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That's it for now. We're back with the late news

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And Monday bring outbreaks of rain. We do have a Met Office yellow

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warning of rain in force. Good evening. The South West has borne

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the brunt of yet another Atlantic storm, but it may be the last for

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now. At the latest count 7,000 households were still without

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electricity after gusts measuring 80 miles an hour were recorded off

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Dorset. The reopening of the railway linking Devon and Cornwall may be

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delayed after further damage where the line is severed at Dawlish.

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Here's John Danks. Hammered by the sea. Shipping containers designed to

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protect the sea wall at Dawlish left broken and bent. Another powerful

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storm was the last thing engineers here needed. Today, there were no

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trains running south of Exeter and services in Cornwall were suspended

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for much of the day due to flooding on lines. In Kingsand, there was

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blue sky, a peaceful picture far at odds with these scenes from last

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night. And this was the result of the onslaught of large waves.

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Another large hole has opened up in the base. All the reinforcement that

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were put in place have done their job. It's all still standing and,

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yeah, everyone's doing all they can and the locals are running around

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and it is a brilliant community spirit here. Builders hope to

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stabilise the clock tower and institute building by pumping

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concrete around its base tomorrow. High winds brought trees down, block

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roads. This one took down part of the wall of a primary school in

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Plymouth, narrowly avoiding the roof of a nearby property. Meanwhile four

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people had to be rescued from their cars at Slapton Sands after breaking

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waves made the road impassable. So another storm has passed through the

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region, people are once again left clearing up and hoping the weather

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will give them a break. Two severe flood warnings remain in force on

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the Somerset Levels. The Prime Minister defended his handling of

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the flood crisis on a visit to the South West this week. Today the

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shadow Environment Secretary was in Penzance where the promenade has

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been badly damaged. David Cameron pledged to help people affected, but

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Maria Eagle argues climate change is having an impact and ministers need

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take it more seriously. I think this is a real wake up call for the

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Government generally to look at making sure we are more resilient to

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these increasingly volatile weather events that seem to be happening

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more frequently. Our reporter Chris Eakin has been examining the

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aftermath of last night's storm on Portland. We're on the sea defence

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at the end of Chesil Beach. You take a look over, just get a sense of the

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drop down to the beach. Those stones at the bottom were picked up by the

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waves and they were thrown right up on to the defence and they pounded

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down here like a jack hammer, breaking up this surface. Look at it

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all along here. Let's just take a look at this. All of this thrown by

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the power of the sea and when you get to the corner, you see the big

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pile of stones that almost look like the council have dumped them here.

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And we haven't finished yet, because if you come up here and look down

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the road, down at the bottom you may just be able to make out by the sand

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bags on the edge of the pavement there are more of these stones. They

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have been bowled right down there by the power of the sea. Sport and

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Torquay United went down at Chesterfield 3`1. At Home Park

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Plymouth Argyle also lost ` it was 4`0 to York City there. But better

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news for Exeter who won 3`2 at Southend.

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Plymouth Argyle also lost ` it was 4`0 to In rugby the meet between

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Plymouth Albion and Jersey was postponed. But Exeter Chiefs'

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sell`out match against Bath went ahead. But they lost 23`27. And the

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Cornish Pirates' were due to play London Welsh tomorrow, but that has

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had to be put back too. And now time for a slightly more pleasant weather

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forecast with Holly. Good evening. Tonight is looking fairly quiet. But

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that means it is going to get cold. We have a Met Office yellow warning

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of ice that will form on untreated surfaces, creating a hazard on the

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roads. So we had a few showers around earlier, they have largely

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died down, leaving clear spells and light winds. That's allowed that

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frost and ice to form. Lows in many places down to low single figures or

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freezing in some spots. So it is a cold but bright start to tomorrow

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morning. Plenty of sunny spells through the day, but I think cloud

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will tend to thicken from the west as we head through the afternoon,

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with a few showers pushing in later. The winds will tend to pick up as

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well. Highs around eight or nine degrees. Now Sunday night and Monday

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bring outbreaks of rain. We do have a Met Office yellow warning of rain

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in force. We want to know your flooding stories next week. Get in

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touch with us in the usual way. From the weekend team, have a very good

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evening. Hello, good evening, finally some

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quieter weather on the way for the British Isles for the remainder of

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this weekend, also somewhat for the week ahead. More on that in a

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moment. Tonight, the biggest story is the winds continuing to ease

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Into the small hours of Sunday, the winds will be light. Late showers

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for Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. A lot of

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groundwater around elsewhere with a wide spread rural frost predicted we

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are looking at the prospect of patches of ice on Sunday. There is a

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lot of sunshine to come throughout the day. With light winds it will

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feel pleasant. Highs to Scotland and Northern Ireland of six or seven. To

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the south, eight, nine or ten in the south-east of England. To the west,

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showers will brush into Northern Ireland through the afternoon. High

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pressure, as we move from Sunday into Monday, gives way to an area of

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low pressure couldn't coming in from the Atlantic. This is nothing like

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the bull's-eye

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