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A second night in emergency accommodation after a flooded river | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
means a huge caravan park remains evacuated. Hello and welcome to | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Look East on another day dominated by the weather. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
It's been raining in this region for 30 consecutive days. The result, | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
roads that are flooded, schools closed and swollen rivers. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Also in tonight's programme, caught on camera. The jade raiders at the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Fitzwilliam. And what happens now? The highs and | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Hello. First tonight, heavy rain has been causing rain across the | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
region and the forecasters say After two winters of below average | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
rainfall, we are of course still in drought. A reminder that these are | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
the areas where a hosepipe ban is still in force. But after 30 days | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
of consecutive rain, we have eight flood warnings in place, too. By | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
far the most serious impact has been at Billing Aquadrome, a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
caravan site on the outskirts of Northampton. There, more than 1000 | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
people were told they had to leave Jo Black reports from a leisure | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
centre nearby, where more than 100 people have been given emergency | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
accommodation. Here we are in the sports hall, | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
football she's or bat and Indians should be going on here. -- | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
football his or badminton games. Not tonight, because people I hear. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Almost 100 people stay tonight for a second night. There is lots of | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
Dunkirk spirit, but it is simple. People want to go home. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Panic or precaution, 24 hours after evacuating Billing Aquadrome, the | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
park remains closed. Environment Agency officials order went -- the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Environment Agency ordered the bosses to get everyone off, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
displacing thousands, many spending the night at the local sports | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
centre. I am hoping it has not flooded and we will go back to what | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
we've had left. We are very lucky we have a pent up -- we are very | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
lucky, we have a penthouse and we can look after next door's dog. We | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
have bent over backwards, the staff and council. Whilst praise for the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
agencies helping out, many feel the air has been an information | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
blackout. We have not seen any of the bosses, I went down this | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
morning to find out at no one could tell me anything. | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
And it was not quite the birth date this girl had been planned. There | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
was a birthday card from the staff. And we got her a birthday cake. At | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
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breakfast, she was wish a happy birthday. She was quite surprised a. | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
No one knows how long this will go on for. If it goes on, we hoped to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
find alternative accommodation. We cannot make people sleep on camp | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
beds on a week, so we will look to rehouse them in bed and breakfasts | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
and hotels. The irony about this is that Billing Aquadrome is not | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
flooded, but the River Nene which runs alongside it is at risk of | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
rising. Tonight, 90 people will sleep here again. A home from home | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
it is not. Like I said and that report, we do | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
not know how much longer this will go on for. You can see people are | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
here, sitting around all day, some getting on with their neat in -- | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
netting. There has been a shout for fresh pizza, the Salvation Army are | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
cooking a hot meal tonight. The next update will come from the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
park's managers and the Environment Agency tomorrow at ten o'clock. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Thank you very much. It was not just Billing which has been | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
affected by the flooding. We will have a round-up of the impact on | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the rest of the region later in the programme. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Andy Wilkinson is with the Environment Agency. He joins us now | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
from its offices in Kettering. Mr Wilkinson, first the situation at | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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Billing Aquadrome. Was a panic or precaution? -- was it? Very much | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
precaution. We took the decision yesterday afternoon that it was | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
better to evacuate during daylight than risk at last -- risk a flood | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
during the evening and have a Kuwait during the hours of darkness. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
It is difficult for those evacuated. Do you have any idea when people | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
can return? The forecast is still for some rain. You can see it is | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
still raining at the moment. We will review that in the morning | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
with the police, fire and rescue, local authority and other partners, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
including the partners of Billing Aquadrome. We will review the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
following 24 hours and keep the communities and the people up to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
date with what is going on. There are other flood warnings in place | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
across the region. Is this purely down to the volume of rain? There | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
has been a lot. Has it also been affected by the fact there was dry | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
ground before? You are right. We have had something like three times | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
the amount of rain we would normally have for the whole month | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
of April in a couple of days. That has landed on ground which, because | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
of the drought conditions over the previous 18 months, was very hard, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
helping the rivers fill up quickly. What is your advice for people who | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
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may be in our region that could flat? -- flood. The key thing is to | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
be saved, check the Environment Agency website, helpline, Facebook, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Twitter. Keep up-to-date with what is going on in Yuri Anne and | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
register for flood warnings. Thank you very much. -- what is going on | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
in your region. Detectives investigating the theft | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
of change treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
have just released fresh CCTV footage. It shows three of the gang | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
