:00:00. > :00:09.from the News at Cix. Good"ye fro- me. On B@C
:00:10. > :00:13.Patients left waiting hours for hospital transport.
:00:14. > :00:19.Two private firms are heavily criticised.
:00:20. > :00:21.Good evening and welcome to Spotlight.
:00:22. > :00:22.Devon and Dorset have suffered the worst services.
:00:23. > :00:24.The firms say they've tried to make improvements.
:00:25. > :00:32.But patients say the failings just go on and on.
:00:33. > :00:41.It let us down, play Lee once. Then it was late on a couple of other
:00:42. > :00:44.occasions. It was the stress and attention, I was standing ottside on
:00:45. > :00:49.the doorstep waiting for it to come and it never came.
:00:50. > :00:52.Plans to prevent parts of Dawlish Warren falling into the sea,
:00:53. > :00:55.but the Environment Agency's scheme comes with a ?10 million prhce tag.
:00:56. > :00:58.MPs join the call for the rdgion's holiday trade to pay less V@T.And
:00:59. > :01:01.And how a mother turned to play writing, to help cope with
:01:02. > :01:07.There are serious concerns tonight about the the way patients'
:01:08. > :01:10.transport services are being run across much of the South West.
:01:11. > :01:13.Some patients have been left waiting for hours for ambulances to be taken
:01:14. > :01:18.The service in Dorset has been described
:01:19. > :01:21.as shameful and disrespectftl while the service in Devon has been
:01:22. > :01:25.The firms say they have worked hard to make improvements.
:01:26. > :01:27.Spotlight's Health Correspondent Sally Mountjoy has this exclusive
:01:28. > :01:43.Until last October the NHS Trust that operates these ambulances in
:01:44. > :01:47.the south`west provided nondmergency patient transport across thd
:01:48. > :01:51.region. As part of the drivd to increase competition contracts were
:01:52. > :01:56.put out to tender and awarddd to three private firms. There have been
:01:57. > :02:03.problems but earlier this ydar the company that run the servicds in
:02:04. > :02:08.Dorset and Devon were criticised. Victor is a kidney patient that
:02:09. > :02:12.needs frequent dialysis. He speaks for many fellow patients in Dorset
:02:13. > :02:16.who have had long waits to be collected from home and hospital
:02:17. > :02:21.after treatment. They have been waiting an hour to be picked up
:02:22. > :02:26.That is a long time when yot have been on dialysis for hours `nd you
:02:27. > :02:31.are feeling ill, which you tsually are and that has been difficult for
:02:32. > :02:37.them to handle. Today Counchl watchdogs have seen seven sdparate
:02:38. > :02:41.reports addressing the failhngs of the service. They have heard a
:02:42. > :02:46.litany of complaints, many lade in recent weeks from patients `nd
:02:47. > :02:51.hospitals. It includes transport arriving late or not at all, missed
:02:52. > :02:55.appointments, hospitals unable to discharge patients, long delays for
:02:56. > :03:02.phone booking. Patients describe it as intolerable and this shalbles.
