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Hundreds of homes are evacuated, schools are closed and part of the | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
East Coast main line is a shot as torrential rain brings flooding. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The north-east of England has been particularly hard hit, as rivers | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
burst their banks. And the problems are particularly bad here in the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Northumberland town of Morpeth, which has been flooded for the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
second time in four years. It has emerged that the Queen raised | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
concerns about the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza with the previous | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
government. The teenager missing with her maths teacher. Their | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
school confirms concerns about a relationship have been raised | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
before. And the waiting is almost over. Europe's golfers arrive in | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
the US for one of sport's most fiercely fought contests, the Ryder | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Cup. On BBC London. Smiling once again. We meet seven-year-old | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Thusha, who was left paralysed after being shot in Stockwell. And | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the young people priced out of rural areas as property prices soar | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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Good afternoon. There's been widespread flooding across many | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
parts of the UK after yet more heavy rain. The north-east of | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
England has been particularly hard hit and nearly 300 homes had been | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
evacuated. The floodwaters have also cut of train services on the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
East Coast main line between York and Darlington. In total, 65 a | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
flood warnings had been issued in England, Wales and Scotland. Let's | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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This is Grange Road, not Grange river. It started raining here at | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
11pm last night and it just didn't stop. Problems in East Lothian in | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Scotland, too, homes and schools flooded. In North Wales, rail | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
services disrupted. In the north- east, hundreds of homes evacuated. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
It may not be raining here now. The problem is that more rain is | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
expected. The village of Hambleton, once landlocked but now parts have | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
become Islands. It has meant roads closed, homes flooded and people | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
left worried. You are fighting for your possessions here, aren't you? | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Yes. We are trying to keep water away from the house, which we are | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
winning at the moment. But if any more rain comes down we will have a | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
severe problem. At the moment, everybody is trying to help but | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
nothing is happening. For some it feels like it hasn't stopped | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
raining since April. This has happened six times like this, not | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
quite as bad but more or less as bad as this, since June. A fed up. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Fed up. Six times. We pay council tax, United Utilities a fortune and | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
this happens. And in the north-east, this was Morpeth after a month's | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
rain in just 24 hours. Hundreds of homes had to be evacuated. We've | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
been through the World War, we've done a lot. We have fought our way | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
into by inch. Do you think that a drop of water is going to put us | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
off? You are sadly mistaken! On the trains, the East Coast main line is | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
advising passengers not to travel because parts of the track are | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
flooded. In St Helens, people were rescued in life rafts after the | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
Sankey Canal flooded. It left people counting the cost. It is | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
devastating. It has destroyed everything that was in its path. | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
Luckily, I wasn't here while it was being flooded. That would have... | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
That is the hard part, if you are actually physically here. | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
Hamilton, many are now waiting and hoping more rain doesn't come. How | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
has it left you feeling? A bit vulnerable. There's only me and my | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
son here. We've had the wettest of summers. The start of autumn is | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
looking no different. Yes, and that start of autumn starts with a clean | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
up or at least three houses along this road. The sandbags on the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
other side are protecting their homes. But the problem is more rain | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
is expected. We've got over 60 flood warnings right now across | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
England and Wales. Gales expected in Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
It doesn't look like this will end any time soon. Let's go to Morpeth | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
now. The river once Beck has breached the local flood defences. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
For a short time, late morning and early lunchtime here today, the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
rain to ease off but it's now lashing down again. People here are | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
growing increasingly concerned. The Environment Agency say the river in | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Morpeth has peaked, that happens this morning. It should hopefully | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
drop off but there are still concerns. Quite a few houses have | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
been evacuated. Let's talk to one of the senior fire officers here. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
What are conditions like this morning? We had about 100 | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
properties in the flood risk area. We've had to carry out 37 rescues | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
using our water rescue teams. We've had to close the bridge because of | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the impact of the debris on the bridge. It has been quite a | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
torturous time for the residents. This place was flooded four years | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
ago. Perhaps not as bad today, would you say? The wasn't as bad. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Added is still quite severe for the residents who have suffered. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
it's pretty dangerous if you get too close. A yes, very dangerous. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
