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Tonight a former Royal Marine convicted of murder is refused bail. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Al Blackman was jailed for that killing, but had hoped to be | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Three cheers for Al Blackman! Hurray! Foray! Ore! | :00:14. | :00:32. | |
We'll have reaction from Sergeant Blackman's wife. | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
Why this housing estate is leaving residents frustrated, | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
and driving delivery couriers around a two-mile bend. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Frantic bidding for Christmas lunch; we're live at this Turkey auction | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
to find out why it's enjoying a revival | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
And defying the odds after her shock arrival, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
the summer-born reindeer christened at Christmas. | :00:52. | :01:14. | |
He'd hoped to be home with his wife and family for Christmas, | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
but this evening a former Royal Marine from Taunton | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
who is challenging his murder conviction has been told he'll have | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who served with Plymouth-based 42 | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Commando, is appealing against a life sentence | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
He'd applied for bail, but late this afternoon | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
that was turned down judges at a Court Martial | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Our Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers reports. | :01:40. | :01:52. | |
Surrounded by vocal support, Alexander Blackman 's wife walked | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
into the Court of Appeal with high hopes her husband might be home for | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Christmas. We are obviously disappointed. Two hours later she | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
walks out disappointed but still hopeful for the forthcoming appeal | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
hearing. Earlier this month at the criminal cases Review Commission | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
decided to appeal -- referred the case back to the Appeal Courts that | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
is the most important step to getting the conviction and sentence | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
overturned. Blackman 's legal team had applied for bail pending that | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
hearing, which could be as soon as January. We now know that until it's | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
heard the former Royal Marine Sergeant will stay in prison in | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Wiltshire. In his hometown of Taunton it was a decision that got | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
reactions. Absolutely should have been allowed out for Christmas, I | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
think it's a travesty of justice. To have had a bail now at this at this | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
stage would approve -- would presume the appeal is going to be won and I | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
don't think you can do it. Disgusting, I think I feel sorry for | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
his family and it should be let out straightaway. An MP who has been | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
part of the campaign of support for Marine A and visited him several | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
times in prison says that Blackman will not be too disillusioned. We | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
will meet again tonight. Not an entirely happy man, he would rather | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
be at home, but at least he knows a few weeks' time it could be all over | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
one way or another. A former Royal Marine colonel told me this | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
afternoon that unquestionably Blackman had made a mistake in | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
shooting dead the wounded Taliban insurgent, but others may need to | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
take some of the blame. Yes, he has failed, but I think to an extent the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
system has failed. Did we look after him properly? Did he know except you | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
couldn't do and if he didn't then there was a failure in the system | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
because we should have made sure that he did, and if he was under | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
stress, as some of the reports suggest, then the system I think | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
should have picked up and supported him before. So he -- so Claire | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
Blackman will spend another Christmas without her husband but | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
there are hopes that 2017 could produce a more positive legal | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
produce a more positive legal outcome. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Next tonight, a community divided by a fence. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
It cuts a housing estate in half, blocking one of the roads | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
which is not only frustrating residents, but quite | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
literally sending delivery drivers around a bend, | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
So who is responsible, and who is sitting on the fence? | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
I am on my way to visit a lady called Jean | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
who is having problems with deliveries because when | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
drivers, with their sat-navs or the maps they are following, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
come down this road, they suddenly find that this is in the way. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
And getting to the other side of this fence is quite some detour. | :04:50. | :05:07. | |
Well, that was the shortest way around and it is | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Dubbed the Berlin Wall. Nothing can get through. | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
Don't know where to go for this part of Carhaix Way. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
People on this side who have small children, there is a little hole | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
in a hedge that is actually very tricky to get through. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
That is what they have to come through to be able to walk. | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Otherwise, if they have transport, they have to get their vehicles | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
A number of different developers have built on this estate | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
with their own individual planning permissions, but even though these | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
neighbouring developments are meant to join the two ends of Carhaix Way | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
up, there is approximately a one foot difference | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Kaylea has also had problems with deliveries. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
One driver who was on the wrong side just gave up. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Rather than coming back around or calling us, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the delivery driver left the ticket on the fence and took a picture | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
of the actual ticket and then actually said that unfortunately | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Buses, bikes and pedestrians are supposed to be able | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Both developers insist they carried out their developments exactly | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
as stipulated in the planning permissions, to the letter. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
So I asked the local planners, how could this happen? | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
They did not really answer that question but they did tell me | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
that they are meeting with Devon County Council, | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
the highways authority, in the new year to discuss how | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
'Turn around when possible...' For now, and certainly this | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Christmas, delivery drivers are going to have to cope | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
with what is in front of them and find a way around. | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
