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More than 300 flood warnings and alerts have been | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
issued across England, Scotland and Wales. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
15 are severe warnings, indicating a danger to life - | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Homes in Ribchester and Whalley are being evacuated and people have | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
It's thought almost a month's rainfall will fall in one day | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in Ribchester. | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
Yes, and after the problems in Cumbria earlier this month, today | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
its Lancashire's turn to feel nervous to see the water come into | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
buildings. You can see behind me here, the main road from the village | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
of Ribchester to Blackburn. We have spent the morning trying to get | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
around here, it is very difficult, and a lot of the roads are | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
impassable. This is one of the areas the Met office put its highest | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
warning on, a severe flood warning, and that is their way of telling | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
people here it is time to evacuate, to get themselves out, their | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
belongings safe to make sure they are nowhere near where this water is | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
coming in. If you want to drive to Blackburn | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
from here, the only way is by tractor. Ribchester's largely cut | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
off, roads impassable by car as the River Ribble has burst its banks. 24 | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
hours ago, diners at this pub enjoying lunch, but this morning, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
the water rose so quickly, the staff had to bail out the kitchens as the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
water came in. The water was rising as we stood here now, it is about | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
two feet at the moment and driving higher. And that is in the kitchens? | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
The kitchen is completely flooded. We can't do anything in there today. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
We just have to wait for the level to drop. As it happened before? You | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
are right near the river. I have been here six years now, and this is | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
the worse I have ever seen it. I haven't seen it this high. People | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
here say they haven't seen it like this for decades. Sandbags and | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
defences are in place, and most houses are currently clear of water, | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
but it is a nervous time. This is the worst since I have lived in the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
village. I think it has been worse 20, 25 years ago when we first moved | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
into the area. In Lancashire, 70 millimetres of | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
rain has already fallen, and it's still coming, with around the same | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
amount due to fall before this evening. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
As you can see, the conditions here are not good, and it's not just here | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
in Lancashire, I should tell you there are problems across the north, | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
there is flooding at the moment we hear and particularly around the | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Calder Valley across West Yorkshire and into Leeds, but we are being | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
told are parts of Greater Manchester experiencing problems, among -- a | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
month's worth of rain falling in a day, difficulties in Scotland, and | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
the advice is to check for the latest flood information and to make | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
sure that you are at all times safe and not to come to near to where the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
floods are. Judith, thanks very much. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Senior doctors are urging people not to attend Accident and Emergency | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
units over the festive period unless it's "absolutely necessary". | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
NHS bosses say pharmacies should be the first point of contact for those | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
feeling unwell, and are advising people to stock up on painkillers | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
and cough syrups to deal with minor ailments. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
More than a hundred homes have been destroyed by Christmas Day bushfires | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
in Australia along a stretch of coastline popular | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Firefighters are continuing to tackle the blazes south | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
of Melbourne in the state of Victoria. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Fast-moving flames and thick smoke have brought panic and fear | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
along Australia's famous Great Ocean Road. | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
More than 50 houses have been destroyed in Wye River | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Firefighters have struggled to control the blazes. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Boots on the ground were supported by water-bombing aircraft, | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
The outbreak began last weekend, but intensified after being fanned | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
by strong winds as temperatures soared. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Many residents and holiday-makers were forced to flee | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
as Christmas festivities were abandoned | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
when the scale of the threat became apparent. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
They were all prepared, putting their barbecues on, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
they were cooking away, and all of a sudden | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
they could see the smoke coming over the hill. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
They thought it was still four hours away, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
it was an hour away, then half an hour away, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
stopped cooking and hopped in their car and headed here. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Conditions were so severe that authorities were advised to evacuate | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
entire towns south-west of Melbourne. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
A cool change has subdued some of the fires, and some heavy rain | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Many bushfires are started by lightning strikes, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
while others are sparked accidentally by campers | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Ominously, some of the blazes are the work of arsonists. | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
Millions of shoppers are hitting the high street today | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
It's thought almost ?5 billion will be spent by bargain hunters | :05:28. | :05:39. | |
Our business correspondent Joe Lynam is on Oxford Street | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Good afternoon. It is pretty busy on Oxford Street, as you can see. Maybe | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
less chaotic than other high streets throughout the UK, because London is | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
a tourist hub, but that isn't to say that people in the UK are not | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
spending money. They are spending ?4.9 billion over the festive period | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
by some measures. What is going on is they have more money in their | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
pocket, the cost of living has made flat lined and real wages are going | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
up, so people have more money to spend and they are going to spend | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
it. Interestingly, this year has seen a huge rise in online shopping, | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
so about a third of all the last you for weeks has been online, and the | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
rest of it is in high streets up and down the country like this. Though | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
they may be less chaotic than this one. | :06:29. | :06:28. | |
Joe, thank you by much. England's cricketers have had | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
difficult start on the first morning of their opening test | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
match in South Africa. After losing the toss | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
following a delayed start, captain Alistair Cook lasted | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
just eleven balls before They continued to struggle, | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
losing Joe Root. Rain has again stopped play | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
with England 55 for 3. The next news on BBC One | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
is at twenty to seven this evening. Good afternoon. There is no doubt | :06:49. | :07:06. | |
that a dangerous weather situation has developed so far this Boxing | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Day. Torrential rain which has prompted the Met Office to issue a | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
red warning, that is the highest tier of warning. It means take | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
action, action to protect property, action to protect life. You can see | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
why the problems have begun to arise on the radar picture. This pipeline | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
of moisture, it has been raining in the same parts of North Wales and | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
north-west England four hour upon hour upon hour. We have a red | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
warning in force for parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
there are Amber and yellow warnings in force across a large swathe of | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
North Wales, northern England and southern and eastern Scotland. These | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
green and yellow colours indicate the heaviest downpours, those | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
perhaps moving a little further north through the rest of the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
afternoon full but plenty more rain to come, and hill snow for Scotland. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Northern Ireland, cloudy, damp and cold, but further south, very mild, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
quite windy, mostly cloudy but at least try. This evening the rain | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
will continue for a time, and really poor travelling conditions, but | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
eventually this main band of rain will drift south and east, so things | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
will dry up in those areas. Further north, some fog for Northern | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Ireland, a very mild night across the South. Tomorrow morning, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
northern England will at least get a chance to dry out, and a bright | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
start. It will start a cloud over with sunlight breaks of rain pushing | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
up from the south, but this time the rain will not be nearly as heavy, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
just some patchy outbreaks of rain moving in through the afternoon. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Scotland, bright and cold, further south, some brightness and a very | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
mild day. Plenty of flood warnings and severe flood warnings stop if | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
you are at all concerned, you can call the flood line. And our BBC | :08:55. | :09:06. | |
You're not a soldier, you are a doctor. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
I'm an Army doctor which means I could break every | :09:13. | :09:15. |