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The solider killed in Afghanistan - four years on, his grieving father | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
says the facts of the death don't add up. I can't say that I've had a | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
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Christmas since Jack... Died. And... It's the worst thing that's ever | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
happened to me. Good evening. Ian Sadler says other | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
relatives are also being denied the truth. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Also on Spotlight tonight: a sailing spectacular. How the drama | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
of the American's Cup could be one of Plymouth's biggest ever events. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
And a glimpse of South West life as it was - the rare footage seen on | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
TV for the first time. A grieving father has accused the | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Ministry of Defence of a cover-up over the tragic killing of his son | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
in Afghanistan. Jack Sadler, who was 21, died in a convoy in Helmand | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Province. His father Ian says the facts surrounding his son's death | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
don't add up, and he claims other relatives are also being denied the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
truth about the deaths of their loved ones on the frontline. | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Officials have denied his claims. The days, the dates, my birthday, | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
Christmas, they don't matter now. That has all gone out of the window. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
For I don't bother with any of it. I can't say I have had a Christmas | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
since Jack... Died. And... It is the worst thing that has ever | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
happened to me. Jack Sadler's ambition as a boy was to serve his | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
country. And that's how he died. He was serving with the Honourable | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Artillery Company in Helmand when the Land Rover he was travelling in, | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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similar to this, hit a landmine and was blown apart. He was 21. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Land Rover my son was in was called a jackal. Jack was still alive | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
after the blast, but died as he was being flown to a military hospital. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
12 months on from the inquest, his father still hasn't been told why | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
it took 50 minutes for Jack to be evacuated by helicopter. The MoD | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
can take it upon themselves to massage the facts and manipulate | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
the facts to make things look as if they are as they should be. Is this | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
a cover-up? Yeah, I think so. Sadler says he has evidence that | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
other relatives are also being denied the truth about the deaths | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
of their loved ones in Afghanistan. He believes the Ministry of Defence | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
uses the need for national security to refuse to disclose vital | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
information. If the MoD was a private company, I think there | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
would be a case against them for corporate manslaughter. The staff | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
at the MoD could be reduced by 50%. On top of the 86,000 MoD civil | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
servants, you have got more admirals than you have got ships, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
more brigadiers than Brigades. And there are more generals than armies. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Spotlight asked the Ministry of Defence for an interview, but no | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
one was available. In a statement, an MoD spokesman said their | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
sympathies remain with Mr Sadler following the death of his son, but | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
the coroner that investigated Jack's death was given access to | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
all the information available. It could be the biggest event | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Plymouth's ever seen, bringing more than 200,000 visitors and millions | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
of pounds. The America's Cup is coming to the city in September, | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
and today some of the top people behind it were in town for the | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
first time. The newly-devised America's Cup | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
"World Series" is basically Formula One for international racing yachts. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
It happens this year for the first time. Plymouth's one of just three | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
legs to the series, the others being in Portugal and California. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Today Plymouth Sound certainly looked world class when some of the | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
top organisers paid their first visit. Welcome to Plymouth. I just | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
stepped off the train. And what a sight. We are so excited to be here. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
The criteria were specific. We needed a place where we could | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
showcase the sailing in front of people. We have always had to go | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
out on the water or watch from TV, and people cannot watch it live. We | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
wanted our athletes to have the opportunity to be seen live and to | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
compete in front of their fans. event, more than a week long, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
should be a significant boost for tourism across a swathe of East | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
Cornwall and West Devon. It will be huge for Plymouth. We anticipate in | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
accents of 700 bed at night alone being booked by the crews and their | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
support staff. By the time you add in the visitors and global media | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
representatives, that is a lot of bed nights. The long-term hope is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
that the international exposure this gives Plymouth will be an | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
advert far beyond anything money could buy. We are broadcasting this | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
on a global stage. The America's Cup World Series will be seen in | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
countries around the globe. Millions will be watching, which | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
means millions will be seeing Plymouth and be able to see what a | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
brilliant city it is. And also a great place to sail. I do not think | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
there is another town in the country that has beset we have. It | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
is a natural harbour and a natural arena. Once we get people here to | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
have a look at that, all of this will snowball. Plymouth has its | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
problems. It is losing its airport and could still even lose its | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
football team. But the setting of the city remains priceless. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
September's event here is almost certainly the biggest ever | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
endorsement of this setting. So the timing is interesting. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Patient watchdogs say they have huge concerns about the future of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Cornwall's community hospitals. They say they have seen a copy of a | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
secret document, which suggests that at one stage there were plans | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
to cut more than 50 beds. Health watchdogs say this plan has now | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
been dropped, but admit they do have to reduce spending. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
