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A near miss at Devonport. A lorry load of explosives is driven into | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
the nuclear dockyard. Good evening and welcome to Spotlight. More on | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
that incident and the subsequent investigation in a moment. Also | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
tonight. The charity facing tough times. A struggle for the Cornwall | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Blind Association as it loses funding. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Off your bike. Is this new tunnel on a cycle path too low for two | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
wheels? Help For Heroes gets more musical | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
support after a student wins a competition to write a song for the | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
charity. A Ministry of Defence report has | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
highlighted what its calling a near miss at Devonport where a lorry | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
load of explosives was allowed to drive into the high security | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
nuclear dockyard. An investigation was launched after | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the cargo of depth charges was mistakenly delivered to the naval | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
base rather than a nearby armaments depot. The explosives were not | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
armed, but anti-nuclear campaigners are outraged. Here's Spotlight's | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
defence reporter Scott Bingham. The incident occurred when a | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
contractor's lorry arrived at Devonport naval base with a cargo | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
of high explosive depth charges addressed it 2 H in S Somerset. The | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
vehicle was cleared by security and drop into the naval base. The | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
breach was only spotted by an officer on board a warship and an | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
investigation was launched. The delivery should have been made to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
the defence storage and distribution side which stores and | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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handles with issues. The It said that measures to manage | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
contractors were weak and criticised it checks carried out on | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
visitors to the side. The Ministry of Defence said it recognised the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
correct procedures had not been followed and it changes had been | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
implemented since the incident in 2010. A source inside the level | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
based said that while that lorry was effectively carrying a load of | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
high explosives, it was intrinsically safe as a had to | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
travel -- as it had to travel on the public highway and the depth | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
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charges were not armed. But that it was being treated seriously. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
A charity which helps thousands of blind and partially sighted people | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
in Cornwall says it has lost so much funding, it may have to make | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
some staff redundant in order to keep vital services going. The | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Cornwall Blind Association is one of the oldest and most established | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
charities in the county, but it is now having to dip into its | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
emergency reserves. Eleanor Parkinson reports. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
92-year-old l'amour has been a martyrs, but her failing eyesight | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
is making that more difficult. Despite that, she still attends a | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
class twice a month. It is nice to be with people who have the same | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
interests. They are not all artists however. You have been an artist | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
all your life up. Yes. Yes, I went to art school in Penzance. When | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
this year are a group started up three years ago, it was amazing for | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
her. It gave her the chance to go out and do things that she loved. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Painting, ceramics, anything like that. A different group of friends | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
at that all had a similar interest. She loved it. It gave her a new | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
lease of life have. But after this week's meeting, the class may have | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
to end. It is partially funded by the Cornwall Blind Association who | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
have a funding crisis. Staff and volunteers had been sent a letter | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
telling them that in order to provide vital services, some jobs | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
may be lost. There are over 13,000 people in Cornwall with a visual | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
impairment. We are the only service, from our perspective, delivering | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
the services we do. It is very important to those visually | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
impaired people in Cornwall. offer advice, benefits and free | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
transport. They say that the art class is one of a number of | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
activities that they support and they are working hard to try to | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
find a way of keeping it going. Developers fear hundreds of jobs | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
and millions of pounds of investment could be put at risk if | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
environmental campaigners manage to stop work to dredge Falmouth | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
harbour. Cornwall Wildlife Trust says there are alternative ways to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
develop the area. But it says if dredging goes ahead, it will set a | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
dangerous precedent for important habitats across the country. Our | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. This is what is | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
at the centre of the argument between conservationists and | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
developers. To some, it is calcified seaweed. But to others, | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
it is just as important as tropical coral. It provides a home for | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
wildlife and can take thousands of years to fully establish. Cornwall | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Wildlife Trust are concerned about this development in the sense of | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the impact that it might have on important wildlife sites across the | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
whole of the UK. The development has been used as a reason to review | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
our environmental laws, to see how they are being implemented. If | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
