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Hundreds of schools are closing and emergency services will be hit by | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
tomorrow's strike. Tonight, hospitals across the region are | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
putting contingency plans in place. We have been able to put plans and | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
place to ensure that our course services can operate and the | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
hospitals continue to serve the community. We'll hear from workers | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
planning to go on strike and those hoping to keep services going. Also | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
tonight: reaction to the Chancellor's statement including a | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
unique measure for the South West. The Government will cut the | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
household bills or also have West Water customers by �50 per year. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And carving a place in history - the designer who says his latest | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
commission is the pinnacle of his career. Spotlight has learnt that | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
police officers in Devon and Cornwall have been trained to staff | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
999 control centres because dozens of civilian call handlers are | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
expected to walk out in tomorrow's public sector strike. The force | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
says the emergency service calls will be protected, but other calls | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
may be affected. Almost 400 schools across the south west have now said | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
they'll close because of the strike. Hospitals, rubbish collections, | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
courts, job centres, benefit services and transport links will | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
also be hit. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Hall has spent | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
the day looking at the impact the strike's likely to have on the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
region and reports now from Devon County Hall. I have been monitoring | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
the list of schools and the South West which will close tomorrow. It | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
has been growing longer buy here, and now stands at almost 400. And | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
not just schools will suffer. The police emergency control centres | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
are staffed mainly by civilians. Many are expected to strike | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
tomorrow, so police officers have been trained to handle 999 calls. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
The force says the emergency service will be protected but non- | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
urgent calls would be answered more slowly. It has been a difficult | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
decision members have had to take. They do not relish in any way that | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
disruption this is going to cost to the public but this is their | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
futures, their future pensions they are fighting for. The strike will | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
even affect predicting the weather. Also expected to walk out are | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
hammers of Met Office Staff in Exeter, who provide forecasts | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
around the world. Information that is critical for services such as | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
aviation, defence and the coastguard. We are making every | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
effort to make sure that safety of life services are maintained. But | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
some services and some forecasts will not go out. We do not expect | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
those to affects safety of life. Met Office spokesman told me they | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
were looking with customers to keep disruption to a minimum. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Contingency plans and place to protect services as much as | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
possible, she said. Tomorrow, this school is one of hundreds across | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
the region expected to close. would all like public-sector | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
pension but I have a lot of friends and family in the public sector. It | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
just means I have had to take extra time off work and work around | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
holidays that I had. I have had to completely work around the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Christmas holidays that are coming up as well. The Government has | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
condemned the disruption to services. They say that the strike | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
is premature because talks are ongoing, and that public sector | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
pensions are too expensive and must be reformed. The problem with | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
predicting the impact of this right is that staff do not have to give | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
notice of their intention to walk out. So, only tomorrow, will we see | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
if the industrial action lives up to the claim from the unions and | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
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becomes the biggest strikes is the 1970s. -- strike since the 1970s. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Among the schools affected by tomorrow's strike is Westlands | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
School in Torquay. Our Community Affairs correspondent Carys Edwards | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
has been to meet the head and teaching staff. Let me show you | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
what that particular tipple question looks like. Dawn is | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
dedicated to helping pupils such as Ambra, who is here, grappling with | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
an A-level maths question. Tomorrow, the teacher will be out on strike. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Without doubt there is going to be a short-term effect on students. I | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
would like to think students are aware of the fact of why that is | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
happening, that a longer term benefit we will bring attention to | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the problem, and I think it is a price that has to be paid. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Thousands of other teachers across the South West will join the day of | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
action in protest over pensions and pay. Unions say they will be | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
working longer, paying more and receiving less when they retire. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
This is the biggest industrial action I have seen in schools in my | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
lifetime. That is a measure of the depth of feeling within the | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
profession. In this lesson we are learning... Christina will not be | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
at school tomorrow, but she supports the action. I have just | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
come out of university and it is hard to work out what to do. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
education secretary is appealing for more teachers to go to work | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
tomorrow. Michael Gove says that it is unfair to expect taxpayers to | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
foot the increasing pensions bill. Yes, we have to accept it because | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
we are living longer, that people will have to pay more, but I am | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
anxious to ensure that the benefits to trade union members have an | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
teachers in particular have, are protected. We have seen what has | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
happened to private sector pensions and we don't want that happening in | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
the public sector and I am fighting to ensure that teachers get a good | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
deal. Tomorrow, Westland School will look after pupils to help | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
working parents, but most children will have a day off. Hospital and | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
health managers in the South West say essential services will be | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
