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Tonight, gritters are out across the south west as wintry | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
There's already a covering of snow on high ground with a warning | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
of further wintry showers and ice to come. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
There are also flood alerts in force in Cornwall. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
We'll have updates from our reporters across the region. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Also tonight - the football match turned blame game. | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
Argyle is criticised over a ticket debacle with some fans unhappy, | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
A sunny outlook - we'll reveal why there's growing optimism | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
And a life for a lifeboat - the family story behind | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the funding and dedication of Exmouth's new vessel. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
I just wish that he had lived to see what I've done | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
with the money that he and my mother earned together. | :00:44. | :01:03. | |
Snow is affecting parts of the south west tonight and the Met Office has | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
issued a yellow warning that the wintry conditions | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Gritting lorries are already out on major routes across the region. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Some drivers have reported difficult conditions on high ground. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Elsewhere, there are flood alerts in place for some coastal areas. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Tonight we'll report on the conditions right | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
In moment the latest from Cornwall, but first to Devon. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
John Danks is at the County Council control room and John Henderson | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Yes, Victoria, our first snow of the winter, I can confirm, it is | :01:34. | :01:49. | |
bitterly cold in Princetown this evening. I came up about an hour and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
a half ago and saw white fields, blessed with snow, very cold indeed. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
What are the conditions like on the road? My colleague is at the Devon | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
county control room near Exeter. It is nice and warm in here but look at | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
the chart behind me, this has got all the details of the road | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
temperatures and if you look, the ones in red, -1.1 degrees, -2.2 | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
degrees here. In the last hour, the numbers have been plunging. There | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
are 58 gritters that the County Council has on the roads and they | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
have been out gritting 2000 miles of the road network. Primary and | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
secondary routes and temperatures due to drop to as low as minus three | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
degrees this evening. Elsewhere in terms of travel, no reported | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
problems at Exeter Airport and no problems on the rail but here in the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
operations room, for Devon County Council, they are most concerned | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
about the state of the roads. The gritters began their work | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
around midday today. These vehicles coming back | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
to be restocked with salt The wet weather combined | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
with falling temperatures is making things difficult | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
for the gritting teams. We have got 58 gritters out | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
at the moment around doing the county networks and even | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
secondary route so we're doing They have been treating | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
this afternoon. You would have seen some | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
of them out in the rain. And that has to be done when rain | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
precedes snow so we get some salt down and then they are loaded up | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
and go out again. At Devon County Council's highways | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
operations centre, this map indicates Winrow temperatures are | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
below 1 degrees. The picture is constantly being updated with travel | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
cameras showing the snowfall on Dartmoor. Their advice is to avoid | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
overnight travel unless absolutely essential. Temperatures could fall | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
to as low as minus three degrees in some parts of the county and the | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
local authority says it is closely monitoring the state of the roads. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
That is the picture in Devon, now, my colleague Alan Parkinson can | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
bring you the latest in Cornwall. -- Eleanor. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
Yes, it's been raining here, all afternoon in Cornwall | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
and as the temperatures fall this evening, this is expected | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
to turn to sleet and snow, on higher ground especially. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Cornwall Council say the gritters will be out all night. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Those gritters will have snowploughs. | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
There will be 31 machines in all, across 25 routes. | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
But they said the biggest problem they anticipate is for drivers early | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
in the morning because of the ice when the temperatures | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
The wind and the rain have also been having an effect all along | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
the North Cornwall coast and there is now a flood warning | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
and for areas around the Upper Tamar and North Cornwall's rivers. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
You can hear the wind and the waves behind me here in Newquay. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
The weather has also been affecting flights coming in and out | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Two flights to London were cancelled altogether and flights to the Isles | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
But the main warnings are for motorists to look out for standing | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
The snow is settling and lots of people will of course want to come | :04:57. | :05:13. | |
out and enjoy it. I am joined by someone from the parish Council on | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Dartmoor forest. You have some advice for people. It is lovely when | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
it snows, come and throw snowballs by all means but we would say, avoid | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
climbing over gates and fences, farmers would much appreciate that. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Park sensibly on the road, to one side so emergency services can get | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
through if possible. And come out and play in the snow safely. Have | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
they been problems in the past? Yes, because we don't get a lot of snow | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
