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Less visible and poorer response time, Devon and Cornwall Police face | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
significant challenges dealing with budget cuts. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Good evening. The force has come under scrutiny from Her Majesty's | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Inspectorate of Constabulary and despite improvements there is still | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
concern, the Commissioner says the public will have to get used to | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
fewer officers. . I am not comfortable with that, I | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
wish we could have more police officers but I do recognise the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
inevitability as does Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
situation we find ourselves in. tonight, police investigating the | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
deaths of a mother and her two sons release new footage. These are | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
thought to be the last recorded images of Katherine Hooper, before | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
she died. The proudest mum in tennis, passes | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
on her skills to Ilfracombes potential stars of the future. And | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
building up steam, is this the hottest job in the south-west? | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
There are fewer officers in visible roles and response times to | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
emergency calls have got worse. Just two of the concerns raised about the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
performance of Devon and Cornwall Police as it tries to cope with | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
budget cuts. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
been looking at how forces are responding to the Government's | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
austerity measure, across the region, according to the report, | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Devon and Cornwall are dealing with a significant challenge, but are | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
making good progress. The Avon and Somerset Police force made good | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
progress, in finding the savings they need, with a clear vision from | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
the force's leadership. They say Dorset Police have a clear | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
understanding of the financial challenge, and they have effective | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
management. But it was Devon and Cornwall Police's performance which | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
was the key concern. Last year, the inspectorate was critical, our Home | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Affairs has been looking at this year's report. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
It is the front line which is the main concern of the inspectorate. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Their report says because of budget cuts, Devon and Cornwall Police face | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
a struggle to protect frontline services. All police forces have | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
similar positions as myself to make, we are going to have to make those | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
savings by looking at how other forces do it, what is best practice, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
we are determined to make the savings and deliver a first class | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
service we do do that here we are one of the safest, Devon and | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Cornwall, safest force areas to live in, we want to keep it that way. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Across the road from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary -- | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
headquarter, there is a problem with anti-social behaviour. The local | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
shop has suffered vandalism, here they have concerns about the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
policing service. In terms of visual policing, I don't see a lot. You may | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
see the odd car going past, but then when it comes to the reporting | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
crime, someone has come out, we get asked for CCTV, of which it can be a | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
bit a rigmarole to get them to pick it up, but generally they have | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
always come out, we have given statement, and we help the police | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
where ever we can. The force has made a lot of progress in balancing | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
the book, it is all about public service delivering a service, I am | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
afraid at the moment we are on a point where morale is low, with | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
police officers, because demand is still going up, there is less of | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
them, having to do more work. The report says Devon and Cornwall | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Police have made good progress, in dealing with budget cuts since last | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
year. When there were worries about the service they would be able to | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
provide. And now, they are in a much stronger position. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
The concern for all the region's police forces now is what lies | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
ahead? The Government has said that more significant austerity savings | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
are required, on top of those which have already been made. The era of | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
difficult decisions appears far from over. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Well, although today's report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Constabulary acknowledges the force's making progress, it rays | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
concerns about emergency response times which have fallen, and a drop | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
in the number of officers allocated to visible roles. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
I asked the Devon and Cornwall Police and crime commissioner what | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
was done to improve police visibility? We have already started | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
to do that, we, I inherited a position where the officer number, | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
and I am talking officers not PCSOs or specials were falling from 3,500 | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
to 2810. Now, the officer numbers to date are round 3090, and because of | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
careful budgets by my hard-working financial team, and those of the | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
police force, we are now, we have stopped that descent to 2810 | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
officers at 200 or just above, that in itself will improve the | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
visibility of police officers. not just fiscal numbers it is the | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
way those people are allocated, and the HMIC report says you have 13% | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
fewer officers in visible roles than 2010, will you get it back to that | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
level of 2010 or is that something that has been and gone? I don't | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
