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goodbye from me. On BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The sex offenders, including rapists, who have received a police | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
caution instead of going to court. Good evening. Devon and Cornwall | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Police have defended the action, but tonight there's anger from victim | :00:21. | :00:47. | |
support groups. It does send out a disturbing message. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Also tonight: The full scale of trouble at Eden, but now the | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
attraction's fighting back and says it's turned a corner. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
And the lowest supplies of fish in years lead to the highest prices, as | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
trawlers shelter from the storms. Victims groups have voiced concern | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
at the number of police cautions given for sex crimes in Devon and | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Cornwall, instead of taking the cases to court. The BBC has found | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
more than 500 cautions have been given in the past six years. 28 were | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
for rape. The police say cautions are only given in a minority of | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
cases, and taking into account the victim's wishes. Our home affairs | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
correspondent Simon Hall reports. The police have previously been | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
criticised for using cautions too readily in dealing with serious | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
crimes when taking an offender to court may be more appropriate. That | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
debate has been reopened. The Government says cautions should be | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
used for minor crimes like graffiti. An offender must admit the crime. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Cautions aren't criminal convictions, but are recorded and | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
can be used as evidence of bad character. Using the Freedom of | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Information Act, we found cautions have been used more than 500 times | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
in the last six years. By Devon and Cornwall police for sex offences. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Almost 30 of those were for rape cases. These crimes have the most | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
devastating impact on the victim and in all of these discussions that we | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
have, it is so often the victim who is forgotten and it is the victims | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
who live with the consequences of these vile crimes committed against | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
them. We need all of us to be treating this situation more | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
seriously. A caution in this situation does not convey the | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
seriousness of this crime. The head of public protection in Devon and | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Cornwall told me only senior officers could authorise the use of | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
cautions and only after careful examination of a case. All of these | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
crimes are treated very seriously. When we talk about rape, we are only | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
talking about three offences last year. I have to say that we only use | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
cautions in the minority of offences and would have to take into | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
consideration all of the details of the offence, the offender's | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
background and the victim's wishes. Once we have considered all of that | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
we will only make the decision then. We `` can you can you guarantee | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
these cases are all invested seriously? We will look at all | :03:10. | :03:21. | |
cases. The government has announced an overhaul of the policy on | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
cautions, saying they should no longer be used for serious cases and | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
that includes rape and a range of sexual offences against Jordan. `` | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
against children. One of the South West's most well | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
known tourist attractions has reported its worst ever financial | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
loss for the year up to March 2013. The Eden Project is blaming London | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
2012, a bad summer and the economic climate. But as our business | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
correspondent Neil Gallacher reports, it says it is now back in | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
profit. The tour season has fewer low points than a wet Wednesday in | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
January. Even today was as quiet as you would expect and its latest | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
account for the past year shows it has had some very quiet times. The | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
headline figure shows a loss of ?6.3 million but the underlying position | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
isn't that bad. The key figure is a trading loss of 1.3 million, the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
worst ever, but crucially even says that this year there will be a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
trading profit of at least ?2 million. Eden's badly needed | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
turnaround has been achieved by painful belt tightening. It has cut | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
jobs and moved people do flexible contracts, sold some surplus land | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
and it has found ways to get more spent per visitor out of the 900,000 | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
or so who did come. Eden's bosses say they have made it through a bad | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
patch. It was our most difficult period that we have had, the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
blackest period since the project was born. We have learnt from it and | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
we are now in a much more solid state going forward. Eden was built | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
on vast sums of public money, over ?100 million of grant at the turn of | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
the century. Amongst some other tourist attractions in Cornwall, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
there is scepticism about how cost`effective Eden has been, but no | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
one we spoke to today would like to see the back of Eden. I think it is | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
time they stood up on the Rome, the same as any other business. You | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
wouldn't want to see them closed? I wouldn't. I think with a slightly | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
different approach to what they are doing, they could attract more | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
people. Even at around 900,000 visitors a year, Eden is bringing in | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
more than any other Southwest attraction has done. I think Eden is | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
a fantastic success story. We are all aware of the modern problems but | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
it has been good for Cornwall, it has identified Cornwall as a massive | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
attraction and extended our season. Eden's days of multi`million`pound | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
grants looked to be over but it is still alive and kicking. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
A man working for South West Water has been found dead at a sewage | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
works in Cornwall. 54`year`old Robert Geach from Falmouth was found | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
in a filtration tank at the town's sewage works on the 30th of | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
December. A joint police and Health and Safety Executive investigation | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
