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Four dead after hurricane force winds batter southern Britain. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Hundreds of trees have been brought down, causing road and rail | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
disruption. Wind speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. At the height of | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the storm half a million homes were left without power. The tree was | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
coming into the kitchen, actually coming into the kitchen. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Crushed in the caravan she was sleeping in - Bethany Freeman was | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
17-years-old. Still missing and feared dead - the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
14-year-old boy swept out to sea yesterday. We'll have the latest on | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
the trail of destruction left by the storm. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Also tonight: The trial of former News of the World editors begins - | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are accused of being involved in hacking | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
voicemails. A call for an end to the culture of | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
delay and denial - a new report on making complaints about the NHS in | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
England. Coming up in this sport, the UEFA | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
president proposes an expansion of the World Cup from 32 teams to 40, | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
in time for the tournament in Russia in 2018. | :01:18. | :01:34. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at Six O'Clock. At least | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
four people have died in one of the worst storms to hit southern parts | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
of the UK for years. Near hurricane force conditions left more than half | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
a million homes without electricity. Wind speeds hit 99 miles per hour on | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
the Isle of Wight. There was widespread rail and road disruption. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
The storm, which began overnight, cut a trail of destruction across | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
large parts of England with dozens of flood alerts left in its wake. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Robert Hall reports on the day's events. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Racing in on the Jetstream, the storm they named Saint Jude rattled | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
our roof tiles and announced its presence with a swathe of damage. As | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
predicted, the channel facing seaside towns and cities where the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
first to face the wind as it howled in from the west. In this case, the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
calm waters of Brighton Marina encircled by the white horses of a | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
treacherous tide. Recorded wind speed steadily increased, 70, 80, 90 | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
mph, toppling trees in country woodland, urban streets and claiming | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
lives. 17-year-old Bethany Freeman died as she slept in a mobile home | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
which was crushed by a 30 foot tree. Her mother, sleeping in another | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
mobile home a few yards away survived. Bethany and her family | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
were living in this temporary accommodation while their home was | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
being rebuilt. Bethany went to school in Tunbridge Wells, short | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
distance from here. On the school website she was described as | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
universally respected with everything to look forward to. Neil | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Chapman had been teaching Bethany to drive. She was a lovely kid. I can't | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
believe it. I have just arrived. Shocked. What can I say? In Watford, | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
north of London, Donal Drohan died when a tree fell across his car. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Police said he had sent plebeian in the wrong place at the wrong time. A | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
few seconds either way could have saved him. In Hounslow in west | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
London, and man and a woman died in an explosion which wrecked three | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
houses. It is thought a falling tree severed a gas pipe. During the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
course of the day, unfortunately, two bodies have been found, the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
bodies of a male and female. They are in different parts of the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
building. At this stage, I would like to offer my condolences to the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
family of the two deceased. On the south coast, the search for a | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
14-year-old boy missing since yesterday, has been called off. Life | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
boat crews and rescue teams had spent long hours in worsening | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
conditions but to no avail. Dylan Alkins was swept away from the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
shoreline at New Haven in East Sussex as the storm approached. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Saint Jude dashed across to the east, took in the Monday rush hour | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
with inevitable consequences. Dozens of lines were blocked by fallen | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
trees adding to the cancellations. At Reading station, commuters filled | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
the mobile networks with their calls of apology and explanation. Trying | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
to get to Winchester and it is just a nightmare. It is horrible. I am | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
heading to Southampton and I am stuck here. I do not think I will | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
get to my destination on time. The Gaels are heading for Scandinavia. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Their passing will be remembered for a good while yet, like the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
householder who filmed a garden marquise somersaulting past his | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
window. By the civil servants who gazed up at a crumpled crane above | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the rooftops of Whitehall. By the shipping companies whose vessels | :05:27. | :05:39. | |
rode out the storm, unable to land urgently needed cargoes. Today's | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
science had given us adequate warning, Saint Jude is another Up to | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
half a million homes were left without power as the storm swept | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
