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to British coastlines, with winds of up to 80 mph. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
industry is worth ?21 billion, and it's expanding by 20% every I | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
industry is worth ?21 billion, and BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Tonight on BBC London: More defences go in as people living in the flood | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
hit areas on the Thames prepare for the waters to rise again over the | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
weekend. Sandbags are now at a premium. Some | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
people are stealing them and some selling them at inflated prices | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Knocking on vulnerable people's doors that can't get out, saying | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
they will sell them to them for up to ?75. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Plus, engineering work to fix the flood damaged rail line into | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Paddington could mean its closure for a week or more. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
And we'll have the rest of the days news. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
This man died in Woolwich in the "neknominate" drinking craze. Police | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
say they'll talk to the person who nominated him. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
And a day to remember, as the Duchess pops in for these school | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
children in west London. I shook her hand and told her happy Valentine's | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Day. She said I was the first person to say that to her. Not her husband! | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Apparently not. Good evening. Yet more rain and yet | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
more flooding. That's what people living near the Thames in Surrey and | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Berkshire are preparing for this weekend. The Environment Agency s | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
putting in new temporary defences in some of the most vulnerable areas | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
and distributing thousands of sandbags. And those sandbags are in | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
demand. There's evidence of people stealing them and others selling | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
them at inflated prices. Let's go live now to Chertsey and speak to | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
our reporter Nick Beake. Good evening from what feels like a | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
forgotten corner of Surrey tonight. We are in someone's front garden, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
would you believe it. Completely submerged, and a canoe is the only | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
way of getting out. As I make my way up the stairs, I can show you the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
property. The people here decided to stay and we will talk to them in a | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
moment. They have been taking precautions. All of the furniture is | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
up on bricks, everything up on the table. If you talk to people in this | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
part of Surrey and also in Berkshire, you get different | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
responses. Some say they are getting the support they need, others are | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
angry they have been isolated, like here, and they are not getting | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
support from the various people who could be helping. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
Chertsey's latest flood defence The first time the AquaDam has been | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
deployed in this country. It will hold back the flood waters to come. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
The question for residents now, are you on the right side or the wrong | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
side? For a mere's family, the answer is clear. The furniture is up | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
in the garden is sodden, and worse to come. We have been told it is to | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
save the houses on the other side of the road but we don't think it is | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
fair that we are being sacrificed. We have had this house since we were | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
tiny and if they say is going to get as bad as it is going to get, the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
house will fall to pieces and we will have no home. But hundreds of | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
homes will be spared thanks to a half kilometre inflatable field | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
ironically, with water. Our view, and we are very firm on this, is | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
that we are not making the situation worse for others. If the insurers | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
try to claim that is the case they will have to come back to us and we | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
will say that we are protecting properties, not making the situation | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
worse for others. Across the bridge, there is little in the way of | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
defence. This water is still deep and really fast flowing, quite hard | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
to move around in. The good news is that it is flowing away from the | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
properties, back out into the river, but there is so much rain forecast | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
and at some point it is likely to slow the other way. Simon battles | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
on. He moved his family out a week ago. Four pumps, running 24`7, are | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
now his only hope. Over the bridge there is a lot of activity with the | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
AquaDam they are putting up, a lot of help from the military and | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Environment Agency. We haven't had much here. But to be honest, right | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
now, I don't know what kind of help they can give me. Sandbags are the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
new currency. These men apparently making off with a newly built wall. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
As volunteers hand them out in Runnymede, others try to sell them. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Bags they have stolen from us, they are knocking on vulnerable people's | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
doors say they will sell them for prices of ten, 60 and 75. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Preparations across Surrey continued for more rain. There is already | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
water as far as you can see, and no end in sight. There are extremely | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
strong winds tonight and lots of rain, too. We have sandbags here and | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
you can see them doing the job so far. They hope the water will not | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
rise farther but because of the deluge, they are worried. I | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
mentioned this as a forgotten corner of Surrey and I will explain why. We | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
