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Six months in Afghanistan - tonight, 42 Commando are heading home to | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Plymouth. Good evening. We'll be live at Bickleigh Barracks as final | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
preparations are made for their return. Also tonight - surrounded | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
by sewage. The householders calling for urgent action after flooding | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
four times in four years. Accused of hypocrisy - the conservation | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
trust planning to build in a conservation area. If this can | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
happen to a conservation area by the Coast and Countryside Trust, I | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
would say to everybody in Torbay, who is next? And the unusual | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
weather events captured on camera by Spotlight viewers. 100 Royal | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Marines from the south west return home tonight after serving on the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
front line in Afghanistan. It's a homecoming tinged with sadness | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
because 42 Commando, based at Bickleigh, have lost seven men. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
Spotlight's Simon Hall is at Bickleigh tonight. I have been | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
speaking to some officers this afternoon and there is a sense of | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
pride about what they have achieved in Afghanistan. But also a sense of | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
sadness for the men who will not be coming home tonight. Here at the | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
barracks, a tribute to the seven people who fell in the line of duty. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
It was April when members of 42 Commando left BECTU for their third | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
tour in Afghanistan. With the Marines taking command of a | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
district in Helmand Province. Their remit was to help train the Afghan | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
national army and police to take control of security in the region. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
But just one month into the tour, the unit suffered its first | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
fatality when Nigel Mead was killed by a bomb. He was to be one of | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
seven men to lose their lives during the tour. The others were | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
Samuel Alexander from Plymouth, Lieutenant Oliver August and, Lance | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Corporal Martin Gill, Marine James Wright from Weymouth, Sergeant | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
Barry Weston and marine David Fairbrother. Their commanding | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
officer said the deaths were a sad reminder of the daily dangers the | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
unit faced. For those returning after six months, there will be a | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
sense of relief but with the insurgency in Afghanistan ongoing, | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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the role of the south-west Marines might be far from over. We area's | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
boat to the commanding officer and asked him about the work the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Marines have been doing in Afghanistan and also about | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
tonight's homecoming. The first thing is there will be excitement | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
tonight for the men returning and the families who will be relieved | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
to have them back. Tinged with sadness because there will be some | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
people not be turning but the overarching message is we had done | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
seven months of good work and we are all excited about be turning | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
back. There is always risky in what they do and this is something we | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
have talked about before redeployed and have cancelled the families in | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
the UK all the way through and anyone who has been involved in an | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
incident with casualties have been looked after by the Royal Navy and | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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the UK forces. The Colonel's be keen to us. The men are due back in | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
four hours. -- speaking to us. Many families and friends will be there | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
to greet them when they return. We will be there and there will be | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
more on the homecoming live at 10:25pm. Thank you. Meanwhile, the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
latest batch of Royal Marine officers are already preparing for | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
their first deployment to Afghanistan. The 36 recruits are | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
nearing the end of 15 months of basic training at the Commando | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Training Centre at Lympstone. Spotlight's defence reporter, Scott | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
Bingham, caught up with them. It isn't every day you see Royal | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Marines on patrol in Devon. This training exercise is about learning | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
to work closely with the community, be that in Afghanistan or here in | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
the village of Launceston. It is relatively unusual and there has | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
been interest from the locals, the local emergency services have been | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
very keen to support us and we have seen the police and the fire | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
brigade and even had a visit from the Marines, who are keen to | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
understand what best practice be using. For the officers it makes a | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
change from the controlled environment of military training. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
It is out of what we normally do in training but it is great practice | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
because with the current The Archers, it is realistic to what we | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
do. It is extremely different, patrolling Dartmoor and Wales, but | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
it is very useful. The local people seem to appreciate it, too. We like | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
to see them, we feel more confident when they are about. It is great, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
they should be in the community because they are part of the | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
community. Yes, it is good. We like to see them around. It is excellent. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
