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The new owner of Plymouth Argyle is taking legal action after | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
allegations that his emails were hacked in to. Good evening. Peter | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Ridsdale's action follows a newspaper article when he was at | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Cardiff City. Also tonight. Paying for a road which hasn't been built. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Why taxpayers are being asked for millions more to keep bypass plans | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
alive. Plugged into the sun. Cornwall's first solar farm is | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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supplying electricity to the grid. I am on the water in Plymouth Sound | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
for the Plymouth race week, it starts today and I will have | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
details. And the full forecast. The owner of Plymouth Argyle, Peter | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Ridsdale, says he's taking legal action against the News of World. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
He claims it used information obtained when his email account was | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
allegedly hacked into. He's seeking damages from the paper following an | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
article it published last year. The News of the World announced this | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
afternoon that it will close this Sunday. This was Peter Risdale | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
during his time as Cardiff City chairman. It was during his four- | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
year spell there and before he had any connection with Plymouth Argyle | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
that these hacking allegations stem from. He was alerted when the News | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
of the World published an article in January of last year. He says | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
some of the material in it could only have come from documents | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
obtained illegally. Mr Ridsdale believes his email account was | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
hacked into. He was locked out of it because the password had been | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
changed without his knowledge. number of us, myself and others, | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
undertake a job at work which happens to be high profile and I | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
understand that that impinges on the way in which one can conduct | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
their private life but it does not give people total access to | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
everything you do. And it does not allow them to invade my privacy. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Ridsdale's lawyer has confirmed they are in correspondence with the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
News of the World to see if they are prepared to reach a settlement. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
If not, legal proceedings will be issued shortly. The paper wouldn't | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
make any comment as it is still checking details about the case. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
This is different to the high- profile cases at the moment | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
involving the News of the World which relate to mobile phones being | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
hacked into. While this all happened before Mr Ridsdale arrived | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
here at Home Park, it shows the legacy of his time at Cardiff | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
remains. Another reminder comes later this month when he is due in | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
court there to answer two charges under unfair trading regulations | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
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and one under the Fraud Act. He has indicated he'll plead not guilty. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Despite today's announcement that the News of the World will close, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
was say that legal actions like Mr rates bill's will still be able to | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
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go ahead. -- Mr Ridsdale's. Earlier I spoke to Plymouth solicitor | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Stephen Ramsden. I asked him how an alleged victim of email hacking | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
should pursue a legal case. would have to act quickly because | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
he might be able to stop the e-mail being transmitted any further and | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
her information being passed on. He has to act quickly by perhaps | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
taking out an injunction, an order of the court, stopping for the use | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
of e-mail and once you have done that you can think about what | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
damage it has done and the law will allow you to be compensated for any | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
damage that you have suffered. You have to prove that damage and you | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
need to take specialist advice and there might be a criminal offence, | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
you might be to contact the police and that might be a quicker remedy | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
to stopping anything being transmitted further because | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
accessing information might also be a criminal offence. If you have | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
sent that e-mail or on or someone else has sent you e-mail to a third | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
party, how much control do you have over the original content? Very | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
little. That's the problem. Your e- mails can be forwarded around the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
world in seconds. That is a practical difficulty. You do have a | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
fairly large degree of control, you have the right to privacy under | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
English law and people should not misuse private information about | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
you. But that is a legal nicety in practice. If you have transmitted | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
it and it has been re transmitted, you probably have no practical | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
control over what happens to that information. People use e-mail and | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
social media all the time to send information and talk about people. | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
How well is a lot keeping up with that growing access? Hopelessly. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
The short answer. A lot of these organisations are in by companies | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
that are overseas and they are not subject to English law so it's well | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
and good saying I have a right under English law to protection but | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
how can you enforce that if the people who have the information or | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