:03:03. > :03:06.Dreadful. It is shameful. The policy is that dialysis patients, their
:03:07. > :03:10.transport is part of their package of care, it is part of their
:03:11. > :03:15.treatment package and it has to be delivered in a timely and
:03:16. > :03:20.efficient, safe manner. The company says they are working closely with
:03:21. > :03:23.health service partners to hmprove the service after unexpectedly high
:03:24. > :03:28.demand caused problems at the start of the contract. They say it has now
:03:29. > :03:31.recognised that significant progress has been made. Councillors have
:03:32. > :03:35.demanded to know more about how the NHS in Dorset has handled the
:03:36. > :03:42.problem. In Somerset, Cornw`ll and much of the Devon hospitals say they
:03:43. > :03:46.are concerned about delays but a number of patients have told us
:03:47. > :03:50.today about recent delays. Bob praises the drivers but says he was
:03:51. > :03:55.left waiting on several occ`sions for an ambulance to take hil to
:03:56. > :04:01.hospital appointments in Exdter They were very late coming `nd I was
:04:02. > :04:08.very late attending appointlents, to the extent where sometimes H missed
:04:09. > :04:13.an appointment altogether. There were no medical staff left `t the
:04:14. > :04:16.hospital at that time. It w`s the stress and attention. I was standing
:04:17. > :04:22.outside on the doorstep waiting for it to come and it never camd. The
:04:23. > :04:27.company says this experiencd is not normal. We have to be very clear
:04:28. > :04:31.here that the service is good, it is fit for purpose. Most patients, the
:04:32. > :04:36.vast majority of patients are getting a very good service. Can we
:04:37. > :04:47.improve? Absolutely, we can improve and we are working closely with
:04:48. > :04:49.commissioners to do that. Hdalth watchdogs will continue to lonitor
:04:50. > :04:51.the performance of Ambulancd Services across the region to ensure
:04:52. > :04:52.that patients get the transport to health care appointments th`t they
:04:53. > :04:53.need. Earlier I put the concerns
:04:54. > :04:56.in that report about Dorset to Jane Pike of the Dorset Clinical
:04:57. > :04:58.Commissioning Group. I began by asking her
:04:59. > :05:07.whether she agreed that the service It has not been a service that we
:05:08. > :05:11.envisaged all wanted for our patients and you are right to say
:05:12. > :05:15.that originally there were significant challenges. We have now
:05:16. > :05:19.worked when the company and there is a significant improvement so far and
:05:20. > :05:24.we expect it to continue. That has come at a cost. You had to give them
:05:25. > :05:27.another ?2 million on top of a 4 million you gave them the start of
:05:28. > :05:32.the contract, that is a lot of money to put right these mistakes.
:05:33. > :05:36.Absolutely, but it is in line with the activity they are now doing and
:05:37. > :05:41.we feel it is important for asked to get the service for our pathents so
:05:42. > :05:45.that is why we have put the extra resources. The scrutiny comlittee
:05:46. > :05:49.heard today that this company had four times as many calls as it had
:05:50. > :05:52.anticipated getting when it took over the contract, doesn't that come
:05:53. > :05:56.down to you not giving them the right information right at the very
:05:57. > :06:02.beginning? There are a numbdr of factors to that. Firstly thdre was a
:06:03. > :06:06.lack of robust information `cross the piece, so we had to gather
:06:07. > :06:11.information from a number of sources and some of those were very robust
:06:12. > :06:19.and some of those were less robust so we had to base it on our best
:06:20. > :06:22.information that we had and we did a fantastic job in publicising the new
:06:23. > :06:28.service which created to deland in the first few weeks on the telephone
:06:29. > :06:31.calls. Having private companies takeover NHS services is ultimately
:06:32. > :06:34.about cost`cutting but this has cost you more money and caused more
:06:35. > :06:40.inconvenience to the people you are supposed to be helping. This was
:06:41. > :06:44.never about cost`cutting, it was about ensuring we had a single
:06:45. > :06:48.robust service for the whold of Dorset which hitherto had bden a
:06:49. > :06:53.desperate service with a lot of disparate providers and the fact
:06:54. > :06:57.that we had teething problels in the first instance was a real issue for
:06:58. > :07:02.us that is why we have gone and supported this company in m`king the
:07:03. > :07:05.improvements that they wantdd to do. Are you confident now that patients
:07:06. > :07:09.will no longer experience the inconvenience they have dond up
:07:10. > :07:13.until this point? I am confhdent that we will continue to make
:07:14. > :07:17.improvements and we have already seen the improvement in the last few
:07:18. > :07:21.weeks and I have no doubt that will continue.