This community hospital is one of Cornwall's 14. There is a minor | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
injuries department here, more than 50 beds and a minor surgery unit. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
At present, this hospital is run by the Primary Health Care Trust, but | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
the trust is being disbanded and community hospitals will be handed | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
over to a group called peninsula Community Health, a not-for-profit | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
company. Health watchdogs say they have seen a confidential document | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
which shows that during handover discussions, there were plans to | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
cut 54 beds across the county. so angry that we have now seen | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
these revelations. Health initiative Cornwall have long | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
campaigned since day one on the fact that we felt that this model | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
would cost more and that ultimately, it would affect services and | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
hospitals and beds. The PCT say that bed cuts were discussed in an | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
early confidential version of their business plan, but say the idea was | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
later rejected. Why the secrecy about these 54 beds? Why was it | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
hidden in a document people did not know about? The document was under | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
review. And it was subject due diligence. It was always a draft | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
document with a number of proposals. The important thing is that should | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
any of those proposals have come to fruition, we would have talked to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
local stakeholders. Our concerns were always around the fact that | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
this was clearly more about the ideology of privatisation rather | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
than service provision and what is good for Cornwall. So this leaked | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
document clearly supports that theory. Peninsula community health | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
will be taking over all 14 of these hospitals in four months' time. | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Health watchdogs say they will be watching them closely. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Still to come in Spotlight tonight - on a screen and at the touch of a | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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button: The 200 piece orchestra you can conduct too. | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
And a look back in time at life on the North Cornish coast. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
The multi-million pound plan for a South West regional fire control | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
centre has been declared a "comprehensive failure". The centre | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
in Taunton is one of nine built across the country. A report by the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
National Audit Office says the whole scheme has wasted at least | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
�469 million. It criticises the Department for Communities and | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Local Government and says eight of the nine new control centres remain | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
empty and costly to maintain. The Government says it accepts the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
findings of the report. This report from the National Audit Office | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
confirms everything that the Fire Brigades Union has said over the | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
last eight years about this project. It was flawed from the start and | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
has been incompetently managed, and I would like to say it was the last | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
chapter in this whole sorry saga, but the public will pay what will | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
be nearly half a billion pounds for this absolute waste of money. It | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
really is a public scandal. A 54-year-old man has been arrested | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
on suspicion of murder in West Devon. It follows the death of a | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
woman on the A386 earlier today. The road has been closed for much | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
of today, and officers are appealing for any witnesses to the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
incident to come forward. The vehicle was travelling from the | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
direction of Merton. We would like to hear from any members of the | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
public who may have seen this vehicle involved in any collision | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
being driven erratically, or when it came to rest in the area behind | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
me, during which we found a deceased female in the front | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
passenger seat. In a special report tonight, Royal | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Navy nurses from Plymouth have been talking about the challenges of | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
dealing with casualties of war out in Afghanistan. The medics are | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
nearing the end of a three month deployment at the hospital at Camp | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
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Bastion in Helmand Province. A US Black Hawk helicopter, known | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
as a Pedro, touches down at Camp Bastion. Another casualty is on the | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
way. Really busy and the minute. It goes through stages. It depends on | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
what is going on on the ground. It varies over 24 hours. You just wait | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
for the phone to ring, and respond. The hospital at Camp Bastion is not | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
only the busiest trauma unit anywhere in the world, it is also | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
widely regarded as the best. There are very few places in the world | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
that get exposure to this level of trauma. The training we have been | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
given to do the job has been second to none. I would not disagree. We | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
have the best training, and everyone out here works as a team. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
We have the same objective, to treat these guys and get them back | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
home. It is fantastic, all the way from what the lads do on the ground | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
at the initial point of injury, through to us and all the way back | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
to Birmingham. There is a close connection between Bastian and the | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
UK. Lessons learnt here are fed back into the NHS system. For every | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
casualty that comes in, we learn the lessons from the injury | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
patterns. From that, we can redesign body armour to make sure | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
that the lads and lasses on the ground are as safe as possible. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
well as clinical improvements, the overall trend of better kit and | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
medical training for troops is making a real difference in terms | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
of patient survivability forced at historically, a lot of the injury | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
patterns we see would have been deemed unsurvivable. A number of | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
years ago, they would not have made it off the battlefield. But down to | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
the excellent work the medics are doing on the ground in terms of | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
haemorrhage control and rapid evacuation right through to | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
treatment and beyond, these lads and lasses with serious injuries | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
are fortunately getting a chance to get home to their families. I am | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