know how it's being used are based in California? It is often not do | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
their goodwill and professional approach as to whether they will | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
reveal information themselves. That might involve them disclosing | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
confidential information about their customers, for example. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
you. Taxpayers across Devon are being asked to find a further �23 | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
million to fund the long-awaited South Devon Link Road. Both Torbay | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
and Devon councils say they need to increase their contributions if the | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
Kingskerswell Bypass is ever to go ahead. It's a classic bottleneck, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
and this problem has existed for over 60 years. Torbay Council | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
considers a bypass as its number one infrastructure priority. We had | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
the weakest economy in the south- west and consistent and employment | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
for many years. And only better communications will lift us out of | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
this. It is a major step change for the economy. Blue Chip Holidays is | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
a business which started in Brixham. It spent six months trying to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
attract the right staff, but the company believes the road link was | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
getting in the way. Eventually it opened another office in Exeter, | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
creating 20 jobs that should have gone to Torbay. If you imagine you | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
have children to pick up from school and maybe you can get to | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
work bouquet but if you are missing the pick up time for children, that | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
is a significant thing and that isn't good work life balance. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Kingskerswell Alliance opposes the bypass plans. The group has | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
commissioned experts who have come up with a cheaper alternative using | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the existing road. Improve the junctions, the transport links and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
introduce tidal flow. Similar to the system used in the Saltash | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
tunnel. If they are investigated in a positive manner, we believe that | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
could achieve many of the objectives set for the bypass. At a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
cost saving of roughly half the cost of the road. It's similar to | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
the system used in the Saltash tunnel. So will a bypass make a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
difference? In recent years new roads have been built at Dobwalls | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
and Gossmoor in Cornwall following strong campaigns. It is tens of | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
millions. Tourism is big business, billions in the south-west. It's | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
made up of lots of little individual decisions from customers | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
and they are based on the experiences they have and if they | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
get stuck in traffic jams, especially more than once, it | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
becomes famous that it's a bad spot, like with Gossmoor. That deters | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
people from coming. The problem of the road is its unpredictability. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
At a good time you can get from one end to the other in nine minutes | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
but when busy it can take over one hour. The question is, is it worth | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
spending �23 million to try to make it happen? Talks are already | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
underway with Exeter Airport about providing flights for | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
businesspeople if Plymouth Airport shuts down. Yesterday, Air South | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
West announced its flights will have to operate from Newquay during | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
August due to problems with military radar. Plymouth Airport | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
has already announced it plans to close for good in December. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Campaigners fighting to keep Brixham coastguard station open | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
have handed in a petition at Westminster. Brixham is under | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
threat following government plans to scale down the number of | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
coastguard stations around the country. You're watching Spotlight. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Still ahead in the programme. To the world he was romantic novelist | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Emma Blair. We look back at the life of Iain Blair, the man behind | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
the pen. And find out what I have been doing at Hartland Abbey on | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
Spotlight. Keep watching. Cornwall's first commercial solar | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
energy farm has begun feeding electricity into the grid. The | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
developers say the solar array at Wheal Jane near Truro will produce | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
1.4 megawatts of electricity a year, or enough to power around 400 homes. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
They're a striking addition to the Cornish landscape and soon solar | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
farms could become as familiar as wind farms. At the old Wheal Jane | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
tin mine, more than 5,000 solar panels are now generating | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
electricity to feed the national grid. Cornwall's new solar farms | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
such as this one near Fraddon will make an impact on the landscape. To | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
benefit from the Government tariff they must be in place by August but | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
there might be as many as 10 solar farms by them. This is an enormous | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
potential source of free, clean energy so it would be insane if we | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
did not happen to that. Other countries have. We're definitely | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
playing catch-up and small community schemes, whether it's in | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
a warehouse for a church or the school, it should be encouraged. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Cornwall Council had high hopes that there would be community | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
benefits from the farms, but then the government changed the feed in | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
tariffs. They want communities to feel that these are for them and | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
that is why the council has been working with developers to get | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
