28/06/2011 Spotlight


28/06/2011

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 28/06/2011. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

An investigation planned after Spotlight hears of a lack of

:00:23.:00:26.

dignity for people in care homes. Good evening and welcome to

:00:26.:00:28.

Spotlight. More on that story in just a moment.

:00:28.:00:31.

Also tonight: A shake up for South West education.

:00:31.:00:33.

Catholic schools consider joining forces to form a super academy.

:00:33.:00:36.

Gearing up for a challenge - an MP steps into the controversial red

:00:36.:00:39.

diesel charity debate. And why what happened here has

:00:39.:00:43.

become such a talking point. The funniest thing was on the

:00:43.:00:50.

causeway all of the lady's hair was The head of a charity that exposes

:00:51.:00:53.

poor care standards is to investigate a number of homes in

:00:53.:00:55.

Cornwall. Her announcement comes after Spotlight highlighted the

:00:55.:00:58.

concerns of staff about a lack of care and dignity for older people.

:00:59.:01:01.

In a moment we will hear from Eileen Chubb, from the charity

:01:02.:01:04.

Compassion In Care. First, here is our health correspondent Sally

:01:04.:01:08.

Mountjoy. Kate and Janice remember their

:01:08.:01:11.

mother, a quiet and gentle woman, a teacher and devout Christian who

:01:11.:01:20.

took pride in her appearance. But they say she was robbed of her

:01:20.:01:23.

dignity by the home that was supposed to care for her as she

:01:23.:01:26.

declined into dementia in the last years of her life. The sisters do

:01:26.:01:29.

not wish to name the home to avoid distressing others, so are

:01:29.:01:33.

remaining anonymous. Seeing her in the wrong clothes, with food all-

:01:33.:01:43.
:01:43.:01:43.

over herself, sometimes smelling that she was not clean in the

:01:43.:01:48.

downstairs department. Seeing her with her hair filthy. They were all

:01:48.:01:53.

things that were totally alien to her. It is just that lack of basic

:01:53.:01:58.

human dignity, really, that we are all entitled to. What do you think

:01:58.:02:03.

she would have thought about it? She would have said, it is my worst

:02:03.:02:08.

nightmare. And, yes, it was her worst nightmare. It was our worst

:02:08.:02:11.

nightmare as well. Last week, Spotlight heard from a number of

:02:11.:02:15.

care workers so distressed by the lack of care they had seen in homes

:02:15.:02:18.

all over Cornwall that they chose to speak out. You are not turning

:02:18.:02:22.

or changing people regularly, not monitoring people regularly, and it

:02:22.:02:26.

is a real concern and people do suffer. The report prompted a

:02:26.:02:29.

number of families to contact us. A minority were very happy with the

:02:29.:02:37.

way their relatives were being looked after. Others described

:02:37.:02:40.

shockingly poor treatment, and some were afraid to make a fuss for fear

:02:40.:02:43.

of making matters worse for their loved ones. Jenny Moore's campaign,

:02:43.:02:46.

Your Voice Matters, aims to persuade care workers to blow the

:02:46.:02:52.

whistle on poor standards. Now she is organising a meeting where

:02:52.:02:55.

families can share their worries. Some are filled with horror at the

:02:55.:02:59.

prospect of ending their days in a care home. I am terrified,

:02:59.:03:06.

absolutely terrified. Absolutely terrified. I can't... I can't

:03:07.:03:12.

imagine, I really can't. It is just that lack of individual care, a

:03:12.:03:17.

thing. Seeing people as individuals. It frightens me to guess, because I

:03:17.:03:24.

have got no children, my sister has got none, and it's very frightening.

:03:24.:03:31.

Sorry. That report from Sally Mountjoy.

:03:31.:03:34.

Earlier, I spoke to Eileen Chubb from the charity Compassion In Care.

:03:34.:03:37.

I asked her how people can identify good homes when carers have raised

:03:37.:03:40.

concerns about homes which had been rated "good" by the Care Quality

:03:40.:03:46.