across southern and eastern England. Reminder of the unpredictable | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
consequences of an autumn storm. Emergency crews have managed to | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
re-connect more than three quarters of the homes but their work has been | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
hampered by blocked roads. Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy is in | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Pangbourne in Berkshire. Some 18 hours after this storm first | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
came ashore on the British trials, it is still causing problems, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
particularly with the wind which has brought down trees including here in | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Berkshire. Although it is hard to come by exact figures, it is | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
believed that tens or hundreds of thousands of people are still | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
without electricity. As the storm swept in, the power cut | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
out, around half a million homes left without electricity across a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
great swathes of the United Kingdom. Dorothy Pickering in Berkshire was | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
one of them. The whole village losing its power and electronic key | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
pumped water. Woke up at six -ish and suddenly everything was black | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
and there was nothing. Came down and got the radio and put it on the | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
battery to check what was happening and they knew that we had no other | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
visiting. In another part of Berkshire, these women lost there | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
are visited. It added an extra plot to their monthly book club meeting, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
the discussion this time turning from literature to lights. It put me | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
in a fair bad mood in the morning, because I had to boil up water on | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
the gas stove. If when I go back it is not on, I will have to light the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
fire and do myself beans on the fire. Across Wiltshire, more power | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
lines were being knocked out. This one is on the outskirts of | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Warminster in Wiltshire where the storm has been rattling through this | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
morning. It brought down this particular tree and also some power | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
lines and telephone lines. The council say they will be along to | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
try and chop it up and opened this road, just one of the transport | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
problems that people are facing as this storm passes through. As | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
workmen came to dismantle the tree, neighbours said they worked out | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
their own way to light the street. We stood here with torches for a | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
couple of hours until it was light so that people could see the tree | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
was there. Dennis got a shock of a non-electrical kind. I opened the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
door and we have got a tree in the garden. That was close. Very close. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
He nearly lost more than his power supply. We opened up the kitchen | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
door and the tree was coming into the kitchen, actually coming into | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the kitchen. For Dennis, the biggest jolt came to his treasured model | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
railway set, where, like the lives of tens of thousands of people | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
today, it was derailed by an unforgiving storm. Around 200 | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
engineers have been working across the main sections of southern | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
England today to restore power supplies. They are meeting problems, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
debris on the roads, trees across the road, particularly affecting the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Moron eight villages in counties like Berkshire. We are being told it | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
could be some days yet before everybody is able to get their | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
supplies fully back on. Thank you. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Network Rail said the damage caused by the storm had been more severe | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
than expected. Let's get the latest on disruption from our correspondent | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
Helen Fawkes who's at Kings Cross station in central London. What is | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
it looking like this evening? This is a much busier rush-hour than | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
normal. Many delays and disruptions for passengers this evening. Here at | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
King's Cross, one of the worst affected railway stations in London, | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
services only received a couple of hours ago. There are only a few | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
trains coming and going. Network Rail said the situation as a whole | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
is improving but there will not be a normal service today. They said the | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
majority of lines are open with a reduced service. Midland mainline is | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
the only service which is entirely closed. There are problems on South | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
West Trains, East Coast, Virgin West Coast and East Anglia. Network Rail | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
say there is plenty of work to do to repair the damage but they hope that | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
by tomorrow they will be as near normal service as possible thank | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
you. Unlike the Great Storm of 1987, | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
which took weather forecasters by surprise, warnings about today's | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
storm were first issued by the Met Office a week ago. More advanced | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
technology has made predicting the weather far more reliable, as our | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Science Editor David Shukman now explains. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
From extraordinary violence along the south coast, to wreckage at the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
heart of government in Whitehall, the storm had been forecast to pack | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
a punch and it did. Sweeping over southern Britain this morning, the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
winds were the result of the battle of air masses which began thousands | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
