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perhaps 48 hours of drier weather for many of us. But between now and | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The relentless onslaught from the elements ` coastal communities have | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
spent another day under threat from the sea. Good evening. Welcome to | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Spotlight. At one stage overnight, people in parts of Dorset were urged | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
to leave their homes. Inland, villages are cut off on the Somerset | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Levels. Residents say more should be done to prevent it happening. | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
Also tonight, a super inquiry into plans for new homes which would see | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
the size of a village increased by 40%. Developers want to build more | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
than 200 houses in Feniton. And the remarkable story of the | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
mother and son she gave up for adoption. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
The battering from the elements has continued today, but tonight there | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
are signs that the situation is finally easing. The last few severe | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
flood warnings in the South West were downgraded late this afternoon, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
but more than 30 flood warnings remain in force in Somerset and | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Dorset. Overnight, some communities along the Dorset coast were warned | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
to leave their homes as huge waves overtopped flood defences, prompting | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
warning sirens to be sounded on Portland. From Chiswell, Chris | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Lyddon sends this report Portland under | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Port plant under attack, storm force winds and 40 foot waves threatening | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
to engulf sea defences. `` Portland. The two owners of this pub and | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
people living nearby were told to leave last night, but they, like | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
many others, stayed put. We decided we wanted to stay here. The pub has | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
been here for close to 360 years and we couldn't see it washed away. We | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
have three storeys, so we went upstairs to watch from the window. | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
Quite hair raising at times. We were well`informed and everyone looked | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
out for us. We shot the pub because we decided it was a bit too | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
dangerous Tuesday open for customers. `` to stay open. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Floodgates remained in place today and emergency services are on site | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
monitoring the treacherous conditions while the risk of danger | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
to life remains. I have been in touch with the Environment Agency | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
and police, and they have done all they can. There is nothing you can | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
do against Mother Nature which is as powerful as this, other than help | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
people, advise people to take precautionary measures, and that has | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
been done. The severe conditions brought out large numbers of people | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
eager to witness the occasion. I went on to this wall first but it | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
took my breath away, the wind was so strong, but the sight is amazing. | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
I've lived in Portland since 1999 and we have never seen anything like | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
this. It's unprecedented. The defences have been brilliant and we | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
are really pleased that Portland people have been able to sleep at | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
night knowing they were safe. Many of the local people we spoke to | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
today say conditions here last night and today are among the worst since | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
these new sea defences were put in place. Conditions have eased, the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
winds are still strong, and the high tide expected around 11pm. The | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
council says rescue centres will be in place but they'd hope not to have | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
to move people to them, so a sense of relief the worst may now be over. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Spotlight's Janine Jansen is in Chiswell for us tonight. High water | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
there is in just over four hours. Janine, what's it like there now? As | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
you heard, though severe flood warnings have been downgraded. There | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
are just over 30 flood warnings in place across Dorset and Somerset. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
The Environment Agency are still here overnight, still blustery but | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
conditions starting to ease just after 4pm. Many weather watchers | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
came to look at the spectacular waves. The power of those waves had | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
an amazing effect on the beach, so many pebbles were washed out to sea | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and is a massive ridge in the beach. Some people heard those sirens last | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
night and said they were so eerily. Fortunately just two homes were | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
flooded, not too badly so people didn't have to leave. Seven people | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
died in rest centres overnight as they were motorists who couldn't get | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
home because the road was closed. Fortunately the road between | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Weymouth and Portsmouth is not closed so fingers crossed it will be | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
open tonight. In Somerset an extra ?250,000 has | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
been pledged tonight to help those hit by floods. The money will come | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
from the County Council, but as our Somerset correspondent Clinton | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Rogers has been finding out, there is growing anger in the village of | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Muchelney on the Somerset Levels, which faces weeks being cut off by | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
flood water. Every road into Muchelney is flooded. The depth of | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
water beneath us is at least four feet. For now this remains the only | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
way in and out of the village. These pictures taken from a naval copter, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
dramatically illustrate the plight facing Muchelney. Cut off, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
surrounded by thousands of acres of water. They should be protecting us. | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
I'm not happy, I'm very angry. But it is on the ground you get a true | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
sense of the anger here. Peter's frustration is boiling over and when | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
he and his wife both retard doctors, took me to their home a mile up the | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
road, first by tractor, and then by boat, it is easy to see why the so | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
upset. Deeper than last year. They haven't finished repowering the hose | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
from last year's flood. They call that a one in 100 year event, so | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
what is this? Asked most people in Muchelney and they will point the | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
finger of blame at the Environment Agency. They have been pushing for | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
dredging to be done `` we have been pushing and they won't do it. They | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
say it won't make a difference. Views shared by this couple who left | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
their home by canoe to visit friends for a shoulder to cry on. This is | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
readily fixable. The village is not short of essential supplies. The | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
