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In The sheltered housing residents facing a near threefold increase in | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
their council tax bills after a re`evaluation. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Good evening. The bills are going up by ?500 a | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
year for each resident. There's concern it's causing them | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
unnecessary stress. All that sort of anxiety day job live, after all that | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
they have given to their community and to the country, is completely | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
wrong. Also tonight: More cuts for Exeter | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
based airline Flybe. It's announced three routes are being axed from | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
next spring. And what will the government's | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
renewable energy reforms mean for the South West? | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
It's been described as a Scrooge`like action in the run up to | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Christmas. A group of residents in sheltered accommodation in Cornwall | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
are facing a near threefold increase in their council tax bills. The | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
residents, many of whom are in their nineties are said to be shocked and | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
worried by the rise which is the result of a re`evaluation of the tax | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
banding. Tonight there are calls for the Government to intervene. From | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the home in Saltash John Danks reports. | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
The residents of Cresta House in Saltash are used to sharing. They | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
share the dining room, a conservatory, and even the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
property's council tax bill. Now the authority that decides council tax | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
bands wants to change that and send each resident council tax bill of | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
their own and that will cost them. It means a basic change because | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
everybody will be at the lower rate rather than the house being in a | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
particular band. It will mean about ?500 extra each year for each | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
resident. It is un`Christmas light. Someone is behaving like Scrooge and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
we need a better Christmas rapport and caring for those in our own | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
community. 96`year`old Dorothy has lived here for 14 years. She says it | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
is stress she could do without. I am always worried, and I will be | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
worried about it, yes. The valuation office agency says that each of the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
bedrooms is an independent living unit and, as such, qualifies for | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
band a council tax. The charity that runs the home is calling on the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
government to change the law and protect other elderly residents in | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
sheltered accommodation from being reassessed in this way. The | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
difficulty is that with the pressure on their own investments and the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
state confining what they are able to provide in the way of help, where | :02:44. | :02:57. | |
will it come from? Nobody from the valuation office agency was | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
available for interview but a spokesperson told us that | :03:00. | :03:00. | |
discussions with representatives of Abbeyfield are ongoing. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Flybe has announced more cuts to its Exeter`based operation today. This | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
time it's not jobs, but flights which are going. Some are cuts to | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
holiday routes, but one is a year`round service to the north of | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
England. Our business correspondent Neil Gallacher has the details and | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
joins me now. What exactly is going? They are | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
losing the routes to Barcelona and Nice which are some are only roots. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
They are also losing the link into Newcastle that is year`round. It | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
will stop at the end of March and anybody who is directly affected | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
will be offered an alternative flight or a refund. What impact will | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
this have on the local economy? Full IB will still be offering a total | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
route map of about 20 destinations out of Exeter so it is a marginal | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
change although I think the loss of Newcastle could be irritating to the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
business community. The real value to the local economy has never been | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
that they fly local people to holiday destinations. We might like | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
that but it is not why it matters. The point is that they offer a large | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
number of skilled engineering jobs in the Exeter area and it is where | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
they have their corporate HQ and both of those functions are still | :04:12. | :04:25. | |
the case. What is worrying is that this has come on top of significant | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
job losses announced recently. There is no doubt that the company has | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
been in a really bad way. The new executive has come in and shaken the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
airline inside out. Last month they announced another 500 job cuts, 100 | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
or so in the Exeter area but they also returned to profit. The share | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
price was down to 40p in the spring which was shocking but it is now up | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
at 99p so they have changed `` turned a corner. Investors are not | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
worried about this news. Supporters of renewable energy in | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
the South West say the Government's decision to change the way it | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
supports the market, could mean fewer new wind farms around our | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
countryside in the coming years. Solar farms will also have fewer | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
financial incentives in the future, but the Government says there'll be | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
much more money for big offshore windfarms.Our Environment | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Onshore wind farms have become commonplace in parts of the South | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
West. Some argue they are a blot on the landscape but in the last 20 | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
years they have added to renewable energy production. The region | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
generates enough renewable electricity to power 390,000 homes, | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
17% of all homes in the south`west or almost every home in Devon. There | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
are already 679 on shore wind projects in the south`west and more | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
