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Tonight on BBC London News. Closures, cancellations and delays. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
We've the latest on the great Christmas getaway as a weather | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
warning for heavy rain and strong winds brings travel misery for many. | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
IMac Euston Station, where passengers are doing their best to | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
get home this Christmas. We'll have a full weather forecast. Also in the | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
programme... Three people are killed in a crash as a car collides with a | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
lorry on the North Circular. It is something that stays in your mind. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
My son couldn't sleep last night. It was quite a shock. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Plus, Crisis at Christmas, as the charity opens its doors with a | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
warning that the number of young homeless is on the increase. | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
# Tell me on a Sunday please... And back for the first time in a | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
decade, Marti Webb returns with the West End hit which made her name. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. We start with more on the | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
storm which is tonight bringing disruption to thousands of | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
travellers attempting to leave London for Christmas. The Met Office | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
has amber warnings in place, forecasting torrential rain and | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
winds hitting speeds of 70mph. Many train services out of the capital | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
have been disrupted with some operators running a reduced service. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
And on the roads, the QE2 Bridge at Dartford has been closed until | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
tomorrow morning. The latest on all the travel coming up, but first | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Gareth Furby reports on a day of disruption. | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
Any child will tell you there's a certain well`known individual who | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
can always rely on his slave to get him where he wants to go at this | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
time of year, no matter what the weather. But as mere mortals, we | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
have to cope with what we are given. Tonight there is growing and | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
significant disruption, and you could tell something big was coming | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
as the wind picked up during the day. Gale force winds in central | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
London. And a wash`out at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, closed as a | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
precaution because high winds and some of the highest rides don't mix | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
well. A disappointing day for the McQuade family, from Middlesbrough, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
who'd hoped to enjoy this Christmas attraction. We saw it when we walked | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
in and thought, oh, no! It was closed due to the weather. We can't | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
do anything about the weather. We are a bit disappointed. What are you | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
going to do now? Go shopping! But even the Christmas shopping was for | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
some, a bit of an ordeal. What is it like shopping in these conditions? | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Very cold. I'm from Holland. Is this colder than Holland? Yes. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Challenging, to say the least. Where do you come from? Australia. Here, | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
and other seasonal London attraction called the snow globe, in Picadilly | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Circus, which covers the statute you Ross, it is filmed apparently | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
bursting open in the wind. And beyond London, the QE2 bridge at the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Dartford Crossing has been closed until the winds ease. During the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
day, 9000 homes in Berkshire lost power. And all the rail companies | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
serving London have introduced speed restrictions. On southeastern | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
trains, a landslide is causing disruption. First Capital Connect is | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
having to cope with a fallen tree. Passenger safety is our priority. We | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
want to make sure that the service we run is the best possible we could | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
do to get people home for Christmas, but also make sure we carry them | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
safely. The alternative, the roads, may also prove tricky. Depending on | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
how much wind there is, it is worth planning ahead. This evening, many | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
of the Royal Parks were closing early Bostock and they may also be | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
closed tomorrow morning, as any assessed. Tonight, the mood here at | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
Euston Station, just one of the stations affected, is one of | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
frustration. But there's also a sense of stoicism, the notion that | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
when people finally get where they are going, despite all that | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
disruption, they will, of course, have been worth it. How very | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
British! As Gareth mentioned there's widespread disruption tonight. Greg | :04:56. | :04:56. | |
McKenzie is here with the latest. There are problems across the entire | :04:57. | :05:08. | |
railway network this evening. The advice for passengers is simply | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
leave enough time to make your journey. So there are delays and | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
some cancellations on Virgin Trains services and Midlands Mainline out | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
of Euston tonight. First Capital Connect are also | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
experiencing problems for its services out of Kings Cross St | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
Pancras, trains running at reduced speeds. And Southern Train services | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
from Victoria are also running at reduced speeds, some trains being | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
cancelled due to fallen trees and branches on the tracks. | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
And airports, some delays for inbound and outbound flights due to | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
high winds at Gatwick, Heathrow and London City Airport. Passengers are | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
advised to check with their airline before heading to the airport. And | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
for the latest travel advice, log on to the BBC London Website or tune in | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
to our radio stations BBC London 94.9. | :06:03. | :06:21. | |
And explosively deepening area of low pressure. It's turning into the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
fright before Christmas. I will have the details later. Also ahead.. | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
Packing the pews. Why churches across the capital are bucking a | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
downward trend. An investigation's under way after | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
three people died when their car collided with a lorry and burst into | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
flames. It's believed the car crossed the carriageway on the North | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Circular, hitting the lorry which was travelling in the opposite | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
