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the oppression of one by another. The sun shall never set | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Look East, live tonight from the East Anglian coast. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
And, after a night of surging tides, it looks very much like we got away | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
with it. The dramatic moment when this household could only watch as | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
it was swept away. We will take you along the coast, county by county, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
for reports about how the region was affected. The emergencies Minister | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
talks to us about the operation to keep communities safe. And I am here | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
with the other news. Including the day that Nelson Mandela came to | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
town. Hello and welcome to Great Yarmouth. | :00:56. | :01:22. | |
You can see the river behind me. As the crow flies, the seaside is a | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
mile in that direction/ For the people living here, and along the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
East Anglian coast, this has been a very worrying 24 hours. The water | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
was right up here last night. You can see the debris. It was one of | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
those nights where we all feared the worst. But we did very well. Last | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
night, they faced the most serious tidal surge since 1953, when coastal | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
communities were inundated and hundreds perished. We were filling | :01:56. | :02:10. | |
the villagers of Hemsby in the local pub as they raised funds, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
ironically, for new sea defences. We went to the beach and were shocked | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
by what we saw. This is a seriously high tide. Ferocious. Just look at | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
the power of the water. It's cutting into the beach. Imagine living up on | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
the cliff, right on the edge. While we're standing here, the lifeboat | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
hut is literally tipping into the sea. The high tide has chiselled | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
away underneath the foundations. It's literally tipping up as we | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
stand here. Earlier in the day, we'd been filming with Jackie and Steve. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Their house is right on the edge of the Dunes. I went with them to see | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
if it was OK. Jackie's going in now. Hang on. They're close. The back of | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
their house has gone... That's very unstable. What are we going to do | :02:50. | :03:01. | |
now? I can't believe it. What's happened? We don't know. We're not | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
prepared. Where do you go tonight? Somewhere safe? People have offered | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
to have us. Heartbreaking. If you want to see the full report | :03:18. | :03:44. | |
that will be on the One Show later. This report is from Norfolk. | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
This was home to Stephen and Jackie. Last night, the bungalow to a dive | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
off the sand dunes into the sea. Before it feel, local people had | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
formed a human chain to help remove some of the positions. Have you lost | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
everything? Yes. Everything is invested in the. `` in there. I am | :04:14. | :04:26. | |
shell`shocked. Another home was engulfed next door. We watched for | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
half an hour. The sea lifted it up into the water. We couldn't believe | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
it. The sea carried it away. On the beach, what remains of the old | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
lifeboat station has now become a tourist attraction. This was the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
high tide earlier this morning. The problem is still an over. Last | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
night, the waves rose above what was expected. This is the main road. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Several shots were flooded. This home received the full force of the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
water. The first time in 50 years. We didn't expect it. I know we were | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
warned that we didn't expect it. `` but we didn't expect it. I've never | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
known it to come up as high as this. This view a film these pictures of | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
the sea becoming over Cromer Pier. `` coming over. In King's Lynn the | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
sea defences struggled. Many places were without power. Workmen are | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
senior recovering storm defence panels, damaged by last nights | :05:53. | :06:10. | |
storms. `` last night's. I came across from Suffolk earlier and | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
there were problems on the roads. Traffic jams. Here's a report from | :06:17. | :06:37. | |
Suffolk. Water pours through a breach in the river wall at | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Southwold after a night few will forget. Among them, Richard Burrell | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
` exhausted after spending all night on board to save his boat from being | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
washed away. In the early hours of this morning I saw a haystack going | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
down the river. Out to sea. At the Harbour Inn, a muddy mess. They'd | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
cleared the furniture yesterday, but the speed of the surge was still | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
shocking. We were about five`and`a`half feet under where | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
we're standing at the moment. It was racing around the back. I thought | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
enough's enough ` let's get out. Mike Pickles says if it was a few | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
inches higher, they could have lost everything. It came up very high. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Any higher and it would have been a disaster. A breach in the river wall | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
shut the A12 at Blythburgh. And near Ipswich, motorists struggled | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
through. At Felixstowe, the sailing club was left ankle deep in water. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Today they were taking stock of the damage. I thought there would be no | :07:28. | :07:39. | |