and everyone likes to bring the children out and that is fine. But | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
it is not good if... It is not good when it interferes with farming | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
practice and people that live here every day. Are there other places, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
if you see your field and people want to get the sledgers outlined | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
want to it, is that the problem? We would prefer you to avoid the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
fields, there's a more land out there. Are private. Not great if the | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
snow is compacted so the stock cannot find grass underneath. -- | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
fields are private. They need to be left quiet. Thank you. They are just | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
saying, if you come out and enjoy the snow, be responsible. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
And we'll have the latest forecast from David later. | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
There's also be a further update on how the weather | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
is affecting our region in our late news at 10.30pm. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
And if you need to be out and about tomorrow morning your BBC | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
local radio station will have travel and weather updates. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Plymouth Argyle has defended the way it's handled ticket sales for the FA | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
The club has come in for criticism from some supporters | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
but the Chief Executive argues it's a case of supply and demand | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
and that the club has simply tried to find the fairest way | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Andy Birkett has been at Home Park today. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
With the final whistle, they all knew what was coming. | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Members have the first chance and then fans who had booked | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
at least five tickets since the beginning of last season. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
They are good problems to have in a sense but we could probably | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
sell this game three times over, to be honest. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
And clearly, some people are going to be disappointed | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Whatever we do, there are going to be people | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
with different opinions and what we're trying to do is be | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
I'm not sure we could have done it much differently. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Yesterday afternoon, supporters were turned away | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
And to make sure tickets were still available, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
For some, this process had become a little confusing. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Communication is the thing that has let this whole operation down. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Yes. Yes. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
I was at work yesterday, it was my first opportunity to come up here. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
And I thought I would get served easily, to be honest, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
but it has not been the case and I have been bitterly | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
disappointed with the experience I have had today. | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
Some were happy... Yes, I have got | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
sympathy for the club. It is not easy. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
I have had people round at my door, saying, can you get me tickets? | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
And they've never been to Argyle in their life | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
but they want to see Liverpool. I think it's better this way, | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
at least mostly Argyle fans will get a ticket. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
The idea of missing out is just too much. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
I will just go and have a cry somewhere in the corner. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
It was just such a fantastic game last week and I just have to be | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Last week was also not so fantastic for one fan, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
who was refused entry into Anfield and had to pay again, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
despite buying her original to get through the Argyle box office. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
We were pulled aside and actually told that our | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
The only solution was for us to buy some more tickets. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
I have been waiting every day for somebody to get back | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
to me as they assured me they would and the response was, | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
they would refund me the original ticket money | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Nothing else will be offered to me and I thought perhaps a little bit | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
of compensation would have been required for a long trip. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Numerous attempts were made to contact the club this | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
afternoon but no one was available for comment. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Many people queueing in the rain today for tickets. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Now the weather today might have us thinking about our summer holidays | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
and according to industry watchers tourism in the south west is growing | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
more strongly than at any time since the year 2000. | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
Well one of the reasons for that growth is fears about terrorism | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
in parts of the Mediterranean and big cities like London. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Visit England has been asking British people if they're more | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
likely to holiday in the UK and 18% said they are, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
with some of them citing fears about security abroad. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
More from our business correspondent Neil Gallacher. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Midwinter murk at Newquay Airport, but behind the scenes, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Flybe have just announced an expansion of summer routes, | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
including the return of Stansted-Newquay. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
Ryanair will have some new routes, too, because people increasingly | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
Certainly, a staycation, over the last few years and going | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
into the future, will continue. The Poldark effect as it is called. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Manchester will grow to over 80,000 passengers this year, | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
that is 10,000 more passengers they had at the height | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
In Torquay, a slick new development on the site of the derelict former | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
Palm Court Hotel is a good example of the strong current | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
People are very happy to say, "I am taking my holidays in England | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
