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Ship to shore. A close shave for a 9,000 tonne container ship only | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
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just off Cornwall. Good evening. An investigation is under way tonight | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
after the ship ran aground, we'll have the exact route it took in a | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
moment. Also on Spotlight tonight, a story with a sting in its tale. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Swarms of wasps on the attack on a woodland walk. You could not see | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
her, because of the Wasps, she was called up and the little ball, and | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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then she ran into a stream. -- curled up into a ball. And expect | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
the unexpected at the North Devon Show. We'll bring you all the | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
highlights. An investigation is under way tonight into why a 9,000 | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
tonne container ship ran aground near Land's End. Miraculously none | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
of the 13 crew was injured. And the cargo, including chemicals, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
remained intact. Falmouth coastguards had tried in vain to | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
alert the Karin Schephers after they saw she was off course and | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
heading for rocks. Fortunately she ran ashore in a sandy cove. It's | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the second time in less than three years that the vessel has run | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
aground. Chris Lyddon reports. These dramatic pictures film from a | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
search-and-rescue helicopter at around 4 o'clock this morning show | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
how close this container ship came to disaster. The 9,000 ton Shep was | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
well of course and dangerously close to shore. The after 18 crew | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
on board, but they failed to respond to repeated emergency | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
messages from coastguards, that the ship was heading into danger. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
vessel was doing 17, 18 knots, so the next thing you knew, it had run | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
aground. This was the remarkable view that greeted the crew of the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
lifeboat, the City of London three, one of two launch, the other being | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
dispatched from cent eyes. The naval helicopter pilot decided to | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
lower his winchman. Using the radio, there was no response bus-stop | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
where the ship was lying, was sent a winchman down on to the stern of | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
the ship to try and find the crew and find out what was going on. We | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
were looking to see if there had been any injuries or whether the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
ship was damaged. But the crew seemed to be happy that the ship | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
was not damaged and in the five or 10 minutes we were on the ship we | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
could see that it was already floating away from the beach and a | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
few more minutes after that it was making its way, down towards Land's | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
End, apparently undamaged. Most of the coastline is rocky but sea | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
conditions were Khan, and the idea where the vessel ran aground is a | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
sandy course known locally as the vineyards, but there are rocks to | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
the west and east. They are extremely lucky with the conditions. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
A German owners of bishop claimed that the vessel did not run aground | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
and was only close to shore. Surveyors will examine the whole of | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
the ship in Rotterdam. It ran aground in of Denmark two years ago | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
and an investigation found that the chief officer was drunk and had | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
fallen asleep on watch, and that the navigational alarm system was | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
offered. But there is no suggestion that the sport any relation to the | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
grounding this morning, or that it was the same crew. David has been | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
studying what happened. There is a traffic separation zone between | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Scilly and Lands End, such that North or South travelling ships can | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
safely pass. This zone is marked clearly on charts and computer | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
navigation systems. The Karin Schepers was heading south east | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
towards the separation zone but instead of joining it and turning | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
right with the rest of the southbound traffic, it continued to | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
cross the zone without changing course or speed. It then left the | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
zone at 04:09 still doing 17 knots and the same course. How do we know | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
all that? Any share above the 100 tons in weight has this automated | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
information system which tracks where it has headed. There are | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
several public websites that you and I could go on to and have a | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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look at this. At 04:30 the ship was doing 18 knots on the same course | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
and is believed shortly after to have run aground. The next report | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
we have on the ship was at 05:38 when it was headed north at 13 | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
knots. For over an hour the ship was stationary and according to the | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
MCA and the RNLI was aground. weather conditions been a factor? | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
The weather was pretty good, good visibility and calm conditions, and | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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I think we narrowly avoided a major incidents on our coastline. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Armed Forces minister today moved to end speculation about the future | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
of the Navy's two training establishments in the south west. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Nick Harvey said there were no plans to close Britannia Royal | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Naval College or HMS Raleigh, but could not rule out a possible | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
merger. It comes on the day a strongly-worded report from the | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Commons' Defence Committee criticised cuts made under the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Strategic Defence & Security Review. Here's Spotlight's defence reporter | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Scott Bingham. Here in the South West, we have seen first-hand cuts | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
to the Royal Navy as a result of last October's at strategic defence | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
and security review. Devon port has lost four pay 22 frigates. All of | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
them have been decommissioned. tis a huge blow to this area. Each | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
ship was the equivalent of an regiment or battalion, so more than | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
1,000 experienced sailors associated with those ships. Not | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