Commission. Unfortunately, my experience is

:03:46.:03:50.

that you cannot trust what the Care Quality Commission are saying about

:03:50.:03:55.

care homes. People have to really make their own judgments. Go into a

:03:55.:04:00.

home more than once, at different times, don't make an appointment,

:04:00.:04:04.

and don't rely on the regulator because the regulator is not giving

:04:04.:04:09.

people the whole picture. We have had a lot of people contact us to

:04:09.:04:12.

say they are concerned about standards of care they have

:04:12.:04:16.

witnessed, but are afraid to report them. How do we change that so that

:04:16.:04:21.

people feel confident enough to report what they have seen? As a

:04:21.:04:25.

former whistleblower, I know how hard it is to speak out in a care

:04:25.:04:29.

home if you see something wrong. Unfortunately, every day I deal

:04:30.:04:34.

with care workers and families where they have gone to the

:04:34.:04:38.

regulator with concerns and nothing has changed. Their concerns have

:04:38.:04:42.

been referred back to the care home to investigate, which is absolutely

:04:42.:04:46.

ridiculous. You are coming to Cornwall later in media. What are

:04:46.:04:49.

you hoping to achieve and how do you have to improve the level of

:04:49.:04:54.

care? As a lay person going into care homes and writing honest

:04:54.:04:58.

accounts of what they see, I think the public will have information on

:04:58.:05:02.

the charity website to give them some idea of what to look for and

:05:02.:05:06.

the kinds of things that you will find that are wrong. Eileen Chubb,

:05:06.:05:09.

thank you for joining us. The regulator, the Care Quality

:05:09.:05:12.

Commission, says it carries out regular checks and acts quickly

:05:12.:05:17.

wherever there are concerns people may be getting poor care. It goes

:05:17.:05:19.

on to say when poor care is happening, someone, somewhere,

:05:19.:05:25.

knows about it and we ask them to tell us.

:05:25.:05:28.

Catholic schools across the South West are in discussion with church

:05:28.:05:30.

leaders about creating the first Catholic multi-school academy in

:05:30.:05:34.

the country. It could mean thousands of children would leave

:05:34.:05:38.

the local authority system. The plans would involve 37 schools in

:05:38.:05:41.

the Diocese of Plymouth leaving the local authorities to become part of

:05:41.:05:47.

a new Academy Trust. They would be state-funded but independent. The

:05:47.:05:50.

South West is leading the way when it comes to schools switching

:05:50.:05:54.

status. So far, 60 other schools are already open or applying to

:05:54.:05:56.

become an Academy. Our community affairs correspondent Carys Edwards

:05:57.:06:04.

reports. A moment of prayer in an RE lesson

:06:04.:06:09.

at Notre Dame school in Plymouth. It is one of 37 Roman Catholic

:06:09.:06:12.

schools in the South West contemplating a move, en masse, to

:06:12.:06:17.

academy status. It is likely to have little impact on the daily

:06:17.:06:20.

lives of the pupils, but the plans are radical. Up to now, the

:06:20.:06:22.

Catholic church has opposed any move towards schools becoming

:06:22.:06:32.

academies. But this is different. Nationally, the Catholic Church is

:06:32.:06:35.

negotiating with government, raising big questions for us as a

:06:35.:06:41.

national church about the future of our mission. As I said before, we

:06:41.:06:45.

have gone back over many hundreds of years and had to be here many

:06:45.:06:48.

hundreds of years into the future, and therefore the decision about

:06:48.:06:53.

how we secured that in a legal framework is very, very important.

:06:53.:06:56.

Of the 37 schools in discussion with the Diocese of Plymouth, four

:06:56.:07:00.

are in Cornwall, nine in Devon, seven in Dorset. There are five in

:07:00.:07:05.

