:00:09. > :00:13.Millions of pounds to turn this unauthorised traveller site into a
:00:13. > :00:16.permanent one and create new pitches across the South West. Good
:00:16. > :00:20.evening, welcome to Spotlight. Travellers have welcomed the news
:00:20. > :00:24.but say it won't be enough. Also tonight - jailed for two years.
:00:24. > :00:33.The woman whose husband was killed after she pulled on the handbrake.
:00:33. > :00:37.His family say the sentence isn't long enough.
:00:37. > :00:41.Caroline's behaviour tours two Polly has been shocking, never any
:00:41. > :00:44.contact of the word sorry. And scaling new heights - the
:00:44. > :00:48.youngster climbing his way to the top after being selected to
:00:48. > :00:51.represent Great Britain. More than �3 million is to be spent
:00:51. > :00:54.on new traveller pitches in the South West. The money from the
:00:54. > :00:59.Government aims to reduce the number of unauthorised sites in the
:00:59. > :01:04.region. But travellers and councils say much more is needed. The money
:01:04. > :01:07.just announced will provide 60 official pitches. At Haldon Hill
:01:07. > :01:10.near Exeter, there are plans for 15 new pitches, to replace a much
:01:10. > :01:14.larger unauthorised site. In Plymouth, 15 pitches are planned
:01:14. > :01:17.for a transit camp near Roborough. And Cornwall Council have funding
:01:17. > :01:22.to deliver 30 new pitches, although the location of these is yet to be
:01:22. > :01:26.identified. John Danks has this report.
:01:26. > :01:30.This unauthorised traveller site at Haldon, near Exeter, is one of the
:01:30. > :01:34.areas to benefit. Over the years it's been the cause of tension
:01:34. > :01:38.between travellers and local residents. More than a million
:01:38. > :01:46.pounds is to be spent here to create a smaller but permanent site
:01:46. > :01:51.with proper facilities and power. We have overcome the first hurdle,
:01:51. > :01:56.which is we have the money. We are now in the game and we can apply
:01:56. > :02:01.for planning permission, we can start talking to our colleagues,
:02:01. > :02:04.our partners, and I don't see why we can't go forward. The site sits
:02:04. > :02:07.within an area of outstanding natural beauty and some feel it
:02:07. > :02:13.shouldn't be there. However there's hope from the nearby settled
:02:13. > :02:18.community that a solution can be found. What has always been the
:02:18. > :02:23.main problem is that this site has been to the detriment of what
:02:23. > :02:26.should be going on there. So hopefully, with the sensitive
:02:26. > :02:30.application, we could see something quite positive up there. This land
:02:30. > :02:33.on the outskirts of Plymouth is earmarked to become a new transit
:02:33. > :02:37.site for gypsys and travellers. Last year there were 40 illegal
:02:37. > :02:41.encampments in the city. Sally Woodbury is a romany gypsy. She
:02:41. > :02:49.lives in a mobile home on her own land. Although pleased about the
:02:49. > :02:53.new funding, she's still sceptical. It is very positive news but I
:02:53. > :02:59.would not hold my breath because the sort of thing was done before
:02:59. > :03:03.and councils change and they do not seem to develop. If they develop,
:03:04. > :03:07.it's wonderful, if not its back to the same problem. Planning
:03:07. > :03:13.permission is now required for the sites in Plymouth and Haldon and
:03:14. > :03:19.that may take some time. We'll be following those plans over
:03:19. > :03:23.the months ahead, and let us know what you think. You can email us on
:03:23. > :03:27.spotlight@bbc.co.uk or we're on Twitter, @bbcspotlight.
:03:27. > :03:30.A Somerset woman who killed her husband by pulling on the handbrake
:03:30. > :03:34.of their car, causing it to crash, has been jailed for two years.
:03:34. > :03:37.Caroline Meeking and her husband Alan had been having a drunken row
:03:37. > :03:43.when it happened. John Maguire reports.
