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A crucial decision on the future of a new town, but could Sherford | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
still be open to a legal challenge? Good evening. A planning agreement | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
has been reached today, but a Barrister has told Spotlight it | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
could still go to court. Also tonight The sweet smell of | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
success - a Devon firm which had been forced to close is back in | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
business and taking on staff again. And all they want for Christmas is | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
to be home - find out the full story behind HMS Ocean's internet | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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It has been more than a decade in the planning and has sparked fierce | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
opposition, but today plans for a new town in Devon were finally | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
approved. The development in the Sherford Valley on the eastern edge | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
of Plymouth would include more than five thousand new homes, four new | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
schools and two wind turbines. But a lawyer for objectors is warning | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
it could end up in the courts with a judicial review. Spotlight's | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
Clare Casson has this report. On in the idea of a New Town in the | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Sherford Valley has always been controversial. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Over the years, we have seen protests by local residents and do | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
the plans themselves have changed in response to economic downturn. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
But today was detained for councillors, who were asked to | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
approve the outlined planning agreement. They voted by a majority | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
of 15-seven in favour. I am pleased for the communities in | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
the region. At the end of the day, this will deliver much-needed | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
affordable housing and commuting facilities for those who really | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
need it. That work could start here in | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Sherford Valley in the next 18 months. The developers want to | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
build around 5,500 new houses, along with schools and a sports | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
centre. Objectors still are not happy. They argue that will not | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
form a real community and say there are not enough affordable homes. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
death this development was about providing affordable housing for | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
local Working families, I would be happy. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
The truth is, it is not. It is about trying to kick-start the | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
economy and providing second homes, buy-to-let for people to come and | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
retire to. Is it worth digging up our be double countryside for that? | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
I do not think so. And the prospect of a legal battle | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
was also raised in today's meeting following claims there had not been | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
enough consultation as plants changed along the way. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
There has been a drop in the provision of affordable housing. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
There has been a lessening of proper transport facilities. There | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
has been a cut in a way of community facilities, and because | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
of all those significant changes that would provide a chance for | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
judicial review, and in my view it would succeed. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
The district council insists there have been a number of consultations. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
As part of the land falls within Plymouth, today's approval is | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
subject to that authority giving it the go-ahead in the New Year. | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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Planners believe building work could soon be under way. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
The funeral of a former student at Exeter University, killed while | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
serving with the army in Afghanistan has taken place today. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Lieutenant David Boyce, who was 25, was in 1st The Queens Dragoon | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Guards. He died last month after the armoured vehicle he was | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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travelling in was struck by a bomb. A woman in her twenties has been | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
sexually assaulted near Exeter University's campus. She was | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
attacked at around 1.45am this morning close to Prince of Wales | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Road. Police are carrying out house to house inquiries and checking | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
CCTV. Meanwhile Detective Inspector Mike West is reassuring the local | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
community. We're taking this very seriously, | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
which is why the major cut -- major crime investigation team is | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
investigating. We're committing resources because this is such a | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
rare event to try and ascertain who a viable suspect may be. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
An independent report into Dartmoor prison says the jail needs more | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
investment. It has also expressed concern about its leadership during | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
the last year. There have been three Governors at Dartmoor in a 12 | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
month period. A new Governor is now in place and the prison's | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
independent monitoring board says staff are showing enthusiasm for | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the future. But the board says more still needs to be done to help | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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prisoners with mental health issues. Prisoners to have personality | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
disorders, mental disorders, behavioural problems. There is not | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
sufficient access to one-to-one work that they need, and we would | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
like to see that increased and supplied by the Health Care | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
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Partnership. Staff at a Devon sweet company have | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
been telling Spotlight of their relief to be back in work after the | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
firm re-opened almost three months after they were laid off. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Production line and packing staff say it has been extremely hard to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
find new jobs. Bristow's of Crediton is one of the largest | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
employers in the town. As Hamish Marshall reports, it has a history | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
stretching back nearly 80 years and is now under new ownership. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Still to come in Spotlight tonight... | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Back in business and hopefully staying there. A few months ago, it | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
appeared that, after 80 years, suite meetings here was going to be | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
consigned to history. The parent could have gone bust. But after a | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
closure, Swedes are back on the production line. This man has been | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
here 16 years and is glad to be off the dole. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
It was very difficult to, to be honest. It is a buyer's market, | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
they can pick who they want. Now we are back again, it is brilliant. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
It has been assailed -- similar story for Gillian, who first came | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
here in 1985. How hard it was at looking for | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
jobs? Very hard, there is nothing out | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
