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end of the week? No. Had Russia heading our way and wet and windy | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
again. That is all Hello and welcome to Look East. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
In the programme tonight: when it comes to this relief effort, money | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
is no checked. We will spend what is necessary to help communities get | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
through this difficult time. The Government says the Prime | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Minister's promise will apply to victims of the tidal surge too. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The former X`Factor judge Tulisa appears in court accused of beating | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
up a blogger at the V Festival. More misery for Norwich as they fall | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
victim to two late goals at West Ham. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
And the fans aren't happy. We're just at a loss and I think we will | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
end up rock bottom in the league at the end of the season. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And all change at the museum. Why Darwin's beetles are on the move. | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
First tonight, the government announces that victims of the tidal | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
surge on the east coast will be entitled to compensation just like | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
householders on the Somerset Levels and the Thames Valley. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
This is exactly what David Cameron said yesterday, "money is no | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
object." He also promised a grant of up to ?5,000 for the victims of | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
flooding to help them rebuild their homes. And then today, after the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
flooding dominated Prime Minister's Questions, it emerged the promise of | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
financial help will be backdated to include the whole winter. And | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
crucially for us, that means that people who were flooded during the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
tidal surge in December should qualify. The details now from Andrew | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
Sinclair at Westminster. The flood emergency in the south`west and the | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Thames Valley is dominating politics at Westminster. The assumption that | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
was being made today was that this package of measures was just for | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
that part of the country, but this afternoon at a Downing Street | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
briefing, I asked the prime Minister's official spokesman, what | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
is the criteria for this money? What about those affected along the east | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
coast to have seen their homes flooded? The official spokesman said | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
to me, this scheme has been backdated to the start of winter. In | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
other words, those who were affected by the December storm surge will | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
qualify. Two months on, they are still clearing up along the quayside | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
at Wells on the north Norfolk coast. All the properties here were flooded | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
during the storm surge and they should now all be able to claim | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
money to make their homes and businesses safer. One of the most | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
arresting images of that night was this, and from the owners today, I | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
welcome. It is a first`class idea. If it works, great. Maybe be small | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
print will spoil it, but an unqualified answer is yes, that is | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
great. The Prime Minister came to visit back in December but since | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
then he has had to look at a lot more flood damage. We must improve | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
our resilience to such weather. Anyone whose property was flooded in | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the storm surge will be able to claim up to ?5,000 to install flood | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
defences. You can do some quite important work to make your home or | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
your premises more secure, whether that is fitting a flood God, putting | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
protection over air vents or putting bends down toilets to prevent water | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
coming up through the sewers. Firms may also be able to claim back on | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
VAT and tax and there will be help for farmers as well. The government | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
is working hard to help those who have experienced problems. It is not | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
clear if homes which were destroyed in the storm will be eligible for | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
any money and there are still concerns about whether the region | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
will get any extra sea defences. A lot of questions remain tonight but | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
it looks as if more money is coming our way. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
So, as you said, Andrew, a lot of questions tonight. Do we have any | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
details yet? No, the details will be worked out in the weeks to come. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
What we know is the money is coming from an emergency contingency fund. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
They had to have it in operation within the next week or so said that | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
people can start putting in claims. Downing Street making it very clear | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
that the ?5,000 you get will not be for a new kitchen is over, it will | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
be primarily and only for people to install some kind of flood defence | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
measure like a gate or some kind of special cupboard to go over the taps | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
or the toilet. They are also saying that people will have to put in a | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
claim for up to ?5,000, not the whole ?5,000. Putting a claim and | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
they will look at it. The other question is, how much is this going | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
cost? Some people have said it could cost up to ?40 million. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
Meanwhile, it's been another dreadful day weather`wise. Rain and | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
high winds have swept across the region with predictable results. Kim | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Riley is at Finchingfield in Essex. Kim. If I had been standing here a | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
few days ago, I would have been up to my waist in water. The water is | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
high but not as high as it was. There has been strong winds and a | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
lot of rain today, bringing down trees around the saffron Walden area | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
and a power line was down as well for some time. Queen Elizabeth | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Bridge has been closed, and Ipswich was gridlocked when the Orwell | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Bridge was deadlocked `` was closed. That opened have been to gain an | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
hour ago. There are many power cuts and power shortages as well. In | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Ipswich, the parks were closed for some time this afternoon for public | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
safety reasons. Back in her six, I went to a village this morning where | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
they feel they have been forgotten in their battle against the flood | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
water. In low`lying law worth near Braley, they are worried about what | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
the next few days will bring. The problem is that they are surrounded | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
by low`lying bricks and they all meet here on this bridge. This river | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
