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from the Atlantic. The winds hit the south west at 80mph and are moving | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
up the south coast. Flood waters awash with raw sewage | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
rise still further and new areas are at risk. Just when you think the | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
water can't get any higher, it does, up to the door knocker here. That's | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
the worst we've seen it through these weeks of flooding. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
But with tonight expected to be the last in the conveyor belt of storms, | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
is the worst behind us? Also on the programme: Questioned by | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
police over phone hacking, the former editor of the Daily Mirror, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Piers Morgan. The British fashion designers | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
leading the charge for the huge Chinese clothing market - we have a | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
special report. And a gold medal for Team GB at the | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Winter Olympics. More defences go in, as flood hit | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
areas prepare for the waters to rise again. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
And engineering work to fix the rail line into Paddington could mean it's | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
closed for a week. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:16. | :01:40. | |
News at Six. Parts of Britain are being battered | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
again by yet another huge storm sweeping in from the Atlantic. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Forecasters are warning that by the end of the day some places will see | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
well over an inch of rain, potentially flooding new areas. The | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
winds have yet to peak but are expected to reach 80mph along the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
south coast. This is the storm as it's moving at speed across the | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
country from the south-west. One of the areas worst affected is | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Somerset, and our correspondent Jon Kay is in the village of East Lyng | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
now. It might look like I am standing at | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
the seaside. In fact, this is farmland, flooded farmland. The | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
level of the water is getting deep bowl the time and the wind today has | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
been incredible. 70 mph already, getting higher and stronger in the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
next few hours, not just here but right across the southern part of | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
Great Britain. Valentine's Day, but not the time for a romantic walk in | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
the countryside. In Somerset, waves crashed 20 miles from the coast, | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
floodwater whipped up by another violent storm. In East Lyng, | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
Georgina is the latest victim. For her, it has just been one deluged to | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
many. I just can't believe it is keeping on and on raining, and | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
raining so hard as well. And we are under now. We've never been flooded | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
before. There are going to be I don't know how many other | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
properties. It's just ridiculous. Next door, Richard now has 2000 | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
sandbags, but will it be enough? You can't beat nature. If the water is | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
going to rise that much I will lose the battle for the house. The third | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
big storm in a week and the water is still spreading, wider and deeper. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Just when you think things can't get any worse, just when you think the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
water can't get any higher, it does. Up to the door knocker. That is the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
worst we have seen during these weeks of flooding on the Somerset | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Levels. Every day, still, new properties are being affected. | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
Buffeted by wind and sprayed by rain, we headed to Gloucester. Badly | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
flooded seven years ago, the new flood defences are holding up for | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
now, but the weekend tides will be a challenge. If we get water coming | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
over the defences, which are protecting here now, we will see | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
possibly up to one metre of water in this street. That is just below | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
those windowsills. It is all making this family rather paranoid. They | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
came to Gloucester for safety after their street in Surrey was flooded | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
on Tuesday. Now, their temporary home could go under as well. It is a | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
bit surreal. The boys have moved from one flood zone to another but | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
they are taking it in their stride. Where next? Spain, I think. Once | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
this storm has passed, forecasters say the worst may be over for a | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
while, but before that, southern Britain faces a long and wild Friday | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
night. Well, among those helping with the | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
relief effort in the Thames Valley today were Princes William and | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Harry. They joined the sandbagging effort in the village of Datchet | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
just down from Windsor Castle, as today's storm pushed the flood | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
waters higher. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy spent the day | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
travelling through the flood zone, from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
through Berkshire, to Egham in Surrey. | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
Making us feel vulnerable in the face of nature. The thunderous River | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
Thames in full flood, recreating and reshaping everything before it. This | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
is one of three buildings that survived the floods. Our first stop | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
was in Marlow, taking us to an activity centre which should be full | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
of disadvantaged children, not deluged with water. The river is | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
over by the trees. He fights to control his emotions when he tells | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
me how one volunteer died trying to save the centre. There has been a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
lot of effort from staff to try to protect the centre from flooding. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
One of my colleagues, unfortunately... I can't do this. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Mark says, like the boats, if this does not end, Longridge may go | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
under. These winter storms have not only caused personal tragedy as in | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
