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Still no respite for storm-battered Britain as heavy rain and gales | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
For 12 passengers on this stranded bus in Ayrshire - | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
a dramatic airlift by helicopter to safety. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The water came in the bus, it came up, it just came up and up, | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
got to the windows and it was like big waves. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
You could see the current - it was very, very scary. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
In the Scottish borders attempts to reinforce defences - | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
with a "danger to life" flood warning issued for the River Tweed. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Back from his break, the Environment Agency chairman | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
returns from Barbados to meet victims of the floods. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The American actor Bill Cosby arrives in court in the US charged | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
And England's cricketers beat South Africa by 241 runs to win | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
A huge storm - the third to hit the UK in a month - | :00:55. | :01:19. | |
has been battering parts of Northern Ireland, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Scotland and northern England - bringing yet more flooding. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
causing high winds and persistent rain. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Dumfries and Galloway, and Aberdeenshire bore the brunt. | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
In South Ayrshire, twelve people had to be winched to safety | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
by helicopter, after their bus was stranded in floodwater. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
one from Croston in Lancashire, where earlier today three severe | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
But first the situation in Dumfries where the River Nith has | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Nobody can say they were not warned. But some people still needed a last | :01:51. | :02:04. | |
minute left to dry land anyway. The river Nith rose rapidly. It floods | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
in this part of town a lot but rarely like this without to 120 | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
millimetres of rain forecast over 24 hours. At the marina, the quayside | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
vanished from sight, boarding became a risky business. This river has now | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
doubled in width and in terms of intensity it's much bigger. It's an | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
impressive sight that people have come down to see but if you run one | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
of the businesses on the opposite side of the river you will not be | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
impressed one bit by what's happening. Earlier property owners | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
did what they could, but with a strong sense that it was all in | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
vain. We just have to try to get everything off the ground. The boys | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
have been quite good, giving us at hand. By mid-afternoon the flood was | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
lapping at dozens of businesses, a saving grace is that few residential | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
properties were affected. It's not over yet. Some of the businesses | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
will suffer badly, some will struggle to get going again. A huge | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
clean-up exercise will be put together to clean up the place. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Further afield, Newton Stewart in Scotland was the first place to see | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
a evacuations, people trying to salvage what they could. In Ayrshire | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
police said ten people where lifted from this bus, three among them. The | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
rescue filmed from afar. Who would have foreseen this end to a routine | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
shopping trip? The driver thought it was OK to get through but we got | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
stuck and the water came in the bus and was coming up and up and it got | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
to the window. It was like big waves and you could see the current and it | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
was very scary. The raging River Dee left a trail of destruction here. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Forcing hundreds to leave their homes and seek a huge. And in | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Peebles in the Borders, the speed with which the water rose was a | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
surprise, even to those who thought they had seen it all. It came up | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
very quick. I am Peebles born and bred but I've never seen it so high. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Only tomorrow's daylight will truly reveal what damage has been caused. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
Well, the River Nith here is now receding and people are already | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
returning to properties to check on them, but most attention is now | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
focused further north in Aberdeenshire where hundreds are | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
spending the night out of their homes. Some being put up in local | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
rest centres but some people are being put up in the army barracks | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
which is normally there to provide protection to the Queen when she is | :04:56. | :04:56. | |
at Balmoral. Many thanks. After many questions in the last few | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
days about the adequacy of the UK's flood defences, the chairman | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
of the Environment Agency Sir Philip Dilley said he'd be | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
visiting flood victims. He's come in for criticism | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
for being on holiday in the Caribbean during some | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
of the worst storms in years. The people of Croston in Lancashire | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
have had to endure two of them, and were braced today | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
for the second flood in a week. There were - as we heard - | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
three severe warnings in place Two miles outside Croston, under | :05:22. | :05:37. | |
darkening skies, the giant pumps rumble back into action, shifting | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
floodwater from farmland to make room for more. Although storm Frank | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
did not deliver significant heavy rain to this part of Lancashire, it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
has grounded the helicopter which was due to continue plugging the | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
breach in the River defences half a mile behind me. The damage is | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
virtually inaccessible by land but this afternoon volunteers from a | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
local rescue team used their specialist tracked vehicles to reach | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
the breached defences and assess the remaining threat. The storm has not | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
helped us, high winds have meant it has been too strong to get the | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
helicopter out and that's the only way to move the large sandbags. We | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
will get it done in the coming days. The calls for help were still being | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
answered. One urgent call came from this nursing home, the kitchen was | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
flooded and the power disrupted and donations of fresh water and food | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
were there within hours. Everybody of all ages, and from all walks of | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
life have come to help and that is a spirit I have never known. Sir | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Philip Dilley is the chairman of the Environment Agency, back today from | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
a holiday in the Caribbean. Should he have returned earlier? Was the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Caribbean the best place to manage the crisis from? I have been in | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
close contact with people running the organisation. By this evening be | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
a moment agency had published images of Sir Philip visiting troops in | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
York but the press were not invited. A few miles away the Environment | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Secretary in Tadcaster agreed that the Environment Agency's chief | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
executive had visited areas over Christmas. A plan to reunite the two | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
halves of the town is under discussion. People want their lives | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
sorted out as soon as possible and it is our priority to do that. Back | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