those laws are weakened in any way, that could open up huge swathes of | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
our countryside and seas for development. The Cornwall Wildlife | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Trust has suggested an alternative economic model to develop the port | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
area. That plan is at odds with what they want to do here, building | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
up marine renewables and servicing large ships. For the future, we | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
want to be helping develop that in Cornwall and the West Country. If | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the vessel wants to deploy, it could not berth here, with deep | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
enough water, and would have to deploy further outside the county. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
The original plan was for dredging to take place from the middle of | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
the estuary here all the way to the wharf behind me. The marine | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
management organisation intervened and said before that can take place, | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
there has to be trial dredging to establish whether the coral can | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
recover after dredging has taken place. This coral has become a hot | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
political subject with local and national politicians now debating | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
its future. Falmouth Harbour Commissioners say it is not so long | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
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since it was harvested for local agriculture. There was a large | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
amount of it here and the proposed dredged channel will affect a very | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
small amount of it. It is only very recently that it was stopped being | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
commercially extracted anyway. These are arguments that we have | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
borne in mind. Both sides in this debate say they are keen to talk, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
but the stakes are high for the economic future of Falmouth and | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
conservation across the whole country. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
The International Committee of the Red Cross is negotiating with | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Syrian officials to get the sick and wounded out of the country. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Devon-based photographer Paul Conroy was wounded in a mortar | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
explosion which killed two other journalists on Wednesday. It's | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
believed ambulances have entered the besieged city of Homs. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Condor Ferries say sailings will continue to operate out of Poole | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
instead of Weymouth until the end of next month. The ferry was re- | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
located along the coastline after cracks were found in Weymouth's | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
harbour wall. The local council expects repair work to take about | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
four weeks. We have been scheduled now up until the end of March to | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
give the council plenty of time to effect their repairs and allow time | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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for monitoring. South West MPs are pressing the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Government to do more to bring our sky-high water bills down. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Ministers have already pledged an annual �50 reduction for every | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
customer in the region, but this will still leave people in Devon | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and Cornwall with the highest water bills in the country. | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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What exactly are they Colin for? This idea centres on Watersure. A | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
scheme which will work to offset the bills of poor people. At the | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
moment, it just operates in the south-west. They say it will allow | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
the bills are the very poorest to be reduced and spread the burden of | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
the scheme across the country. The stumbling block is that the water | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Minister told me this week that he is basically not having any of it. | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
We are keen to see as much help as possible being done to those who | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
are having difficulty paying their bills, but we have to do that is | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
fairly as possible. If we were to increase the Watersure commitment | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
on the basis of a national scheme, it would be at considerably | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
increased cost to many taxpayers. restored after the meeting that | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
there might still be some room for negotiation. Labour is looking into | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
the practicalities of expanding the Watersure scheme on a national | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
basis. More on that on this Sunday politics. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
There has been a very happy homecoming today. We will report on | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
the return of HMS Somerset in a moment. Plus a trip to the local. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
I'm at the pub which has been owned by the same family for 100 years! | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
The celebrations have already begun! And it's free beer for the | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
next 100 years! Let's hope Plymouth Raiders can | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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find that sort of form later! I'm There were emotional reunions in | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Plymouth today when HMS Somerset returned home after six months at | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
sea. The frigate has been patrolling | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
waters around the Middle East and the Seychelles trying to prevent | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
terrorist attacks, drug smuggling and piracy. Spotlight's Emma | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Thomasson joined family and friends on the quayside this morning as the | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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vessel docked at Devonport. It has been a long six months for those | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
anxiously awaiting for HMS Somerset to return home to Devonport | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
dockyard this morning. The crew have been carrying out | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
security patrols off Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. One of their more | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
successful operations was rescuing a group of Pakistani fishermen who | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
had been taken hostage by Somali pirates. We came across a vessel | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