Now a round up of some of tonight's other news: | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Two men have been jailed for the murder of a pensioner in Cornwall. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
72-year-old David Alderson was found dead in a pond at a disused mine | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Kevin Cooper from Carharrack was sentenced to 28 years in jail. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Trewen Kevern from Falmouth was given a 20-year sentence. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Devon and Cornwall Police say they're investigating allegations | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
of historic abuse within football clubs in the South West. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
They say they relate to non-league and junior sides. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Plymouth Argyle, Torquay United and Yeovil Town say | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
they're not aware of any allegations involving them. | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
That's also understood to be the case at Exeter City. | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
95% of households across Devon and Somerset should have access | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
A company called Gigaclear has been awarded four out of six publicly | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
funded contracts to roll out broadband to remote areas | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
The police are urging people to think twice before | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Officers say a large number of calls are still being received | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Call handlers in Dorset dealt with more than 34,000 calls | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
An IKEA furniture store on the outskirts of Exeter has | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
The city council approved plans for the store to be | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
built south of the A379, near Newcourt Way. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
The development includes plans for 220 new homes. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Drones are on many a Christmas wish list this year, | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
and it seems not just as toys for boys. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
South West Water is planning to buy them to carry special cameras that | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
can spot water leaks in the ground, as part of an effort to stem | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
the flow of more than 80 million litres of water that pours | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
A precious resource, but it is estimated more | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
than 80 million litres of water a day are lost through | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
The amount would fill about 32 Olympic-sized swimming pools. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
But flying in this technology could help. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
We are currently working with Exeter University to develop | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
thermal sensors to be able to help detect leakage using drones. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
So, a field like this could have a mains running underneath. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Because it is underground, we cannot see it. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Potentially, by using the thermal sensor, we would be able to fly over | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
and there would be different temperature signatures | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
which could potentially detect leakage or problems with the pipe. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
And the lab results so far are looking good. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
But when we pan across to where we have simulated the leak | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
and the soil is wet, we see a strong contrast between | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
We can export this technique by attaching smaller thermal | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
cameras onto drones, flying pipeline networks that carry | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
South West Water's drinking water, and demonstrating will be leaks | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
in that drinking water supply network might be so that then | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
South West Water can come in and fix those leaks. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
Test flights using thermal cameras are expected in the spring. | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
The humble cauliflower is set for something of a revival | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
after being named in the latest list of so-called superfoods, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
having been identified as packed with vitamins | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
And that's good news for growers in Cornwall where millions of caulis | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Packed with vitamins and minerals, the humble cauliflower is good | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
for your heart and your brain and is now being hailed | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
This is where most of the UK's cauliflowers are grown, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
David Simmons has been growing vegetables all his life | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
and his business produces 14 million caulis a year. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Two thirds of your daily vitamin C diet is in three | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
cauliflower florettes a day so you don't need oranges, | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
It is packed with other vitamins, K, folic acid and things like that. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
It is one of the most versatile vegetables that you can imagine. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
And community cook Sanjay Kumar is going to show us how | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
versatile it can be by making a festive cauliflower pancake. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
We are making a vegan pancake, using some green pea flour, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
which was also grown in Britain and then adding some | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
vibrant colour through it by making the pancake batter using egg, | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
Whisk the egg, the flour and the water in a bowl and then | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
add anything you want, especially the cauliflower, | :11:42. | :11:42. | |
so there are three different kinds of cauliflower and especially | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
with children it works in treat because it is a nice way of hiding | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
vegetables into your dish and for vegans it's a treat | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
because you've got lots of colour in it and lots of nice | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
vegetables which can become a part of your five a day. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Cut your pancake up into festive Christmas shapes. | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
Cornwall's got the fantastic maritime climate that's | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
We can grow cauliflowers here 12 months of the year, | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
where other parts of the country just can't do that. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
So good for the farmer and good for our diet. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
The perfect recipe for this Cornish industry. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
All the sport still to come tonight, and of course | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
the weather with David, plus: | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
Welcome aboard the spotlight Express on the South Devon Railway. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
With carols in the carriages, we head on a journey bringing | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
In new prison Abbott a thousand birds are going under back hammer, | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
including turkeys, and they are all being gobbled up. | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Sport now and Andy's here on a big night for Argyle. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Plymouth Argyle kick off their FA Cup second round replay with Newport | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
The teams couldn't be separated at Home Park more | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
than a fortnight ago, despite Newport playing most | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
There's a lot at stake as a lucrative trip to Anfield | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