Torbay, eight in Plymouth and three in the east of Dorset. If they

:07:05.:07:07.

become academies, they will remain state-funded, but Government money

:07:07.:07:10.

would go direct to the schools, rather than via the local

:07:10.:07:15.

authorities. The academy network would then agree on how best to

:07:15.:07:24.

provide services such as personnel and finance. Teaching unions are

:07:24.:07:29.

strongly opposed to academies, saying they will need to run unfair

:07:29.:07:35.

two Tear system. We are very, very concerned because the schools

:07:35.:07:38.

coming out of local authority control will mean the services left

:07:38.:07:43.

behind will be minimal, and the danger is those schools will not be

:07:43.:07:46.

provided for very well. Church leaders insist they will offer

:07:46.:07:51.

greater support to other schools, but unions warned that as more

:07:51.:07:55.

schools leave the local authorities, there will be a loss of democratic

:07:55.:07:59.

accountability. The plans are at an early stage and there are more

:07:59.:08:03.

discussions to be held before a formal bid for the academy status

:08:03.:08:07.

can be made. A man and his mother have been

:08:07.:08:09.

taken to hospital after escaping from a fire which destroyed their

:08:09.:08:13.

home in West Devon. They were left suffering from the effects of smoke

:08:13.:08:15.

inhalation after the fire at the house at Halwill Junction last

:08:15.:08:19.

night. The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental.

:08:19.:08:25.

Neighbouring houses were evacuated as the blaze spread.

:08:25.:08:30.

Next door's is absolutely ruined, it is a burned-out shell. To come

:08:30.:08:34.

back to that will be devastating for my neighbours, I feel very

:08:34.:08:39.

sorry for them. In comparison, we have had a very, very lucky escape.

:08:39.:08:43.

The fire did not come into our House, it was in the roof.

:08:43.:08:47.

Detectives in Devon are hunting for a sex attacker who has carried out

:08:47.:08:50.

a serious assault on a woman in her 80s. Police say they are investing

:08:50.:08:53.

significant resources to find the attacker. The incident happened in

:08:53.:08:55.

the Southway area of Plymouth. The elderly woman is now being

:08:55.:08:58.

comforted by her family. Two men have been arrested and released on

:08:58.:09:05.

bail. It is obviously a very serious case,

:09:05.:09:10.

it is a terrible thing to happen, very harrowing. We have dedicated

:09:10.:09:15.

significant resources to it from their major crime team, the local

:09:15.:09:18.

teams and specialist officers used to dealing with sexual offences.

:09:18.:09:21.

A move to hand health services in Cornwall over to a not-for-profit

:09:21.:09:23.

company has been given the go-ahead today. Community hospitals and

:09:23.:09:26.

district nurses are among the services that will be transferred

:09:26.:09:28.

out of NHS control to the new business, called Peninsula

:09:28.:09:33.

Community Health. Staff unions claim it will pave the way for

:09:33.:09:38.

privatisation of the NHS, and 5,000 people signed a petition against it.

:09:38.:09:40.

However, supporters say patients will still get free care and staff

:09:40.:09:48.

will have more say in how services are provided.

:09:48.:09:51.

Spotlight has learnt that traffic policing in Devon and Cornwall has

:09:51.:09:53.

been disrupted because of fundamental changes to operational

:09:53.:09:56.

policing in the two counties. Two important road safety operations

:09:56.:09:59.

have been postponed, and traffic officers have told us they spend

:09:59.:10:02.

significantly less time patrolling the roads.

:10:02.:10:05.

But the Assistant Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall says overall

:10:05.:10:08.

numbers of traffic officers are not being reduced as a result of

:10:08.:10:11.

Government cuts. Our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall join us

:10:11.:10:21.

now overlooking the M5 near Exeter. With the scale of cutbacks facing

:10:21.:10:24.

police forces, road safety campaigners have been concerned

:10:24.:10:29.

that traffic policing would suffer and given what we have discovered

:10:29.:10:31.

in Devon and Cornwall those campaigners have been telling me

:10:31.:10:36.

they believe their fears are being justified.

:10:36.:10:39.

