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A cull of badgers, farmers seek an urgent decision from the Government | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
to tackle TB. Good evening. An announcement is expected before the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Parliamentary summer break, we will have the latest. Also tonight, | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
dropping in for a drink. The moment Prince Charles, the Duchess of | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Cornwall made an unscheduled stop at a pub. We had a chat and asked | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
if he would come in and he said, well, if you have a quick moment, | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
yes. Why not. So he did. So it was lovely. And find out why this | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
sculpture on a Cathedral floor has got so many people talking. First | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
tonight, something has to be done. The plea from farmers as pressure | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
gross on the Government to make an announcement about a badger cull to | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
deal with Bovine TB. A decision was expected before the Parliamentary | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
summer recess but that is a week away, so time is running out. It is | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
a long awaiting decision. In 1997 the Krebbs Report concluded a link | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
between badgers and the spread of TB. In 2005, the Government | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
announced a consultation on culling, but two years later, a scientific | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
study said culling would be of limited use. In September last year, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
the coalition announced another consultation, and a final decision | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
could be made in the next few days. Spotlight's correspondent has been | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
to one farm to find out about the impact of TB. Derek comes from a | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
long line of dairy farmers. Over the past two decades he has watched | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Bovine TB creep up on him. While Governments have failed to come up | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
with a firm solution. He and his family have dealt with the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
financial, and personal cost of several outbreaks. I I may be | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
looking cheerful now because we have had three clear test, but I | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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can assure you we get very down. -- tests. It is an understandable | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
burden. Derek and his son Jeremy farm a herd of more than 700 in | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Devon. They want to see some way of identifying infected animals to | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
kurblgs and say a decision by the Government is urgent. Far too much | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
of the time we have had prevarication without any | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
justifiable conclusion as to how we are going to control this disease. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
It is doubling in numbers every nine years from DEFRA's figures, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
and I can't believe that is an expense that the country can cope | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
with, any more than we as a individual family want to be | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
another statistic. Pauline ones -- runs a wildlife rescue where these | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
orphaned cubs are awaiting their vaccination, before being released | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
back into the wild. She says a cull wouldn't work, and the science | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
doesn't justify killing badgers. have killed thousands of badgers | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
over the years, including the trial which numbered up to 11,000 badger, | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
and the conclusion of that trial was that badger culling played no | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
meaningful part in the control of Bovine TB. Why are we talking about | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
killing badgers again? In the 80s badgers were gassed. Now DEFRA has | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
proposed to license farmers and land owners to shoot, or vaccinate | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
the animals themselves at their own experience. The NFU insists this | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
sort of carefully managed cull of badgers in the most e-- affected | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
areas is the only option. With Parliament due to break next week, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the pressure is on for an announcement. I mean, we are in a | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
mie thorty, and I think we come last in the queue, but something | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
will need to be done, because it is spreading all the time. -- minority. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
There is no guarantee that a cull will work. But for all sides, it is | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
clear that any more political indecision will mean the waiting | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
and worrying will go on. Our political editor has been following | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the story. I asked him how difficult the decision on badger | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
culling is for the Government. on one level it is very simple | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
politically, because the Conservatives and the Liberal | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Democrats committed to a badger culling policy, before the election. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Now that is more than can be said for instance of the Government's | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
health policy, education policy and and ordinary that would be the end | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
of it. But of course in reality, this isn't remotely simple. It is | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
very controversial, it is very complex, and legally, although you | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
wouldn't have thought so if you lon to Conservatives before the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
election. A few months before the election I interviewed the Shadow | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Environment Secretary and he said there had been enough reports u | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
consultation, talking about it, this was a very difficult decision | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
but one that needed to be taken, now, over the past few months we | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
have heard the farming minister go out of his way to emphasise the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
fact he is weighing up carefully the obstacles to a cull and vesing | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