proud to be part of that. Falmouth Coastguard has been | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
coordinating the rescue of 13 Indian crewmen from a disabled | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
tanker in the North Arabian Gulf after they were emailed by them. A | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Merlin helicopter from RNAS Culdrose airlifted them to safety | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
in heavy seas after they had been stranded for several days without | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
power. The helicopter came from the frigate HMS St Albans, which was on | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
patrol in the area. The 2,000-tonne vessel was in danger of foundering. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
30 guests at a Torquay hotel have been struck down by the stomach bug | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
norovirus. Staff at the Majestic Templestowe have decided to close | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the hotel for a week from today to try to eradicate the infection with | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
deep cleaning. �7 million pounds of government | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
money has been awarded to build a new academy on this site on | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Portland. The academy, for four to 19-year-olds, could replace the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
island's six schools. It will specialise in environmental and | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
sports science and open next year. A new �8 million flood defence | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
scheme has opened at Shaldon in South Devon. The scheme hopes to | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
reduce the risk of tidal flooding for almost 500 homes and businesses | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
in the area. It's taken the Environment Agency seven years to | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
complete the project. Well, it's the only sport anyone's | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
really talking about today, and that's the Murray match at | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
Wimbledon. Here in Plymouth, crowds gathered at the big screen in the | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
city centre to watch the nail- biting game. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
Fancy a pittance? It is thirsty work, this tennis. It is Wimbledon | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
semi-finals day, and spectators gathered in front of the BBC's Big | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Screen to see if the Scot could at last defeat his long term nemesis. | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
And Nadal has support in Plymouth from his compatriot. There is a lot | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
of history. And I think that Nadal is going to win this match. It is | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
really busy today. And you are getting a good suntan. I hope so. | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
It is really nice. Lots of atmosphere, lots of people here. | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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And the weather is great. It is excellent, really good. Nice day, | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
nice and sunny. The good news is that Murray's perennial appearance | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
is a welcome appearance for the shop and office workers, who | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
somehow contrived to escape the indoors for the sun-kissed piazza. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
You can also hone your tennis skills as a player, because here on | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the Piazza tomorrow, where I am standing, they will set up a mini | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
tennis court way you can develop your skills in the art of serving, | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
returning a volley, whatever. My colleague will be dressed | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
appropriately in her tennis attire to have a go herself. Why not join | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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her? That is going on all day here Torquay's Commonwealth Games gold | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
medallist Natalie Melmore has been appointed Ambassador for the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Special Olympics, Plymouth and District charity. The 21-year-old | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
lawn bowler, along with Plymouth's Olympic swimming prospects Antony | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
James and Emma Wilkins, have been giving advice to the region's | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Special Olympians ahead of their Games in 2013. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
The charity Special Olympics lives up to its name. In this case, it's | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
lawn bowls which tests people of all ages with learning disabilities | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
in Plymouth and District. The South West's golden bowler, Natalie | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
Melmore, takes up her latest role as ambassador for the charity. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
from a sport which does not get much funding, so I can see where | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
they are coming from. This charity has given them a chance to get some | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
funding to give them the opportunity to go to the Special | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Olympics. Also lending their experience to the cause are top | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Plymouth Leander swimmers Antony James, a silver and bronze | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
medallist from Delhi, and Emma Wilkins, who's on course to reach | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
the London Olympic Games. To set up a charity that helps people who are | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
less able to get involved in sport at an elite level is a worthwhile | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
cause. I will be involved over the next few years. Hopefully, it will | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
be a success. They do put a lot of effort into it. And they really | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
enjoy it. You can see the enjoyment on their faces, so that is really | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
nice to see. Some of these bowlers competed at the last Special | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
Olympics two years ago and have many happy memories. A couple of | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
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years ago, I used to play in a match for. And we got soaked. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Natalie Melmore showing them just how it's done, they can't fail in | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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their mission to win medals. Exeter's Summer in the City | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Festival will come to an unusual and dramatic conclusion tomorrow | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
with a virtual 200 piece orchestra at Exeter Castle. It will star | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
composer and musician Ondrej Pochyly, who will conduct the | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
orchestra on his computer using a games controller. Earlier, he came | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
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into the studio so we could find It seems such a shame to interrupt | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
you, but what is this all about? Could you explain it? Sure, this is | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
what I will use to premiere my Requiem for the lost in memory of | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
my mum in July. I have assembled this. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
It is a virtual orchestra. A 200 piece orchestra within a computer | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
that you are conducting? Yes. Conducting with a tempo and dynamic | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
range live. How long did it take you to put this together? It was | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
about three months' worth of programming, and roughly two months | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
of programming and drafts before that. Is it just a gimmick? | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
No, this is to help younger people like myself to get on the ladder | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
and showcase my work, because I would never be able to afford an | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