Devon and Cornwall Police have been fundamentally restructured to try

:10:39.:10:43.

to cope with budget cuts and the loss of 700 officers. Traffic

:10:43.:10:47.

police are no longer a separate unit and can now be sent to any

:10:47.:10:51.

emergency. Traffic officers have told us they believe that is

:10:51.:10:56.

damaging road policing. Two important road safety operations

:10:57.:11:00.

targeting dangerous lorries have been postponed. Traffic officers

:11:00.:11:04.

say they are spending less time on patrol. In one case, it made a

:11:04.:11:08.

stolen car spotted on the M5 in Devon could not be stopped because

:11:08.:11:13.

the traffic vehicle had been called in to Exeter. It is devastating

:11:13.:11:18.

news and, unfortunately, could mean we see a rise in traffic offences,

:11:18.:11:21.

in drivers taking risky behaviour that may result in more people

:11:21.:11:26.

being injured and killed in Devon and Cornwall. My members are saying

:11:26.:11:30.

that with a reduction of such a large number of officers, does

:11:30.:11:34.

specialist departments will be affected and that will mean less

:11:34.:11:41.

visible traffic officers on the main arterial route to Devon and

:11:41.:11:45.

Cornwall. Ken Williams lost his Neath -- his niece Catherine in a

:11:45.:11:48.

crash and told me of his concerns about any reduction in traffic

:11:48.:11:54.

police in. It will have an effect, and the effect on families at of a

:11:54.:11:59.

road crash fatality or serious injury is absolutely devastating.

:11:59.:12:04.

It affects hundreds and hundreds of people, and lives are changed.

:12:04.:12:08.

Devon and Cornwall is a top performing falls. We are having to

:12:08.:12:12.

be more flexible, innovative about how we use our resources, and we

:12:12.:12:16.

are having to maximise time on the street, so we are able to deal with

:12:16.:12:21.

not just the accidents and issues on the road but also incidents

:12:21.:12:25.

within towns and villages so we are there when people leaders.

:12:25.:12:30.

concerns about traffic policing come as a number of serious crashes

:12:30.:12:33.

in Devon and Cornwall rose last year. It had been declining. The

:12:33.:12:38.

police say they wear a dress that through education and enforcement.

:12:38.:12:43.

It is just over a month since Devon & Cornwall Police introduce new

:12:43.:12:47.

ways of working, and Warburg -- and what this row illustrates is how

:12:48.:12:52.

the force is struggling to maintain standards of service in the face of

:12:52.:12:56.

unprecedented budget cuts. Thank you, Simon.

:12:56.:13:00.

Stay with us, because later we will try to get to the bottom of a

:13:00.:13:05.

mysterious tidal surge. Plus: Facing the final curtain - find out

:13:05.:13:09.

why some amateur theatre groups are struggling.

:13:09.:13:12.

And more than a thousand young musicians take to the stage with

:13:12.:13:21.

A Devon MP says there needs to be an urgent review of the rules

:13:22.:13:25.

surrounding the use of red diesel. Last week, Spotlight reported on

:13:25.:13:28.

the farmer who was fined for cutting the grass of a local

:13:28.:13:32.

football club with his tractor using the low tax fuel.

:13:32.:13:34.

Now, some voluntary organisations say they, too, are concerned they

:13:34.:13:37.

could face problems. Here is our environment correspondent Adrian

:13:37.:13:44.

Campbell. Red diesel plays an important role

:13:44.:13:48.

in agriculture because it is cheap, but the law lays down rules about

:13:48.:13:53.

what it can be used for. And it does not include mowing the local

:13:53.:13:58.

football pitch, even if he were doing it as a favour. John Thorne

:13:58.:14:02.

fell foul of her HM Revenue and Customs and was fined �250 for

:14:02.:14:08.

doing just that. Do come in, please to meet you. Now he has come to see

:14:08.:14:16.

his local MP, Geoffrey Cox QC. is a really important issue, and in

:14:16.:14:23.

my view it needs to be looked at very urgently by this government

:14:23.:14:27.

and by commissioners of Revenue and Customs. John has had his fine paid

:14:27.:14:32.

by the local football club, but what will happen if red diesel

:14:32.:14:37.

cannot be used to get charitable job stern? Tractors have been used

:14:37.:14:41.

to mode pictures and recreation grounds before. Perhaps no longer.

:14:41.:14:45.

They have also been used to help put up Christmas lights in some

:14:45.:14:50.

towns. Maybe that is coming to an end. And what about the South

:14:50.:14:56.

