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An increasingly bitter row over the bed blocking crisis at the Royal | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Cornwall Hospital. Good evening. Patients are waiting | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
to be discharged, others have had operations cancelled. Tonight one MP | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
has firmly laid the blame with Cornwall Council. The missing piece | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
of the jigsaw has been Cornwall Council, because they provide the | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
adult social care assessment and services in Cornwall. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Also tonight: The poor condition of their boat led to the deaths of | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
three fishermen. An inquest hears that the Purbeck | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Isle sank quickly while its crew were laying pots. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And 2,000 people make claims against councils here for pothole injuries | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
and damage. There's an increasingly angry row | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
about bed blocking at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. A major internal | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
incident has been declared at the hospital, which says its unable to | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
discharge some patients because they have nowhere to go. It's led to the | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
cancellation of operations because of the lack of beds. Cornwall | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Council, which is responsible for providing social care when | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
vulnerable people leave hospital, says it's not to blame for the | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
crisis. But tonight one MP has severely criticised the council. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
We'll hear from Sarah Newton, after this report from Eleanor Parkinson. | :01:25. | :01:36. | |
Sarah arrived at the Royal Cornwall Hospital yesterday for a | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
hysterectomy operation. She was about to have her anaesthetic when | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
she was told the operation would not be happening. I was fully changed | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
and had even been given the pre—med medicine. So I was thinking, why | :01:48. | :01:59. | |
waste the medication? They must be doing my surgery now. To then be | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
told, half an hour later, sorry, no beds. How did you feel about that? | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
When I was taken through by the registrar into the consulting room, | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
I burst into tears. The Royal Cornwall Hospital said they were | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
forced to postpone some planned operations because of what they | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
describe as a main —— major internal incident. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
They say 50 patients were occupying much needed beds. Over the last few | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
weeks we have seen pressure with was full of patients either waiting to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
go into a community bed waiting for packages of care. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Those are patients we have essentially finished treating, but | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
we cannot let them go back home, and that means we cannot get the new | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
patients in. When a patient is discharged from this hospital they | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
might not be well enough to go home. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
They might go to a community hospital or get a package of care at | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
home. The agencies involved in providing that care, including the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
County Council, say they were not told about the bed crisis so they | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
cannot be held responsible for the delays. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
We discharged ten people with very complex needs from hospital | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
yesterday. There was one additional person referred, for whom we have | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
arranged a package of care. So there is clearly a need for us to check | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
those numbers. So at no stage are you saying this person has got to | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
stay in hospital? No. Today operations were still being | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
cancelled although the trust said people were contacted at home. The | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
bed crisis is also affecting the emergency department. Meanwhile, | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Sarah says she has not been told when her operation will be carried | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
out. She says she has been left in limbo. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to the MP for Truro and Falmouth, Sarah Newton. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
She told me she blamed Cornwall Council for the current crisis. I | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
do. From —— from what I have been hearing, the leaders of the NHS in | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Cornwall have been working hard for some time to join up their services, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
to work well, to do things more efficiently, better for patients, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
and the missing piece of the jigsaw has been Cornwall Council. Because | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
of course they provide the adult social care assessments and services | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
in Cornwall. What I hear is that the chief executive and the leader of | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
the council do not go to those meetings, are not really giving this | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
issue the leadership that it deserves. Cornwall Council have the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
responsibility for the health and well—being board, they have a very | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
important role to play in bringing the whole health community in | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Cornwall together. To plan services, to prevent this dreadful situation | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
from occurring. Cornwall Council say none of the delays were due to | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
people waiting for social care provision. They are saying | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
effectively they did all they could do is theirs, and that the Royal | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Cornwall Hospital was not allowing people to understand the scale of | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
the problem, that there was some communication breakdown on the part | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