of miles away. The precise damage, the exact timing, these could never | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
have been predicted in detail, but as the wreckage is cleared, it is | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
obvious forecasters had spotted potential trouble very early on and | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
they made sure we all knew about it. It was last week, with this | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
satellite picture with a swirl of clouds, that the Met Office was | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
first alerted to the risk of a storm. Even a few days ago, | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
observations from space were revealing the key ingredients. The | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Jetstream was flowing fast in a great loop over the antic. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Meanwhile, warm air from the gulf of Mexico was being drawn upwards. This | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
combination was the basic driver of the storm. As it crossed the | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Atlantic, it intensified with cold air being brought in from the north | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
and this was the result the moment of the storm, intense low-pressure, | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
causing powerful winds. We have seen how damaging they have been but we | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
had plenty of warning. The last really serious storm was in 1987. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Back then, 18 people lost their lives. 50 million trees were brought | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
down at the gusts of wind were stronger than now. It is not 1987, | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
it is a level down but one similarity is it deepened when it | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
moved across the UK and this one had a steam jet. That is literally a | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
sting in the tail. Behind the low-pressure system you have some | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
really strong downdraught. The forecast themselves have come a long | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
way. In 1987 the forecaster Michael Fish famously got it wrong. Earlier | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
on a woman rang the BBC and said she had heard there was a hurricane on | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the way. If you are watching, don't worry, there is not. Ironically, he | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
was caught up in today's storm. A favourite tree was brought down. We | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
have got better computers, better brains working in the head office in | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Exeter putting things into the computers. Now our present four-day | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
forecast is as accurate as one day forecast was years ago. Weather will | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
never be totally predictable, but the lesson from today is the more | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
warning we have, the better. For more information on the weather | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
and disruption in your area go to bbc.co.uk/news. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Now for the rest of the news. The trial has begun of two former | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
editors of the News of World on phone hacking charges. Rebekah | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Brooks and Andy Coulson, who later became David Cameron's | :13:31. | :13:31. | |
communications chief, are also accused of making unlawful payments | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
to public officials. Both deny the charges. From the Old Bailey our | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly reports. | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Once she was the most powerful woman in British newspapers, with links to | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
successive Prime Minister is. From today, Rebekah Brooks is one of the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
leading figures in this criminal trial. Facing charges with her, her | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
husband Charlie Brooks. Also in the dock, Andy Coulson, the former | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
editor of the News of the World. He moved into government when David | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Cameron made him the director of communications. He used to go | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
through the door of ten Downing St, now he will be familiar with the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
front entrance of the Central criminal Court. The Old Bailey is | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
the setting for a case which is set to make local headlines. Two years | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
after the hacking affair blew up, this is the media reporting on their | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
own. It was the hacking of a phone belonging to the missing teenager | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Milly Dowler, later found murdered, which became the tipping point in | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
this controversy. Within days, Rupert Murdoch announced the closure | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
of the News of the World. Staff on one of the country's most | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
established titles left the building for the last time after finishing | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
the final addition. Meanwhile, the police investigation went right to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the top of the Murdoch empire. Rebekah Brooks is now on trial for | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
conspiracy to intercept mobile phone messages, that is phone hacking. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. The allegation here | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
is unlawful payments to public officials. And conspiring to pervert | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the course of justice. This is about allegedly removing and concealing | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
evidence. Andy Coulson is facing two charges. He is accused of conspiring | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
to intercept mobile phone messages and spirited to commit misconduct in | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
public office. They are among eight people on trial. Apart from Rebekah | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Brooks' husband, all our current or former News International employees. | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
All the defendants deny all the charges against them. They left | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
court this evening having seen the start of the jury selection | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
process. Potential jurors have been told the trial could run until | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Easter. The jury will be sworn in tomorrow and then the prosecution is | :15:55. | :16:10. | |
due to open its case. Storms have swept across Britain, bringing | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
disruption to travel and power cuts to thousands of homes. I am in the | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