problems. Also flooded, the Felixstowe Ferry Cafe ` built | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
shortly after the 1953 North Sea surge. This building here was washed | :07:43. | :07:55. | |
away during the 1953 floods. The existing building replaced it. It | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
was a pre`fab bungalow. Back at Southwold, the sea is still | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
menacing. People are still on edge. They know this was a close call. | :08:09. | :08:23. | |
Lots of us will have seen the famous pictures from 1953. There was | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
devastation in Jaywick. Yesterday, the police were going round and | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
asking people to leave their homes for their safety. We saw that some | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
people did not want to leave their homes. They wanted to stay. As it | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
happened, it wasn't as bad as people field. `` feared. By the early | :08:47. | :08:58. | |
hours, the storm surge was lapping at the foot of the sea wall at | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Jaywick. It's unprecedented in the time I've been here. Four and a half | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
years. Even the Chief Constable was urging locals to heed the warnings | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
and leave the area. All along the East Coast, officers are | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
recommending you get out. Take their advice. Secure your belongings. The | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
decision to evacuate Jaywick was taken yesterday afternoon. Many | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
residents vowed to stay but as evening closed in some decided it | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
was better to be safe than sorry. They headed to the council's rescue | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
centre. `` rest centre. 400 was the maximum we got to. Great community | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
spirit. A few moans as you would expect but we had people from two or | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
three years old to 103. These five evacuees said they'd had a sleepless | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
night but been looked after very well. They weren't going home | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
hungry! They laid on a dinner. Tea and coffee all night. Biscuits and | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
bacon rolls too. It's a team spirit. Everybody's kind. It's like a home | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
from home. The sea wall here at Jaywick did its job. You can see | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
from this line of foam how close the water got to the top. There was | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
flooding, however, on Mersea Island near Colchester. This morning, this | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
woman could wade across her living room. It came up from the cellar. I | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
knew there was nothing I could do. The sea had got me. This afternoon, | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
another high tide on the road leading to Mersea Island. A reminder | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
that the danger isn't quite over yet. Later in the programme I'll be | :10:43. | :10:56. | |
speaking to the Environment Agency about our coastal sea defences. If | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
you are worried about that we will have the information. The Minister | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
in charge of the emergency services is Brandon Lewis, who also happens | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
to be the local MP. It was a busy night for you? All of the emergency | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
services, and all those who worked around the country, it all came | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
together. All of the people on the ground deserve massive credit. There | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
will be some people who are homeless... Their homes have been | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
ruined. What is your message to them? I was in an evacuation centre | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
last night. Fortunately we have been able to get some really great | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
community spirit together. People who have chalets are opening them | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
up. That is what to do that the community spirit has been fantastic. | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
`` There is work to do. There has been a lot of money invested since | :12:12. | :12:26. | |
1953. A paid dividends last night? Yes. Everybody did a fantastic job. | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
The committee worked really hard. They listen to other advice. `` | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
community. Can we keep spending money on keeping the sea at bay? We | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
need to make sure that people are safe. The work that the Environment | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Agency are doing next year is helping to protect 50,000 homes in | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Great Yarmouth. When we do have this kind of situation we can be safer in | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
our homes. That is important. Is that happening around the country? | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
This is specific work in Great Yarmouth. But that is what being | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
done all over the country. It makes a big difference. Especially when we | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
have situations like this. Have you seen anything else that has been | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
going on today? I have been all over. Visiting evacuation centres | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
and front line areas. There was water coming over just a few hundred | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
yards from you. But examples all over. But what has been consistent | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
has been the community spirit. Everybody has worked well together. | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
They deserve huge credit. Some people will be looking forward to | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Christmas but not in the own homes? Unfortunately so. There has to be | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
worked on to make sure they have somewhere for Christmas. `` work | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
done. Hopefully everybody else's home as they are in Great Yarmouth. | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
It is a bitterly cold evening. I am grateful for you talking to us. We | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
will be back there later. Now back to the studio. | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
People from around the world have been paying tribute today to the | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