the fact it isn't a foregone conclusion. But they are expected | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
to say yes? Everyone seems to expect that. One MP from the | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
governing parties said we should probably be looking at two pilot | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
culls next year, both of which could be in the south-west. This | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
isn't the only big announcement for our region that the Government's | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
promised to announce this week. we expect a final decision on the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
plans to modernise the Coastguard Service. Huge opposition of course | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
to that, here in the south-west, and indeed across the country. In | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
this case, the Transport Secretary has told us that the proposals he | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
comes out with in the next few days will be at least slightly different | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
from the original ones. As the beach holiday season gets under way | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
this week, the RNLI says it is making subtle changes to the way | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
its lifeguards operate. It is now ten years since the organisation | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
began its beach lifeguard service and the RNLI claims its returning | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to traditional lifeguardsing. Our Cornwall reporter David George has | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
been to find out what it will mean. Manufacture -- mean. It is warmer | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
than it has been. It is quite nice. Alan doing public information the | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
old fashioned way. Talking to people at the water's edge. This is | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
the way the RNLI wants its lifeguards to work. This year, the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
organisation has adopted a new approach. When people come to the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
beach, actually they are responsible for their own safety. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
We are not responsible for them. We are not a babysitting service for | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
your children, so you are responsible, when you come to the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
beach for your safety and the safety of family and other groups | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
with you. We will warn people of any dangers and we will give best | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
advice, but we are not there to care for people. So that is why we | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
need people to listen to the announcement, to read the science | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
and talk to the lifeguards and find out a bit about what is happening | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
on the beach. Among other ideas are less loud speaker announcements and | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
sirens and less driving about in four wheeled drive vehicles. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
beach on the north-west, we no longer have a quad bike because we | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
deemed it to be unnecessary, there were extra journeys that lifeguards | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
were make tong quads, which again are better made on foot. Lifeguards | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
walking up and down give them a chance to talk to people, and give | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
members of the public a chance to talk to the lifeguards. It is | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
really nice to see lifeguards walking up and down the shoreline | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
rather than hiding in their huts or bombing round on their 4X4s looking | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
cool I think parents will feel a bit more, you know, confident. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Beach safety has come a long way since the 50 when the story goes, | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
as one beach the car park attendant was asked to raise a red flag if | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
sea conditions were dangerous. Today the lifeguards are well equip, | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
they have a brand-new �30,000 watch tower, fully equipped with the | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
latest first-aid gear, and the public are welcome They can come up | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
to the facility and ask questions on tides, or conditions, for the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
days, exactly what we want. So for the lifeguards to be accessible is | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
very very important. It is the tenth anniversary of the RNLI's | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
beach rescue service and this year it says it is returning to what it | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
calls traditional lifeguarding. The sun was out today for beach goers | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
and for the thousands of people who had a chance to meet their Royal | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Highnesss the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall who were on a two day | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
visit. The royal couple frequently departed from royal protocol and | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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they drop into a pub for a quick drink. How are you? They started | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
the day in Salcombe and thoughs were there to meet them. There were | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
so many people the royal couple stayed much longer than planned P | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
They departed from the schedule and talked to just about everyone. | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
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Suddenly, without warning, they dived into a pub. Time for an im | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
prom tue chat about the boating scene. A quick splash of beer. A | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
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welcome rest from the sun and the growing crowds outside. CHEERING | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
AND APPLAUSE We had a chat and I asked if he would like to look at | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
what we do in here and he said "If you have a quick moment, yes, why | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
not?" What were the drinks? We had a half or splash of Courage Best. | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
This is the royal glass. Yes, it is here. Our first royal visit at the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
King's Arms. It is very appropriate really. After the beer, keeping | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
cool in the heat with the local ice-cream. And on the water, the | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Duke of Cornwall got his sea legs with a boat trip along the creek, | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