meets the tide from the River Crouch and that follows with serious | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
flooding. Peter showed me the brook behind his home. The water level low | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
this morning but all too regularly it over spilled into gardens and | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
homes. Sometimes we are getting flooded three or four times a year | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
now. We have had for `` we have had for flood close calls already this | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
year. We cannot get insurance, it devalues the property, we spend a | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
lot of money having to repair it. We are not living like normal people | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
and they are doing nothing about it. Neighbours say a heavy downpour and | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
a spring tide all too easily turn Church Road into a river. We appeal | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
to Essex county council and our district Council and nobody takes | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
any notice. Nobody thinks it is as bad as it really is down here. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Looking at it now, you would think, no problem. Yes, but the rain and | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
wind are coming in. This will be a different place tomorrow. Local | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
people say the Brooks and drainage channels need to be properly | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
maintained and they fear new developments will make a bad | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
situation worse. I talked to Essex county council about the situation | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
he at role with and they said they have been aware for some time about | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the long`standing problems in the village and they are continuing to | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
work with the environment agency and partners to try to tackle that and | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
other flooding issues across the county. As I say, here in flinching | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
field, things really are not too bad tonight. We are being warned by the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
environment agency though that things do not look too happy come | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Friday. So where did that rainfall come | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
from? Jules is here to explain. This is the system responsible for this | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
afternoon's wet weather and this is the radar picture showing the rain. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
The green highlights the heaviest downpours, around five to seven | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
millimetres in places, so another quarter of an inch. And accompanied | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
by strong to gale force winds. These are the strongest gusts up to about | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
5pm. The Met office had issued a yellow | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
warning for more heavy rain and more strong winds on Friday. I will be | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
back later in the programme with all the details. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Look East has discovered that nine whistle blowers have come forward to | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
make complaints about Colchester Hospital. A hotline was set up at | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the hospital in April. A freedom of information request also revealed | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
that since 2010, three people have been dismissed or resigned for | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
bullying or harassment. Two more disciplinary hearings will take | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
place soon. The East of England Ambulance Trust | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
is joining forces with the UEA to try to recruit more staff. A | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Paramedic Science degree course, which takes three years, will start | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
at the university in September. The ambulance service says it | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
desperately needs to recruit more paramedics. But the degree still | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
needs to be approved. The pop star and former X Factor | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
judge, Tulisa, has appeared in court charged with assault. Chelmsford | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Magistrates heard that the alleged incident took place at the V | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Festival last summer. Gareth George was in court. An unusual amount of | :10:04. | :10:19. | |
press interest and chance said Crown Court `` Chan said Crown Court this | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
morning. Tulisa arrived in a blacked out car and as the cameras clicked, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
she walked into court along with a co`defendant. Tulisa sang with a pop | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
group and has also been a judge on the X factor. She was in court this | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
morning to face a charge of assault by beating. She is accused of | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
assaulting a man at the B Festival in Chelmsford in August last year. | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
That was the day Beyonce headlined. She pleaded not guilty. Her | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
co`defendant is accused of harassing the same man and also pleaded not | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
guilty. There is a third defendant, a 38`year`old woman from | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Manchester, but she failed to appear this morning and a warrant was | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
issued for her arrest. Tulisa and Gareth Barry were released on | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
unconditional bail. The photographers were waiting once | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
again when she left court. She will be back here at Chelmsford | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
magistrates Court in May to face trial. | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
Still to come, the Canaries Gold grab `` goal drought goes on. | :11:47. | :11:58. | |
First, the perils of moving house when there are 4 million different | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
things to pack. Faulty overhead lines, a problem | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
with the signals, points failure. If you use the trains, you have heard | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
the excuses. And according to the railway industry, one answer is to | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
train hundreds of apprentices. In one of the first initiatives of its | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
kind, a rail maintenance firm in Colchester has teamed up with the | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
local college to recruit unemployed young people to fill the roles. And | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
on this occasion, at least ten apprenticeships have led on to ten | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
jobs. As with any lift, you need to | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
appoint somebody in charge of the left who will give you instructions | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
add you are working as a team. Raking into the jobs market can be | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
tough for young people, with the unemployment rate under 25 at three | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
times the adult rate. But these youngsters are on track for a career | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
looking after Hutton 's railways. They applied and enrolled for a | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
course at Colchester Institute and all three `` all ten were offered a | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
job by network rail when they completed it. I really enjoy it. I | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
like to learn new things, putting the effort new skills. Theoretically | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
I could work at any rail company now. I preferred being outside, so I | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
like the Arab law type of life. I suppose for working environment for | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
me, it suits me down to the ground, really. The college course was | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
designed by the lads's employer and its plans to take on more. We need | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
