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Hello. In the next 30 minutes, the Cambridge academic goodbye Highland | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
stag is making progress. We have a special report from the scene of the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
incident in Scotland. The stag ran out of the gate and God someone as | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
they came out. A woman from Cambridge who was | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
critically injured when she was gored by a Highland stag is tonight | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
making progress in hospital. It is unbelievable. It has got great sea | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
views, and the seller only wants ?40,000. Dr Kate Stone | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
and the writer Lou Reed Bernier pays tribute to his friend and neighbour, | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
the acclaimed novelist Jane Elizabeth Howard. | :00:44. | :00:56. | |
First tonight, a woman from Cambridgeshire was critically | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
injured when she was gored by a Highland stag is recovering in | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
hospital. Dr Kate Stone suffered a life`threatening injury to her neck | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
when the stag bolted and struck her. Tonight, Dr Stone is in an induced | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
coma. Staff at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow say they are | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
"pleased" with the progress she is making. She was on holiday in the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Scottish Highlands when the incident took place. Our reporter Alex Dunlop | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
has spent the day in the area piecing together what happened. He's | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
in Glasgow now. Doctors have carried out an | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
operation on Kate Stone's throat. They say tonight her condition is | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
serious but stable. They have placed in a medically induced coma so that | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
hopefully her chattier, her windpipe, can heal relatively | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
undisturbed. I spent the day at the village in the West of Scotland, and | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
found a community shocked by what appear to have been a freak | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
accident. The Gateway Kate Stone was gored by a stag. It's hoofprints | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
where altered were still clearly visible. Doctor Stone had been | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
enjoying a short break in the Highlands with friends and had | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
joined a party at this in. Afterwards, a local musician invited | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
them back to his home for a nightcap. That is when they discover | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
the animal. It seems the stag had wandered into this garden and become | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
disorientated, unable to find its way out because of this rather high | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
deer proof fence. When Kate Stone and her friends returned from a | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
party later that night, they walked through the Gateway, the stag became | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
scared, and charged at her. The antlers pierced her neck and chest. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Doctor Stone was airlifted to hospital in Glasgow, where where | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
doctors operated on her windpipe. In the high summer, they are by mail. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Local people are appalled by what happens. This woman lives next door. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
The stag ran out of the gate and good someone and they came out, | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
which was unbelievable. Someone described it as a one in in the lean | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
event. It is, it is. I think the gear was trapped and just tried to | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
run out of the gate. I also heard that everyone else in the group had | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
a head torches on, and she did not. The 44`year`old research engineer | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
from Cambridge, an expert in microelectronics, recently showed | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
off her latest project to the BBC. Following Monday's accident, | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
technology company, based in the, told us they had received | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
overwhelming support from friends around the world. Read stags are | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
common in this part of the Scottish Highlands, and are not very shy. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Attacks on humans, however, are virtually unheard of. This man is a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
local shepherd, and know the area well. A macro the stags go around in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
open ground. You are safe enough that they won't attack you there. It | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
is when they are cornered in small Gardens and corners that they might | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
attack you. Get out of the way. This part of Scotland is an important | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
tourist area, and locals are keen to reassure visitors than what happened | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
to Kate Stone was a very rare event, albeit one that has shocked the | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
whole community. One worrying aspect of this, I'm afraid, is that the | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
antlers of the stag may have pierced Kate Stone's spinal area. Her | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
sister, who has been at her bedside in Glasgow, says that may leave her | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
paralysed. But it is very early days yet. Doctors say she is making good | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
progress. They should have a fuller assessment when they bring out of | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the medically induced coma in a view days. Thank you very much. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
House prices are reaching the levels not seen since the financial crash | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
of 2008. But on the coast of Suffolk, you can find a real | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
bargain. Estate agents are marketing a seaside home at Easton Bavents, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
near Southwold, with fine sea views. The problem is that it is in danger | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
of falling off a cliff. We are coming into the kitchen, and it is | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
quite a compact house. It is a semidetached by the sea, on the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
market for a guide price of 25 to ?50,000. And then, the other window, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the water tower, a lovely view, but it might be short term. From in | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
estate agent's point of view, it is a challenge. We have been instructed | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
to sell it. We're going to put it to public auction in February, but we | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
clearly have to realise it may have a short life because of coastal | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
erosion. This leads into two bedrooms, the bathroom, all off a | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