than 65,000 solar installations producing electricity but so far no | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
offshore wind projects at all. You are seeing a whole mix of wind and | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
biomass and increasingly solar. We asked an expert if this announcement | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
would make a big difference here. What I do think is problematic for | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the industry is the level of change and disruption and the way the | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
government is going about the process and it does not give | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
industry and investment the clarity they need. Just last week the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Atlantic array, a big wind farm proposed for Devon, was cancelled. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
These new incentives may encourage further development near the coast. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Some say it is timely because we are using up too much countryside. Here | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
in the ex`valley there has been very little wind farm development to date | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
but there is a proposal for a turbine quite soon. Many local | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
residents have opposed it and they are hoping that this announcement | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
from the government will help their cause. This man can trace his family | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
connection to the valley over centuries. He is worried about big, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
modern turbines coming here. I would have preferred a line of windmills | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
over the top unfortunately solar panels is equally dramatic and | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
should not be there. Solar panels constructively used on roofs on | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
brown field sites and I don't think they should be turned into an | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
agricultural product. Some question the government 's new priorities, | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
favouring offshore energy but it claims this will double production | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
by 2020. Our Political Editor Martyn Oates | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
joins us now from Westminster at the end of the day of big political | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
announcements. At the end of a day of big political announcements, the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
news of more money for offshore wind coming just days after plans for the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
biggest offshore wind farm was abandoned. Yes, it does seem rather | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
ironic. If there was any chance that this could have saved the Atlantic | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
array, you would have thought they would tip the company off before it | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
scrapped the plans. The government said today it makes sense to move | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
money away from onshore wind or large`scale solar because they are | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
standing on their own feet and offshore wind needs a bit more | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
help. The renewable energy Association agreed with that but it | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
said also that the government is watering down its ambitions in terms | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
biomass and energy from waste which means we will end up with more coal | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
and oil fields power stations are more on fossil fuels. Labour says | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
that the fact that the government is changing at mines creates damaging | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
uncertainty. News on a big and controversial infrastructure project | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
for the region. Yes, the government has up `` underlined its commitment | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
to upgrading the A303. I can reassure my honourable friend that | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
the pipeline of money is already open for that project. I announced | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
it in June. The work is being done to work out what improvements are | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
available for the A303 and the A30 and be very important link to the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
south`west of England. By this time next year we will set out the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
details to the house. A Wiltshire MP pointed out later that an upgrade | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
will mean taking account of Stonehenge and also the Blackdown | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Hills area of outstanding natural beauty in Devon and Somerset. It | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
will not be plain sailing even if the government stumps up the cash. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Talking of the government stumping up the cash, tomorrow is the Autumn | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Statement, so another day of big political announcements. A woman is | :09:25. | :09:36. | |
being treated for life`saving injuries following a crash on the M5 | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
this morning. The 32`year`old driver was trapped when her Renault Clio | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
overturned after colliding with a van near Cullompton. The northbound | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
carriageway was closed for several hours while she was airlifted to | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
hospital. Six fire crews have been tackling a | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
blaze which broke out in a block of flats in Teignmouth. The fire in | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Orchard Gardens broke out on the third floor of the building at | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
lunchtime. Nobody was trapped in the incident and engineers are assessing | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
the structural damage. A house in Cornwall which stood | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
empty for a year is the first in the country to be brought back into use | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
by a scheme to tackle the housing shortage. A charity is leasing the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
cottage from its owner and has paid for renovations. It's now being | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
rented to a family who needed a new home. Eleanor Parkinson has been | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
finding out more about the scheme. This house stood empty for a year in | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
bad repair. Cornwall Council 's persuaded the owner to hand it over | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
to them through the empty homes scheme for refurbishment. A charity | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
brought in the buildings `` builders and the building has a newly solve | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
life. It will be rented out to a local family who found themselves | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
homeless just before Christmas. It was a building site with lots of | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
dampness and wetness and you can see it is a beautiful home now. There is | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
a new family moving in next week. They are a local family with a | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
particular need and this enables us to provide them with a home for | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
Christmas. Cornwall Council says the empty homes scheme isn't complicated | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