more people because of the growth. Network rail is continually | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
upgrading the UK network to cope with demand from passengers and | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
there are new lines as well. The apprentices will continue to attend | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
Colchester Institute one day a week as part of this apprenticeship. For | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
all of these people to be successful and be offered an apprenticeship | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
position is unprecedented. Hopefully we have helped them with the course, | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
because the employer is looking for a work ethic and that is what they | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
have found. Track engineers can earn ?35,000 a year or more. Commuters | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
fed up with line failures must only hope that the new Colchester | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
apprentices improve standards of service in the decades to come. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Football and it was another bad night for Norwich City, battling to | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
stay clear of the relegation zone in the Premier League. For most of the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
game, it looked like a good point away from home at West Ham. 0`0 with | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
just a few minutes to go, then it all went wrong. Two late goals and | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
more pressure on Chris Hughton. They can match man city but not `` | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Norwich's Premier league survival could ultimately be decided by | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
nights like these. They were level pegging in the table, each with | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
their own issues, just two points from safety. Norwich's big problem | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
is finishing. Last night highlighted how their lack of killer instinct is | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
costing them dear. For 80 minutes, they pounded the penalty area but | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
they also faced a goalkeeper having one of those nights. He was equal to | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
anything and everything. What an opportunity! All to reflect chances | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
squandered. Typically, as the clock ticked, the tables turned, brutally | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
for Chris Halton and his team. As the game opened up, West Ham took | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
the lead, James Collins invading his marker to take the lead. Norwich | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
were looking for an equaliser but Lady luck had already lost their | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
cause `` left their cause. Another game gone. We only have ourselves to | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
blame. It is a game and anybody seeing the game would have seen the | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
chances we had, particularly away from home, and we have to capitalise | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
on them. Otherwise, you are heaping problems on yourself and with the | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
way West Ham played, direct and physical, you have got to be able to | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
match that. With just one win in their last 11 games, the pressure on | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
Norwich's manager and his style is becoming `` is growing day on day. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
He is too defensive. You look the man and you think, he is to `` the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
motivation is not there. For me, off. At least Chris Eaton knows he | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
is not the only manager in the mire. But the question is still there and | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
no one knows when the call could be made. | :17:16. | :17:16. | |
Meanwhile in League One, Colchester lost away at Port Vale. Doug Loft | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
scored twice for the home side. The first after 15 minutes, the next in | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
a frosty second half. It was the U's first match in 24 days because of | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
various postponements. The defeat puts Colchester United 14th in the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
table. Now here's one of those jobs you | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
probably wouldn't want. Pack up four million delicate objects, ranging in | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
size from a tiny beetle to the skeleton of a whale. That's the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
challenge facing workers at Cambridge's Museum of Zoology. The | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
museum is to close for more than two years to get ready for an ?18 | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
million revamp. Not that they've raised all the money yet. Louise | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
Hubball has this report. Building can be stressful experience | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
at the of times. `` moving can be. Even more so when your cargo is an | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
extinct river dolphin. There are millions of exhibit a is, from a | :18:12. | :18:23. | |
great talk to a Tasmanian tiger. Now all are being packed up as part of a | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
transformation at Cambridge's University `` Museum of zoology. You | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
could use the word mammoth task but some of the specimens are much | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
bigger than mammoths. We have until September to move them all into | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
storage and that is not something museums do every day. We do not pack | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
up our whole collections but this new developments mean we will have | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
eager stores and people can go on guided tour is around the store | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
rooms and see many of the objects as they are being preserved, | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
researched. That will mean access to treasure is not normally on display, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
many of them connected to Charles Darwin. He set sail for America | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
aboard the Beagle in 1831. He collected many species including | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
these finches that formed the basis of his ground`breaking theory of | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
revolution. Now the museum itself is evolving. This is what it will look | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
like in 2016. An impressive ?18 million interactive space telling | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
the story behind the artefact. We still need an extra ?3 million to | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
fully realise our ambition. This is a grand project. It is very | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
ambitious but we have the collections to match our ambition. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
The revamps museum will aim not just to be about the past. It will be | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
part of a wider campus and will draw on current research from world | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
experts based here who in turn will use the collections to try to | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
predict the future of life on Earth. But in the short term, even the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
building contract as RB witched by their latest project. I museum | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
moving by `` moving with the times in an ever`changing world. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Back now to our lead story ` the weather and the threat of flooding. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Parts of our region are notoriously flat and low`lying, yet seem to have | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
escaped without floods at all. It's thanks to a device in the village of | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Denver which dates back 400 years. The technology may be different but | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
the effect is still the same. When it comes to harnessing the | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
power of water and making sure that the Fens stays drained, this place | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
is absolutely crucial. It's called Denver Sluice and it's out in the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
middle of nowhere. Complex engineering here keeps tens of | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