West's carnival tradition? Is it in peril? This carnival takes place in

:14:56.:15:00.

October and there are all types of carnivals all over the South West

:15:00.:15:04.

in autumn. What has happened in North Devon throws doubt over some

:15:04.:15:10.

of them. Neil Austin helps to organise their Honiton Carnival. He

:15:10.:15:13.

says it is an expensive business and doubts over red diesel could

:15:13.:15:18.

make it impossible to. The red diesel works as it is, but if you

:15:18.:15:22.

have to do wait diesel it would be the end of the carnival because

:15:22.:15:26.

every carnival has got to do a lot of fund-raising to pay for the fuel,

:15:26.:15:30.

and if you have to pay a lot more fuel for the -- a lot more money

:15:31.:15:36.

for white diesel it will killing. Farmers can use red diesel to help

:15:36.:15:40.

motorists in the snow, but her HM Revenue and Customs says that once

:15:40.:15:45.

misuse is identified it is only fair to turn a blind eye. But it

:15:45.:15:48.

says any appeal from Mr Thorne would be carefully considered.

:15:48.:15:51.

Amateur theatre groups across the South West are warning that

:15:51.:15:54.

spiralling costs and falling ticket sales could put some of them out of

:15:54.:15:57.

business. Most companies will now only attempt the most popular shows

:15:57.:16:00.

because of fears of making any further losses. Our South Devon

:16:00.:16:08.

reporter John Ayres has more. Toads Stage Musical Company, based

:16:08.:16:12.

in Torquay, is holding a dress rehearsal for The King And I. Its

:16:12.:16:15.

members, both on and off stage, give up hours of their time. So

:16:15.:16:20.

image what it is like trying to fit it all of this in if you work long

:16:20.:16:29.

hours, say as a hospital doctor. will go to rehearsals and it --

:16:29.:16:33.

then go and do a night shift, or do a day at work and rehearse at the

:16:33.:16:37.

weekends. Often the work of days and a row without a day off and am

:16:37.:16:41.

at a rehearsal every night. Some people will consider �16 a ticket

:16:41.:16:43.

lot of money for an amateur production, but it's costing

:16:43.:16:47.

�52,000 to put it on. With 1400 seats, this is the region's biggest

:16:47.:16:54.

theatre. At least a third of the tickets must be sold to break even.

:16:54.:17:00.

I am sad to say that potentially our next loss could be our last. We

:17:00.:17:03.

are almost at rock bottom at the moment and could do with Major's

:17:03.:17:06.

support for the show that is going on this week at the Prince's

:17:07.:17:11.

Theatre in Torquay said that we can bolster the pots. We live from one

:17:11.:17:14.

show to the next. This, in turn, means amateur groups cannot take

:17:14.:17:20.

risks, which affects the shows they choose to do. Across the country,

:17:20.:17:25.

at the moment, there is a lack of variety in the shows that societies

:17:25.:17:29.

are doing because everybody is attempting to pull in the audience

:17:29.:17:32.

so they are doing wodges and Hammerstein shows, shows with

:17:32.:17:37.

children, shows like BT M The Beast. They are not doing the full range

:17:37.:17:41.

of shares available because the punters will not come and see it --

:17:42.:17:45.

Beauty And the Beast. For instance, next year the companies in Torquay,

:17:45.:17:48.

Exeter, Sidmouth and Exmouth are all putting on the The Sound of

:17:48.:17:51.

Music. Toads hopes that The King And I will prove popular enough

:17:51.:18:01.
:18:01.:18:01.

this time to keep their funds afloat.

:18:01.:18:04.

Hundreds of Plymouth Argyle fans had their say at the city's

:18:04.:18:07.

Guildhall last night as they fired questions to the acting chairman

:18:07.:18:10.

and lead administrator about the club's future. In a packed hall,

:18:10.:18:12.

