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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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