:07:22. > :07:22.We have to leave it there. Thank you very much for joining us thhs
:07:23. > :07:23.evening. Our Political Editor Martyn Oates
:07:24. > :07:25.has been following Martyn,
:07:26. > :07:34.what's been the reaction thdre? The government has had very little
:07:35. > :07:38.to say about it and it has sent it back down to the south`west and said
:07:39. > :07:41.it is the responsibility of Clinical Commissioning Group is on the ground
:07:42. > :07:46.to ensure that patient transport reaches the right standards. That is
:07:47. > :07:53.not good enough according to the Exeter MP Brent Bradshaw. `` Ben
:07:54. > :07:56.Bradshaw. The government forcing local commissioners to go ott to the
:07:57. > :08:01.private sector like this and contract out based on cost, not
:08:02. > :08:04.quality. We have seen it tile and again and in Cornwall with the out
:08:05. > :08:08.of hours service said the government is at fault here. It is also the
:08:09. > :08:11.responsibility of the local commissions to ensure that the
:08:12. > :08:15.service they commission is `dequate and of quality and this cle`rly is
:08:16. > :08:22.not. They need to do somethhng about it. There is wider criticisl of
:08:23. > :08:28.health policies this week. Yes they represent `` the union that
:08:29. > :08:33.represents doctors is having an annual conference and it has kicked
:08:34. > :08:37.itself off with a broadside at the government. They have been critical
:08:38. > :08:43.of underfunding of the NHS `nd also extremely critical of private sector
:08:44. > :08:47.involvement. The government has misguided policies that are creating
:08:48. > :08:50.a bizarre market culture and NHS managers are being driven to
:08:51. > :08:54.distraction by the madness of the market. They say that essentially
:08:55. > :09:00.the NHS does not have time to be obsessed with private companies tend
:09:01. > :09:04.in it `` private companies tendering and being compassionate intdnding to
:09:05. > :09:09.the week. He says essentially while the NHS is working to improve
:09:10. > :09:13.services for the patients, the government policies are working in
:09:14. > :09:17.the opposite director. `` dhrection. You get the picture. I think we will
:09:18. > :09:19.have a lot more in the same vein in the next few days, certainlx more on
:09:20. > :09:23.the Sunday Politics later this week. And here at Spotlight we'd like to
:09:24. > :09:26.hear what you think about that. You can do that via e`mail, Twitter,
:09:27. > :09:42.or Facebook. Flowers have been laid
:09:43. > :09:45.in tribute to a 16`year`old boy from Plymouth who died yesterday after
:09:46. > :09:48.falling from a bridge over the A38. The headmaster of
:09:49. > :09:49.St Boniface College, where the teenager was a pupil, said
:09:50. > :09:52.he was one of its brightest stars. Police say the death isn't
:09:53. > :09:55.being treated as suspicious. Muller Wiseman Dairies has confirmed
:09:56. > :09:58.it will close its depot at Pensilva near Liskeard,
:09:59. > :10:00.with the loss of almost 60 jobs The milk processing
:10:01. > :10:02.and distribution business announced in May that it was consulting on the
:10:03. > :10:05.future of the distribution depot. The dairy's decided to wind up
:10:06. > :10:08.the operation in a move that affects A construction worker has bden flown
:10:09. > :10:13.to Derriford Hospital with head injuries after an accident
:10:14. > :10:16.at the new waste incinerator plant The man is reported to have
:10:17. > :10:19.fallen around 30 feet. The Environment Agency has been
:10:20. > :10:26.setting out its ?10 million plan to protect part
:10:27. > :10:29.of the south coast near Dawlish It wants to take the profild
:10:30. > :10:33.of the coast at Dawlish Warren back to how it was in the 1940s `nd the
:10:34. > :10:37.work could involve dredging large amounts of sand just off Exlouth and
:10:38. > :10:40.pumping it across to the Warren Other hard sea defences would also
:10:41. > :10:50.be needed to help protect the main Spotlight's environment
:10:51. > :11:01.correspondent Adrian Campbell A sunny summers day looking out
:11:02. > :11:07.across the water from Exmouth to Dawlish. All is calm. There is a
:11:08. > :11:12.problem. Large quantities of sand have moved out to see over recent
:11:13. > :11:16.years. This winter it is thought that hundreds of thousands of times
:11:17. > :11:20.have gone from Dawlish Warrdn and there have been significant losses
:11:21. > :11:25.in Exmouth as well. The winter storms showed the importancd of ``
:11:26. > :11:28.importance of Dawlish Warren in protecting vital infrastructure and
:11:29. > :11:31.the Environment Agency has `n ambitious plan to help with the
:11:32. > :11:35.problems of erosion. Martin Davies says it is vital to get on with the
:11:36. > :11:45.work. One of the features of the South Devon coast in partictlar is a
:11:46. > :11:48.lot of communities have been built up on Saltmarsh so areas th`t
:11:49. > :11:50.flooded readily from the se` and they have now been developed. When
:11:51. > :11:55.you get significant storms nature is doing what it wants to do is
:11:56. > :11:57.reclaiming these areas so wd need to invest on schemes to stop
:11:58. > :12:02.significant flooding which would happen if we did not improvd them.
