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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is all

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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

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programme... The fight to protect the city, but will efforts to stop

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the flood in Winchester affect other communities further upstream?

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And serious disruption for trains through the Thames Valley could

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continue for weeks. I would not want anybody to be in any dead that we

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face serious challenges running the railways without these signalling

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systems available. Also tonight, the cuts continue.

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Hampshire Police announce another 500 jobs are to go.

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And goal or no goal? How technology decided this ball crossed the line

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to give Saints success at Hull. The storms keep rolling in and once

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again gale forces winds and torrential rain have hit the south.

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The latest Atlantic storm swept through the region with winds

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reaching 96 miles an hour at the Needles. In many areas there was

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further misery as more rain led to more flooding. In Hampshire the

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River Itchen is threatening Winchester. The Environment Agency

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has partially dammed the river upstream near the M3. Its hoped that

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will slow the water and flood nearby fields instead, reducing the flow

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into the centre of the city where homes have already been flooded. Our

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reporter is live in the city this evening.

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It looks like the water is lapping at the house is behind you. Yes,

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absolutely, if you look behind me, the water here, part of the river.

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It is hard to believe that when we arrived at 11am, this was completely

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dry. The river is here. If you climb over here, over the defences, you

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can see the river has topped its banks and is flowing at a rate of

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about 15 tonnes per second. It is lapping over the first line of

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defence. The Navy put in this second line and they will create this area

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here which would be a reservoir. This will hold the water and

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hopefully, stop it passing to the other side of the street. Also, the

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river water are long here, and the trains that are popping up, so the

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water is lapping at doorsteps. `` the drains.

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The last time this mid`evil city was invaded was on the 12th century, and

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today, it was defended again from the river it sat on for generations.

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Over 100 Navy Rick `` recruits battled the driving rain as the

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river is finally burst its banks. Did you ever think it would get this

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far? No, but it has. If it goes further, I will not be happy. I am

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not leaving, we have got sandbags outside the door. The school was

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closed as the river carried 15 tonnes of water per second pass any

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given point. It has prompted the Environment Agency to take a

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proactive stance and last night, part of the M3 was cordoned off

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above the city. One tonne blocks of gravel were dropped into the channel

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to create a partial dam. As the river has slowed down underneath the

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motorway, the water has to go somewhere. This is where it is

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coming, onto the flood plains, the surrounding fields, but the problem

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is, just half a mile down the road is the reason eddie`macro village of

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Eastern. `` is the village of Eastern. We're on tenterhooks. It is

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already coming to the house in the cellar, so we are concerned if it

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comes any higher. If you live so close to this kind of water, it

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disturbs your sleep, yes. The Environment Agency has stressed

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there is no threat, its state`of`the`art motorboat will

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continue to monitor the river level. Engineers are monitoring this to

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make sure that we will not be increasing the flood risk of the

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stream. The water is still holding back, it could yet pour into the

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city. The water in the channel here, it is

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about six to eight weeks old, it has taken that long for the heavy rain

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to filter down and come down the basin of the river. The Environment

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Agency are working with people here to make sure the city doesn't go

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under, not least dead in the village where one of the farmers has

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volunteered his land to also help to save the city. We expect when we

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wake up tomorrow morning to see this whole area, as far as you can see,

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maybe two, three feet deep in water. We would have expected to see this

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flow coming up anyway, given the amount of rain we had in the last

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few days, but the water is further downstream and it is rising there

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are the moment. One of the striking things about this as when you look

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to the north of our patch, we look at Berkshire and homes close to the

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Thames. This is the first time that the city, Hampshire's capital has

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been threatened, so defending it is absolutely a priority for those in

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charge to. We are creating a reservoir at the other side of the

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M3 is that we can stop the water coming down on the river, and that

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will help, but it will not solve the whole problem. There are many other

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villages that have problems already, and I am afraid we are doing what we

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can, but there is a limit. The importance of what is going on here

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cannot really be underestimated. If you go down the reverend bit

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further, there are shops and businesses, and before that, the

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water as to pass through the old rail and through a tunnel, almost,

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and the brewery is, if this cat block is, it will pack up the river.