think we are going to see a return to 2010 figure, in fact a great deal | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of my time at the moment is looking forward a couple year, at the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
increased budgetary savings threatened by the Government, so | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
what I am trying to do at the moment, is to stabilise the | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
situation, to, to make sensible use of reserves, to look to the public | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
playing their part... But you are saying you cannot expect to see the | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
same level of visibility from the police as you had in 2010? That is | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the message you are giving today? am the public's representative in | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
holding the police to account. I believe that is the case, that we | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
the public have got to get used to a situation where we are doing more to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
support the policing family. That might be in special constable, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
street pastor, business in the community, we need the public to | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
recognise the situation the country finds itself in and do more to | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
support their policing family. know though, how important it is for | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
people to feel safe, have that perception of feeling safe by seeing | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
officer, you comfortable as the Police and Crime Commissioner, the | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
person who has been elected to oversee the police, with less vet | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
built from the police than in 2010? -- visibility. I am not comfortable | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
with that. Wish we could have more officer, but I recognise the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
inevitability as does HMIC in the situation we finds ourselves in. We | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
have to be more efficient, we have to do more with less, and as I say, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
the public has to play its part here. Why have response times to | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
emergency calls dropped so significantly? 80% of response times | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
were met in 2011-12, just 72% in 2012-13. That is most unwelcome, and | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
I think does reflect the pressures that we are under, in terms of | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
policing numbers. I accept the figure -- figures that the drop off | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
in response times, for the most urgent calls is 10%. I will be | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
putting my mind to bringing those numbers back up again, so the public | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
can feel safe. So let me sum this up, the public have to accept less | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
visibility from policing in 2010, a slower response to emergency calls | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
and contract you have put up their precept so they are paying more for | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
less. I am not saying the public have to accept that. My advice is we | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
are not going to restore policing numbers to 2010 fig thur, then the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
public should hold me to account on some of the most important headlines | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
of this report. We need to remember to praise our police, for the many | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
outstanding things they do every day, and if we remember that part of | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
our role is to up hold police morale, as members of the public, or | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
part of the public, then we will get the very best from them. The public | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
needs to hold me to account, to drive the response times back up | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
again. We must leave it there. Thank you | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
very much indeed. The police have released CCTV | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
footage of a mother who fell to her death on Haytor on Dartmoor, aing on | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
with her son. Katherine Hooper, died last Friday. The police are trying | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
to piece together the final 24 hours of her and her sons live, her other | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
child, a two-year-old boy was found dead in the family home. Today | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
officers returned to the scene, to speak to regular visitors in the | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
hope of finding new information. These are the last recorded images | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
of Katherine Hooper. Having hired a taxi to pick up herself and | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
five-year-old Joshua, she makes a stop at the Spa shop in Paignton, | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
she uses the ATM and staff say she bought cigarette, then she carried | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
on her journey to Haytor. Where today, we found tributes left | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
to the family. Last Thursday, Katherine and Joshua | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
were dropped after here. By Friday they had fall into their deaths here | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
on the left hand part of Haytor. Police believe that Katherine and | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
her son slept rough overnight on the boar moor but apart from that very | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
little is known about the final and crucial 24 hours of their lives. So | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
today police returned to the scene, hoping to find more witnesses. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
We are looking to piece together their movement, any sightings. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Anybody who spoke to them, anybody that could help us piece together | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
the moments. One man who has helped is Jay Cook. He sold ice-creams to | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
them shortly after they arrived on Dartmoor They came to the van, | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
bought some ice-cream, spoke to me for a few minutes and headed away up | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
to the hill. What kind of mood was he is in? She was very polite. I | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
couldn't comment on the mood. Very happy and her son was happy. It is | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
this kind of detail the police are after. . We are rooking for mood. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Anybody she may have spoken to clearly we need to try and ascertain | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
her thought process, and at the state of mind prior to the tragedy | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
that unfolded. What we would like is for witnesses to come forward, | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
people that have seen her and Josh, specifically, we would be asking | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
people that may have camera footage, video footage, check it, you may | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