There's been a good community spirit, all of the neighbours are | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
very community orientated. other thing to note, Cleveland | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
police have just declared a major incident in their area. That is | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
around Middlesbrough and Stockton, because of rising water levels. It | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
really is the north-east of England this lunchtime where the worst of | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the weather is. That really is reflected by his high water level | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
in Morpeth. And in every other river across the North-East this | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
lunchtime. The flooding means that many main roads and some rail lines | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
have been badly disrupted. The East Coast main line, that has literally | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
been cut off in two places. It's been dropped twice today. Trains | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
are literally under water. There's a limit to what we can do. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Effectively, if you have got to Gibbs on that line the advice is | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
don't travel. It is bad in Yorkshire and the north-east but | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
there will be problems all across the line. You can use those to | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
Gibbs tomorrow and you can use them on Virgin Trains, which go up the | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
west coast main line, so you can still get to Scotland. But the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
advice is don't bother travelling. Similarly with the roads, we had | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the A 1 shot in Catterick, but problems all over Yorkshire and the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
north-east. There's a limit to what they can do. There are hundreds of | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
engineers out there trying to sort out the problems. But that the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
railways, the easiest thing to do is wait for the water to go down. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
With the roads, we've now got the Highways Agency's digging ditches | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
alongside the road to try to get rid of some of this water. But the | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
real limit to what we can do. The websites are brilliant, the BBC, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
but were to feed and travel alerts, BBC local radio as well, or just | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
don't bother travelling. The Queen raised concerns with the previous | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
government about the case of the radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
or, it has emerged after the European Court of Human Rights | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
yesterday rejected his right to make a final appeal against being | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
extradited to the US on charges of plotting to set up a terrorist | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
training camp and assisting hostage taking. But in the last few minutes | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the BBC has said it deeply regrets that the private conversation with | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
the Queen has been made public. Just do it! If it is killing, do | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
it! Abu Hamza. For years, for the government, unfinished business. He | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
is not yet on a plane to the United States but ministers sincerely hope | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
he will be soon, along with four other terror suspects. Now that the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
rights of appeal under the extradition Act have been exhausted, | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
we think it is right and proper that these individuals are | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
transferred to the US authorities to stand trial in respect of the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
very serious allegations that have been made against them. A decade | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
ago, Abu Hamza banished from his mosque, preached from the streets. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
It infuriated the British authorities. So much so that the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Queen once privately told the BBC she had raised their concerns with | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
a Labour Home Secretary. But a final decision - extradite or not - | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
rested with the European Court of Human Rights. It has despite -- | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
decided that despite his disability, he would be humanely treated in an | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
American prison. The wife of Laurence Whitehouse was killed | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
during an attempt to rescue her from kidnappers allegedly connected | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
to Abu Hamza or in Yemen. He believes in America, evidence will | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
breed produced about the preacher's true role. That he wasn't just a | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
very able orator, but that he actually was an organiser of | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
kidnapping British citizens, his own countrymen, and bringing that | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
out in the public. But some of the extraditions could yet be delayed. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Babar Ahmad and his co-defendant are accused of running a pro-jihad | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
website from Britain. Anti extradition campaigner plans to | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
attempt a rare private prosecution here to prevent them being sent to | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the States. Because any crimes he is supposed to have committed, | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
allegations against him are in this country, the UK, so Babar Ahmad | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
should be tried in a British court here, he should get a chance to | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
prove his innocence in front of our courts. But after years of | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
arguments in the courts, this and other legal moves have a slim hope | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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of succeeding in even delaying extradition, let alone stopping it. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
The BBC has issued a statement about the conversation with the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Queen. Yes, this information that the Queen had an interest in the | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Abu Hamza case was revealed on the Today programme this morning by | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Frank Gardner. He revealed details of a private conversation which | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
took place some years ago with the Queen. The conversation should have | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
remained private, according to a statement at the BBC has put out. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
The BBC Anne Frank have said they are deeply sorry for what amounts | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
to a breach of confidence. They say it was wholly inappropriate, Frank | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
is sorry for the embarrassment caused and Batty has apologised to | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
the palace. It has emerged that East Sussex County Council was | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
