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Good evening. People in Somerset have been told to leave the `` to | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
leave their homes today as floodwaters threatened to rise | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
again. Villages were evacuated and travel was disrupted. There are more | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
than 150 properties in the affected areas. In Fordgate and Moorland | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
people were told to get out. Also those in Saltmoor and those in the | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
area in the A361 between East Lyng and Burrowbridge. A centre has been | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
set up in North Everton for those affected. If you're affected by the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
flooding, but don't know what to do, you should ring the police | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
information number 101. Our reporter Madelyn Ware has been following | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
developments in the story today A last attempt to save what they can | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
before leaving. With the help of neighbours, Sue Crocker is shifting | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
valuables off the floor of her dream retirement home in Fordgate. She | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
also has a smallholding here. Animals have been moved to higher | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
ground. The sheep have gone up to farmer and the dogs are going to go | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
there. We have gun dogs in the kennels, they are going. The cats | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
will come with me because I need to leave. How hard has this been for | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
you? Dreadful, really dreadful. It is like Chinese torture because it | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
gets closer and closer. Sue made the decision to go but at that point, | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
she was one of the few. Most people determined to stay. In nearby | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Moorland, filling stand`bys `` sandbagged by the dozen. We have | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
been told that we may have to evacuate. The water is not in the | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
house at the moment so we will get some sandbags and batten down the | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
hatches and see how things go. Police had been going door`to`door | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
to advise people to leave. But this afternoon came a more dramatic | :02:17. | :02:28. | |
warning. There will be a high tide after 10pm tonight. That, combined | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
with the high water `` high volume of water coming down the river, | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
there will be overflowing of the river near Burrowbridge. At the | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
afternoon wore on, many residents decided to go. It seems there is no | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
choice any more, we have to go. The flooding is coming over the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
retaining wall. Once that comes over, there is no way of controlling | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
the flooding and I think it will go through yet quite steeply. But for | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
all those joining the queue to leave the village, there were those | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
determined to stay. Prepare to stay upstairs and sit it out rather than | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
leave their homes to the mercy of the water. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
We have heard that both the rest centres in Somerset are closed for | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
the night. The Environment Agency is not predicting any further flooding | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
for the next 12 hours. Away from the Levels, the bad weather has also | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
affected other areas. In Taunton, roads and trains were disrupted and | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
emergency services were advising people not to travel unless | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
absolutely necessary. Here's Sally Challoner. Bishop Sutton blocked by | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
very deep water. A call from Stuart... | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
It was chaos on the roads around the county town of Taunton today as | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
fallen trees and flooded roads made every route in tortuous. Many of the | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
communities along those routes, some backing onto the swollen River Tone, | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
were cut off. And working together to help themselves. We do have a | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Flood committee that are keeping an eye on people and on things. There | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
is only so much we can do that you will see around you there are | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
sandbags available. We supplied bin is full sandbags in various places | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
around the village. To help ourselves. `` we supplied bins | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
containing sandbags. Pumps are battling to get the roads open but | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
this crew had moved 15 tankfuls of water by lunchtime and the level is | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
still rising. Now toilets are blocked by overflowing storm drains | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
` the water has nowhere left to go. Police and Fire are warning people | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
not to travel unless absolutely necessary. But more than a month in, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
and despite all the warnings, people are still trying to get through | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
these roads. Trains are also disrupted, with buses replacing some | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
services to and from Taunton. The advice is to check before | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
travelling. The line at Castle Cary on the Somerset levels is closed. We | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
can't run services to London that way. The line from Bristol is open | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
at the moment and hopefully it will remain open. But with the weather | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
forecast, we do not know what is around the corner. And with some of | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
the county's roads now passable by just a few, the advice is to stay | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
away. A Bristol policeman appeared in | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
court today accused of taking speeding points on his licence for | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
his girlfriend. PC Alex Owen was sent on a speed awareness course and | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
paid a fine. But an investigation revealed that at the time of the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
alleged offence he was taking part in an anti`terrorist operation at | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Trinity Road Station in Bristol Both he and his girlfriend Nina East | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
deny perverting the course of justice. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Football now ` despite being a man down, Swindon staged an impressive | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
fight back in the first leg of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy area final. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
They went two goals behind in the opening 15 minutes but regained | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
their composure to go in level at half time. The final score was `2. | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
If you are affected by the weather and don't know what to do, you can | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
call the police non`emergency number 101. There's more news and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
information online and on BBC local radio and we'll be back in Breakfast | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
tomorrow morning. Now the weather. OK, tonight and tomorrow morning | :06:27. | :06:38. | |
will bring some much`needed respite in terms of no further rain of any | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
note. But as these Met Office warnings suggest, that will change | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
in the second`half of tomorrow. We see the area covered by amber | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
warnings where we have the greatest potential for further flooding and | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
disruption. That'll continue until Saturday the, that warning. On | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Saturday there will be strong winds once again. Tonight, temperatures | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
will drop down to about six Celsius. Further rain pushing up in the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
morning and in the afternoon extending its reach further | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
northwards. Adding to that as we head towards late afternoon and | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
evening, some heavy showers possibly with lightning. I believe you with | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
the Outlook. As you have just heard, the little | :07:31. | :07:43. | |
respite between one storm system and another and it is that cumulative | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
effect which will cause further problems | :07:48. | :07:48. |