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Flooding causes further damage and disruption in parts of the UK - | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
hundreds of flood warnings and alerts are in force. The heavy rain | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
has hit the south west of England, disrupting rail networks on one of | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
the busiest weekends of the year. In Scotland, one of the most badly | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
affected towns is Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, where dozens of people | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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have had to leave their homes. is just complete devastation and | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the people are traumatised now. Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
apologises to families and pays nearly half a million pounds in | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
compensation, for failings in care. And Swansea hold Manchester United | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
to a draw, but the Reds are still four points clear at the top of the | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Good evening. Flooding is causing severe disruption again across many | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
parts of Britain, with more than 150 flood warnings in force and | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
more heavy rain forecast tonight. The worst affected areas are in the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
south west of England, Wales and Scotland. Around 40 people have | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
been moved from their homes in Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire after a | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
river burst its banks. There's a severe flood warning for the south | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
west of England, where there's also been extensive damage and | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
disruption. Andrew Plant sent this report from just outside Exeter. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
They are tough enough to carry trains, but they buckled under the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
strength of this water. The rocks that support these railway sleepers | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
simply swept away in its path. This main route disappearing under the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
river, cutting off much of the south-west of England. As soon as | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
this water stops flowing, it will take engineers about 48 hours to | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
get that piece of track replaced, and get this main line back up and | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
running, but at the moment there is nothing they can do. The job now is | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
to stop this water flowing further down the track, and stop it from | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
reaching that building in the background. That is where the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
signalling his house, and if that is flooded it could be out for | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
three weeks. Rescue workers used giant bags filled with water to | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
divert this river back to its natural path, but as the water | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
slowly lost its strength it became clear this major route would be out | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
of action until after Christmas. This man owns the Chinese | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
restaurant next door. Instead of serving Christmas parties, he is | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
watching beer bottles bobbing on his dining room floor. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
insurance does not cover it because we are in the flood plain. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Stonehaven, coastal defences were overwhelmed and rescue teams were | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
helping people flooded from their homes. This was complete | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
devastation and the people are traumatised now. In South Wales, | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
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the Mini landslide smashed through the back door. Here in Devon, homes | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
were evacuated, vehicles abandoned. The flood water pushing into | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
people's houses just today's before Christmas. You have lost your home | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and your belongings, and you will never replace some of the valuables | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
you have had. Seen from above, it is clear just how much water here | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
has nowhere to go. For homeowners and emergency services are like, it | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
is now simply a nervous wait for more rain tonight. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
The flooding has caused huge disruption to those hoping to | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
travel on one of the busiest weekends of the year. The rain has | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
caused delays on the roads and affected dozens of rail routes, as | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
Daniel Boettcher reports. In places the flooding has not just blocked | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
rail lines but swept away ballasts supporting the track, making it | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
difficult to assess how long this will take to repair. The water has | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
disrupted key services in and out of the south-west, leaving | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
passengers having to make other plans or allow more time to get | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
where they want to be. There was one point where to the left there | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
was flooding, and to the right from a bird's-eye view it looked like a | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
train going through a notion. will bite the bullet and go today | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
because nobody wants to travel on Christmas Eve if they can help it. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
If I knew it would be difficult so I allowed extra time this end to go | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
with the flow. First Great Western has been advising passengers not to | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
travel west of Taunton unless there journey is essential. There are | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
signs warning passengers of what lies ahead, and Network Rail says | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
it is unlikely that flooded section of track will reopen tomorrow. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
is a mess. The weather has caused problems for drivers as well, many | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
minor roads becoming impossible. This is one road in Somerset on | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
apart by flooding. More overnight rain could bring disruption. | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
ground is already saturated, so many parts will continue to be | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
badly affected with the rain from the last few days. A tomorrow could | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
prove to be another challenging day for travellers with long journeys | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
ahead of them. And you can keep full up to date on | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
the flooding by visiting bbc.co.uk/news and more | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
specifically on the travel problems at bbc.co.uk/travelnews. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he's disgusted and appalled by | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the failures of care at Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
In one of the worst cases of mistreatment, an 84-year-old man | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
starved to death at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch. Other | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
patients were left thirsty and unwashed. The Trust has apologised | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
and will pay compensation. Ben Ando reports. Thirsty, but their drinks | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
were left out of reach. Not washed for 11 weeks. Left to sit in their | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
