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6pm. It's goodbye from me and on BBC One, we join our teams where you | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
are. Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
East. Coming up in the next 30 minutes, heavy rain and strong winds | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
` the worst coastal tidal surge for 60 years is expected to hit the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
region within the hour. We'll be live in King's Lynn. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Six months after it was stripped of Children's Services over safety | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
fears Bedford Hospital is back in business. | :00:31. | :00:52. | |
First tonight, King's Lynn is bracing itself for the worst coastal | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
tidal surge for 60 years. It will hit the town within the hour before | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
moving around the coast. But over the course of tonight, heavy rain | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
and gusts of up to 60 or 70 miles per hour are expected to batter | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
other parts of the region. Mike Cartwright is in King's Lynn now. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
They knew this was coming. Are they ready? Well, they said they were, | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
but have a look at this. This is just starting to happen. This is | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
floodwater seeping in under these huge floodgates which have been shut | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
tight and screwed tight. This is literally whooping, the town is that | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
way `` this is literally happening, the town is that way. The | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Environment Agency says once the water pushes up against it, they | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
will close tight. They are expecting it to rise 30 cms up that gate. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
They've been putting the flood protection into action all along the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
quayside here. They've been putting up wooden boards, putting up metal | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
struts and making homes and businesses safe. This is the first | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
place where this tidal surge is going to strike. It seems to be | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
striking right now across the East Coast. Have a look over here. This | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
has risen dramatically since we've been on ire. `` on air. These are | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
sluice gates. They are saying these are part of their flood defences and | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
they should hold. This is the quayside. Literally two minutes ago | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
we could see the edge of the quayside. Now it has completely | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
gone. Cars have been taken away. Let me bring you over here. That is the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
quayside now. Literally in the last minute that has is now completely | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
underwater. This is a tidal river. It flows down the business beach. In | :02:41. | :02:54. | |
that `` down to Wisbech. We are expect people who've got cars parked | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
on the front to put them to safe positions and for people to stay | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
away from the seafront tonight. The sea is a very dangerous thing. We | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
recommend people keep away from the coast. Mike, the issues in King's | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Lynn are clear, but there've been strong winds across the rest of the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
region. What effect have they had today? We are getting reports of | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
trees down on A roads across the region and in residential areas too. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
This was a tree that fell on a car in Cambridge city centre today. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
People having to put the branches off. We are also getting reports of | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
a double`decker blown over north of Peterborough. No reports of any | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
injuries. Lorries being blown off the road. While driving here I saw | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
one lorry blown off near Ely. We are getting reports from First Capital | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Connect. Winds have caused problems with power lines and there are | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
delays to trains from King's Cross to Peterborough. You can tune in to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
your local radio stations. Mike, thank you. We'll join him again for | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
our late news at 10. 25pm and Alex Dolan will have a full forecast. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
In other news, six months after it was stripped of its children's | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
services because of fears for patient safety, Bedford Hospital | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
says it's almost back on track. Most paediatric services were shut down | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
in the summer, sparking protests from parents forced to take their | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
children elsewhere for treatment. So how's the hospital turning things | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
around? Ben Bland reports. They've never met but Lauren, Victor and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Joshua all have something in common. While Bedford Hospital's Children's | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Services were suspended all three had to be taken elsewhere for | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
treatment. Now many of the services have returned. The service wouldn't | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
have come back to this level if it wasn't safe. We do have a big | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
inspection in February to ensure that what we've said we are doing we | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
are doing. They will want to see what our pathways look like, want to | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
see whether children coming here for a short stay, do they end up coming | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
back to another hospital? In April junior doctors complained they | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
weren't getting enough support from senior doctors and feared it was | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
putting patients at risk. From August the hospital suspended a lot | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
of its children's care, including overnight stays, planned surgery and | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
A services. Some of those returned in September. GPs could refer | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
patients for treatment. Today they were extended today. The children's | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