is under way. South West Water says it's working with the authorities | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
and its thoughts are with Mr Geach's family and friends. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Plans for a new homeless hostel in Cornwall are likely to be shelved | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
because of budget pressures, according to the council. The number | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
of people sleeping rough in the county has risen by 50% since 2012 | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
and places such as churches have been used as temporary night | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
shelters. The hostel would have annual running costs of half a | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
million pounds, and some councillors argue the money would be better | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
spent on homeless charities. Coming up, a helping hand from actor | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Nigel Havers for a scheme to encourage older people to make new | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
friends. The next challenge for sailor Sir | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Ben Ainslie, which will take him all over the world. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
And singer Seth Lakeman, drawing inspiration from the region's most | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
colourful characters. Tonight there's a severe weather | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
warning still in place for rain, with more concern over flooding on | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
already saturated ground. It comes as homes and businesses right across | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the region try to clear up from the storms that have battered the south | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
west over the past few weeks. The entire coastline has been hit hard. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
In Porthtowan, where coastal erosion is already a problem, there are | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
calls for more to be done to shore up the dunes, and protect the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
village. Inland near Staverton, work has started to repair a steam | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
railway which was damaged in a landslide. But first to Plymouth, | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
where only one trawler ventured out in the stormy seas this week. And as | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Anna Varle reports, it's resulted in some cashing in on the bad weather. | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
The first troll to return to Plymouth in only a week. The Miranda | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
went out three days ago and has been the only fishing boat from the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
south`west at sea. Is that one of the worst kept you have known? No. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
We weren't risking anything stupid. It is a safe sea boat. If fishing | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
was any worse we would have come into shelter but myself and the crew | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
agreed to stay out. It was OK. This market is the busiest in the South | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
West. This morning this is all that was on sale. Leaving buyers with | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
virtually nothing. For us, it means limited stocks, | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
first and foremost. It means we have to sell frozen, which is something | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
we try not to do. What we do have to sell is more expensive. The poor | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
supply of fish has also meant prices have troubled. `` have trebled. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Prices are sky high. Only because there is such a small quantity. It | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
is all very well selling at ?10 per kilo but it doesn't pay the wages of | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
the staff we have to get in. This fish market says it hasn't seen | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
supplies this low in years. Last year they spilled 30 tonnes of fish, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
this year much worse. Just 17 of these crates. It is hoped that the | :09:43. | :09:56. | |
dramatic rise in prices won't be passed onto the consumer. Most chip | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
shops sell fish caught at sea. It should not have too much of an | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
effect on smaller fish and chip shops, as opposed to retail outlets. | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Three days at sea has paid off for the Miranda. They hope this catch | :10:11. | :10:23. | |
will get ?25,000. The Plymouth Fishermen's Association says that | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
this means that supplies won't rise dramatically any time soon. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Work is being carried out to try to clear a heritage train line which | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
has been blocked since Christmas due to a landslip. Residents at | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
Porthtowan are now being urged to take their old Christmas trees to | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the beach to tackle the corrosion. For years these dunes at Porthtowan | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
have been on the move. Sam has been blown onto the beach, blocking | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
drains. People are being asked to bring their Christmas trees out to | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
plant on that beach. The hope is that in the spring they will be able | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
to plant grass in between, which will provide stability. This idea | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
has been used with some success elsewhere in the country and on | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
other beaches in the country. At the moment this sound blows straight | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
onto the sand dunes across the road so the hope is the Christmas trees | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
will track the sun, start to form a sand dune and then an April May, | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
grass will hold the sand dune and stabilise it. But some local people | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
say the dunes need more than Christmas trees. They say part of it | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
should be sectioned off for protection and the area should be | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
properly managed. We should remove the sand so you have a fantastic | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
view of the beach. You can see the level over there was a natural level | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
and if we manage that, it would mean fencing off areas with walkways and | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
planting it up. Cornwall Council say this is just the start of a | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
long`term management plan. Meanwhile trees have been arriving in this | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
weekend they want volunteers with spades to come to bury them. | :12:17. | :12:29. | |
Work is being carried out to try to clear a heritage train line which | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
has been blocked since Christmas due to a landslip. The South Devon | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Railway lost out on lucrative trade over the holiday, and is now facing | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
large bills, after mud and trees came crashing down on the line near | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Staverton. Our South Devon reporter John Ayers has more. This is what is | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
left of the line for the landslip happened before Christmas. Water | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
soaked through the growing above the line and pressure built up, sending | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
trees and mud crashing onto the line. Work is taking place to try to | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
clear it. Two more trees will have to come down because they are now | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
unsafe and they will fall down if we don't chop them down. Once we have | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
got rid of all the timber we can then start digging away at them at | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