orchestra to perform this. You made it sound terrific. Is it easy to | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
conduct a virtual orchestra? really. It is more responsibility | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
that with a real orchestra, because it reacts straight away. Can I have | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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a go? Sure. How do I start? Start by clicking this button. That makes | :20:30. | :20:39. | |
it slow down. Now you want to be in the middle. I think I am ruining | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
your Requiem! I am so sorry. I will leave it to the expert. Thank you | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
so much and good luck tomorrow. Thank you very much. CHORAL MUSIC | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 61 seconds | :21:04. | :22:05. | |
If any of you are budding composers and would like to get involved with | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
the Summer in the City Festival next year, you can get in touch | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
with Exeter City Council and get all the details you need. | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
It does not have the same effect with me! | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Never mind. Now, walk through some small | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Cornish fishing villages, and it sometimes feels like a step back in | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
time. Many of them have barely changed over the years. Well, a new | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
film shows exactly what life in Port Isaac was like during the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
1930s, '40s and '50s. Much of it was filmed by local man Lionel | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
Larkin, and John Danks has been to meet his grandson. | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
He filmed weddings. He filled the village celebrating the Coronation, | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
school sports, all those sort of things, as well as family events, | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
gymnastics and all sorts. Lionel Castle, seen here on the bridge, | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
shocked many films in the '30s and '40s. He captured scenes of | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
everyday life in Port Isaac. Peter Larkin was with his grandfather on | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
the day these boats came in, heavily loaded with fish. It was in | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
the middle of the 1940s. It was November, and they had a halt. All | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
the next came in full of herring, and they were nearly sinking. They | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
had to beach the boats and shake out the nets, and then they | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
shovelled out the fish. It was one of the biggest catches they had | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
ever had. Some of the earliest film shows retired fisherman hanging | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
around the village and chewing tobacco in 1933. You wonder what | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
they have made of the tourists who descend on board as it today. One | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
present day resident believes visitors can learn a lot from the | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
film. They can see how people lived. It is very rare footage. That is | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
the best document I know of that the village has. If one thing | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
stands out, it is that the people of port as a glove their wedding. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Although it seems for some, it was not a case of always wearing your | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
best hat. People did not feel the need to dress up. They probably | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
couldn't, because they did not have much money in those days. Peter | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
donated 60 rolls of film to the south-west Film and Television | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Archive, along with his grandfather's equipment. Peter | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
himself features in some of the footage, seen here holding on to | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
his mother as she swims. My mother died when I was 10. And my sister | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
died not long after when she was 14. So it is nice to be able to see | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
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It has barely changed. Some lovely family memories. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Now, let's see what the weekend weather prospects are. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
Yes, we have some fine weather to look forward to this weekend. No | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
rain in the forecast. Not everyone's cup of tea, but most | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
will enjoy a bit of summer sunshine, and also feeling a bit warmer. But | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
do not expect wall-to-wall blue skies. There's a lot of cloud | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
around on both days of the weekend. Lots of cloud in the Atlantic at | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
the moment. Some of that is peeling off towards us overnight. Expect | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
cloud bands to come later. Tomorrow is still a fine and dry day, with | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
high pressure in charge. It does not move very far, but slips away | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
from us briefly on Saturday before coming back almost into the same | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
position by Sunday. A lot of fine weather. Settled, with light winds. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
But cloud amounts will be trickier to get right. The coast is probably | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
the best place to be for strong sunshine. There is still some cloud | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
around, but most of that will fade away for a time overnight. Some | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
will come back. But for most of the night to come, it will not be as | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
cold as last night. We had six degrees this morning across parts | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
of Devon and Somerset. It will probably be warmer than that by the | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
end of the night, with more in the way of cloud. That cloud might be a | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
bit stubborn to shift out of the way. But either side of the cloud, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
a lot of sunshine and fine weather to enjoy. And temperatures will be | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
higher than today. Fairly light winds, especially in land. Along | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the coastline, and on shore sea breeze develops for the early | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
afternoon. Coastal temperatures will be a few degrees down on those | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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further inland. A fine day for the For the surfers, it will be a bit | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
disappointing this weekend. The surf may pick up on Sunday. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Tomorrow, the coast will be up to three feet and clean. The waves are | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
not very big on the south coast. The forecast for the coastal waters | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
has light winds for the next 24 hours. Tonight, the winds will be | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
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If you are enjoying the outside or heading for the beach this weekend, | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
the U V is Chaconne at this time of year, so a word of warning. Take it | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
easy. The forecast for the rest of the weekend and into the start of | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
next week -- still dry, still a good deal of bright weather. Some | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
patchy cloud around to spoil that sunshine. Increasing amounts of | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
high-level cloud on Monday, making the sunshine hazy. By Tuesday, a | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
change in the wind direction. Fresher air comes from the south- | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
west, with the risk of patchy rain. Until then, it is a dry story, with | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
some sunshine. That is all from us. We do not | :28:27. | :28:30. |