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Rewarding but hard work and emotionally draining - the calls | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
from care workers for better pay and recognition. Financially, why | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
would someone want to become into care when they could be paid more | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
working in their local corner shop. Good evening. It is a job there is | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
growing demand for, but some say they just are not valued. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Also on Spotlight tonight, abused and abandoned - fears the current | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
economic climate is responsible for the growing number of neglected | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
pets. And building a better future - the | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
local people learning rural skills. If you cannot keep youngsters in a | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
local community, there will not be a community in a generation's time. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
There are growing demands for higher pay and status for care | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
workers, particularly as demand for care in the South West is rising | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
with the region's rapidly ageing population. Care home owners and | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
residents have added their support to the campaign arguing that the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
role of care workers deserves greater recognition. Here's our | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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Health Correspondent, Sally At 102, Bell enjoys life in her | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Plymouth dear homeland considers staff her friends. Marie-Claire has | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
been a care worker for 25 years and says that challenging, rewarding, | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
rewarding more than anything. Hard work, intensive, emotional, | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
and training, absolutely draining at times. But fantastic. But she | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
says society does not recognise the value of her work. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
I feel really passionately, angrily, that we are not recognised as | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
people doing a worthwhile job. Somebody in Tesco's get paid more | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
than I do, yet we're working in end of life care. It is the most | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
valuable job on this planet. Care staff are among the lowest paid in | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
society, and owners say high costs and difficulty getting squeezed | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
councils to pay their mean that staff cannot be paid what they | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
deserved. Some say they should do more. I would be happy to cede to | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
the Government, pay me more money and I will pay it directly to my | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
staff, I will not pay it directly. What better way to lift them and -- | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
would be to pay them more. Retired surgeon Dr Brian Scott has written | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
to the Prime Minister from his care home to pay for a natural care | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
services, an idea admitted by the last Government. -- suggested. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
people who look after us have got to be recognised, and the way they | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
can be recognised, to a certain extent, is by getting a national | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
uniform and a national service. We latest population forecast shows | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
why it is vital to attract more people into care worker. In the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
South West now, something like one in five people is aged 65 or over. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
With Artemis decades in some parts of the region it will be something | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
like one Nick Cherry people who is a pensioner. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Increasingly, unions and charities are focusing on the need to raise | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
care workers' status. A local think-tank, Resolution Foundation, | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
says without better pay and training for workers those they | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
queue for will suffer. The real danger is that if we don't | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
invest in care and make sure caring is a high-quality Korea, we will | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
lose all of our best staff and end up with a casual, varied and | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
vulnerable workforce -- workforce for a modest vulnerable people. -- | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
for our most vulnerable. Go the carehome Commission says it | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
is investing more into care and wants everyone involved to play | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
their part in ensuring high-quality care for all. This doctor is close | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
to retirement age, and he wants to be sure there will be care workers | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
to look go after him when he needs Coastguards in France say a sailor | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
on board a tug bound for Plymouth is likely to have gone down with | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
the vessel during atrocious weather conditions. A full air and sea | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
search was launched when the Aquarius went down 30 miles west of | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
the port of Roscoff early yesterday morning. Two crewmen, one from | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Plymouth, were rescued and taken to hospital in Brest where they were | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
treated for shock. I have been speaking to Commander | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Marc Gander from the French coastguards. I started by asking | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
him how difficult it was to call off the search for the missing man. | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
During all of the day we had some French navy and commercial ships | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
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and the French Navy helicopter at There will obviously be an | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
investigation into what happened. Do you have any idea of what | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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The number of people convicted for inflicting cruelty and neglect on | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
animals has gone up by 60% in the South and South West in the last | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
year. Nationally the figure went up by nearly 25%. The RSPCA says that | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
the current economic climate may have led to more pets being | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
abandoned in the region because people don't realise how much their | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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Caught on CCTV, abandoning the dog in a car parked near Weymouth. The | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
two holidaymakers who did this were convicted under animal cruelty laws | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
last April. Both were given a conditional discharge and ordered | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
to pay �100 in court costs. Last year was a busy one for the RSPCA. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Convictions for cruelty and neglect in the South West are up 60 % on | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the previous year. I am encouraged, in a way, that the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
amount of convictions has risen. This obviously means the chords are | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
taking us seriously and people are reporting animal cruelty. As long | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
as they keep doing that, as an inspector we will be aired their | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
helping animals. It is upsetting to find the figures are rising. Affect | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the financial situation is not helping, but I can only encourage | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
people to keep ringing the higher rate -- RSPCA and keep supporting | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
us. The stock had to have his first cut away by a vet because it was so | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