South African statesman Nelson Mandela. In his lifetime, Mr Mandela | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
came to our region on several occasions, and wherever he went he | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
had a warm welcome. Nelson Mandela inspired millions of people around | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
the world. But he was also inspired by many people from this region, | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
which is why he visited several times after his release from jail in | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
South Africa in 1990. In 1997, when he was President of South Africa, he | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
came to the University of Essex with his friend. She was being given an | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Honorary Doctorate by the University for her work in Children's Rights. | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
`` Children's Human Rights. How has your visit been, Mr President? This | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
is the person you should ask! A year later, Michelle and Mandela were | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
married. In 2000, a year after he retired as President, he came to | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Bedford. 10,000 people crammed into the town centre to see him. He came | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
to pay tribute to Archbishop Trevor Huddlestone, who was born in Bedford | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
and worked in South Africa to support Mandela and the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
anti`Apartheid campaign. Mandela said of him, 'no white person has | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
done more for South Africa than Trevor Huddlestone'. I'm very | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
honoured to be here today. To pay homage to the memory of a great man. | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
Since 1995, Magdalene College in Cambridge has awarded scholarships | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
named after Mandela to graduates from South Africa. In 2001, he was | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
made an Honorary Fellow of the College. He said he was nervous | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
about receiving the honour because of his history. I have a bad | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
criminal record. LAUGHTER... Mandela's magic then | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
inspired the Cambridge dons in an impromptu dance. A year later, and | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
looking frail, he returned to England at House in Northamptonshire | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
` the final resting place for another inspiration for him, because | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
of her campaigning on landmines and AIDS. Diana, Princess of Wales. When | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
I got the news that she had died in an accident, I was completely | :16:37. | :16:48. | |
devastated. So the fact that I've come here now, to say goodbye to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
her, is something very significant. Unforgettable. Nelson Mandela ` who | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
died yesterday. A man has been jailed for ten years | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
after admitting the rape of a 12`year`old girl he met through | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
social media. 31`year`old Robert Fulton from Lowestoft admitted using | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Facebook to make contact with the victim. He was sentenced today at | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Norwich Crown Court. The police said the girl had been left devastated by | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
the incident. Firefighters in Cambridgeshire are | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
to go on strike in the run up to Christmas. The Fire Brigades Union | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
has announced two evening walk`outs in December. It's in a dispute over | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
pensions and the age of retirement. They'll take action next Friday and | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Saturday night, between 6pm and 10pm. An exhibition at the Norfolk | :17:32. | :17:46. | |
home of masterpieces is being dismantled after attracting its | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
highest number of visitors. The collection was owned by written's | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
first Prime Minister. The lengthy process of dismantling a | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
priceless exhibition. The last five paintings are being carefully | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
removed and are going to be shipped back to Russia and America this | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
week. This painting was displayed in the common parlour. These people | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
have to check for any damage before it is wrapped in film and placed in | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
a creek. `` crate. It was once the greatest collection in Europe but | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
had to be sold to save the family home. More than 7000 pieces, mainly | :18:39. | :18:50. | |
paintings, were released by the State Hermitage of Saint Petersburg. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
It is one of the world 's oldest museums. It is the first thing that | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
any museum in the world has led so many pieces. `` lent. It is a first | :19:03. | :19:16. | |
for Russia. Things from England are going to travel to Russia in the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
near future. 115,000 visitors travelled from all over the world to | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
see this collection. More than they anticipated. The exhibition was | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
extended by two months. The paintings will make the 1700 mile | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
journey on to Russia. In climate controlled trucks. It is probably | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the last thing we will see this artwork exhibited here in a | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
lifetime. `` last time. `` our lifetime. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
In football, Norwich boss Chris Hughton insists he's working hard to | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
improve the club's away record. The Canaries have suffered a series of | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
heavy defeats. Tomorrow, they head to West Brom in the Premier League. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Arsenal set the trend... Ozil has two... Arsenal have four... The | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
torture continued at Manchester City... It's seven! At this moment | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
it's hurting. I, as manager, take full responsibility. Liverpool and | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