can talk to the owner, Ian Berry. Thank you for being with us. What | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
support have you had? Absolutely none. We have seen the fire brigade | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
helping people on the other side of the river but we have had nothing. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
We have done everything ourselves. By canoe, single`handedly. Any help | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
that anyone gets is brilliant but we feel we have been left to our own | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
devices. We only knew about the plastic by watching the news so we | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
had to take our defences down and rebuild them because no one has | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
given us any advice. We can see the pictures which show your daily trip | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
to get supplies, by canoe. What have you had to do in terms of generators | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
to pump out the water? We have four pumps going, one diesel, three | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
electric. In case the power goes out, we have an electric generator | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
as well. When all of them are going, we are pumping out about 2.5 million | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
litres of water just to keep the basement drive. Just your property | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
alone, 2.5 million each day? Correct. It is a circle of every | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
three hours feeding the generator with fuel, keeping it going and | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
monitoring the levels. So you are getting no sleep, every three hours. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Pretty much. You have to monitor everything. Even now when the levels | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
have gone down, we set alarms to make sure that if they come up with | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
are ready to react. It is not an instant process when it rains, so | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
with the downpour today, do you think it will rise again? | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Definitely. We do not know if they are opening the locks further up the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
river, which may bring a dead huge down. Also, it takes a couple of | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
days to the rain further upstream to come down. We have no idea when it | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
will come, if it will come, and how bad it will be. Thank you for | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
talking to us. I hope you stay dry and I hope you stay safe. That gives | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
an indication of the challenges people are facing. This is one | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
example, albeit an extreme example, but an indication of what people | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
here in Chertsey, Surrey and other places are facing, and with more bad | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
weather to come, we can expect more of this. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
It's been a dreadful week for many commuters, especially those using | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Paddington Station where there have been large numbers of delays and | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
cancellations. But now there could be even more bad news. BBC London | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
understands engineers are considering closing the mainline at | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Maidenhead so flood damaged signalling can be replaced. Here's | :07:50. | :08:02. | |
Tom Edwards. Every morning 35,000 commuters use | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Paddington Station and this week it has been a real struggle, with only | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
one in five trains running. It has been really bad, having to go the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
long route around by Waterloo. It is normally 40 minutes and now it is | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
about an hour and 45 minutes. Trains are not moving. The other day I came | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
here and the trains were just standing at the station. Disruption | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
on the great Western line is being caused by signalling failures at | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Maidenhead. Signal boxes are submerged. The water table is 2 | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
metres higher than normal and will not drop, save the Environment | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Agency, for weeks. The speed limit through the area is just five miles | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
per hour. Sources have told the BBC that engineers are now considering a | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
block closure of a week or more of the great Western, which would cause | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
huge disruption. Then engineers could either raise the track or | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
refit signalling. Passenger groups are pragmatic. If they are told that | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
two weeks of grief will lead to 10`year 's resilience, without the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
delays they have had up to now, they will probably live with it, not | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
happily, but resolutely. It is a huge commuter belt. The numbers | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
travelling into Paddington even on a normal day, it is really crowded. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Lots of people live in that direction and with the problem is | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
further in the south`west, that will put more pressure on the road | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
network. Network Rail says it has no plans to close the line and options | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
to increase capacity at Maidenhead will be announced soon. But the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
train companies are not ruling anything out. If there is no | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
evidence the water is going to dissipate of its own accord, we will | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
have to look, as a railway industry, at how we move signalling | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
equipment to work around it. No one should be in any doubt that is a big | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
job, big challenge, but all options are under review. Whatever the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
outcome, commuters face disruption for some time, and again, this will | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
raise questions about infrastructure resilience. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
For the first time, a "red flag warning has been issued on the | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Thames urging rowers and boaters to stay away. The RNLI's Chiswick | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
station says it's had its busiest start to the year since it opened | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
over a decade ago. The main call outs have been due to rowers caught | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
out by quick flowing water caused by the floods. Tarah Welsh reports | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
Another rescue on the Thames. These rowers ended up pinned against a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