mattered. It reveal he had a large area of yellow, ask -- pass filmed | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
scabs. A witness said he had been seen | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
coming out of a wide front near Dawlish. Not all Peps need owners | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
so quickly. Getting Peps probably be home to is a priority. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
I love dogs, and it is more important to take a dog that has | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
been cruelly treated and give it a home, rather than buying a puppy. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
The RSPCA says the crisis -- crisis it faces its stretching them to | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
breaking-point Mac. But animal abusers will continue to be | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
prosecuted. -- stretching them to breaking point. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
The some news just coming into the us at the moment that remain line | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
between Plymouth and Cornwall, the railway line, is closed at the | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
moment. At 5:35pm Network Rail had reports of a person hit by a cross- | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
country train at Ivybridge. Network Rail are not sure if it is | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
suspicious at this stage, but British Transport Police are en | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
route and when -- and will bring you more details as and when we get | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
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it. A multimillion-pound plan to transform Plymouth Pavillions into | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
a new leisure site has been backed by the city council. The scheme | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
will clear the way for Plymouth Argyle owner James Brent to revamp | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
the Pavilions Arena and create a new ice rink next to Home Park. 800 | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
jobs should be created during construction, with 500 people | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
expected to work in the new leisure facilities. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
The United Kingdom Independence Party leader, Nigel Farage, has | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
been in the South West ahead of next week's local elections. UKIP | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
are contesting all 19 seats in Plymouth on May 3rd. Our Political | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Editor Martyn Oates joins us live now from Westminster. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Local elections in the middle of a parliamentary term often give | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
people the opportunity to deliver a verdict on the national Government | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
in Westminster, and for a lot of people in the South West they will | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
not be a chance to deliver a verdict at all, because we only | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
have three elections in Plymouth, Exeter, Weymouth and Portland, only | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
a third of the councils, but for what they lack in quantity, they | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
make up for it in interest. These are the only three areas where | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Labour has real strength. An Exeter there is a hung council, just two | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
more seats will do the trick for Labour. In another hung council, | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
the Conservatives would only need two seats. The Lib Dems have not | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
councils a tall, and of course for a muted's Nigel Fahd, he would like | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
a voters to say none of the above. -- Nigel Farrar age. We could | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
control one council in this region but we could show the politicians | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
we want to take power away from them and give it to the people. On | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
major issues that affect local people, they should have the | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
ability to call the shots. Among the other parties fielding | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
candidates were at the greens. We're standing for new jobs, jobs | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
that are primarily green, education and training that primarily focuses | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
on that and dealing with your thumb and plundered by creative means, | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
rather than the same old story. -- and dealing with youth unemployment | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
by creative means. The Bishop of Exeter has stepped into the row | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
over the pasty tax saying he supports the idea. In a wide | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
ranging interview for Spotlight, The Right Reverend Michael Langrish | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
has also criticised the approach taken by the anti capitalist | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
protestors who recently occupied the green outside the Cathedral. He | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
also says the Government's plans to put VAT on alteration work on | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
historic buildings is ill thought out and will be hugely damaging. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
The removal of the VAT relief is to add 20 % to the cost, in some cases | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
meaning restoration or repair or development works will not take | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
place. The loss there is not only financial, it is to the local | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
community. Many of our judges have been adapted with kitchens and | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
toilets to make them more fit for community use for "big society". | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
What I am really saying is it does not make financial sense, because | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
it is really impacting on the employment opportunities in the | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
building field, making small firms and people who are at risk and | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
reducing their opportunities for community engagement and it will | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
have a debilitating effect on the philanthropic effort. None of that | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
is good for our economy, let alone society. It is about joined-up | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
thinking. Does that also go for the so-called | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
pasty tax, which has colt - because such an uproar. I am afraid I am | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
going to be a heretic here, because I have lived in various parts of | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the country and I don't see why a Cornish pasty should be privileged | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
over a Lancashire hotpot or Cumberland sausage. By this has | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
been blown up and of proportion I do not know, but I am not going to | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
be very popular saying this, I know. The impression some people are | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
suggesting it gives is that, with the 50 pence tax rate abolished yet | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
of VAT put on something as basic as a Cornish pasty, the impression is | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
it is a budget for wealthy people and one that penalises last wealthy | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
people? That is the real issue, and I am beginning to get fed up with | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
hearing that phrase, we are all in this together. We're hearing it, | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
but I think there is a perception that it is not the reality. Some of | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
the anger over what has happened to the economy over the last few years | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
actually focused you wonder Cathedral earlier this year with | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
the occupied Exeter campaign. What did you make of their message and | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
the way they went about conveying They were protesting against one | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
group in society dominated all other groups. And yet, that is | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
precisely what they were doing themselves on that the green. They | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
have colonised the space and said there is no space for others, which | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
is precisely what the very rich bankers they were criticising were | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