have information on that footage which is relevant to the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
investigation. Those who use the moor are being asked to look out for | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
her mobile phone. It is believed she discarded it on the moor. Officers | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
believe it could be crucial to the investigation. At her home in | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Paignton, there are fresh tributes from family, neighbours, and | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
friends. It is for their sake, as well as coroner, that police are | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
searching for answers. An attempt to stop any badger cull | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
taking place on council owned land in Dorset was defeated today. The | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
County is a reserve location if the cull, due to start shortly, runs | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
into difficulties in the main areas, in Somerset and Gloucestershire. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Even if Dorset is involved, County Councillors were told that any ban | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
would be legally unenforceable. As politicians in top ofster were | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
discussing the badger cull this farmer was sending one of his | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
animals to slaughter after it showed signs of bovine TB in a routine | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
test. It is a blow for James, his farm had been clear of the disease | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
after suffering an outbreak three-and-a-half years ago. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
He is in no doubt that badgers are to blame for spreading bovine | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
tuberculosis. Situation is getting out of control, | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
I gather there was 28,000 cattle in the UK culled last year. Cost the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
country �100 million. I think we cannot go on like this, and really, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
we have to look at the wildlife reservoir, of disease and do | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
something about it. Others believe badger vaccination is the answer. | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
Today, a Labour Cowens or in Dorset proposed the County Council should | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
object to any badger cull on its land. The councillors were told they | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
didn't have the power to stop their 53 Tennant farmers from taking part | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
in a badger cull in the future. After a sometimes passionate debate | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
councillors voted by 26 to 12 in fayre of a amendment which says that | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
the badger cull is a national issue, and policy should be decided by | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
central Government. -- favour. It is a serious issue | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
that needed raising and needed to be debated. So I am pleased that | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
happened, but the result is disappointing to say the least. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Despite the controversy that is a sentiment echoed by many of the | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
ream's farmers. -- region's. A new tungsten mine | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
being developed has provided a �1 million windfall for archaeologist, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
the money has been provided by Woolf Minerals as part of the planning | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
agreement and it has yielded fascinating insights into the way | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
bronze age man lived on the edge of Dartmoor. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
It must be an archaeologist's dream. Four years to investigate a bronze | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
age settlement and �1 million to help with the work. Soon, this area | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
will become part of one of the world's large largest tungsten mines | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
but for a few more months it continues to give up its secrets. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Some of the finds we have uncovered so far. These all date from the | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
bronze age, middle Bronze Age, roughly 3500 years ago. We have | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
lovely items of pottery, very fragile. We have a whetstone, used | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
for sharpening metal objects. This is an axe. Very rare, and a very | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
beautiful object. The best way to understand the scale | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
of this dig is to take to the air. Can get a really good view of the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
extent of the operations that we are dealing with here. This is one of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the things you found. This is very interesting. It is called a kibl. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
What it is was a wooden barrel and these are the remains of the straps | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
that went round it. It was probably in operation round the time of the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Spanish Armada. Cairns dotted round the site have yielded bronze age | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
artefacts such as the axe head. is telling us how Bronze Age man | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
viewed the resource. It wanted to take a claim to the tin, and from | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
the positions of the barrows and the things we found in them, it seems | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
they are positioning these to say, you know, stay out, this is our tin. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
The clock is ticking, this is the last opportunity to dig before waste | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
from the tungsten mine is deposited here. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Still to come tonight. Getting steamed up in the sweltering heat, | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
plus anyone for tennis? The mum of Wimbledon tennis champion Andy | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Murray has been in Ilfracombe today. Find out why a little later. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
And who has got the hottest job in the south-west? We will try to find | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
out. Sports news now and North Devon | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
golfer Jimmy Mullen has had an excellent first day at the open | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Championship. The teenager who is one of a handfulful amateuring | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
playing at Muirfield is living his dream, and he held his own against | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
the professionals, managing six birdies on the first round. | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
Jimmy Mullen from Bideford. Go on. Go on. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
It wouldn't. It would. This was the eighth hole and Jimmy's fourth | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
birdie at the open Championship at Muirfield. The 19-year-old amateur | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
from north Devon certainly was doing well, as he managed to beat two | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
under par by the end of the front nine. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