church is acting as a food store, most of this brought by boat. And | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
the essential medicine for this man's wife was on today's delivery | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
risk for the Burnham rescue boat. This water isn't going away any time | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
soon, so the wider issue here is, how do people get to work or | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
school? Mum has been setting the loads of work to do and I have loads | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
of books to revise. So it isn't a day off? No! So with that to contend | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
with, the arrival of a national newspaper with a publicity stoned | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
was met with anger. You are taking the Mick coming here. This is not a | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
zoo. I am disgusted. Beauty in a boat, they said, was the last thing | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
they needed. Today, the Environment Agency spoke | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
to the BBC about its work on the Somerset Levels. The challenge for | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
us is how we best use are funding, so having explained how we managed | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
to protect 60,000 properties from that see, we are left with the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
challenge of the river water trapped behind that, floods in fields and | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
inroads threatening properties, and one solution to manage that better | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
is to dredge sections, but that can cost up to ?4 million and it is a | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
challenge for us to justify funding all of that, so we are working with | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
other organisations as to how is that funding can be raised. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Concerns that the government isn't ensuring there's enough money to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
fight flooding were voiced by MPs today. A report by the Environment | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Select Committee says the government needs to prove it can provide enough | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
support. Our political editor Martyn Oates joins us now from Westminster. | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
What are the MPs worried about? The worry about money. Defra has | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
shouldered some of the biggest cuts of any department in Whitehall. MPs | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
say there are questions whether it can cope with its duties. We also | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
know Defra is set to sustain further cuts which are almost as big again | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
by 2016 and MPs say the Environment Secretary is not being clear about | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
which aspects of the Department will bear the brunt. They say the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
government needs to make savings but they shouldn't have an adverse | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
impact on Defra's ability to deal with emergencies and they point to | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
attempt to deal with a range of recent emergencies like food | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
contamination and animal disease. The report is specifically critical | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
of the government's approach to flood defences? Since 2012 the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
government has been keen to get money from the private sector with a | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
partnership organisation to pay for flood defences. The committee says | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
it think this is a good idea in principle so housing developments | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
should contribute to flood defence schemes, but they say the problem is | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
that only a tiny amount of money has been gained from the private sector, | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
so they say the environment sector `` Environment Secretary needs to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
say how much money has been gained but further sate Ho they will get | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
more money from the private sector for the future. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
A super planning inquiry has started in East Devon over proposed housing | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
developments that could see a village increase in size by 40%. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Three developers want to build 235 new homes in Feniton. The plans have | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
already been thrown out by the local authority. The inquiry is being seen | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
as a test case on new planning rules, which say developments should | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
go ahead as long as they are sustainable. You don't have to look | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
too hard to see that many locals are worried for the future of their | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
village. Three developers want to build on four sites in the village, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
creating an extra 235 homes. The District Council rejected the plans | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
but the developers appealed. Today a super planning inquiry began at | :10:58. | :11:09. | |
nearby Exeter Airport. Over 80 villagers came to show their | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
support. I think if Feniton falls, nowhere in England will be safe. If | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
40% is deemed appropriate, why not twice as much, so when is enough? | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
That is our slogan. Feniton has had its fair share of flooding problems | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
and few want to see the village increase by 40%. There were concerns | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
it would only make things worse. It is good for business, obviously, but | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
I think because the village gets flooded so much, it is not very good | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
for the village. Unless they can promise us a lot of improvements to | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
the village, I can't deal with it. 50 homes are already being built by | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
one of the developers appealing at the inquiry. They said they firmly | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
believe the proposals would deliver developments, creating much`needed | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
new affordable housing as well as supporting vital new flood | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
prevention measures, so it is all to play for. While it is to do say | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
Feniton has amenities like a club and Rhyl waystation, shops and a | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
primary school, one thing it lacks like other places in the south`west | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
is affordable housing, which is reason why someone who did not want | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
to appear on camera told me he was very keen to see these developments | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
take place. That is a minority view. For the next two weeks, those | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
opposed to the extension of the village will follow the inquiry | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
closely, arguing the findings are planning inspectors could have | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
ramifications for one small village and all those places facing | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
developments on their doorstep. There'll be more on Feniton in next | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
week's Inside Out. That's here on BBC One on Monday at 7:30pm. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg has | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
described the cutting of the force's budget next year by a further ?2.5 | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
million as disappointing. In 2010, the Government imposed budget cuts | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
of ?51 million up to next year, which has resulted in the loss of | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
400 police officers' jobs and a similar number of civilian posts. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
The money from these latest cuts will be used to fund major national | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
policing projects. Later in the programme, we'll meet a | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