doing. And it was trying to get them into a dialogue which says, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
yes, you have a legitimate right to be here, but so do other people. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Let's talk more about equality, because one area where you have | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
been particularly vocal, along with other bishops, is the issue of gay | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
marriage, after the Government announced a consultation on the | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
definition of marriage. You are opposed to the marriage. Why? | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Marriage has historically been defined by church and state as the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
commitment of a man to a woman to the exclusion of all others Until | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Death parts them. That has been the shared definition. The Government | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
has been keen to point out, bowl, but in this proposed change in | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
legislation there would not be an obligation won a place like this to | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
hold again manage. What would be the problem for the Church? -- to | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
hold a gay marriage. A miniature of marriage has to be defined. But why | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
shouldn't a same-sex couple enjoyed the securities of a marriage that | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
you talked about, that you are in at the moment? I agree, but white | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
collared marriage? Why not? Because marriage means something different. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Historically, not just in this country but a round the globe | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
throughout the centuries, it has been a boat a celebration of sexual | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
difference. Whatever it might say about a committed gay relationship, | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
it does not celebrate that. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you, | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Justin. And you can hear more of Bishop Michael's views on gay | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
marriage and who the new Archbishop of Canterbury should be by going to | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
our Facebook page. You can find the link to that by going to our | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
website bbc.co.uk/spotlight and click on the link. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Coming up later, we will hear from a sailor from Cornwall as he races | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
to the Caribbean. Plus, Redruth through and through - the man who | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
has devoted almost 50 years to his rugby club. | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
And they shaped the Cornish landscape, now efforts are underway | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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to preserve memories of the China Rural skills for local people. That | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
is the idea behind a new course in Devon to teach traditional | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
practical skills such as stone walling and coppicing to young | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
people who may otherwise have to leave their towns and villages to | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
look for work. Spotlight's Sarah Ransome has been along to take a | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
look at what they do. Helping to build a future for the | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
countryside - that is the thinking behind this small project with a | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
big idea. It is all about trying to keep local people local. The | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
attendance promises skills in stonewalling and land management. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
The Environment Agency does not have jobs and therefore people to | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
going to, so they need experience and knowledge behind them to get | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
employment in the Environment Industry. We 22-year-old Dane Mead | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
-- Darren Lewis reluctantly moved away to find short-term work, but | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
longs to get back to his roots. love it, it makes me who I am, I | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
suppose. We have good a experience at the end of the day, and if I | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
have experience and the tools there is more chance of me getting on a | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
course. By night, and a Nick Norton is a security guard, but by day he | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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is a would be tree surgeon. -- and Enrique not in. I love working with | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
nature, that is what I want to be. And giving people like Andy the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
skills to help them work close to home for free is key, leaders | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
believe, to keeping the countryside alive. At the moment, with the lack | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
of jobs they are forced to won two cities, and we feel if you cannot | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
keep up your youngsters in the local community, there is not going | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
to be a community in a generation's time. The charity is now committed | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
-- recruiting for its next set of students looking for a real stake | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
The Cornish yachtsman Sam Goodchild has enjoyed a great start in the | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Transat AG2R. Having set off from France on Saturday afternoon, the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
22-year-old and his co-skipper Nick Cherry are lying in eighth place in | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
their yacht Artemis just ten miles behind the leading boat. | :18:14. | :18:23. | |
Spotlight's Andy Breare has been following their progress. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
The Transat AG2R race is in its 20th year. 16 knots from the start | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
when -- of the start line on Saturday. A head of them, a | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
transatlantic sprint to the Caribbean. Sam Goodchild, based in | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Cornwall, and his co-skipper, Nick Cherry, are the youngest | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
competitors in the race. There also the only British sailors in the | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
race. There are seven places between us and first, and there are | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
over 3,000 miles to go. We have 800 people behind us, I am sure they | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
are just as keen to overtake us as we are to overtake the leaders. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
There is no holding back, and the next three weeks will be a similar | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
situation. They are currently in eighth place, a few miles behind | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
the leading yachts, and we know they will have to continue to push | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
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hard to achieve a podium place in 1963 was the year in which | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
President Kennedy was shot, the Beatles released their first album | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
and, closer to home, a six-year-old Dave Penberthy became a ball-boy at | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Redruth Rugby Club. Since then he has played more than 700 games for | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
the club and for the last decade has been the team's coach. But he | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
steps down this week, and our sports reporter Brent Pilnick went | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
to his final game in front of the home fans. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
It is a walk he has done hundreds of times before, but on Saturday, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Redruth coach Dave Penberthy took charge of the club for the final | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
time. And while his players were busy preparing for their clash with | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Weston Park, he was busy give up -- getting the coveted red shirts | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
ready. It has been brilliant, dad brought me here as a youngster, and | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
he was a gentleman if ever there was one. I am perhaps a little more | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
