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thousands left without power in the wake of the latest storms. More than | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
30 diners are rescued at a seafront restaurant in Hampshire. To look at | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
it, it almost looked as if the windows were bending, then all of a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
sudden the outside of the windows started smashing. In Hertfordshire, | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
houses are evacuated after a huge sinkhole opens up. And, Lizzie | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Yarnold collects her Gold medal in Sochi. | :00:35. | :00:53. | |
Hello there, good evening to you. Two people have died and tens of | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
thousands of homes are without power following last night's ferocious | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
storms. Severe flood warnings are still in place in 16 areas, many of | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
them along the River Thames. In Hampshire more than 30 people had to | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
be rescued by the army from a seafront restaurant. Our | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
correspondent, Chris Buckler is there. Chris. As the sun goes down | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
on the south coast the light is fading on this debris and | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
destruction. These huge big lumps of masonry that you can see along the | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
seafront here. As light fades people aren't forgetting the stress and | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
destruction caused by last night's storm. Edge of the ocean lies | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
evidence of its power. This seafront littered with the debris and | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
destruction of a fierce storm. Cars were no match for crashing waves. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
This sea view put diners in the path of danger. Today, rocks and shingle | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
had to be cleared from the front of the marine restaurant. They were | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
thrown up by the sea, shattering windows, during what was supposed to | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
be a romantic meal on Valentine's night. The pebbles hitting the | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
windows were like bullets. Smashing the windows. Smashing double | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
glazing. Big boulders being hurled. That is when the fear factor came | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
into people. The army helped the emergency services rescue more than | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
30 people who found themselves trapped in the restaurant as it | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
started to flood. We wouldn't have opened if we thought it would be | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
anywhere as near as bad as it was. This was totally exceptional. No-one | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
was seriously injured here, the harsh extremes of this winter's | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
weather have again claimed lives. At sea an 85-year-old man was killed | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
when a freakwave hit a cruise ship. In London, a taxi driver died when | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
masonry fell from a building, crushing her car. Julie Sillito was | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
49 and had three grownup sons. Weather warnings are still in place. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Fallen trees have again left tens of thousands of families without power. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
This is a vast national effort where we are bringing all the resources of | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
our country together. What we do in the next 24-hours is vital because | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
tragically the river levels will rise again. Safety is still a | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
concern, particularly by the sea. These waves are impressive, but the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
police know they need to keep people away from them. Windier than we've | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
ever known it. We have been here donkeys years. It's frightening. We | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
wondered when the tiles would fly off. During the summer this is a | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
tourist destination, this isn't the weather for beach huts. Besides, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
many of them have been destroyed. I've got a bit of a beach hut. I | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
went to a lot of trouble to put a new lock on the door. I smeared it | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
with marine grease, I'm sure it work ifs I can find the door and wall | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
it's attached to. Some people have been searching for their belongings | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
among the remains of the storm and attempting to start the long job of | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
making repairs. Even then, they are having to battle the elements. You | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
can imagine these beach huts were just full of memories, but you can | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
see the state of some of them just completely destroyed. More problems | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
this evening with so many people without electricity. As the waves | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
calm down a little, people will be a little bit happier, none the less, | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
there are a lot of people still concerned this evening. Chris, many | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
thanks indeed for that. Residents of a straet in Hemel Hempstead were | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
forced to leave their homes after an enormous sinkhole opened up | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
overnight. They were evacuated by police early this morning as soon | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Assad the 35 foot wide hole was discovered. Jeremy Cooke reports. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Corner of the road, on a suburbanest state, early morning drama. The | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
ground has collapsed, a sinkhole, 35 feet wide, and 20 feet deep. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Undermining the house and the road. The fear is that more will go, so | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the residents were evacuated in a hurry. I just had police knocking on | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the door at 7.30 am to say, "you need to evacuate, there is a | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
sinkhole outside." I didn't get time to grab anything. Not even my purse | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
or clothes. We just had to get out. It's worse than it looks. The hole | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
goes several feet beneath the house and half way under the road. The | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
danger is obvious, the locals have been told they will be away for | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
days, maybe weeks. Could this all be weather related? That's one for the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
engineers, but already there are theories. Local residents tell us | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
they are in no doubt the torrential rain of recent weeks has a lot to do | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
with this. A reminder that all this water causes problems on our coasts, | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
with our rivers, but underground as well. Sink holes have not been | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
caused by the weather. They've been triggered by the weather. The cause | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
is the existence of a cavity at depth, be it artificial or natural. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
The trigger is actually that water passing through the ground. At the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
moment, this increased number is largely a result of the increase in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
rainfall. It's not the first sinkhole to appear in recent times. | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