involved in the raid in which items worth more than �18 million were | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
taken. The case will be featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
tonight on BBC One. One expert told us that he believes the items could | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
still be in this country. Police are hoping the release of | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
these new images captured on security cameras will help yield | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
fresh clues. They show four men walking from Grove Lane to the rear | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
of the museum at the time of the multi-million pound raid. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Detectives say anyone who knows who they are should come forward. It's | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the latest development in the case, which is being watched closely by | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Dick Ellis. He lives in Suffolk and knows more than most what it takes | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
to crack this kind of crime. In 1989, he set up the art squad at | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Scotland Yard and led it for ten years. So what does he make of the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
raid on the Fitzwilliam? I think we have seen a pattern. Whether it is | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
the same group of criminals is difficult to tell. Those people are | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
targeting Chinese jade and Chinese ceramics, because those have | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
increased in value in the art market and criminals recognise that | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
potentially there are rich pickings. Rich pickings stolen in just ten | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
minutes. 18 items in total, including six pieces from the Ming | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
dynasty. This was the van police believe the gang used. Dick Ellis | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
now works as a director of what's called the Art Management Group. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
They run investigations usually on behalf of insurers and private | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
clients. He says extensive publicity and police alerting | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
dealers means the Fitzwilliam haul has already become extremely hot to | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
handle. That suggests it could still be in this country for now. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
Some years ago, we recovered a lot to geed stolen in London. I | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
recovered it in Switzerland. -- jade. It was going through the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Swiss auction market. Capturing it is by showing internationally it | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
has been stolen. What are the chances of catching the gang? | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
chances are good. They have very easily identify all -- identifiable | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
property. I believe the police can arrest them. A 25-strong police | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
team is working on the case. Detectives are appealing for anyone | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
who may have potential clues to come forward. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
A court in Cambridge has heard harrowing evidence about the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
moments leading up to the death of a five-year-old boy in Peterborough. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Tyler Whelan died in March last year. His mother and her former | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
boyfriend are standing trial. Mike Cartwright is in our Cambridge | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
newsroom. You may find some of the details in this case disturbing. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
This is a picture of Tyler -- Tyler Whelan, who suffered a catalogue of | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
abuse in the months leading up to his death. Today, the events began | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
and the man on trial for the murder of Tyler took to the stand. He was | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
in what was said to be a volatile relationship with Tyler's debt. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Tyler was injured in a fall. -- F. There were plans to take into a | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
doctor, but they did not. The man said he went looking for Tyler and | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
found him crouching behind an armchair. I picked him up by his | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
right arm, he said, I was really annoyed. He was asked what he did | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
then. I grabbed his leg and build it up. He was asked what Tyler did. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
He tried to pull away. I tried to grab him, he was on all fours. He | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
was asked what he did then. He said, I kicked him. I was angry at the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
time, his left side hit the door. I knew he was injured, because he was | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
gasping. I did not mean to hurt him. Throughout all the evidence, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Tyler's mother was crying. That got louder until she was led away. She | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
is on trial following the death of a child. Tyler died after severe | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
injuries to his head and abdomen. The two deny the charges and the | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Boy Friend for continue his evidence tomorrow. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Thank you. Later in the programme, the ups and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
downs of Lotus over the years. And Alex has more on all that rain. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Yes, after the second wettest April on record here in the East, I will | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
be looking back at rainfall figures for the month. And looking ahead to | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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what is coming next. The full The son of a man found murdered in | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
a village near Cambridge has made another plea for information. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Llewellyn Thomas, who was a retired farmer, was found dead at his home | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
in Chittering in December last year. The case will feature on tonight's | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
BBC Crimewatch. 76-year-old Llewelyn Thomas died | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
from injuries to his face and head. Despite its high profile, the crime | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
remains unsolved. It Is believed he had watched the final of Strictly | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Come Dancing on December 18th before answering the door to his | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
killers. -- it is thought. The police, who are offering a �50,000 | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
reward for information, believe his property may have been targeted | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
because of its mansion-like appearance. His son is also | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
appealing for the public's help. They may have done it before. They | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
may do it again. And if neither of those is true, then they just need | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
to see what they have done to one gentle old boy. After four months, | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
there is nothing to suggest that violent crime took here at -- took | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
place here at all. But locals are still very much aware of that | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
December evening. Elements of feeling insecure, because it seems | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to be a botched burglary, apparently. So where will they | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
break into next time? It tends to go into the background, then comes | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
back. Today, there are memories of it with you coming back. He was | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
such a nice man. The attackers made off in a silver Rover 75 estate. It | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