But at the turn into the back nine, he hit a double bogey on the tenth. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Halting his progress. He continued to stay focussed and managed to pick | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
up two further birdie, one on the 12th and this one on the 17th. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
His nerves held out, although on the final hole he dropped a shot | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
finishing his round in level par, only five shots off the clubhouse | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
lead, and better than some big names in golf like Rory McIlroy, Faldo and | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Justin Rose. If he shoots a similar score tomorrow he will almost | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
certainly qualify for the final two rounds over the weekend and the | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
chance to win the medal for top amateur. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
We will continue to follow his progress for you. | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
Children in Ilfracombe have been meeting a special guest today. The | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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Wimbledon champion Andy Murray's mum was t the town's tennis club. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Ilfracombe Tennis Club greeted and hosts a familiar face which millions | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
of television viewers receivery year in June and July. Judy Murray, mum | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
of Andy, brought her Set4Sport roadshow to the knot Devon town. It | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
is the third stop of her nationwide tour, giving children the chance to | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
perhaps follow her famous son, and his elder tennis playing brother | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Jamie, himself a Wimbledon mixed doubles champions six years ago. . | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
It is a collection of fun games that we played as a family when Jamie and | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Andy were growing up, and for us to be able to share the games with | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
parent, to show them ways they can play actively at home with their | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
children, using pretty much anything they have lying round, to help the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
kids develop co-ordination skills and develop a more active lie style. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
The rest of Andy Murray's life will change considerably after his | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
unforgettable win over Novak Djokovic 11 days ago on Centre Court | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
but will Judy's life alter? I am not too sure. I hope it won't be too | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
much different, but I think what it does present is a huge opportunity | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
to grow the sport of tennis, you know, I think it is the sport that | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
everybody is talking about right now, and we, as a family, we would | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
certainly hope that Andy's success would help to inspire a new | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
generation of both kids and adults to come and try to try tennis. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Ilfracombe tennis club for me is the epitome of a community tennis club, | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
you have wonderful community coaching, great number of teachers | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
and local coaches who have come tout help and a number of young people | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
who play, that is why I am here today, to support Gary and the great | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
work he does down here for tennis. It has been a super opportunity for | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the children from Ilfracombe instant school the meet the mum of this | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
year's Wimbledon men's champion. And she has set all these activity ups | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
and I think the children are enjoying them. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
-- activities. A day they won't forget. Today, the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Met Office issued a level three heat wave warning for the south-west, and | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
our forecasters say we have had one of the hottest days of the year so | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
far. So are you basking in the heat or baking in the hot temperatures? | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
We are about to take do you a stunning location, John Henderson is | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
in Salcombe in south Devon where they are delighted with the weather. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
They certainly are. Though I am, I feel like the wicked witch of the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
west. I am melting in this heat. I think today it has been touching | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
certainly late 20s, early 30, it is cooling a bit now, but to give you | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
an idea of how warm it has been, the sea here, the sea temperature, in | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
the last week alone, they tell me that it has gone up two degree, it | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
is currently 18, so pretty pleasant if you were to get in. But what if | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
you can't cope with this heat? If it is getting too much for you? What if | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
it was like this every day this my colleague thinks he has found the | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
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hottest job in the south-west. The 2.30 to Bodmin general station, | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
the Cornish Belle. Passengers are enjoying the view and a cream tea, | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
on the footplate driver Roger and fireman Mark are feeling the heat. | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
You go home from work tired but it is enjoyable. I still think I am | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
lucky to be up here playing the steam engines, What is your strategy | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
for coping with the heat? Drink lots of tea and water and the occasional | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
ice-cream. So, I have been known to stand under the water shower at the | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
top, you know when we fill up to cool down as well. The railway | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
reckon these are the hottest jobs in the south-west. They have measured | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
more than 33 degrees Celsius in the cab of this 97-year-old tank engine. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
We need to check those figures for accuracy, so I have brought a | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
digital thermometer and my old clothes because of the dust. 33.7 | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
degrees Celsius. No wonder it is hot up here! That is before we start. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Once under way, up the big incline it gets hotter. There is a searing | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
blast of every time the fire door is opened A group of MPs representing | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
bakery workers is calling for a maximum working temperature of 27 | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