direction. The driver and the occupants of another car involved | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
escaped with minor injuries. Warren Nettleford is at the scene in north | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
London for us now. What more can you tell us? | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
This is one of the busy road in North London. It was closed for | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
several hours this morning, as the police tried to work out what | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
happened here last night. There were two cars travelling westbound, the | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
Subaru crossed the central reservation before colliding with a | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
bread delivery lorry. That lorry then hit that bus stop. There was a | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
lot of damage caused. The Subaru was badly damaged, it set fire as a | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
result of the impact. Three people who were inside died as a result of | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
that collision. As well as that the Vauxhall Astra, the two people | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
travelling inside that car were taken to hospital with minor | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
injuries. I was speaking to neighbours who were here last night. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
They were saying what it was like when the accident happened. The | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
impact was so hard because... It caused a lot of damage. People tried | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
to help but you couldn't do anything about it. It is something that stays | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
in your mind. My son couldn't sleep last night. It was quite a shock. I | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
understand the police have already made some arrests. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Yes, two people have been arrested, it's believed they were the two | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
people travelling inside the forks all Astra. They've been arrested on | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. We will be | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
watching the story to see what happens. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
A double decker bus has crashed into a railway bridge in south west | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
London, resulting in the roof almost being sliced off. The accident | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
happened after the driver took a wrong turn in Norbiton earlier this | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
afternoon. No passengers were on board at the time. TFL said the | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
driver was not injured and the accident was a result of human | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
error. Many rail commuters in the Home | :09:04. | :09:15. | |
Counties will face above`inflation increases on their annual season | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
tickets from next week, after new fares for 2014 were announced today. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Those affected include commuters from Reading to London who will pay | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
?4,000 for a season ticket. Bus and tube passengers, however, will see | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
average fares go up by less than inflation. Cancellations into King's | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
Cross this morning, and for rail commuters it is more bad news. Peak | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
fares are going up by an average 3.1% in the New Year. Some by more | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
than that. It is quite ridiculous, considering at the moment the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
economic climate is really bad. More expenses for people, people can t | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
afford it and the services are not improving. I'd rather not have the | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
3.1, but that's not life. Life is that things get more expensive. A | :10:01. | :10:13. | |
season ticket from Reading to London goes up by 3.23% to just over ? 000. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Woking to London goes up 2.9%, to nearly ?3000. And a season ticket | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
from Aylesbury to London will now cost ?3732. The reason this | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
announcement is so late is because the Chancellor only decided to cut | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
fares at an increase of 3.1% on average on December the 5th. That | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
caught the industry and City Hall unawares. In fact, TfL fares in | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
London won't now go up until the 19th of January. Critics say this | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
shows a breakdown in communication between the chancellor, George | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Osborne, and the mayor, Boris Johnson. Today, TfL said bus, tube | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
and DLR fares would rise below inflation, at an average of 2.7 . | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Travelcards will go up with inflation at 3.1%. Rail, campaigners | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
say the government should be doing more. Fares are still going up by at | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
least three times the rate of average rate increases. That will | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
hit commuters hard when they come to renew their fares on the 2nd of | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
January. There's not much festive cheer in this announcement today. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
The rail industry says it has been investing in projects like King s | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Cross. And ?24 billion will be invested in improving the network | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
over the next five years. No one likes paying more, particularly at | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
the moment, when the economy is under pressure. But what it is being | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
able to do is help us to invest more in the network, and that ultimately | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
lead two to more satisfaction in passengers. An end in sight to the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
fare rises, do you think? That's one for Government. At the moment there | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
is no end in sight to the fare rises. The number of young people | :11:58. | :12:08. | |
sleeping on the streets in London has doubled in the past three years, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
according to the charity Crisis It says high rents and welfare reforms | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
are to blame. Katharine Carpenter has been to a shelter in Camden to | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
find out more. Preparing lunch for 250 people. Fortunately the home | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
economics room at this north London secondary is up to the job, as the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
hundreds of volunteers. It is the first time Crisis has used a school | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
for one of its Christmas centres. But with an increasing number of | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
homeless people in the capital, even the gym will be put to good use The | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
scale of the Centre is impressive, it feels like a small village. There | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
is a sewing room, where people can get their clothes mended this is a | :12:45. | :12:59. | |
locker room, where things can be left for the whole of the festive | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
period. There's also a beauty salon here. You can see people getting | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
their hair cut, then they'll stun and there's even going to be a | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
dentist offering treatment. Getting a haircut is an amazing | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