that case, but also destroyed homes and businesses across a vast swathe | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
of this country. Whether it is here in Marlow, or down the Thames Valley | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
towards London, where we are heading now, thousands of lives have been | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
turned upside down by all of this wind and water. We moved from | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Buckinghamshire to Berkshire, and cook, its centre underwater. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Soldiers are helping, but homes have flooded, so here, at the house of | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
the vicar, they put the dam into damnation. Can communities like this | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
take much more of this weather? You have too. That is an interesting | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
question, but people are very resilient. Resilient and resource | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
full. They have to be. Just like here, at Purley-on-Thames, reluctant | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
host to yet more floods. That is the stunning pool. For 182-year-old, | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
inundated three times since Christmas, it is getting too much. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
You must be sick of this. Of course, but there is nothing I can | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
do about it, just press on. In Purley, they worry about more rain | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
coming down, but at a gum in Surrey, it is the sewage coming up that | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
haunts them. Our last stop shows the streets awash with it. But some have | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
stayed, even though it hurts. It does not matter about the fridge or | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
the washing machine, which can be replaced, but stuff in here that you | :08:04. | :08:17. | |
have built up. Winter, 2014. With today, Valentine's Day, quite | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
possibly the moment when Britain finally ended its love affair with | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
the weather. Today the Prime Minister said again | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
the government would do "whatever it takes" to help the victims of the | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
floods. And the Environment Agency insisted that planned job cuts won't | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
affect its ability to respond. But some experts are saying the | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
politicians need to do much more to protect us from flooding in the long | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
term. Our political correspondent Vicki Young has more. | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
The south coast, battered again, bringing disruption to homes, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
transport and power supplies. Overall, 5 million properties in | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
England are at risk from flooding and these dramatic scenes are | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
raising questions about how we adapt. Desirable riverside | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
properties along the Thames in Maidenhead, but should this be a | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
no-go area for development? Some say it is not where we build but how it | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
is done. The building is raised up one level and this area is used for | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
temporary storage, car parking, but when it floods, the cars can be | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
moved and nothing of any value is going to be damaged. In the last few | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
years, the talk from politicians has been about growth, the demand for | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
more housing and better infrastructure, but recent extreme | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
weather events mean they have to think about achieving all of that | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
without scenes like this. We don't need to throw money at it, but what | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
we do need is a long-term consistent investment plan. That is what has | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
been missing. Successive governments have applied and on the -off | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
approach to investing in flood risk management. This company is finding | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
creative ways to help us protect our homes. The water should disappear on | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
this side. But on this site it is impermeable. Simply improving | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
materials, improved Strinic. For now, the authorities are focused on | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the immediate devastation. In Dawn is, rebuilding the rail link between | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Devon and Cornwall. Money is no object, said the Prime Minister, but | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
was forced to deny that flood staff would be among hundreds of | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
Environment Agency workers about to lose their jobs. Those have never | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
been announced plans and they are not planned that will be put in | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
place. Every organisation has to make sure it is efficient but | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
nothing will be done at the Environment Agency that will hamper | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
our flood relief effort. Perhaps the biggest challenge for politicians is | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
how to prevent a repeat of these scenes long after the images have | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
faded. Well, after tonight's rain and | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
gales, there are signs that the current succession of storms which | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
has been battering Britain for weeks may finally be coming to an end, at | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
least for now. Our Science Editor, David Shukman, is here. Is the worst | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
of it behind us? It doesn't feel like that right now. Let's look at | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
some satellite pictures of the storm that has been battering Britain | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
today, and the gales and heavy rain looks set to continue overnight. But | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
The Met office is saying that they reckon this storm is the last of | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
this great barrage that has been hitting us over the last couple of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
months. They reckon next week it should be karma, but still with the | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
risk of rain. Where does that leave us? As we have been reporting in the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
past week, the ground is now so saturated that any rain will lead | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
inevitably to more flooding. On top of that, the rivers are incredibly | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
full. I was at ridding this afternoon and the Thames is flowing | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
four times faster than normal for the time of year, 200 tonnes of | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
water flowing through every second, and there is more upstream that has | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
to work its way down through the system. So even if the weather does | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