and boarded it and we found that it had been taken by a number of | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
pirates. We were able to secure the vessel and release the captured | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Pakistani crew members, so it was very rewarding for us. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
operation meant families being apart at Christmas which was | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
particularly hard for Amy who was on her first deployment. How is it | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
being home? Amazing. Really fantastic. It has been a long six | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
months. Absolutely fantastic. very proud of her. How is it having | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
her home? I am very happy. What has the deployment been like? It has | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
been long and hard. But most enjoyable. Quite stressful, but | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
that is the way it is. It is a long time apart. A very long time. | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Finally here though. You look like one happy boy. I am! Fantastic, I | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
have been waiting for it for six months. It has been a long time. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
What's it like having Daddy home? It is really good. Nice to be back | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
with the family again. What has it been like whilst he has been away? | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
It has been really hard, yes. Type 23 frigate is now in for six | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
months for a refit. For the crew, two weeks off with some well earned | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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time with their loved ones. Mind your head! That's the warning | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
for cyclists on part of a new multi-million pound cycle path | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
scheme through East Devon. Signs have had to be put up to warn | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
cyclists to get off their bikes because the tunnel under the A35 is | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
so low. Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has the | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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story. The Axe Valley cyclists on their | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
regular a Friday afternoon ride. Until recently, it meant a hair- | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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raising section along there A35. They were pleased when a tunnel was | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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built, but it comes with a warning. I think people are being seriously | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
unfair. A little bending to get through is hardly serious. The | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
alternative route is up there, which is singularly dangerous, | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
especially where you have to cross the road. For the Axe Valley | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
cyclists, no need to get off the bike. It is a very good innovative | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
solution, allowing us to cross the road safely. The height is not a | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
problem. The problem is when it is muddy under there. That something | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
could be sorted out of bed that, it would not be a problem. The town | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
council said that the MoD will be dealt with at the project should be | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
finished before the end of the year. Cyclists will have a path all the | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
way to Weston-super-Mare. Time for the sport and Dave has | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
been to the Pavilions in Plymouth where the Raiders are about to take | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
on the Manchester United of basketball - Newcastle Eagles. | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
Good evening. There is a big batch and -- a big match in British | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
basketball tonight. But we start this evening with at Rugby. Exeter | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
achieves go for their 4th Premiership win in a row against | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
Bath. That is tomorrow evening number should be a crowd of 9000. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
It it will be a good chance for Exeter to increase the pressure on | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
the teams above them. Things are going well at the moment, we are in | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
a good league position. But we are focusing on the games we have got | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
coming up. The Cornish pirates and Plymouth Albion will roll their | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
play-off position after this weekend. That pirates will attempt | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
to finish second by beating one of Plymouth Albion's relegation at | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
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rivals. Exeter City continue their bed to | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
escape the relegation zone at Huddersfield. It will be a | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
difficult job for Exeter City. Your full time ago for a hat-trick of | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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them when they got a Carlisle. -- a Yeovil Town. Plymouth Argyle are | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
playing a Dagenham and Redbridge. Plymouth diver Tom Daley and his | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
simple partner Peter Waterfield flopped at last night's World Cup | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
at the Olympic Aquatics Centre. Although they did well in the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
opening dives, they missed out on a medal whilst attempting the 4.5 | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
somersault and finished in 7th place. It was the first competition | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
for us this year. The first since the world championships last year. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
It was nerve-racking. It is one of those things that you have to go | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
out there, learn from your mistakes and work on it to make it more | :17:40. | :17:49. | |
consistent. And about 45 minutes, this a been a | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
will be packed for their arrival of the Newcastle Eagles who are | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
playing Plymouth Raiders. What sort of atmosphere are you expecting | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
here tonight? Same as usual. It is great every week. It will be | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
allowed, noisy and a lot of fun. They have proved your nemesis this | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
season. They have all lost one match it in the late. How good are | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
they? They are a good team, no question. But we are up for the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
challenge. We worked on a few things this week of we are ready to | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
call. House special is it for you to play a team like Newcastle? | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
special. They are top of the leak. They set the bar for everybody else | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