man preparing for a challenge. Hello, everybody. The new manager of | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Torquay United says he's confident he'll get them out of the relegation | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
zone. And more victims of the weather ` | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
the baby seals separated from their mothers by the storms. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
An inherited eye condition has resulted in a remarkable reunion for | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
one Torquay man and the mother who gave him up for adoption. Steve | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Darling was adopted in the Midlands, but decades later, a search for his | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
birth parents ended much closer to home than he expected. Our South | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Devon reporter John Ayres takes up the story. Back in the 1960s, Pam | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Johnson was 17 when she gave birth to Steve Darling in Birmingham. She | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
was unmarried and her parents had passed away. She felt giving him up | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
for adoption was her only option. In those days it seemed the normal | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
thing that you gave a baby up for adoption if you weren't married. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
John, Steve's father, and I were both very young, so I went into an | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
unmarried mothers' home and Steven was adopted. Steve's adoptive mother | :14:28. | :14:37. | |
Penny never hid it from him that he was adopted. The family moved to | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
Torbay in the '70s. 30 years on, Steve had not been looking for his | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
natural mother until a doctor made a comment about an inherited eye | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
condition. He found her here in South Devon. Steve is a councillor | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
on Torbay Council and she was working as a teacher in the board he | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
represents. That was just the start of the coincidences. We realised | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
because she taught at Torquay but lived in Kingsteignton, she used to | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
pass the end of our garden to get to work each day. Steve has also found | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
a half`sister here in Torbay as well as | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
If I hadn't had that tipping point, maybe this wouldn't have happened | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
and I wouldn't have had the positives I am getting out of this | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
now. Since they have all come together, Steve has become firm | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
friends with Pam and his extended family. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
The new manager of Torquay United has been talking about his plans for | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
the struggling League Two club. Chris Hargreaves knows he's got an | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
uphill battle and the odds are stacked against him, as he takes | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
over as Alan Knill's successor. Dave Gibbins reports from Plainmoor. It | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
was time for a new manager at Torquay United. Chris Hargreaves | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
always wanted to start his managerial career at play more. He | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
is well respected by players and staff after captaining United back | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
into the Football League five years ago when they won a Wembley | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
conference play`off final. It was clear he would eventually find a | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
route back to rejoin the people he knows, including many players. A | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
warm welcome, then. They took a terribly. No, please! I think they | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
took it quite well. I know them, they know me, we had some good times | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
here and they care about the club and don't want to see it go down, so | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
that gives you hunger from within. The 41`year`old leaves his | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
first`team coaching job at Bournemouth to join United. The | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
goals are struggling next to the bottom of the lead and face a | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
possible return to non`league football, so what is his escape | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
plan? I'm going to get onto the training field first and foremost | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
and speak to lots of players about coming in and I will be up for the | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
challenge, and that is the question, are they up for the challenge? His | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
assistant will be Lee Hodges, who used to play for Plymouth Argyle and | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Torquay before entering as part`time manager for Truro city. After | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
sacking Alan Knill five days ago, the board has gone in the direction | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
of recruiting a young partnership. He has recruited Lee Hodges as his | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
number two who also has managerial experience and that combination of | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
youth and experience is what will work. This is where the new team | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
will be sitting a week on Saturday for their first home game. They | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
start in earnest at Wimbledon this weekend but a week on Saturday it is | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
against a club Chris Greaves also had talks with about becoming their | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
new boss, old Hampton town. How ironic will that be? | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
He looks happy in that the goat. Very at home! `` in that dugout. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
This week we're hearing about people who've decided or who've had no | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
choice to continue working when they reach retirement age. The South West | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
already has a higher proportion of older workers than the UK average. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Greg Wade has been to meet a professor nearing his 70s, who's | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
still hard at work. 68`year`old professor Roy samples is | :18:33. | :18:50. | |
today examining butterfly wings under an electron microscope. A | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
fellow at the Royal Society, he has won many physics awards. I have been | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
here at Exeter since 1972 first as lecturer and then stayed on as | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
senior lecturer. I can't remember the day I got up and the morning and | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
thought, oh, it's work. It has never been like that. Some consider | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
academics Lottie because in their profession experience and knowledge | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
are valued `` lucky. In academics the skills develop as they get up, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
and that doesn't want to be lost. Just because you reach a certain age | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
doesn't mean you. Giving it, and universities are happy to have you | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
because of your knowledge. It is a resource we do not want to use. That | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
like blues. But even here you have to retire at some point. At some | :19:48. | :19:57. | |
point they will say that I have to think dropped away and am keeping | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
some younger person out of their post. When Roy and eventually | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
retires, he and many in his profession often come back for sheer | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
love of the job. Organisers of a European funded | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
project are calling for more applicants from the South West. The | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
initiative works with young unemployed people. They're given the | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
chance to develop new skills while visiting a foreign country for a | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
month. Johnny Rutherford has been following the story. Something | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
strange has been going on around the beaches of East Cornwall. It is an | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