look a little more favourable next week, I am afraid the flooding is | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
set to go on. Other news now and it's emerged the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
former editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, has been interviewed | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
by police over allegations of phone hacking. Mr Morgan, now a host for | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
CNN in the United States, was questioned under caution in | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
December. Our correspondent Matt Prodger reports. | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
Piers Morgan is an international celebrity, as famous in the United | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
States as a talk-show host as he is in the UK. In the 1990s he was the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
UK's youngest newspaper editor and he went on to edit the Daily Mirror. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
During a recent visit to the UK, Piers Morgan was interviewed under | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
caution by detectives investigating phone hacking allegations. The | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
officers are working for a strand of the investigation examining claims | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
that journalists from the Mirror group intercepted voice messages. In | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
a statement, Piers Morgan said, in early November I was asked to attend | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
an interview by officers from Operation Weeting, when I was next | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
in the UK. This was further to a full witness statement I had already | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
freely provided. I attended that interview as requested on the 6th of | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
December 2013. In 2012, Mr Morgan gave evidence to | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the leather son enquiring into press standards. He said he had once been | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
played what he believed was a voice mail left by Sir Paul McCartney for | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
his then girlfriend, Heather Mills. But he denied knowing about any | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
phone hacking which may have happened. Did you see this sort of | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
thing going on, Mr Morgan? No. Are you sure about that? 100%. His | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
employer, CNN, said it had been aware of his interview with police | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
since it took place. The Mirror group said it had no comment to | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
make. The pensions system is not working | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
for consumers and could be stopping people receiving a fair income in | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
their retirement. That's according to a report by the City watchdog. It | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
says many people could get more cash from their annuity if they shopped | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
around. Here's our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz. | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Pensions are not working, and that is no surprise that Anthony from | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Essex, 75, financially fit and sceptical about the insurance | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
companies who manage them. He has been through the pension work-out, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
building up a pot of savings while in his job, then using it to buy an | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
annuity, a guaranteed income for life, but making sure to shop | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
around, unlike most of the 400,000 who buy annuities each year. I would | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
say I have probably got about ?100 per month, or thereabouts, more by | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
shopping around. Generally, I think it would be beneficial all the way | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
through those extra years. The financial watchdog says pensioners | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
are missing out on ?230 million each year. Typically, their annuity | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
should be 7% more, roughly the game that Anthony made, ?70 extra a year | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
which the insurance company keeps. It is a huge difference over the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
2225 years you may take a pension. Small increments at this stage make | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
a difference. 20 years on, you are still living on that income. The FCA | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
says that people turning to the internet have been misled, so | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
websites are having to change, and insurers are accused of making extra | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
profit out of customers who do not shop around. There is no evidence in | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the report, nor in any of the reviews that have been done that | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
there is profiteering going on in the insurance industry. Millions of | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
us are being signed up for pensions in the workplace so it is a major | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
worry for the future. But there is also criticism that in the year at | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
has taken to do this investigation and the extra year the watchdog says | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
that it needs to come up with solutions, another 1 million people | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
will have bought annuities. And we now know that a large proportion of | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
those will end up with poor value pensions. And there is another | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
danger, that people will simply be put off going through the | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
pension-saving regime. The time has just gone a quarter | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
past six. Our top story this evening: Another storm is hitting | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Britain with winds of up to 80mph hitting the South West. And still to | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
come: Beneath this building in Chicago, the scientists building a | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
tunnel across America in a bid to find out how the universe began. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Later on BBC London: Stay away from the water. The weather means rowers | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
are given a red flag warning for the first time in the history of the | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
Thames. And the Duchess of Cambridge goes | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
back to school, opening a special art room in Northolt. | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
It's the first day of London Fashion Week, and it's not just an | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
opportunity for impossibly thin models to stalk down catwalks | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
wearing clothes most people could never afford. British fashion is a | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
serious part of our manufacturing industry and exports, and designers | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
showing this week will have one eye on the huge business potential of | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
China. Here in the UK the fashion industry is worth ?21 billion, and | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