:12:03. > :12:06.On a warm summer 's day sea level rise may not see a problem `` may
:12:07. > :12:12.not seem a problem but people are concerned about the risk to the main
:12:13. > :12:16.attraction. We want to put `` we want to protect our beach. Ht is the
:12:17. > :12:21.longest beach on the whole of Devon, over two miles of golden sands and
:12:22. > :12:26.it is a wonderful asset to the town. As well as protecting Dawlish
:12:27. > :12:30.Warren we want our beach detected as well. Across the water at D`wlish
:12:31. > :12:35.the Environment Agency has `mbitious plans to recharge the beach using
:12:36. > :12:40.sand dredged out at sea. Thdre would also be other works to improve the
:12:41. > :12:45.hard sea defences. The sand has gone way down and this is a beautiful
:12:46. > :12:48.beach so it is a shame to sde that. There is plenty of sand between
:12:49. > :12:52.Dawlish and Exmouth and the Environment Agency says it hntends
:12:53. > :12:57.to work with nature and movd some of it back to the warrant. `` to
:12:58. > :12:58.Dawlish Warren. A strike by French workers hs
:12:59. > :13:01.forcing Exeter based airlind Flybe The official six day strike starts
:13:02. > :13:05.today and will last for a wdek. French aviation authorities have
:13:06. > :13:07.asked the firm to reduce its The airline is advising passengers
:13:08. > :13:11.travelling to and from France to check if their flight's still
:13:12. > :13:16.on before heading to the airport. Lifesaving defibrillators
:13:17. > :13:19.which give the heart an electric shock when someone is having
:13:20. > :13:22.a heart attack have been given to Around 20 volunteers have
:13:23. > :13:25.been trained to use them. Biologists in Cornwall say
:13:26. > :13:28.the abundance of massive barrel jellyfish off the county's coast
:13:29. > :13:30.this summer is leading to shghtings The turtles are attracted to
:13:31. > :13:36.the Cornish coast by the metre wide jellyfish,
:13:37. > :13:51.which are full of nutrients. A new study has shown that Harlequin
:13:52. > :13:55.ladybirds are preying on native species in the south`west. Ht is one
:13:56. > :14:03.of the most quickly spreading native `` species. Growing numbers are
:14:04. > :14:08.being seen in the south`west and they are eating locals PCs. `` most
:14:09. > :14:12.quickly spreading invasive speeches. Reduce VAT on tourism ` MPs join
:14:13. > :14:15.the campaign to help the industry. And finding solace on stage `
:14:16. > :14:18.the musical inspired by the loss Now to the story
:14:19. > :14:29.which has grabbed your interest Mobile phone reception,
:14:30. > :14:32.or rather the lack of it. We heard last night how not spots
:14:33. > :14:35.were driving many So today we sent
:14:36. > :14:39.Spotlight's Cornwall reportdr David George to the area th`t drew
:14:40. > :14:42.the largest number of complaints to see it for himself
:14:43. > :14:57.and to find out about the challenges Beautiful bay on Cornwall's north
:14:58. > :15:01.coast between Newquay and P`dstow. The sea wash and blocks all you can
:15:02. > :15:05.hear and you are not likely to be troubled by the ring of a mobile
:15:06. > :15:09.phone. I can point you to a spot on the sand dunes where the dunes are
:15:10. > :15:13.quite high and if you face hn the right direction you might bd able to
:15:14. > :15:17.get half a conversation with somebody. Just up the Valiente
:15:18. > :15:24.Hamlet has all mod cons excdpt mobile phone signals. About a
:15:25. > :15:30.two`mile radius where we ard now you cannot pick up a mobile signal which
:15:31. > :15:36.causes problems to a lot of people, obviously people who live hdre,
:15:37. > :15:39.holiday`makers who come in, but more important li `` importantly elderly
:15:40. > :15:42.people who need to be in communication with relatives and
:15:43. > :15:48.farmers who need to do business and people who work from home. Ht
:15:49. > :15:56.becomes a real problem in this area. They reckon 80% of the parishes here
:15:57. > :16:00.are not spots, that is hundreds of locals and thousands of
:16:01. > :16:03.holiday`makers affected. Devon and Cornwall business counsellor worried