in the leak. When you play a team of that calibre, you want to knock | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
them off. Can you beat them? Yes, teams have come close and failed, | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
but we do not want to be one of them. You know them inside out? | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
do indeed. We be sure the best of luck. Not long left, a few tickets | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
left. With 16 British pubs closing every | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
week, here is a good news story about one in Devon. The Blue Ball | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
in Sidford has been run by the same family for 100 years, and today, | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
there is a party going on to celebrate the centenary. We will go | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
live to the pub and our reporter. Getting quite lively hear them a | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
public bar. -- getting quite lively here in the public bar. Roger and | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
his family have been at the licensees here for the last 100 | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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years. What do you put it down to? Total dedication. Does it feel like | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
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100 years? He very much so! -- yes a very much so. But it has been | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
great. It has been difficult times for the last few years, competition | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
from supermarkets etc. It is difficult for pub landlords to make | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
a living. You have got some special stuff on the menu tonight. We have | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
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some mutton, we have Abbott, rabbit, chiitterlings. What you think about | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
this? It has been a fantastic pub. I started coming here when I was, | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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possibly, under 18. Roger's that would serve may -- me! This pub has | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
meant so much to local people. have to leave it there. I think | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
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they are going to sink a beer for every year. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Following in the steps of the Military Wives Choir, South Devon | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
College is releasing a record to raise money for Help For Heroes. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
One of its students won a songwriting competition run by the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
charity and her song, Heroes Land, which has been produced by the | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
college, is going on sale to raise extra money. Our South Devon | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
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Last year, Christina Louise Lloyd was a student at South Devon | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
College. She had recently suffered a bereavement, her mother had died. | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
But issue used some of the emotion she felt when writing the song and | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
won a competition to make a charity record. You can hear it in my voice, | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
I desperation to help people in need. I have had a very tough time | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
with a lot of things and I have always needed a helping hand. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
students at the college had been working on music production and to | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
put together a single. We will be able to be making records and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
putting their material out there. It is something that we can | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
hopefully do every you. People like Christina, there talent can be seen. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
It becomes relevant. It is not just going to college to get | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
qualifications. The college has close links with the military. One | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
of its lecturers is a river for its to -- a reservist. He is pleased to | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
see students recognise the military in this way. All help and support | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
is greatly appreciated. Help For Heroes has been around for 10 years | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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and was fantastic. And it gives the Christina is now working on a | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
career in the music industry. The college is hoping to produce more | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
records in the future to broaden the students'' experience. Time for | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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the weather forecast. Is it a good weather forecast? | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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What colour is to sit? Not much changed around. Not a lot | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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to look forward. But it is quiet. Cloudy and mild. The string of | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
cloud that covers most of Britain to the south is responsible for the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
grey weather. This line of cloud and the south is very stubborn to | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
move out of the way. It is being held at bay by two areas of high | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
pressure. This front will move across on Saturday, very slowly. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
But high pressure will remain, high winds and temperatures of 11 or 12 | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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degrees. -- light winds. This picture was taken earlier today. I | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
wonder if he actually caught anything. These are grey skies are | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
going to be with us, the cloud cover extensive overnight tonight | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
and some mist around. A little bit of drizzle coming out of that cloud | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
in the far north. Temperatures are the same as they were last night, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
between 8 and 10 degrees. Tomorrow, we have a similar start to the day. | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
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Some mistiness around the course lines. -- Coast line ofs. For most | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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of us, another greedy, a dry one, very light winds. -- grey day. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Temperatures of minus ten degrees on the coast. Where there is some | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
brightness, we could get up to 14 degrees. Hardly a breath of wind | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
for most of us throughout the day tomorrow. For the Isles of Scilly, | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
grey and misty, even some drizzle from time to time. At gentle breeze | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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Sunday is the same. Perhaps a little bit brighter at times. Damp | :27:20. | :27:27. |