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Tonight for the first time, the real story of what happened to this | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
submarine during the Cold War. Good evening, welcome to Spotlight. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Officially, HMS Warspite hit an iceberg. But a retired commander who | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
was on board says it was far more serious — it was in fact a Russian | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
submarine. We went out 65 degrees, a very long way over. I've remember | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
thinking, I know exactly what that is, and how the hell did it get | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
there, and what are we going to do? And I knew I was going to die. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Also tonight: the postcode lottery of NHS care — why patients here are | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
being denied some key treatments. Remembering fallen comrades — one | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
man's return to the battlefield. And the Cornish sailor at the heart of a | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
thrilling decider in the America's Cup. | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
Tonight in his first ever television interview, a retired naval commander | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
from Devon has revealed how a Royal Navy submarine, which officially | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
collided with an iceberg during the Cold War, actually hit a Russian | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
submarine. Commander Tim Hale was on board HMS Warspite when the | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
collision occurred in the Barents Sea in October 1968. The story | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
features in a new book by a Plymouth naval expert. This was the third | :01:34. | :01:50. | |
nuclear powered sub Marine. The £20 million Bessel was at the cutting | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
edge of marine technology. When she entered service in 1967, | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
second—in—command was Tim Hale. He was proud to be part of a Naval | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
elite. If you are not competent, you won't come home. The surface navy | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
can handle the fact that it will Robert Lee float. You cannot do | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
that. We have two be better than that. And we were. The cat and mouse | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
games of the Cold War sort submarine circling, chasing an eavesdropping | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
on each other, a delicate in —— balance. On the 9th of October 1968, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Warspite was gathering intelligence in the area to see. Submerged and | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
silently shuddering Russian submarine. It was unaware of her | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
presence. The British boat got closer than they had intended, much | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
closer. You would probably try not to get closer than about two or | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
three miles because two or three miles at the is nothing. We found | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
ourselves in Warspite, we got into clearly inside 1000 yards. And we | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
actually made contact so the range was zero. The Russian submarine had | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
suddenly slowed, impact was inevitable. We went under her stern. | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
The contact, initially, was on the top of the thin and weak public | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
slightly and we went again. And we were at 65 degrees which is a very | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
long way over. I remember looking up thinking, I know exactly what that | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
is and how the hell did it get there and what are we going to do? And I | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
knew I was going to die. Thankfully, nobody lost their life and HMS | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Warspite made it back home safely. The additional exclusion for the | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
damage was that she hit an iceberg. The tale was one of a number | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
stranded in secrecy finally revealed in a new book by Ian Ballantine. To | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
still pretend with all the comment on the internet and newspaper | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
articles, but never a book that actually this was an iceberg. The | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Ministry of Defence said it does not comment submarine movements for | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
reasons of operational sick you ready. —— operational security. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Well, I'm joined now by Mike Critchley, a Naval expert. What you | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
make of this was to mark it is well known that this happened at the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
time. But it is good to hear somebody on board of the submarine | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
giving his side but story. That sort of thing goes on today. Put it into | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
context for us. Bearing in mind the tension between the countries at the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
time. How serious could this have been? It is all to do with getting | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
intelligence from the Russian submarine service, be it photographs | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
of their propellers, sonars they are operating, communications they are | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
making, this is the height of the cold war and you have to get your | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
intelligence sorted out to be one step ahead. So, yes our submarine | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
service did all sorts of dangerousness since. But they work | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
very much safety rules in place. But if they came back with the scratches | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
down the side, you had to have a bit of a story. How much of an | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
embarrassment how —— would this have been for either side? Yes, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
embarrassment is the word. Both sides knew it was going on, I am | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
sure they were doing it to us as much as we were doing it to them. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
That was the name of the game in those 40 odd years ago. So it | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
wouldn't have been unusual for a collision like this to be passed off | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
as a collision with a wail or an iceberg or of rock which Mark , no, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
especially if there is aimed on the whole. If you come back with paint | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
on it, you have hit something pretty strategic and that has been painted. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Thank you. People in the South West with | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
painful varicose veins are being denied treatment, even though NHS | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
commissioners have been told they should be funding it. New national | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
guidance suggests patients see a specialist and be offered a new, | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
quicker procedure. However, some Spotlight viewers have been told the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
health service won't pay. Here's our health correspondent Sally Mountjoy. | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
Michelle Humphries . She has varicose veins that are very | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
painful. it affects everything. I am only 38. A lot of people have it a | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
lot older. But I feel I have got years ahead of me that I could be | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
free from pain. Four years ago, she underwent a new treatment which | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Cornwall hospitals were among the first to practice. It heats veins | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
using radio frequency, sealing them off. Under local anaesthetic, it | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