:03:43. > :03:46.A sudden drunken act that had so many serious consequences. Alan
:03:46. > :03:50.Meeking died almost immediately when the car he was driving, with
:03:50. > :03:55.his wife Caroline by his side, spun across the road and smashed into an
:03:55. > :03:58.oncoming vehicle. The couple were driving home to Illminster after a
:03:58. > :04:08.day's drinking when they started to argue, she pulled on the handbrake
:04:08. > :04:08.
:04:08. > :04:13.- and caused her husband's death. Throughout sentencing the court
:04:13. > :04:17.repeatedly heard that this was a highly unusual case. The judge said
:04:17. > :04:21.he accepted that Caroline Meeking had not intended to cause harm or
:04:21. > :04:27.injury but he described her actions as plainly dangerous and grossly
:04:27. > :04:30.irresponsible. He centre to jail for two years. Caroline Meeking, in
:04:30. > :04:33.the yellow jacket, had arrived at Bristol Crown Court this morning
:04:33. > :04:37.knowing that she may face jail after her manslaughter trial at the
:04:37. > :04:40.end of last year. The court was told she loved and adored her
:04:40. > :04:47.husband and was genuinely remorseful. But Mr Meeking's four
:04:47. > :04:53.children from a previous marriage disagreed. Two years is never
:04:53. > :04:57.enough but the family a club that a custodial sentence has been imposed.
:04:57. > :05:01.Caroline's behave it was the family has been shocking, never any
:05:01. > :05:07.contact called the word sorry. We loved our dad very much and he will
:05:07. > :05:11.be sorely missed by his children, brothers and many friends. It is
:05:11. > :05:15.not going to bring him back but at least it is a custodial sentence.
:05:15. > :05:18.Both Alan and Caroline's supporters were in court, sitting just a few
:05:18. > :05:26.feet away from each other. Families once brought together but now so
:05:26. > :05:30.cruelly torn apart. More than 300 children have been
:05:30. > :05:33.helped by a scheme in Plymouth to support victims of domestic abuse.
:05:33. > :05:37.Operation Encompass was set up last year to allow police to alert
:05:37. > :05:43.teachers if a child has witnessed violence and abuse. As Scott
:05:43. > :05:47.Bingham reports, the scheme could now be rolled out to other areas.
:05:47. > :05:50.A trial of Operation Encompass started in February last year. It
:05:50. > :05:55.was the brainchild of Devonport- based police Sergeant David Carney-
:05:55. > :05:59.Howarth, whose wife hapens to be a headteacher. Dealing with domestic
:05:59. > :06:02.violence cases, he realised that where a teacher might see a change
:06:02. > :06:10.in a child's behaviour it's often the police who know the reason
:06:10. > :06:14.behind it. You could say it is simply a phone call to schools in
:06:14. > :06:19.the morning but there is a lot more to it than that. The impact is
:06:19. > :06:22.phenomenal. Although it is only a phone-call from us, to that child
:06:22. > :06:26.it is everything, because that support is in school ready for them
:06:26. > :06:31.in the morning. And that simple phone call can make a huge
:06:31. > :06:39.difference. Previously we would not know or only know one or two months
:06:39. > :06:43.after the event and would not be able to support the child. From
:06:43. > :06:46.that information it enabels us to know that if the child shows any
:06:46. > :06:49.sign of anxiety and needs support of any kind, we can provide that
:06:49. > :06:53.without them going through the normal lines of punishment that
:06:53. > :06:58.might happen if, for example, they misbehave. Carl Eve is a crime
:06:58. > :07:06.reporter for the Plymouth Herald - but as a child he was also a victim
:07:06. > :07:13.of domestic violence. My mum would stand between us, me and my
:07:13. > :07:16.brothers, so she caught the most of it. Black eyes, bruised lips. There
:07:16. > :07:23.was parties hearing your mum screaming. That sticks more than
:07:23. > :07:28.anything else. He's now actively supporting the scheme. I think the
:07:28. > :07:31.best thing for a child is not to feel alone. Having someone at
:07:31. > :07:34.school who will keep an eye on you is fantastic. Alarmingly, Operation
:07:34. > :07:38.Encompass has already helped well over 300 children in the Devonport
:07:38. > :07:46.area of Plymouth alone since February. It's been so successful
:07:46. > :07:50.it's about to be rolled out to all 120 schools across the city.