which has swamped the railway line. The railway is insured against | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
landslides and lost business but there are still heavy excesses. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
There is always the cost of putting everything right and one thing and | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
another, time taken dealing with this when we could be dealing with | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
something else. Of all the places we have where we keep a careful eye on | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
what is happening, this is the last place we expected this to occur. The | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
trees and not have to be removed, and the ground underneath need | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
shoring up. There is a huge amount of work to be carried out here | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
between Buckfastleigh and Stirton at the railway is adamant it will be | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
open in time on February 15. A scheme has been launched to reach | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
isolated older people and help them access local facilities. Age UK | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Plymouth's valuing lives project uses a befriending service to | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
encourage lonely people to meet others. It was launched by | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
celebrities Lee Mead and Nigel Havers. Jenny Walrond was there. A | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
rather oversized knife from the stage, along with two panto starts | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
launching today's project. Valuing life enables people to access their | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
committee, `` community. People that are isolated and lonely at home who | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
may not have seen people for a long time will be befriended on a weekly | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
basis. Someone will come around and chat and take them out and help them | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
to a bus or to access different services, or perhaps they can come | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
into our local centres. It has already moved people `` helps people | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
like Perl, who was planning to move home. A volunteer helped her to a | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
club. It is the satisfaction of knowing I am helping someone change | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
their life and a lot of them have a lot of life experience, so for me it | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
is inspirational to hear their stories. I think it is important | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
they realise having a mum of a certain age you need to get out and | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
about and not be stuck at home, otherwise I think you start to | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
budget and it's a bad thing, so this is an important service. My two | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
nouns, who aren't here any more, they came here in the last years of | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
their lives, so it is a great place to come and be together. Age UK | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
Plymouth already has 22 volunteers and it is hoped it will attract | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
others. The Cornwall sailor Sir Ben Ainslie | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
is to compete in the 20`14 Extreme Sailing Series. It's a global event, | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
taking place in eight different venues around the world. Ainslie | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
will sail in a 40`foot multi`hull, as Spotlight's Dave Gibbins reports. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Sir Benes Lee has proved he is the most formidable sailor in the world. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
His exploits helping team USA win the America's Cup last year. It | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
showed he can handle the biggest and the fastest yacht on the planet. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
While at the London boat show, a 36 rolled, who learned his trade in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Cornwall and was brought up in Truro, announced another challenge. | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
This one with the extreme series for a 40 foot multihulls, as opposed to | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
the 73rd votes he claimed in San Francisco Bay last September. It is | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
a different type of racing, short courses and close to the shore so it | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
is good for the spectators, and we do a lot of races, so I guess it is | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
a high impact type of racing. We also have some Olympic team`mates | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
with me, so a good team and we are very much looking forward to getting | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
back out and racing again. After sailing around by yourself it is | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
quite refreshing to go sailing with a bigger team, so all of last year | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
sailing in different boats with different croak, so I am looking | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
forward to being part of this one. Singapore will host the first of the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
eight stages in their break, with Cardiff hosting the UK leg in | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
August. Cornwall's historic Jamaica Inn has | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
gone on sale because the couple who've run it for the past 40 years | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
are planning to retire. The pub at Bolventor, was immortalised in a | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
novel by Daphne du Maurier and is on the market for ?2 million. It was | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
built in 1750 and it's thought smugglers used it to hide their | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
contraband. It's taken two years, and a lot of | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
conversations. Devon folk musician Seth Lakeman's latest project has | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
involved him talking to some of the South West's colourful characters | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
and turning their personal stories into songs. From tales of | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Bal`Maidens, young women who worked in the tin mines of Cornwall, to | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
accounts of the Tolpuddle Martyrs from Dorset, and memories of the | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
last surviving witness of the ill`fated Operation Tiger at Slapton | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
in Devon, the result is a new collection of songs entitled Word Of | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Mouth. BBC Radio Devon's John Govier met up with Seth on a cold, wet and | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
windy Dartmoor to find out more. Seth, you have been taking | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
inspiration from the moors since you started? I have, yes. | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
Past a sinking bridge, the surging river... I was born and bred here on | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
Dartmoor and I have always taken it as an inspiration for the work I do. | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
This is the start of one of the first way markers, the crosses that | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
marked a medieval track all the way across the murder. `` the murder. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
That definitely inspired the chorus markings down. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
There is a cross he must find... So this new album is not all about | :19:40. | :19:55. | |
Dartmoor. You have found the net a bit wider. Yes, I been reaching out, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
talking to people all over the South West. I have been two pubs, on the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
street and into churches, and it is a way of preserving people's stories | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
and their voices. They are modern day stories but they take us back in | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
history. Yes, like Reg Hannaford, the last surviving witness of | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