—— part of the hospital. It is completely unacceptable that people | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
are sitting at home this evening, people worried about going to the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
hospital, worried about their relatives in the hospital who should | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
be at home, who should be in a better care setting, and hearing | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
this sort of squabbling. They need to get themselves around the table | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
as soon as possible and sort out services to prevent this from | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
happening. Cornwall Council say they are spending money on initiatives | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
including trying to avoid people going into hospital at the first | :05:47. | :05:59. | |
place. It says as a result of these pressures they have a £3 million | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
overspend on services for older people and people with disabilities. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
How confident are you that we are not even into winter fully yet, that | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
the system in Cornwall can cope with the increase in emissions over the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
winter months? I am not confident at all after today. They need to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
address this as a huge matter of urgency. More people turn to go into | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
hospital in particularly December and January, and they need to be | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
working now, they should have been working on this for months and | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
months and months. To actually prepare themselves for this. The | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Government has recognised the pressure that Cornwall Council is | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
under with its adult social care provision. They have been given | :06:33. | :06:58. | |
extra money. This year over £9 million alone, over £7 million last | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
year at the year before. If they have overspent by £3 million, that | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
clearly isn't enough. You have to look at how they are going about | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
managing their services. The recent tendering process for adult social | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
care has ended up in shambles. They couldn't handle that process | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
properly. I feel extremely sorry for the social workers who are trying to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
do a very difficult job in Cornwall Council, but it is a lack of | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
political leadership that has led to this very unacceptable state of | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
affairs. A Conservative MP from Devon has | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
thrown his weight behind claims that too few badgers have been culled in | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Somerset to meet the government's own criteria. Neil Parish, the MP | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
for Tiverton and Honiton, has told the BBC the cull had "not worked as | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
hoped" and there was "quite a problem with the numbers". Other | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
sources had earlier claimed fewer than half the required number had | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
been culled. Our Political Editor Martyn Oates joins us now from | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
Westminster. These comments are extremely | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
unhelpful, and they? Given who they come from, he is a Conservative MP, | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
a former chairman of the European Parliament's agricultural committee, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
someone who knows a lot about farming. He is also very much a | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
supporter of the cull, but like everybody else who is keen to see | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Carling given a chance in the fight against bovine TB, he is likely to | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
be cross if it turns out to few badgers are being killed to test | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
whether it works in the first place. How important are these numbers? The | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Government stressed they are important. These two —— mise two | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
pilot culls were delayed. Simply because there was a concern they | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
might not be able to cull enough badgers. If you take that into | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
consideration, combined with the Government's insistence that it is | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
making sure it gets every detail right, it will be very embarrassing | :08:40. | :08:51. | |
for ministers if these suggestions turn out to be true. What have the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
anti—coal protesters been saying? They are saying is significantly | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
lower number of —— numbers of badgers have been killed, it is | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
likely to reduce the incidence of bovine TB in cattle. You end up with | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
more badgers wandering the countryside away from the partially | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
cold social groups trying to set out new groups and spreading disease as | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
they go. As the dust settles on yesterday's reshuffle in looks as | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
though ministerial responsibility for this will land on the desk of | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
George Eustace. An inquest in Dorset has decided | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
that the poor condition of a fishing boat contributed to its sudden | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
sinking and the deaths of its three crew. The Purbeck Isle went down off | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Portland in May last year, and today experts catalogued a string of | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
faults with the vessel included a rotting hull and overloading. The | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
jury ruled that the deaths were an accident. James Ingham reports. The | :09:39. | :09:50. | |
Purbeck Isle set out on an ordinary day at sea. Its crew were moving | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
parts from winter fishing grounds to deeper water south of Portland Bill. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
Skipper David MacFarlane at his crew members Jack Craig and Robert Prowse | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
died when the boat sank as they were laying pots. Mr Prowse's body has | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
never been found. —— wrote Robert Prowse's body. Today an accident | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