transformation for me. It's built up my self`confidence. Able to access | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
all the facilities, as in job advice, housing advice, benefit | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
advice. John still has those challenges to face. A former | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Grenadier Guards, he lost his marriage, job and home. I'm hoping | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
to get somewhere to live. Try and get a job and start working again. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
That is all I've ever done. I started working when I was 15. This | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
year, Crisis is particularly worried about the plight of young people. It | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
says the number sleeping rough in London has more than doubled in | :13:38. | :14:28. | |
three years, with 8% of 16 to 24`year`olds reporting being | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
homeless recently. Short`term, we need to look at how housing benefit | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
is affecting the kind of housing that is available for under 35s not | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
just under 25s. Still to come: both sides of London are connected | :14:35. | :15:36. | |
by the church. Three years ago, just 20 people had | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
come here in Bethnal Green. It is a little different now. The | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
congregation has grown sixfold. It is in the middle of a bunch of | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
estates and the church is directly serving local people. The first time | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
I came, this time last year, they were shovelling snow out of the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
doorways. High church mixes with the modern in | :16:04. | :16:04. | |
the same service. We have been involved in all sorts | :16:05. | :16:19. | |
of things locally that mean we are on the side of people. City safe | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
havens on the Hackney Road. Connected with schools. Doing things | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
with young and old people. The churches have seen 10% fewer | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
people coming through their doors in the last decade. Compare that with | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
London, churches across all denominations have seen a 16% growth | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
in attendance, the majority among black and immigrant communities Now | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
9% of Londoners go to church once a week. At Saint Pauls Cathedral, the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
numbers are rising as well. Slightly easier for the London | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
churches to get their message to the local community. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
This is a time of year when churches are at their most beautiful and at | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
their fullest. 20,000 people will have gone to a service at Saint | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Pauls by the end of the Christmas period. Come January, all of that | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
starts again. There are some brave football fans | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
out in the elements tonight. Here to tell us more is our sports reporter | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Sara Orchard. And, pardon the pun, but it's a bit of a Christmas | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
cracker. Let 's hope it really is. We have to | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
mention the weather before we talk about the Arsenal`Chelsea match We | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
have been told to check travel arrangements before and after the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
match. Kick off is at 8pm. Arsenal could go top of the table at | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Christmas if they can beat Chelsea at the Emirates. Arsene Wenger's | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
record against Jose Mourinho isn't necessarily the best. Four draws and | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
five defeats but Arsene Wenger says this shouldn't impact on the game. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
It is not a personal battle, honestly, we had some big games in | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
the past, but what is important to me is I am completely focused on | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Arsenal football weekly `` Arsenal football club as my team doing | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
well. Chelsea should be confident because | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
of that record and Arsenal are without Jack Wilshere who is | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
starting his two game suspension. Looking ahead to Boxing Day, news | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
for horse racing fans. The big race on the 26th is the King | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
George VI at Kempton Park. The bad news is last year 's runner`up, | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Captain Chris, has suffered a minor leg injury and will not be racing. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Nine horses have been named on the card. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Did you have a work Christmas party this year? You might have gone for a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
few drinks at the pub, or had a more extravagant knees`up. But, for a | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
growing number of companies, volunteering has become the antidote | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
to corporate excess, with schemes being organised by London`based | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
charity TimeBank. Helen Drew went to one firm's alternative party. | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
Gardening is exactly your typical office Christmas party, but all 25 | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
staff in this company have opted out of mulled wine and mistletoe in | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
favour of volunteering in Bethnal Green. They are helping to tidy up | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the gardens of elderly residents. It is a lot different to last year I | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
have never done anything like this before. The first time I've gardened | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
in my life. It's very easy to forget about what other people's lives | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
like. You can be insular in an office. It has been great. It is | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
really rewarding, doing those gardens. The people came out and | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
said thank you so much. It was the boss The Resistable Rise of Arturo | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Ui idea. It's the stories you hear, the special moments, that you | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
volunteer for. Money can't buy that experience. After the Gardening | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
time to help with someone else's Christmas party. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Tower Hamlets homes has put this event on for their older residents | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
in the area. They try to tackle isolation and. Volunteers are key to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
achieving that. We provide housing services, but we need help. | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
Volunteers often provide that help. Today's volunteering is a world away | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
from the previous session excesses. Many of which stopped after 200 . | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
TimeBank came up with the Christmas volunteering scheme, and says it has | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
had 50 requests so far. This year, budgets are cut niftily and people | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
realised the value of volunteering. It's not just about who you are | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
helping, but it can inspire your staff. The charity is hoping | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Christmas volunteering will lead to a year`round interest in helping | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