to mark the 50th anniversary of the south Devon area of outstanding | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
natural beauty. Then, back on shore, time to meet the local fishermen, | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
and get some vital advice on the best way to handle a lively crab, | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
and keep all your fingers. Later, the couple toured a health centre, | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
but not everyone wanted to meet the Duchess. But inside, plenty of | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
laughter as the royal visitor met young and old alike as a centre | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
that provides a range of services under one roof. Beers ice-cream, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
crab, that looks like a good visit. One o of the final visits for | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Prince Charles was to attend a reception to mark the 60th | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
anniversary of Dartmoor National Park. I am joined by the chairman | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
of the authority. Thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us, | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
what did you talk about, to Prince Charles today? Specifically about | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Dartmoor National Park? Well, we had a very relaxed visit, and the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
Prince was able to meet staff, and members, and he met some of the | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
public outside. And we were discussing the 60th anniversary and | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
the bringing together of the cross discovered by a load of ramblers, | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
back in March. The authority have made a new base, and he blessed it, | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
if you like, and after the exhibition, in September, it will | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
be put back into its location. He also unveiled a plaque. And in | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
terms of the... Sorry to interrupt. In terms of the next 60 years what | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
are your hopes and fears for the future? Well, I mean, my main | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
consideration is to make sure the National Park continues, and in its | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
purposes, and, I hope that as a result of the spending review, that | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
we come out as lean and effective as we possibly can. Well it sounds | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
like a wonderful day and a relaxed day. Thank you for joining us. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Thank you. Thank you. Now, we would be interested in your views about a | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
new sculpture which you will see in a moment. It is causing a stir. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Also still to come on Spotlight. Devon's Heather Fell, bab on track | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
for the London Olympics. And the community pulling together to keep | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
village life ticking. -- back on track. Well, some appreciated it | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
and others are disturbed by it. A controversial new sculpture | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
unveiled at Truro Cathedral is causing a stir. The life like | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
figure of a homeless man has provoked strong reaction with | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
people thinking it is real. How often does a homeless person get | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
this much attention? The sculpture, the inviceable sleeper has been | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
designed to high light those who are often ignored. That is the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
point to, create a reaction. A shrug isn't appropriate. We need | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
people to be shocked by it or delighted by it. To say, yes, it is | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
the sort of thing we need to have, to raise awareness of homelessness | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
in Cornwall. Ben is the living version. He lost his job in knew | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
key then his home. After months living on the street, he has only | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
just found a shelter Most people will look at a homeless person and | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
think there must be a reason you are out on the street, you are a | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
drugy, alkie, when I became homeless, I felt people looking at | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
me and thinking the same things and judges me before they had a chance | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
to get to know me or knew my situation. The St Petroc society | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
has helped almost 25,000 people in the past 25 years. That is almost | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
three new faces every day. homeless figures are going up | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
unfortunately. This is probably due to the difficult austere times we | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
are living in. People losing their jobs and lack of services, more | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
people going to those services. sculpture will be on display until | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Thursday, to mark the charity's 25th anniversary. It has backbench | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
designed for maximum impact, even the hair is real. Definitely should | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
be in a Cathedral. It should be everywhere so we are all aware of | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
it. It looks very realistic then you realise it's a sculpture. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Because it's a piece of art it stops to make you think about why | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
it has been created in that way. needs to be high lighted. I thought | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
he had come here to die. It is a reminder that some don't have the | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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comfort of the Cathedral's candles, and many have much less. Now, a | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
special family day has been held for relatives of part-time troops | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
serving in Afghanistan. The battalion 6 Rifles HQ was the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
meeting place for families of the Territorial Army soldier, who are | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
presently serving on the front line. -- soldiers. I keep an eye out on | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
your loved-ones. Reassurance for families whose loved-ones are on | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
the front line. 40 Rifleman from 6 Rifles are working shoulder to | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
shoulder with full-time soldiers in Afghanistan. The get together is to | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
encourage those left at home to support each other through the six | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