They're giving a good job. It is also an opportunity for the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
emergency services to get involved and even the US Marine Corps are | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
taking an interest. We're not fortunate enough to have training | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
in the local community like this and we can simulate that on bases | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
and stations but to do it in the town is at a higher level. These | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
officers will pass out in five weeks and will joint operational | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
units. Most of them are aiming for four to command a, already training | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
for their next employment to Afghanistan. -- 42 Commando. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Residents in a Cornish village are demanding urgent action after their | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
homes were surrounded by sewage. Yesterday's torrential rain caused | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
flooding in Par and residents say the drainage system can't cope. As | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Eleanor Parkinson reports, it's the fourth time it's happened in four | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
years. The Mrs Evans is used to being flooded. She has only just | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
moved back to her house after it was flooded last November. This is | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
her and her neighbour yesterday. Shovelling Ross sewage away from | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
her back door. These are the manhole covers. What happened. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
have five of them. Each cover just popped up and and out came the | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
water and the raw sewage. Everything else that was revolting. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
And it was backing up to the back door. If we had not had shovels and | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
brooms and anything we could get hold of, just to sweep the water | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
away, it would have been in the house. This area is notorious. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
People have now formed an action group. They say that money needs to | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
be spent on the drains. There are some bottlenecks, which is the best | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
way to describe this and they need urgent work. Some properties in | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
this area have been flooded four times in four years. We apologise | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
to our customers that we did not get here any quicker due to us | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
having other priorities, but I would like to assure our customers | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
that we will offer them every assistance to help tidy up. They | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
have done the tidy up themselves and they want something done about | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
the drains, they say they cannot cope? It is relating to the weather | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
that the experienced and the surface run-off contributed to the | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
sewers being overwhelmed. It is just due to the nature and volume | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
of the rainfall. Some residents have also been offered extra | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
protection for their homes, such as special flood stories. But this | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
work has yet to be done. -- floored doors. The Exeter based airline | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Flybe is calling on the government for a better deal for UK travelers. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
At the moment, passengers pay airport duty twice on return | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
flights within the UK while many European countries pay no duty at | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
all. There are fears the charges are discouraging air travelers and | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
could damage the regional economy. Spotlight's Leigh Rundle reports. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Travelling with the budget airline could mean forking out more in | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
government tax and you pay for your ticket. Airport passenger duty will | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
cost these customers heading out of Exeter this morning and minimum of | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
�24. It is a hidden charge. Everything these days is text, you | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
would be naive to us saying it would not be like that. It is | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
unfair. Everything is taxed. People were probably put off but it's the | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
only way to travel. You cannot travel from here to Edinburgh by | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
car. It would cost me more than �12. It is disgusting. Very poor. Should | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the Government lower taxation? Or abolish it. Under the present | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
system, passengers are charged twice on return flights within the | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
UK. But in this into perspective, someone flying from Birmingham to | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Belfast and back will pay �24 in passenger duty. Recent concessions | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
by the Treasury have cut the tax for long-haul flights from Belfast | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
to New York to just �12. Now the domestic market once a look-in. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
are already highly taxed, the most in the whole of Europe. The UK pays | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
more tax and Germany and France and Spain, all others. Germany has | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
reduced the tax, like the Republic of Ireland. I would like to see the | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
UK to the same. There is some good news, the tax has been frozen by | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
the Government consults on reform. That will likely include reviewing | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
the banding system and extending duty to private business jets. The | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
results are expected later this year. The Torbay MP Adrian Sanders | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
found himself in the national spotlight last night when he became | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the only Liberal Democrat MP in the country to defy his party in the | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Commons vote on Europe. He was joined by six south west | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Conservatives in voting for a referendum on Britain's membership | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
of the European Union. Spotlight's Political Editor Martyn Oates has | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
been following events in Westminster. As previously | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