and the UK," whereas previously, what was fashionable was always | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Research shows it is not the case any more. | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
There is a sense of pride and I think that pride | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Hospitality businesses are investing to take advantage. | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
Matt and Claudia Forward have just put ?100,000 | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
into their new cocktail bar in Torquay. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
How much money did you sink into this place? | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Enough! About 100,000. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
That's quite a gamble, to invest that much. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
But if I hadn't done it, someone else would have | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Up the coast in Dorset, it is a similar picture. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Investment-wise, we are probably spending across Dorset, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
over ?1 million in facilities, enhancements. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Bookings for 2017 are 11% up on where they were last year | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
The labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says more money needs to be pumped into | :11:50. | :12:05. | |
the NHS and local councils to ease the crisis in care in local | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
hospitals. Hospitals in the region face a rise in delayed discharges | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
and an increase in emergency emissions. Many vulnerable and frail | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
elderly people spend too long in hospital and can't get out because | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
there is no care for them. I wouldn't use the word bed blocking | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
because bike thing that is an unfortunate term. People with | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
delayed discharges. Should we open the small cottage hospitals? They | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
help because they can be part of the care system. Because of the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
inadequacy of social care, many people actually suffer, give up | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
jobs, particularly women, lose career opportunities because they | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
have to look after people the social care system can't. We have to | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
address this issue. In the south west, there is a disproportionate, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
compared to national average, number of elderly people and that has to be | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
addressed by proper funding of the social care system and our | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
hospitals. Is it about more money? Money into local government more | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
than anything else, to help with the social care system but also | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
recognising that if we don't invest enough in our NHS health service, it | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
has a knock on effect. If people can't get operations, Ben Coad go to | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
work. If people wait a long time to get an appointment, it may be | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
affecting the job opportunities and that has an economic knock-on | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
effect. An official NHS benefits all of us. Theresa May said the last | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
thing the NHS needs is a check from Labour that will bounce. I would say | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
that last weekend, said there was a humanitarian crisis in our health | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
care in written. Internationally renowned organisation, not given to | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
over the top statements of any sort, anywhere, said that and I think she | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
should reflect on that and reflect on all of the pressures she has been | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
under from all of the royal colleges dealing with varying aspects of | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
medicine, expressing their concerns about waiting lists, trolleys, | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
delayed operations and shortage of GPs. Address those issues rather | :14:19. | :14:19. | |
than blame us. Now a round-up of some | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
of tonight's other stories Plymouth City Council has suspended | :14:24. | :14:43. | |
work on its road improvement scheme in Plymouth after more white | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
phosphorous grenades were found on the site in Tavistock road. Ten | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
World War II grenade grenades were found and detonated on Tuesday by a | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
bomb disposal team. An extra 14 grenades were found and removed | :14:59. | :14:58. | |
today. A court has ordered a psychiatric | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
assessment on a Devon man charged with possessing an explosive | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
substance for an unlawful purpose. Timothy Holman, who's 41 | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
and from Osborne Road in Ilfracombe, was arrested after a major police | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
operation in the town last month. A 31-year-old woman has died | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
after a crash involving a tractor and trailer near Redruth. | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
A one-year-old baby in the car survived, | :15:14. | :15:14. | |
suffering only minor injuries. It happened on the A30 near | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
the Avers roundabout last night. The road was closed | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
for around eight hours. Three men had been charged with | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
murder after a man's body was found in St Austell. 31-year-old Stephen | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
bowl was found with knife wounds in a part in Truro road yesterday | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
morning. Three local men all aged in their 20s will appear at Bodmin | :15:42. | :15:42. | |
Magistrates' Court tomorrow. A couple from North Devon say | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
they've been struggling to keep warm after a new eco-heating system broke | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
down 39 times in the last 21 months. Robert Smith's oil-fired system | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
was removed by social landlords Westward housing group and replaced | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
by one that uses wood pellets. Filling up the wood pellet | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
boiler is something He has also got used to it breaking | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
down time and time and time again. Right from the start, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
it's just been a disaster and we are now on the 39th breakdown | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
in 21 months. As a tenant, I am | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
relying on the landlord to give me reliable, | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
adequate heating, which is their job. | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Which they have not done. Robert and his partner, | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
Brian Ridgway, rent their house through social landlord, | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
Westward Housing Group. Brian is disabled and | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
