07/02/2014 Look East - East

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Hello, I'm Shaun Peel. The Environment Agency is warning of

more bad weather on the way, after heavy rain caused havoc on the roads

today. The army helped to rescue stranded motorists in Essex and a

number of schools across the region were closed. The ground is already

saturated as the rain came in the space of just a few hours.

This is the playing field at a primary school, one of 15 schools

forced to close today in Essex. The school is very, very wet on the

field and there is a picnic table on the field and it is literally

covered in water. The centre of finishing field was submerged. Only

four by fours could make and in Bury Saint Edmunds, gardens and some

houses were flooded. The ferry service pumped them out. Water had

come up so quick we could not fill the sandbags quick enough to put up

against the doors and it was just so quick and I have never seen it come

up so quickly that before. Police have been urging drivers not to go

into deep water but many ignored the advice. Fire crews rescued an

84`year`old man whose is disabled. His car was stuck in a foot of

water. Earlier, a lorry hold another car to safety. This car bought like

a cork as a tractor went by. I thought he might have stopped and

offered a hand but he did not. He went past and the ways send me

bobbing across the water. Eventually, she was pulled to safety

by a passer`by. She was in a dangerous spot. Nobody stopped to

help. They just keep coming past fast, don't they? You have seen

them. It is terrible. Eventually, everybody stranded was rescued.

This region has obviously not been affected as badly as the south west

but earlier I asked Norman Robinson from the Environment Agency how

concerned he was about the situation here. I think compared to other

parts of the country, we have been very lucky. We are just seen the

back of these storms that have really battered the south`west and

are just working their way up South and East and really we have seen a

very intense rainfall event last night but a very limited one. We did

see half of February's rainfall fall in a very short time but we have

coped very well. The biggest problem we have had is that the rainfall

systems have struggled to get the rain away. We have seen areas where

we have had with significant servers water flowing. You will know that

the Environment Agency has that criticism another part of the agency

MAG country for acting too late in some instances. Could that be the

case here? `` parts of the country. We are confident that we know what

is betting on and we have issued the warning is that we need to. The

servers water problems were cleared away. Effectively, we are getting

away quite likely. Our hearts go out to anybody who has experienced

flooding and are looking at the south`west and trying to help them.

Any final advice? If you have got any concerns, give us a call. Check

online for the flood warnings. We think the weather is coming down was

about. As I say, the key thing will be to watch what happens over the

next week or two weeks because the ground is wet. We will keep

everybody will thirst and I am sure your weather forecast will let

everybody know what is coming. `` well versed.

A carer from Essex says he's been left feeling abandoned and alone

after the re`organisation of mental health services. He got in touch

with BBC Look East after we highlighted what some see as a

crisis in mental health care. Kim Riley reports.

Still shows me his wedding album. Be happy Day 43 years ago, when he

married Vivian, just 18. They are still together but besides a serious

heart condition, Vivian suffers from severe depression. She has twice

attempted suicide. Phil says the withdrawal last year of the

community psychiatric nurse who provided wonderful support to them

both his Lib Dem breast. It is very difficult to get her motivated to do

anything. She is in bed at the moment because she had a bad night.

It means that I am now on 24`hour suicide watch. We have been cast

adrift. Do you feel that the entire responsibility is on you keep your

wife alive? Very much so I think I put on my e`mail to you that she has

to be only lucky ones to achieve ends. I have to be lucky every time.

We raised the couple's plight with the trust running mental health

services in North Essex. It says being a carer can be very stressful.

Phil has a deep sadness for Vivian, for what she has lost, and for their

retirement together being so different from the one they had

hoped for. With their relatives hundreds of miles away, he says a

little more help and support would make all the difference.

One man's died and another's in a critical condition after a crash

between two cars and a lorry in Suffolk. It happened on the A140

near Stuston, during the evening rush hour. The injured man has been

taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. The road's still closed

while police carry out an investigation.

A fire service sniffer dog has found another dog alive in the rubble

after a gas explosion in Clacton yesterday. Rex, who works for

Hertfordshire Fire Service, found four`year`old Carryad. She was freed

from the rubble and Fire crews dug her out of the rubble and she was

taken to the vet for a check`up. Scientists have found footprints on

a Norfolk beach that were probably made by a family walking on the sand

nearly a million years ago,. They're among the oldest footprints in the

world, thought to be five people including children. And the

scientists at Happisburgh had only days to record their find before the

evidence was washed away by the sea. We are obviously Homo sapiens and

then Neanderthals came before us. Before that was another species,

which we have evidence of here also. Before that, the people who made

these footprints, were probably a species different from that.

Let's take a look at the weather now with Julie.

Five millimetres of rain expected quite wildly but `` widely but we

cannot rule out more. As that rain pushes away, we should see the winds

easing down just a touch. Lows of around six office. A blustery start

to tomorrow but largely dry. Some skilful sunshine but I think as we

head towards the afternoon, we will start to see more showers pushing in

from the south`west and the wind is picking up to a strong

south`westerly, perhaps gale`force at times around the coasts, with

gusts of 60 mph. The windy end to the day with further sours banding

together. Some on the heavy side and those showers continuing through

into Sunday. In a moment, people have your national forecast. I will

finish with the Outlook. Further heavy showers on Sunday and

hopefully those strong winds eventually easing down. Hopefully

less windy on Monday, Hello again. Nelson's flag ship, HMS

victory, was launched in 1765 and you can still see it today in

Portsmouth Harbour. But through the whole of that history, you will

struggle to find a wetter winter than this one across southern

England. Scotland has already been in the record books. Their December

was the wettest since standardised records began about 100 years ago.

There's plenty more where that came from. Another storm is knocking on

the door and will affect the whole of Western Europe, steaming in from

the Atlantic. Giving us a steady stream of rain in most places.

Severe gales ahead of that rain, gusts up to 60 mph. Battering the

coasts once again. For the North, across the Scottish mountains yet

more snow. It's really piling up here at the moment. A cold night for

northern Scotland, elsewhere the temperature is holding up quite

well. Tomorrow it is wind that we have to focus on. That