takes half an hour and is cheaper than traditional surgery. In July, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the clinical guidance body NICE said people with troublesome veins should | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
be referred to a specialist and offered this treatment. Shall | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Humphries was among several viewers who saw the recent report on the new | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
guidance. Despite the recommendation, their GPs have said | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
the NHS would not pay for treatment. I am suffering with the pain. It is | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
important to me. I feel I should be free of pain and I have two keep | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
rubbing in gels, taking painkillers, and I feel I should not have to keep | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
doing this if I had had this operation. Commission —— | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
commissioning groups told us they do not routinely fund treatment for | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
varicose veins but may agree in cases of exceptional need, or | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
example, where there is a risk of leg ulcers. They are reviewing the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
NICE guidance with GPs and consultants. Those living with | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
painful veins hope others will change their policies soon. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Fire Services in the South West have thanked the public for their support | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
during today's strike by firefighters. Senior officers say | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
there were significantly fewer emergency calls than usual, helping | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
them to deal with the effects of the industrial action. Our home affairs | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
correspondent Simon Hall reports. Hopefully, we will get the | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
government talking again. Paying more, getting less. James Leslie is | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
43, he has been a fireman for 11 years and had planned to retire at | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
55. But under new government plans, he will not be able to for his | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
pension until he 60. Lot of people struggle with the fitness when they | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
get to my age. It is not what anything —— any of us signed up | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
for. It is not safe for the public. Cyan—macro I really believe in | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
public services, I believe they should be supported and I completely | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
support my husband and the reasons for what he is doing today. So, come | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
noon, firefighters began their strike. Industrial action now. | :09:19. | :09:34. | |
Resume duties at 1600. We have spent most of the ad was here at the | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
headquarters. Senior officers tell me that in that time, they have been | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
remarkably few emergency calls. Hats they think because of the public | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
heeding their request to minimise the risk of fires breaking out. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Certainly today, I am very pleased that the public seem to have | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
listened to the messages, have not created unnecessary demand on the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
service at a time when we are in a strike period and we are grateful. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
The government say the deal firefighters being offered on their | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
pensions is both fair and generous and have criticised today's strike | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
by James Leslie and his colleagues as unnecessary and avoidable. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Inspectors say patient safety at the region's biggest hospital has | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
improved. In July, the Care Quality Commission criticised Derriford | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Hospital on five standards, four of which still have to be reassessed. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
It was also The notice followed eight so—called | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
"never events" in nine months. All serious and avoidable incidents such | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
as operations on the wrong part of the body. Inspectors found a | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
shortage of specialist theatre staff and unrealistic operating timetables | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
that didn't allow for delays put too much pressure on staff and created a | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
risk that mistakes would be made.The CQC has been back for unannounced | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
inspections and says systems are now in place to make sure patients | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
having operations are safe and well cared for. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
Never events are very serious. They are supposed to never happen, by | :11:15. | :11:26. | |
their very tight. When they do happen, it is important that they | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
are identified and reported and lured from. It is about having the | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
time to make sure all the checks are in place before surgery starts. And | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
to be confident that is happening. However, the latest CQC report says | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
some staff had found the changes difficult and some had raised | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
concerns that cardiac patients were having to have their cannula fitted | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
in a corridor. Managers say improvements are ongoing. We're not | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
out of the woods and I don't think any trust should ever think they | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
have done what needs to be done on quality. It is a day—to—day thing | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
and will remain very adjourned on that. We won't always get it right, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
I am sure, but one of the things we are committed to doing is to make | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
sure that our patients are, our staff feel able to raise concerns | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
but importantly, we have clinicians in charge of all of our services, we | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
want them to be able to feel they can put it right straightaway. | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
The CQC will visit the hospital again to assess it on four other | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
standards which it failed at its first inspection. They are | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
respecting and involving patients, patient care and welfare, staffing, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
and hospital records. The Russian president Vladimir Putin | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
has said Greenpeace activists were not pirates but did break the law. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
It follows a protest against arctic oil exploration. Two campaigners | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
from Devon are still in custody in the Russian port of Murmansk. Alex | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Harris and Iain Rogers were detained after several protestors boarded an | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
oil platform. Devon County Council is warning that | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
radical Dementia patients in Cornwall are | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
set to benefit from £1.3 million of Government funding. The cash from | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the Department of Health is going to both the Royal Cornwall Hospitals | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Trust and Peninsula Community Health. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
The Devon poet Alice Oswald has become the first writer to win the | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
£25,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. Ms Oswald, who lives in Dartington, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
won the prize for her poem Memorial, a reworking of Homer's Iliad. She | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