advertised, more than one-third of the region's MPs survived a three- | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
line whip and voted against the Government and for a referendum on | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the UK's relationship with the EU. Last night, most were conservative | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
but the south-west candidate was the only Liberal Democrat rebel. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
think there were two principles at stake. One is that government | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
should be accountable to Parliament and not the other way around. What | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
was backbench business was taken over by the Government and turned | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
into a three-line whip, which I thought was completely wrong. The | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
other principle is an old liberal principle of trusting people to | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
take decisions that affect their own lines. While Adrian Sanders was | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
making a solo protest, half of the region's Conservative MPs voted | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
against the Government. Most of them were drawn from last year's | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
new intake, which makes it impossible for David Cameron to | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
shrug this off as a last gasp of the old guard. Absent from the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
ranks was the man who was arguably the most vocal Euro-sceptic MP in | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
the region, George Eustace. He has an eye-catching CV including a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
stint as David Cameron as press secretary and a candidate for the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
United Kingdom Independence Party. He was trying to broker a | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
compromise between the rebels and the government in the run-up to the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
vote. It was based on offering a referendum on the repatriation of | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
specific powers from Brussels to Westminster. The Government | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
rejected that and he had talked about voting against the Government | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
if that happened. In the event, he did not vote at all. A group of | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
residents in Torbay is accusing a conservation charity of hypocrisy | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
over its plans to build new homes in a conservation area. The Torbay | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Coast and Countryside Trust wants to build luxury homes and a village | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
hall, but the residents of Maidencombe are having none of it. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
John Ayres has more. It is the quintessential English village with | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
a thatched pub, honesty box and a stunning beach. Like many rural | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
places, residents are not an arms about plans for development but | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
what is unusual is it is a conservation charity that wants to | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
do it. The Countryside Trust is proposing to build a village hall | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
here and for a four-bedroom houses over there. But there is no | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
question about what the locals think. One of the great things | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
about the area is that no one has boiled it and there are not many | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
places like that. You look around and there are no tourist areas, so | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
when I heard they were going to mess it up, I got upset. If this | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
can happen to a conservation area by the Coast and Countryside Trust, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
who look after many other places in Torbay, I would say to everybody in | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
Torbay, who is next? The Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust is a | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
charity supported by many local people. Including some of the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Maiden, residents, who are surprised by the charity's stance. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
The trust says plans are in keeping an will provide residents with the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
village hall. It insists that it is sympathetic to the residents' | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
concerns and will seek a compromise. If you look at the old maps, there | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
were structures and dwellings. It isn't totally out of the blue, | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
we're not doing this in the middle of a green field in the wild. There | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
is scope to do something and because it can be balanced, it can | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
enable development to generate other improvements. There is a good | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
case for it. The Trust is meeting with President this evening to | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
discuss their concerns. -- residents. All this week we're | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
looking at the changing fortunes of three south west cities - Truro, | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Plymouth and Exeter. Tonight, we look at the big changes which have | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
happened in the last few years in local newspapers, radio and | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
television. Exeter may have the up market shopping developments but | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
it's not going up in the world of local news. With tonight's Tale of | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
Three Cities, here's our business correspondent, Neil Gallacher. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Still the flagship. The Western morning News internet. The engine | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
room is empty with the printing press up country, and the crew on | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
board is smaller. But this is still resolutely at daily paper which | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
nowadays is saying something. In fact, Planet has two daily papers | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
in the city. Exeter, which likes to style itself the regional capital, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
no longer has its own daily. The Express and Echo went weekly last | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
month. A change forced by recession and the internet. That is history, | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
according to the editor, who preferred not to be interviewed. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
This is a numbers game and the Ecole's last circulation as a delay | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
had stood at just 16,500. In Plymouth, twice the size, they | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