:07:50. > :07:53.A girl from Cornwall who had a charity founded in her name has
:07:53. > :07:57.died. Six-year-old Ellie Libby from Looe inspired her parents to create
:07:57. > :08:01.Ellie's Haven. She was born with a rare genetic condition which
:08:01. > :08:04.required her to have 24-hour care. The charity Is raising money to
:08:04. > :08:08.build a holiday retreat for children with long term or life
:08:08. > :08:10.limiting illnesses. Her father, Nigel, says his daughter's memory
:08:10. > :08:16.will be preserved forever by Ellie's Haven and "the special
:08:17. > :08:20.place for special children it will create".
:08:20. > :08:24.Parents trying to save a troubled private school in North Devon say
:08:24. > :08:27.the main school will not now re- open. St Michaels at Tawstock said
:08:27. > :08:31.it was in financial difficulties just after Christmas because of
:08:31. > :08:38.falling numbers. Parents formed a new management committee and had
:08:38. > :08:42.hoped to keep the school going. They say the St Michael's nursery
:08:42. > :08:45.will continue. Parents of around 40 children are now trying to find a
:08:45. > :08:49.new school. 100 new care jobs are to be created
:08:49. > :08:53.in the South West. Sunshine Care plans to take on 50 people in
:08:53. > :08:57.Plymouth, 25 in the rest of Devon and 25 in Cornwall. There willl
:08:57. > :09:00.also be new posts in Somerset and Dorset. The company says it's
:09:00. > :09:04.expanding its home services and provision for dementia.
:09:04. > :09:08.A former captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is backing
:09:08. > :09:11.plans to have the vessel sunk as a diving reef. A group of divers have
:09:11. > :09:15.secured more than �6 million to sink the former Navy flagship in
:09:15. > :09:19.the waters off Tor Bay. Rear Admiral Terry Loughran is backing
:09:19. > :09:23.the scheme in preference to it being sold off as scrap. The MOD is
:09:23. > :09:26.expected to make a decision in the next few weeks.
:09:26. > :09:28.The Cornwall Coroner is to urge the Government to install special
:09:28. > :09:33.software on home education computers, to restrict their
:09:33. > :09:36.internet browsing. An inquest into the death of a Cornish girl who
:09:36. > :09:40.killed herself three years ago heard she'd used a council-approved
:09:40. > :09:43.computer to chat with men on the internet. Council managers have
:09:43. > :09:48.said lessons HAVE been learnt from a "tragic" case. Spotlight's Matt
:09:49. > :09:53.Pengelly reports. Simone Grice was a troubled
:09:53. > :09:56.teenager. By the age of ten she'd been excluded from two primary
:09:56. > :09:59.schools, there had been complaints of bullying, she was withdrawn and
:09:59. > :10:04.depressed - yet refused to engage with the professionals who were
:10:04. > :10:08.trying to look after her, such as Cornwall social services. In July
:10:08. > :10:18.2009 she jumped off a roadbridge near her home in Illogan. She was
:10:18. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:22.15 years old. Yesterday, members of her family told the inquest they
:10:22. > :10:26.were worried she had been developing relationships with older
:10:26. > :10:30.men, some of those sexual relationships, and she was using
:10:30. > :10:35.the computer supplier to her so that she could continue her
:10:35. > :10:38.education at home, so that she could chat with men on social
:10:38. > :10:43.networks sides. Today, the detective said his investigation
:10:43. > :10:46.had shown there was no evidence of abuse or any crooning over the
:10:46. > :10:48.internet. After Simone's death, Cornwall Council's Social Services
:10:48. > :10:51.department has tightened its procedures over vulnerable people
:10:51. > :10:54.who refuse to engage with groups like social services - and the
:10:54. > :10:57.council has also insisted that any computers supplied for home
:10:57. > :11:03.education be fitted with special software to monitor what the young
:11:03. > :11:11.person is looking at. The Coroner said she's written to the
:11:11. > :11:18.Government suggesting this policy be adopted nationally. The Cornwall
:11:18. > :11:21.coroner recorded a verdict of suicide on Simone Grice.