Peter Ridsdale and Brendan Guilfoyle confirmed a deal was very

:18:12.:18:15.

near to completion to buy the stricken club, with the preferred

:18:15.:18:18.

bidder - an Irish consortium - still at the forefront of

:18:18.:18:21.

negotiations. They admitted the sale and purchase of the club will

:18:21.:18:29.

help them stabilise for next season. Without all of us together this

:18:29.:18:32.

club will not be saved, and I will do my best to make sure that

:18:32.:18:37.

happens, that we save the club, put it in the right hands and work with

:18:37.:18:41.

the community and supporters. This is what I have tried to do so that

:18:41.:18:49.

we can be proud going forward of a club going into its 125th here. --

:18:50.:18:52.

year. More than 1000 children converged

:18:52.:18:55.

on one of the region's major concert venues today for a mass

:18:55.:18:58.

celebration of all things musical. The pupils, from schools across

:18:58.:19:01.

Devon and Cornwall, took part in a concert organised by the BBC

:19:01.:19:03.

Concert Orchestra. There was everything from classical

:19:03.:19:06.

to pop, and some of the children even made their instruments from

:19:06.:19:11.

scrap. Chris Lyddon reports. An audience of 1,400 children from

:19:11.:19:15.

all over Devon and Cornwall. A Concert Orchestra famous the world

:19:15.:19:25.

over. And backstage preparing for their big moment, 28 tense pupils

:19:25.:19:29.

from Widdecombe Mallett primary. But what are they playing?

:19:29.:19:39.
:19:39.:20:13.

This is it, rehearsals over, time So, after the show, a word from

:20:13.:20:21.

their coach. What about the slight? That looked so good, didn't it?

:20:21.:20:25.

They were absolutely fantastic. They had two two-hour sessions to

:20:25.:20:31.

learn all of those rhythms and get them all concentrating and watching,

:20:31.:20:35.

and getting them together with the orchestra, so it was a real tasks.

:20:35.:20:42.

The day was compared by a CBBC presenter who is crazy about music.

:20:42.:20:45.

I love the combination of an orchestra that is perhaps seen as

:20:45.:20:50.

being stuffy and in the realm of the Royal Albert Hall and the Proms

:20:50.:20:54.

getting out, meeting kids, showing them that, not only can you sit and

:20:54.:21:01.

listen and watch and have fun, but you can get involved. Jay, music

:21:01.:21:11.
:21:11.:21:11.

just how it should be. -- joy. Yesterday we had reports of the

:21:11.:21:14.

tides doing some very unusual things, going out when it was

:21:14.:21:17.

supposed to be coming in, sudden rises of water in harbours and even

:21:17.:21:20.

rogue waves travelling up rivers. It's a mystery we are still trying

:21:20.:21:28.

to solve. David, any answers? I think we have an answer, but it

:21:28.:21:33.

is not conclusive. Let's have a look at what we saw at the tidal

:21:33.:21:38.

gauges. These measure what the tide actually did during the course of

:21:38.:21:46.

It is called a tidal gauge anomaly, the difference between what was

:21:46.:21:50.

forecast and what happened. If the tides were behaving, the readings

:21:50.:21:56.

would be zero. But they are not. Almost half a metre's difference,

:21:56.:22:00.

so obviously something going on with the tide. We had lots of

:22:00.:22:04.

reports, starting in Cornwall and travelling through the south coast

:22:04.:22:08.

into Devon and Dorset. So many coming in that there was clearly

:22:08.:22:12.

something going on. The first port of call was when it was first --

:22:12.:22:21.

where it was first reported. anything was that on their causeway,

:22:21.:22:27.

all of the ladies' hair was stating on end with the static. On the

:22:27.:22:32.

island, it was eight inches to a foot higher than the West. It was

:22:32.:22:36.

pouring in like a tyrant rather than a gentle meeting in the middle,

:22:36.:22:42.

as normal. In true red, a fisherman reported that the river he was

:22:42.:22:45.

fishing on an reversed direction for a few minutes and then carried

:22:45.:22:50.

on as normal. Along the coast, more reports coming in and unusual

:22:50.:22:57.

goings-on in Millbrook. It was quite violent, in a way. My Dinky

:22:57.:23:00.

was moving around with the water coming in and rushing in the late

:23:00.:23:05.