maintained, despite the fact that thousands of staff are expected to | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
strike tomorrow. Ambulance workers, health visitors, radiographers, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
cleaners and some nursing staff are among those taking action, though | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
unions are co-operating with the NHS, to maintain critical services. | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
More from Spotlight's Health Correspondent Sally Mountjoy. It | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
rarely happens and is not something that is undertaken lightly, a | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
strike in the health service. Unable to predict how many staff | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
will take action, South West hospitals have postponed some non- | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
an urgent operations and appointments. Community Hospitals | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
in Cornwall have been the scheduling clinics to avoid booking | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
patients in for tomorrow. But the plan is to keep disruption to a | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
minimum. It is a case of trying to work through what may happen | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
tomorrow, anticipating what we can at making sure we have the best | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
plans and place. A light to do, sometimes when we have snow, ice | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
and bad weather. We do manage. While doctors and the majority of | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
nurses and midwives have not been balloted for strike action, a wide | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
range of health workers will be on strike, including some nursing | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
staff, ambulance personnel, community psychiatric nurses, | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
physiotherapists, radiographers, cleaners, and admin staff. Pete is | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
prepared to go on strike. Something he has never contemplated before in | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
22 years as an ambulance driver. He says that the plans to increase the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
retirement age to up to 68 are what have persuaded many to take | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
unprecedented action. Most ambulance workers do not reached | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
the current retirement age of 60. People just one out of gas. To | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
expect someone in their late 60s to turn up and treat people and rescue | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
people just does not bear thinking about. It is a scary prospect. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Genuine emergencies will get a blue light response tomorrow, but some | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
transport facilities may not be available. In some cases, services | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
will be maintained thanks to negotiation between management and | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
unions. The Department of Health said that while talks were still | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
going on, it could not comment on how pension reform might help NHS - | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
- might affect NHS staff, but it asked workers to consider whether | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
going on strike was the right thing to do. The Chancellor today told | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
workers in his statement that wage rises will be capped at a maximum | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
of 1% for two years. George Osborne also confirmed the go-ahead for the | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Kingskerswell bypass. The state pension age will we raced to 67 by | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
2026, while the current, basic state pension will go up by �5 to | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
two, to 175 -- �107.45. And so there we help for customers of | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
South West Water, the discount amounting to �1 per week from 2013. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
4th families across the South West facing the highest water charges in | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Britain, the Government will pick up the household bills of all | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
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customers in the South West region by �50 per year. There was relief | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
for drivers as the planned 3p increase in fuel duty in January | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
will not now take place. The rural nature of the South West means many | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
people have no option but to use their cars. Had the increases gone | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
ahead many garages would have been charging more than �1.40 for a | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
litre of petrol or diesel. Louise Hubball reports. On Holden Hill, it | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
was just another day. But 200 miles away in Westminster, a crucial | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
decision was made that will save the average family �144 per year. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
This is what motorists you would have paid in January. Now, that has | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
been scrapped, and prices will stay warm. He is excellent news. Someone | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
has listened for the first time. We need this in the West Country | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
because fuel is a major part of a limestone year. We need people and | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
transport to get around. Paul day I have been watching people keeping a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
close eye on us figures as they fill up, and now the announcement | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
has been made, at least they know that in the short term at least, | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
those figures will not be getting any higher. I think the tax on it | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
is totally ridiculous. People are not going to be able to wander on | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
cars any more. How much do you take to fill this vehicle up? It is | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
getting up to around �100 a time. That is what it costs. -- to around | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
�800 a time. That will last me for two days, or and then I need to | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
fill it up again. It is worth remembering that there will still | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
be up to pence rise in fuel duty in August. -- there will still be up | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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to pence rise. Business leaders have welcomed many of the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Chancellor's announcements. They included a pilot scheme to assess | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
the environmental impact dredging will have on Falmouth Harbour. That | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
could pave the way for regeneration of the port. As we reported last | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
night the go ahead was finally given for the Kingskerswell by pass. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
It's claimed the scheme will kick start the Torbay economy and could | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
lead to the creation of around 8,000 new jobs. We have been | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
waiting for this for decades. It is amazing that we have been able to | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
get the approval from the coalition government under the most stringent | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
economic times. People in work and out of work, this is good news for | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
the local economy. One leading business leader has told Spotlight | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
that the most important announcement was the National Loan | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
Guarantee Scheme. Mr Osborne says it will make it easier for small | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
firms to get loans. Our Dorset reporter Simon Clemison joins us | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
now from Bridport, where he's been spending the day seeing what help | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
small firms need. When you come to deport, you notice how wide the | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
streets are. -- to Bridport. That is because they used to make rupiah. | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
It was a cottage industry, the original small businesses, of which | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