was stolen from the drive. The police are still keen to hear about | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
the movements of this vehicle before it was later found abandoned | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
here in nearby Milton. And Crimewatch is tonight on BBC One at | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
9 o'clock. Two men from Wisbech have been | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
arrested in connection with the murder of a young woman, whose body | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
was found on the Sandringham Estate. The remains of Alisa Dmitrijeva | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
were found by a dog walker in a copse at Anmer on New Year's Day. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
A jury has been told that a man accused of killing his ex-partner | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
and their daughter in Braintree sent hundreds of text messages to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
her in the weeks before the deaths. David Oakes denies murdering | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
Chrissie Chambers and two-year-old Shania in June last year. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
The owner of a seal rescue centre has gone on trial accused of | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
mistreating animals in his care. 85-year-old Harold Nickerson ran | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
the hospital at Winterton on the Norfolk coast for more than 15 | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
years. He was charged after two visits from the RSPCA. Nikki Fox | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
was at Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court and is in our newsroom now. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Mr Nickerson is charged with causing unnecessary suffering to | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
three seals and keeping five seals in an unsuitable environment. He | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
and volunteers ran a hospital for more than 15 years, covering around | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
100 miles of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast line between them. As | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
you can see from footage from 1995, it is quite small that relies | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
entirely on donations. According to its website, it has now closed. | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
What was said in court today? a vet and RSPCA officers gave | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
evidence, finding out-of-date medicines. One had an expiry date | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
of March 2005 and was intended to treat cattle. Seals lived in what | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
The described as dirty and stagnant. -- live in water. And there was a | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
scale of the animals, one being the worst, some were graded as either | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
one or 1.5. There were also concerned the seals did not have | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
space to get out of the water, which won a veterinary surgeon said | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
could cause hypothermia. I know Mr Nickerson denies the charges. What | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
did the defence say? The defence said the conditions were no worse | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
than at a commercial farm, saying it was small and should not be | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
compared to big commercial rescue centres like this Sea Life Centre, | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
which has more funding. Mr Nickerson's solaces they described | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
it as a piece of midden -- solicitors described it as a piece | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
of Middle England rescuing animals. The trial continues for two days. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Detectives working on a cold case review are appealing to former crew | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
members of a Lowestoft trawler to get in touch. In 1981, the Boston | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Sea Stallion reported recovering a body from the North Sea. The police | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
believe it may have been that of a person who went missing in Norfolk | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
earlier that year. The first selection of 100 records | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
from John Peel's collection have been published online. The Radio 1 | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
DJ from Suffolk died eight years ago, leaving a library of tens of | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
thousands of albums and singles. Rail passengers have faced severe | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
disruption today because of a strike by drivers. East Midlands | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Trains, part of Stagecoach, run services from Norwich through Ely | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
to Peterborough and the North West. There were no East Midland trains | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
running from Norwich today after 90% of its drivers stopped working. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
It was in protest about changes to their pensions. Some passengers | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
were able to use that the services. The drivers a striking because | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Stagecoach want West to be paid into pension funds. The company | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
will also contribute less. Stagecoach said an independent | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
valuer said this will have no impact on final benefits. But the | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
union, ASLEF, disagrees. company will save around they point | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
to �0.1 million at the end of the franchise. The impact for the | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
membership will be that, going forward, the pension scheme may | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
very well find itself in deficit. - - the company will save over �2 | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
million. The train company insists the pension review was carried out | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
independently. This is an evaluation on the pension section, | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
so we have to go in line with advice, whether that means | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
increasing or reducing contributions. Another strike is | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
planned for Thursday, with further disruption scheduled for dates | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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There is still no word on whether the new owner of Lotus intends to | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
sell the company. Current owners DRB-Hicom is considering whether to | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
dispose of the car maker, which employs 1200 people in Norfolk. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
This is not the first time Lotus has been in trouble. It has often | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
been a roller-coaster ride for employees. Richard Bond has been | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
looking back. You expect thrills and spills with | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
a sports car company. When it comes to its own history, Lotus has never | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
disappointed. The early days were bathed in glory, with Grand Prix | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
success for its founder and growing demand for sports cars for the Open | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
road built in Norfolk. But money was always tight. The company | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
mainly catered for the enthusiast rather than the mass market. Motor | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
is always reminds me of a football club, glamourous, praised his dues | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
to owned but hardly ever making money. -- prestigious to own. There | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
has been many owners, all funding losses, but failing to provide much | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
management stability. One man has watched the company for many years. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