:11:21. > :11:24.A Cornish wildlife sanctuary which cares for sick and injured owls
:11:24. > :11:27.says it may have to close its special owl hospital this year
:11:27. > :11:31.because of a drop in income. Screech Owl Sanctuary says last
:11:31. > :11:35.year visitor numbers fell by a third and warns that more cutbacks
:11:35. > :11:40.will have to be made if the trend continues. Amy Cole reports.
:11:40. > :11:44.Darling arrived at Screech Owl Sanctuary 14 years ago. Then a mere
:11:44. > :11:52.chick who was struggling to survive, he required a lot of care and
:11:52. > :11:56.medical attention and is now a permanent resident. Because of
:11:56. > :12:01.demesne to occur that he needed as a baby he became imprinted they
:12:01. > :12:04.could not go back to the wild, so he lives here and his licence to
:12:04. > :12:08.stay with us for the rest of his life. But that's a rarity. The
:12:08. > :12:12.Sancuary is committed to caring for sick and injured owls - like this
:12:12. > :12:16.short-eared owl, who came in with a wing injury after being hit - and
:12:16. > :12:18.return them back to the wild. Last year a fall in donations and
:12:18. > :12:26.visitors led to cutbacks in staffing and conservation work.
:12:26. > :12:31.Carolyn is worried that this year the owl hospital might have to go.
:12:32. > :12:37.We would not close. This is our 20th year and we are very committed
:12:37. > :12:42.to what we do. We will get by somehow. But if we had to reduce
:12:42. > :12:45.costs of not able to meet costs, the first thing that would have to
:12:45. > :12:49.go would be the rehabilitation work. The charity treated more than 360
:12:49. > :12:51.owls last year and its small hospital is regularly full up. With
:12:51. > :13:00.annual overheads in excess of �50,000, the Sanctuary says it's
:13:00. > :13:03.vital that visitors and donations also keep coming in.
:13:03. > :13:05.All the sport still ahead in the programme including the
:13:05. > :13:15.synchronised progress of the Plymouth swimmer and her partner as
:13:15. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:22.the Olympics beckon. And joining me life in Bradninch what the locals
:13:22. > :13:25.will be saying goodbye to Christmas in a very special way. A project to
:13:25. > :13:30.try and stop rare wildlife being destroyed in Portland has just been
:13:30. > :13:32.launched. Portland in Peril aims to halt an alien plant invasion. Its
:13:32. > :13:34.being funded with hundreds of thousands of pounds from the
:13:34. > :13:38.landfill tax. Here's our environment correspondent, Adrian
:13:38. > :13:41.Campbell. Experts from Dorset Wildlife Trust
:13:41. > :13:51.are on safari making their way through disused quarries on
:13:51. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :13:59.Portland. But it's not big game they're after. You can see how the
:13:59. > :14:02.roots are displacing all the soil around it. It's something much more
:14:02. > :14:05.down to earth. Cotoneaster, which Jess Tilley and John Cload
:14:05. > :14:08.particularly want to seek out and destroy.This common garden plant
:14:08. > :14:11.has gone wild and is smothering fragile grassland habitats
:14:11. > :14:21.important for rare species such as the common blue, adonis blue and
:14:21. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:31.the chalk hill blue butterflies. You can see how this has gone back
:14:31. > :14:34.in. We need to cut that again. bit is growing like a carpet.
:14:34. > :14:37.for the Portland In Peril project was awarded by Virridor credits
:14:37. > :14:41.which, distributes money from the landfill tax. As well as helping
:14:41. > :14:44.wildlife this big cash investment will also create local jobs.
:14:44. > :14:47.Contractors will be needed to carefully spray some inaccessible
:14:47. > :14:55.cliff faces which have been overrun by cotoneaster and also giant
:14:55. > :15:05.buddleia plants. Sam Hamer from the Dorset Wildlife Trust says these
:15:05. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:11.garden escapees have become far too successful. Along this stretch here
:15:11. > :15:18.you can see the whole transition of the cotoneaster moving in. Here we
:15:18. > :15:23.have the lead normal plants with the cotoneaster slowly establishing.