there are still plenty here today. They are making goal posts in | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
report now. Rope making has evolved into supply next four sports | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
pitches. Wimbledon is one of the customers. You're still knocking at | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
two or posts and rugby posts. we have a very seasonable business. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
How are you beating the trend? are fortunate. We have become part | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
of a bigger group and that group has a demanding sports equipment | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
distributor, and we're doing our best to meet the demand that has | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
been forthcoming. Growth that the Chancellor dreams of, but even here | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
they admit that the man from the industry more generally is slacking | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
off, and that is not helping pay off the nation's debt. George | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Osborne's big idea for small businesses was to try to get access | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
to credit for them, at an affordable price. That way, | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
companies might be able to create more jobs and put more money in the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
pockets of shoppers here and that the incentive. The basic theory is | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
that of the country can borrow money at a relatively low bit of | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
interest than the Government can pass those savings on to companies, | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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bringing down the cost of borrowing from 7%-6%, so, if they have the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
confidence to go to the back and talk about competitive finance, | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
that can translate into local jobs. That really probably is the most | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
important thing we have heard today. The money will be lent by the banks, | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
but under written by the taxpayer. This business in Bridport has the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
potential to expand tomorrow, even without the new scheme. It makes | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
cheese. What is stopping them? prospect of high interest rates and | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
reducing capital allowances. That was the amount you can offset | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
against tax for investing in new equipment? That is right, yes. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the Chancellor giving away with one hand and taking with the other? | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
if he does not balance up capital allowances, we will not make the | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
investment. At this cake makers, other measures in the statement | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
were welcomed. They might risk taking more people on if some of | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
the regulations disappear. cheaper credit paths the Chancellor | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
announced today was a hit with all small businesses. The Treasury | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
stressed that it is part of a wider economic policy to promote growth, | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
but it is how these different components work together which is | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
failing to convince some. Chancellor's statement was a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
mixture of good and bad news with the economy still struggling. But | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
will his plans lead to improvement? Our Political Editor Martyn Oates | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
has spent the day at Westminster. Gloomy weather here at Westminster | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
to match the mood, fall and the Chancellor's admission that the | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
economy is in a far worse state than he previously anticipated. But | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
he has tried to sweeten the pill for people in the South West, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
people like first-time buyers and businesses and pensioners. I am | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
joined by Ben Bradshaw, Lindau MP for Exeter, and the MP for Central | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Devon. Despite the very bleak economic background, there was a | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
lot of good stuff for the South West. A Yes, I welcome some of the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
infrastructure investment, but he could have done much more one in | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the structure, on affordable housing new-builds, which have gone | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
down by 99% this year. We desperately need more affordable | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
homes. He could have done more on that and on infrastructure, | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
generally. This strike is a bit embarrassing - it looks as if a | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
coach and horses has been driven through his economic strategy. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
are in a very difficult situations, as a number of European countries | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
are. The reality is that, to come back to your question, these are | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
difficult times. What we have done by sticking to not a credible | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
strategy, cradle with the markets, has to keep interest rates low, so | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
we do not have the 7.5% rate that the Italians are having, we're | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
paying a rate that is even better than Germany. If interest rates go | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
up, if Benn and his colleagues want to turn on the spending tabs, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
businesses get hit, and those with mortgages suffer very hard, so we | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
have got to keep that credibility of. Is it related course of action | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
to make the deficit bigger? We're boring �150 billion more than | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
George Osborne predicted they would a year ago, have far more than they | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
would have done under Labour. Unemployment was coming down and | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the economy was growing when Labour left office. It is now going into | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
reverse, as a direct result of this Government deciding to cut too far, | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
and too fast. But you are pouring more yourself, how can you | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
criticise Labour? When the economy slows down more than you have been | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
expecting, which has happened for the reasons we featured on your | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
programme, that is an inevitable consequence. We have to keep the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
level of credibility. We cannot be seduced by the notion that Labour | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
are going to throw a bit more money around and growth is what to come | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
back. We have to show that we have a credible plan to bring down the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
deficit. What would you say to those taking strike action | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
tomorrow? Get talking I get it resort. We are still in the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
business of talking. We have made a number of changes, we have a | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
generous offer, get talking and get it is all. I regret the fact that | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
public sector workers feel the need to strike, but money will be moved | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
under this government policy from areas like the South West, to rich | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
areas, like the South East. Tomorrow, we will be discussing the | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
General Strike and its aftermath. A cargo ship with eight crew on board | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
came close to running aground after dragging her anchor in Falmouth Bay | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
this morning. A lifeboat and helicopter were on standby as the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
three thousand ton Baltic Sea drifted towards Pennance Point near | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Swanpool in high winds and poor visibility. The Canadian firm | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