River bank unit is now open 24 hours a day and more services have | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
returned. But there are some important exceptions. Children | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
needing care lasting more than a day will be taken to other hospitals, as | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
will those under 16 being picked up by a 999 ambulance. For the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
majority, 95% of those people who use the River bank unit, they won't | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
see any difference. There'll be a difference for those young people | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
and children who needed to stay beyond the 23`hour stay. Many | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
parents will be glad to see Children's Services restored for | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
now, but bosses are reviewing how and where all healthcare is provided | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
across Bedfordshire, so the long`term future of children's care | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
at the hospital remains uncertain. CCTV pictures have emerged of the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
moment a man brandished a hammer and robbed a convenience store in | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
Northamptonshire. It happened just before closing time at the | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Costcutter in Broadlands in Desborough ten days ago. The man | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
took the day's takings from the till and a quantity of cigarettes. The | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
shop worker was injured during the attack. Police are appealing for | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
witnesses. Detectives investigating the murder | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
of Sharif Demirsay in Bedfordshire have made another arrest. The | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
65`year`old grandfather died at his house in Vineyard Way in Kempston in | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
May. A 17`year`old man was arrested this morning at Hartwell Drive in | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Kempston on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary at Mr | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Demirsay's home. Four other teenagers have already been charged | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
with murder and will stand trial in February. | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
Pensioners who can afford to heat their homes without the winter fuel | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
allowance are being asked to donate it this year to help families in | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
need. The request comes from the Citizen's Advice Bureau and City | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
Food Bank in Cambridge. The allowance, which amounts to anything | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
between ?100 and ?300 depending on circumstances, is given out to | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
everyone born before 5th January, 1952. The charities say that 16% of | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
people in Cambridge alone live in so`called fuel poverty. And for many | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
it can be the choice between heating or eating. This report from Emma | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
Baugh. It's the busiest time of the year for the food bank, helping up | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
to a thousand people in just one month. Those in food poverty are | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
often in fuel poverty, and,000 charities are coming up `` and now | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
charities are coming up with new ways to help those they feed. The | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
food bank has been helping feed people for four years but now they | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
want to help people heat their homes. They are asking people who | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
can afford to to give up their ?200 winter fuel payment. It will help | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
people in the coldest winter months. We do feel there's people who might | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
want to give their fuel allowance. They don't need it themselves but | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
may be wondering how to pass it on to the people that really need it. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
We are hoping to be that bridge for those that don't have things that | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
don't need it to give it to the people that really haven't got that | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
and have no way to produce that. The Citizens Advice Bureau has been | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
giving general guidance on money matters for 75 years, but now what | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
they do here is changing. We've had people coming to us for advice on | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
how to manage their debts. Now people are coming to us for advice | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
on how to put food on the table that evening. It really is quite a | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
desperate situation. But do people living locally think it is a good | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
idea? I think it is justified for people to keep their money. On the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
other hand, if you can afford it, it is probably a very good idea to | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
donate it to that cause. If they've got tonnes of money anyway, so they | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
could help us poorer ones. I think it is alright those that have got | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
money. But those that haven't, but will they give it up? Charities are | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
now identifying who is in genuine fuel crisis so they don't have to | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
choose between heating and eating. More than ?1 billion could be spent | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
on transport and housing in the Cambridge area. The Government says | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
it will approve plans to allow local authorities in the area to keep a | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
bigger share of tax receipts, which will be used to fund infrastructure | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
projects. The Chancellor told MPs the details were still being worked | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
on, but said they would make a big difference. I think it's a classic | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
example of a good local authority and local MPs working with the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
national Government to secure a long`term plan that will help jobs | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
and housing be created in that incredibly important city. | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Andrew Sinclair is on his way back from Westminster. Andrew, how will | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
