28/12/2013 BBC Weekend News


28/12/2013

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Hello, good evening. Forecaster are warning of more bad weather ahead as

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homeowners face another night without power. Round 3,000 homes

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across the UK remain without electricity tonight, power

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distributors have faced criticism for being too slow in reconnecting

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households. Flood warnings are in place with heavy rain forecast for

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Monday. The Cabinet today held a meetle of COBRA to discuss the

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official response. -- meeting.

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It has been a miserable Christmas season for those pummelled by the

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worst of this winter weather. The rain lashed, the wind whipped and

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broken power lines plunged millions into darkness. Everything is going

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to have to go. It is contaminated. Year in Yalding they have been

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clearing up after flooding which went through the homes of Sue and

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her neighbour. It will take weeks but the power is coming back on This

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is the freeder room. There is one freezer here, look, full up to the

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top. Whichly have to throw away. It is heartbreaking. So things are

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looking good for in weekend? I can't say with confidence that every

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single individual will have power, but things are looking promising, we

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hope we will get the majority of people on today, and there will be

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some mop up work to do tomorrow. In other part there's is more work to

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do. In Cumbria almost 1,000 homes are without power, along with

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another 1500 in Wales. In Hampshire, too, some are

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struggling with a lack of electricity, this family hasn't had

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any running water since money as they use an electric pump We are in

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the dark literally, because if we, it is Saturday morning, if nothing

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is done until Monday, we will be out of water. It could be tomorrow.

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Businesses too have been badly affected.

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This hotel owner was flooded out on Christmas Eve. He is worried about

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what the future holds. It is very depressing, Christmas Eve I felt

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like breaking down and crying, to be honest. I didn't enjoy ringing up

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everybody that booked for Christmas Day lunch on Christmas Eve and

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telling them we couldn't do Christmas Day, hopefully I won't

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have do the same for New Year. The water level is still high here, but

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it is falling. And the good news is the lights are coming back on. But

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with more torrential rain expected to sweep across the UK from Monday,

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there is a real possibility of more flooding, and more power cuts next

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week. Well, ass you can see, our political

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correspondent joins us from Westminster. So what did come out of

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that COBRA meeting? Well, today's meeting, the emergency meeting was

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largely response to what David Cameron was told during his own

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visit to the flooded areas in Kent. He was told what the concerns of

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residents were, they were saying we can't get through to the local

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council, or we have difficulty talking to a human. We are getting

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recorded messages, difficulty getting through to power companies.

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So local councils will be told that funding will be available so they

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can properly staff emergency helpline, over the New Year period

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when further bad weather is expected and they can have staff available to

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respond to residents. Power companies have been told they have

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to come up with a clear public time line for reconnecting customer, I

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can't tell you what that will be. But the power companies have health

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and safety concern, we will find out a clearer time scale of when people

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will get their power back later. The man who is leading negotiations to

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try to resolve issues concausing division in Northern Ireland has

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called for a final agreement to be reached by Monday. Negotiations

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broke up before Chris has but Richard Haass returned to Belfast

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today to resume those discussions. Violence, a sign of instability,

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borne out of decades of division, images all too often familiar with

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Northern Ireland, that most people don't want repeated. Trouble blamed

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on contentious, unresolved issues like parade, how to deal with the

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legacy of our past and flags. Hope you had a good holiday. Dr

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Richard Haass and Megan O'Sullivan are back in Belfast, to try and get

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the five main parties to reach agreement. A final opportunity to

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come together, on an agreement, that we believe could and would change

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Northern Ireland for the better. The First Minister says they

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although Dr Richard Haass has only signed up to the New Year Progress

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has been made over the period of time that Dr Richard Haass and Megan

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O'Sullivan have been here, but there is still a lot of work to be done,

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we need to look at the issues seriously, we don't need lecturing,

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we are wear of the importance of getting a resolution, we are trying

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to do that. The Deputy First Minister says a no deal will be

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embarrassing. I think this presents a greatest opportunity we will

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possibly ever have, to move forward in a way that gives people

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confidence that politicians have the ability to take difficult decisions.

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Dr Richard Haass failed to get all party agreement before Christmas.

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That deadline has shifted to just before the New Year.

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Politicians here today though, appeared slightly more optimistic

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that a deal could be reached. A soldier who was killed in action

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in Afghanistan before Christmas has been named by the Ministry of

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Defence. Captain Richard Holloway was 29 and served with the Royal

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Engineers he was from County Durham, he was shot during an operation east

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of the capital Kabul. More than 70 passengers and crew

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onboard a research ship in Antarctica are waiting to be rescued

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after a Chinese vessel was forced to turn back, having been trapped since

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Christmas Eve the Russian ship is waiting for an Australian ship to

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come, to her rescue. So close, but yet so far. The

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Chinese ice break e the Snow Dragon came within sight of the stranded

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research vessel, but was forced to turn back after the ice proved just

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too thick. The Russian registered ship had been

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chartered by the Antarctic expedition to follow the route taken

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by a famous Australian explorer one hundred years ago. After

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experiencing the ultimate in a white Christmas, the 74 passengers and

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crew onboard were undismayed. Hemmed in by the ice the scientists

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continued with their experiments. Supplies are plentiful and the ship

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itself is in no danger. The ship has been trapped by pack

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ice since Christmas Eve. The Snow Dragon got to within several miles

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of the stranded vessel before being forced back by the ice. Now hopes

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rest on the arrival of a more powerful ice breaker, which should

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reach the scene within 24 hours. Communicating via satellite from the

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deck of the ship, the expedition's leader said a change in the weather

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could work in their favour. If the winds reverse and it does happen and

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suddenly it comes from the west or the south, it would take the

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pressure off the sea ice packing in and open up, at the moment the

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forecast isn't for that. If all else fails and the Snow Dragon has a

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helicopter onboard, which could shuttle the stranded passengers and

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crew of the ship to safety. England's cricketers have suffered

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yet another battle collapse and look to be heading for a fourth straight

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defeat in the Ashes. At the start of day three they had been odds on to

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win their first test of the series but it went badly wrong with a

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catastrophic innings in which they lost their last five wickets for six

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runs. English cricket may be under a cloud

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but here prospects seemed brighter. In soaring temperatures a chance to

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turn up the heat on their opponents. The morning after their best day of

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the series England needed just one more wicket to press home their

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advantage, unfortunately for them, Australia added 40 run, the tourists

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frustration at boiling point when Brad Haddin was finally caught for

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65. England's lead was 51. Useful but now they had to build on it.

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Alastair Cook setting about the task fluently. England were about to

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collapse, not once but twice. First Cook trapped by Mitchell Johnson and

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a ghastly spell of three wickets for one run as panic set in.

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England were left in crisis. Just as in the first innings everything

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seemed to depend on Kevin Pietersen, this boundary giving England a lead

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of 2 hundred. He was taking to chances, pulling away late when

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distracted. A furious Johnson letting him know what he thought of

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that as the bad blood that has marred this resurfaced. In a tour

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full of batting hour or shows England were about to undoe

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themselves. Spinner Nathan Lyon with five victims including Pete son as

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the tourists crumbled. Australia couldn't have made a better start in

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chasing their 231 run target. England are in danger of going 4-0

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down. England have somehow turned a hugely promising position into a

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perilous one, Australia still have work to do, but England may just

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have squandered their best chance of avoiding a whitewash.

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