investigator told a jury that the boat was in a poor condition, and | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
heavily loaded. The Marine accident investigation Branch said parts of | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
the wooden hull were rotten and fastenings have corroded. A life | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
raft had been stowed in —— incorrectly so it did not | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
automatically inflate. When the Purbeck Isle sank quickly, the crew | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
stood little chance of surviving. The accident shocked this tight—knit | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
fitting community. —— fishing community. Other fishermen are | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
determined to avoid such a tragedy happening again. There is a lot to | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
learn from this report. The industry has to move forward with better | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
health and safety requirements. If every book that sets sail from the | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
harbour comes back at the end of the day with everybody on board, it will | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
be a better job done. The coroner expressed his sympathies as the jury | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
ruled that the three men died as a result of a tragic accident. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Nearly 2,000 people have made claims against South West councils in the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
last year for injuries and damage to vehicles caused by potholes. The | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
figures have been obtained by BBC Spotlight in a Freedom of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Information request. There were more than 600 claims in Devon. Meanwhile | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Cornwall has paid out £9,000 in compensation. Hamish Marshall | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
reports. They are seemingly never ending | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
problem. Councils tell as they spend hundreds of thousands of pounds | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
repairing potholes. But the ones that are not filled in our costing | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
more money in claims made by drivers and pedestrians. Howard is one of | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
those. A new tyre shredded after he hit a pothole, and after a battle, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Cornwall Council paid for the repair. This was the —— there was | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
this tremendous bond, crash, and noise of IOM, machinery. The carp | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
jolted violently to the right, and with that we realised something was | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
wrong. In the last year local councils were served with 1983 | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
claims. Devon had 616. Dorset had 454, while there were 424 claims in | :12:32. | :12:51. | |
Somerset. Cornwall have 329 claims, and the council they put the cost of | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
dealing with them including potholes at £97,000. It has paid £9,593 in | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
compensation for injuries to people and damage to vehicles. | :12:56. | :12:56. | |
dealing with them including potholes at £97,000. It At his garage in | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Exeter, this man sees the effects potholes have on cars. He dealt with | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
two this morning. This is typical of the damage we are seeing. More than | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
likely a pothole, you can see yourself two big cuts straight | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
through it which has effectively ruined that time. Devon County | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
Council says it has about 62,000 potholes so far in 2013, with £7.5 | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
million set aside for safety defect and pothole repairs, this financial | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
year. But former policeman and keen motorcyclist worries that country | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
roads are being neglected. When you are travelling down roads which are | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
about seven or eight foot in width, and the vehicle is coming the under | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
way, —— the other way, you have no alternative but to try and miss a | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
pothole and you hit them. To get compensation claimant has to prove | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
that the road had not been properly maintained and that this was the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
cause of the incident. Councils say all claims are investigated before | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
they are paid out by both themselves and their insurers. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
A man from Devon has been arrested over the illegal online marketplace | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
Silk Road. The man. In his 50s, along with three other men from | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Manchester were arrested on suspicion of drug offences. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
The Silk Road, which has now been closed down, was one of the World's | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
largest websites selling illegal drugs. More arrests by the National | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Crime Agency are expected in coming weeks. | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Still ahead — the latest casualties of the cuts. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Public toilets and CCTV cameras are facing the axe in one part of Devon. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
And the three—year—old boy so happy to be taking part in the Horse of | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
the Year Show. A bitter row has erupted over a | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
planned development on the outskirts of Truro. The City Council is being | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
accused of wasting taxpayers money fighting the plans. But the local | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
authority has hit back, accusing the development company of "emotional | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
blackmail'" Spotlight's Rebecca Wills has the story. | :15:02. | :15:13. | |
This site on the outskirts of Truro has become a battlefield in the war | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
of words which has broken out between the company which wants to | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
develop it and Truro City Council, which is seeking a legal challenge | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
to the outline planning permission granted a few months ago. Back in | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
July, Cornwall Council approved an application from the company for | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
1,500 new homes, a primary school, care Village, community centre, | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
hotel and 600 space extension to three mile —— park and ride. But the | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