:16:04. > :16:09.that people heading to Cornwall for these short breaks, business people
:16:10. > :16:14.who must always stay in touch may be put off from coming. It is `
:16:15. > :16:16.possibility. We heard on thd news yesterday about a certain ilportant
:16:17. > :16:21.gentleman who has to go homd because he cannot receive his important
:16:22. > :16:28.calls down here and I am sure he is not the only one. It looks like this
:16:29. > :16:32.could be the Prime Minister's favourite beach. It is a lovely spot
:16:33. > :16:37.for a break as long as you do not have to stay in touch. We asked the
:16:38. > :16:40.major mobile phone companies why coverage here was so patchy and what
:16:41. > :16:45.they would do about it. Thex said they would respond by e`mail which I
:16:46. > :16:51.can get here on my .Mac mobhle phone. When we did eventually get a
:16:52. > :16:58.signal we found that only O2 had replied. A spokesman said they were
:16:59. > :17:01.happy to have a dialogue with the government on mobile phone coverage
:17:02. > :17:06.and they spend millions of pounds on the network every year and cover 99%
:17:07. > :17:10.of the UK population. They have been working with Vodafone to pull parts
:17:11. > :17:11.of the network. He admitted that will not help if there is no network
:17:12. > :17:19.at all. Sailing and the Round Britahn
:17:20. > :17:22.and Ireland yacht race has dnded with a new record being set
:17:23. > :17:24.in the mono`hull catagory. The boats set off
:17:25. > :17:27.on their 2,000 mile voyage from Plymouth just over two weeks ago
:17:28. > :17:29.with Belgian yacht Brusails arriving Falmouth pair Will Claxton `nd Matt
:17:30. > :17:40.Gill took the multi`hull title. their first defeat this sumler
:17:41. > :17:43.in cricket's County Championship. Somerset's last pair of Petdr Trego
:17:44. > :17:46.and North Devon's Jamie Overton put on 71 to keep title rivals
:17:47. > :17:55.Nottinghamshire at bay at With one days remaining Nottingham
:17:56. > :18:01.need a further 86 to win with eight wickets intact.
:18:02. > :18:05.Some of the region's MP are joining hoteliers in their campaign calling
:18:06. > :18:08.on the Government to charge the tourism industry less V@T.
:18:09. > :18:10.Currently the UK is one of only four countries
:18:11. > :18:13.in the EU not to reduce the rate of tax on its good and servhces to
:18:14. > :18:17.From Torquay here's our South Devon reporter John Ayres.
:18:18. > :18:21.Are we paying over the odds for a good old British holiday? M`ny in
:18:22. > :18:26.the tourism industry think we are because of tax. The tax that we call
:18:27. > :18:31.a VAT is regulated by the ET but tourism is one area where there is
:18:32. > :18:37.room to manoeuvre and the UK is one of only four countries in the EU not
:18:38. > :18:40.to take advantage of it. Holiday`makers in the ``
:18:41. > :18:44.holiday`makers in the UK ard paying twice as much VAT as holidax in
:18:45. > :18:48.Spain and Italy and three thmes as much as those holidaying in France
:18:49. > :18:52.and Germany. That can make ` difference in what is a verx
:18:53. > :18:57.competitive market. This hotel in Torquay has signed up to thd
:18:58. > :19:14.campaign calling for VAT in tourism to be reduced. One of the things we
:19:15. > :19:16.have noticed here is that as these pound is strengthening against the
:19:17. > :19:18.euro our foreign visitors h`ve fallen quite dramatically and it
:19:19. > :19:21.shows the market is quite price sensitive. When you look at the VAT
:19:22. > :19:23.rates they pay on their hotdls it is little wonder they think our hotels
:19:24. > :19:26.are expensive in comparison. The campaign to lower VAT would mean
:19:27. > :19:28.prices can be lowered to invest more visitors which would `` attract more
:19:29. > :19:32.visitors which would invite more money to invest. It would encourage
:19:33. > :19:41.more people to take holidays in this country, not only that, it would,
:19:42. > :19:45.well, more revenue to the hotels and things like that. At the molent we
:19:46. > :19:49.take one holiday a year, solewhere in Britain for maybe a week or two
:19:50. > :19:55.weeks but if they were cheaper then we might go twice or three times.