sky over southern England to find out what happened. In sports day, | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
England's rugby league side will be without sunbird Jess after he was | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
given a one match ban for a high tackle in their opening defeat to | :16:34. | :16:45. | |
Australia. We have all seen piles of litter on our streets, parks and | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
pavements. Much of it is the direct result of our fondness for fast food | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
and sweets. Britain's population has risen by 21% since the 1960s, but | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
the amount of litter we drop has gone up by a staggering 500%. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
According to Keep Britain Tidy it now costs more than ?1 billion a | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
year to clean up the mess. Joan Bakewell has joined forces with the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
BBC's Panorama to look at what is being done to tackle it. Is Britain | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
disappearing under a layer of litter? 30 million tonnes are | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
collected from England's Street every year. Who is doing it? The | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
general public. And then they moan that their poll tax goes up, but | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
they are doing it. I do not like to see people's dirty rubbish bags and | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
dumping it in the middle of the street. Since the 90s we have had | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
some of the toughest litter laws in Europe. But while some councils | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
issue hundreds of fines, others issue hardly any. It costs us about | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
?1 billion to pick up the litter and that might buy as 30,000 nurses or | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
30,000 care assistance or over 4000 libraries. Jeremy Paxman does not | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
only grill politicians, as a patron of Clean Up Britain, he has got a | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
lot to say about litter. This is not about living in a filthy | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
environment. It is about the way we think of ourselves and other members | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
of society. If I throw away a bit of rubbish, I do not want it around me | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
any more and I fail to recognise it is then around somebody else. In | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Manchester I met a group of volunteers taking things into their | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
own hands. You can have a read one or a green one. Meet the poo | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
busters. I started spraying it with biodegradable spray-painted to tell | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
people I did not like what they were doing. It is peer pressure, the | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
community telling other members of the community it is not a perfect | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
thing to do. But is peer pressure and paint enough to change | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
anything? Our hectic, eat on the go culture is here to stay. But there | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
are some councils, businesses and individuals working together which | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
has left me mildly optimistic that we can tidy up Britain. And you can | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
watch Panorama tonight at 8:30pm on BBC One. There needs to be a | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
revolution in the way the NHS in England handles complaints according | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
to an independent review. It says too many patients find the current | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
approach confusing and often not knowing to. Our health correspondent | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Branwen Jeffreys reports. When Reginald died he left a family | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
believed but also angry. His daughter Pauline fought for seven | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
years to get an apology for his hospital care. He did not have any | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
food, any drink, he was not given his medication. He was not taken out | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
of bed to go to the toilet. He was not incontinent, but he was just | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
left on the sheet. We watched him every day. His care was absolutely | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
abysmal. She eventually hired lawyers. It is so difficult to make | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
a complaint against the NHS, they do not listen to you at all. Another | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
death at University Hospital in Cardiff also shaped this review. In | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
2012, Owen Roberts spent his last 24 hours on a trolley in accident and | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
emergency. His wife, MP and Clywd, was asked to investigate complaints | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
after she raised the issue in Parliament. There are increasing | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
complaints about nurses who fail to show care and compassion to their | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
patients. The review she led says hospitals need to publish | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
information about complaints, but most of all staff need to listen | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
when concerns our first raised. We hope this report will make it easier | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
for people to complain and the complaint will not escalate and will | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
be dealt with at the time it happens. This review is calling for | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
a big culture change in the way the NHS listens to concerns and deals | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
with complaints. It says in that change does not happen, they will be | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
back here at the Department of Health in one-year's time asking for | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
more radical steps to be taken. Patient groups say change will only | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
happen if the NHS stops being defensive. Unfortunately, NHS staff | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
do not see complaint as a way of learning. They could see them to | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
help their job better, but if they are not going to take this | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
approach, the culture will never change. Most families want answers, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
but not excuses, when mistakes are made, but most of all to know that | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
lessons have been made. A Unite union official at the centre of the | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Grangemouth dispute last week has resigned from his job. Stephen Denes | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