already invested concerns about the relationship between the missing | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
15-year-old schoolgirl, Megan Stammers, and her 30-year-old maths | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
teacher, before they ran away together. The couple having been | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
seen since last Friday and it's thought they may have travelled to | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
France. Detectives say her friends may know where she had planned to | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
go. The last time Megan Stammers was seen. A CCTV image of the car | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
owned by her maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, taken last Thursday | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
evening as the pair travelled to Dover ferry terminal. The last time | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
it Megan made contact was buy text, which she sent to a friend saying | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
she'd arrived in France. The police say it wasn't from the teenager's | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
foam but are confident it was from her. And this is the man she is | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
with, Jeremy Forrest, an amateur musician who performs under the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
stage name Jeremy Ayre us. Detectives believe Megan's friends | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
might know where she is. They may be children and pupils and friends | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
who are aware of any aspect with regard to Whitby in plant, may be | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
aware of where they were likely to go to. I would also ask them to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
come forward. Don't be scared and feel that you were are in trouble | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
if you've not disclosed any of that information so far. At Megan's | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
school there was already unease about the teenager and Jeremy | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Forrest's clusters. The local authority has told us that the | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
school and the county council had been addressing and investigating | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
concerns that had been raised in line with procedure when this | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
happened. That investigation will continue and we will decide what | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
action to take. Her parents are hoping more than ever that their | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
actions and appeals on the vicar day since Megan disappeared will | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
make their affectionate, loving and intelligent daughter return home. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
David Shaw has been held in Greater Manchester to remember two police | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
officers who were shot dead last week. Colleagues of PCs Nicola | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Hughes and Fiona Bone walk from Hyde police station, where they | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
were based, to the scene of the shooting in Mottram. Around 400 | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
people, including dozens of officers, attend the service before | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
a Minute silence was held. The former England football captain | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
John Terry has returned to Wembley for the second day of his FA | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
disciplinary hearing. He is accused of using racist language in a match | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
against Queens Park Rangers last October. A criminal court cleared | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
him of the charge two months ago. What has been happening this | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
morning? John Terry arriving here shortly before 9am this morning for | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
that second day of this FA hearing. He joined his QC, George Carter | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Stevenson, who represented him during that trial at Westminster | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
magistrates in July when Terry was cleared, but now he faces this FA | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
panel, this independent oar macro man panel who will continue this | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
afternoon to hear this case. Yesterday they heard from the QPR | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
defender Anton Ferdinand. He is not expected to return today. With | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Terry making it clear he no longer wishes to be considered for | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
international duty, it is clear that his anger against the FA for | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
proceeding with these charges is evident. Yesterday we heard from | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Roy Hodgson, who praised him for his time with the England team. But | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
that charge is going ahead at the hearing will continue this | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
afternoon. Do you know how long this will take? There's a high | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
degree of secrecy around these FA disciplinary procedures. Yesterday | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
morning we saw the various parties or been to Wembley Stadium, or that | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
was when we knew this was the exact location. We are expecting around | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
two to three days for the hearing to complete. If we use the Suarez | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
case, the Liverpool striker who was accused of racially abusing Patrice | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Evra last year as some sort of yardstick, that took several days | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
upon completion of the hearing before the panel issued their | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
decision. That level of legal Rego will also be applied here in John | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
Dozens of warnings across the UK as torrential rain brings widespread | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
flooding. Coming up - how did the driver in this accident manage to | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
walk away from it completely unharmed? | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Health exploitable Ginty to investigate how a man critically | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
ill in hospital contracted a potentially fatal virus. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
And we will have a full forecast for the rest of this week or's | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
weather. A collection of tiny island in the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
East China Sea have become the centre of a diplomatic row between | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
China, Taiwan and Japan. In the latest incident, Japanese | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
coastguard ships fired water cannon at Taiwanese fishing vessels. The | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
boat had approached the island, which are controlled by Japan, but | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
claimed by China and Taiwan. Tension over the area has increased | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
recently because of a dispute over oil and gas fields in the region. | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
Sailing off to disputed waters more than 50 Taiwanese fishing boat to | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
leave their ports. The deal with Japanese patrol ships using water | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