others. Her West End career spans more than | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
30 years, but it's the musical Tell Me On A Sunday for which Marti Webb | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
is perhaps best known. The show was written specially for her by Sir | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black. And, next year, she will be | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
performing it again, including the hit title song, and Take That Look | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Off Your Face. Our entertainment correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
reports. Tell me on a Sunday, please. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Marti Webb sings the title song from the musical that led to her big | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
break over 30 years ago. It charts the experiences of a young London | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
girl who journeys to New York in search of love, and was written | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
specifically for her by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Don | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Black. The only time in my life I have ever been involved with | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
something from the very beginning, when someone sat at the piano and | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
composed, that was Andrew Lloyd Webber, was amazing. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
All these different songs. Take that look off your face. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
I can see through your smile. The original show was a huge success | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
with a number one album and a hit single. She is now set to reprise | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
her role in the production with the original version at the St James | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Theatre. Is it nice going back to the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
original? It is nice, this is where it started. This is the root of it. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
That is exciting, especially for me, there's lots of memories. | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
Don't leave in silence with no word at all. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
What is your view on the reality shows and the ladder to fame? | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
People ask me that question, it is really funny. Good luck to anybody | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
in this business who can get on It is being seen, being in the right | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
place at the right time. The hardest thing is staying the course. Is | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
there any greater challenge than a one`woman show in the west end? | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
You only have you and the audience. It's not like anything else I have | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
ever done. I feel safe in a cast with other people. I like that | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
better. Marti Webb is going solo from the | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
seven until the 12th of January `` seventh. Back | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
and the QE2 Bridge in Dartford remains closed tonight because of | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
the adverse weather. Peter Whittlesea is there for us now. How | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
much disruption is this going to cause as the Christmas getaway | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
begins? This is what it has been like for | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the last six hours, bumper to bumper. The tailbacks on this side | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
of the tailbacks on this side undercutting stretching as far | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
back, where the M 20 metres the M25. There is no sign of it changing The | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
QE2 bridge was closed at 1:30pm and all southbound traffic has to come | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
through the eastern tunnel. The highways agency is saying the bridge | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
will not open until wind speeds die down. I have recorded speeds of up | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
to 55 miles an hour. They say the wind will not die down until four | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
tomorrow morning, so the delays are expected to continue for some time. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Let's take a look at the all important weather, with Peter. | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
It's not particularly Christmas spirited, the weather. The good news | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
is things will be a good deal karma for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. At | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the moment, we have the beginnings of the storm. It has not peaked yet. | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
As I just said, a somewhat quieter colder day on Christmas and Boxing | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Day, but another big, Atlantic storm, looks set for the end of the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
week. A subtle difference in the colours, and amber warning to be | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
prepared. A yellow triangle for the end of the week, be aware warning. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
What have we got to be prepared for? At the moment, the winds are | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
touching 70 miles an hour. There are outbreaks of moderate rain mixed in | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
with all of that blue. Once we get through midnight, that is when the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
gusts are likely to peak at something like 80 miles an hour We | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
could well get if you rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning, as | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the heaviest rain moves through and add to any flooding problems. That | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
wet weather starting to move away at dawn. Not a particular cold night, | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
down to five Celsius. So, relatively speaking, I think Christmas Eve is | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
going to be a better day. It is still going to be breezy, some sharp | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
showers out there. We are likely to see top amateurs getting up to 0 | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Celsius. On to Christmas Day, things really do start to calm down. Still | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
the chance of getting caught in a sharp shower if you are out trying | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
to work `` walk the turkey off. Then, early warnings of yet more | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
heavy rain and strong winds for the end of the week. Just be really | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
cautious out there, this evening, and if you are moving around in the | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
early hours. A look at the main headlines now: | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Much of the UK has been hit by a fierce storm, with heavy rain and | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
winds threatening chaos for millions of people preparing for Christmas | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
travel. Thousands of homes are without power | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
in Berkshire and the West Country. Many train services out of the | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
capital have been disrupted, with some operators running a reduced | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
service. And the QE2 Bridge at Dartford has | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
been closed until tomorrow morning. We'll have the latest on the weather | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
and the travel disruption during the ten o'clock news here on BBC One. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
And you can keep up`to`date throughout the night on our radio | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
station BBC London 94.9. But, for now, from us all on the team, | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
goodnight. | :27:44. | :27:45. |