there at all. When you heard this place was | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
coming back, what we are your thoughts? | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Jubilation. I was really pleased to get my job back. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
At its peak, there were 65 staff employed here walking across two | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
shifts. The new owners are hoping that by the new year they will have | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
40 staff and they are aiming for more. A new company has been formed, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
led by a man with experience of turning around businesses. The old | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
name and tradition will be kept as he seeks new markets. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
This has always been a good business and it is in a good market, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it is things that people want in this climate. We are not expensive | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
and we seek a good opportunity. Unemployment in Crediton may be | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
lower than the Devon national -- than the national average, but it | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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is still hard to find a job. These people feel lucky. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Dorset County Council has announced it is making big cuts to his | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
library budget. A small distance inside Dorset, but | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
a bigger difference. Said to be the county's smallest town, Stowbridge | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
is classic West Country. It has three pubs, a dozen shops and a | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
library funded, but not for much longer, by the council. There are a | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
great many similarities between the two local counties. While | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
campaigners there were unable to take the issue to court to stop | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
library funding been slashed, here it cuts are going ahead. This is a | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
library the County Council will not staff after next summer. Regular | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
users are angry. He I cannot understand what they are doing, I | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
could really cannot. It is such a wonderful amenity to | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the village. Last month's High Court ruling that | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
stops Somerset and Gloucestershire County Councils from similar cuts | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
gave campaigners hope. Lawyers advised against a similar challenge, | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
to the relief of the County Council. We were not worried. Well, all we | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
were anxious because you never know, finally, what will come out of a | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
judicial review. But we were confident we had gone about it | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
properly. Today, it said the library, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
supporters gathered. So we have decided to accept the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
fact we have lost at the challenge, as far as that goes, and try and | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
push on and do our own thing locally. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
They are being bowled. The town council may take over with | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
volunteers and even expand. There comes a point we have to stop | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
waving placards and find another way of doing it. That is what the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
town is doing for itself. It is ambitious, but we are not deterred | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
by it. It is a way to save the library. Another satisfied customer. | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
Locals only hope he will still be able to come here when he grows up. | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Still to come tonight... The Cornish connection with Stalin | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
- how this woman's true identity was kept secret until her death | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
last month. And we meet the master of this Tae | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
Kwondo club, nominated by you as an unsung sporting hero. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
South Hams Council has been given the legal go-ahead to remove | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
protestors from local authority land in Totnes. Supporters of the | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
Occupy Totnes camp pitched up a week ago. Today the County Court | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
granted the council a possession order. There are similar camps in | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Exeter and Plymouth. South West Water is pumping | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
millions of litres of water into two Cornish reservoirs every day. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
The company says it is filling up Stithians Lake near Redruth and | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Colliford on Bodmin Moor as part of its programme to make sure there | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
are no water shortages next year. The main wildlife trusts and | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
environmental organisations in the south west have published a letter | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
strongly critical of the Government. They say the Chancellor's recent | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Autumn Statement puts conservation under threat with the promise of | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
growth at the expense of the countryside, but the Government | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
insists it is the greenest in history. Our Environment | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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Correspondent, Adrian Campbell, North Devon is typical of the types | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
of specialist Habitat switch South West Wildlife trusts and other | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
environmental organisations have worked hard to protect in recent | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
years. Increasingly, these same people who have been managing all | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
kinds of habitats in the South West say they are disheartened by the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Government's plans to promote development. Their lead to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
concentrate on the recent Autumn Statement by the Chancellor. It | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
talks of ill-conceived planning reforms, and says the Government | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
has run out of date approach that casts regulation and the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
environment as enemies of growth. In the South West, which trade on | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
the quality of its environment, they say the Government's approach | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
is madness. We value living here because of the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
quality of the environment. Does it pay to destroy these resources and | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
regard them as getting under way of someone making a quick bit of | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
money? According to the new chief | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
executive of the Devon Wildlife Trust, the South West has | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
internationally important sites which must be protected. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
What we see on this map here it is the very best of the best wildlife | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
sites. It is the equivalent of Exeter Cathedral, Stonehenge, | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
Windsor Castle. These are our best sites. The Government is proposing | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
to substantially weaken or even remove the protection of these | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
sites. The letter has the overwhelming | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
support of all the main wildlife organisations in the South West. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
The RSPB says the bill that has to take place, but it should be | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
controlled. There is this contention that the | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
environment get in the way of the economy and that has wild the | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
conservation of wind. The Government says it has an | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
excellent record on environmental matters. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
We will be judged on our actions, and I think this Chancellor will | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
prove to be one of the greenest we have had for a great many years, | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