outspoken than he was, but he was a gentleman. He was club president, | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
but he also used to cut the grass. He is that sort of bloke. When he | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
went, the club lost a really good man. A tried to step into his shoes, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
I don't think I will ever fill them, but it has been an incredible ride | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
for me and I hope he is up there looking down proud of me. And for | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
his final game, the honour of leading the side out to the field. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
After losing at the break, Dave summed up one of his rousing half- | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
time team talks to set his side on course to win and end his half- | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
century association with the team. It means everything to us, this | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
team. Without Dave, it would not happen. Any issues we have ever | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
heard, not even in rugby, in life generally, you speak to Dave, he is | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
the first man to do anything to help you out in any way he can. He | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
has been an awesome die for this club. Thank you very much, it has | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
been a hell of a trip for me, and I am proud of every single one of you. | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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I hope you will go on and achieve For generations the China Clay | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
industry has shaped the Cornish landscape. As it grew into an | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
international business it came to dominate some of the villages | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
around St Austell. Well much of the growth of the China Clay industry | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
was captured on camera with some of the archive film dating back to the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
1930s. Now, as David George reports, some of that film is being shown | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
for the first time in years in an effort to preserve memories of | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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China Clay production. English China Clay, one million | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
times prettier from the wide peninsula. I was working in the pit, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
and you had to go wide, streams of men, Pickup - that -- pick up a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
sack and brooded over their shoulders. 160 people attended so- | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
called memory shops where their recollections were recorded and | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
added to some of the silent film. We used to come home from school | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
and the road would be steaming with horse dung. There were no pavements, | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
so you -- they were liable to kick it around a bit. In the 1970s, | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
English China Clay commissioned the film world of clay crucial of the | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
industry. These hoses batter the pit face with 1,500 gallons of | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
water per minute. This film was helped -- need to help sell China | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Clay to the world. There are different types of clay to choose | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
from, carrying the Cornish Queen -- Cornish name to the world. Today, | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
half of those pits are no longer in production. From up here, you can | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
see many of the clave villages of these films are being shown in | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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throughout this week. It ends on Saturday with a showing at the very | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
bottom of one pet - the Eden Project. Audiences will be seeing a | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
showing of the industry in its heyday in the 1970s. In its time it | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
was said to be the busiest port in the country. The film is a valuable | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
reminder of the way things used to A big part of the story of Cornwall, | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
there. Now for the weather. Some blue sky | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
Now for the weather. Some blue sky and sunshine to be, but I think | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
there is more rain to come. There is a lot happening in the weather | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
over the next 24 hours. Good evening. Are some rain in the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
forecast as well as winds. Later on tonight it becomes very wet and | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
windy. The strength of the winds will pick up tonight along with | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
substantial rainfall. We have a warning from the Met Office about | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
heavy rain legitimate and valid for much of tomorrow. With that, 50 or | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
60 mph gusts. Some very windy and wet conditions, several flood | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
alerts on the rivers across the South West of England at the moment. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Call to the Environment Agency's website for more information on | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
that. The look of cloud bringing the rain is already on the picture, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
moving quite fussed across the Atlantic towards us. Then it slows | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
down and will be closed by through tomorrow and much of Thursday, too. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Their route is this evening, marching steadily towards us | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
overnight tonight. Some heavy bursts of rain, as I mentioned, but | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
the isobars tightly-packed, very windy for us tomorrow. As the | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
centre of the low pressure drops closer up, the winds will drop. And | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
the Isles of Scilly, potential for sunshine but also potential for | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
hefty downpours of rain, funded downpours. -- thundery downpours. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
We can see the cloud marching out of the way and a few isolated | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
showers Mike this afternoon. This was earlier today where our | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
cameraman Alec went out to enjoy a brief wander along the beach and | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
some sheltered conditions with not much of a breeze, mainly north-west | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
to read or west of the today. But that is all about to change. The | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
sea will become very rough tonight and some pretty awful conditions | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
out at sea for much of tomorrow with that low pressure. Let's focus | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
on the rain. Showers will die away and it is dry for a time before | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
littered tonight this blue arrives. The yellows and greens are the more | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
intense rainfall. Overnight temperatures, around four Celsius, | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
before the climb back up with the wind and rain, and for much of | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
tomorrow there may be a glimpse of sunshine, but mostly a lot of cloud, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
frequently giving showers, every now and again some thunder, and | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
potential for the showers to be potential as well as hailstones. It | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
will not feel warm because of the strength of winds. And the Isles of | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Scilly we are close to that centre of the low, so slow-moving, heavy, | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
thundery downpours possible. The times of high water... Surprised to | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
see some of the south coast wave surfing locations will be blown out | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
tomorrow. And the coastal waters forecast... The forecast for the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
rest of this week, decidedly unsettled with more heavy showers | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
on Thursday. Ever since we mentioned her out dry it was it has | :27:33. | :27:36. |