:15:23. > :15:27.As it becomes more established and will carpet like, in the end we end
:15:27. > :15:30.up with the growth pattern which is more like her doormat which has
:15:30. > :15:33.blocked out ever think underneath. The disused quarries on Portland
:15:34. > :15:39.are truly a very special placen and offer some remarkable opportunities
:15:39. > :15:42.for conservation. The longer term aim is to attract green tourists
:15:42. > :15:46.here creating long term and sustainable local employment. But
:15:46. > :15:54.for now there's an awful lot of cotoneaster and buddleia to cut and
:15:54. > :15:58.prune. Time for the sport and Dave's here
:15:58. > :16:06.for the first time this year. Do you think it will be a good New
:16:06. > :16:12.Year for South West sport? It can hardly get any worse. Some of our
:16:12. > :16:16.teams have hardly been evangelical in 2011 but then most successful is
:16:16. > :16:20.evangelical -- Exeter cheese. Exeter Chiefs can keep in touch
:16:20. > :16:22.with the top four of rugby's Premiership if they win at bottom
:16:22. > :16:25.club Newcastle Falcons tomorrow. Rob Baxter's men are five points
:16:26. > :16:29.adrift of Northampton and Leicester, who occupy the third and fourth
:16:29. > :16:32.slots. Chiefs look for a double after beating Newcastle at Sandy
:16:32. > :16:36.Park. Nat Saumi and John Roberts take charge of troubled Plymouth
:16:36. > :16:39.Albion until the end of the season with their first task to prevent a
:16:39. > :16:44.defeat at London Scottish. The Cornish Pirates welcome back wing
:16:44. > :16:47.Rhodri McAtee for Sunday's home date with Nottingham.
:16:47. > :16:50.The weekend's South West football is halved. The scheduled League
:16:50. > :16:54.games for Yeovil Town and Torquay United are off due to their
:16:54. > :16:57.opponents' involvement in the FA Cup. It leaves Exeter City and
:16:57. > :17:00.Plymouth Argyle continuing their mission to avoid relegation. City
:17:00. > :17:03.haven't won since the end of November and go to bottom team
:17:03. > :17:07.Chesterfield, who haven't tasted success in League One since
:17:07. > :17:12.September. Plymouth Argyle visit Crewe Alexandra, three points
:17:13. > :17:19.behind the safety line. Darren Purse, now a permanent acquisition,
:17:19. > :17:21.is back after serving a three-match ban.
:17:21. > :17:25.Five years ago, Plymouth synchronised swimmer Olivia Allison
:17:25. > :17:30.and her partner in the sport, Jenna Randall, finished in 22nd place at
:17:30. > :17:34.the World Championships. But since they've gone full-time in the
:17:34. > :17:44.build-up to the 2012 Olympics, they finished 8th this year. Ed Sherry
:17:44. > :17:45.
:17:45. > :17:51.reports on their progress from their training pool in Hampshire.
:17:51. > :17:57.Grace and beauty, but underwater it is a Mace's athletic challenge.
:17:57. > :18:00.have to make it look so effortless. Lactic acid is burning through you,
:18:00. > :18:05.your heart is bumping, and you have to make it look like you could
:18:05. > :18:10.carry on for an extra 10 or 20 minutes. Synchronised swimming,
:18:10. > :18:15.along with rhythmic gymnastics, are the only two sports on the Olympic
:18:15. > :18:21.programme to be contested by women only. Bolivia and her partner Jenna
:18:21. > :18:27.Randall competed in Beijing 2008. This is the Russian squad who won
:18:27. > :18:32.gold at the last three Olympics. They are expected to dominate again
:18:32. > :18:37.in 2012. But Great Britain is taking great strides, setting up
:18:37. > :18:42.this new centralised training centre in Aldershot. The aim is
:18:42. > :18:46.long-term success. Every time we gave two were trying to improve our
:18:46. > :18:51.routines, tweak them, look how we can make them more difficult, more
:18:51. > :18:55.interesting, more unions say the judges give us the top marks.