and everyone benefits. We are bringing empty homes back into use. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Delighted to work with the charity and has been a huge success and we | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
are looking forward to rolling it out more in the future. Charity | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
recently became `` found a home for this woman who became homeless after | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
she lost her job and her house. I got more and more into mortgage | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
arrears and my home was repossessed and then I found myself sober | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
surfing, sleeping on floors and sofas and even sleeping in my car. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
To have your own home now, you have just moved in, what is it like? It | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
is unbelievable. I can hardly believe I have another home and a | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
roof over my head after everything I have been through. Cornwall Council | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
says there were many empty properties in the council that can | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
be refurbished and three lead and they have issued an appeal to | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
landlords for them to come forward if they have an empty house that can | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
be used to re`home someone on the homeless register. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
A jury was today told that a pensioner died after falling into | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
the River Exe because her walking stick broke and not because of any | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
safety shortcomings of steps and handrails. Exeter City Council | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
denies breaching health and safety laws where passengers get on and off | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
Butts Ferry at Exeter Quay. 80`year`old Dorothy Stevens drowned | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
when she fell into the river in July 2010. Hamish Marshall joins me now | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
from Exeter Crown Court. We find out why Sharron Robbie has | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
been nominated as this year's unsung sporting hero. The premise of the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
defence case was that Dorothy Stevens would not have fallen into | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the water if her walking stick had not snapped into. A consultant came | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
to the courts today and spoke about how she was not very agile and a | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
foldable stake was not as reliable as a wooden one. He said that if it | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
had not broken in such a way he believed she would have been able to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
climb the steps. Who else has been giving evidence? | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
The health and safety inspector who was called there in 2010 gave | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
evidence. She was asked why she allowed Butts Ferry to continue to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
operate as normal through the rest of that summer if there was such a | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
danger in these steps. She said the full circumstances surrounding what | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
happened to Dorothy Stevens was not known at the time. And other | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
witness, a retired health and say inspector, said that just because | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
there have been changes to the steps and rails does not mean that work | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
needed to be done before the accident happened. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
What happens now? Tomorrow morning we will have the closing speeches. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
The jury will retire to consider its verdict. Next on Spotlight: We hear | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
from the man who received an apology after complaining to the Prime | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Minister. Also We find out why Sharron Robbie | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
has been nominated as this year's unsung sporting hero. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
I have been kissed a few times under the mistletoe. I was kissed a few | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
times when I was younger. I am still waiting! | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
A man from Dorset who wrote to the Prime Minister to say that he'd only | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
received his out of work benefits on time once in three months has today | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
received an apology from the government. Adrian Robinson claims | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
problems with his job`seeker's Allowance began when he returned to | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
his home town of Lyme Regis, from where Simon Clemison sent this | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
report. Think of Lyme Regis and you probably | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
think of the cob and the coast but it is not just a famous tourist | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
spot. I found a business park here where people live and work as well | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
as come to be enjoyed. It is lovely to be back. Returning to his home | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
town after his contract came to an end in Berkshire, Adrian wanted to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
join the local workforce. He is partially sighted and is helped by | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
his wife. I went through the recession in the 1980s and you just | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
had to wait until things get better. I know that as long as I keep doing | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
everything I need to do... Are you? Yes, indeed. Adrienne knows about | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
employment as much as unemployment, having been a human resources | :15:33. | :15:54. | |
advisor. He was getting job`seeker's allowance before he moved back to | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Dorset but when he signed on in Weymouth the problems began. The | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
system seemed unable to cope with the profit of the sale of their | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
house when they moved even though it was below the amount that would have | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
meant the benefits were docked. While he was entitled to the | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
payment, every time it was delayed. We gave them all the information | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
they needed but the system would not bend. There is no more that I can do | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
and the benefit that we seek we were entitled to and we were entitled to | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
it on time. Adrienne may have been making every effort to find work by | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
new rules mean there are those that don't in the government's view. Many | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
people have already been penalised in a shake`up of state benefits. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Support services say that some are struggling with all the changes. We | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
need to be sure that the system is there to help people and we do not | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
get into a situation where admin errors make things worse and put a | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
burden on people because many people do not have a safety net or anything | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