council is now seeking a judicial —— would judicial review of the scheme. | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
I think they are using emotional blackmail, because they are trying | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
to get everybody in tribute to believe we could be missing out on | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
affordable housing. We want to see that, we want to see it in Truro, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
not in green fields were —— miles away from anything. The company | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
declined to be interviewed, but in a statement the company said: | :16:16. | :16:39. | |
there was a mixed reaction to the plans. Who has got the money in this | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
day and age to go out and pay for them? I don't think it is a bad | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
thing it is being developed, as long as the infrastructure is there. That | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
road is always busy enough as it is. The traffic problem will be the main | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
thing. You put more homes on that, 1,500 homes is virtually 3,000 | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
cars. But these opening salvos between developer and council could | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
be just wasted words. The judge has yet to decide whether that are | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
grounds for a judicial review. That decision is pending. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
As austerity measures start to bite, one area of the South West is set to | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
lose almost half its public toilets and all of the council—run CCTV | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
cameras. Teignbridge Council has decided it can't afford to run these | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
services any more. It's hoping local groups and parish councils will take | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
them on instead. Our South Devon reporter John Ayres reports. | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
We all need to spend a penny from time to time. In Teignbridge it | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
might not be so easy. 17 public toilets could close if no one comes | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
forward to run them. It is more important to keep the toilet rather | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
than save a bit of money. You have the playground over there with lots | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
of small children. It is a right to be able to go to the toilet. It is a | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
matter of hygiene. Today the council scrutinised its own decision to stop | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
the funding. It has decided to press ahead with the cuts. Closing public | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
toilet is an emotive issue. One councillor held up toilet paper and | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
told councillors to bring them —— bring their own. | :18:29. | :19:01. | |
And it was not just toilets. The plug could also be pulled on CCTV, | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
affecting Newton Abbot in particular. Its supporters insisted | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
provides vital evidence for the police. When they turn up, have you | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
got CCTV and there is no CCTV, my answer would be no, and it will be | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
difficult to get a prosecution. I am mystified as to whether this | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
decision was taken, and in my view it is completely the wrong one. The | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
council will not raise council tax. It is forced to make cuts. We have | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
seen our Government grant shrink from 49% to little more than 4%. And | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
we have got to take a look at all our facilities in a measured and | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
sympathetic manner, to see if we can find any cost savings. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
This toilet might be saved if the parish council takes it over. The | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
other toilets and CCTV services will only survive if other bodies do the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
same. A new business park in Plymouth, | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
which could create up to 300 jobs, has opened its doors to prospective | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
tenants. The Burrington Business Park is on the former Mother's Pride | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
bakery site which closed last year. Developers hope to turn it into a | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
thriving centre for up to 40 new businesses. Scott Bingham reports. | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
Nick has been running his letting management company for nine years. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
He currently works from home but is looking to expand. Today as a | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
prospective tenant he got the first chance to look around this new | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
business park. Relocating here, he hopes, will allow him the space to | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
grow and potentially create more jobs. We have been trying to find a | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
suitable alternative to working from home. This was just presented to us | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
as an option. We think it will be good for our clients when they come | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
up here and see us rather than having to beat for a coffee or come | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
round to the house. This is one of the huge spaces here. The developers | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
hope once it is refurbished, this entire site, or 110,000 square feet | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
of it, will be home to around 40 businesses employing some 300 | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
people. This neighbouring property is | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
already home to 30 small businesses, and one —— part of the same team | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
snapped up the site next door. It was perfect for our business model, | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
which is to refurbish to a very high standard and attract a mixed use of | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
interesting businesses into the park. Despite the economy, they are | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
confident they can fill the park as well. It is difficult at the moment, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
but you have to offer something different and keep standards that | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
people expect in the commercial market. This small corner of | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Plymouth seems to be thriving. A growing call centre already provides | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
a steady stream of customers to the snack bar, and they are looking | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