:18:55. > :18:58.live here and Jenna there is a chance of a medal in London but the
:18:58. > :19:03.future is more important. Because you have to be synchronised to get
:19:03. > :19:08.to know each other so well that you know how someone else moves and you
:19:08. > :19:14.can anticipate. People have slightly different ways of moving
:19:14. > :19:17.so it is important you know each other very well.
:19:17. > :19:21.Plymouth Raiders are warning fans to buy their tickets early for
:19:21. > :19:24.Sunday's basketball encounter with Mersey Tigers at the Pavilions.
:19:24. > :19:28.They sold out last week 36 hours before the first duel with Mersey
:19:28. > :19:35.and turned away around 300 spectators. It's the Raiders last
:19:35. > :19:39.match before next weekend's BBL Cup Final against Newcastle.
:19:39. > :19:42.A local schoolboy has been selected for the Great Britain climbing team.
:19:42. > :19:45.Alex Waterhouse, from Horrabridge in Devon, won a place in the junior
:19:45. > :19:50.squad after an impressive showing at the Youth Open Championships in
:19:50. > :19:57.Sunderland. As Johnny Rutherford reports, the 14-year-old has set
:19:57. > :20:01.his sights on becoming an Olympian. Peak practise. Alex Waterhouse
:20:01. > :20:03.certainly is getting to the top of his game. He's recently been
:20:03. > :20:09.selected for the Great Britain junior climbing team, which has
:20:09. > :20:16.been his goal, ever since he started the sport. I have been
:20:16. > :20:20.climbing for three years. It was a school scheme that got me into it
:20:20. > :20:24.and then my dad bought me lessons for Christmas. But the teenager's
:20:24. > :20:32.personal summit is much higher. He's hoping to peak in time for the
:20:32. > :20:36.2020 Olympics. There are the world championships later in the year in
:20:36. > :20:39.Singapore which would, for him, be a dream come true and then there is
:20:39. > :20:46.the possibility of the Olympics in 2020 as climbing has been short
:20:46. > :20:50.listed for inclusion there. We are hopeful but time will tell. So, to
:20:50. > :20:59.stay at the top. Alex is training intensively six days a week at The
:20:59. > :21:03.Barn Climbing Centre in Milton Abbott. Competition climbing for
:21:03. > :21:07.people like Alex is about getting higher than anyone else, following
:21:07. > :21:16.a predetermined, difficult route. Alex's first big competition in the
:21:16. > :21:19.European championships is May at the indoor arena in Edinburgh.
:21:19. > :21:24.Tomorrow sees the sixth North Devon Junior Open Badminton tournament at
:21:24. > :21:29.the North Devon Leisure Centre in Barnstaple. More than 70 players
:21:29. > :21:38.have entered in the under-13 and under-17 events. Entry is free. BBC
:21:38. > :21:41.local radio has coverage of all your sport over the weekend.
:21:41. > :21:45.The ending of the Christmas festivities is being marked in one
:21:45. > :21:49.Devon village tonight with a special ceremony. Tradition has it
:21:49. > :21:52.that decorations should be taken down by Twelfth Night. Some people
:21:52. > :21:56.say that was last night - but the people of Bradninch are celebrating
:21:57. > :22:05.tonight. Spotlight's Hamish Marshall is there. Hamish - what's
:22:05. > :22:11.going on? I can well and truly say everybody
:22:11. > :22:15.here believes 12th Night is tonight. You can see the crowd behind me and
:22:15. > :22:20.some of giants and lanterns as well. There has been a parade from both
:22:20. > :22:25.sides of the town and they have congregated outside the Guildhall.