This is high Wickham, two weeks ago. The M2 in Kent just a few days back. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
The weather may be improving, but in London and beyond the affects of the | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
recent rain are still clear and present. Croydon's water treatment | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
plant threatened with flooding, a major operation underway to hold the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
water back. Even now, nearby homes are still being evacuated. In | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Winchester, the army and Environment Agency are working flattout to slow | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
the River Itchen, divert its course away from the city centre, as water | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
levels rise, all fed by the rain of recent days. Jeremy Cooke, BBC | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
News--. Flood levels will peak tomorrow. There is a see fear | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
weather warning in place in Staines-upon-Thames. Staines didn't | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
escape the storms. The floods are of a big concern. All day we have had | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
volunteers here making sandbags, putting them in trucks and | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
delivering them to people who still need there. There are more than 400 | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
tonnes of sand have been delivered by charities and businesses. The | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
community here really feels with the Environment Agency stretched, with | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
authorities stretched in other parts of the country dshgs's down to the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
local community to be able to lead the relief effort. The worry is in | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
the coming days the weather might be fine, the rain that has fallen could | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
see levels rise once again. Thanks. The second round of Syrian peace | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
talks in Geneva has ended abruptly without making any progress. The UN | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
enjoy, Lakatar Brahimi, apologised to the Syrian people, and said no | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
date had been set ford further talks. The Foreign Secretary, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
William Hague, said the blame for the talks failing lies "squarely" | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
with the regime of President Assad. The Now, with all the latest sport, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC Sport Centre. Thanks very | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
much, good evening. Well, it's been another action-packed, but mixed day | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics. More cheers for Golden | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
girl Lizzy Yarnold as she collected her skeleton medal, but heartache | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
for Elise Christie in the speed skating, disqualified for the second | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
time at these Games. Andy Swiss reports from Sochi. Disqualified on | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Thursday, surely it couldn't happen again? Elise Christie's dreams of | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
redemption turned to another nightmare. She seemed to be safely | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
through her 1500 m heat. The referee spotted she had skated just inside | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
the black finish line and not over it. Technically she hadn't completed | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
the race and was, therefore, out. Christie, who revealed she received | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
threats on the internet after her disqualification in the 500 m was | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
left once again distraught. I was playing safe after what happened the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
other day. I was trying not to touch anyone or not be anywhere near | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
anyone. I don't have a clue what happened. I'm gobsmacked. As well as | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
despair there was also unbridaled British delight. Lizzie Yarnold | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
receiving her gold medal after her victory in the Skelton, so composed | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
in competition, finally the emotions overflowed. Britain's newest Olympic | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Champion. For the British fans then a first golden moment in so Sochi. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
At the half way point of these Games there will be confidence of more | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
medals to come. Now, it's the fifth round of the FA Cup this weekend. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Last year's winners, Wigan, are through to the quarter-finals after | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
beating Cardiff 2-1. The day's biggest fixture is still going on, | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Manchester City are playing Chelsea at the Etihad. Earlier, Sunderland | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
beat Southampton. Craig Gardner's brilliant strike the only goal of | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the game at the Stadium of Light. The Scottish Premiership leaders, | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Celtic, play tomorrow, but in today's matches there were victories | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
for Dundee United, Hibernian and Motherwell. Inverness drew with | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
Hearts. In Paisley, Adam Rooney's penalty was the only goal in second | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
placed Aberdeen's 1-0 win at St Mirren. Some of the biggest names in | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
football have being paying tribute today to one of England's greatest | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
players, Sir Tom Finney, who died last night, aged 91. Famous, not | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
only for his goals, but also for his loyalty, playing his entire career | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
at Preston North End. Stuart Flinders looks back on his life. In | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
death, as he had been if life, Sir Tom Finney was applauded | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
enthusiastically here today. Preston North End supporters celebrated his | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
life before his team's match against Leyton Orient this afternoon. Those | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
who played on the same pitch as him recall it as a privilege. I always | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
looked at him being a national sporting icon. You know, I would | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
rank him as probably one of the greatest sportsmen we produced | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
really in these islands. Sir Tom made more than 400 appearances for | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Preston between 1946 and 1960,, he is one of England's all-time highest | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
goal scorers. He remained at deep deal throughout his career. The club | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
refusing a move to Italy at a time when his wages were ?14 a week. I | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
think the greatest personal satisfaction I got was being | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
fortunate enough to be born I think with the skill which enabled me to | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
play a game I loved playing and would willingly have played it for | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
nothing. His father insisted he finished his apprenticeship as a | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
plumber. A trade he returned to in later years. Most of these | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
supporters are too young to have seen him play, but his remained the | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
most famous face in Preston, long after he retired. His modesty is as | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
legendary as his talent. That's the sport, back to you Benn. | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
That's it for now. We're back with the late news at 10.40pm. | :12:29. | :12:30. |