own excrement and in one case allowed to starve to death. These | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
are just some of the many damning claims about standards of care at | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Alexandra Hospital in Redditch in Worcestershire. After legal action, | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the hospital now agrees the care was not good enough. Clare cross | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
from Tewkesbury believes her 78 year-old father, David, was | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
neglected. He was suffering from Alzheimer's and died in 20th | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
December 10. She didn't complain at the time but now wishes she had. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
bitterly regret not complaining about it officially. At the time I | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
didn't because there was so much going on and he needed a lot of | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
care. We didn't actually make an official complaint, which I do | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
regret. I feel like I let him down. A in a statement, the Health | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
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Last month, the trust wrote to the families and patients involved and | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
apologised for the lack of care. They also said around �10,000 each | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
in compensation. The managers have not admitted any legal liability. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
As a response, significant changes have been made to make sure patient | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
care is excellent, which is resulting in the trust currently | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
producing a standard hospital mortality index below the national | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
average. The government says it is also looking at a way for patients | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
to give immediate feedback about the care they are receiving, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
offering an early warning about the kind of neglect the took place at | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
the Helen -- Alexandra Hospital. Anti-government activists in Syria | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
say dozens of people have died in an air strike in the central | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
province of Hama. The air strike is reported to have hit a bakery in | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the town of Halfaya which was recently seized by rebels. Women | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
and children are reported to be among the dead. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
has promised what he describes as a "ruthless search for the truth" | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
into what led to the resignation of the former Chief Whip Andrew | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Mitchell. Mr Mitchell quit after being accused of calling police in | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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Downing Street "plebs" - something he denies. The commissioner has | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
curtailed his Christmas break, we have had Andrew Mitchell's own | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
account in the newspapers this morning. Where are we on this? | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
Let's step back - who would have believed that there was an attempt | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
for him to take his bicycle out of these gates and a cabinet minister | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
resigned under pressure from the Metropolitan Police. Today there | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
have been big developments - Andrew Mitchell says the allegation that | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
he used the word plebs was a deliberate attempt to destroy his | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
political career. Secondly, a former police minister says this | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
could reveal the degree of corruption in some elements of the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
police, and thirdly the Metropolitan Police Commissioner | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
has broken off his Christmas break not to deal with some terrorist | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
atrocity but to deal with the fall- out from this. Despite these | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
developments, there is one fundamental disagreement at the | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
core of this. The official police report still says Andrew Mitchell | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
called the police plebs, he says he didn't and there has been no | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
evidence to prove it either way. In sport, just two matches in the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Premier League today, Chelsea are currently leading 3-0 at home to | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Aston Villa, while earlier Manchester United were held to a 1- | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
1 draw away at Swansea, which means they are now four points clear at | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
the top of the table as Patrick Gearey reports. Christmas number | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
one again. Manchester United are often chart-toppers at this time of | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
year. They are predictable, but not boring. United were scoring goals | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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from everywhere, the -- Patrice Evra with this one. For a time, it | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Manchester United were being outplayed, but with Robin Van | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
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Persie they are always a threat. He was to be denied later, but given | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
his earlier headache, his boss thought he had reasons to be | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
thankful. Robin Van Persie is very lucky to be alive, he could have | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
had a broken neck. The draw is not too painful, particularly when they | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
look at the table. First there was Gangnam Style and | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
its one billion Youtube hits. Now there's One Pound Fish Man, also | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
known as Shahid Nazir, who recorded his music video while working at an | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
East London market. It's been viewed by millions on the internet, | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
and Aleem Maqbool has been to meet his biggest fans - his family in | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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Pakistan. In case you haven't seen it, this is the video that went | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
viral and made Shahid Nazir the star. He had been in the UK Fourie | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
year and was selling fish in a market in the east End of London, | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
but because of this clip has now been signed up to sing a song that | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
is now in the chart. This is where Shahid Nazir is from in Pakistan, | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
so let's see if his fame has spread here. Who better to ask than this | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
fishmonger. Yes, he definitely knows him, and it seems the whole | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
town does this well. In the market, we found shops blasting out the | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
tune. It is obvious Shahid Nazir has become something of a local | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
hero. On the street where he grow up, the children all wanted to show | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
us they knew the song. His family have been shocked by what has | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
happened. His wife and children are still here, excited he will be home | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
to visit next week and they are willing him to get the Christmas | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
number one first. If you think I am going to sing, you are wrong but | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
there is no shortage of people wanting to in his family. Let me | :13:43. | :13:52. |