to take on Premier League giants Liverpool awaits the winner. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Argyle's form has picked up again since the first tie and they go | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
There is an awful lot riding on any game. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
It is something we want to try and progress. | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
The reason we are here in this next round is because we were good | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
enough to beat Mansfield in the round before. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
And we'll have highlights of tonight's match in our | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Some cricket news, and Somerset have named Tom Abell as their new captain | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
The 22-year-old, who's from Taunton, becomes the youngest skipper | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Abell, seen here on the left, takes over from Australian Chris Rogers | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
who retired at the end of the summer. | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
Jim Allenby will continue as one-day captain. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
You may remember we showed you some pictures of the Cribbar wave down | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
As impressive as that was it's nothing on what you're about to see. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
This was the Nazare Challenge in Portugal and the moment | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Tom Butler, who's from Newquay, came a cropper on a | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
He was helped from the sea and taken to hospital after this, | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Get well soon is all I can say after that. A terrifying force of nature! | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
Time now to jump back on board the Spotlight Express. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
All this week we're journeying around the South West on some | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Tonight Johnny Rutherford is riding with the South Devon railway, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
where there is a real community feel, as people who like to belt out | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
a tune or two get together to sing Carols Down The Line, | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
raising money for charity as they travel along the tracks. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
Welcome aboard the Spotlight Express on the South Devon Railway. | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
This is no ordinary train ride, this is the chance to | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
Yes, you have to be willing to sing your socks off | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
I started Carols Down The Line along with my wife about 20-odd years ago | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
and we've run it virtually every year since. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
We love Christmas, it's a lovely celebration and we're going | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
to have a good singsong when we get to Totnes | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
and the Exeter Railway Band have come to provide the music. | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
Carols Down The Line is a return fare | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
running between Buckfastleigh and Totnes, stopping at stations for | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
We ran it to support various charities over the | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
years and National Children's Homes and Action For Children and | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
there's a lady runs a charity for the Gambia and we have supported | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
We have raised, I don't know, ?20,000 or ?30,000 over that time. | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
A few tunes by the track and then it's on to the next stop. | :16:24. | :16:36. | |
The train, as always, must run on time. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
The whole community, not only from Buckfastleigh, | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
but from all over South Devon, and even beyond, come | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
together and various organisations, various groups, churches, history | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
groups, car groups, anybody, the whole group come together to | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
We will sing number 30, In The Bleak Midwinter. | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
Even with the constant rain, in tune with the song, the | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
We've been about three or four times and we love the atmosphere. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
It really is fantastic and I love singing carols | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Make new friends and see old friends. | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
The atmosphere was really, really nice and friendly. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Brussells sprouts, parsnips, pigs in blankets, | :17:40. | :17:54. | |
Whether you like a goose, or nut roast, many will buy | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
the traditional turkey this year, but if you haven't already ordered | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
one, as luck would have it there are hundreds going under | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
the hammer tonight in Newton Abbott in a bidding tradition that | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
We can go live now to our reporter Clare Woodling. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
Good evening. Bidding is going on around the clock and certainly | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
farmers who have reared these turkeys will be delighted as there | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
is a rip roaring trade going on with the bird being sold about every 20 | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
seconds. It is a vegetarian 's nightmare but for the rest of us it | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
is a festive foodie fantasy, as I have been finding out. Come foul or | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
fair weather for some foodies there is no ducking out of a big day like | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
this. Flocks of people have landed here in Newton Abbot for the annual | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
dead poultry auction just before Christmas. The main auctioneer has | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
taken me under his wing and show me how it works. The turkeys and birds | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
arrived here from about 6:30am on the unloaded the front and the birds | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
are carried down and put on trolleys and we put them on the tables, all | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
laid out like this and later on we come along and we weigh them, write | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
the lot number which is pre-written on a card there and we write the | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
weights on, that is ?14.5 and the kilo equivalent. Good evening | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
everyone, hope you have your cheque-books ready. The mayor of | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Newton Abbot ceremonially launched proceedings with the first auction. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
They will start the bidding? It was summer she had never done before and | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
she told me she was winging it. It is daunting but I have watched | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
someone recently toured auction so I took my tips from them and I hope I | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
can start it off in a good manner as it could be. Sold at 28! It is | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
another feather in her cap. This is the heaviest turkey for sale here | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
today and it should feed 20 people and it weighs ?30.5. It will go for | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
about ?2 pound so that is an easy some! These people came from Wales | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
to bid on a bird. We have never had a Devon turkey before but we will | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
see what the taste is like on Christmas Day. It is usually from | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Pembroke. I'm looking at the size and the colour and the plumpness of | :20:26. | :20:38. | |
the breast and I'm taking into consideration how well it has been | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
plucked. We had a turkey from Newton Abbot last year and we really | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
enjoyed and thought the flavour was exceptional and so we decided we | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