this all work? It is a rather complicated idea but put simply, it | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
looks as if the councils will be allowed to keep some of the minute | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
which they collect in taxes and use it specifically for developing | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
transport and housing projects. Several other authorities in the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
country do this but it looks as if the Cambridge scheme will be unique, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
with authorities in the greater Cambridge area getting special | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
powers over planning and getting ?1 billion or perhaps more to play | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
with. Why Cambridge? The Government says it is an important business | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
growth area. The thinking is if you improve the infrastructure you will | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
grow the economy. Political parties in the Cambridge area are excited | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
about this tonight. There is even talk of using some of the money to | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
develop an underground railway system. There were hints today about | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
further investment in this region weren't there? Yes. This is still | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
some way off in the future and it could be affected by the next | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
election. The Government talked about wanting to set up kwooif | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
quantum research centres in the UK. We have a specialism in quantum | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
research in Cambridge, so they might be good candidates to get one of | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
these centres. The Government wanted to establish a clab rative space | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
programme, giving money to companies involved in the space race. We have | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
several companies that already do that. It seems as though we've had | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
lots of announcements about this region in the last few days. The A | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
14 yesterday. Anything else today? Well, one other big one, there is | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
going to be a regional tax break for regional theatres. That will go down | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
well in our region, which often feels they've lost out to London | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
theatres. Research shows that in London the Government spends ?69 per | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
head on the arts. Out of London it is just ?4`60. Andrew, thank you. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
A row is brewing in Bishop's Stortford over plans for more than | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
2,000 homes to the north of the town. This afternoon more than 200 | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
people turned up at a meeting to protest at the application. | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
Campaigners say the development will be the biggest Bishop's Stortford | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
has seen in 30 years. Bishop's Stortford, like almost every town | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
and city in our region, needs to build more houses. But the thorny | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
question as always is where. The prospect of a housing shortage being | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
filled by building over 2,000 houses on this open countryside is one | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
which horrifies local residents. I think I could say they were being | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
uxtd we've had the development in the 1970s, St Michael's Mead in the | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
1980s and now this. It is ruining the town as a market town. And it is | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
the impact of traffic not just on country roads but on Bishop's | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Stortford's historic town centre which worries residents. This | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
afternoon of 200 people attended this meeting, with some airing their | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
concerns via video link and in person. In this these days when | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
people are demanding joined up thinking, this application lacks | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
just that. East Hertshire District Council is recommending this | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
application be approved, and says the town has almost become a victim | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
of its own success. Developers will often say that hertz fir generally | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
and certainly Bishop's Stortford are areas that they do see as favourable | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
for development. Bishop's Stortford is very well located in that | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
respect. The M11, Stansted, good rail links as well. But because of | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
that we want to ensure that development is managed and therefore | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
it brings along the facilities and the infrastructure that goes with | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
it. George Osborne said today, if we want more people to own their own | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
home, we need to build more homes. The council will decide tonight | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
whether Bishop's Stortford will play its part in solving the housing | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
shortage by building new houses here. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
A waste recycling plant in Cambridgeshire which broke down 15 | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
months ago is finally up and running again. The facility at Waterbeach | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
was built to save the county millions of pounds by cutting down | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
the amount of black bin waste. The company which runs the plant has | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
been held responsible for the increase in landfill tax incurred by | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
the county whilst the machine was out of action. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Later in the programme Alex Dolan will have that all`important weather | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
forecast, but now it's back to Stewart and Susie | :15:03. | :15:03. | |
walking off with the match ball. Norwich will be relieved they won't | :15:04. | :15:03. | |
see him again until April. Still to come: The News of the storm | :15:04. | :15:20. | |
surges with Alex. We will also have the story of the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Essex school and the missing time capsule. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