:22:25. > :22:30.I joined the first parade 15 minutes ago. People of all ages,
:22:30. > :22:34.bringing things like Christmas trees as well, so they can be burnt
:22:34. > :22:39.later at a bonfire. It is very much a day when the whole town comes
:22:39. > :22:43.together. The mayor is with me now. You're going to be doing so been
:22:44. > :22:48.special up on the balcony. I shall be throwing our much-loved
:22:48. > :22:51.Christmas tree, which has been here for the whole of the Christmas
:22:51. > :22:58.period, it will be friend from the front of the Guild Hall said that
:22:58. > :23:03.it can be taken to the bonfire and burnt to signify the end of our
:23:03. > :23:07.Christmas celebrations and the beginning of the year 2012, when
:23:07. > :23:12.there will be many more celebrations. This seems an old
:23:12. > :23:17.tradition but his is one that has been revived here. It is, and it is
:23:17. > :23:22.a very good one, it brings the town together. We are very close town,
:23:22. > :23:27.we have things arranged for the Diamond Jubilee in June and many
:23:27. > :23:34.other things as well. I will let you go and throw your Christmas
:23:34. > :23:41.tree. Thank you very much. Hundreds of people have gathered for this.
:23:42. > :23:50.Could buy from me as well. -- goodbye. Time for the weather
:23:50. > :23:56.now back and have we seen the back I think so, it is much quieter this
:23:56. > :24:01.weekend. Mild and often cloudy sums up this weekend. There is a lot of
:24:01. > :24:06.cloud coming our way and it has blanketed most of the south-west of
:24:06. > :24:10.England. There are some holes at the moment. Later on, the line of
:24:10. > :24:14.cloud travelling through Ireland at the moment will sink its way down
:24:14. > :24:19.to give a few splashes of light rain or drizzle through the night.
:24:19. > :24:24.As a result of all the clout it will be generally quite mild. The
:24:24. > :24:28.main weather system should move away from us by tomorrow lunchtime.
:24:28. > :24:32.We will see brighter conditions and might even see a bit of sunshine
:24:32. > :24:36.here and there. By the time we get to Sunday, there by the front comes
:24:36. > :24:41.back and looks to the far south- west, to the west of the Isles of
:24:41. > :24:46.Scilly. Then it starts to move back towards us during the day on Sunday
:24:46. > :24:51.so Sunday will perhaps have generally more cloud and perhaps
:24:51. > :24:57.some light rain or drizzle. But the really stomach conditions have
:24:57. > :25:01.moved away. We did have some sunshine earlier. Now the cloud is
:25:01. > :25:08.quite extensive and it will give us a little hill fog here and there
:25:09. > :25:12.over the high parts. Wins becoming West or north-westerly and they
:25:12. > :25:17.will freshen a little bit overnight and the possibility of light
:25:17. > :25:22.drizzle from time to time. Temperatures holding up quite well,
:25:22. > :25:25.quite mild compared to last night. Tomorrow, we will have a line of
:25:25. > :25:29.cloud along the south coast which will take his time to clear out of
:25:29. > :25:34.the way and may stick with us in the far west of Cornwall. For the
:25:34. > :25:38.rest of us, some sunny spells developing, most likely across
:25:38. > :25:43.northern parts of Devon and into Dorset and Somerset. The warmer
:25:43. > :25:47.feel to the air with temperatures up to 12 degrees. Away from the
:25:47. > :25:54.north coast there will be a keen breeze from the north-west. The
:25:54. > :25:58.highest temperature will probably be in the far west. In the Isles of
:25:58. > :26:08.Scilly we are closer to that weather front and although there is
:26:08. > :26:20.
:26:20. > :26:27.a lot of cloud Richard remain With West or north-west winds it is
:26:27. > :26:37.sheltered, south-facing beach is that will see the cleanest surf.
:26:37. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:51.Looking further ahead, there is not a great deal to talk about in the
:26:51. > :26:56.weather pattern. The wind is much lighter, the temperatures are
:26:56. > :27:00.relatively mild for the time of year. We should be just about frost
:27:00. > :27:09.free. On Sunday the cloud may be thick enough to give some light
:27:09. > :27:14.rain or drizzle. Monday has not much change in that. And on Tuesday,
:27:15. > :27:19.a largely dry day but not a great deal of sunshine in the forecast
:27:19. > :27:29.for the next few days. But compared to what we have seen recently, most
:27:29. > :27:29.
:27:29. > :27:33.Thanks for your comments about travellers' sites. We will be