all of them will lose their jobs but the work to the dockyards has | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
gone, some of those sailors have been made redundant and the money | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
comes out of the community. first tranche of 1600 Royal Navy | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
personnel are due to be informed of their redundancy next month. Just | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
last week he revealed documents considering the possible closure of | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
by the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, or HMS rally, | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
in poor point. Either of those would have a huge impact here. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
Meanwhile, the Commons Select Defence Committee published a | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
report criticising the Government over last October's strategic | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
defence and security review. They said it was not convinced that UK | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
royal forces will be able to do what is asked of them after 2015 | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
and said that if a long, -- long- term real terms increase in funding | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
does not come about, we will have failed our armed forces. Earlier I | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
spoke to the North Devon MP and Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
I asked him what assurances he could give about the military's | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
capabilities after 2015 in light of the Committee's report. I am rather | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
puzzled by the committee saying that they thing problems will come | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
about after 2015. We are due to come out of Afghanistan by then and | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
I would have thought that our ability to meet challenges coming | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
our way would be greater after having that major responsibility | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
taking off or shoulders. Either way, I believe we have the range of | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
flexible and adaptable forces capable of meeting whatever is at | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
thrown at them. We have to ask about speculation over the future | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
of Dartmouth Royal Naval College and HMS rally. What does the future | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
hold for those establishments? There is no firm ground to change | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
anything at either of those establishments. In the long term | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
the Royal Navy might decide that it wants to perform both functions in | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
one place, but as you say, this is speculation and some time off into | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
the future. This would need working out as a detailed plan and money | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
would need to be found for it, so it is a good way off, if it were to | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
happen at all. Let me be absolutely clear. There was a worry before the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
strategic defence review that this was going to happen, then it went | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
away, now it seems to have come back because of leaked documents. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
You are saying that there is no concrete government policy to close | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
either of these pieces at the moment? I am saying exactly that. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
The other point I would like you to reflect upon is that when we | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
announced the defence reform package, we said that these | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
decisions would be divorced from the Ministry of Defence down to the | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
individual services, and it does, I think, cut into another issue you | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
may have seen in the Secretary of Defence's statement a couple of | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
weeks ago that we would like to bring 45 Commando, down to the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
South West, and the issue of where they might be based and the future | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
of naval training are intertwined, and these are complex issues that | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
will not be resolved overnight, but will fall squarely to the Royal | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Navy to determine what they might want to do about it, and not | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
something that will be foisted upon the Royal Navy by ministers. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Political Editor Martyn Oates is with us now. There is a possible | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
relocation of 45 Commando, to the South West? We knew that it was | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
leaving his present base in Scotland. And the Government has a | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
long-term ambition to bring the Royal Marines to the South West. A | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
couple of nights ago, there was speculation that if HMS Dartmouth | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
or Heacham is Braley was to close, one of those might provide a new | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
home for 45 Commando. The Armed forces Minister has confirmed that | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
speculation along those lines is possibly not to wake of the mark. - | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
- too wide of the mark. We are used to the government making these | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
decisions for the armed forces. That is an important change. Of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
great importance for Devonport is where the new generation of Type 26 | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
frigates will be based, at their import, or Portsmouth, or possibly | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
divided between the two. That decision will now be in the hands | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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of the head of the Navy, rather than of ministers. Later in the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
programme, find out why children have been encouraged to get out and | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
play today. Plus, the traders who fear this vintage market is at risk | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
from redevelopment. And the Olympic hopeful who only took up rowing | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
three years ago. The number of motorists caught drunk behind the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
wheel after a crash has more than doubled in Devon and Cornwall. The | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
figures were released by the police following a month-long campaign | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
targeting drunk drivers in June. While the number of positive tests | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
fell overall from 209 in June last year, to 141 this year, the | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
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positive tests following a collision rose from 20 to 49. Devon | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
has been chosen to pilot a new payment by results scheme for | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
children's centres. The county is one of just nine to trial the new | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
system. The Government will reward authorities for reaching the most | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
vulnerable families and for improving family health and | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
wellbeing. It then intends to roll out the scheme nationally within | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
the next couple of years. A challenge "of Everest proportions" | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
- that's how the Royal Cornwall Hospital's Trust is viewing its bid | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