to fall back on. This job`seeker managed to survive as other benefits | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
were paid on time. The Department for Work and Pensions has apologised | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
for the delay and said it has rectified the issue with any money | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
owing being paid. Yeovil Town's renaisssance could be | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
underway in football's Championship. Their one goal win over Blackpool at | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Huish Park last night was their second in a row and keeps them | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
within touching distance of the safety line. One of their three new | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
loan signings, John Lundstram from Everton, scored the vital goal in | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
the first half. Blackpool had three of their players dramatically sent | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
off in added time as Yeovil hung on for a precious three points. | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Plymouth College swimmer Ruta Meilutyte has taken her tally of | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
gold medals for the year to 12. The 16`year`old Lithuanian, who's the | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Olympic and World champion, is representing England at the World | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
Schools' Championship in Brazil and collected her latest gold in the 100 | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
metre freestyle. The England team, coached by Jon Rudd the director of | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
swimming at the College, were the top team in Brasilia with all seven | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
of Rudd's swimmers winning at least one medal each. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Prince Harry has been offering support to a group of servicemen, | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
including a man from Devon, who have set off on what's being called the | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
world's toughest rowing race. Cayle Royce who lives in Dartmouth lost | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
both his legs last year while serving in Afghanistan. He's part of | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
the Row2Recovery team racing in the Atlantic Challenge, to raise money | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
for Help For Heroes. Prince Harry, who's currently trekking in | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
Antarctica, called the team to wish them luck on their 3,000 mile | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
journey. Especially if you have a broken toe, | :18:12. | :18:31. | |
I imagine that is true. Good luck we are thinking of you. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Throughout this week we're meeting the people you've nominated as | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Unsung Sporting Heroes. Across the region there are scores of people | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
who give up huge amounts of their own time to help others enjoy their | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
chosen sport. Tonight's finalist is Sharron Robbie, who's the Chair of | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
the Plymouth Netball League. Spotlight's John Ayres reports. We | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
want to 20 chest passes. The profile of netball has risen significantly | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
in Plymouth in recent years with 800 women playing in the city league. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Heading it up is Sharron Robbie. She has been an ambassador for the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
sport, but most significantly she works hard to provide a permanent | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
home for netball in the city. Over the last three or four years I have | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
lobbied really hard to gain a central venue for our sport in the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
city. We were extremely lucky to get the support from Plymouth City | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
Council and England netball and sport England to give us our home in | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
the Plymouth life Centre. Sharon has been keen to encourage more women | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
into sport generally. She heads up the league which is quite a | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
challenge. You are talking about more than 80 teams in the Plymouth | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
and district league which is a lot of people to manage, with their own | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
views and suppression is of interest and they are really concerned for | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
their own teams and she manages it beautifully. She is passion and NHS | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
and approachable and she wants to do things right for netball and netball | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
in Plymouth and sport itself. She is amazing. What is it that drives | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Sharon on? When you start to volunteer for an organisation, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
whether it is a sport or charitable organisation, I think that if you | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
feel passionately about something you really want to share it with | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
others and I am absolutely passionate about netball and what it | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
can bring, especially to young women. Sharon has been on the | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
committee for more than 20 years. Plymouth netball harbour is now one | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
of the largest of its type in the country. | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
We'll find out about another Unsung Sporting Hero in Spotlight tomorrow | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and the overall winner will be announced in Friday's Spotlight. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
I can't wait to find out who it is. It will be a tough decision for the | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
judges. We have heard sobs `` from some fantastic people again this | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
year. Now, this festive season, will you | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
be hanging the mistletoe with the hope of catching someone under it | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
for a traditional Christmas kiss? I make no comment on that. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
I just happen to have some here... I do hope not! I am in terrible | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
trouble now. Well, work has begun gathering in hundreds of bunches of | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
mistletoe at The National Trust's Cotehele House in Cornwall. Johnny | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Rutherford has been along to find out more about the plant and how the | :21:17. | 2:53:26 | |
tradition of kissing under it came about. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Are you sure? Sorry. Long before our ancestors were hanging mistletoe up | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
at Christmas time it was believed it had special powers. They were | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
careful not to let it touch the ground because it was said to really | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
move its strength. This week Gardner 's are also being careful in cutting | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
and harvesting their mistletoe, to make sure that both the Apple tree | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
and the plant to `` continue to survive together. The mistletoe | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
grows in Saint biosis with the tree, it is a semi`parasitic plant and | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
