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Good afternoon. Heavy rain has caused flooding in parts of south- | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
west England, south Wales and eastern Scotland. Nearly 500 flood | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
warnings and flood alerts are in place across Britain. The flooding | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
has meant travel disruption for thousands of Christmas commuters. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
And the BBC Weather Centre is warning that there may be a lot | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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more rain to come on Christmas Eve. In Cornwall, they arrested 12 | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
people along with their pets by lifeboat overnight. We have one or | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
two people that do not want to leave. We have told them to go on | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
to the first floor and take anything valuable with them. We are | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
making a note of where they are in case we need to rescue them later. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Extra sandbags were brought in to shore up the defences of the town | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
that has suffered terribly from flooding only two years ago. The | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Environment Agency is monitoring the scene around the clock encased | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
floodwaters rise again. It has fallen back at the moment. There is | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
another band of significant rainfall coming through this | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
evening, between 9pm and around 5am tomorrow. That is of concern to us. | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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Shops and homes in Braunton also suffered after flood defences were | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
breached. In South Wales, 30 houses were flooded near Swansea and a | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
woman was rescued from her part in the bail of Glamorgan bypasses by | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
using a ladder. -- her car. pulled the ladder out of the car. I | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
suppose about a minute later, off it went, under the bridge. There is | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
no question. The poor lady would have been drowned. There is no | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
question. There have been dramatic scenes in Aberdeenshire where about | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
60 people have been moved from their homes and a centre set up in | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
the town. Gloom for people commuting by train. First Great | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Western is advising people not to travel west of Taunton in Somerset | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
unless they really have to. An NHS Trust is apologising to families | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
for failings in care in which one person starved to death. The Health | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the problems at the Alexandra Hospital | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
and Worcester Royal appalled him. Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
has paid compensation totalling �410,000 in 38 cases. The former | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Conservative chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, has given a full account | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
of the incident in Downing Street in which he was alleged to have | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
called police officers plebs and morons. Writing in the Sunday Times, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Mr Mitchell denies using both terms. He talks of a stitch-up aimed at | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
harming the Tory Party and destroying his career. Our | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
political correspondent reports. So, what did happen when Andrew | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Mitchell tried to take his bike out through the main gate at Downing | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Street on this evening back in September? The official police | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
reports say he called officers Lives Too Short Pledges and morons | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
Boston he has given his own account to a Sunday paper. He said the or | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
fourth-rate -- phrases were hung around his neck. He said he never | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
uttered the phrase is and they were completely untrue. He does admit | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
swearing in exasperation. He said the Prime Minister was too quick to | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
tell him to get on to his bike when the story broke. He was persuaded | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
to hold an inquiry. He did resign but think the inquiry should have | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
been more thorough. And he complains about treatment by the | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
media. Negative coverage affected sleep and appetite. This morning, | :04:24. | :04:27. |