landing. The owner went bankrupt, and the house is being sold to pay | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
off creditors. The question is, if you buy this house, what do you get? | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
What happens if it does fall into the sea? The ANSI is not entirely | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
clear. But it appears that the District Council would pay ?10,000 | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
towards the cost of demolition. It would also look favourably on any | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
planning application to build another house inland. What kind of | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
individual do you think might buy this? A good risk taker. They are | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
about and then see the opportunity, and I think probably somebody who | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
knows property well may enjoy a view month or a few years here, but they | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
will have to demolish the house as a condition of planning consent for a | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
new dwelling. When the weather takes a turn for the worse, you can see | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
why the cliffs here might be eroding. This man spent seven years | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
building his own sea defences here. He thinks the semidetached for sale | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
could be a good buy. If the person who buys it is genuine in their | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
endeavour and they get the cooperation of the Council, they | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
could be on a very good buy. The house goes up for sale next month, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
and how long it survives after that is anyone's gas. The semidetached at | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the end of this lane could be a bargain, or a nightmare. | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
Detectives have released a CCTV image after an armed robbery in | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Colchester. Two men escaped with a three`figure sum of cash from the | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Corals betting shop in the Willows last night. One was armed with a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
knife, the other is thought to have been carrying a handgun wrapped in a | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
plastic bag. This time last year, Matt Adkins | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
from Essex was at a pretty low ebb. On benefits and unemployed, he'd | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
tried everything to find a job. Finally, in desperation, he stood on | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
a busy roundabout, holding a placard appealing for work. Since that | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
moment, he's never looked back. Matt Adkins was back on a busy | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
roundabout at Basildon beneath the rumbling A127 this morning, but for | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
a very different reason. This was him last April, desperate for | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
someone to give him a leg up on to the employment ladder. It did the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
trick, and now he is into landscape gardening at this roundabout and | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
many others which she looked after. You walk around, you knock on doors, | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
you go into shops, go around industrial estates. I have got no | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
qualifications, so no one would touch me with a barge pole. So I sat | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
down and said to my wife, that's it, I'm going to make a sign and | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
stand on the roundabout and see what happens. Sums in his backyard idea | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
as no more than a publicity stunt, but it was, he says, motivated by | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
desperation, not a desire for headlines. You do everything normal | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
and you just get overlooked. If you do some thing out of the blue, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
people take notice. He got several immediate opposite work, but this | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
man, who runs a local cleaning firm, got in touch a few days later after | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
he saw the story in the newspaper. He created a post with a mix of | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
responsibilities and then tapped into Matt's talent for landscaping, | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
and promotion followed to manage that side of the business. I felt if | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
this individual had the courage to stand on a roundabout publicly | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
asking for a job, then it told me a little bit about his character. All | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
right, Matt? Just to update you. When I saw Matt, I felt that was a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
real shame that someone had to do that just to receive a job. But the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
reality was, if he did not, I wouldn't be sitting here today | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
talking to you about him. The man is amazing. I've got such admiration | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
for him. Not very nice being on benefits. You have nothing, you do | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
nothing, so I lost my Will a long time ago and this has enabled me to | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
get it back. This time last year, Matt looked at in so little hope, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
but this time, he feels nothing but optimism for the future. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Millions of people go down with food poisoning each year. Chickens in | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
particular carry lots of bacteria that are harmful to humans if food | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
isn't cooked properly. But scientists in Norwich are now trying | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
to find a way of attacking those bacteria at source. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Chickens all carry certain strains of bacteria in their stomach. In | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
most cases, it does them no harm, but if we ingested, in poorly | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
prepared meat, it cannot then lead to food poisoning. Scientists here | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
in Norwich think they have found a way of neutralising their bad | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
bacteria. It involves one of these, a probiotic for chickens. At the inn | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
's Institute of food research, they have isolated a friendly bacteria | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
which we carry in our gut, and so do poultry. Scientists have discovered | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
that it has the ability to overpower bad bacteria, and if given to | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
chickens, in a probiotic, it could make their meat for Sabre for human | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
consumption. In the way that we provide for our own health, we are | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
trained to provide for animals. This bacteria we are working with was | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
only Isa later from the gut of the animal. We are just trying to | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
multiply it in large numbers and then give it to the animal at an | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