forward to a few more. Is this the busiest you have seen it? | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Absolutely, it is growing and growing. My mother has bought a | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
Mercedes. So business is good? Honourable lady yes. The business | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
park will feature a free gym to keep staff in shape, but it might bring, | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
—— competition to. Plans also include an upmarket coffee bar. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Exmouth sailors Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes have announced an end to | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
their 12—year sailing partnership. The pair, pictured here training in | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Portland Harbour, race a 49er skiff. They won the world championships in | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
2007, but never quite managed an Olympic medal. They say they now | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
want to explore new opportunities outside of the Olympic sailing | :22:30. | :22:42. | |
classes. A young rider from Devon has | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
qualified for the Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham. Harry | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Edwards—Brady is, according to his mum, a natural in the saddle and | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
loves competing. And what's most remarkable is he's only three years | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
old, as Leigh Rundle reports. Horses are in Harry's blood. He has | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
loved them ever since he was a few months old. Now he is off to one of | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
them UK's most big —— prestigious equestrian events. Are you excited? | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
Yes. When you are three, it is easy to get distracted, particularly if | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
there are tractors around. But when it really matters, Harry | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
shines. I was just totally amazed, and just so, so proud of him. To | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
have done so well that such a young age in such good competition as | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
well. Having tasted success at other | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
events around the country, the toddler is ready for the next stage | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
of his riding career. I've ever accusations it is a pushy mother | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
behind his success? He would probably end up going to show every | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
day if he could. He loves competing. Horses are all very well, but it is | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
good to develop other skills and keep your career options open. | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
Isn't she cute? He is a star! —— isn't she cute? | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
Are you putting your heating and yet? Don't even mention it! There is | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
a change. Colder area is coming our way. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
I might put my heating and to keep the house warm. It turns colder over | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the next 24 hours. Our risk of showers tomorrow, and it is the | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
combined effect of lower temperatures, a bit more of a | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
breeze, so the wind chill will be more of a feature. Lots of cloud on | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
the satellite picture. This is the colder air coming down. That clearer | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
sky brings the drop in those temperatures. At the moment we have | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
a weather system across us. Drizzle and low cloud a problem this | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
evening, but it will move out of the way and then we are between weather | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
fronts by the middle of the day tomorrow. The second of those comes | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
in through the afternoon, early evening, so by the time we get to | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
tomorrow night it will be much colder, and by Thursday, a chilly | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
northerly breeze. Temperatures much lower than they have been this | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
autumn. Looking at that in detail, it is another drizzly evening with | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
low cloud, mist and fog. It is beginning to clear though. Becoming | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
drier, still a few fog patches here and there, and overnight | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
temperatures probably down as low as ten or 11 degrees. Winds becoming | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
north—westerly, they will freshen up during the day. That is how the day | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
starts tomorrow, but as we move through the day we start to see the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
colder air come in. There will be sunshine tomorrow around the middle | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
of the day. Showers developing, and towards the end of the afternoon | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
another line of showers coming out of south Wales will drift in. | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
Between the two we will see a brisk north—westerly breeze developing, | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
holding the temperatures down. Last week we had temperatures of 19 and | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
20 degrees, for tomorrow 15 or 16 I think will be the best we can | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
expect. With that brisk North West wind it will feel quite a bit | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
colder. For the Isles of Scilly, a few showers and quite breezy. Times | :26:37. | :26:48. | |
of high water. The surf conditions on the south | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
coast will be quite clean, two to three feet here, but between four to | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
six feet and quite choppy on the north coast. | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
The forecast for the coastal waters, then. The wins north—westerly. —— | :27:03. | :27:16. | |
the wins. Generally very good visibility out at sea. The forecast | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
for Thursday is bright and drive. A few showers possible across West | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
Cornwall, similar conditions on Friday, and then cold, breezy, with | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
some outbreaks of rain for the start of the weekend. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
We have been very lucky up until now. It had to turn colder sometime | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
soon. I don't believe David will put his heating and yet, he is meaner | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
than I am! Good night. | :27:44. | :27:46. |