15/02/2014 BBC Weekend News


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Good afternoon. Two people have died and tens of thousands of homes are

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still without power following the storms which battered Southern

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England overnight. An 85-year-old man was killed when a cruise ship in

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the English Channel was hit by a freak wave. And in Central London a

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woman died after part of a building collapsed onto her car. In

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Hampshire, 30 people had to be rescued by the army from a seafront

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restaurant. Angus Crawford reports. The morning after what should have

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been a romantic night out. Glass shattered, woodwork scarred, cars

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picked up, thrown against each other and scattered along the road. At

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Milford on Sea in Hampshire, around 30 people became trapped in a cafe.

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The emergency services and the military were called in to rescue

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couples who had been enjoying a Valentine's Day meal out. Rocks and

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stones from the beach were picked up by the gale and smashed against the

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building. To look at it, it was almost like the windows were

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bending. All of a sudden, the outside of the window started

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smashing. There were also deaths overnight. Here, masonry ripped from

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the top of the building in Central London, crashed onto a busy street

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below, destroying this minicab. The woman driver was killed and two

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passengers taken to hospital. Out in the English Channel, a freak wave

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hit this cruise ship. A man in his 80s died. The winds reached 80 miles

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an hour in places, knocking down trees and power cables, blocking

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roads and rail lines. A sinkhole, carved out by the water, opened up

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in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It is 35 feet wide and 20 feet deep.

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Local roads of closed. Some residents have been told to leave

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their homes. At Lyme Regis in Dorset, the power of the waves

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watched with respect by local people. Magnificent, I suppose, and

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extremely dangerous. I won't be going anywhere near the club right

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now. The gods are punishing us for something, I do not know what. I

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hate to think what they are punishing us for. The threat is

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passing. Forecasters say condition should ease in the next few days.

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Our correspondent, Ben Moore, is in Milford on Sea in Hampshire. What

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are conditions like there today? We are still being buffeted by gale

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force winds at Milford on Sea. Just behind me here, you can see the

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debris from the storm last night. That is essentially what remains of

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the beach huts that line the front here, lifted up, smashed and

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annihilated on the promenade. You can see the marine cafe. Contractors

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and emergency workers are still there, assessing the damage, after

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the storm winds and rocks off the beach smashed into it overnight. We

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picked this up off the road just down. These the sorts of things that

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were flying around last night. It is really incredible that no one was

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more seriously injured. We are expecting the storms to abate. The

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winds are about 60 miles an hour now. At the moment, it is difficult

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to see with the weather as it is, how the clean-up operation will

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begin before tomorrow. And our correspondent, Sian Lloyd, is in

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Worcester. Is more flooding is expected there? Water levels are

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receding at the moment in Worcester, although we are expecting

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another peak tomorrow morning. Environment Agency officials are

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keeping a very close eye on the water levels in case the Worcester

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Bridge, the main route across the city, has to close again. It was

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shut for three days and reopened to traffic at 6pm yesterday. Elsewhere

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in the county of Worcestershire, the Army has been called in. People are

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being transported around Upton upon seven. In Gloucestershire, sandbags

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have been used to protect the 50. There remains a severe flood warning

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in place. In Worcester, we have been hearing of work taking place across

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the river with trees being chopped down. It will be a long time yet

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before they get anything like back to normal here. In the United

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States, at least 25 people have died in a huge winter storm that's swept

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up the east coast. Most of the deaths were in car accidents on

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roads covered in ice. Some parts of New York State saw more than two

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feet of snow. Hundreds of thousands of homes are still without power.

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The storm has now moved into Canada. The leader of the Roman Catholic

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Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, has

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criticised the Government's welfare reforms. He says poor families face

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hunger and destitution because of the changes to unemployment, housing

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and disability benefit. The Government said the measures would

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help some of the poorest families transform their lives. Our political

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correspondent, Tom Barton, reports. He leads the Roman Catholic Church

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in England and Wales. A week today, he will head to the Vatican to be

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made into a cardinal. Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of

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Westminster, has now waded into a debate much closer to home, over

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whether the Government 's welfare reforms are fair. The basic safety

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net which would guarantee that people would not be left in hunger

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and destitution has been to one apart. It no longer exists. That is

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a real dramatic crisis. The comments are aimed at reforms being carried

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out by the welfare secretary, Iain Duncan Smith. His flagship policy

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aims to merge fix working age benefits, including jobseeker's

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allowance, child tax credit and housing benefits, into a single

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payment called universal credit. In a statement, the Department for Work

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and Pensions said: last year, the Archbishop of

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Canterbury, Justin Welby, also caused a row with ministers with a

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similar attack on welfare reforms. This is clearly an issue some

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religious figures feel is as much about ethics as it is about

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politics. The latest round of peace talks between the Syrian government

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and opposition groups in Geneva have ended abruptly after only a few

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minutes. The UN mediator said no progress had been made and no date

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had been set for further talks. And opposition negotiator said

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differences remained over the issues of violence and political

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transition. Tributes are being paid to one of England's greatest

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footballers, Sir Tom Finney, who has died at the age of 91. He played for

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his country 76 times, scoring thirty goals and famously spent his entire

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career at one club, Preston North End.

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Olly Foster looks back at his life. Tom Finney was the epitome of skill

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and sportsmanship and yet he was never a full-time footballer. His

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father made him take an apprenticeship in plumbing, so he

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would have a trade to fall back on. He joined his hometown, Preston

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North End, as a 15-year-old in 1937 and never played for any other side.

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His international career began in 1946, just six weeks after serving

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with the Desert Rats in Africa. Two years later came a special match for

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the anywhere and, in front of his wartime commanding officer, he

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scored one of his 30 international goals against Scotland at Hamden

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Park. After football, his plumbing business thrived. But he also stayed

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close to Preston. He was their president and the club named a new

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stand after him at their Deepdale ground. To have it named after you

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is presumably quite a thrill. To have spent here -- to have spent all

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my career here and have a star named after you is an honour. Why to use

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only the third footballer in history to be knighted. -- he is only the

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third football. Tom Finney would have been great in any football

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team, in any match, in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

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The footballer, Sir Tom Finney, who has died, at the age of 91. At the

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Winter Games in Sochi, Britain's Elise Christie has been penalised

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for a second time. The speed skater is out of the 1500 metre short track

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event because she was a centimetre wide of the official finish line in

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the qualifying heats. It comes two days after she was relegated from

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the silver medal to eighth place in the 500 metre event because she

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collided with two other skaters. You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. That's it for now we'll be back at

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6pm. Stay with us on BBC One. It's time for the news where you

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