:00:24. > :00:29.Good evening all. Leah and Rick here. Have you had a good weekend?
:00:29. > :00:32.How David Walliams is doing on the very last day of his Thames River
:00:32. > :00:38.swim. See how fast I can go in one of
:00:38. > :00:41.these. More from Page later. Scotland and
:00:41. > :00:44.Northern Ireland have been getting huge gales this afternoon as the
:00:44. > :00:47.remainings of a hurricane sweep overhead.
:00:47. > :00:51.Hurricane Katia started near America before heading our way. The
:00:51. > :00:55.last time the end of the hurricane hit us was two years ago, but in
:00:55. > :01:03.some parts of the UK today, winds could reach 80mph.
:01:03. > :01:07.That's enough to blow a lorry off a When high winds arrived this
:01:07. > :01:11.morning, the results were scary, but spectacular. Northern Ireland
:01:11. > :01:15.and Scotland were first hit, but it is not over yet. Weather experts
:01:15. > :01:18.are watching closely and the BBC's Liam Dutton has been telling us
:01:18. > :01:26.what's going on. At the moment you have got this
:01:26. > :01:30.huge area of of of low pressure centred across the UK. It was
:01:30. > :01:33.formerly Hurricane Katia. It has worked towards us. Those are the
:01:33. > :01:37.isobars. When they are close together that means the winds are
:01:37. > :01:42.set to be strong. How dangerous will the winds be?
:01:42. > :01:46.Will school be cancelled? It is hard to say because each individual
:01:46. > :01:49.school make the decision on the weather where they are. Central and
:01:49. > :01:52.southern parts of Scotland, Northern England and Northern
:01:53. > :01:56.Ireland, gusts of wind as high as 80mph and that's enough to cause
:01:56. > :02:00.damage and disruption. If you are travelling today, keep in touch
:02:00. > :02:04.with the forecast. The winds are going to die down
:02:04. > :02:12.during midweek. It will stay windy tonight and
:02:12. > :02:17.tomorrow. But they will ease down He is lucky enough to stay in a
:02:17. > :02:21.calm and warm studio. Plenty of BBC reporters have been out and about
:02:21. > :02:29.today and bracing the full force of the wind!
:02:29. > :02:34.See if you can spot how many times a BBC reporter, Collette Hume gets
:02:34. > :02:37.interrupted by a cameraman wiping the lens.
:02:37. > :02:42.You don't need to be on the coast right now.
:02:42. > :02:47.We're going to have to wipe the lens.
:02:47. > :02:52.Hopefully Colette is inside having a cup of tea.
:02:52. > :02:56.She has the Six O'Clock News. David Walliams is close to finishing his
:02:56. > :03:01.amazing swim down the Thames. He started the challenge last Monday
:03:01. > :03:08.to raise money for Sport Relief, but he is due to finish in under an
:03:08. > :03:18.hour. This afternoon I was sent out It is a week that David Walliams
:03:18. > :03:21.will never forget. Over the past eight days, he has
:03:21. > :03:26.swum nearly the full length of the Thames. From the start, in
:03:26. > :03:30.Gloucestershire, he passed Oxford, Reading and Windsor Castle. This
:03:30. > :03:33.afternoon he arrives in Central London, finishing off this London
:03:33. > :03:39.outside Big Ben at Westminster. Earlier today, David Walliams made
:03:39. > :03:43.it here to Kew. He is having a break, before that final push
:03:43. > :03:48.eleven miles in that direction. The last stretch is the most dangerous.
:03:48. > :03:53.There is lots of boat traffic on the river and the water is really
:03:53. > :03:57.dirty. There is about 500 million litres of raw sewage. That's about
:03:57. > :04:00.500 million litres of these filled to the top with poo which is gis
:04:00. > :04:03.gusting. -- disgusting.
:04:03. > :04:08.Along the way it has been a choppy ride. Although he took medication
:04:08. > :04:12.to protect him from bacteria in the water, he picked up a tummy bug in
:04:12. > :04:16.the first few days and carried on swimming despite being sick and
:04:16. > :04:21.having diarrhoea. At every stop, he had loads of people cheering him on
:04:21. > :04:27.and even a few celebs turned up too!
:04:27. > :04:32.He found time to rescue a dog. His body might be aching, but when he
:04:32. > :04:40.makes it to the finish, he climb out knowing he raised nearly �1
:04:40. > :04:43.Now I bet David wishes he could swim as fast this. We're talk 80mph
:04:43. > :04:47.and it has been driven by a 12- year-old!
:04:47. > :04:50.Page is a champion drag racer and over the weekend she competed in
:04:50. > :05:00.the European Championships where she lost out by 100th of a second.
:05:00. > :05:04.
:05:04. > :05:09.We caught up with her ahead of the The best thing about drag racing is
:05:09. > :05:15.going down the track and going really fast. My car goes 0 to 60 in
:05:15. > :05:18.2.5 seconds which is faster than a Ferrari. Dragsters are long and
:05:18. > :05:24.skinny because they have to be aerodynamic to go fast down the
:05:24. > :05:29.track. This is my steering wheel. This is my tail fin and it stops me
:05:29. > :05:33.from flying in the air. These are my wheels and they have to be big
:05:33. > :05:36.so I get lots of grip. Drag racing isn't about putting your foot to
:05:36. > :05:43.the floor, it is about controlling your car and knowing what your car
:05:43. > :05:49.is going to do. It is hard to be able to keep a junior dragster in a
:05:49. > :05:55.straight line. It has started raining and I'm going to go and
:05:55. > :06:00.have a test drive in my car. There is a wind wind. You have to wear a
:06:00. > :06:04.fire retardant suit and fire retardant boots and fire retardant
:06:04. > :06:14.gloves. You have a neck brace and a helmet. We wear this gear to keep
:06:14. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:21.us safe in case there is a crash. How did it drive? I feel the
:06:22. > :06:26.wheelspin loads and it was fine when I put my foot down and when I
:06:26. > :06:30.took off, I was all over the place. It is great here to race because it
:06:30. > :06:35.is just the speed and the adrenalin that you get going down the track.
:06:35. > :06:42.You just want more and more. And that's it from me. I have got
:06:42. > :06:50.more practising to do ahead of the big race! I'm Page and I'm
:06:50. > :06:56.reporting for Newsround. Pixie Lott scored her third number. She beat
:06:56. > :07:01.off competition from Leona Lewis and The Saturdays.
:07:01. > :07:07.Our next pop star, Doris Day is probably older than most of your
:07:07. > :07:15.grandparents. She is 87 and has become the oldest artist ever to
:07:15. > :07:20.enter the UK top ten album charts. She has gone straight into the
:07:20. > :07:24.charts at number nine. We have run out of time on BBC One.