buying into Cornwall's South Crofty mine has finally laid down the | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
first major part of its investment. After months of delays, the Celeste | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Corporation says it's now ready to move forward with tin and copper | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
exploration on the site after securing funding. A designer based | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
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in Devon says his latest commission is the pinnacle of his career. 78 | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
year-old Ronald Parsons, who designs and carves stone, was | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
thinking of retiring, when he was asked to design a memorial stone in | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
honour of the late Ted Hughes. The former Poet Laureate lived in Devon | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
for over 30 years and the slate to honour him is due to be unveiled at | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Westminster Abbey next week. Johnny Rutherford has been to visit the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
craftsman at work in Exeter. dark shared was wired with | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
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reminiscences. It is a strange sensation. Cannot fully explain it. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
But there is something rather special about it. It is relaxing. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Ronald would listen to the pawns of Ted Hughes a while covering the | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
memorial. The stone will be placed in Poets corner in Westminster | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
Abbey. It is under wraps until it is unveiled next week. Ted Hughes, | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
senior opening a salmon leap in Devon was a poet Laureate for 14 | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
years until his death in 1998. His widow, Carol, wanted one of his | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
pawns on his memorial. She picked out two or three pieces and we went | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
through and I said, that one looks rather nice, I can visualise that | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
on the stone. It is very fitting. We put it on the stone, and the | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
Abbey were happy, thank God! Hughes wrote with a few poems in | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
his time, some of the originals are here. He was involved in education, | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
as the poet Laureate, he took out a lot of educational initiatives in | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
creative writing, and he was a fantastic and remarkable poet, and | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
it is absolutely fitting that he should have a memorial in | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
Westminster Abbey, are amongst the other race. The stone will be | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
unveiled next Tuesday. -- are amongst the other greats. In | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
anyone's book, giving birth to four babies is quite a thing, but for | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
sheep, it's especially rare. But three days ago on a farm in | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Cornwall, a set of quadruplet lambs were born, and are already running | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
rings around their mother, as Eleanor Parkinson reports. They are | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
just three days old, but these lambs have already found their feet, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
and the bounce, and are already making headline news, because they | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
are siblings. Quadruplets lambs are very rare, but for all four to | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
survive it is even more rare. has survived and we wondered if the | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
scanning man had made a mistake about the 4th, but the last one was | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
the biggest. Looking after quadruplets is a tall order for any | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
mother. Clearly, it would help if she could counter four, and there | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
is not enough milk for all those hungry mouths, so they are having | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
to take milk from a bottle. It is not as easy as it looks, because | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
you have got a tight hold of him. Mum is not win to have enough milk | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
or four, so we waltzed up feeding them like this, and on they goal. | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
This is special milk for the Lambs. It is not cow's milk. Andrew is | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
still busy with lambing. These two are just a few minutes old. The | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
excitement of being filmed by the BBC has proved too much for one of | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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the babies, but her brother, still Time now for the weather forecast. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
We can start by looking at the strength of the wind. St Mary's, 64 | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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mph. But close to South Devon we The strength of wind has whipped up | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
the sea. We sent Colin down to enjoy the brisk breeze on the coast, | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
and some outbreaks of rain. Best place for him, I reckon! Some big | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
waves. And if you are doing a ferry crossing there are sizable waves | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
through the English Channel and write down the South West coast. | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
That includes those heading out to do some surfing. We have a respite | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
with some dry weather because there is a whole developing out in the | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
cloud to the West. It is very brief because, very quickly, racing in | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
across the Atlantic is the next line of wet and windy weather. That | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
will arrive during the course of the day tomorrow. Some showers | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
tomorrow, and then into the early hours of Thursday morning, not | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
quite as windy into the early hours. Only briefly do we get some respite | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
from what is a very unsettled picture for the rest of this week. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Showers this evening and overnight, but between those, clear skies, so | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
becoming chilly. Getting down to as low as four Celsius. The showers | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
will stick -- will keep on coming. Temperatures down to four in a few | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
places. Tomorrow, some sun sign and showers. -- sunshine. Then we have | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
another batch of wet weather arriving. By evening it should | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
become quite wet again. Increasingly windy, South West wind, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
steadily increasing, and 12 Celsius the highest temperature we can | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
expect. Some sunny spells for the Isles of Scilly. Then the rain | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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returning later. And at times of Now, surfing conditions have been | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
very challenging, stormy conditions on the south coast. When the wind | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
becomes suddenly tomorrow, the cleaner surf will be on the north | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
coast but big waves, becoming somewhat cleaner as we move through | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
the afternoon. The coastal waters forecast reflects the increasing | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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And a quick look at what is happening for the rest of this week. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
On Friday, the best of the weather. A chilly start on Friday with a | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
possible early morning frost. Then some more wet weather quickly | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
approaching. Overnight into Saturday it becomes wet and windy | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
again, and at the start of the weekend we're back to square one, | :27:25. | :27:32. |