in Croston there is still a reassuring presence on the Main | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Street. Tomorrow the clean-up camera shoot. There will be more storms to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
weather in the week ahead. The relentless storms, | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
which have swept across the UK this month, meant it was | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
a record-breaking December for rainfall in many parts | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
of northern England, of climate change is | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
again under scrutiny. Our Science Editor David Shukman | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
looks now at what's causing The coast of Cornwall was among the | :08:09. | :08:23. | |
first to be hit by Storm Frank just before high tide this morning. Soon | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
after dawn, County Waterford in Ireland was struck by waves whipped | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
up by the dangerous winds. By lunchtime, it was the turn of | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Anglesey in Wales, this extreme weather system reaches far beyond | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
the British Isles as well. This elevation shows that west of the UK | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the storm is so powerful it is driving a flow of warm air up to the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Arctic and making the North Pole far warmer than normal. It's a time of | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
turbulent weather. Here in Britain the past month has seen a host of | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
rainfall records. If you look at the averages | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
for December rainfall from 1980 to 2010, Capel Curig in North Wales | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
normally gets 308 millimetres. But it has been hit | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
with 1012 millimetres - The average for Shap in Cumbria | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
is 215 millimetres but it And the average for Bainbridge | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
in North Yorkshire is 156, We're on course for the warmest | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
December in more than 100 And the wettest December | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
for many parts of the UK, including Scotland, Wales | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
and north-west England in more But we don't expect those | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
conditions to continue right And all this may be linked | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
to what is called El Nino. Here, this Nasa image shows warm | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
water rising in the eastern Pacific and this is happening on a large | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
enough scale to disturb weather Exactly the kind of thing | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
that El Nino can bring. And there are similar | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
scenes in South America. Back here, the aftermath of yet more | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
devastating rain and because warmer air can hold more moisture, | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
it could well be that climate change And that will raise more questions | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
about how well the country copes with more violent weather | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
in the years ahead. Belgian authorities have cancelled | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
the traditional fireworks display in Brussels on New Year's Eve, | :10:25. | :10:37. | |
citing fears of a terrorist attack. The city's mayor said | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
the decision was taken Earlier this week two people | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
in the city on New Years Eve. In London, the Metropolitan Police | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
said extra armed officers will be A couple from Reading who were found | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
guilty of planning a bomb attack in London to mark the 10th | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
anniversary of the July 7th attacks - have been given life | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
sentences at the Old Bailey. Mohammed Rehman was told | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
he would spend at least 27 Sana Ahmed Khan, who was given | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
a minimum of 25 years, had written to the judge | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
expressing her remorse. The American comedian Bill Cosby - | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
who was once the world's highest paid entertainer - has been charged | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
with sexual assault. The 78 year old is accused | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
of drugging and indecently assaulting a woman at his home | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
near Philadelphia in 2004. Mr Cosby has denied similar | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
accusations by dozens of women, as our Washington Correspondent | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Laura Bicker reports. He was once the most-watched | :11:31. | :11:42. | |
man on television. For decades the funny | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
family entertainer hailed Mr Cosby, do you want | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
to say anything? Now he must face the cameras | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
once again to hear details of the criminal | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
charges against him. They involve Andrea Constant who has | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
waived her right to anonymity. She said that she went | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
to his house for career Mr Cosby urged her to take pills | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
that he provided to her. The effect of which rendered | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
her unable to move or respond to his advances | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
and he committed aggravated indecent There have been allegations | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
and rumours for years but it was a stand up routine | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
by a comedian which sent them viral. The charges today are | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
based on their position from a civil case where Bill Cosby | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
admits giving women drugs before But nearly 60 women have come | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
forward, many high-profile His behaviour was like | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
that of a predator. I woke up in the back | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
of my car, alone, my clothes were a mess | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
and my bra was undone. Legally many of his accusers have | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
run out of time to bring For many of my 29 clients who allege | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
that they are victims of Bill Cosby, seeing him criminally | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
charged and having to face a trial is the best Christmas | :13:25. | :13:25. | |
present they have ever received. He has always denied the allegations | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
and he is free on a $1 million bail. If convicted, this once-global star | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
could face the last years Cricket now - and England have | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
beaten South Africa in the first The visitors comfortably | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
won by 241 runs. Our Sports Correspondent | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Andy Swiss has more. A thumping victory for England here | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
in Durban. A crushing win over | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
the world's top Test team. For both England's players and fans, | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
so much to applaud. South Africa had begun the day | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
still with faint hope, Star batsman AB de Villiers | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
bamboozled by Moeen Ali and it prompted the sort of collapse more | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
traditionally associated Temba Bavuma's rush of blood | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
offering the simplest of stumpings. For the South African balcony, | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
it was almost too painful to watch. But it was not about | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
to get any easier. Steve Finn ending Dale Steyn's brief | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
resistance in about as emphatic And by the time Ali picked | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
up his third of the day, not so much leg as legs before | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
wicket, South Africa had lost four Indeed what could have been | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
a long and tense day Stewart Broad trapping Morne Morkel | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
whose last desperate Replays showed it hitting the middle | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
of the middle stump, a suitably decisive end | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
to an utterly decisive win. Rarely have England | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
been quite so ruthless. | :15:11. | :15:18. |