for Foundation status. In a leaked document to BBC Radio Cornwall, the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
manager responsible for its bid says a "step change" is needed if | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
it's to meet several crucial deadlines. The move to foundation | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
status would give local NHS managers more freedom to manage | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
their budgets, but the Trust fears it needs to clear its �25 million | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
debt before it will be considered. Walkers say a swarm of angry wasps | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
have attacked them and their dogs near a popular walking spot close | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
to St Austell. One family of six people notched up 45 stings and | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
another woman says she had to run for her life after the wasps | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
attacked her dogs. John Henderson reports. Five months Old Bailey | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
cowers in the book will become, hardly surprising after being | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
attacked by Wasps on Saturday. dogs were screening, as if you had | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
trodden on her tail. The children started screaming, I started | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
screaming, and he ran off. The dogs were been taken for a walk near St | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
hostel. The Wasps got into their ears, but amazingly their owner was | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
not stung. It could have been a lot worse. He would have frozen and not | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
move. The attack is one of several reported in the last few days in | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
the same area. We had 51 Saturday morning and another of three | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
yesterday. I am aware that other practices have had a few as well, | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
in Saint hostel, and one of the dogs is seriously ill with it -- in | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
St Austell. I am told that these wasps might be up here somewhere, | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
so I am off to have a look. Much of the land here is owned by the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Woodland Trust. That could have been someone else walking before | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
and which disturb the Wasps and make them particularly angry. We | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
don't know. A trust says that if the wasps are on their property, it | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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will help to deal with the problem. There are fears one of Dorset's | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
most popular vintage markets could be lost if redevelopment plans are | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
given the green light. Bridport's Vintage Quarter has won national | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
acclaim since it was set up last year, as Leigh Rundle reports. The | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
attraction of Bridport's vibrant Latin Quarter is that nothing is | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
mass produced. If you can find a hat that fits, then wear it. This | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
is St Michael's estate, home to a thriving vintage market. But the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
development plans are making traders now this. If we redevelop | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
it, all of that will go, all the money coming into this area stays | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
in the town. With the people living in the town. It is really vibrant. | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
You can sense the atmosphere. artist Dick glazier has occupied a | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
studio here for the past 10 years. He says it is not the first time | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
redevelopment has been proposed. Development was proposed a couple | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
of years ago and the town came out in forced to express his opinions | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
about the it and we managed to get it stopped, and we just want it to | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
be open to the community, because what is great about this area is | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
the community, it is amazing. new plans, if approved, are likely | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
to involve the demolition of half of St Michael's estate for new | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
homes and possibly for retail development. Children across the | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
region have been encouraged to play today as part of a national | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
campaign to improve their health and well-being. Many children these | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
days no long take part in activities which were an ordinary | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
part of growing up for their parents. Our South Devon reporter | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
John Ayres has been along to see some of the activities taking place | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
today in Paignton. Suggesting that children do not play enough might | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
seem strange, but the reality is that many turn to the deal games | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
and other forms of virtual entertainment at, and then there is | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the dreaded health and safety, meaning children do not have the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
freedom they used to have. risks taken, the emotional well- | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
being of the child, to become a more rounded person, through the | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
experience of play. That is intended to make children get XB so | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
playing outside, and to push themselves. Many children today | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
have never played hopscotch, or climb the tree. The scheme was | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
going down a treat. It is not very often you get to go on things like | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
this, these activities. The first one was like a race that you had to | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
jump over things, and the other one was, like, jumping around. Going on | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
bouncy castles, face-painting, things like that. And a chance to | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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meet new friends? Yes. I went on a big bouncy castle. It is very good | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
for children that have not yet experienced making friends in | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
different surroundings. Research claims that although most parents | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
want their children to spend more time playing outside, one in seven | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
could not tell you where to find the nearest park or playground. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Weymouth based windsurfer Nick Dempsey is continuing his Olympic | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
preparations at the Weymouth and Portland Sailing academy this week | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
as he takes part in the official Olympic test event. With less than | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
a year to go, the World Champion hopes to get a feel for the | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
facilities, as he targets the Gold medal in 2012. Everything is very | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
similar, but there is nothing that gets close to the pressure that you | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
feel at the Olympic Games. It is a case of trying to get used to the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
venue and the surrounding so that when we come here, you are in the, | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
God's own, as it were. Now in the three years since she started | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