has had five strokes. I have to keep warm in whatever room | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
I am in and it is no good me getting cold because I know I am | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
going to end up straight This room already had | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
an electric fire. The couple were also given extra | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
electric radiators and money I'm very disappointed the way this | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
has had to drag on for so long. I contacted Westward initially well | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
before Christmas about this These are two elderly | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
gentlemen, one is disabled It is highly unsatisfactory the way | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
they have been treated. Westward Housing Group has | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
apologised and has promised to reinstall oil fired heating | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
as soon as possible. It says of 75 similar | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
systems that were put in, in other properties, | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
only three have had Manufacturers Warmflow say - | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
we have established that there have been issues with the whole heating | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
system in this house, When our wood pellet boiler | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
is correctly installed, commissioned, properly maintained | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
and operated by the householder, using the correct fuel, | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
these issues do not occur. Installers Anesco | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
declined to comment. But Robert Smith says he has been | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
using the boiler as instructed, so is he confident things | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
will finally be sorted out? Until I see engineers here, | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
putting the new system in, I still have got no confidence | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
it is going to happen. A new lifeboat's been | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
launched in Devon today - we'll meet the woman | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
who paid for it. And after the rain, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
sleet and some snow, the main problem for us tonight | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
is the risk of ice, especially first thing | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
tomorrow morning. More details from me | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
later in the programme. A book created and funded by parents | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
in Cornwall to prepare children for primary school has been | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
so successful, it's gone global. are being sent to every three- | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
and four-year-old in the county. You may remember we featured | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
the picture book on Spotlight last year - it includes children | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
with Down's Syndrome and it's been so powerful the creators have had | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
enquiries from as far away Emma Thomasson has been to meet Noah | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
- one of the stars of the book. And you need to do some windows. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Can you do some windows? Noah sat on Miss Elliott's chair | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
because no one wanted to pretend to be the teacher. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
It felt a bit giggly. He likes running around | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
and he falls over a lot. And we play on the whiteboard | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
with him and we take turns. Not one of Noah's classmates | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
I spoke to talked about him And that is exactly the point | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
the parents who created the book that he is featured | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
in want to get across. Instantly, I pick out similarities | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
rather than differences. Children will say, oh, I read that | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
book, or we have that at home. Several comments into | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
the conversation, then it might appear, oh, | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
that child, why does he look like that? | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Why has he got those in his ears? And that is really refreshing for us | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
and encouraging because we know that children of that age, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
they haven't really formed any hard Today, she is working | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
with Vicky who is another of the volunteers who have produced | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
and financed the book. It is being sent every | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
to childminder, nursery and preschool in Cornwall over | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
the next four years. And news about the book | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
is spreading around the world, thanks to celebrities turning | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
to social media. They include the Poldark cast, | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Miranda Hart and a whole host And that kind of support | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
is something they could only have dreamt of when they started | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
producing the second in the series of books | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
from their kitchen table office. They are now being distributed | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
around the world with one of the biggest orders | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
in North Carolina in the US, where they are being included | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
in welcome bags to parents They are like any other child | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
and they should be given the same thing that you when I had | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
when we were little babies. So, how do you feel about Noah | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
being in the book and it being seen potentially all around the world? | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
It's amazing. It speaks a thousand words, | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
the pictures, just details, children going about everyday school life. | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
And it's very, very... Noah, can you show me | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
where you are again, in the book? Where you are in the book? | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
There! I'm not sure if Noah feels quite | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
the same awe as Mum... He has the more pressing issue | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
of getting back to play No has got far better things to do! | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
-- Noah. Lifeboats are a familiar sight | :21:20. | :21:31. | |
around our coast and today Exmouth took delivery | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
of a new inshore lifeboat. The current D-class vessel has | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
reached the end of its busy It's been called out more | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
than 600 times and rescued Spoligtht's Rebecca Wills | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
was there to see the end of one era It was out with the old at | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Exmouth Lifeboat Station today... The inshore lifeboat, | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
