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struggled with an Australian barrage all tour. Let's hope this guy has a | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
lot more success with conditions as the snow falls quite | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
heavily. We are expecting some Good evening. The capital's | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
transport network has been severely disrupted after London was battered | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
by gale force storms overnight. Flights have also been affected. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Power outages at Gatwick airport have meant many departures have been | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
delayed and some flights cancelled. The fire brigade dealt with 800 | :00:34. | :00:49. | |
calls overnight. This was in Battersea. Some rivers burst their | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
banks in south`east London. In Surrey the fire brigade says a train | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
ran into a landslide at slow speed and more than 200 people were | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
evacuated. The departure board this morning at Victoria station were | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
just a line of cancellations. Including the Gatwick express. That | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
meant Rob Carroll 's journey from Berlin still not over even after 15 | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
hours which had seen his flight diverted to Liverpool. It was an | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
adventure at first. The family from Austria were hoping to fly back home | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
after a short break in London. But problems en route to Gatwick and it | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
was touch and go. The lady said we should change to a train from | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
platforms 16 and then to other us. So we hope we do not have to stay | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
for Christmas on the platform! Some people were able to share a cab to | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Gatwick bugbear of the atmosphere was fraught. But flight | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
cancellations because of a flood from a nearby river cutting the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
power supply. Tonight the Middleton family from Reigate are moving into | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
a hotel after their house was flooded in the overnight storm. It | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
could not come at a worse time. You feel for the kids. The Middleton 's | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
are making the best of the situation but for some people this will be a | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Christmas Eve to forget. There are still problems on the | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
trains. Here are some of the services still affected. There's | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
disruption on First Capital Connect on trains out of Kings Cross to | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Peterborough, Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City ` and also between | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Moorgate and Finsbury Park. There's no Gatwick Express due to adverse | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
weather conditions and a landslip. There's no Southern service between | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
East Croydon and Gatwick Airport either. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Finally, on South West Trains, there's disruption on many services, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
especially in Surrey. In other news, thousands of civilian | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
police staff in London ` including 999 call handlers ` are to go on | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
strike on New Year's Eve. The PCS union says members voted three to | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
one for strike action. With the latest, let's speak to Warren | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Nettleford at Scotland Yard. What impact is the strike likely to have? | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The police here do not seem to think it will have any impact despite the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
fact that these support staff going on strike mean that they will not be | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
working on one of the busiest nights of the year. These include staff | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
working in custody suite as well as 999 call handlers. It is all to do | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
with the proposed 1% pay increase. They want a bigger pay increase. The | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Metropolitan police say they cannot increase wages any more due to a pay | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
cut introduced by central government. As a result police are | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
having to get staff to fill those jobs and they say they are fully | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
trained and will be able to handle the calls. Thousands of people will | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
be celebrating on New Year's Eve but they say there are confident it will | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
be fine. The former football club owner, Ron | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Noades, has died at the age of 76. Ron Noades bought Crystal Palace in | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
1981 and spent 17 years at Selhurst Park, before buying Brentford. He | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
lost his battle with lung cancer this morning. Let's get an update on | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
the weather with Sara Thornton. Good evening. We have some showers this | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
evening and overnight but few and far between. It is a cold start to | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
Christmas Day. There could be some wintry showers but many places will | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
stay dry if chilly. Boxing Day looks like the best day of this week. Wet | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
and windy again for Friday. Do try to have a good day tomorrow. That's | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
it from us - we are back on Boxing Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
Hello. The weather has been a little kinder today to travellers and | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
last-minute Christmas shoppers across England and Wales. Not as bad | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
as we feared across Northern Ireland. We have | :05:24. | :05:24. |