it's expanding by 20% every year. British labels are seen as highly | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
desirable among China's growing middle class. As a nation it now | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
ranks third in the world table of millionaires. But for British | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
designers, it's not an easy market to crack - as I've been finding out. | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
Graceful, meticulous, handcrafted. British fashion worn by the | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
well-known and well healed from the catwalk to the red carpet. Leading | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
British designer Alice temporally's label launched 15 years ago. She | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
knows what appeals to foreign clients. It is a beautiful print, | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
everything is engineered. The label is keen to attract a slice of the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
market, and is taking its first steps in China. Dish fashion is | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
unique and has historic context, it is more Artisan. It is much more | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
design focused and ultimately very different to what they have got out | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
there at the moment. When it comes to exporting British fashion, it is | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
not just about luxury brands and boutiques. Fashion is the most | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
popular product category sold online here in Britain, and the people | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
making clothes here at this factor in north-west London want to | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
replicate that success abroad. Fashion brand Asos has factories all | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
over the world, but had to set up a factory to teach British workers the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
new skill. We realise we had a shortage of people knowing how to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
use the machines. Asos has just launched a website in China. We | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
launched in the UK thinking that we could be a UK centre of business, | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
but suddenly we are taking orders from all over the world. Australia | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
and now China are now 60% of our sales. And it has given young | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
apprentices and opportunity. I want to be a fashion designer, so me | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
doing an apprenticeship here is a good start off. Not many designers | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
you come across know-how garments are made. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Fashion is about more than clothes. It is luxury accessories, too. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Watches are the collectable of choice for a growing number of | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Chinese millionaires. The watches are British made and worn by RAF | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
pilots and film stars like Tom Cruise. With a turnover of ?15 | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
million, they are keen to expand into China. The potential is huge, | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
but so are the pitfalls. If you go into the wrong partner, into the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
wrong cities, your brand DNA gets misunderstood out there. But if you | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
can get it right, it will help your market throughout the world, as | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
well. London Fashion Week is a crucial | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
shop window for to Zainab is. Many will be hoping the words made in | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
Britain will translate into warning China. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
A helicopter that crashed into a Glasgow pub last November killing | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
ten people suffered double engine failure. That's the finding of an | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
interim investigation. Specialists say both engines ran out of fuel, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
despite there being enough onboard to keep the helicopter flying. James | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Cooke is outside the Clutha pub where the helicopter crashed. What | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
more can you tell us? We are getting gradually closer to | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
establishing exactly what caused the terrible crash here on that busy | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Friday night in November. In short, as you say, we now know that both | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
engines simply stopped. They ran out of fuel. The question is, why did | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
that happen, because there was enough fuel on board the helicopter | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
at the time of the crash, investigators reckon, for it to fly | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
for a number 20 minutes or so, and it was just descending back to the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
heliport when it came down on this pub. So they are focusing in on two | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
things in particular. They are looking first of all at whether to | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
pumps -- two pumps in the system was switched off, and they are also | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
looking at the fuel displays and what warnings they might or might | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
not have flashed up, and what that might add. The people affected by | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
this tragedy still don't know the full truth. | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
James, thank you. It's been described as the biggest | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
scientific experiment ever attempted, to discover how the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
universe was created. Researchers in the United States working with | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
scientists from British universities will fire subatomic particles called | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
neutrinos through 800 miles of rock from Chicago to South Dakota. How | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
those particles change during the journey may provide clues to how it | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
all began. From Chicago, our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh sent this | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
exclusive report. It's the centre of a ?1 billion | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
project, to discover how the universe was created. Deep | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
underground here at Fermilab in this warren of tunnels, researchers from | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
across the world plan to build instruments to create a team 100 | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
times more powerful than the sun. Their aim is to study mysterious | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos are particles that are | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
generated by the sun. They are all around us. Billions of them pass | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
right through the Earth. As we zooming towards Chicago to Fermilab, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
every now and again, one of them bumps into part of our world and | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
changes slightly. There is a greater chance of such changes if they pass | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
through lots of rock. So here, deep underground, researchers plan to | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