cannons. It is just the latest confrontation in the East China Sea. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
The US has warned that it is scenes like this which could lead to | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
conflict. The completed -- competing territory of claims over | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
these islands is making the region nervous. In China's main news | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
bulletin, yet another symbol of its rising power. Its first aircraft | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
power -- career doesn't have operational planes. But it is a | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
sign of the country's growing military ambitions. As Steiner | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
become -- China becomes more powerful, it nationalism is | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
alarming it neighbours. When Tokyo bought the disputed islands earlier | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
this month, a triggered a wave of violent anti-Japanese protests. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Japanese shops and businesses were attacked. Now China and Japan | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
appear to want to cool the tensions. They do pity foreign ministers held | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
talks in Beijing for the first time since this dispute flared up. But | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
neither side wants to back down. TRANSLATION: China would never | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
tolerate any unilateral actions by Japan which harm Chinese | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
territorial sovereignty. But China gearing up for a once in a decade | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
leadership change, its leaders cannot afford to look weak. Taking | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
a tough line with Japan it is popular with the Chinese public. | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
But that means there is little room for compromise. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
David Cameron is travelling at the United Nations in New York to | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
appeal to the world's richest countries to honour their pledges | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
of aid to the developing world. World leaders are gathering there | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
for the Annual General Assembly debate, which this year will be | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
overshadowed by events in the Middle East. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
New York prepares for the annual influx of world leaders. They are | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
focused this year on crisis in the Middle East but Britain no new | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
ideas on how to solve them. First, the anti-American protests caused | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
by the video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad. Then there is the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
war the UN cannot stop. I believe Syria will be top of every leader's | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
mind. Syria is a failure for the UN. The Security Council could not | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
reach a common position let alone take action. So the United Nations | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
has become an audience, watching a tragedy. With the reported deaths | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
in the civil war now averaging at least a 100 a day. For America's | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
president, Syria may not be an election issue, but Iran is, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
because it involves a Israel. Israel's Prime Minister has taken | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
to American air waves to press for a tougher line on Iraq. He will | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
take the same message to the General Assembly. Iran will | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
continue to insist its intentions are peaceful, but few others think | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
so. Israel is pushing for at least the threat of armed action. The | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Middle East remains an uncomfortable reminder of the UN's | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
shortcomings. Syria is a monument to diplomatic failure, and Iran's | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
nuclear programme may trigger the region's next war. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
The Liberal Democrats say that further spending cuts will have to | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
be introduced in this Parliament, but according to the chief | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, they wouldn't be | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
entirely at the expense of the poor. He has been speaking at their party | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
conference in Brighton. What is he proposing? He is proposing quite a | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
tough message. He is saying that new cut have to be taken to get the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
coalition parties through to the next election. Up to �16 billion | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
worth of cuts, and welfare cuts cannot be exempt from that process. | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
He also pledged that the rich would pay a fairer share. Are welfare is | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
a third of all public spending, and despite our painful reforms, it is | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
still rising. We will have to look at it. But that cannot, must not, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
and will not be the only place we look. We insist that the difficult | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
choices must be fairly shared. That does you can afford more must | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
contribute more. -- those who can afford more. There has been a lot | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
of talk about new taxes on the 12 the, but little detail. There is a | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
suspicion that Nick Clegg isn't pressing hard enough for the much | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
cherished mansion tax on expensive properties in return for making | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
some of these future welfare cuts. So much so that a former Treasury | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
spokesman got the party to we can be to -- recommit itself to the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
mansion tax policy. Nick Clegg has been hinting at looking at other | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
ways of hitting of the wealthy, questioning whether richer | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
pensioners should still receive the winter fuel allowance in the future. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
The official record of the Aardman between the government chief whip | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Andrew Mitchell and police officers in Downing Street has been | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
published in full for the first time. It appears to confirm that Mr | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Mitchell called the officers plebs and said they should know their | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
place. The crucial thing is that is what he denies saying. Yes, it | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
doesn't really change much in that sense. He has denied using that | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
word, and has denied previously swearing at the officers, although | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
that seems to have been acknowledged. The early reports | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