All this week we've been meeting the people on the short list to become | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the BBC East Unsung Sporting Hero. We've already met two people who | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
coach netball. Tonight, it's the turn of gymnastics. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Brenda Hughes has devoted more than 30 years to a gymnastics club in | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Northampton which caters for children with special needs. And her | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
commitment has had amazing results. A big stretch, Sophie. That's it. | :15:50. | :16:03. | |
It's difficult to say how many gymnasts render has guided over the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
years, but after 30 years of war maps it must run into the thousands. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
You get older and you think, will I give it up? But so long as your | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
brain is on the ball and your body can cope, it keeps you active and | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
alert and it fills my life out. I find it hard to miss it. Brenda is | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
the heart and soul of Northampton 's Lings Forum Gymnastic Club, the only | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
place which caters for special needs children is locally. She is an | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
ambassador of gymnastics. She loves the sport and has a passion which is | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
evident in the way she coaches and the relationship she has with | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
parents and gymnasts. 14`year`old Eddie learned to point her toes and | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
take the brunt `` plunge with Brenda and has her coach for the amazing | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
display at the Olympics. I got five gold medals thanks to her and I had | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
all the confidence from Brenda. 22 years ago, after I had my third | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
daughter and she was down syndrome, I started a branch of this and we | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
are the only one in the county, and only two in East Midlands, that have | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
gymnasts with disabilities. It is her skill that working with girls | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
with all abilities which stands out. Her commitment to gymnastics in | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Northamptonshire is huge. Describe how it felt when you realised you | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
had been short listed? It was a big surprise. It knocked me for six | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
because I am not the sort of people that is in the front line for | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
anything. I organise in the background. She is wonderful and | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
helped me with nearly everything. She is really special and a big part | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
of my life. She always tells you to be happy and try your hardest. | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Brenda 's club is a happy club, small `` full of smiles: `` full of | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
smiles, colour and opportunity. We'll be announcing the winner | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
tomorrow night. There are 200 buildings which are officially | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
listed as being "at risk" across the East, according to English Heritage. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
And tonight on BBC One, there's a programme about the campaigners | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
hoping to save some of them. It's called Restoring England's | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Heritage. It features several important buildings in this region | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
and it's presented by John Sergeant. When I spoke to him about the | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
programme, he told me why he thinks people are now so interested in | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
saving buildings which had been allowed to fall apart for years. | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
I think people realise that, if you are not careful, the buildings up | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
can go and lost forever. If you don't do work of this sort, the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
places you visit all look the same. The same shops on the high street, | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
the same buildings and the stain `` same materials, but if you restore | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
one of these old buildings, you can attract visitors more easily. You | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
have seen different things in our part of the world, starting with | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
something from the Second World War? Yes, the radar station in | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
Suffolk built in 1937 and the first proper radar station in the world. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Although the Germans didn't know that at the time, the network of | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
radar stations, starting with board seat, would be the key factor in us | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
winning the battle of Britain. Rhetorically something like that | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
takes effort and money? Yes, they have worked for many years and they | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
still haven't got it right because there is a lot of money involved and | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
you can't expect to get much money from people who will then come to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
visit. So you need money from English Heritage and the not refund. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
I think is worth it. `` the lottery fund. The little gem in great | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
Yarmouth? The Winter Gardens. What a terrific building that is. Crystal | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Palace started the craze for these buildings made of cast iron and | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
plate glass and then every town wanted one, particularly a seaside | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
resort like great Yarmouth. But they found one in Torquay which had | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
already been built. In 1903, it was packed up and put onto barges and | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
re`erected in great Yarmouth. If the restoration goes according to plan, | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
it is the sort of fat `` the sort of thing that could attract visitors? | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
The plan is for it to be made into a Winter Gardens again so it will have | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
lots of plants, exotic plants and the Royal horticultural Society will | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
be involved so you can't say better than that. It must be a delight for | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
you to go around and see so many different things? And what gets you | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