rowing, Cornwall's Helen Glover has undergone a remarkable rise to | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
become one of the stars of Great Britain's elite squad. She's now | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
tipped for a place on the podium at next summer's Olympic Games. As | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
part of our Olympic dreams series, Spotlight's Phil Tuckett, has been | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
to meet Helen and her family. Training starts early for Britain's | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
top drawers. Up by 7:30am they are out on the water at their base near | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Caversham. At the last Olympics in Beijing, but in top the field with | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
six rowing medals. For Helen Glover, from Cornwall, the world than 2,000 | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
and it was a different place. I left university I saw that they | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
were looking for tall people in the newspaper to go into spores, for | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
example, rowing, where you need to be tall, and they were looking to | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
get people onto the podium for the Olympics, and I thought, what a | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
great opportunity, I am going to try this, and I started rowing in | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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2,000 indeed, having never done it before. -- 2008. Helen's parents | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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run a small business at the harbour in. -- Newlyn. She has great will | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
power, great strength, she has always been a very fine athlete. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Helen's sporting prowess was evident from an early age. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
would play at school, in every team they put out, she played netball, | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
she did swimming, everything she could possibly do. Having won a | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
World Championship in the Zealand last year, the Great Britain | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
women's pair will go for the gold medal in the same event and -- in | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
Slovenia this year, before all eyes turned to the big event next year. | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
And we'll be following more of the South West's prospective Olympians | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
during the coming months here on Spotlight, your BBC local radio | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
station and online. A mixture of excellent weather and big crowds | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
have made today's North Devon Show one of the most successful for many | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
years. Thousands of people have been enjoying a variety of | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
livestock classes, food stalls and displays of giant vehicles. Hamish | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Marshall was among them. These monster trucks and a bigger | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
attraction. They took centre stage, sharing the limelight with Country | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Life. We must never lose sight of the fact that we're an agricultural | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
show, and we do not want to lose that, but at the same time you have | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
got to make sure that we have plenty of things that are going to | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
all the interest. Overflow car- parks were in use by midday, which | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
was a sign of a big crowd. The weather was dry but not quite warm | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
enough for the beach. But what about these prizewinners whose will | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
is used for world-famous Axminster carpets? This is actually doing | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
some good. Yes, their skin will be quite cool, underneath the well, so | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
it is like an insulation for them, it keeps them : the summer and warm | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
in the winter. There is a class for the Ushers, the county of my birth, | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
but then I realised, for some reason, I was ineligible! -- at | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
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last for their shires. It is the first time I have been here. Having | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
a good time? Yes, it is excellent. There are still a lot of | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
holidaymakers here who are just enjoying everything. Daisy and | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Sabbath a were young winners, and it was the old show that was the | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
really big winner. -- Tabitha. Hamish had a great time. The | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Honiton Show is in East Devon tomorrow. It is not going to be | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
like today, is it? Yes, we have a bit of wet weather coming our way. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
The wet weather has already started to arrive. And it should be quite | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
misty losing some of the heat overnight. We had 25 Celsius today, | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
in Exeter. Not as warm tomorrow, and overnight tonight, we have some | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
warm air coming from a long way south. This area of cloud, the | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
source of the air is the warm water not far from the equator. Tropical | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
air, it is very moist, so it will be misty and muggy overnight. There | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
is a better story for the afternoon tomorrow. It will unproved. And as | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
we move into Friday, we have a weak ridge of high pressure so Friday | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
does not look too bad. Although there will be the best of one or | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
two showers. Much of this cloud has been high-level cloud, but now it | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
is getting more. No sign of any mist or cloud over the tops of the | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
moors, and quite pleasant in the sunshine. Temperatures getting up | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
to 20, 21 Celsius. Now, the cloud has become quite expensive. But the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
rain will be very welcome for some of our reservoirs, because it is | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
quite likely to be heavy overnight tonight. Later tonight, then | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
becoming more persistent and widespread and generally quite | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
heavy, and by tomorrow morning everywhere is damp. Misty, and wet, | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
to start the day. Still very warm, but temperatures overnight between | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
15-17 Celsius. That rain band will move out of the way, and by the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
time we get to the afternoon, the sun will be out and it will feel | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
quite comfortable. We should see temperatures reaching as high as 22 | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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Hopefully, the rain will clear for the East Devon Show, at Honiton. On | :26:26. | :26:36. | |
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the ells of Scilly, mainly dry. And For Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
chance of showers on Friday, Saturday not too bad, a little bit | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
cooler, but we should see some sunshine in between the showers, | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
and on Sunday showers will be widespread and frequent, with gusty, | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
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