degrees for strenuous work, the temperature here is more like 40 | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
degrees. That is 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow! | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
The you have plenty of cold drinks and tea onboard. Even so the heat | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
takes its toll. You tend to swat a lot and you feel limp at the end of | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
the day. I am not complaining, because I remember what it was like | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
last year, cold, wet, and horrible, all summer. I am enjoying this. | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
So time for a drink. For the crew and the engine. It is | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
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40 degrees. I couldn't do that job. I am struggling as it is. Joined by | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Ian Gibson, how is it going for you, this summer in this lovely warm | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
temperature? It has been fantastic. Since July came and the sunshine | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
came, it has been perfect. Give its an indication of the difference now, | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
from last career? Last year it was wet and windy, in July, and by this | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
stage of July we had had 400 visitors visiting yacht, this year | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
we have had 8 hundred already, we have doubled our visiting yacht | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
numbers which is excellent. You have something going on a the moment? | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Yes, it is Merlin rocket week. We have 120 Merlin rockets racing twice | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
a day, and they come every year, their stall warts and they love it, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
but it is nice they have been reregarded -- rewarded this year | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
with fantastic weather. Salcombe isn't heaving and you like that? . | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
No, this is really nice time of year in Salcombe, it is busy, there is a | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
buzz about the plaice but it is not overly busy, we can fit everybody in | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
and give them the time they deserve and that I have a nice time. In | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
July, late July and early August it goes up a scale, and it is busy | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
then, but some people like that. mentioned earlier the sea | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
temperature, 18 degree, have you been in? . I was, I was in the sea | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
last weekends. Although I was wearing a wet suit I got arm freeze | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
but it is better now. We will leaf it here from a lovely | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
hot outdoor scene do you in a sweltering studio. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Thank you very much. I was watching the boats bobbing round in the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
background. Looks like the best place to be. An extra level in the | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
place to be. An extra level in the heat wave alert. Not quite the | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
hottest day so far. Not quite. Yes. Have we made it, no by 0.6 o of | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
degree we have been off. Exeter as I will show you was the hotspot. We | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
reached 3.8 last Saturday. Today we reached 30.2, that is Yeovilton in | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Somerset and Chivenor in Devon. It is not quite the hottest day of the | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
year but still very hot. We are, as you have heard, in the grips of a | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
heat wave. Alert level three. What that means, is we have 90% | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
confidence, we will see at least 15 Celsius at night. We is see similar | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
conditions of staying hot, not just today, tomorrow but for the next few | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
day, high pressure very much in charge of the weather, responsible | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
for all this heat. What we will notice from tomorrow the centre of | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
the high pressure will make its way northwards up over Scotland, so for | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
tomorrow we will start to see more in the way of an eastly the flee of | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
air. Breezier and it will push all this heat in the centre of the | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
country towards us, so tomorrow is another hot day. And then for | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Saturday, and into the weekend, as that high pressure continues to make | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
its way northwards, we will start the see more humid air, drifting | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
towards us, increasing humidity levels for suspend and increasing | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
the chance perhaps of thundery showers too. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
But it has been very hot today, hardly a cloud in the sky for most | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
of us, but there has been some cloud bubbling up, especially for up over | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
the moors towards Bideford. We did see a shower or two. As we head into | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the evening and overnight, any cloud and showers will clear away and we | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
are looking at largely clear skies overnight. Light winds and feeling | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
warm, as temperatures dip to no lourer than 15 to 18 as the minimum | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
temperature tonight, o -- lore. Feeling uncomfortable to sleep in. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Tomorrow plenty of the way of sunshine and we will see more of a | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
breeze, but lots of sunshine to be had. A bit more cloud by the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
afternoon, perhaps for similar areas that we saw today, and temperature, | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
well, reaching the high 20s again, potentially 30 or 31 C on the cards. | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
So, we will stay with the heat not just for us but the Isles of Scilly. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Dry and warm, we will see an easterly breeze. The times of high | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
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better surfing conditions tomorrow than we have seen. It has been | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
largely flat. The winds are east north-easterly three to four, fair | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
conditions with moderate to good advice bill. So remaining with | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
settled weather, into the weekend, temperatures plateauing Saturday and | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
Sunday, but by Sunday and Monday, more in the way of humidity, and a | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
greater chance of some thundery showers by the afternoon and | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
evenings. Good night. Thank you very much. I wonder how long it is going | :27:30. | :27:35. |