going is the volunteers because without them you don't get a | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
restoration project. Also, you think how interesting it is that Saint | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
Mary 's is an old church in Clophill and not used for 150 years. They | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
will restore most of it but they will also build lodges, | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
accommodation for visitors. So, give it a new use if you can. Thank you | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
for your company. A couple of weeks ago, we told you | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
about a junior school in Essex which had buried a time capsule 25 years | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
ago. The only problem was, when they came to dig it up, they couldn't | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
find it. You can imagine, everybody at | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Writtle Junior School near Chelmsford was very disappointed. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
This report from Mike Liggins. In October, pupils, former pupils | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
and staff gathered to celebrate 25 years of the school. They thought it | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
would be fun to dig up a capsule buried in 1988. We all had to think | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
or make something to put into the Time Capsule. It had a first and | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
second class stamp in it because I remember thinking recently it would | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
be interesting to see what they were. They started digging and they | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
kept digging, but no sign of the capsule. Before the school grounds | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
became a muddy heap they stopped digging. Retail heritage were called | :22:37. | :22:52. | |
and they threw everything at the problem. A super`duper metal | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
detector and Olivia helped out with divining rods and, guess what? They | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
found the capsule? They are incredible. Really intelligent. They | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
always cross over and you think, what will they do? The findings of | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
the detector were conformed `` confirmed by the dowsing rods. Dug | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
it up and low and behold! That is what we had. The children were | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
really inquisitive to find out what had been put in there. Now we can | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
have a look at the contents, pack them up and rebury them with a new | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Time Capsule. In the capsule, was a copy of the Daily Telegraph, a train | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
ticket, a stamp and a Star Wars toy. The capsule is being reburied with | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
the new items in the New Year. Perhaps a map and a very big sign | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
saying where might be a very good idea! | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Back to our top story and the tidal surge. Last time we spoke to Debbie | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
she was being told to leave the pub. Have you left now? | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Yes, the water came over the key and hour and a half earlier than | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
expected. There is already five feet of water there and the road behind | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
me, the main road, has three feet of water. People behind me have been | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
evacuated from the pub because the electricity has gone off and the | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
whole town is on flood alert. It could be a lot worse here than | :24:35. | :24:35. | |
expected. Thank you very much. | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
That is the situation in Wales. Alex is here. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Thank you. We have had a deepening area of low pressure bringing strong | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
winds across the region. 72 mph gusts recorded at Wattisham. Coastal | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
flooding has already caused problems in Wales. `` Wells. | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
A bulge of water is being pushed towards the coast line in strong | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
onshore winds. Of course, it is coinciding with high tides and that | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
is where the risk becomes highest. If we have a reminder of when the | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
high tides are. Right the way through the evening. It does not | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
mean when flooding can occur as there may be a delay. Further down | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the coast, you can see high tides over the next few hours into the | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
early hours. It will also get very cold tonight | :25:43. | :25:57. | |
because the weather front has brought in lots of cold arctic air. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
For many of us temperatures will fall below freezing. We didn't have | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
a lot of rainfall earlier but it brings the risk of icy patches and | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
the risk of a frost. The winds will ease this evening and overnight. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Remaining windy across the North Norfolk coast but not as windy as | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
today. Into tomorrow morning, we start clear and bright but bitterly | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
cold. Temperatures are not expected to get higher than three or four | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Celsius tomorrow. We will see some sunshine. Wind coming from a | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
north`westerly direction. Breezy around the coast but a moderate wind | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
for most. Dry into the afternoon with dry and sunny spells to come. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
High pressure builds backing so the cloud comes back. Cold on Friday but | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
temperatures recovering. The wind will be lighter and we may well see | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
bright and sunny spells but as we get to the beginning of next week, | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
temperatures declined just `` temperatures climb to double | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
figures. With cloud around, temperatures will not be quite so | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
low. With any flooding concerns, here is the flat line number. | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
And you will be back on the late bulletin tonight. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
Please don't go anywhere to film anything tonight, but if you get | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
some good pictures, we would love to see them. Good night. | :27:43. | :27:46. |