early stage of their growth. Food poisoning costs the NHS and industry | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
millions. The food standards as there were agency estimate five and | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
a half million people go down with it every year. Camp I live actor, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
the most common bug, accounts for 20,000 hospital admissions alone, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
and also 100 deaths. The research can also help the poultry industry. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Many farms use antibiotics to control disease, but many bacteria | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
are becoming resistant. A probiotic alternative could help stem the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
problem. For scientists, the other problem is how they actually see the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
probiotic to chickens. There are a number of different ways. We can | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
either add it to the drinking water that poultry use, all we can add it | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
to the poultry feed. Indeed, we can also actually spray of into the | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
environment. Trials are now underway to test the probiotic and real | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
poultry. If it works, it would be a major breakthrough in the fight | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
against poisoning. Still to come: What the sporting | :12:04. | :12:22. | |
calendar has in store for 2014. And the weekend weather forecast, on a | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
day when we saw plenty of wintry weather. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
The acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard was being remembered | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
today by her friends and neighbours in Suffolk. In recent years, the | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
writer lived in Bungay. She died there yesterday at the age of 90. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Today, the best`selling author Louis de Bernieres paid his own tribute, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
saying she inspired him to move to the area. Our chief reporter Kim | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Riley has spent the day in Bungay, gathering memories of one of our | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
most talented writers. For more than 20 years since she | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
moved out of London, this market town has been home to Jane Howard. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Here, the author of 14 novels and three works of nonfiction continued | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
writing to the very end. Married three times, most famously to fellow | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
author Kingsley Amis, she never won a major literary prize. But her most | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
famous works, how about a middle`class English family around | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
the time of World War II, were hugely popular, and made it to TV | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
and radio. A young Hugh Bonneville, one of the rising stars. Just two | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
months ago at this restaurant near her home, a launch party was held | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
for her fifth novel in the series. I was utterly charmed by her. I | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
thought she was the most remarkable lady. She was great fun. She did | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
not, for me, come across as particularly frail. She had a great | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
commerce sparkly sense of humour. It is thanks to Jane Howard that this | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
old Rectory is home to novelist Louis de Bernieres. When she heard I | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
was looking for a house in Sussex near to my family, she said, there | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
is a wonderful house near here. Why do you not go and look at it? So I | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
did. That is why I am here. She always said she was my honorary | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
aunt. My own aunts died, and she appointed herself my aunt. And you | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
have that in one of the books here. I have, an inscription in one of her | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
books. To my nephew Louis, from aunt Jane. You will miss your Jane. Very | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
much. Jane Howard's daughter Nicola told | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
me her mother had been devastated by the death of her brother Colin last | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
month. She had become physically very frail, but was mentally strong. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
She spent three hours per day every day writing, and was halfway through | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
her next novel. A prolific writer more and by her many friends. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
You can find a full obituary of Elizabeth Jane Howard on the BBC | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
website. Let's move on to sport, and it's a | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
busy weekend ahead, starting with the rugby tonight. It's football | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
tomorrow dominated by the FA Cup. Here's Tom. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
It's that time again ` round three of the FA Cup. Some say the | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
competition's unique. Others admit they could do without it. However, | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
it remains one of the highlights of the footballing calendar. We have | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
six sides still in it. Here are the ties. Stevenage, who're bottom of | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
League One, travel to Doncaster. In`form Ipswich are at home. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Peterborough with a potential banana skin away to non`league | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Kidderminster. It's Norwich`Fulham. Southend are at home, with MK Dons | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
away at last year's winners Wigan. The 1`1 Premier League affair there | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
sees Fulham back at Carrow Road. I think it is a good distraction. It | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
is a club competition that everyone looks forward to, we are playing | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
against top`class opposition, which makes the Tasker even tougher, but | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
we are at home, so I think it is a good distraction. There isn't | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
anybody that doesn't enjoy the feel of the FA Cup. | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Certainly not every manager agrees, including Norwich's former boss Paul | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
Lambert. He believes the majority of top`flight clubs would rather not | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
have the distraction, and that "survival" is the priority. The | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
debate's certainly raging. It's something you want to try and | :16:31. | :16:42. | |
progress into. The cup has a special meaning to everybody, and in our | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
game, everybody wants to win. The FA Cup is a big competition. I think it | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
is a unique competition. Everyone in world football, you always get the | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
cup, and nothing is like what we've got in our country. | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