suggested he used the word more runs, and that doesn't appear in | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
this account of what police reported on. One thing that does | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
come out is how close he came to being arrested by the officers. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
They warned him that if he didn't stop swearing at them, they would | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
use their powers, and that is the thing that stopped him shouting at | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
them. Downing Street will be reasonably content that this story | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
is not really going anywhere any more. There are no fresh | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
revelations here. We still have the stand-off over the fact, what one | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
man said verses what the account of another officer says. Unless | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
members of the public come forward, who were apparently present, and | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
give their account, it seems that Mr Mitchell is likely to survive. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Europe's golfers have been told to expect if by a reception from the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
crowds on the Ryder Cup begins this week. Practice rounds start today, | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
even though the USA has home advantage, Europe's captain Jose | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
Maria Olazabal, says the odds are still even. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Fresh from Chicago airport, Jose Maria Olazabal plus hand luggage. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
The European captain and the Ryder Cup arrived to blue skies and warm | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
welcome from the American counterpart. It is the resumption | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
of one of sport's greatest battles. Two years ago at Celtic Manor, it | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
was Europe, under Colin Montgomerie, that celebrated. His replacement | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
believes this time it is too close to call. The crowds are going to be | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
rooting for the home team, so we have to be prepared for that. I | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
have said it all along, I think both teams are pretty much even. It | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
is going to be a close match. the deluge at Celtic Manor, this | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
year, conditions almost perfect. With their home advantage, the USA | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
team are marginal favourites. They know that the peace and quiet will | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
soon be replaced by deafening support. Chicago is an incredible | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
sports down. They are going to be fired up. It is an incredible, big | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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golf course, and a big stage. years ago that support helped the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
USA win in Kentucky, although it is their only victory in the last five | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Ryder Cups. They came pretty close last time. The very last match, | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
before Graham McDowell's heroics. A yet more proof of the Ryder Cup's | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
capacity for spellbinding drama. Once again, the stage is set. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
And so the waiting is almost over. The players now have three days of | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
practice before the latest chapter of one of sport's most enthralling | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
sagas. How about this for a remarkably | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
lucky escape? This lorry took a sharp left, hitting another lorry | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
coming in the other direction. But look at what happens to the driver. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Amazingly, he somehow went straight through the windscreen, landing on | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
his feet, and manages to walk away from the accident completely and | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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injured. Let's have a look at the Unfortunately the warnings of rain | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
have been realised in much of the country. We have seen well over 100 | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
mm in Antrim it. Not far behind in Wales. Some of the wetter spots | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
:26:57. | :26:58. | ||
have been across northern England. That is just in the site where we | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
measure rainfall. Even more is falling on the hills. This is the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
radar chart for the last few hours. This bulk of rain isn't moving | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
anywhere particularly fast. The rain falling on the hills is set to | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
make its way down through the river system as well. So we still have an | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
ample warning in place for northern England and Wales. Anticipate some | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
more flooding as well. Either side of that, to the south we have some | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
heavy showers. To the north, turning wetter, accompanied by gale | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
force of winds. Particularly cold in that wind as well. Some good | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
news in Northern Ireland, the heavy rain will continue to ease away. | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
But in northern England and parts of North and Wales, the rain may | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
return, even if it is dry at the moment. By contrast, a lovely | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
bright day across part of the Midlands, but East Anglia and the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
south-east, some heavy and thundery showers. They could cause some | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
problems for the evening rush-hour. The low-pressure system, centred | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
around the swirling wind two, will be on the move tonight. In north- | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
east England, the rain will gradually ease, but it will turn | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
water across the Midlands and the south-west. If you're early, across | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
parts of north-west England, around Cheshire, Merseyside, some wet | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
weather to come, but the rain is pushing its way southwards. The | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
focus for the rain will be across Wales, the Midlands and southern | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
England. Though showers could be pretty intent and thundery in | :28:48. | :28:58. | |
:28:58. | :29:00. | ||
places. -- intends. But many places will turn drier a mortal help the | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
situation. It improves again for some of your on Thursday, some | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
showers around to the south and the East, some of these will heavy. | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
Some brightness as well, and a quick look at Tuesday, going back | :29:18. | :29:28. | |
:29:28. | :29:29. | ||
Our top story - a torrential rain has brought widespread flooding | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
across the UK. Police in Cleveland have declared a major incident | :29:34. | :29:38. |