Suarez also made them pay. Norwich have lost six or their seven away | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
games, conceding 21 goals ` more than any other Premier League team. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
The statistics speak for themselves. We're on the back of a big defeat in | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Manchester. One in Liverpool as well. We have to defend better. Be | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
organised. Making it tougher for teams away from home. The manager | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
says he and his team are working hard behind the scenes to address | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
their frailties. They'll move above West Brom if they can win at the | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Hawthorns. I want to see a reaction. We've done that at times this | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
season. I want to see a performance that gives us a good chance of | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
winning the game. Mick McCarthy has got Ipswich moving the right way ` | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
three wins in four and the Championship play`offs in sight. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
They face Huddersfield tomorrow. We've got consistency now and we're | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
winning games. We may not be playing pretty football, like Real Madrid, | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
but winning is all that matters. And for six sides a place in the FA Cup | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
third round is at stake. Non`league Cambridge United are hoping to cause | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
an upset against Sheffield United. They're struggling in League One. | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
This week we've been featuring the candidates short listed for the BBC | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
East Sports Unsung Hero Award. And we can tell you tonight that the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
winner is Gloria Keech from Bedford who runs the Hertfordshire Mavericks | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Netball team. Gloria is now up for the National Unsung title at the | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Gloria received her | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
trophy at the Hertfordshire Sports Awards last night. You've won the | :22:05. | :22:14. | |
BBC East Sports Unsung Hero Award! Our Unsung Hero for the East is | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
Gloria! Well done to her. I'm back with the Look East late news at | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
10:25pm. Now though, we can re`join Stewart in Great Yarmouth. | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
Welcome back to Great Yarmouth, where things are returning to normal | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
after a night of worry about the tidal surge. Steve Hayman is from | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
the Environment Agency. How did this compare with 1953? In several places | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
we have seen levels that were higher in 1953 `` than 1953. In Essex it is | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
a bit lower. We were concerned about high take that it has passed OK? It | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
didn't come as high as we thought. We are pleased to see that levels | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
are returning to normal. As far as the Environment Agency is concerned, | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
everything went to plan? We always learn lessons. We are pleased with | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
both the accuracy of the warnings that we got out and the timeliness. | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Compared with 1953, when there was a terrible loss of life, largely due | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
to the fact that people had no warning, this time we have seen a | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
major event and there has been no loss of life CDs injury. `` or | :23:52. | :24:03. | |
serious injury. Some people have no home to go home to tonight. But it | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
is better to have taken the precaution to leave? If you have | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
seen the height of the Tate last night, against the defences, in that | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
situation you have two error on the side of caution. `` to err on the | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
side of caution. `` height of the tide. It came very close to this | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
barrier. It would not have taken much more to come over? No. But our | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
forecasts are always getting better. You cannot be incredibly precise | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
about these things. We have two allow a bit of leeway. Very | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
importantly, the way we worked with the emergency services and the local | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
authorities was a real team effort. Thank you to everybody for their | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
hard work. No time for the weather. `` Now time for the weather. | :25:21. | :25:32. | |
At King 's Lynn, here are the times for the high tides. If you do have | :25:33. | :25:55. | |
any concerns, you can call the Floodline. In terms of temperatures, | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
it is going to be quite cold. A week weather front. `` weak. Isolated | :26:03. | :26:14. | |
showers. Overnight temperatures for some of us, particularly across | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Norfolk, maybe below freezing. Possibly some icy patches. For more | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
of us the temperatures are recovering. We start tomorrow quite | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
cold. There will be bright spells. Temperatures recovering. Some sunny | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
spells developing. A lot of cloud. Slightly milder direction for the | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
wind. In the afternoon, it looks largely dry and the late. `` dry and | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
bright. Temperatures of around nine Celsius for the start of next week. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
High pressure is across the region. That means cloudy conditions | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
continue. Not a lot going on. Much calmer. With enough cloud around, | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
most of us should be free from a frost. Back to Stuart. As far as the | :27:19. | :27:33. | |
Environment Agency is concerned, the tides are back to normal. It has | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
been a worrying few days but thankfully we have all come through | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
it alive and well. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:46. |