art project called stargazing at sea. Five unemployed Austrian young | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
people have been on a month's residential artistic course. This is | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
a European funded programme. The idea is to offer young people a | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
first cultural experience to live in another European culture `` country. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
It is also important to give them professional experience with people | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
who know what to do and a chance for personal development. The students | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
are taken from their normal environment to give them a clean | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
start towards challenges. Here I can make things I like and nobody says | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
it is wrong or right. I can't be myself after this and go my own way. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
I don't know what to do at home but I think I will get more into it. | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
Projects like this will be available next year for people from the | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
south`west to travel to other parts of Europe are but not many people | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
have taken up the offer even when it is free. It seems Europe is not very | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
popular and tempting to them, and be with invited young people from here | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
to see what is out there, opportunities of culture but also | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
work and life experience. After being cheated by local artists, the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Austrians' work is being displayed at a gallery. The chance is to get | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
individuals into the landscape and to engage in it and to spread the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
word of what it has been like here, so it has been a winner. Not all art | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
lasts for ever, but the young people 's Mike experience certainly well. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Returning to the story that's dominated the news for the past few | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
days, the huge storm. The weather and rough seas have also been | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
causing problems for some of our wildlife. The bad weather came | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
during the grey seals' breeding season, and a large number of baby | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
seals have been rescued after being separated from their mothers. David | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
George reports from the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek. Yet and under | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
huge wave crashes ashore. These are some of the biggest waves seen in | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
the south`west over the last few days. The lookout tower is around | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
200 feet above sea level. Hard to believe the grey seals and their | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
pups can be living under that, but they are. Some don't make it. The | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
lucky ones are rescued and end up in a seal sanctuary. It is the pups who | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
were most at risk because they don't know where the best places are. We | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
have had calls about pups in people's Gardens, on the edges of | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
beaches and in harbours, so they are turning up all over the place. They | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
had 25 call outs in the last week, four times the normal number. That | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
is one of our pups. He was rescued on the 7th of January and was quite | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
underweight and had a bit of a temperature, so that is why he came | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to us and he is doing much better now. This year the baby pups all | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
have a space theme to their names. There is an Armstrong next year `` | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
next door. It is not just seals that have been infected by rough seas. `` | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
affected. Experts say most of our dream life hasn't adapted to deal | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
with these conditions. Experts say the seals will be returned to the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
wild or as close to where the rebound as possible. Most are ready | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
to go now that they are now waiting for a period of calm weather. | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
Right on cue, wasn't it? Dear little baby seals. Let's hope there is | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
better weather on the way for them. We are not quite out of it yet. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Tomorrow we have a dry and bright start for the day but we will see | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
further rain which could be heavy at times, so we have another weather | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
warning from midday tomorrow, but even before tomorrow, tonight | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
eastern parts of the region could see heavy rain, perhaps South East | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Devon, Dorset, parts of Somerset. Some heavy, thundery rain will move | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
through fairly quickly then some drier weather, then this next system | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
pushes in with some heavy rain tomorrow evening. That clears. There | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
is day, a temporary ridge of high pressure, temporary calm conditions | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
and another weather front on Friday. Today we have seen underage showers | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
and the rest of the day some light showers and sunshine and these winds | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
have been easing through the day, but here is that area of rain that | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
might ring somehow heavy conditions later tonight, a dry picture for all | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
of us with some clear skies and lighter winds. We will be cooler | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
tonight as well, temperatures dropping to five or six degrees | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
inland. Tomorrow a dry and bright start, camp with sunshine that this | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
rain will push in from the south and west into Devon then reaching much | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
of the region by tomorrow evening's rush`hour with rain and these winds | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
increasing tomorrow, but still fairly mild, temperatures up to ten | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
or 11 degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, dry weather in mission eight | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
at that rain will arrive and turn heavy, winds increasing as we go | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
through the day. Times of high water for tomorrow, Falmouth at 1029 and | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
2242, and for the surfers tomorrow there are huge graves finally | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
starting to ease, so for the north coast it could be clean with better | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
waves along the south coast are still quite messy and choppy as | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
these winds increase. Out at sea the south`westerly winds back to wait | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
south or southeasterly towards the end of the day, and some rain at | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
times it at sea, visibility decreasing. The outlook, still a | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
mixture with the weather with heavy rain tomorrow. That clears by | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Thursday when we're looking at drier and calmer weather, a few showers | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
through the day but also sunshine. Thursday night into Friday could be | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
chilly, a chance of frost in Wirral spots before more rain arrives. | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
Saturday we should have some sunshine but feeling cooler. Lots of | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
pictures of the weather on our Facebook page. We will be back at | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
6:30pm tomorrow. Good night. A tenth of a second | :27:44. | :28:09. | |
could be the difference | :28:10. | :28:12. |