was waiting to hear about a disciplinary case against him | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
tomorrow. Upgrading existing rail lines instead of going ahead with | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the proposed HS2 railing could lead to 14 years of weekend route | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
closures according to a government backed study. The report says the | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
east coast, the West Coast and Midland lines will all be severely | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
disrupted. Our transport correspondent is at Piccadilly in | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Manchester. This comes before the govern -- the government makes its | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
latest case for any -- HS2. We have had a taster of what is | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
going to come tomorrow. The government is trying to persuade | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
everybody the benefits outweigh the costs. Today they told us that if | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
you did the next best thing, if you did not build HS2 and you beefed up | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
all the lines we have got already, including this one, then you get 14 | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
years worth of weekend delays and closures, passengers forced onto bus | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
services. They say there is no alternative. They are laying the | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
ground for the business case tomorrow. There is also a vote on | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Thursday one we are expecting some conservative and maybe Labour MPs to | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
rebel against it tomorrow. But the big thing tomorrow is this business | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
case which should be out at about 9:30am. We will hear from you then. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
At least five people are dead and another 38 were injured after a | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
vehicle crashed into a crowd of people in Beijing. The incident | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
occurred on the edge of the politically sensitive area of | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Tiananmen Square at the entrance to the Forbidden City. No information | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
was released about the cause. More on the storm that swept across | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
southern England leaving a trail of destruction behind it. At one point | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
in the day half a million homes were left without power. Jeremy Cooke has | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
been getting a bird's I's view. Across the south and east of | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
England, widespread disruption. Even when the storm had passed thousands | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
of commuters faced hours of delay and frustration. If your day started | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
in John Bridge, it probably started slowly. The problem was trees on the | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
lines, hundreds of them, up and down the rail network. At the other end | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
of the line Waterloo station was at a standstill, with trains backed up | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
with nowhere to go. And so it went on all day. Four mile after mile we | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
have seen the same thing. Some of the nation's busiest rail lines are | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
completely diverted, nothing moving into or out of London. Also on hold, | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
Felixstowe container terminal. This place is normally a hive of | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
activity, but today it is static. The cost of the storm will be | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
millions. The cost, of course, in casualties as well. As well as those | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
who lost their lives, others were injured in random events. We are | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
seeing a series of isolated incidents happening as the storm has | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
passed through. In some places there have been disastrous consequences. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
Even Whitehall did not escape. A crane crashed down near Downing | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Street. For many of us it has been little more than a windy day in | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
autumn, for others a day of tragedy and destruction. Let's hope for some | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
calm. The weather returned to normal for | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
us, but the storm lives on and it has crossed into Denmark with gusts | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
of 115 mph. It will move into the Baltic sea overnight. Back at home | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
we are left with some pretty breezy conditions. Overnight tonight some | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
blustery showers mainly in the north and the West. Through this evening | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
and overnight you can still see it is on the breezy side with heavy | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
downpours around. The eastern areas are seeing the clearest skies. The | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
lowest temperatures in the Glens of Scotland. But for tomorrow morning | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
whilst the clear up will continue, thankfully the weather is much | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
quieter. Many of the Southern counties are looking dry and then | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
maybe one or two showers scattered around. Some showers from the word | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
go in the Park of West Midlands. Cloudier for western Scotland, but | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
eastern Scotland should get off to a dry and a sunny start. We will keep | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
a few showers as we go through the day, with a few skirting inland at | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
times. Later in the day they fade away. All the while it remains | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
pretty breezy, which takes the edge of temperatures. Feeling cooler and | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
a cold start to Wednesday morning. Maybe the risk of a touch of Frost. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
But we have got another weather system bringing a band of heavy rain | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
and some strong winds and that moves its way south throughout the day. A | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
bit of a mixed picture. Our main story: The worst storms to hit | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
Britain for years have left at least four people dead. Strong winds and | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
rain brought travel disruption and power cuts to thousands of homes. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
Now we can join the news | :28:44. | :28:45. |