hurled it is still delay. It sells just under 30,000. The morning news | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
sells 31,000 across the region. And the editor of the morning news is | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
confident that both papers do not need to go weekly as many smaller | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
circulation dailies have done. Those below about 15,000 each day | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
are now weekly. Because of the reduction in cost, distribution, | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
newsprint, those models become sustainable and we see long-term | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
futures. We are nowhere near that point. That is that... The chairman | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
of this Plymouth radio station says that having daily papers is | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
naturally enough and gives extra cloud to a city that cannot rest on | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
its laurels. We are not as rich as Exeter, we don't have the money | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
around us that Exeter does. We have to work harder. But we do have a | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
critical massive a population. We do have a great central geography | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
for the region. And I think that makes Plymouth and natural centre | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
for the south-west. Plan its role as regional media capital would | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
have been stronger if ITV had not switched the hosting of its | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
regional news programme to Bristol. But there has been no change to the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
hosting of Spotlight. That role is 50 years old and the head of the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
BBC here is confident the spotlight will stay, despite recently | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
announced cuts. We will have a 20% bite your budget by 2016. But I can | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
absolutely guarantee that there will be at television news service | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
from the BBC from the city's serve in the wider South West and that | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
goes for radio and on mine. No question. And Plymouth is also home | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
to one of the biggest independent television producers outside London. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
The founders came out of BBC plumber. And what about Truro? | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Cornwall has never had a daily paper in the county. Curious, given | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
that when the BBC set up Radio Cornwall, it was a runaway success. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
The West Briton, their weekly newspaper, is going strong, selling | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
32,000 copies. And the editor knows he isn't saddled with the problems | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
many locals face. They have had to keep putting out a newspaper every | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
day so they have to have a lot of staff and as things have become | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
more difficult, that is more expensive. And it starts to not | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
make so much sense. If you put out a weekly newspaper, we have | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
property, motoring, jobs, all-in- one package. So, it turns out to be | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
a sort of template for the future of small local papers. Not bad for | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
a publication that is 200 years old. And the series continues tomorrow | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
on a health theme, with a look at research work at the Peninsula | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
College of Medicine and Dentistry. Our League football sides are all | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
in action tonight. Plymouth Argyle play at Oxford United in League Two. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Torquay look to end their poor recent run when they meet AFC | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
Wimbledon at Plainmoor. In League One, Jake Taylor, who scored on | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Saturday, has extended his loan spell at Exeter and could play at | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Walsall tonight. Yeovil, who are bottom of the League, are at home | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
to fellow strugglers Leyton Orient. There will be coverage to light on | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
your local BBC radio station. -- tonight. The last surviving member | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
of Thomas Hardy's original theatrical group has died at the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
age of 105. Norrie Woodhall used to rehearse at Hardy's home in | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
Dorchester. Till the end, Norrie continued to be involved in | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
performing his works and her death has come as a huge loss to the | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
local theatre community. Catharina Moh has her incredible story. Nouri | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
would always fond of the stage. She died aged 105 and with you're, went | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
the last person to know Thomas Hardy first hand. In her youth she | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
belonged to his theatrical group. He did not criticise anyone. He was | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
a very shy man. And very sensitive. They rehearsed at his home in | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
Dorchester Town. In 1928, she played Test's younger sister in | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. She even had a few extra lines created for | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
her. I had to rush across the stage, throw myself into my sister's arms | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
:20:29. | :20:29. | ||
and say, Tess! That was all. He asked me for my script and he rode | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
into a... I am so glad you have come home. And he looked at me and | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
he said, that is better, isn't it? Age did not stop her continuing | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
their legacy, becoming president of the newly formed hardy players and | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
performing his work to the end. Digging potatoes... What an | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
incredible story. It's not exactly your usual underwater expedition, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
but divers at a sea life park in Dorset have begun searching for | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
teeth. They're the ones which have naturally dropped out of the mouths | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
of sharks. Sharks continuously loose teeth, which are quickly | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
replaced. It's hoped the research in Weymouth will help understand | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
the lives some of their prehistoric ancestors. Our Dorset reporter, | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