would come back and see if we could get as good a turkey again. Those | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
people in from Cowbridge are among 450 bidders here tonight and come | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
what may every bird must be sold. I am joined from Clive Morgan from the | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
auctioneers, why is it tradition so important? We are having an | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
excellent sale here tonight, it is very important to keep the sales | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
going. There's poultry using tonight has all been reared locally and it | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
has been well fed and it has been running out on grass and killed | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
locally to produce excellent meat and the sale also brings a lot of | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
people into the town and the town enjoys a spin off from it and it is | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
very good to see these traditions going. In fact these traditional | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
sales are improving and people are tending to go for locally produced | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
food which is one very good thing. Marvellous, thank you very much | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
indeed. From all of this turkey -based action it is back to you! | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Thank you very much. That was a very busy night and we are staying with a | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
Christmas theme. It's only a few more sleeps | :21:52. | :21:52. | |
until Santa heads out on his sleigh to deliver presents on Christmas | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Eve. Now we all know he's | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
picked which reindeer will be helping him, | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
but he could soon A baby reindeer born near Whimple | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
in Devon defied the odds to survive after her shock arrival | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
in the summer. She's now become the star | :22:06. | :22:06. | |
attraction at Cotley Farm, as Emma Thomasson has been finding | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
out. Sound at the cute animal alarm. This | :22:09. | :22:22. | |
baby reindeer was born earlier this year and she came as a bit of a | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
surprise to everyone on the farmers bethought her mum was too old to | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
conceive. I looked across the field and I thought I saw a baby rabbit | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
and the reindeer, but when we came close it was a baby reindeer. It was | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
just amazing. It turns out she had been born prematurely so had to be | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
hand reared. Mum didn't have any milk and she was so tiny, even if | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
she had been able to drink she wasn't tall enough to even reach the | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
teats. Luckily, because we farmers, we had a cow that had carved that | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
day so she got fell from the coward rather than the reindeer to get her | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
started. She has grown a lot since then and has now been weaned away | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
from her mum but there was just one thing missing. She doesn't have a | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
name. I can think of plenty. How about -- and dancer and brands are | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
and fix? -- dancer, France and vixen. A local schoolgirl one a | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
local competition with the suggestion of the name Willow. I had | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
my new baby cousin born and my uncle and my auntie decided to call her | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Willow so I thought it would be really generous to name the baby | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
reindeer Willow. What better name could a girl reindeer ask for full | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
Christmas? That's a good choice. Sweet. We will | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
now see what the weather is doing in the | :24:07. | :24:07. | |
run-up to Christmas. Edwin Poots for San Siro? We are trying to work out | :24:08. | :24:19. | |
what way he comes across? He will come from eastern Europe but he | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
might end up a bit late but he will be their own time despite the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
headwind. We have unsettled weather as we move into Christmas. There is | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
a lot of wind around but thankfully we are a long way from the low | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
pressure in the north of the country which now has a name. Tomorrow is a | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
quiet day for all of us with a few showers away and feeling a little | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
bit cooler. We will have sunshine but the winds pick up overnight. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
This was earlier today in Teignmouth, where our cameraman got | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
a glimpse of sunshine, hazy sunshine, on today, the Winter | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
solstice, the day where we have the least number of minutes of daylight. | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
From now on the nights will be shorter and the days will get better | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
with a bit more sunshine. Today is very unsettled and the pattern of | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
weather doesn't change much in the next few days. It does get better | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
next week. This line of cloud has the boundary between colder air on | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
one side of it and mild moist air along its boundary. It will | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
eventually move away from us and lie across the middle of Europe. Coming | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
out of Canada, like an express train is a new area of low pressure that | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
is racing up to the far north of Scotland. We will see some pretty | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
lively winds associated with it on Friday. The weather front is | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
bringing heavy rain through the afternoon on Friday afternoon and as | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
we move into Christmas Eve it is south-west winds for both Christmas | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Eve and Christmas Day and with the winds on the south-west it means | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
pretty mild air for Christmas Day. We could see temperatures of 14 or | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
15 so we are pretty sure there is no chance of a white Christmas. The | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
cloud and the rain in the last few hours is becoming too clear from the | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
North. With slightly colder air and clearing skies it could turn a bit | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
chilly overnight with a risk of a touch of frost and a few showers on | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
the north coast by dawn tomorrow morning. Quite a few places getting | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
down to zero or 1 degrees. Tomorrow will be predominantly dry with | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
showers that are fairly isolated with spells of sunshine in between | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
and generally much light winds that we have seen recently. Temperatures | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
down on what we have seen recently. Nine or ten or 11 in the far west of | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Cornwall. The Isles of Scilly are bright and breezy with sunny spells. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Here are the times of high water. This is how it looks right through | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
and including Christmas Day with windy conditions and for all of us | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
it will feel quite mild. Have a good evening. Thank you. The wind has | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
nothing to do with the cauliflowers, then David! That is all from all of | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
news later. Good night. Don't you news later. Good night. Don't you | :27:45. | :27:54. | |
The roads we walk have demons beneath them... | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
..and yours have been waiting for a very long time. | :28:00. | :28:03. |