pier until they were pulled to safety. Chiswick is up to 32 shouts | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
this year already, and that is our busiest year so far. Mainly the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
call`out is now our rowers getting caught out by the tides. And this is | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
why. Water is flowing four times faster than usual, making it tricky | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
for even the most experienced. I had to use more throttle to get us up | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
there. This is the organisation in charge of safety on the river and it | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
has had to issue its strongest warning ever. The red flag is saying | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
to all recreational man powered rowers, kayaks, canoes, the river is | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
really tricky, very dangerous and we advise you not to go out. In some | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
areas, water is four metres higher than normal. The reason it is | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
flowing so quickly is because of all of the extra water coming from | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
flooded areas up river. The warning is expected to last for at least | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
another two weeks. For this rowing coach, it means a chance to catch up | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
on jobs inside, but practice has not completely stopped. We are doing | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
less sessions than I would like and there are times when we cannot go | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
out. But when there is an incoming tide and the wind is relatively | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
benign, the experienced crews can manage. But for novices, the message | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
from the authorities is don't learn the hard way. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Stay with us. There's Friday night sport coming up. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
After shaking off the threat of administration, London's only rugby | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
league club look to cause a stir as the new Super League season begins. | :12:26. | :12:38. | |
An inquest has heard how police plan to speak to the person who | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
"neknominated" a man who died after taking part in the online drinking | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
challenge. The craze, called "neknominate" involves people | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
filming themselves quickly drinking alcohol before nominating others to | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
continue the game. Isaac Richardson took part but collapsed in Woolwich, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
becoming the first British person to die playing the game. Emma North | :12:56. | :13:07. | |
joins me now. Isaac Richardson was 20, from Essex, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
educated at Colchester grammar School, working as a receptionist at | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
a backpack up 's mock hospital in Woolwich. On Sunday he accepted a | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
neknominate challenge, which involves someone nominating you on | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
the internet to drink a strong cocktail of alcohol. You film | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
yourself doing it, post it on the internet and nominate someone else | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
to do even worse, go further. Mr Richardson said he was apparently | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
going to outdo everyone when he drank 1.5 litres of wine, whiskey, | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
vodka and beer. He collapsed and paramedics tried to save Tim. He was | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital but died on Monday morning. The | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
coroner 's office confirmed he had accepted a neknominate challenge and | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
CCTV and a telephone were taken from the hostel. Police have said they | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
know who nominated him to take on the challenge and have contacted him | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
but not prosecute him or her. This game is gaining momentum. It is | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
astonishing. It started in Australia. It is juvenile and | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
idiotic but as people have been daring each other to go further the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
stakes have been raised. There are reports of people blending the likes | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
of mice, grasshoppers, Goldfish and then drinking them. There has been a | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
backlash because now four people are believed to have died because of | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
this. Parents are now posting footage of their children who have | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
indulged in this game to shame them, and their are growing numbers of | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
calls for Facebook and YouTube not to allow these videos to be posted | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
because they are believed to be directly harmful. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Boris Johnson presented his final budget to the London Assembly for | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
the next financial year this morning. Assembly members questioned | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
him about funding for the Metropolitan Police, Fire Brigade, | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Transport for London and the London Legacy Development Corporation. The | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
budget was approved despite over half of the Assembly Members voting | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
to amend it. Sir Stuart Rose and the Health | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
Secretary have visited Basildon Hospital, which is one of 14 NHS | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Trusts in England placed in special measures after concerns about care. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
The former boss of Marks and Spencer is to become an unpaid adviser for | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
the NHS in England. Sir Stuart will mentor senior managers and give | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
guidance on how to attract the best leaders. We depend on those people | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
every single day to do their job properly and with enthusiasm and | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
skilfully to make sure we're the right output. Here it is about | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
making sure that patients get the right service, promptly and safely, | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
and the right outcome. Now, as we've been hearing, Team GB | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
are celebrating their first gold medal of the Winter Olympics. Here | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
with the rest of the weekend's sport is Chris Slegg. | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
Yes, congratulations to Kent's Lizzie Yarnold in the women's | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
skeleton. And her training partner, London`born Dom Parsons, has also | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
been in action today in the men s event. The first two runs took place | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