one who has put money into green actions, but also nature being | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
valued at the heart of what Government seeks to do. That puts | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
us ahead of many other countries around the world. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Those comments are unlikely to satisfy campaigners. Their letter, | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
which has been widely published, makes a direct appeal for | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
sustainable economic policies without destroying all but millions | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
hold dear. It has been revealed that the | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
daughter of the Russian leader Josef Stalin, moved to a remote | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
village in Cornwall in an attempt to escape the eyes of world and the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
press. Svetlana Stalin was taken in by a charity which ran a home in | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
the village of Mullion. Only a handful of people in the village | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
knew her true identity. Svetlana, who was known as Lana Peters during | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
the latter part of her life, died last month. Eleanor Parkinson | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
reports. Svetlana rain was born in Russia in | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
1926. -- Svetlana Stalin. She was the only dog daughter of one of | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
history's most famous figures, Josef Stalin. This was her home for | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
several months in 1997, a house run by a charity for older people. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Svetlana Stalin defected from Russia in the 1960s. This is her at | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
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a press conference. If I'd love this country and his | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
country will love me, the marriage will be settled, but I cannot say | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
nowt. She did settle. During her later | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
years she sought seclusion and this may have led to her decision to | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
come here. One of the only people who knew she was in Cornwall was | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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this man, the village's doctorate Geoff would go. -- Geoff Wood. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
She wanted to get away from the publicity. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
She did not get away, eventually, did she? | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
That is right, her secret was broken and the press started | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
publishing pictures and hounding her and she left us and went off. I | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
think she was quite happy here. Although Svetlana was in her | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
seventies, she was said to be in good health. She could often be | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
seen walking the Cornish cliffs around the village dressed in a "-- | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
" and hat. That is history! | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
You a cat Stalin for what he was, you never hear about his family. -- | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
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An amazing story. Devon athlete Jo Pavey is hoping | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
the latest 3D technology will give her the edge in the run up to the | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
2012 Olympics in London. As Jeremy Stern reports Jo has been monitored | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
by scientists in Oxford who have used the 3D images to study her | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
running technique. This is Jo Pavey. She is one of the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
best distance runners in the country. She has already competed | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
in three Olympic Games. A Home Olympics is a massive | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
opportunity not many athletes get in their career, so I hope I can be | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
there for so. Jo Pavey is hoping 3D technology | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
will give her the edge. There are 12 cameras in the room and they are | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
taking hundreds of images every second of Harrow running. All we | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
hear they monitor the information. They are building up a picture of | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
how her bones and joints are working. From this, they can | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
understand more about her running style. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Researchers from Oxford University have spent one year of developing | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
the system. There is no point in looking into | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
dimensional -- two dimensions, because the body moves in three | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
dimensions. Here we look at the rotations of the body, which you | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
would not even consider these movements in two dimensions. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
I felt that the right was good... Are Jo Pavey found out why she was | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
struggling with a foot injuries. Never before in her 20 year career | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
has a technique been analysed in such detail. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
To have all these markers picked up with infra-red imaging, seeing | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
yourself as a stick man and all the movement going on and it is so | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
accurate, it is amazing. The creators say it is not just for | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
elite athletes, but for all runners. In the future there will be systems | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
for golfers, cyclists and runners. It is time now to take a look at | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
the second of our unsung sporting heros. Dave Desforges is the master | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
of the South Hams Tae Kwondo Club. He gives up hours of his free time | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
to coach his students, and he travels all over Europe at his own | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
expense to support them in international competitions. | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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Don't get on the wrong side of these men. Joking aside, this Tae | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Kwondo is only a small organisation, but has a habit of coming out | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
competitors at international level. At the heart of it is Dave | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Desforges, who wanted an activity to share with his family. | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
As a family it is something we could all do and all did do. My son | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
and daughter were in here tonight training. My wife used to do it. | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
She has stopped, but at the three of us kept going. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Four nights a week to his club wit -- club-mate, and it is a lot of | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
work. That is a more competitive sport and Dave's students love it. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Where we are feeling a little down and not into it he get us going, | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
always makes me want to come training. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
He is a friend and coach, so he has been really supportive of me and my | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
Tae Kwondo and what I do. Four of his students are the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
current national champions. Dave travels all over Europe at his own | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
expense to support him. He was nominated by Andrew Bradley, who | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
has seen what he has done for his daughter. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
When she first came here she was notched doing her best that | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
competition, now she is a national champion and has competed for Great | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Britain. He us all -- is obviously doing a fantastic job. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
It is great to think that the people I am putting a lot of effort | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
into appreciate what I am doing, and I can see that without a doubt. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
I can see that in the way the train, as well, the way they follow it up | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