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Simon Clemison, has the story. are looking for the teeth... Yes, | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
they're off in search of teeth. Shark teeth. But why there are two | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
breeds swimming around below the waterline, they're not bothered by | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
the divers. And in any case, the teeth they need to look at are ones | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
which have already fallen out. The hope is that they drop to the | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
bottom and can teach something about the life of the Megalon Don. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
It looked thousands of years ago and could grow up to 52 feet. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Eating anything it shows. These nurse sharks look less menacing. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
And the centre is trying to change the image the species has. For a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
start, their teeth or know where the same size. But they might prove | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
very useful to this research. Sharks lose their teeth more often | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
than we do, because they rip into their food. This is what the | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
prehistoric shark's teeth would have looked like an these are the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
tiny teeth they are recovering today. But we know about the | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
conditions Sharks led then so by examining the state, we can check | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
whether assumptions about the conditions these sharks live 10 | :22:39. | :22:48. | |
were true. We know that the parameters, -- about the parameters, | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
the water, so the current basis for those two. And we hope it will take | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
us to look at the teeth of the Michael it on and see if there are | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
assumptions around the estate. that end, they will dive and scour | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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for the next two years. -- megalodon. So far, no teeth have | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
been discovered. We will have to wait until they ripped apart their | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
More heavy rain? Showers but the worst is over. There could be show | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
us again tomorrow but that last 24 hours have been particularly wet. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
This was yesterday. The wet weather formed a line that went across the | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
south-eastern parts of Cornwall, particularly over Bodmin Moor. And | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
by lunchtime, 70 mm. In old money, almost three inches. Not a record | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
but in the space of one day, very wet. The streams and rivers are | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
badly swollen and there has been a lot of surface water. Today, | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
showers, some quite heavy, and unusual cloud formations. Thank you | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
to all the viewers who sent in pictures. This is a funnel cloud. | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
Not far from the more grey area. These are a precursor to a possible | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
tornado. Thankfully, Tornados did not develop. Also, yesterday's | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
strength of wind has really whipped up the sea. This was East Devon. | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Thank you to everybody for the photographs. It really does help | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
tell the story. That wet weather has proved quite a way north, you | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
can see the line of cloud covering the north of Scotland. Difficult to | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
make out what the UK is. Spain and Portugal, the western tip of France | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
and we are underneath all this lumpy cloud. There have been some | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
clear skies and places, this was earlier at Charlestown in Cornwall. | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
We did have some sunshine, relatively quiet weather. At least | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
people were out and about. And much lighter wind. This was completely | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
different yesterday because of the strength of the wind. Tonight and | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
through tomorrow, the wind will not be overly strong. And the chance | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
for things to come down. And the showers will never be too far away. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
The low pressure is continuing to dominate with two systems. One to | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
the west of Ireland generating showers and that will move closer | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
over the next 24 hours. But also, this the area of low pressure, | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
quite vigorous, brushing up the western side of Spain and Portugal | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
tomorrow and as this weaker area of low pressure brings in more wet | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
weather on Thursday, it could be quite a wet day. The showers have | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
been quite lively today. They have been moving northwards. Still some | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
heavy downpours. Standing surface spray on faster rates might make | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
for some dangerous driving conditions. Although the showers | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
continued overnight, they become isolated and a tin of clear skies, | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
two things happen. Mist will form, even fog patches and also turning | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
cold, for and five degrees. Tomorrow, the risk of showers | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
through the day but largely the showers will die away by the end of | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
the afternoon so a better chance to drive. And temperatures of 14 | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
degrees with light wind. The Isles of Scilly, morning showers and then | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
:26:51. | :26:53. | ||
sunny spells developing. The times of high water... Not a great deal | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
for the surfing. Three, possibly four feet. Slightly choppy on the | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
south coast. And the coastal waters... Becoming Fir label for a | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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time. -- variable. And we will see some wet-weather on Thursday. Heavy | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
rain to start the day, perhaps an improvement later on in the Far | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
West, fine on Friday and back to square one with showers on Saturday. | :27:24. | :27:31. |