today with two more tomorrow. He began the competition with hopes of | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
a top`six finish, and at the halfway stage he is currently tied for tenth | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
after making a couple of mistakes towards the bottom of the run. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Parsons' British team`mate Kristan Bromley is in joint eighth. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Also tomorrow, Surrey`based skier Chemmy Alcott has her strongest | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
event. The 31`year`old is competing in Sochi despite having endured | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
three leg breaks during her career. She said finishing 19th in | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Wednesday's downhill felt like winning gold. While a medal is | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
likely to be well beyond her in the Super G, she's confident of another | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
good performance. The target is the same for the downhill, to go for | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
that finish and know that I am pushing my boundaries and I haven't | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
chickened out, I have put everything on the line. | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
Now, these two have never exactly seen eye to eye, and today Jose | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Mourinho branded Arsene Wenger a "specialist in failure". Wenger had | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
been asked by journalists why he felt rival managers like Mourinho | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
were keen to play down their own title chances. He said it might be | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
because of "a fear to fail". This is how Mourinho responded. | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
You know, he is a specialist in failure. I'm not. But the reality is | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
that he is a specialist, because eight years without a piece of | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
silverware, that is failure. And if I do that in Chelsea, eight years, I | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
leave London, I don't come back Chelsea and Arsenal are among three | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
London teams chasing a place in the FA Cup quarterfinals. The Blues aim | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
to repeat their recent Premier League win over Manchester City | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
Just eight days after losing 5` to Liverpool, Arsenal meet them again. | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
The capital's only representatives from outside the top flight are | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
Charlton, who face fellow Championship side Sheffield | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Wednesday. Live commentary of that game on BBC London 94.9. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
The financial problems facing London Broncos last year almost killed off | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
rugby league in the capital. But the club avoided administration and as | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
Emma Jones reports, on Sunday London's only Super League team kick | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
off a new season. A magic moment for the London | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
Broncos, walking out at Wembley in the challenge cup final in 1999 But | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
recently, there has been less cause for celebration. The team preparing | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
for this season is very different to the one that ended the last | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
campaign, when the club found itself homeless after seven years, most of | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
the senior players left and the Broncos almost went into | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
administration. But they now have a new home. For the next two years at | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
least, they will be sharing with Barnet football club. I believe | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
there should be rugby league in London, in the south. I have watched | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
the sport, and it is exciting. It is an opportunity for them and for us | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
to grow together. These fans checking out their latest | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
home are relieved they still have a side to support. But they also know | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
there could be more tough times ahead. If we can manage to survive | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
and stay in the top flight for another year. I think it is good | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
that they have got is `` a secure future, but I hope they can keep | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
their place within Super League The team going to round one of the new | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
season away at Widnes is one of the favourites to be relegated, but what | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
they have battled through already could give them the added strength | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
to deal with what's to come. I think in the long`term, the club's got a | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
very exciting and bright future We have just got to make sure we do | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
really well this year, because it will be sad to see a London team not | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
in Super League. The hard work to keep a top`flight rugby league team | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
in the capital isn't over yet. Hopefully a rather more stable | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
season off the pitch for London Broncos this time round. That's all | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
from me. Asad. Another busy weekend of sport! Thank | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
you very much, Chris. It was no ordinary day for students | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
at a school in west London today. It's because they got a visit from | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
the Duchess of Cambridge. She was there to open a new charity`funded | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
art room, and our reporter Helen Drew was there too. Ed Davey | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
students will never forget. Because of a very special guest. The Duchess | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
of Cambridge made a visit to open the art room, a charity art project | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
that aims to help children and young people who are facing difficulties. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
It is full of keen students today, but would usually hold small | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
classes, maybe with children at risk of exclusion from school or with low | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
self`esteem. The Duchess is patron of the charity, and her visit made | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
many people's day. She looks gorgeous in the papers, but in | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
person, it is another level. She is just another beefed `` such a | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
beautiful person inside and outside. Did you have a conversation with | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
her? I told her happy Valentine s Day, and she said I was the first | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