said she was very surprised and grateful for the win. | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
The man in charge of coaching the England swimming team for the next | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
Commonweath Games says he's honoured and excited about the new role. Jon | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Rudd is Director of Swimming at Plymouth College and also head coach | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
of Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. He came into the studio a little | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
earlier to tell us more about his new job. Congratulations. How do you | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
feel? I feel really honoured. It is such a great thing to be asked to | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
lead your country in something as significant and iconic as the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Commonwealth Games. So, yes, I have known for quite a bit. I was | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
really, really pleased when I got asked a couple of weeks ago and I | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
have had to keep things quiet until the official announcement. How hard | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
was that? It was ready tough. I told one or two people because I needed | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
to that I had to trust them to keep it under wraps but now it is out | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
there and this honour, what do you put it down to? What makes you an | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
outstanding coach? oh, goodness. First of all, I have a great team. | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
The people who work with me are fantastic. My sister and coaches —— | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
my assistant coaches do an awful lot that goes on behind the scenes that | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
maybe people do not recognise. The system itself is superb. I have | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
great support at Plymouth College, my employers, and we have created a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
great scheme there with kids from all around the world coming into | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
work with us and Plymouth Leander, the club, they are starting to work | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
more closely with the University of him and the University of Saint Mark | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
and St John body developed under the athletes under 18. I have a lot of | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
help. I also have a love for the sport. It is my 25th year of doing | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
before. Each year, I learn and develop and I think the athletes | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
benefit from that. What about the connections —— the commitment you | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
mention? How will they be infected by the new role? They won't be | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
impacted at all. This is a simple admin role for me. I will be | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
answering e—mails and taking phone call. It'll get a bit more as we | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
approach the games but the main thing is there is a short camp | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
before Plaistow and landowner and it is less than two weeks of full on | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
commitment and a few hits and pieces before then. Is it too early to say | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
what England is the fact chances are? How is the team looking and | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
developing? I have had a look at how we sit on the rankings with the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Commonwealth rankings and it is not too bad. Scotland are audibly | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
equally as strong as England. It will be very tight between the two. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Australia are the superpower and they are the ones we have to take on | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
almost in every event. And then you have Canada, New Zealand, South | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Africa, also very strong swimming nations. It'll be a challenge, it is | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
certainly not a competition. But I hope that England will step up. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
It'll be nice for some of the English swimmers to be standing on | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
the podium again. They didn't have the best of the world championships | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
of the Olympics but we have a great system and great people in place to | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
help move that forward. I would like to do my bit with the England team | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
to do that. It certainly sounds like a good challenge for you. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Congratulations again. Thank you. Veterans of the Second World War are | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
currently commemorating the 69th anniversary of the largest airborne | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
operations of all time. Arthur Shackleton from Dorset was a glider | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
pilot in Operation Market Garden and has recently returned to the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
battlefields of Holland to pay his respects to his old colleagues. | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Spotlight's John Ayres has been to meet him. In 1944, there was a plan, | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
a force of 86,000 men made up of paratroopers, air and ground units | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
set out to seize control of Bridge and River crossings in Germany and | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
the Netherlands. It was hoped it would bring the war to an end. | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Arthur Shackleton was applied a pilot. His job was to transport | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
equipment to Holland. They were not expecting much of a fight. They told | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
us the troops there were a few German elderly men, and artillery —— | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Artillery Regiment in training and a few German ad hoc troops that had | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
knocked about in France. In fact, they were so optimistic that some of | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
our generals took the golf equipment. Dead job was to secure | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
the landing zone but things were going wrong. They were ordered to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
capture the bridge but they became —— became under heavy fire. German | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
machine guns, mortars bombs, everything. Within an hour, three of | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
us had been killed. We were told to retreat back to the little village. | :18:49. | :19:02. | |
There, we formed a perimeter. It was became the headquarters. Thousands | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
more were injured or taken prisoner. They were ordered to pull out. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Arthur Shackleton was shot in the solder. This machine can came. | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
Someone hit me on the shoulder. I was on the floor. I couldn't tell | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
what it was, there was nobody there. And I said, are you OK? No answer. | :19:31. | :19:43. | |
I'm not sure how many were there but they were all dead. He did get back | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
safely and was treated in Brussels and Birmingham. Mr Shackleton | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
recently returned to Arnhem for every union and to remember his | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
colleagues who did not come back. —— for a reunion. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
The sailor Sir Ben Ainslie, who trained in Cornwall, has been | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
credited with turning around the US America's Cup team ahead of the | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
final race in San Francisco. The team, seen here on the right with | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
darker sails, had been losing badly to their rivals New Zealand who | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
needed just one more win to take the Cup. But after drafting in Sir Ben | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
as their tactician, the Americans won seven races in a row, forcing a | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