:19:56. > :19:59.What it has cost us to come to Torquay, we're off to the Greek
:20:00. > :20:04.islands were about the same money. There we are guaranteed sun as well.
:20:05. > :20:10.It would not influence me pdrsonally but it may influence other people. A
:20:11. > :20:13.Treasury spokesman said thex recognised the importance of the
:20:14. > :20:17.industry but they do not have plans for a VAT cut for the sector because
:20:18. > :20:20.it would lead to a signific`nt revenue shortfall that would have to
:20:21. > :20:26.be met through increased taxes or increase borrowing.
:20:27. > :20:29.A woman from North Devon who turned to writing to help her deal with
:20:30. > :20:32.grief after he daughter died while training for Ten Tors is
:20:33. > :20:35.about so see her first play take to the stage Jennifer Wilkin Shaw's
:20:36. > :20:40.Not only did she write the play but she's directing it to
:20:41. > :20:43.for its run at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple next month.
:20:44. > :20:56.Hamish Marshall has been to rehearsals.
:20:57. > :21:01.On stage a play about the problems facing many in Britain todax,
:21:02. > :21:08.poverty, unemployment and homelessness. It has helped other
:21:09. > :21:16.deal with her problems of P`risian meant. You do not need to do
:21:17. > :21:20.anything for the moment... Jennifer's life was turned tpside
:21:21. > :21:24.down in 2007 when her daughter Charlotte drowned while trahning for
:21:25. > :21:28.ten Tors. A few years earlidr her husband had died. When her grief
:21:29. > :21:34.subsided she threw herself hnto something she had never dond before,
:21:35. > :21:39.writing and directing a mushcal I still have difficult times, mornings
:21:40. > :21:44.and nights and the loneliness, the difficulty of loss is always going
:21:45. > :21:48.to be with me but I think when you decide that you are living, you have
:21:49. > :21:55.to live as well as you can `nd you have to put things into perspective.
:21:56. > :22:02.Hence a show that is about reconciliation. Through an `ct of
:22:03. > :22:08.kindness a jobless Goodie brings an evil boss to his knees and their
:22:09. > :22:10.salvation. She tries but I think we are very difficult sometimes to work
:22:11. > :22:15.with but she tries her harddst and the fact she has written it from her
:22:16. > :22:24.heart and if we can look at it in the same way we will put thd same
:22:25. > :22:28.sort of passion into it. Shd has worked day and night on it `nd
:22:29. > :22:31.sometimes we feel we have not put enough effort in because we feel bad
:22:32. > :22:36.for her and this is her babx and she has put everything into a t`b and
:22:37. > :22:42.want to do a proud. And what of the daughter whose death put her on the
:22:43. > :22:48.road to the stage? In her thmes of seriousness I think she would say
:22:49. > :22:52.that I am a good example now, so I think she would be proud. She would
:22:53. > :22:58.also probably want to do sole gymnastics across the stage and
:22:59. > :23:05.probably a little bit of disruption but I think she would be proud of
:23:06. > :23:16.me. The musical is at the Qteens Theatre in Barnstaple on thd 17th
:23:17. > :23:21.and 18th of July. Great stuff. It is time for the weather forecast now.
:23:22. > :23:24.Will the sunshine really go away? All good things have to comd to an
:23:25. > :23:28.end. Can we make it stay?
:23:29. > :23:31.I have done my best. There hs a change in the forecast. We will see
:23:32. > :23:35.more clouds developing, particularly towards the end of the week and
:23:36. > :23:40.there is some rain in the forecast. For some it will be welcome but for
:23:41. > :23:43.others it will draw to a close a nice spell of summer weather that we
:23:44. > :23:48.have been enjoying. More cloud around tomorrow so they slow changes
:23:49. > :23:52.happening and the risk of showers. It is still relatively warm but not
:23:53. > :23:56.as hot as it has been for the last couple of days. Temperatures are
:23:57. > :24:00.down a few degrees. Alt in the Atlantic there is a lot mord cloud.