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`` and the worry is. Heavy rain falling on already

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saturated ground has led to more problems elsewhere in the region.

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Strong winds battered much of the coast and brought down trees. More

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than five thousand homes were without power. And upstream from

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Winchester, the village of Cheriton is anxiously waiting to see how high

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water levels will rise. This morning, the storms swept in

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from the west along the coast of Dorset as predicted. The only

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question, where the damage might be done will stop I can hardly open my

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eyes against the wind and the brain which is reaching its peak with

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gusts of up to 70 mph. The high wind soon brought trouble in nearby

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Hinton, Patrice came down on the busy a 35. `` where trees came down.

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A huge tree fell on this van. I was going easy, the next thing I knew, a

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tree came down in front of me. I hit on the brakes. The next thing, I'm

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going through it I closed my eyes. The branch just hit me, it smashed

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up the front of the van. This is where I am now. In villages east of

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Winchester like Cheriton, the high river levels are already flooding

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some homes and threatening others. Run`off from field is set to make

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the problem worse. The efforts to assist communities like this are

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being water needed from the police control centre where all of the

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emergency services, the Environment Agency and utility companies are

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working together. Lots of vulnerable people out there, people whose

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livelihoods could be shattered potentially by these recent events.

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We need to try to support these individuals and provide them with

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some reassurance, but also keep the road networks open to keep

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businesses able to operate as normal as possible. These are extreme

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circumstances, and our job is very much to support them. As well as the

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official help, many other communities to helping each other.

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This local farmer has noted the trails down a road that is supposed

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to be closed after a succession of drivers have ignored warning signs.

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I have pulled out several fans, a lorry yesterday, a car just now. The

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water is going into the air intake, they think they are in a diesel car

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and it is fine, but if the air intake is low, it goes into the

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hydraulics, and goodbye. That is it. But they just keep ignoring the

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signs. Today's store may have passed over, but resilience is the order of

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the day is this punishing winter continues its relentless advance.

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We will have all of the travel details shortly.

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And you can keep up to date with all the latest on how the weather is

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affecting you on your BBC Local radio station. And if you have been

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flooded or had property damaged by today's weather then you can let us

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know via email, Twitter or Facebook. All the details on screen for you

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now. Anti`terrorism officers are linking

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two letter bombs sent to army recruiting offices in Berkshire and

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Kent. Army bomb disposal crews were called to the office in St Mary's

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Butts in Reading yesterday afternoon. Officers say the packages

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were intended to cause injury. No other devices have been found.

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Still to come in this evening's South Today... More bad weather on

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the way? Alexis will have the forecast. Gusts of just under 100

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mph today, and another storm on the way. More details later in the

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programme. Police officers in Hampshire say

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they're deeply concerned about further cuts to the force. More than

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five hundred posts will be closed over the next ten years as the force

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saves twenty five million pounds from their budget. The Chief

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Constable of the force says he is worried about the impact on

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remaining staff but says Hampshire Police will still provide a good

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service to the public. The bobby on the beat. It's what the

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public say they want to see. But as Hampshire police face a further

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budget squeeze, front line staff will be cut. But the force hopes by

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working more closely with other agencies like councils and

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reorganising its management, the savings can be made with as little

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impact as possible. The public will be worried and concerned, and my

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staff will be worried and concerned, and the important thing is to give

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them a clear vision of how we get to this and protect those essential

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services for them, to keep them safe. And I'm confident that in two

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years time, we will still do a great job from the people of Hampshire and

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the Isle of Wight. But there is no question. Tough decisions have had

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to be made which will result in new ways of policing. Police stations

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moving into council buildings, more calls handled without officers being

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dispatched. It is the officers and civilian staff of Hampshire police

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that work in police stations like this across the county who would be

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most affected by the changes. In the last four years, anyone hasn't posts

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have closed, now there are proposals for another 500 anorak concerns

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about the impact that will have on those that remain. That could

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potentially place police officers that and 24/7 responding to

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emergencies, that could put them in a more dangerous place and likewise

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the public. Yes, we have had to adapt, but we have gone beyond the

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tipping point. Preventing crime and putting victims first will remain a

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priority in Hampshire, but it will be a considerably leaner force

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putting that into practice. The emergency services have been out

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in force across the region today to help towns and villages feeling the

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brunt of the weather. In the village of Shaw near Newbury in West

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Berkshire the Army joined the fight to hold back the flood waters.

