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Suffocated. Frustrated. We have so much pressure, it's too dangerous, | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
there is not enough of us. We are not able to do the job we are | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
designed to do because there is not enough of us. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Laura Beal was a face of the force, but tonight she's lambasted | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
the service on the very same day an official report says it | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
We'll hear more from Laura, and Devon and Cornwall's Police | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
and Crime Commissioner - Alison Hernandez is in the studio to | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Confirmed - the closure of dozens of community | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
We're live at one of the hospitals affected. | :00:42. | :00:57. | |
Outrage over dumping Devon's rubbish in Cornwall. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
They are criminals, they are commercial, they are thieves, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
stealing from the public purse and every single council tax payer | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
because those things have to be cleared up. | :01:12. | :01:12. | |
A waste recycling centre has been severely damaged. | :01:13. | :01:36. | |
Police in Devon and Cornwall need to improve their performance | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
at cutting crime and keeping people safe, their most important duties, | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
according to a report from the regulator. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary rated | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
neighbouring forces Dorset, and Avon and Somerset as good, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
but said Devon and Cornwall had declined since last year. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
It comes as a frontline officer in Devon released her | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
resignation letter which describes in stark terms pressure on staff | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
and questions whether police cover in the region is adequate or safe. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Her comments have sparked a national debate after they were | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall reports. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Laura Beal was proud to be a police officer, following in her father 's | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
footsteps and serving in Devon and Cornwall for 13 years. She even | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
featured in promotional leaflets but now she has resigned criticising | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
cutbacks and the service the police can provide. I am expected to go on | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
patrol with one other officer most days, the letter says. | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
To be a police officer, without trying to sound dramatic you have to | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
have something to give that is extraordinary. I had that and I was | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
desperate to give it to the people I wanted to help but I could not | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
because I was getting stifled because we have so much pressure. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
It's too dangerous, there is not enough of us and we are not able to | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
do the job we were designed to do because there is not enough of us. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
It is horrendous, it really is. The cuts, it's a front-line job, you | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
have to be a people person, you have to get involved and be seen and you | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
cannot do it. Laura Beal's concerns echoed today any flagship report | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
from the police regulator. After producing Allingham lengthy case | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
file they conclude that Devon and Cornwall police require improvement | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
in cutting crime and keeping people safe, a particular concern is | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
neighbourhood policing. There is some good work the report says but a | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
lack of a coherent strategy which would help the police better engage | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
with communities and so prevent crime. There is plenty to celebrate | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
in the report and we are pleased with that however many | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
organisations, one in three police forces across the country have been | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
given requires improvement in this assessment. We are one of those | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
forces. We will be working hard to look at the detail in the report to | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
see how we can further improve. A police statement expressed sympathy | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
for Laura Beal but noted Devon and Cornwall plan to take on almost 100 | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
new officers and 50 crime investigators. Today's Inspectorate | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
report will nonetheless be a concern for senior officers. Devon and | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Cornwall police's performance in the most important role of cutting crime | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
and keeping people safe had deteriorated since last year it says | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
and yet more budget cuts lie ahead. Alison Hernandez is the Police | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and Crime Commissioner Thank you for coming in, we hear | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
weekly about the police, things they have done well and not so well, so | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
let's focus on Laura Beal who said she was suffocated and frustrated | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and that is not how anyone should feel in their work. The public have | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
every sympathy with policing at the moment and they have been | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
struggling. The Police Federation did a threshold survey last year and | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
I have spoken with them today. The issues around what we know, the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
stresses and strains on the front line come through in that survey. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
It's something I use through the budget planning process to support | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
the Chief Constable around the 100 extra officers. 100 extra officers | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
is a drop in the ocean when you think about how vast the south-west | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
is. Laura talked about two officers covering the whole of mid Devon. We | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
had a retired officer sympathising scene in West Devon they frequently | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
had two officers covering 250 square miles. We do not want to talk about | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
systems but the systems within policing our archaic. One of the | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
things I'm looking to do is invest in the systems and I will be frank | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
that a lot of response officers don't know the other teams on duty | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
at the same time as them and they feel alone because they don't know. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
The control room now. The systems do not easily allow them to understand | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
who is on duty. That has to change. It is simple stuff. The well-being | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of officers is a priority for the Chief Constable, I have had many | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
discussions with him about well-being and without a doubt we | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
have hard-working officers and I want the public to realise and I | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
think most of them appreciate that they could not work any harder. We | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
have systematic changes we need to make in policing and the local | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
policing promise will be one of those things in the plan. You have | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
set out your plans for the next year or so, a few years or so, but the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
HMI C said the erosion of neighbourhood policing cannot be | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
allowed to happen. That's kind of what you are planning to do, you | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
have taken PC SO's away from communities. Through last year on | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
the consultation the public felt more disconnected from policing than | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
they have ever felt before. One of the things I have focused on is | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
better connecting policing and communities. By taking away the PC | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
SO's? At the moment we have just considered our direction of travel. | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
It's about trying to think about doing things differently so I have | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
supported the Chief Constable in that and I am really clear that the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
local policing promise and better connecting policing and communities | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
which is the fundamental core of the police and crime plan is what will | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
help. I will be scrutinising the Chief Constable... THEY TALK OVER | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
EACH OTHER How quickly can we see improvements? The local policing | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
promise will be published at the end of March, the productivity plan by | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
the end of March, there are big pieces of work being undertaken. We | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
are supporting them but I am looking forward to scrutinising their | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
efforts. We look forward to talking to you again Alison Hernandez, thank | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
you. A Plymouth businessman has been | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
charged with 15 historical 67 year old Charles Howeson, | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
a former naval officer who had a successful business career | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
in the private and public sector, is alleged to have committed | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
the offences involving teenagers The charges will be | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
heard by magistrates More than half of the community | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
hospital beds in one part The North East and West Devon | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
Clinical Commissioning Group says 71 of the 143 in-patient beds | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
in East and Mid Devon will go. The cuts will affect | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
hospitals at Honiton, Okehampton, Seaton, | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
and Whipton, in Exeter. Health commissioners | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
made the unanimous It follows a 13 week consultation | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
exercise and will leave 32 community beds in Tiverton, | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
24 in Seaton and 16 in Exmouth. The changes are part of a move | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
from care in hospitals to care I just want to reassure people that | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
nothing is going to happen immediately caught following this | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
decision, this is the beginning of the application fees. It'll be a | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
number of weeks or months before we start to see the first of any bed | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
closures. Our Health Correspondent | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Jenny Walrond is at one of the hospitals affected, | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Honiton. This is becoming a familiar story? | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
Absolutely. It's very sad news for people here but not entirely | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
surprising that commissioners voted today to close their inpatient beds. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Commissioners say people are better off cared for in their own homes but | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
of course we know they need to save money. I am joined by two of the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
people involved in the campaign to save those beds, Gillian Pritchett, | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
what is your reaction? I was gutted, we were excluded from the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
consultation options before the process we were told we could make | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
proposals and be dead. There were letters, a lot of forms completed, I | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
was not convinced they had given serious consideration to us as an | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
option. Do you agree this new model of care of caring for people in | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
their own homes will work and be better off for some people? This is | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
an end of an era for this hospital. We have seen no evidence to support | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
the new model of care. We do understand some people want to be | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
cared for at home and that's the right place for them but there are | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
many vulnerable people, people at the end of life, people with | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
dementia that it is not suitable for them to be care at home. We are | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
deeply, deeply disappointed. Briefly, what next? We will fight | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
on, we will not give them, we have a strategic plan and we will start to | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
implement that. No surrender. We also have news of another closure, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
we are told today staff at Holsworthy hospital were briefed | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
that their inpatient beds would be closing, Northern Devon health care | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
trust tell us it is unrelated to the current review of the hospital | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
services in the county and it is a temporary closure for significant | :11:19. | :11:19. | |
safety concerns. Thank you. A look now at some of the other | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
stories across the south west. The number of students | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
at Falmouth University will rise The move was approved | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
by Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee and comes | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
despite fierce opposition A new purpose built campus at Penryn | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
has also been given the go-ahead. A government minister has agreed | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
to meet a Cornwall MP to discuss the problem of plastic bottles left | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
on the county's beaches. Speaking in the Commons today, | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Conservative Stephen Double, who represents St Austell | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
and Newquay, called for an extra charge on bottles, which would be | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
refunded once they're returned. An age-old mystery's | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
been solved at Cotehele Giant jawbones on display | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
at the stately home have finally been confirmed as coming | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
from a fin whale. It was thought they'd | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
were from a minke whale but a mixture of DNA analysis | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
and archival research has identified More than a hundred incidents | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
of fly-tipping are reported Official figures show its risen | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
for the third year in a row. And it appears people | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
from Plymouth are dumping their rubbish in Cornwall - | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
evidence found in the waste has sparked an investigation | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
which Cornwall Council hopes will end in prosecution | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
and a heavy fine. Throughout the year thousands of | :12:36. | :12:49. | |
people across the Tamar to seek out those hidden corners of Cornwall | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
which promise natural beauty and tranquillity. Others are doing it to | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
dump rubbish illegally. I think it's disgusting. Someone has taken the | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
rubbish and just dump it in an area of outstanding natural beauty and | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
its utter laziness. Dumped along the coast road is a spoil which holds | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
hidden treasures. The sort of James which Cornwall Council investigators | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
delight in finding. A letterhead, maybe a bill, certainly evidence | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
revealing it has come from an address in Plymouth. I feel even | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
sadder that someone has taken the time to drive out from Plymouth, | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
find somewhere secluded and this was tipped during the night we believe. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
There are recycling centres in Plymouth as well as the one they | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
virtually drove past in Saltash. The audacity of the act has sparked | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
anger. It is appalling. They could go to a municipal tip or get rid of | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
it in the proper way, I don't see why they have to come over the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
border and do it here. It makes me wonder if they have the facilities | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
to get rid of it in Devon, to make that ever to come over the border | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
into Cornwall to do it. People travel a long way to save a bit of | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
money, that is why they are criminals, they are commercial, they | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
are thieves, stealing from the public purse and every single | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
council taxpayer because those things have to be cleared up. In a | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
statement Cornwall Council says it is not only unsightly but costs the | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
council thousands of pounds each year to clear up the mess. We will | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
continue to respond, investigate and where evidence is found we will take | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
appropriate enforcement action. Once cherished, now discarded by the | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
roadside. There would have been no charge to take these toys to the | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
tip. A commercial recycling waste centre | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
faces demolition tonight after being severely | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
damaged by fire. At its peak a hundred | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
firefighters tackled the blaze All the ingredients needed for a | :14:56. | :15:12. | |
devastating fire, paper, cardboard, plastic, each week hundreds of | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
tonnes of business waste came to this recycling plant. Tucked away on | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
one side, an electricity substation, one of three helping power the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
industrial estate. Little wonder the emergency services were not taking | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
any chances. At its height it was approximately about 100 | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
firefighters, three hydraulic platforms, and support appliances. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
The alarm was raised just before 11 o'clock last night, the intense heat | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
caused the steel panel building to collapse in on itself as it is | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
designed to do. But it meant hotspots kept flaring up. It is well | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
over 12 hours but there are still pockets of flames are popping up in | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
and around the building. The area was blanketed in smoke but the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
owners of the plant, on-site for five years, said it did not deal | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
hazardous waste. Only office type waste, we do not deal with hazardous | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
waste here. Any hazardous waste goes to other places. But yes, General | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
office recycling, paper, cardboard, plastics, whatever. The damage has | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
been put out millions but nobody was hurt and the 90 or so staff will | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
work from other sites. A 15 strong fleet of waste trucks was saved, | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
this one had to be pulled free by a recovery truck with an | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
uncompromising name. Another building in Exeter destroyed by | :16:47. | :16:47. | |
fire. The Environment Agency says erosion | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
at Dawlish Warren has worsened since it began its multi million | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
pound scheme to improve coastal But it says the beach should return | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
to its former glory by the end of the summer and be less vulnerable | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
to rising sea levels and storms. Our Environment Correspondent | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Adrian Campbell reports Dawlish Warren is not looking at its | :17:05. | :17:20. | |
best at the moment. In fact some local people say it has never looked | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
worse. That's not surprising because the Environment Agency is only part | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
way through a multi-million pound project to secure the long-term | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
future of the area. The aim of the agency and its partners is to | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
protect it from sea-level level rising and potentially splitting in | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
two. Eileen has been keeping a close eye on progress. I wondered what | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
they were doing, sandbags, stones, rocks. We always said if they moved | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
the stones they would lose the Junes which they found they had done which | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
is why we have sandbags up. They have been taking these baskets full | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
of rocks and replacing them with bags full of sand. In the end they | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
aim to reach the beast level. Whether Junes are at their most | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
vulnerable and narrow the aim is to stabilise the sand with what experts | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
College YouTube. It's about like a giant sausage fed deep into the sea | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
facing edge of the Warren and inflated with a mix of sand and | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
water. The water fades away to leave a concrete like structure. For now | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
the Environment Agency are still persuading people it is doing the | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
right thing. Other than extra sand? Recent storms, in recent years, more | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
than a thousand cubic metres of sand have been lost in the last 18 | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
months. Sand levels dropping by a metre in all the last few weeks so | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
at the moment visitors will see it at its worst. The white bags people | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
see our temporary, they are coming out in the next couple of months as | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
we remove the old stones and subsequently replace a large amount | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
of sand. The Environment Agency says by some things should look much | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
better at Dawlish Warren. It plans to import huge quantities of sand | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
from just off shore to recharge the beach and then natural forces will | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
be harnessed to help protect the sand dunes. | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Children from across the South West have been dressing up | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
in their favourite characters to take part in | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
The day's aimed at encouraging youngsters to explore | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
books and reading - it's also a celebration | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
of authors and illustrators and children have been given a free | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Jane Chandler joined a group of children - | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
as they marched into their local bookshop dressed for bedtime. | :19:41. | :19:52. | |
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
adventure. It does not do to leave alive dragon out of your | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
calculations if you live near him. Sometimes I believe as many as six | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
impossible things before breakfast. The world of books is full of all | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
things possible, even wearing your bed clothes during the day. These | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
children have dressed up to get in the mood for reading to celebrate | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
world book day. But why do they read? I read at night when I am in | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
bed and cannot sleep. When you first read a book you just read it and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
when you get to the end you feel you have an achievement. They are very | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
exciting and I get stuck into them. If you finish a book then you feel | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
like you want to do another because I like this book and it makes you | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
want to read and read and read. We may think these youngsters are a | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
techno generation but they are more retro, preparing to read books | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
rather than from a computer or tablet. There has been research | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
recently that children are moving away from tablets and re-engaging | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
with a book particularly at bedtime when is thought the blue light from | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
the tablet is not such a good thing. A recent study by the National | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
literacy trust shows more children and young people than ever are now | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
reading for enjoyment. Evidence suggests youngsters who read for one | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
day lead to better in reading tests, have broader vocabulary and better | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
general knowledge. All very good reasons to snuggle down with a book | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
at bedtime. Part of what we believe is that reading before bed can | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
reduce anxiety, it's a lovely way to go off to sleep and it's the perfect | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
time to get kids to sneak 30 minutes of reading in. I like to read at | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
bedtime and of course in school. I read every night, like half an hour | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
in the evening, just before I go to sleep. What makes you want to do | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
that? It comes me down before I go to bed. Or you cannot help that, | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
said the cat, we are all mad here. So come snow after fire and even | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
dragons have their endings. Excerpts from J.K. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkein and Lewis Carroll in that | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
piece by Jane Chandler. Nothing like a good book. A book at | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
bedtime. Let's see what the weather's story is tonight. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
The storm cat is coming, if you know that story. Good evening, blustery | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
conditions, rain in the forecast as well. I think tomorrow it's a | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
different day, sunshine today, a few isolated showers, most of us dry. | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
Tomorrow rather cloudy, it will be a bit milder, there will be rain at | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
times and some of it quite heavy. It will arrive overnight tonight and be | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
with us for a good part of the day. This is why, this area of low | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
pressure, weather fronts wrapped around it which means more rain as | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
we move through the day. Perhaps drier conditions on Saturday | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
although the risk of showers and more rain returning on Sunday as | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
this weather front moves across the south-west of England. Also becoming | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
windy on Sunday with the winds becoming north-westerly again. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Drawing in slightly colder air, avail of cloud has arrived and | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
thicker cloud approaching from the South which will produce more | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
persistent rain. For a time dry and then here comes the wet weather, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
around midnight or just after we will get a bit of rain as it moves | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
through, turning showery by morning and with all the cloud and breeze | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
from the Southeast I don't think temperatures will fall much below 67 | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
degrees. Tomorrow we have a rather cloudy day, rather wet day, I of | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
rain off and on throughout the morning, perhaps briefly at | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
lunchtime holes in the cloud but not a great deal of that to look forward | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
to, the rain returns to the afternoon. The breeze will be lively | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
in the morning and ease in the afternoon. Some good news, | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
temperature slightly higher than they have been despite the rain. | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
This is the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. Cloud, breezy and | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
outbreaks of rain. Time is of high water for the ports and harbours. | :24:40. | :24:54. | |
For the surfers, most of the beach is likely to be a bit messy, | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
particularly along the south coast. The north Coast some sheltered areas | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
which could be usable but still quite big waves, between four and | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
eight feet depending on which way the beach faces. The winds quite | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
gusty, from the South South West, rain at times with moderate to good | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
visibility. The outlook is for us to see showers on Saturday and Sunday | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
and some of them also quite heavy. Not a lot of cheer in the forecast | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
and notice the temperatures, we start at 11 on Friday but by Monday | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
and Tuesday of next week back down to seven or eight so despite the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
fact we are into spring temperatures are not responding. Just a little | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
bit of sunshine does help things. You have been seeing all these | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
weather pictures and if you want to get involved in the programme there | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
is a website you can go to. BBC .co .uk/ weather watchers. And to those | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
already involved, thank you for your pictures. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
And on World Book day that's where our story draws to a close. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
But we'll leave you with some of the photos we've | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
been sent today of children dressed as characters from | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
WHISTLING: Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II | :26:18. | :27:22. | |
the gap between the richest and everyone else | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
And while the funding for our schools and hospitals is being cut, | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
many of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
And the tax dodgers are getting away with it | :27:43. | :27:55. |