Rob Butler is BBC Radio Norfolk's football pundit. He joins us now. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Rob, does the FA Cup still matter? Of course. As a Norwich fan growing | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
up, I had great memories of two semifinals in 1989 and 1992. We lost | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
both, sadly, but those quarterfinal replay nights when we got through | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
with some of the most magical night there I have ever experienced, and | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
have still not been tops. Going back a long way, in the 1959 cup run for | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Norwich, when the whole history of the club is built on the FA Cup. It | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
is a real shame that Paul Lambert, of all people, has decided to | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
degrade it, almost, with his comments, but as a fan, the FA Cup | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
means everything. And FA Cup win at Norwich would be great. And for | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
smaller clubs, the chance to earn an upset, and make some money. Yes, we | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
know too much about that. Last year, at Norwich, Luton town gamely | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
and one. The first time in non`league team has beaten a Premier | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
league team. That was very embarrassing. Yesterday, Chris | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
Hughton said it was the low point of his Norwich career. Also, fans will | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
remember when we thrashed Sutton United. The certain players were | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
clapped off by the Norwich fans that day, and it is great to see MK dons | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
having a crack, and Wigan Athletic, the FA Cup holders, and | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
Kidderminster go to Peter Rook, which is a potential banana skin as | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
well. Thank you very much for that. You can hear more on the BBC Radio | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
one but their word Norfolk broadcast tomorrow. Andy King has been in | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
temporary charge at Northampton since the sacking of Aydi Boothroyd, | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
before Christmas. And you can hear more from Rob and | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Still no word from Northampton on their next manager. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
In rugby, Northampton play tonight against one of their Premiership | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
rivals, Harlequins. It's second versus fourth at Franklin's Gardens. | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Saints could go top with victory. So they're going for the title. We | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
have football clubs in promotion and relegation battles. Much to look | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
forward to in 2014. Golf's Ryder Cup. Football's World Cup and of | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
course the Commonwealth Games. 17 sports on show in Glasgow, including | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
gymnastics and shooting. Both have athletes from our region looking to | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
impress this summer. They are on a roll at this gym club. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
British men's champions for years in a row, led by man of the moment Max | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Whitlock. 2014 is a big year for Macs and gymnastics. Medals at the | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Europeans, the worlds, and the Commonwealth games are there for the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
taking. The Commonwealth games are a great competition for us. In the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
public eye, it is massive. We just want to go out there and enjoy the | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
petition. That is what I want to do. And hopefully I can qualify for | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
the Commonwealth games, because it would be an amazing experience. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
Believe it or not, Max and his training planners are out of shape. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Motivated for the year ahead, but carrying a few extra pounds. We | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
trained a little bit in between Christmas and New Year, and I could | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
see they were struggling. Gymnastics is one of 17 sports at the | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Another sport on the programme | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
requires a little movement as possible, apart from the trigger | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
finger. From Basildon to Cambridge, where to Britain's best shooters set | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
their sights on Glasgow. They are team`mates at this club, but in | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Glasgow, they could be rivals. The rest will play for England, Jenny | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
for Wales. I'm pretty sure it will not be much of a rivalry, but at the | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
end of the day, both of us will come off the podium with smiles on our | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
faces. Whatever happens, there will be a hug at the end. Jenny has | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
already been selected, while the rest, 17, is on target to reach her | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
first major competition and shoot against a training partner. I am | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
going there for one reason. It will be my first time on the podium. Last | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
games, I was forth. This time I want to be on the podium. Ultimately, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
having someone who can shoot and at every training session, someone who | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
has that push that just makes you shoot that little bit better, and | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
one that little bit more, going into a competition with the mindset that | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
you have trained with, you can't ask for anything better. For our leading | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
athletes, they have to put a disappointing 12 months behind them. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Robbie Grabarz's initial aim is the indoor Championships in March. In | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the same month, Formula one returns, with Red Bull once again favourites | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
to dominate. There are few who think England's football team will do that | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
in Brazil this summer. As for England's believe good cricket | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
captain Alastair Cook, will he still be in charge in June when Sri Lanka | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
arrive? One thing is sure, Milton Keynes golfer Ian Poulter wants to | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
spend his summer at Gleneagles, hoping to be Europe's Ryder Cup | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
talismans again. And as a footnote to that, worth a | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
quick glance at the top of the Football Conference. Luton and | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
Cambridge seem to be going head`to`head in the race to be | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
promoted back to the Football League. The Hatters are unbeaten in | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