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Around eighty homes have been affected, and the police say they

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will issue fines to motorists ignoring road closed signs.

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All afternoon, it has been a case of watching and waiting as the waters

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get ever closer. It is getting higher and higher and we are very

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worried and panicking and scared. It came underneath the house, we

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managed to get this board appear, and inside, you can see the water is

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already underneath the house. It is a matter of moving everything we can

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and then keeping our fingers crossed. Council staff are much in

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evidence today, but for some, there are rival is too late and anger is

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rising almost as the river. The buck is being passed to left, right and

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centre and nobody seems to be able to make a decision, and now it is

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too late, because there are thousands of tonnes of water in that

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river and it has now reached the banks, so we do not know how deep it

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will get. There is a two centimetre rise in the river which would mean

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that most properties internally could remain dry. With water and

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sewerage coming up from a low, using nearby troops to build a sandbag

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wall wasn't the answer. Sandbags can be very effective in some locations,

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but in some places, they can create a down and make it worse. Tonight,

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the police began fining motorists who ignored road closures as the

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water begins to rise. The water rising is just one concern with the

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people charged with making sure people stay safe. The concern is

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that children on their half term holidays will find the water too

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tempting and could be swept away if they get too close to these fast

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flowing rivers. Almost every railway route in the

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region has seen delays or cancellations. But by far the most

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critical problem is in the Thames Valley. Tonight there are

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suggestions that it might not be fixed for weeks. Our Transport

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Correspondent is here. Things have has got worse today.

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When a train company advises people not to travel by train, you know

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things are really bad. I want to show you a picture of a metal box.

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Here it is. It contains signalling equipment on the Great Western at

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Maidenhead, and it's not working. This isn't a flooding river, it's

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ground water bubbling up. Network Rail has no idea when this will be

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sorted out but it could take weeks. It means instead of running 25

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trains an hour each way, First Great Western can only run five. Remember

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the sea wall collapsing in Devon, and taking the railway line with it?

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The train company says that in terms of disruption, the problem at

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Maidenhead is very much worse. The fact that we have got the signalling

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out of use in such a critical part of the network is a massive issue,

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and I would not want anybody to be in any doubt that we face a very

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major challenge running the railways without this signalling available.

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Clearly a very serious problem And it is by no means the only problem

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on the railways. All our train operators have had

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disruption today. For hours there were no services west of Salisbury

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or west of Bournemouth. There were delays and cancellations around

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Southampton, and Portsmouth, and in West Sussex. They can be fixed. The

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Great Western in Berkshire is in a completely different league. And

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road closures too. So many I couldn't begin to list them. Dorset

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Police took the unprecedented step this afternoon of telling people not

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to travel at all. And tonight there are several main roads in Wiltshire

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that are only just about passable. Thank you. Get all the local

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information on your BBC local radio station.

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The Enterprise Zone at Lee`on`Solent is part of a key Government strategy

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to boost economic recovery. The aim is to create three and a half

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thousand jobs in the marine and aviation sectors over the next

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twelve years and has attracted seven million pounds of government

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support. It's an ambitious target, so you'd think they'd want to

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encourage as many firms as possible onto the site. But one boat company

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says it's been turned away because the plan is to get a developer to

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market a large part of the site. Marek Mamczur and Paul Horrocks at

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the site of what they hoped would be a thriving new business employing up

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to 15 people. They would renovate this disused hangar and slipway

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leading into the Solent, and open a boat storage facility plus chandlery