month deployment. It is an extended family. You know there were people | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
to talk to about how you feel and anxieties and people to ring when | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
you don't know what to expect, when your soldier comes home, so it is, | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
it has been helpful. It is fun too for many children whose relations | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
are away serving their country. Video updates from Afghanistan were | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
shown, and video messages from families, were record ed. I will | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
send you a smile and hug and all the best. You are worrying the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
whole time I might be not be a strong worry, but it is always at | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
the back of your mind, no matter what you're doing, there is a | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
little niggle, and every time you turn the televisionen you think | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
don't let anything have happened. But it is a constant worry. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
being have a regular background they are less used to the loved- | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
ones deploying for extended periods of time, so it is a learning | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
experience for them and very important for us to be there to | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
provide support and information, that will help them get through | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
that extended period of separation. Unlimited free treats from a | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
dedicated ice-cream van helps towards family self preservation. | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
It is my first day back and I couldn't ask to sit in between the | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
two most gorgeous men. Dave is here with the sport. How much is that | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
going to cost us? We will pay later. Nice to see you back. Plymouth | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Argyle have completed the transfer of striker Joe mace son to champion | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
ship side Cardiff City. He joined the Welsh club for a fee of | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
�200,000 which could rise to a quarter of a million. He worked his | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
way up through the Pilgrims youth ranks to become a first team squad | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
member. 25-year-old rower Helen Glover has won gold at Lucerne in | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Switzerland. Helen on the right, and heroing partner Heather | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Stanning beat the pair from New Zealand over the final 250 metres. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
The victory strengthens their case for inclusion in the London | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
Olympics next year. Still on the Olympics theme Tavistock | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
pentathlete Heather Fell is hoping to be selected for the games. | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
Heather was one of three British women who took part in a test event | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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ahead of London 2012. The cheers might be a bit muted, but this is | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
the place where Heather Fell will hope her Olympic dream can become a | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
reality. Despite a shaky start, Heather, who won silver at the last | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Olympics rode well and was fourth, going into the new combined running | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
and shooting event. But she was way off the mark in the new discipline | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
and dropped three places, to finish seventh overall. It was, it is so | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
frustrating and I think I wasn't concentrating enough, and I have | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
got to go back to the drawing board and assess what I did wrong and how | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
to correct it. So overall finishing seventh is good. I am pleased but I | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
have a lot of work to do and I have to sort out my running and shooting. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Sh With six women vying for two spots in the team, she will be | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
hoping that when she crosses the line, it will be ahead of her rival, | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
so she can raise here for real tat Olympics. -- rivals. In ciblgt | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
County Championships Somme set have resuscitated their disastrous start. | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
When Chris Jones was dismissed they were standing at 48 for four. But | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
the pair put on a stand. Hill dreth made 137 and Kieswetter is still | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
there on 151. At the close of play Somerset were 341 for 5. And | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
finally Cornish speedway riersd Chris Harris and Ben Barker are | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
racing for Great Britain tonight. They are competing in the second | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
World Cup semifinal at King's Lynn in Norfolk where they have to beat | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Poland, Russia, and Czech Republic for a place in the final next | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
Saturday. We wish them the best of luck. Thank you. Now, for ten years | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
time has stood still for a Devon church, but things are ticking | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
along again, thanks to the generosity of local villagers who | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
have raised the money to repair the church clock. We report on the | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
project to get the 150-year-old clockworking again. The church of | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
St John the Baptist. Where time has stood still for a decade. Now, with | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
the church interior being restored the village got together to raise | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
funds to have their clock repaired. The fact it hasn't been going for | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
ten years is rather sad, and it looks as if the church isn't open | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
for business. So it was almost a village initiative that they said, | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
can't we get the clock going? It was through village support, and | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
village fundraising, that we had the money to get the clock repaired. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Here in tin mouth time flies. Clocks of all shapes and sizes tick | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
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away the days. You don't want to be Antique restorer Ian Gregory has | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