going abroad. It is not just mean, really. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Dave is unpaid and his club doesn't make money. He plays all -- pays | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
for all this trouble himself, no mean feat when you students have | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
competed in Europe are six times this year alone. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Now Christmas is a time that often prompts some high-jinx at work, and | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
this year is proving no different. HMS Ocean is due home from | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
deployment this Friday, but before she sails into Plymouth the crew | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
decided to create their very own festive message for family and | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
friends. Little did they know their film would go global. Earlier this | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
afternoon we were joined by the person behind the camera, to hear | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
how it came about, but first let's # I don't want a lot for | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
# I don't want a lot for Christmas... | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
# There is just one thing I need... # I don't care about the presents... | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
# Underneath the Christmas tree. # I just want you for my own... | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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# More than you could ever know... # Make my wish come true... | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
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# All I want for Christmas... Kelly, it is fantastic and has | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
caused a lot of amusement here today. How did the idea, about? | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
We thought about doing a video for a few weeks before we got the news | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
we were going home for Christmas. A few days before we started at we | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
were given the news by the cat and the ship would be home for | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Christmas, so a Christmas song seemed the most appropriate. Mariah | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Carey got the vote. It all looked very hi-tech, these | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
videos take a long time to do, usually. How did you achieve it and | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
how long did it take you? We did well whole thing in three | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
days, two days to film it and one data edited. I broke the sun -- | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
song down to its individual lines. I e-mailed it to the guys in my | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
department and they chose, coming up with the costumes and where they | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
wanted to be filmed. Looking at it, it does not look | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
like they had to have their arms twisted! | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
When I first put the idea to them they thought I wanted them to sing, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
but then I had to tell them they would be mining over the top. As | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
soon as I told him that they were quite happy. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
This must have really boosted morale, because it was supposed to | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
have been a seven-week deployment and turned into seven-and-a-half | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
months? Yes, it was to boost morale, cheer | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
the guys up and give them a diversion. It has also acted nicely | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
as a little Christmas card to send home to their family. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Ian on deployment is serious business, and they may be some who | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
would look at that think -- and think you were up on seven months | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
of having fun. What kind of permission did you need to get | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
this? It has all been cleared, the | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
captain and my boss or paid at the video when I had finished it. | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
-- my boss said it was OK. Added released all that tension, as | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
you said. Absolutely, it was a good way to | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
have fun, despite everything they have been through the have a sense | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
of humour. In the middle of the high seas | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
doing this it must have been hilarious. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
It was brilliant fun. Some people watching us wondered what we were | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
doing, and it was not till they saw the video the understood why we had | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
been running around in cardboard boxes. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
I do have had reaction from Mariah Carey herself? | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Yes, she tweeted us and gave us her Christmas wishes. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
We watch the superb finale to the video now. | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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# Baby, all I want for Christmas... I loved the block in the bath the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
best. It is so funny, have a look online, | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
do a search for HMS Ocean and their Christmas video. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
They did not have videos like that They did not have videos like that | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
when I was in the Navy. Good evening. We have some fairly | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
rough weather and a very blustery day tomorrow with gusts of wind up | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
to 60 mph it possible. Windy and milder, the temperatures getting up | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
to 13 Celsius, unusually mild for this month, then a big drop as the | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
band of rain clears. This is a vigorous area of low | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
pressure ahead into the north-west of Scotland. We are between systems, | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
so it will Chauhan chilly tonight. The cloud comes in and this shows | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
us how windy it will be. Lots of isobars, right across Britain. A | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
very blustery day with some wet weather, especially in the | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
afternoon into Russia were. By Friday, we are into north or north- | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
west winds. Much colder, with a risk into the weekend of overnight | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
frost. Not much frost this evening, but temperatures into single | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
figures before it becomes milder it later in the night. This was area | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
today where our cameraman caught some sunshine. When we got out of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the breeze with some sunshine it was quite pleasant. There have been | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
some sharp showers, and there will be more of those briefly this | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
evening before they all fade away and the sky is clear. Then it | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
clouds over and we will see some patchy, light rain. Tomorrow it | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
will be blustery. A few showers overnight tonight, then perhaps | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
some drizzle and low cloud by the end of the night. Winds continuing | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
to freshen up, and after ran initial drop of temperatures down | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
to three or four Celsius, they will climb to five or seven Celsius. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
Tomorrow morning, cloud giving some patchy rain, then some bright | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
weather settling in. The rain is accompanied by strong winds, South | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
West winds, gale-force winds at times. For the Isles of Scilly, | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
windy with gales later, temperatures up to 12 or 13 Celsius. | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
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We are likely to see some huge waves tomorrow, the winds will whip | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
up the seas. Dangerous conditions on some of our beaches for the next | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
24 hours. A little bit quieter for Friday, and quieter into the | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
weekend. Look at the drop in temperatures - Saturday just five | :27:26. | :27:32. |