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and workshop. They started speaking with the Homes Communities Agency

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a year ago after seeing adverts offering commercial development

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opportunities at Daedalus for marine businesses. They commissioned plans

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and impressions of how their operation would look and hoped to

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open this spring. They also bought lifting equipment which they've

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stored on a car parking area they're renting on a short`term basis close

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to the hangar. They say so far they've spent more than ?50,000 on

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setting up the business. Mr Mamczur says although they hadn't received a

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written agreement, they were led to believe that would happen. There are

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asked to jump through hoops from the homes and community agency. We had

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preplanning applications with Gosport, we had all of her livery

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made, they actually told us at one point, that we could go out and

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celebrate, because it was in the bag for us. But Mr Mamczur says last

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month everything changed. We had a meeting with the Homes Communities

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Agency at their Bristol office where they told us their intention was to

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clear most of the businesses off the site and sell it to a developer. How

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do you feel about that? They were advertising one thing publicly, they

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wanted marina assessment, but behind closed doors, all they want to do is

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sell this entire area to a developer. In December another

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company, Sapphire Aviation, pulled out of Daedalus after 14 months

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there, saying they had "got their fingers burned". They'd restored

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three derelict hangars for cleaning and storing planes and say they had

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a non`binding agreement to lease more land. But then the agency let

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it to Fareham Borough Council, so Sapphire moved out with the loss of

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six jobs. The Homes Communities Agency told us the land will be used

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for a new innovation centre for start`up businesses, creating 150

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new jobs, and that Sapphire had been offered different plots, discounted

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accommodation and an extended lease on its current premises. In relation

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to Marek Mamczur's proposed boat yard business the agency told us...

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Mr Mamczur and Mr Horrocks say if their boat yard plan here is

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thwarted they'll consider taking legal action to recoup some of the

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?50,000 they've spent. Let's talk about sports technology

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now. Yes, you technology implemented in

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getting quick decisions. We will see it all in a moment.

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Southampton had been stuck in ninth place in the table for their last

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nine games, but finally managed to break free with a hard`earned

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success on Humberside. The result at Hull was the first time Saints had

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won back to back away games in the Premier League since 2001.

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A denied winter hall from Southampton to hold means a

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sparkling amateur football to warm the bones, but the Saints were to be

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awarded for their round`trip. Rickie Lambert made this early chance.

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Saint were let off when Shane Long hit the upright at the other end.

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The best of the chances throughout the evening. Jay Rodriguez also

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troubled the woodwork. Through the second half, the penalty area chaos

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with a technological intervention. Then there was this denial. Then a

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second effort triggered the legal decision system before Rickie

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Lambert fired home. The girl was the 13th of the club, a lucky omen. I

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wasn't sure, I guess the new technology proves it was my goal. I

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am happy to help the team, but most importantly we got the three points

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and it was very welcome. Some transfer news this evening,

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Bournemouth winger Josh McQuoid has joined League One side Peterborough

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on loan for the rest of the season. To the Winter Olympics in Sochi

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next, and Sussex skier Chemmy Alcott was understandably delighted with a

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top`20 finish in the women's downhill today. The 31`year`old has

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recently battled back from breaking her leg for a third time. Competing

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at her fourth Winter Games, Alcott's time was nearly two seconds off the

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pace of the winner. But having overcome adversity just to make the

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starting gate, the Hove skier was satisfied with her efforts, in

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finishing 19th. Every time I have come back from

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these like breaks it has been worth it, and a top 20 in the Olympics

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after what I have been through has been great justice, I'm so proud, I

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did not disappoint myself, I did not skate pretty, it is far from pretty,

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but I am so proud. Surrey batsman Kevin Pietersen was

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the only one of the South's cricketers to be snapped up, on the

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first day of the auction for this year's Indian Premier League.

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Pietersen went for ?880,000 to the Delhi Daredevils, the same team he

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played for last year. Sussex's Luke Wright, and former Hampshire

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all`rounder Dimi Mascarenas will go under the hammer again tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, Sussex coach Mark Robinson has today told the BBC that

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he will apply for the vacant job as England's new technical director.