money back into the communities from these Simon Parkes. We would | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
have had more if the Government did not change the plans and that would | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
have meant communities across Cornwall would get even up to �1 | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
million for the community over the lifetime of these solar panels. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Small-scale renewable power generation is being marketed as an | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
ethical investment opportunity by Community Power Cornwall. Its | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
current share offer has already raised more than �60,000 from | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
individuals. The programme started four years ago with communities | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
coming forward and wanting to develop projects and we needed to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
work out a baby could get them through planning and get them | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
permitted and then get the finance and that is really what led to this | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
development. It is a reaction to the committees, for with an need. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
- coming forward with an need. Cornwall has taken a lead on | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
renewable energy, but increasingly it's supporting local and community | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
power schemes. We've had a big response from you on the issue of | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
second homes. Last night we heard how Cornwall Council is calling on | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the Government to bring in new legislation to remove the council | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
tax discount on second homes. The authority thinks the proposal could | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
generate �1.6 million, which would then be used to provide more | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
affordable housing. Lots of you have got in touch about this. Kay | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
in Mylor Bridge says if people can afford to own two houses, insure | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
and maintain them, then they should pay in excess of 100% council tax. | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
She suggests 150%! John in Plymouth emailed to say he thinks people | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
owning second homes should pay full council tax, especially if they | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
rent them out. He says he had a totally empty bungalow in Leicester | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
when his father died and had to pay full council tax after six months. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
And Geoff got in touch on the issue of tax on wooden chalets. He says | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
his family has had a chalet at Whitsands Bay for 40 years which | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
has no rubbish collection or street lights, but he has to pay nearly | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
�1000 a year. We'll be taking a look at the rules on wooden chalets | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
and council tax in tomorrow's Spotlight. Thanks to everyone for | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
getting in touch. By new way of capturing the memories of dementia | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
patients is being used in Somerset with film students making DVDs of | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
people before the condition takes a hold. It is hoped it will help | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
create a true record of their personality and identity. Exeter | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
University are studying the information the film students | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
gather to see if it has therapeutic benefits. Everyone has a story but | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
for Mr Granville, the memory of his life's passion, cricket, might be | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
fading but capturing them on video has met the 89 year-old can now | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
relive them. Cricket. Yes, I used to go quite a lot and my father | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
introduced me to the cricket when he came home on leave. I always | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
went to the cricket. I was a member of the cricket club. As a matter- | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
of-fact. Residents of Somerset Care were captured on film by students | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
and the idea is being evaluated by Exeter University to find out if | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
there are therapeutic benefits. Media student John Wallace... | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
could tell it really helped him. The over all benefit was that he | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
could remember things that he has forgotten and even by asking him | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
questions, he would remember things that you could tell by his face, he | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
goes, oh, I remember this and he starts talking. From that he will | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
start talking about more things and you could tell that really helped | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
him. Storytelling is being encouraged throughout Somerset | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Care's residential homes. So that memories can be captured before | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
they fade. Centegenarian IV and there is one of 20 residents to | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
have contributed their experience to a life-story book being promoted | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
by these students. What are your memories of the war? As zeppelin | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
was a German aircraft and it went through when I used to live. Just | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
level to the house. It was quite exciting at the time. It is thought | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
that being unable to recall memories is the main cause of | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
agitation in dementia sufferers. So if this tale proves successful, it | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
may be the case that stories become a mainstream therapy. One of the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
country's most popular romantic fiction writers has died at home in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Torquay. Emma Blair wrote 29 books, but the Devon-based author was | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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actually a 6' 3" Glaswegian called Iain. Ian Blair started out as an | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
actor, appearing in series like the Sweeney and Citizen Smith. Playing | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
a burglar in one up as it. It was with his books that he enjoyed more | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
success. Thrillers flopped but when he switched to a romantic fiction, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
things to cough. There was a sting in the tail. Suddenly his agent | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
said, I have a publisher but there is a big but. We know it will sell | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