exercise Tiger, who kindly gave me an interview that was very powerful, | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
and a very powerful story. Let's go and see him. Hi, Reg. This is John. | :20:35. | :20:48. | |
Please to meet you, John. Reg, what is it like to know your story is now | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
captured in one of Seth's songs? I was quite shocked, I suppose. `` | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
quite chuffed. You can hear that Tiger when he moves... The first we | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
knew about it was when fishermen were here and Mellor `` American | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
military police were asking them if they had seen bodies in the sea. I | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
was only a lad and it is embedded in me forever. Now it will evolve in a | :21:24. | :21:35. | |
song as well. Yes, very nice. Now, last year Devon and Cornwall | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
police decided to start breeding their very own canine recruits and | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
in June, the first litter was born. Since then, the seven puppies who | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
make up the A litter have been put through a gruelling selection | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
process. Yes, we're following their training right through to the | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
passing out parade. Well, now, hot on their heels is the B litter, and | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby couldn't resist an invitation to meet the | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
latest police dog recruits. We're all starving. Lunch is served and | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
there are eight hungry mouths to feed. Hungry and noisy. Here we go. | :22:12. | :22:27. | |
Nice and orderly. This is the litter born in November, this second wave | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
of canine recruits bred by and for Devon and Cornwall police. We insist | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
each pup has its own bold to eat from, so we don't get a situation | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
where the bigger pups are pushing the smaller pups away, and we | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
introduce mincemeat, which they love, into the food bill why the | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
eating to let them get used to a human hand being around their food | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
bill, and they don't think humans are trying to take their food away | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
from them. After lunch, time for exercise with their mum Molly. She | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
is the second serving police dog to build is `` to breed a letter. I | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
don't remember much about the last few weeks, it is time consuming, but | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
I still feel that is the best way to get the most out of your dogs. Of | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
course not all forces can breed them at home. This police handler's dog | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
retires next year so there is here to find his replacement. He is | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
excited and so is his family. They are looking forward to it. Quite | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
daunted but really looking forward to it. The puppies will soon be | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
handed over to their walkers who will put them through as many | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
different experiences as possible. Some will be taken on a boat. The | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
litter is ready to take land and sea by storm. | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
They are so cute. Hard to believe they will soon be huge. They grow | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
very quickly. Spring is on its way because Rita has e`mailed us to say | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
the daffodils are up in her garden. But there is more rain to come. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
the daffodils are up in her garden. But there is Some mild temperatures | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
but a long wait to go of winter yet. Tomorrow we have some slightly | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
calmer conditions. We will have showers through the day but some | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
sunshine, starting to feel a little cooler through the day but for | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
tonight, we still have a weather warning from the Met Office for | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
further downpours of heavy rain across the south`west. This is the | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
radar from earlier. That main area of rain moved through quickly but it | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
was followed by heavy rain which is making its way across the region at | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
the moment so heavy downpours still to come tonight. You can see this | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
cloud moving up from the south`west with some clearer skies behind it | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
but another area of cloud set to head our way by Friday. For now we | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
have this low pressure moving away as we do through tonight, so for | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
tomorrow a few showers but I think some sunshine as well, clearer skies | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
through the afternoon. Just a temporary ridge of high pressure so | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
by the time we get to Friday this weather front has swept in from the | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
west, not earning too much heavy rain but more wet weather to end the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
week, winds increasing by Friday evening. For the moment we still | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
have this area of heavy downpours to clear, the risk of thunder at times. | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Later tonight, still cloudy, just a few light showers in the early hours | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
of tomorrow and also the winds increase especially along the south | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
coast, gusty winds here by first thing tomorrow, but minimum | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
temperature is still quite mild for the time of year, down to around | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
five or six degrees at their lowest inland. Tomorrow morning some cloud | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
and showery rain to clear away to the East, followed by decent spells | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
of sunshine tomorrow afternoon. Still a few showers on that breeze | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
but some brighter weather tomorrow as well, with the wind is perhaps | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
easing off as we head to the end of the day tomorrow, but temperatures | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
again during the day up to nine or 10 degrees, perhaps feeling a little | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
cooler in that breeze. For the Isles of Scilly team might catch some | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
showers tomorrow but also some sunny spells and moderate to fresh winds. | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
For the surfers are, about four to six foot waves around the coast but | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
generally choppy and messy conditions, and the coastal waters | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
forecast how the wind from the west or north West, backing | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
south`westerly with some showers out at sea, so moderate or good | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
visibility through today. We continue `` throughout the day. | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Sunshine and showers on Friday, a dry start that we see some rain | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
arriving from the West. On Saturday we will have sunshine but it will | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
feel cooler, and on Sunday more wet and windy weather arrives. Not quite | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
spring, then. That is all the news and weather this evening. I will be | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
back at 10:25pm. | :27:43. | :27:44. |