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Andy Flower left the post after the winter tour of Australia.

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The weather has meant Great Britian's rowers, who are based at

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Caversham, will miss a trial in Lincolnshire this weekend. The event

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at Boston has been cancelled. Meanwhile, flooding at their

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training base has meant its been tricky getting the boats in and out

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of the water and even getting to and from the boathouse. The rowers have

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lost training days when the wind has been too strong, but mainly they've

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been able to stick to their schedule. I think the real problem

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is the selection period her people are really fighting for their

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seats. This is all starting there. People have their eye on the water,

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and there are certainly frustrations if you can get there, but on the big

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screen, the team is committed, no matter what the weather. We just

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hope it gets better soon. You think they would be in their

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element in the water! Obviously, they are not! Let's talk

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about the weather. Alexis has the forecast. Everybody keeps talking

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about the number of storms coming one after the other.

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Research suggests that there are unusually high sea surface

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temperatures in Indonesia and the West Pacific, which is affecting the

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balance in the atmosphere. The jet stream is not in its usual position

:24:20.:24:23.

and it is unusually strong, meaning the storms are coming in one after

:24:24.:24:26.

the other from the Atlantic. It's hard to predict the weather beyond a

:24:27.:24:31.

few days but it is looking like the storms in the coming weeks will be

:24:32.:24:38.

less intense. And there may be an indication of some calmer weather as

:24:39.:24:41.

we head into March but that is uncertain. It is all about the

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balance of the atmosphere, it is being affected by things happening

:24:49.:24:52.

across the globe. It will continue, I would tell you about the other

:24:53.:24:58.

storm in just a moment. Humour is still alive and well in

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Romsey. This picture was sent in by Kester Roberts. Heather Brooks

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captured a duck playing it safe in Birdham in West Sussex. And Mike

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West captured the rough sea at Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight.

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These are the wind speeds from this afternoon, 96 mph on the Isle of

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Wight. Inland areas saying up to 50, 60 mph. The wind will be strong

:25:28.:25:33.

overnight, but we expect some wintry showers also. To throw a spanner in

:25:34.:25:38.

the works, the risk of icy conditions. A weather warning has

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been issued by the Met Office. Temperatures falling rapidly. One,

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two Celsius in towns and cities with the risk of hail and sleep it for

:25:52.:25:59.

higher areas. `` hail and sleet. The rain, it will fall as rain with lows

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of three to four degrees. The risk of ice first thing tomorrow and

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overnight. These wintry showers continue tomorrow, but some sunshine

:26:11.:26:13.

and the wind will gradually ease during the day. A better end to the

:26:14.:26:20.

day with six to eight Celsius. Tomorrow night, the showers will

:26:21.:26:24.

ease and the wind will ease and the window leaves, which means

:26:25.:26:27.

temperatures under clear skies will fall rapidly to freezing in the

:26:28.:26:32.

countryside, perhaps. So the risk of icy conditions again where there is

:26:33.:26:36.

standing water. Temperatures down to freezing. The wind will increase

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first thing on Friday and we expect another deeper area of low pressure

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from the Atlantic. The Met Office has chewed a yellow warning for

:26:47.:26:51.

strong winds and heavy rain. The wind could reach 70 to 80 mph on

:26:52.:26:59.

exposed coasts. 50 to 60 mph inland. And Friday, Saturday, it could have

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another inch of rain which will add to the flooding. This is the outlook

:27:05.:27:08.

for the rest of the week, some showers tomorrow, and the falling as

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sleet and hail in some areas. Some thunder. Friday, the slow pressure

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from the Atlantic and a strong wind and heavy rain. The wind will peak

:27:20.:27:25.

in the night`time. We always want to tell your story on

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the programme, so you can get in touch with us anyway you like.

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Particularly if you have been affected by the floods or the

:27:37.:27:41.

weather, let us know. Thank you for watching, say save this evening,

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good night. `` stay safe.

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