18 matches. The U's start the new year protecting a 100% home record. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Now, severe weather is threatening the weekend's sporting calendar. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
Keep an eye on the BBC Sport website for news of cancellation, plus, of | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
course, your local BBC Radio station. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
Now, dare I ask from. Lots of things to look forward to in 2014. What | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
you're looking forward to? It would be lovely to see Luton or Cambridge | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
get back into the league. But I am a big golf not, and the Ryder Cup is | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
very special. Ian Poulter, who has been unbeaten in his last couple of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Ryder Cup matches, to win at Gleneagles will be magic. And your | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
New Year 's resolution is to tweet more. Seriously! Follow me. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Now, of course, you've seen parts of the country are being battered by | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
storms and high tides. But it looks as though our region has got away | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
with it, this time. In our region, the Environment Agency has issued a | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
number of flood warnings, which means flooding is expected, and | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
flood alerts, which means flooding is possible. Be prepared. Our | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
reporter Neil Bradford is at North Bank near Peterborough now. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
Good evening. Tonight, the water levels near this sluice have dropped | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
quite significantly, but the road remains closed only for access and | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
is likely to do so for some time. Earlier today, the road, which runs | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
to beat Brad, was submerged. This was one of two areas where flood | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
warnings remain in place. The other is across the county border in | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
Northamptonshire. That's at a caravan park which is prone to | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
flooding. As you can see, the levels of the river there are quite high, | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
but no damage to property yet. Elsewhere across the region, there | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
are nine flood alerts in place, which means flooding is possible. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
And it is not only flooding. We have had a number of hailstorms across | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
the region today? Yes, that is right. They viewer sent us this | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
footage of what he described as a massive hailstorm, which in just a | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
few minutes, left his Road in South Cambridgeshire in a carpet of | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
white, and another viewer from Westley is not only got his camera | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
out, but also his tape measure. He says the hailstones varied in size, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
but some were as big as two centimetres in diameter. Of course, | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
here in the open and land, it is the wind that is causing the problems | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
tonight. If you are concerned about flooding, however, you can get the | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
latest information on the Environment Agency website for their | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
flood line. The screen. Thank you very much. All kinds of weather to | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
content with today. What can we expect this weekend? | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
Still unsettled, and the Atlantic continue to throw all it can at the | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
British Isles. We have got off more likely than other parts of the | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
country, but today we have had rain, hail, strong wind, blowing in from | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the south`west, and costs between 40 and 50 miles an hour. Let's look at | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the showers and where they have affected the region. Where there are | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
bright colours, you can see how heavy they were, but there are less | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
of them around. So although there is still a risk of show this evening | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
and overnight, they will be less frequent will stop also, the wind | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
will become much lighter through the night. Still breezy by the end of | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
the night, but more of a light to moderate south`westerly by dawn. In | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
terms of temperature, the Atlantic brings in slightly milder air. For | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
some of us, we might get down to around three Celsius, but at most, | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
four or five degrees, keeping us free of the frost. The next area of | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
rain you can see on the chart is moving in to start Saturday. This is | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
the pressure pattern for the weekend. You can see low`pressure on | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Saturday. The next low winds itself up in the Atlantic to bring some wet | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
and windy weather later on on Sunday. So although it will not rain | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
all the time, expect some wet and windy weather right through the | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
weekend. Having said that, it will not be as windy through tomorrow, | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
but there will be quite a lot of rain to content with through the | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
morning. Some of it is on the heavy side. The good news is, it looked as | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
if it were clear into the afternoon, so for some of us, we cease to be | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
drier and brighter, particularly across the west by the end of the | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
day. But in coastal part of Essex and Suffolk, you may well hang on to | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
some wet and cloudy conditions until much later, before it gradually | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
clears away, and then we get clearing skies for tomorrow night. | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
That means it will be a widespread frost, and there is a chance of icy | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
patches where there has been alien rain. This is our pressure pattern | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
for Sunday. Huge area of low`pressure filling almost the | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
whole north Atlantic. It will not as much impact as was previously | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
thought, but it will bring rain and strong winds on Sunday. Having said | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
that, much of the daily 's like this. Try and bright weather. We | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
start next week still unsettled, so just be aware of the frost tomorrow | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
night. Everything thrown in for good measure. | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
Have a good weekend. Goodbye. | :27:11. | :27:14. |