the George Bearman, taking to the water for the final time | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
as it was retired after ten years' It's been a decade in which the | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
D-class vessel has been called out 614 times, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
rescued 466 people, 28 Also a D-class vessel | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
and also bearing George And getting a prime seat | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
to watch the new inshore lifeboat enter service was George's | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
granddaughter, Pauline. It was her donation | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
which provided by the old As they both came in towards | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
the shore, I was so proud, Sad also, seeing the first | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
one on its last trip. But hopefully, this one | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
will give just as good George Bearman was a | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
coastguard in Norfolk. He was just 38 when he | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
lost his life at sea in It is that family tragedy | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
which prompted Pauline to support My father never knew his father | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
because he was only I just wish that he had | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
lived to see what I've done with the money | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
that A fantastic legacy. | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
Yes, absolutely. The D-class boat is considered | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
the workhorse of the RNLI, so the The old boat has given ten years | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
of really good service, hard service here. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
It is quite a busy station. So the new boat should | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
seamlessly take over as it has this morning | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
and give equally as good service | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
over the next ten years. It will be officially | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
named in May when hopefully, champagne, rather | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
than rain, will cover the bow. Plenty of rain in Exmouth earlier | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
today, as we have seen on the programme tonight, some of the rain | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
has turned to snow in places so let's get the latest from David. | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
Some snow falling, mainly above 300 metres, about 1000 feet. But even at | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
lower levels, some of the showers and it could feel quite wintry. A | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
bit of a problem with a risk of ice developing, the temperatures have | :24:16. | :24:16. | |
fallen and they will continue to fall overnight. You will really need | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
to wrap up warmly. Probably the coldest feeling day we have had so | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
far this winter. Some wintry showers dotted around as well. Some quite | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
heavy. Overnight tonight, all of the rain we have seen on some of the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
sleet and snow on higher ground, we have a risk of ice which continues | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
through the night and for a good part of tomorrow morning. Stay tuned | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
across BBC local radio for updates. It isn't just the cold. The snow on | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the ice and the wintry showers. It is also very windy at the moment and | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the strength of wind is also of some concern because we have some pretty | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
high tides tonight. Some coastal flood alerts in force across the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
North Cornwall and Devon coast. Winds straight from the Arctic and | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
trapped within it, several lines showers which could affect this | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
during the day tomorrow. Saturday, a little bit less windy. A little | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
quieter. Still a bit fraught because a weather front is trapped in | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
amongst all that which could produce some sleet or even some snow over | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
higher ground. A definite change on Sunday to less cold air. Even the | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
possibility of some light rain or drizzle. Temperatures will start to | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
come back up. The wings are bitterly cold. Particularly lively at the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
moment, across the more western parts and some really strong gusts. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
They stick with us through the day tomorrow and in that flow from the | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
north-west, leaving Ireland this evening and overnight tonight, some | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
more wintry showers. Don't expect everything to be clear and cold and | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
windy overnight, there is a risk of some wintry showers turning up | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
during the night. Dartmoor, Princetown, there is some snow that | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
fell earlier today. Not a huge amount but it has left a covering of | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
snow on the houses and grass and on the mauls and the vehicles. Traffic | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
moving quite nicely still at the moment but of course it will freeze | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
overnight tonight so a risk of some ice on untreated roads and | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
pavements. The main area of rain now moving into south east England is | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
now giving snow. Even right down to quite low levels. If you are | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
travelling out of the region, be prepared to run into some snow later | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
on tonight. A scattering of showers possible through the night. Sleet or | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
snow mainly over high ground. A bitterly cold north-westerly wind. | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
The risk of ice existing first thing tomorrow morning. Plenty of winter | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
sunshine so not all bad news but the risk of a few passing showers | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
through the day and of us, not very warm. With the wind chill, it will | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
feel a lot colder. A particularly windy day on the Isles of Scilly. | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
The times of high water. For our surfers, some pretty lively | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
condition out at sea. Dangerous along the north coast. | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
Bulletins at 10:30pm and on your radio station from 6:30am in the | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
morning when it could be quite tricky. Goodnight. | :27:40. | :28:14. | |
..and keep telling yourself over and over, "This will end." | :28:15. | :28:15. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and groom. | :28:16. | :28:15. | |
So what if I forgot our poxy anniversary? | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Er, I think this year was copper. 14th is poxy. | :28:20. | :28:23. |