but you need to have a name change. You must be a woman. He said, | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
about? Yes. Do I have any choice? No, you are Emma Blair. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
author's identity remained a secret for years until the man behind Emma | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Blair, who own the road on a typewriter, came out after winning | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
an award for romantic fiction. man who can understand finally | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
motion, love and put it on pages as good as any woman. More books | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
featuring Devon and Cornwall followed and after 29 bestsellers, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
stories by Emma Blair became some of the most borrowed books from | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
libraries and Iain Blair, who died on Sunday from diabetes, will take | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
one with them. His wife put a copy of this side of heaven with him. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
His legacy for all of us was that he was just this wonderful | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
character. He had massive opinions, he was passionate about politics. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Passionate about films with Errol Flynn and John Wayne. He just | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
wasn't very larger than life character. I won't be able to fill | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
the void. Jim Blair ending that report. Four members of the Great | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Britain Paralympic wheelchair rugby team have been training children in | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Plymouth. They were in the city as part of an event to help launch a | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
new club which will hopefully attract players from across the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
South West. John Danks went to see them in action. It was a bit of a | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
scrum at Plymouth's Mayflower Centre. Children of all abilities | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
vying to get their hands on the ball. All under the expert tutelage | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
of members of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby team. Looking into | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
their eyes and the emotions, some of the guys you cannot tell but | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
some of the emotion is awesome. I would like to think they have had a | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
really good day. We have made wheelchair rugby a sport that they | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
have enjoyed. Three players who loved it were Alex, William and | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
Josh. Did you enjoy it? It was really good. I want to do it again. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
The The event coincided with the launch of a new wheelchair rugby | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
club. We are starting at the bottom training sessions and hopefully it | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
will go on from there. You never know, in the next Olympics perhaps | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
we will have some Plymouth or South West people competing. And things | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
stepped up a gear when Plymouth Albion players went toe-to-toe with | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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Part of the nature of the game is you have an able-bodied person in | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
the chair and you just want to knockabout. It is like name | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
checking. The amount of contact is pretty shocking but it's good fun. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
The organisers hope this taster session will generate enthusiasm | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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and support for wheelchair rugby in the city and the south-west. That | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
got pretty competitive! There were concerns it would rain, but the sun | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
has been shining in North Devon on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow at | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Hartland Abbey. More than 2000 people made their way to the | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
grounds to have their treasured items valued by the experts on the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
programme. Spotlight's Jane Chandler joined them. It may be | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
tucked away in a small corner of North Devon but Hartland Abbey's | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
grounds were full to brimming in the reflected glory of the Antiques | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
Roadshow. The crowds just kept on coming. And the queues went on and | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
on and on. Can I ask you how long have you been queuing? About two | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
and a quarter hours. What have you brought with you? Shall I take it | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
out? Yes. How long have you had that? It belonged to my parents, I | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
don't have the history. Yes, yes. What have you got there? | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
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Corinthian jar from 600 BC. I'm just going to see John Sandon now. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Can we follow you? Yes, indeed. Fiona Bruce is filming her fourth | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
series as presenter of the Antiques Roadshow. Today's high number of | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
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people surprised even her. How's it been today? It's been great. It's | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
been brilliant, so many people. Half the catchment area is mermaids | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
and fishes, so many people have come and we've seen some wonderful | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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things. And we've had an amazing time. I was staying there. What a | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
treat. What have the people liked here today? It's lovely. My parents | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
are from Devon. I know the area really well. I know the county | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
really well. Everybody has been so welcoming. It's been great. What | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
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about that ancient pot earlier? Local pottery, some has been given | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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200 years old. But here, not just 2000 but two-and-a-half millennia! | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
And the pot is still remaining. its value? In my mind I'm thinking | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
maybe somewhere at four or 5,000. Well, I'd be happy. The next series | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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of Antiques Roadshow is due to air in the autumn. Did you think it | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
would be worth that? I thought that would be worth more. Bearing in | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