and I wondered what was going on. All sorts of things crossed my mind,

:23:05.:23:10.

pressure, seismic events, and I wondered what was going on. But

:23:10.:23:15.

within 15 minutes it was all over. So we needed to talk to a few

:23:15.:23:21.

people to find out what was happening. We started with the

:23:21.:23:23.

hydrographic Office, they said there was nothing expected to be

:23:23.:23:27.

unusual about the tides. The Met Office was the next port of call,

:23:27.:23:31.

they said they didn't think anything in the weather could have

:23:31.:23:38.

caused such a change. The Geological Survey, we asked them if

:23:38.:23:41.

there was any seismic activity in the Atlantic or around the UK, but

:23:41.:23:45.

nothing was happening through the weekend will yesterday. So we

:23:45.:23:51.

enlisted the help of an expert and went to Plymouth University. They

:23:51.:23:55.

are quite rare, and it is probably not a tidal phenomenon, it is more

:23:55.:24:02.

likely to be a tsunami of some kind. Obviously it is quite mild. It is

:24:02.:24:06.

probably not due to run earthquake, which is the normal source, it is

:24:06.:24:12.

more likely to be a submarine landslide. So what Mark means is

:24:12.:24:17.

that deep under the ocean off the continental shelf, a steep slope

:24:17.:24:21.

too much deeper water 200 miles west of Land's End, there may have

:24:21.:24:25.

been a slip of the sand or mud well beneath the sea that caused a

:24:25.:24:30.

movement of the water. Some final evidence to pack -- back that up

:24:30.:24:35.

his from Studland Bay. There was a ship operating there doing some

:24:35.:24:39.

survey work, and they experience a series of high and low tides in the

:24:39.:24:42.

space of a few minutes, and that really is good evidence to suggest

:24:42.:24:47.

it was a minute tsunami. We had so many comments from people

:24:47.:24:50.

yesterday, they will be relieved in some ways that something was going

:24:50.:24:55.

on and they were not imagining it! I think that is the main thing, and

:24:55.:25:00.

that is probably what the cause was, a mudslide beneath the ocean floor.

:25:00.:25:04.

But if you have any pictures or any more information, we would love to

:25:04.:25:13.

Let's get back to the weather, which has been kind to us today and

:25:13.:25:17.

will be later in the week as well. A line of cloud has caused some

:25:17.:25:21.

problems in the east, generating heavy showers, but it is moving

:25:21.:25:26.

away from us. We have some more showers to come on this weather

:25:26.:25:31.

front. Once that is out of the way, the high pressure dominates. This

:25:31.:25:35.

is lunchtime on Wednesday, and by lunchtime on Thursday it has moved

:25:35.:25:38.

across much of southern Britain and will be with us into the start of

:25:39.:25:45.

the weekend, too. A fine evening to enjoy this evening. A lot of clear

:25:45.:25:50.

skies, so it will be colder than it has been overnight. Later in the

:25:50.:25:55.

night, one or two showers made it into the North Cornwall and North

:25:55.:26:00.

Devon coast to end the night. It will be colder than it was last

:26:00.:26:04.

night. Tomorrow, and not more cloud than we would like with a few

:26:04.:26:11.

showers, they are fairly light, but by the end of the morning into the

:26:11.:26:15.

afternoon they tend to become a rarity, so a lot of fine weather by

:26:15.:26:19.

the end of the day, more in the way of sunshine, and not overly warm

:26:19.:26:25.

but reasonable. Still a bit of a breeze from the North West holding

:26:25.:26:29.

down the temperatures. For the Isles of Scilly, one or two showers

:26:29.:26:39.
:26:39.:27:03.

developing here which will fade This is a good news story all the

:27:03.:27:06.

way to the weekend. The temperatures are on the rise,

:27:06.:27:11.

mainly dry for most of us with some sunshine. Thursday and Friday we

:27:11.:27:15.

see a change in the wind direction, with an easterly wind setting in,

:27:15.:27:20.

bringing warmer air from France, Spain and Portugal by the weekend,

:27:20.:27:30.
:27:30.:27:31.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS