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Welcome to Spotlight. and now on BBC One, let's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight, left shocked and upset - the people | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
with learning disabilities told their home is closing. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Very upset about it. I was in tears this morning as well, and a few days | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
ago. The charity running the homes says | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
it can't afford to keep them open. Also tonight: a new calling | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
for the Bishop of Truro. He's campaigned on poverty | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
and foodbanks, now Tim Thornton's to work | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
alongside we meet the young Devon student | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
who's walked into her dream job. And the 88-year-old grandfather | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
preparing for People with learning disabilities | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
who live in residential care face huge upheaval amid claims tonight | :00:43. | :01:05. | |
that many homes are Two in Devon which recently received | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
a poor inspection from the regulator will shut their doors at the end | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
of the month. Other voluntary organisations | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
which provide disability services in Devon and Cornwall say | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
without more funding, Here's our political | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
reporter Anna Varle. We had a good place, | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
and I have some happy memories. Mark spent most of his life in care, | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
living in this home. But now he's having to move | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
because the charity that runs this and next door can no longer afford | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
to keep it open. And the fear that we're going to be | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
closing down, it is, I am quite, how should I say, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
mad about it? Many of the residents have | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
found new accommodation, I don't want to move. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
I want to stay put, where I am now. last September, the CQC rated | :02:02. | :02:18. | |
the homers requiring improvement after it failed four breaches | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
of the Health and Social Care Act. Recruitment of staff | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
was an issue back then. HFT, the charity which runs | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
the zones, says that it has But, due to the location | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
of the zones, and the difficulty in recruiting staff it says it's got | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
no option but to close them. There's guys like us, | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
are big enough, oddly enough, and clever enough | :02:43. | :02:57. | |
to adapt to change. Research suggests that half | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
of learning disability providers expect to be running at a loss | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
within the next two years. And with costs set to rise by 50% | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
by 2020, services in Devon and Cornwall will close | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
unless they get more money It is hoped the ?2 billion | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
the government is promising to spend on social care will help prevent | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
the closure of more loans. But it's too little too late | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
for those like Mark. It is like being put | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
out on the street. As we heard there, | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
the homes which are closing which has 21 residential | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
care homes across the South West. It's Chief Executive | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
is Robert Longley-Cook and he joins | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
us now from our Bristol studio. It is absolutely heartbreaking for | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
people. As they say themselves, being put back on the street. This | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
charity were set up by families of people with special needs 50 years | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
ago. This must be a difficult decision for you. It is an | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
incredibly difficult decision and one that we would fight tooth and | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
nail not to let it happen. It is a national issue. It needs a national | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
solution. But what you can see is that the people who will be impacted | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
our people like Mark and Eileen. And I can quite understand why they are | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
so upset. And actually, we are so sorry about the impact it is having | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
on their lives. It is one thing being sorry, but what are you doing | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
as a charity to help them find alternative accommodation? We do | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
this in partnership with the local authority. And we are trying to make | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
sure that there is a smooth transition to a new place for them. | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
And they will not be homeless. They will be found a place. We have heard | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
about recruitment being a problem in the caring professions. How can it | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
be addressed? There was a real challenge here. For many years, | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
local authorities have been under huge pressure and have been cutting | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
funding which they set for the services that we provide. And, at | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the same time, learning disability services are all about staff. We | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
have fantastic staff who do brilliantly for the people we | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
support. But staff costs are going up. That is accelerating with the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
advent of the National minimal wage, pension auto enrolment. So we are | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
seeing this clash of these coming down and staff costs going up, and | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
then you get pressure points just like these services, where we find | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
that we cannot recruit people, and we have not got staff there be | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
cannot provide a sustainable service for people like Mark and Eileen. The | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
tragedy is, these could be our most vulnerable adults in society at the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
moment and we have got to resolve this. The social care, is it too | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
little, too late, the money? What the Chancellor has put through comms | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
right through to the front line, so that we can pay it to staff, I think | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
it works, but actually we are looking at a National Living Wage | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
going up, up to ?9 in 2020, so between 2015-2020 we see staff costs | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
going up by 50%, and that is 80% of our costs. It has got to be a | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
sustained investment in social care and learning disabilities were going | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
to see this and nothing go on. -- this kind of thing. | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
"A man in touch with the grass roots" and | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
"someone who has time for everyone". | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
Just two of the tributes paid today to the Bishop of Truro | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
as he announced he's leaving his post. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
The Right Reverend Tim Thornton has led the diocese, | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
and two parishes in Devon, for nine years. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
He'll become a senior aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
as well as being Bishop for the Armed Forces | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
As Hamish Marshall reports, Bishop Tim has been | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
From his enthronement, Bishop Tim was popular. | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
Mainly because he was keen to mix with his flock. | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Brought up in Plymouth, he understood the needs of Cornwall | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
but today said he had to leave sometime. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
I have very much mixed emotions on a day like today. | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
I have a fantastic team here, and I am very confident | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
that they will carry on with the good work, | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
and I am also confident that the diocese is in good heart. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
On his watch, it's been one of only three in the country | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
So his departure has left some sadness. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
He will talk to everybody, which is what you want with a bishop. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
He is like an orderly clergyman, at an ordinary church. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
In churches, if they are not with the people, then | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
I am quite sad to see him go, but then I think it's a promotion, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
I expect, and I'm very pleased for him. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Bishop Tim used his place in the House of Lords | :08:12. | :08:24. | |
to raise issues of poverty and social injustice. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
That has been a real important piece of work for me and for Cornwall, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
putting on the map the realities that, actually, Cornwall isn't | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
as it sometimes is seen around the rest of this country. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
And I've had a tremendous privilege of going around and visiting people, | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
some of whom are really struggling to survive, day by day, so that has | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Bishop Tim chaired a parliamentary inquiry into hunger | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
and food poverty which led to the charity, Feeding Britain, | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
Don Gardner, who runs a food bank in Cornwall, | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
says he will miss the support of the Bishop. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Although he may be a bishop, he does know the grassroots. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
He has been on the shop floor. He does see the problems. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
And, to me, that is important for the work I do. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
He takes up his new role as Bishop in Lambeth in September. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
His duties will include supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury's | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
It will be next year before there's a new bishop. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Now a brief round-up of other stories | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Tributes have been paid to a junior doctor found dead | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Dr Rebecca Ovenden, who was 32, posted on social media | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
about the pressures of working in A | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
Colleagues at Derriford and on the Devon Air Ambulance | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
described her as talented, much loved and much respected. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
An inquest heard she had a history of mental health issues | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
and had previously attempted to take her life. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
625 vehicles have been involved in accidents on the A38 in Devon | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
in the last three years, and five of the crashes were fatal. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
The police information shows clusters of accidents around | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Highways officials have agreed to meet Gary Streeter, | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the MP for South West Devon, who wants the road made safer. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
The opening meeting of Newton Abbot's racing | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
season was cancelled today because of recent heavy rain. | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
The racecourse apologised for having to make the decision, | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
with refunds being made in the next 48 hours. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
The next scheduled meet there is on Easter Saturday. | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
A school which has been put into special measures in Dorset | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
having had ?25 million of government investment | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
That's the view of the new academy trust that's due to take on | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
The Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy, | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
which was formed from five | :10:51. | :10:51. | |
previous primary and secondary schools on Portland. | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
After the loss of the Royal Navy Portland struggled. | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Still deprived in places, there have been moves to create | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
a bright new future from the grey of the past. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
By converting a building formerly belonging to the Admiralty | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
into a school, hundreds of children enjoyed a ?25 million new campus | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
which would have cost 50 if starting from scratch. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
But the learning that went on at these desks fell short. | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
They may have had new surroundings but it was judged to have | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
The aim now is to get children to focus on what they might do | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
when they are older in the hope that it gives them more purpose | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
And that base for inspiration proves useful in coastal communities. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
A long way from the bright lights cities. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
And that is exactly what this group of academies just along | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
the shoreline here in Dorset is trying to achieve | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
The principal here is being drafted in to lead a child promotion. | :11:50. | :12:06. | |
Here, from a very young age they are encouraged to think | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
We were at school, and these people came in and one | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
One of them was a hairdresser and some other people. Did it make you | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
think about what you want to be when you grow up? Yes. The main thing is | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
the work with numbers and letters. You think what you're doing at | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
school might help you in future? Yes. I'm going to be a chef. Have | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
you thought about what that takes? You have got to learn the recipes. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
And what do you need to learn to get them right? You need to learn to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
read. They have to be able to see that what they are doing links to | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
real life, so they see people from all sorts of industries coming into | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
school. There was a real atmosphere in the classrooms of achievement, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
working towards their goals and trying to be the best they can. We | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
have a track record of turning round schools in a very rapid time. Let's | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
say that we're going to do it in Portland. I can't give you a | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
timescale but it is possible. They have got such potential, there. We | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
would not be taking this on if we did not believe it was possible to | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
be outstanding. Back on Portland they are never far away from the sea | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
is that the Navy sale. This was once a centre for underwater weapons | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
research. And they could just as easily we discover that sort of | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
inspiration here. It was a tragedy in which hundreds | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
of men lost their lives when HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
were bombed in the Indian Ocean 75 years on, the sinking of those | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
two Devonport based cruisers, by Japanese aircraft | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
in the Second World War was commemorated during a special | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
service today, with wreaths laid | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
on Plymouth Hoe. Time to remember in Plymouth. 75 | :13:53. | :14:08. | |
years on from a devastating assault on the Indian Ocean. Was Easter | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Sunday. HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall boat sank in 20 minutes | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
from coming under attack from Japanese dive bombers. More than 400 | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
men died. Among them the father of Derek Bickford. I remember listening | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
to the radio and hearing about it and then collapsing in the chair, | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
what I was only eight years old at the time. As I understand history, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
they didn't realise that things were around them because they did not | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
have the radar, that they have now. HMS Cornwall was built in Devonport. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
HMS Dorsetshire was built in Portsmouth in 1926. Their loss was a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
huge blow to the Royal Navy. The names of all those who died on the | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
two Devonport -based cruisers are listed here. Winston Churchill went | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
on to describe Easter Sunday raid as one of the most dangerous moments of | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
the war. Given that we lost HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall and | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
then Hermes, the following day, with about 400 people lost in the water, | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
it was a very significant point in 1942. Some survivors were reunited | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
with the HMS Dorsetshire, Benjamin Martin, seen here in the middle. He | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
had been transferred to Durban in 1941. When HMS Dorsetshire sank, | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
many of the crew ended up in Durban. And he took care of some of those | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
there. And they had two weeks' leave before they had to go back to sea on | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
a new ship. Because Easter is late this year, the association says that | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
the ships, those who died and those who survive will be remembered on | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
Easter Sunday, throughout the South West. Remembering the crews of HMS | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall. Now coming up later, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
a partnership working I put him through his paces, and he | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
put me through mine. Yes! And the Penzance pensioner | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
using pedal power to raise money Now, how did you learn | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
maths at school? With a calculator, a slide rule | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
or maybe even an abacus. Well a school in Cornwall has come | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
up with what they think is the perfect way to help | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
the children with their sums. I wish they had these when I was at | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
school. They've adopted two orphaned lambs | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
called Charlie and Titch and caring for them has become | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
a real education. Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
has been to see how School is simply more fun that a | :16:59. | :17:11. | |
couple of lambs. They don't know the rules of hopscotch but they are good | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
at skipping and chase. This school has adopted Charlie and Titch after | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
they were adopted and caring for them is a full-time job. They have | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
to be fed every few hours. You put the bottle on top of the land so | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
that it can suck it down, and it is easier if you hold it by the Chin so | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
that it does not leave its mouth, and they have got teeth, even though | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
they are baby. So they could actually give you a bit of a bike. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Yes. They don't use them for biting people. They are just for biting | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
leaves and grass. What happens when you are feeding them? It sucked my | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
finger! Did it think your finger was a bottle? Yes. The benefits to the | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
children are fantastic. Lots of maths involved. They have two way | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
out the milk powder and the water to mix with it and get everything in | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
the right ratio and then they have two way the lambs, then you have got | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
all be looking after animals and taking care which is good for | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
children, as well. So how do you weigh a wriggling land? Can you pass | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
me the land? The scale now say 62 kilograms. How much is that? The | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
lamb weighs nine kilos. I think he's right. These lambs are getting | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
bigger every day so when they get too big for the classroom, what | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
happen? The head teacher says that the children will make the decision | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
so they might just be added to the school register, after all. What a | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
brilliant idea. We could have some lip -- we could have some lambs at | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Spotlight! And what are the chances | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
of getting it? Well a 19-year-old from Dawlish | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
has done just that - combining her love of animals | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
and the military Helen Fewings is a student | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
at Bicton College and, as Heidi Davey reports, | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
to have secured the prestigious role at such a young age | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
is quite an achievement. Helen has always wanted to work with | :19:12. | :19:23. | |
animals. When she was 16 she enrolled in a college animal care | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
course. As well as food, what can you give them? Leafy vegetables and | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
insects, and bar. Bicton College is known for its strong ties with the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
agricultural industry but the campus at Budleigh Salterton has set up a | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
military academy. For Helen, that was the perfect opportunity to take | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
a second course and test out her yearning to have a career in the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Army. Two years later, she has landed her dream job. You're only | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
19. That is a hard unit to get into. You went through several rounds of | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
interviews. What was it like to be told that you were making the cut? | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
He got to the final 60. 60 people, and 20 dogs, week-long interviews. I | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
walked away, high hopes, then I got a call one morning, good news, I | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
have passed and they told me that I would start training in October. It | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
is thanks to the academy at Bicton that she was fully prepared for all | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
aspects of military life. What we do here, we prepare students for | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
potential recruits and it is the plastic to see how successful Helen | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
has been. That is our goal at the end of the day. What Helen has | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
experienced is coming through the animal care side, I potentially | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
being interested in the military, what we then offer is that exposure | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
so that Helen can see what we do. Helen has already made plans for the | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
future. Yes. I want to work with explosive search dogs. The most | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
dangerous bit. We will see what happens as time goes on. They make a | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
great partnership, don't we? -- don't they. | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Now as we get older some of us may think about slowing down a bit. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
But that's not for George Inns from Penzance. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
He's about to get in the saddle and cycle | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
He'll start in the bustling city of Bo in Sierra Leone, | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
before crossing the border into Liberia, where | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
he will end on the palm fringed beaches of Robertsport. | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
Did we mention George is 88 years old?! | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
His trip is to raise money for the UK charity Street Child | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
which helps some of the poorest and most vulnerable children | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
Spotlight's David George has been to meet him. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
George Inns taking a training ride on the cycle path. He's no stranger | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
to let the bike rides. He has cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
four times. The last time, seven years ago, when he was 81 years old. | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
He will soon be smote -- swapping St Michael's Mount, Cornish coast for | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
the rough roads and tracks of Sierra Leone, a country and people close to | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
his heart. I went there as an engineer in the early 50s. And I | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
enjoyed my time there. It was a very interesting and beautiful country. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
The people are very friendly and cheerful and very resilient. George | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
has always followed the fortunes or should that the misfortunes of the | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
country. He has been upset to see the aftermath of the ebola outbreak | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
there and wanted to support charities in the country. They do | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
educational work for children which is very seriously needed because it | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
is a very poor country. George is taking part in the 196 mile cycle | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
challenge with his grandson and another eight riders who have signed | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
up. It will take place at the end of the dry season so it could be hot | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
and wet. A bit different from today's brisk and bracing weather. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Do you mind if I join you? Lead the way. People keep mentioning your | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
age. You are 88. I am, yes. But I don't think too much about my age. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
It is something that comes to all of us unfortunately and you just have | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
to make the best of it. Not think, I am too old to do this or that, just | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
go ahead and do it. I have got a lot more cycling to do, yet. The man is | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
an inspiration. He certainly is. Good luck to George. It is going to | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
be hot and wet, possibly, when he does that challenge. The weather | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
conditions they're the perfect today, though. | :24:11. | :24:11. | |
Good evening. High pressure is coming our way. That means settled | :24:12. | :24:26. | |
and dry weather. It is a dry story. We're going to look back briefly, | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
now. March was quite an unusual month across the British Isles. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Certainly one of the mildest. Reckons going back to 910. -- 1910. | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
It was something like the fourth or fifth warmest March on record. A | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
poor start on a cool night. You will have noticed the change, slightly | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
cooler air today despite the sunshine. The risk of some frost. | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
Fine and dry and we will have that sunshine back, as well. There is | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
some cloud of wind, but it is gradually dissipating. It is to the | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
rest of us at the moment, allowing some cloud to bobble around the top | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
of it. Hence the patchy missed earlier on today. This is the middle | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
of the day tomorrow. By the middle of Thursday, it is across cars, and | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
by Friday it is well and truly across southern Britain. Not | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
everyone will see sunshine. But at times you will get some of that | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
sunshine and it will be warm, as well. You will notice some chilly | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
nights over the next few nights. This is a satellite picture from | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
earlier today. Some spots of rain affecting northern France, but most | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
of the weather we have now with broken cloud and clear skies. This | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
was earlier today up on Dartmoor, where some sunshine came through | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
eventually but it was rather cloudy and felt quite cool because of it. A | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
brisk northerly breeze and it has not been overly warm. It did not | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
stop some walkers and backpackers enjoying some dry weather although | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
there was some drizzle first thing this morning and it is going to be | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
chilly for camping on Dartmoor tonight because those skies will | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Claye. That cloud is now beginning to dissipate. We will have fairly | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
clear skies overnight. Temperatures quite low for the month of April | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
with temperatures getting as low as three Celsius in some places. On the | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
coast, a bit milder and in the towns and villages, five, six Celsius. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
Tomorrow, plenty of sunshine, lighter winds than today, and | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
although temperatures initiate will be the figures we show you here, in | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
the sunshine, out of the breeze, considerably warmer at perhaps 12, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
13 Celsius. For the Isles of Scilly, bright and dry with some sunshine. | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
And the times of high water... And for our surfers... And the coastal | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
waters forecast, the wind from the north-east, for three to four with | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
good visibility. And here is the picture for the rest of this week. | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
The cloud comes and goes, that'll be the way of it over the next few | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
days. Have a good evening. There is a lovely film on our Facebook page | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
about the little lambs and learning at school. You can log onto that | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
now. But from all of us here, good night. | :27:41. | :27:45. |