been repainting and scrubbing the clock The actual movement needs | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
little bushing, are bushing of some of the pivot holes. It has stood up | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
remarkably well. Originally supplied by clock maker from Colly | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Ford round 1850, the mechanism was probably made in the Midland, now | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
it is back in the church tower and getting reassembled after its | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
repair I wouldn't think it has been taken to pieces. There are signs of | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
the odd repair, some of the bushes have been replaced, but they can be | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
replaced without taking the clock to pieces. But obviously this time | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
we have taken the clock to pieces, the frame included, cleaned it, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
repainted it, polished all the pivots. Replaces bushes where | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
necessary and done any running repair, one of the winding clicks | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
had two teeth broken, those have had new teeth welding in. Now if | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
you live in the village there is no excuse for being late for church! | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Lovely. Hopefully you have been enjoying the sunshine today. It has | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
looked gorgeous, nice for the royal visit as well. David, is it | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
continuing? Both we might see some showers tomorrow, so it is not all | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
straightforward for the coming 12 hours or so. There is a bit more | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
cloud coming up from the south, through the night, and through the | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
day tomorrow. Also at the risk of seeing sharp showers developing | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
tomorrow. After that though, the sunshines back out and through | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Wednesday and Thursday and for a good part of Friday the rest of the | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
week will have sunny spells. Temperatures 20, 21 degrees. There | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
is a lot of cloud coming up from the south tonight, and that is | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
beginning to show on the satellite picture. It is this lump of cloud | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
coming in towards the far west of France. Now some of that cloud will | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
be medium and high level cloud, it will come in across the south-west | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
tonight. Lit produce a little light rain. It is an area of low pressure | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
that doesn't show this evening but by lunchtime tomorrow it is a | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
fairly obvious one. By the time we move into Wednesday, that will have | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
gorpbgs and this finger of high pressure stretching from Scotland, | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
all the way down to the south-west of England, gives us a lot of fine | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
weather. It will just about hold there for Thursday and Friday too. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
There is the picture from earlier today. A bit of cloud coming up | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
from the south. At the moment we have this line of cloud in central | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
parts of Devon and the more eastern parts of Cornwall. It isn't | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
producing very much, but earlier today that veil of cloud made | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
things cloudy this is the view from Kit Hill. It looks threatening. I | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
don't think we have seen any showers, but that cloud could | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
generate one or two light showers, particularly in northern parts of | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Cornwall, and the north of Devon. Light winds and a lovely view, even | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
if it is hazy, across the top of Kit Hill. Now, that band of cloud | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
will tend to melt away, so overnight there will be some clear | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
sky, and later in the night, the cloud comes up from the south, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
ahead of that area of low pressure. I don't think it will produce much | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
in the way of rain. You can see the hint of rain beginning to appear. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
Temperatures probably getting up to 12, 13 degrees by the end of the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
night, slightly higher figures as the cloud comes in. A few places | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
dropping to 11. Not as cold as last night. Tomorrow, we have got a lot | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
of cloud that could generate a few spots of rain in the east, where we | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
start off bright and dry, the heat will build, some cloud and by the | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
afternoon one or two sharp showers appearing. One or two of them could | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
be heavy, slow-moving, even with the rition bg of thunder and hail. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
That is something to look out for. For most of us, we get away with | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
another fine day but a lot more cloud round than today. The | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
temperatures a going to range from perhaps 17, 18 on the does as much | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
as 20 or 21 tomorrow. For the Isles of Scilly it could be cloudy here | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
and brightening up in the afternoon with sunny spells developing. Times | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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of high water. The winds will come from the east or North East so I | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
don't think the surf will be huge but it will be clean. Now the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
forecast for coastal waters has those winds east or north-easterly | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
four. The risk of visibility good but falling to moderate in the | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
showers. It looks pretty good for the rest of the week. Wednesday and | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Thursday both days will be dry, with 19 or 20 degrees the top | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
temperature. A lot more cloud on Friday, and that cloud will start | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
to produce rain on Friday evening, which brings us uninto a fairly wet | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
and windy start. So make the most of Wednesday and Thursday. Have a | :27:25. | :27:29. |