mind its age. But it's a good price, not to be sniffed at. It's a | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
beautiful evening and we don't normally do this when the weather | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
is fair, but we've made an exception tonight and let David out. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
He's on the Barbican this evening, where there's a bit more activity | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
than usual because today marks the start of Plymouth Race Week. I am | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
at Commercial Wharf, just alongside the Mayflower Steps. You have heard | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
of Cowes week, sailing in the waters around the Isle of Wight. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Here in Plymouth, today was the start of a new sailing event to | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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rival Cowes. Plymouth-based week is the new four-day event that will | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
happen every two years in what is probably the finest natural harbour | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
in Europe. Plymouth Sound is one of the best-kept secrets in the | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
yachting community. A large expanse of on cluttered water and great | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
views from Plymouth Hoe, they are not yet internationally well-known | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
but that is about to change with the America's Cup in September and | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
this new event that started today. The ceiling is hosted by the Royal | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Western Yacht Club. The first event will be smaller and it has to grow | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
by its reputation. We have 60 boats this week and we are aiming for 350 | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
or 500 in two years. The regatta is set up near to Mayflower Steps at | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Commercial Wharf. With the race village, live music and stalls, it | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
promises to offer something for everyone. The nominated charity is | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Help for Heroes and taking part are several yachts from two in the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
water, and today's conditions were challenging even for the most able- | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
bodied. We do one simple thing. We try to inspire profoundly injured | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
servicemen and we have a couple of guys who have never sailed before | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
and even one of the boys who is coming back as an able-bodied | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
volunteer and he will be helming so we hope to give the locals are in | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
for their money and do really well in the regatta and enjoyed the | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Plymouth hospitality. On a day like today, you don't they to know much | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
about seven to appreciate what a great venue this is. The races | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
taking place on three courses, two outside the breakwater and one | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
inside and you can come down to see the yachts on the war. Who needs | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Cowes Week when you come up all this and the history that Plymouth | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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office as well. I got quite wet out there but it was a lovely morning. | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
But there is something for everyone to see over the next few days and | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
we made the weather. The wind tomorrow for race week is likely to | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
be similar to today. Let's start with the forecast for Plymouth | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
respect because they will see a stiff breeze. It might year and | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
become westerly later in the day and also quite a few showers around. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
We have been lucky today with a lot of sunshine around and few showers. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Showers typically are more widespread tomorrow. This is the | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
big satellite picture. That lump of cloud across the south of Ireland | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
at the moment is heading our way and that will bring rain it wrong | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
so make the most of the evening sunshine and the dry weather | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
because later tonight it will become cloudy. No pressure is in | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
charge this evening but by lunchtime tomorrow it has moved a | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
little bit. The big change will be into the weekend. This is lunchtime. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
You can see how the low-pressure is moving into the North Sea. West and | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
north westerly wind and hopefully that will kill the showers and we | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
will see drier weather for Saturday and Sunday. A closer look, the last | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
few hours shows heavy downpours in central parts of Cornwall and | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
central Devon. Even the odd rumble of thunder. Now those Chalmers will | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
fade away but it run this evening the forecast is for it to cloud | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
over with more persistent rain spreading right across the south- | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
west by the end of the night so we wake up to a cloudy start and quite | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
damp. Overnight temperatures, 13 degrees, tomorrow morning he will | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
have a lot of cloud and quite a wet start. By late morning, some gaps | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
developing in the cloud and by the afternoon we had the risk of | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
showers, blustery conditions. But some sunshine in between. 18 or 19 | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
degrees is the best we can expect an for the Isles of Scilly, | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
blustery and by the afternoon hopefully drier and brighter. The | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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And the all-important coastal waters forecast, particularly for | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
those taking part in the sailing regatta. Force five, occasionally | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
six and the Dearing westerly later in the day and dropping to force | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
for into the evening. Plenty of showers around. This is the outlook, | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
not too bad, into the weekend and for the early part of next year, it | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
might be on Saturday on Sunday we have a slight chance of showers | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
turning up across eastern parts but otherwise drive and warming up as | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
well with temperatures at around 21 degrees. From here at Commercial | :27:27. | :27:32. |