The Chief Executive's office for a while was once said to have a | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
revolving door with the new one dare each time you went. It has had | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
too many owners not giving it direction, too little stability, | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
against which the operation can function properly. The current | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Chief Executive has a plan to turn Lotus around with a range of new | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
models. But it is still unclear whether its new owner, DRB-Hicom, | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
will keep the company or sell it on. Porsche sold 100 times more cars in | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
the UK than Lotus and selling them for more money. Notice needs an | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
owner who believes in the brand, believes in the amazing | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
competencies and actually wall say, over ten years, we will take this | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
company to beat Bentley, Ferrari, but it needs money. It will | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
probably be weeks before lotus knows what the future will be and | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
whether its owner has enough money to put it in the fast lane. -- | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
Lotus. Back now to our lead story and the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
impact of flooding across the region. We have already heard how | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
more than a thousand people had to leave a caravan park near | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Northampton. Across the region, drives -- drivers faced problems | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
and one school had to close. Colchester this morning, Essex | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Police and urging drivers to slow down and used it headlines to be | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
seen. -- dipped headlights to be seen in the service sprayed. Across | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
the county, police said they had dealt with more than 30 weather- | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
related incidents. This was the Mersea Road at Peldon. Some drivers | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
found themselves marooned in deep water on minor roads and country | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
lanes. In Chelmsford, children from Melbourne Park Primary and Nursery | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
had the day off thanks to a leaking roof. In the Cambridgeshire Fens, | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
the scene at Nepal. Hundreds of acres of flood plain, often used to | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
graze cattle, under deep water today. Rivers and drainage channels | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
running high. At St Ives, a solitary car was left in the | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
submerged car park of the Dolphin Hotel. Unfortunately, we have a | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
vehicle that has not heeded the warning about the car park being | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
closed. The owner paddled into the water and was on his way moments | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
later. A boating festival planned for this weekend at Becket's Park, | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Northampton, has been postponed for safety reasons due to too much | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
water. The river has been flooding for a few days, we have done red | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
flag indicating the Environment Agency has advised that is not safe | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
to travel on the river. A lot of people were coming up the river, | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
including myself, having to cancel because it is far too dangerous. | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
One nature reserve was open, but affected. It is having an effect on | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
visitors to see the forecast Anne's choose to stay away. -- see the | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
forecast and people choose to stay awake. But we're still open. There | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
is a great indoor area. I have been in the office seen people coming in | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
with children. I have a match and then being desperate to come out | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
somewhere. You have been sending us your pictures. Hardwater Crossing | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
at Wollaston, Northamptonshire. The Cosgrove Holiday Park. 250 caravans | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
were moved off site on Saturday. The local recreation ground at | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
Olney in Buckinghamshire. A runaway barge ripped from its moorings at | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
Roxton. And a bowling club at Clacton. And Avenue Road in with | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
them. In Bedfordshire, high up river levels have led to the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
closure of some roads and bridges. The showers have gradually faded, | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
but the wettest drought on record looks set to go on. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Thank you to everybody who send in photographs. If you film anything | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
you think could be newsworthy, we would love to hear from you. The | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
phone number is 08457 630 630. And our e-mail address is | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
[email protected]. Of course, there is Facebook and Twitter as | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
well. She always does a good phone number. | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
This was the second wettest April on record what double average | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
rainfall for many. If we look at the league table, the stamp the six | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
wettest locations. -- these are. The averages 45 millimetres of | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
April. Many get well over double. It looks like that wet weather will | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
continue. One more statistic from April. Santon Downham recorded both | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
the highest temperature yesterday and also the coldest location on | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
6th April. The unsettled weather continues. Driven by low pressure. | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
A weather front has moved northwards today. You can see where | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
the rainfall fell. It clear it quickly, but some hefty showers | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
formed in this area. Those are still affecting parts of southern | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
Cambridgeshire and Essex. Those have produced some thunder. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Foremost, a dry and cloudy night with mist patches forming overnight. | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
It will stay pretty mild. Overall, low temperatures expected of 7 | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Celsius in a light north-westerly. Tomorrow, low pressure still the | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
name of the game. We have a weather front that lingers through the day. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
When it moves southwards, bringing ahead the pulse of rain, but not | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
until overnight tomorrow night. For much of tomorrow, cloudy with the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
chance of patchy, light rain, some places getting away with a dry | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
morning. In drier spots, temperatures climbing took their | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
teens. If you get some sunshine, it might be even higher. Winds will | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
pick up through the day, more of a moderate northerly breeze and the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
chance of patchy rain through tomorrow afternoon. It is over | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
night that it becomes more heavy and persistent, quite widespread | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
across the region, lingering in to Thursday. A damp start to Thursday. | :26:08. | :26:14. |