thousands of acres dry. Ben Bland went to find out how it all works. | :20:52. | :21:03. | |
The Denver Sluice, doing what King Canute famously failed to do, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
literally holding back the tide and protecting this region from | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
flooding. Without it? We would be talking about a scenario of flooded | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
friends and Cambridge and Ely would be inundated with water. This is one | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
of the sluice gates and it works in two ways. If the river level is high | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
because of rainfall, the gates will open, allowing water to fly out to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
sea. If the tide is high and coming in, the gates will close and that | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
stops water flowing that way to Cambridge and Ely. Without this | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
sluice, tens of thousands of homes in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk would | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
be flooded, along with thousands of acres of farmland. But the | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
conditions are so extreme at the moment one sluice alone isn't enough | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
because even at low tide, the water on this side is high enough that the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
gates at estate shot to stop it overwhelming and already high river | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
further inland. While it protects Cambridge and Ely from the tide, it | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
means the river water cannot flow out to sea, and that is where the | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
second sluice comes in. It diverts the water into a relief channel, a | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
ten mile piece of water where it can be stored and then let out to sea in | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
Kings Lynn. Is it nearing capacity? No, we have got another two more | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
metres of water we could store in there. Once it goes over that, we | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
have storage reservoirs that the water can go into and be stored | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
there until the levels go back down. They are to protect down a market, | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Watlington and any other towns on the relief channel. There has been a | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
sluice here since the mid`1600 and now it can train three Olympics | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
looming pulls worth of water every minute. It is managed 24 hours a | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
day. It can also be used in times of drought, something which is unlikely | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
to be needed any time seen. Let's get the weather now. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
The radar shows and narrow band of rain that rattled through fairly | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
quickly this afternoon. Five to seven millimetres in places with | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
winds gusting between 50 and 70 mph. There are showers following in | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
behind and they will rattle through as well because it will stay windy | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
overnight. Some of those showers could be wintry with sleet and is `` | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
sleet and hail mixed in. Hope really we should see the ins `` the winds | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
eased down a touch as we head through the night, with temperatures | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
potentially down as low as freezing in rural areas. We could just see | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
patchy ice in isolated areas as well. Tomorrow, that weather front | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
moves away but then this one starts pushing in from the south`west. This | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
is set to bring us more wet and windy weather on Friday. Tomorrow, | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
we are in between the two systems and it is not too bad. The isobars | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
are quite close together so it will be blustery but not as bad as this | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
afternoon. We will see a scattering of showers but not for everybody. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
They could be wintry in places. Some decent sunny spells with a decent | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
five or six Celsius and we finished the day largely fine. Taking a look | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
at the next few days, Friday could be a dry start but then more rain | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
pushing in from the south`west. There is a yellow warning in place | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
from the Met office for that rain to be on the heavy side, up to about | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
ten millimetres for us, so another half an inch. Although we will start | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
off with moderate to fresh winds, as the brain pulled away, that is when | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
we will see the strongest winds, up to 50 or 60 mph or more on the | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
coast. We could hold onto those strong winds into Saturday which | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
looks very windy to start off with, with wintry showers. Sunday, a bit | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
of uncertainty but largely financed right with lighter winds. `` largely | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
fine and dry. Frost could be a problem Thursday night. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Let's go back to our top story now and the heavy rain and winds which | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
have lashed the region this afternoon. Winds have been gusting | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
at 70 miles per hour, more rain is on the way and a schoolteacher has | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
been telling us about how she had a lucky escape when her car plunged | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
into a swollen river. Mike Liggins has the latest. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
Jenny was on the road close to long now fit in Suffolk and her car | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
skidded and plunged down a 12 foot embankment into a ruck. A local man | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
helped to rescue Jenny as her car filled with floodwater. The water | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
came up to the windscreen, I heard the water coming into the fit well, | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
I turned my light on on the inside of the car and I saw it and I | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
started screaming. These storms have put sea defences on the Suffolk | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
coast at risk. This sea wall is close to being breached. If it | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
fails, more than 600 acres of farmland will be flooded. With more | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
heavy rain this afternoon, the environment agency is keeping a | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
close eye on river levels. As the rain comes through today, it will | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
top the system is up again. The 72 hour forecast shows us perhaps | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
having another 20 millimetres of rain, filling up the system even | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
more. Trees have been blowing down across the region. This is a big | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
eucalyptus on the ground and Norwich. These pictures were taken | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
in Lowestoft. Driving conditions have in difficult. The Orwell Bridge | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
and the QE2 bridge at Dartford were closed for several hours this | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
afternoon. Both have since reopened. Back here, Jenny wants to see the | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
speed limit reduced. She was lucky to escape to tell the tale. | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
Kim mentioned some power cuts earlier in the programme. UK power | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
has just called us to say the problems have been fixed at rain in | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
Suffolk and there were also more than 1000 homes cut off near Bury | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
Saint Edmunds. Most are now back on with 150 still cut off. Good night. | :27:42. | :27:43. |