:24:01. > :24:03.It is already across parts of Ireland and the whole lot is moving
:24:04. > :24:07.slowly and erratically towards us. At the same time another we`ther
:24:08. > :24:11.system has generated a few showers today across the more northdrn parts
:24:12. > :24:16.of the country and it will track you across us. It will not have much
:24:17. > :24:20.left on it but it will introduce fresh conditions and for sole that
:24:21. > :24:24.will be welcome but the big change happens on Wednesday to Thursday
:24:25. > :24:27.when the weather system starts to approach. Slow progress but by the
:24:28. > :24:31.end of Thursday some of us will have seen some outbreaks of rain. As we
:24:32. > :24:35.move towards the end of the week it is low pressure. I pressure has been
:24:36. > :24:38.our friend all the way throtgh the last ten days or so and now it is
:24:39. > :24:44.replaced by low pressure as we head into the weekend. The satellite
:24:45. > :24:49.picture has more detail. Sole of this cloud will heads towards us but
:24:50. > :24:53.there is a arena to left on it. This was earlier today across East
:24:54. > :24:57.Dartmoor where our cameraman was out enjoying some fantastic views of the
:24:58. > :25:05.beautiful countryside in thhs part of Devon. A postcard picturd seen.
:25:06. > :25:09.The blue sky set off by such lush green foliage, the countryshde is
:25:10. > :25:12.looking very splendid at thd moment. Not everyone is happy with `ll of
:25:13. > :25:17.the flower was because the pollen has been very high for the last four
:25:18. > :25:20.days. Rain in the air at thd end of the week will help with that because
:25:21. > :25:27.it washes a lot of dust and pollen out of the air. Tonight temperatures
:25:28. > :25:30.will dip down as low as 11 or 1 degrees. Slightly cooler th`n it was
:25:31. > :25:34.last night but for many of ts it is still quite a warm night. Lhght
:25:35. > :25:39.winds and more cloud creeping in from the north in the second half of
:25:40. > :25:43.the night. Tomorrow we will expect more of the same. Patchy cloud
:25:44. > :25:47.around and gradually we will start to see that generate some showers.
:25:48. > :25:51.The sunshine will become a bit limited in the afternoon with
:25:52. > :25:57.generally a lot of cloud for most of us so a different story to tell The
:25:58. > :26:00.wind will freshen along the south coast and it will feel cooldr. For
:26:01. > :26:03.all of us with less sunshind around the temperatures are down from a
:26:04. > :26:14.view degrees from where we have been used to. The forecast for the Isles
:26:15. > :26:28.of Scilly. Here there is generally a lot of cloud, dry but more cloud in
:26:29. > :26:32.general here. Times of high water. Surfing will improve as we head into
:26:33. > :26:35.the weekend, more of a breeze developing will help to lift the
:26:36. > :26:39.surf somewhat but it is still a little bit flat along the south
:26:40. > :26:42.coast. The north coast may get two feet but it is not much mord than if
:26:43. > :26:49.it really over the next 24 hours or so. The sea temperature is pretty
:26:50. > :26:53.high for the time of year. That is all the strong sunshine makhng a
:26:54. > :26:58.difference. The coastal watdrs forecast has the winds
:26:59. > :27:01.north`easterly. Into the evdning it could pick up to force five along
:27:02. > :27:07.the south coast of Cornwall but generally fair with good visibility.
:27:08. > :27:10.In comes the change, a lot lore cloud and showers. We will see
:27:11. > :27:15.outbreaks of rain on Thursd`y, turning showery on Friday and
:27:16. > :27:21.Saturday and some of those showers could be quite heavy and also cooler
:27:22. > :27:25.conditions for all of us. Wd have gone down to about 17 degreds as we
:27:26. > :27:28.head into the weekend. It h`d to end and we have had a good spell and
:27:29. > :27:34.hopefully things will improve XP. Have a good evening.
:27:35. > :27:40.David is not our favourite person any more! That is it from us. The
:27:41. > :27:42.late news tonight is at 10:40 p m.. I hope you can join us for that
:27:43. > :28:00.Goodbye. Catch the late-afternoon games
:28:01. > :28:26.on the go.