they grow together really well, although the mistletoe will tend, if | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
it is not checked, you will see that I am taking out large clumps because | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
it will start to take over the tree a little bit. It does need careful | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
management. Mistletoe is often found in traditionally managed orchards | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
although it is unusual to find it Cornwall. This is a fantastic food | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
source for birds in the orchard and it is quite popular at this time of | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the year as well. It is still possible as part of the traditional | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Christmas decor. In Europe it was not to bring good luck and here in | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the UK we went one stage further and hope that luck would get us kiss! It | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
used to be said that young men had the privilege of kissing girls under | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
mistletoe, plucking off Bury for each case. The berries were gone the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
privilege ceased. This couple have been married 60 years but have never | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
once kissed under the mistletoe. No, we haven't. No! We have never needed | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
it! First time then. I have been kissed a few times under the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
mistletoe. I think I was kissed a few times when I was younger. And I | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
am still waiting! I would offer to help out but I am married! | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Indeed, if Rebecca's husband is watching, I was joking of course! | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Although there is some mistletoe on our desk which has been attempting a | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
full day but we haven't... Tempting us! Really. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
It is time for the weather. He is quite a big fellow, her husband, | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
isn't he? He is taller than me! Let us look at | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the weather then. the weather | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Let us start with what is happening tomorrow. We have been gloomy for | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the last few days. The sunshine came out today. Tomorrow is different, | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
there will be frost and a cold start in the morning. It will become quite | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
windy in the second half of the day and we will see showers towards the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
end of the afternoon and evening. We are actually between weather systems | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
to night. This stripe of cloud which has kept us cloudy through the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
morning is now moving away and moving into northern France and | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
clear sky will follow. Tonight there is a ridge of high pressure and we | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
are expecting some low temperatures. In the second half of the night, | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
just slightly more of a breeze to stir the air and by the middle of | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the day it will become quite breezy with westerly or north`westerly | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
winds that could touch gale force in the Bristol Channel. Here is a look | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
at what could happen on Friday. There will be a chilly start with a | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
risk of morning frost and then there should be a decent enough day. The | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
high pressure means the cloud will be stubborn to shift so things will | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
settle down nicely. We did have some sunshine and it was quite a pleasant | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
end to today. This was earlier near Teignmouth where there were some | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
bright skies. It was a lovely end to the day and a nice sunshine `` | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
sunset. Look at that cloud! This means there will be frost is a | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
night, not everywhere but certainly for the areas that are well | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
sheltered from the northerly breeze. We will see overnight | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
temperatures at or just below freezing. A good deal of fine | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
weather and clear sky. Good news for the stargazers who have been | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
disappointed in the last few nights. The frost will develop in the small | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
hours of the morning and towards dawn we will see a bit more cloud | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
drifting in from the North West as the breeze steadily freshens. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Nonetheless we see temperatures close to freezing just about | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
anywhere. In parts of central and mid`Somerset temperatures could be | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
as low as zero or below. Expect the frost first thing tomorrow morning. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Tomorrow it self is a bright enough start with a lot of cloud around | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
throughout the day. It will be patchy. Some sunny spells briefly. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
As the wind increases so does the cloud amount and through the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
afternoon we will see a cloudy end to the day and a stiff | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
north`westerly breeze setting in. The breeze is strong enough in fact | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
to whip up the waves along the north coast and through the Bristol | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Channel. Rough seas are possible here. The temperatures tomorrow, on | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the face of it it does not look bad but because it is windy it will feel | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
colder because of the strength of the wind. For the owls `` for the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Isles of Scilly, a fine enough start but becoming windy with the risk of | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
showers late in the day. On the north coast the size of the | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
ways increases through the day and by the end of the afternoon it could | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
be six feet and messy. That is it for the coastal waters and there is | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
more the breeze tomorrow. There, then showers, and generally good | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
visibility. At the end of the week and Friday, it will be a fine start | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
to the day but quickly becoming cloudy. The cloud will be stubborn | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
to shift as you move into the start of the weekend. Note how the wind | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
drops right down with light wind and the high pressure comes back and | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
there will briefly be sunshine on Sunday. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
Have a good evening. Thank you very much. That is the way | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
the news and weather looks on Wednesday evening. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
There will be an update on all the main news at 1025 p.m. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:26 | |
But have a good | 2:53:27 | 2:53:27 |