person to say it to her. Not her husband? ! Apparently not. It is the | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
seventh art room in the country and will help students not just in this | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
country but throughout the borough of Ealing. The arts room is a | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
resource for all the students in Ealing, so the fact that it offers a | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
calm space for students to step back and reflect was one that I couldn't | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
really miss. The idea of this room is to create a fun and relaxing | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
environment, rather than just using canvases, students can paint on | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
tables, on chairs and even on clocks. The country's seven Art | :22:04. | :22:19. | |
Rooms are funded centrally, and you can see the power of art. It gives | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
every single person the possibilities and succeed. That is | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
what our children need. Another will open in the autumn | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
when no doubt those students will be hoping for their own special guest. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Lots of smiles at that school. Now let's check on the weather with | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Elizabeth. It is going to turn stormy again | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
tonight, with the usual barrage of weather warnings out. There will be | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
yet more rain to come, so still the impact from today's reign over the | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
course of the weekend causing the rivers to rise. Tonight we are more | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
focused on the strength of the wind. We are looking at strong wind in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
deed, possibly up to 70 mph in some places. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
You can see quite nicely on the radar picture, some really heavy | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
bursts at times. Many areas could see more than an inch of rain. This | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
evening's rush`hour is truly horrible outside, more showers to | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
come at times, some of them quite heavy, and the wind picking up. Just | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
take a look at the wind speeds. They are the average, not the gusts. We | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
could be looking at up to 60 mph towards parts of the Essex coast | :23:44. | :23:44. | |
line. Very windy conditions, peeking | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
through the early hours of tomorrow morning. Things will gradually | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
improve through the course of tomorrow. The winds will ease down, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the showers will still be there but probably only about 5`10 millimetres | :24:04. | :24:15. | |
of rainfall tomorrow. But then things start to improve. Saturday | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
night into Sunday is looking dry, and also quite chilly. Sunday will | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
be a lovely day, a nice day of the weekend. The wind will be a lot | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
lighter. Unfortunately, this is Monday's whether pushing in from the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
West, looming in the distance. We are going to see quite a wet spell, | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
but not as stormy, and that will be the pattern for the rest of the | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
week, too. It will stay on settled, but no prolonged dry weather. It is | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
not going to be quite as intense and stormy. Until then, we still have | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
all the severe flood warnings on the Thames. | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
Thank you, Elizabeth. Before we go, a reminder of tonight's main news | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
headlines. More severe flood warnings have been issued as high | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
winds and rain batter southern Britain. Forecasters are warning | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
that some places could see two inches of rain and winds of 80mph. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
In Berkshire and Surrey, people living near the Thames are being | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
warned that water levels could rise again this weekend. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
The Prime Minister has dismissed suggestions that more than 500 | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Environment Agency jobs involved in tackling flooding will be cut as | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
part of plans to reduce its budget. It's emerged the former editor of | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, has been interviewed by police over | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
allegations of phone hacking. Mr Morgan was questioned under | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
caution in December. And Lizzy Yarnold has won Great | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
Britain's first gold medal of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. It's | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
Britain's second medal in Sochi and tenth gold in Winter Games history. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
That's it for now. But we're going to leave you this evening with some | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
of the moments and images of the storms and floods along sections of | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
the Thames during what's been an extraordinary week. Good night. | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
She is worried about getting the hospital. Anything like this | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
before? The last time, 1947. There seems to be a lack of | :26:18. | :26:31. | |
co`ordinated between the authorities. We don't have a direct | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
telephone number that we can phone up. Are you going to survive this? | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
None of us know that, do we. The house down the road is going under. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
All of the bungalows at the back of going under. Are you going to | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
school? No. We can't get there. We need to get to work. We don't want | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
to put our jobs at stake. I am just freezing. I think they could have | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
communicated a lot that are with us. The scale is immense, and you can't | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
imagine unless you are here just how bad it is for some of these | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
residents. We have sunk these submersible pumps. Fortunately we | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
have cats, so we have a cat flap which is essential for getting the | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
pipes out. This is not our day job. That looks a little bit more like | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Afghanistan. But our job is to defend the country from any threat, | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
and if it is a weather threat, we can help with that as well. The army | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
have said we are taking you out in a boat, get ready. | :27:45. | :27:47. |