artificially create a beam of trillions of neutrinos in the | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
biggest experiment ever carried out. They plan to fire at 800 miles | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
across the country to a gigantic detector. Located in South Dakota, | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
it will monitor how they change along the way. At the other end, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
scientists will be able to measure how many of the particles have been | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
changed. The detector will be like this, only 200 times larger. It has | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
emerged that nine British universities will help to build it. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Neutrinos are very exciting to work with. They are the most abundant | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
matter particle in the universe, but we know basically nothing about | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
them. So it will be very exciting to unravel some of the mysteries that | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
neutrinos are holding. It was the Japanese that first | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
discovered that neutrinos change as they travel, 60 years ago. Ever | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
since then, researchers have been convinced that the way neutrinos | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
change was important in the first few moments of creation. The aim of | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
this new international project is to learn more about how these | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
mysterious particles helped shape the early universe. Pallab Ghosh, | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
BBC News, Chicago. Labour has held its Parliamentary | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
seat in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election with an increased | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
majority. Mike Kane is the constituency's new MP. The UK | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
Independence Party came second, pushing the Conservatives into third | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
place. The Liberal Democrats didn't get enough votes to keep their | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
deposit. Britain has a winter Olympics gold | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
medal. Within the last hour, 25-year-old Lizzy Yarnold from Kent | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
has won the skeleton, beating off strong competition along the way. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss has just sent this report on success | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
in Sochi. Hoping to hurtle headfirst into | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
Olympic history, 25-year-old Lizzy Yarnold with her so-called Yarny | :25:22. | :25:33. | |
Army cheering her on, could she get the gold? She was leading by four | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
tenths of a second overnight, and only took up the sport five years | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
ago. She once again set a blistering pace. Nearly 80 miles an hour. The | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
result, a new track record. Just one more to go for Lizzy Yarnold. These | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
are nervous times. The question now is can she hold onto gold? | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
She began her final run with a massive lead over her rivals, the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
best part of a second. And any fears of a last hitch soon melted away as | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
ice cool yarn old -- Lizzy Yarnold race to glory. Four years ago, Amy | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Williams won this event, and now once again, Britain had an Olympic | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
champion. Show the world what I am capable of, and I wanted to do | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
myself justice, and I can't believe I won the race! | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
And so an athlete who was spotted as a 19-year-old has completed an | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
extraordinary journey. Lizzy Yarnold came to Sochi as favourite, and | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
delivered in scintillating style. A golden moment the Team GB and an | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
unforgettable one for Lizzy Yarnold. What a night it has been here for | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Lizzy Yarnold, such an emphatic win. Nearly a second, which is a huge | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
margin in this sport. It is Britain's first gold of the games, | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
so if people hadn't heard of Lizzy Yarnold before Sochi, they certainly | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
have now. Andy Swiss, thank you. Time for a look at the all-important | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
weather forecast now. Here's Nick Miller. Is it going to get any | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
better? Signs of an improvement next week, | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
but the storm we have now hasn't finished with us yet. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
First of all we had the rain to feed the floods, and now the snow. There | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
is a Met Office Amber be prepared warning for the potentially damaging | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
gusts of wind across the South. Squally thundery showers moved | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
through. The main rain band is now in Scotland. And it is windy | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
everywhere, but the strongest winds are across southern parts of the UK | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
through this evening and tonight. Right along the coast up to 80 mph | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
winds. Big waves crashing on to the coastline coupled with high tides, | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
and a significant rest of coastal flooding again. Dangerous conditions | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
here, but even inland, we could see gusts of around 60 mph. Disruptive, | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
damaging gusts of wind. Tomorrow is still very windy with bands of wet | :28:20. | :28:28. | |
weather working South. It could be thundery. Conditions slowly improve | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
from the north-west during Saturday. The wind will ease and it turns | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
dryer and brighter. Sunday is a better day. It will be a chilly | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
start, but many of us will stay dry and bright. The next system were | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
coming Sunday night and Monday, bringing more rain to where it is | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
not needed, but this is not as severe as the ones we have had | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
recently, and that is a trend that continues next week. Still some | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
rain, but not as much, and less windy. Some signs of an | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
improvement, but we are not there yet. Keep up-to-date with the | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
weather and flood warnings we have now online. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
Nick, thank you. A reminder of our main story. As we have just been | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
hearing in the weather forecast, winter storms opposing more danger | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
to British coastlines, with winds of up to 80 mph. That's all from the | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
BBC News at Six, | :29:24. | :29:24. |