decider in the final race. Well, Andy Breare has spent the day | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
in Falmouth, close to where Ben Ainslie began his career and where | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
another major sailing contest is taking place. | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
Good evening. We are in a motif peeled. In it are some of the | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
fastest boats and best sailors in the world. Today, they have been out | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
on the water, doing what they do best, competing at the highest | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
level. If the Americas cup as the Formula one of sailing, this is | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
forming Mila three. Each boat with a two—man crew competing at a speed of | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
30 knots off the Cornish coast. There is a whole new side to this | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
board where there are wings, if rent materials and they are going on | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
these twin whole catamarans and reaching speeds that are really new | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
to the sport. These ideas and concepts have been around for a | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
while but what they are doing with the boat now and what they are able | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
to do, it is wild how fast they can go. There are eight teams from eight | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
countries, each desperate to lift the cup. So far, it is the French | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
who are leading the way. We are first tomorrow —— now but tomorrow | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
is another day. It is another game. We will see. But it is already nice | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
for us. The vote goes fast. —— the boat. Especially downwind when the | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
flying boats go 30 knots. When you are starting to really fly the two | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
halves, you get more pressure. This afternoon, the teams have been back | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
in the race village making repairs and talking cat six, ready to get | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
back on the water and do it all again tomorrow. —— talking tactics. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Joining us now is the fastest man in the world on water at the moment, | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
and that is Paul Larson. You are a bit of a speed merchant, what do you | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
think of this? This is fantastic. I have been a big fan of this. To have | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
it in the UK, the last two weeks have been so busy, we have hardly | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
slept. Everyone is fine to get ready and we had to be a part of it. We | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
are pretty happy to be helping the British boat be part of this amazing | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
event. Disses Web Ben Ainslie load to sail. —— this is. These are the | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
water is exactly where he started to sail. It was quite a while ago. He | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
has certainly moved on to the biggest and fastest boat out there. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
It is quite strange that we are doing what is popularly doing little | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
America's Cup and he is in San Francisco going for it. Everyone | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
standing around here will be crowded into his old yacht club, sitting | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
there, seeing if he can pull this off. Is this good for sailing? | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Well, you never know where innovations will take you. We are | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
here to find out. We are certainly making leaps and bounds in progress. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Thank you for joining us. Racing continues tomorrow and goes on till | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
Saturday. Let's find out what the weather has in store for the sailing | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
—— the sailors here. The wind could be doing —— could do with being a | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
bit stronger. There is a slightly stronger breeze tomorrow but it is | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
generally quite cloudy. A risk of showers —— throughout. A little bit | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
of sunshine breaking through. It is still relatively mild. Even the rain | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
today has been mixed in with some quite warm air so we haven't seen | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
temperatures drop quite so much. When you look at the big satellite | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
picture, there was a lot more going on now. It is a very compact | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
picture. There are several strands of cloud spinning around this area | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
of low pressure off Spain and Portugal. It is, lamented —— it is | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
complicated because it can bring us showery rain. That is what we have | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
seen today. There will be another one tomorrow. The low pressure is | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
somewhat closer as we move into Friday and Saturday so effectively | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
we are now much more unsettled. There is more of a wind developing | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
on Friday and into the weekend and some of the showers could turn out | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
to be quite heavy on Saturday and Sunday. Let's look at that in | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
somewhat more detail. Here is the rain we saw today. It is now moving | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
through parts of Central Dorset and clearing away eastwards later on | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
this evening. It is left behind a lot of cloud and that is low cloud, | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
beginning to sink down over the tops of the hills and moors and very | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
murky conditions overnight tonight. If you are travelling to mind, Bob | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
is going to be a problem, particularly hill fog. It is quite | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
misty and murky and as you can see, by the morning, Apache light rain | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
continues. Temperature is no lover than 30 degrees for most of us. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Murky, great start to the day tomorrow. A promise of sunshine is | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
pretty limited. It may brighten up a wee bit across central parts of | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Cornwall. But along the south coast, especially, the mischievous and fog | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
will go in and out of the coast. Poor visibility. Temperatures still | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
ready good. Above average. 18—20d. For those sailors in Falmouth, there | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
is slightly more of the reasons. A southeasterly wind. For the Isles of | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
Scilly, expect some early shower was and briefly some sunny spells but | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
the risk of fog matches continues throughout the day here. Times of | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
high water. And for our surfers, facility not to | :26:45. | :26:58. | |
bad. To —3 feet. Slightly more choppy. Still a relatively quiet | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
conditions. There are the coastal waters for cost. Showers and missed | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
with generally moderate or paupers of the litter. It's me for a time, | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
on Friday, brighten up quite nicely. Not a bad day. The survey, all cloud | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
and outbreaks of rain and then some showers as we move into Sunday. City | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
much unsettled for the next few days. Have a good evening. That is | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
Spotlight tonight. There is back with the headlines at eight o'clock | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
and our late news at 25 —— 10:25pm. We | :27:45. | :27:46. |