnight. Later in the
:25:55. > :26:00.night, one or two showers made it into the North Cornwall and North
:26:00. > :26:04.Devon coast to end the night. It will be colder than it was last
:26:04. > :26:11.night. Tomorrow, and not more cloud than we would like with a few
:26:11. > :26:15.showers, they are fairly light, but by the end of the morning into the
:26:15. > :26:19.afternoon they tend to become a rarity, so a lot of fine weather by
:26:19. > :26:25.the end of the day, more in the way of sunshine, and not overly warm
:26:25. > :26:29.but reasonable. Still a bit of a breeze from the North West holding
:26:29. > :26:39.down the temperatures. For the Isles of Scilly, one or two showers
:26:39. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:06.developing here which will fade This is a good news story all the
:27:06. > :27:11.way to the weekend. The temperatures are on the rise,
:27:11. > :27:15.mainly dry for most of us with some sunshine. Thursday and Friday we
:27:15. > :27:20.see a change in the wind direction, with an easterly wind setting in,
:27:20. > :27:30.bringing warmer air from France, Spain and Portugal by the weekend,
:27:30. > :27:31.