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