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The floodwaters may have receded, but the misery continued today | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
for homeowners and businesses in Perthshire and the North East. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Heavy rain during December makes it the wettest since records began. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
This report first from Steven Duff in Ballater. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
Overnight, this place became the latest community to be affected by | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
flooding. This morning, water was still threatening homes. Many | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
residents have already left. Because the water was so high, it is coming | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
residents have already left. Because down and it is just under the | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
floorboards, so we are trained to get as red as much of that we can. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
You have the fire brigade here to help? Yes. I have been trying to | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
pump out the water and the government officials have been down | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
and I spoke to them and they are coming down to help and try to save | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
some of these properties from getting totally wrecked. The rural | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
affairs secretary visited this morning, speaking to those affected | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
by the flooding. It is still very distressing for those who are | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
affected. No-macro they have had damage to their homes or had to be | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
rescued. The aftermath and people clearing up, it is important that | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
everybody works together to help those affected. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
You mention the Environment Agency. You are putting the budget by almost | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
7%. Is that wise question You are putting the budget by almost | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
their role in Scotland is to give warning to understand the threat to | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
committees from flooding and make sure people are given proper | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
information. That will continue unaffected in terms of the budget | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
situation. For communities among the River Dee, some good news for a | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
change. This bridge should be open again in two weeks. The village is | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
currently inaccessible from the east because of damage. Part of the A93 | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
that was swept away by the floods, should be replaced by a temporary | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
road within the week. Police divers have been searching | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
in the flooded River Dee in Aberdeen for a man who officers fear may have | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
been swept away in its waters. Two bags containing the belongings | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
of Terence Kilbride were washed up beside | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
the river on Saturday. The 48-year-old from Warrington | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
was reported missing yesterday. Police say he's known to go | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
camping in the area. People in much of Perthshire have | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
spent the day dealing with more rain, and flooding from the Tay | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
and its tributaries. This was the centre of Perth this | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
morning. After days of rain, the drains | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
simply could cope no longer. Firefighters joined council teams | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
to protect property and people. Ten homes were evacuated - | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
mainly basement flats. Perth hadn't seen this kind | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
of flooding since 1993. This is all caused by coming up | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
through drains because the water We can get away with some things, | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
but water, I am afraid, Pumps were quickly put to work, | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
firing the water away, turning this parkland | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
into a reservoir. North of Perth, rain water | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
was thundering down the rivers. This is the River Isla north | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
of Perth, difficult to see where the river bank once was, | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
it's a massive expance of water, more like a loch than a river | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
and with all the mud stirred up by the force of the water, | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
it's running chocolate brown. A number of homes in Perthshire | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
have been flooded out. Those who work this now flooded land | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
trying to get on with it. In Perth tonight, most | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
of the water has now gone. They're hoping that's | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
the last of it. The main route in and out of Argyll | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
is closed again tonight. A 150-tonne boulder | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
is threatening to roll down the hillside onto the A83 | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
at the Rest and Be Thankful. Five days ago here at the A83, | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
the Rest and Be Thankful, there was a large landslide just | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
on the hill, you may be able to see the hillside behind me, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
lots of rocks and debris came The road was shut | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
for a very short time. But what happened when engineers | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
went up to see what damage had been done, they found a 150-tonne boulder | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
hanging precariously All day, engineers have been working | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
to try and drill down into that boulder, hopefully to put | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
it into tiny pieces and then tomorrow they'll do a controlled | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
explosion and hopefully that There is only one way | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
up and that's on foot. The second challenge is obviously | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the weather, the wind. So, this is the reason that we can | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
only work in daylight hours. At night, it's not | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
safe to work up there. The main problems they've faced | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
today have been bad weather, a very rocky unstable hillside, | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
and drill willing are to resume -- a very rocky unstable hillside, | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
and drilling will have to resume in the morning and hopefully that | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
controlled explosion will happen After that, hopefully, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
again weather dependent, Police Scotland's new Chief | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Constable has been formally sworn in during a ceremony | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
at the Scottish Police College Phil Gormley says the role | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
is the "pinnacle of his policing Here's our home affairs | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
correspondent, Reevel Alderson. Every police officer in Scotland | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
must swear the oath of constable, Phil Gormley starts work today | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
after a 30-year career in England, and he knows the new | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
job will be tough. I recognise the scale | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
of the challenge and importance of the role which I | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
have been appointed. I approach it with excitement | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
and a certain amount of humility. I will need the help and support | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
of people in this room and beyond, and I am determined, together, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
we can deliver a police service It's unlikely Phil Gormley | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
will be doing much of this. These probationary officers are | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
learning how to arrest a suspect. But the newest recruit has a number | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
of problems awaiting his attention. The Chief Constable's already had | :06:51. | :07:04. | |
a meeting with the chairman of the Scottish Police Authority | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
to plan his way forward. The budget is at the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
top of the agenda. Police Scotland's likely | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
to overspend by ?25 million Staff morale is low, | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
with a recent survey showing high levels of dissatisfaction among both | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
officers and civilian workers. And a series of controversies, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
stop-and-search, armed officers, and the M9 tragedy have | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
sapped public confidence. I would say that I don't think | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
everything is broken, so let's not leave this | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
conversation with a sense this There are some really | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
significant challenges. You have described some of them, | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
there are others we can discuss. Actually, what we need to do is work | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
with communities and individuals to develop locally relevant | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
services, improve the quality of people's lives, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
and that's my commitment. He has given himself 100 days | :07:47. | :07:47. | |
to familiarise himself with the force before he can plan | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
how to take it forward. Phil Gormley says it's the pinnacle | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
of his policing career. He says he approaches it | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
with excitement and humility. He has challenges, and those | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
challenges he will have It's over to Christopher now | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
with the weather forecast Good evening. As many will know only | :08:11. | :08:31. | |
too well, this 2015 was extremely wet. Here is the chart of the UK. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Where it is white, that is where we saw average rainfall in December. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Where it is blue, over and above. The dark blue indicates double what | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
we would normally see during the month of December, making it the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
wettest December on record right across the UK. All because of a very | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
strong jet stream staying in a staggered position, delivering | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
rainstorm after rainstorm. The fast jet driven by cold out to the north | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
and warm to the south, the rain heavily or persistent and the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
flooding worse. Tonight, still somewhat weather around. Certainly | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
for the Eastern bodies to budge. Exactly where we don't want it. That | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
is how we start things tomorrow morning. Away from these areas, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
reasonably dry at times and probably a better better day than today. Here | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
are the temperatures at 8am. Still some patchy rain towards the south, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
but up towards Tayside, Perthshire, Angus, Aberdeenshire, the rain will | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
continue. Snow on the hills. Further north and north-west, reasonably | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
dry. Some patchy light rain at times. A windy day tomorrow. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Decreasing the south through the course of the day from the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
south-east. The Rimmel continued through the north-east, not heavy | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
but persistent. The wet weather stretching towards the north-east of | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
England. Elsewhere, reasonably dry. Further clouded, but temperatures | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
towards Devon and Cornwall up to these temperatures. On the wind, | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
cool feel. Into the evening, the wet weather reinvigorates, turning | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
heavier ahead of the next band of rain arriving as we had overnight | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
Wednesday to Thursday. That weather moving in and then becomes stuck | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
across Scotland. Wet and windy weather and cold weather, as well. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Potentially some snow to low levels, but the weather falling on saturated | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
ground, further problems likely and a cold feel, too. | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25 tomorrow morning. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
But from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow, | :10:27. | :10:30. |