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Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
and thousands are without power tonight after widespread flooding | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
In total more than 350 flood warnings and alerts are currently | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
in force across England, Scotland and Wales. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
But it's parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire that have | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
22 severe warnings, meaning there's a danger to life, | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
are in place there, including five in Leeds city centre. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
In Lancashire it's thought every river is now at record levels. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Some of the worst flooding is in Ribchester and Whalley | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
with more heavy rain to come in the next few hours. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in Ribchester. | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
It had been predicted that this latest bout of flooding may hit | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Cumbria. In the event, it has been Lancashire, west Yorkshire, and the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
cities of Greater Manchester and Leeds, which seem to have been at | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
greatest risk and most badly affected. Tonight there are flood | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
warnings in place and the rain continues to fall. In Ribchester, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
they've spent all day trying to keep the water here at bay. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
This is what happens when the rain just won't stop. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Across the north of England, towns and villages lie | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
At this pub in Ribchester, they served | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
Today there was no chance of a Boxing Day meal. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
As the water came in, the staff tried to bail it out. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
The water levels are rising as we stand here now so it's | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
quite high, up to about two foot at the moment. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
You cannot do anything in there today. | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
We are just waiting for the level to drop. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
These flood defences were put in by the Army yesterday | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Ribchester was cut off this morning, and with | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
the water rising, pumps and sandbags were brought in to keep it at bay. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
The extraordinary levels we've seen, the record-breaking river levels now | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
across Lancashire has just overwhelmed even the temporary | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
Every house we can keep dry is important | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
and we will always try to do that but the levels we have seen today | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
right across the north of England are meaning we are seeing | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Fire crews went out in boats to help rescue those who were cut off. | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
At seven o'clock this morning the water | :02:56. | :03:12. | |
started coming up and over the past few hours it has just come up and up | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
We were doing quite a good job for an | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
It has come up quite quickly, it's probably about two feet | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
In Greater Manchester the power of the storm is best shown by what's | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
happened to this 200-year-old building, the former pub sits | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
As the rain came down and the river raged, | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
it collapsed, crumbling into the water. | :03:35. | :03:35. | |
In Rochdale, this river surged through the town centre, flooding | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
dozens of businesses and cutting off power to thousands of homes. In West | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
Yorkshire, Sowerby Bridge is among several times to have been flooded. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Cars are now roofed deep. In Manchester city centre an unusual | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
sight, this river racing at speed, crashing past balconies and beer | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
gardens. The rain has continued all day, and as it falls, the anxiety | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
levels are rising as fast as the water. Those in the middle of all of | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
this feel as though there is no end in sight. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
We will get more from Judith in a moment, but first to fill in Sowerby | :04:21. | :04:36. | |
Bridge. Extraordinary pictures, what's the picture tonight? This | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
carries a pipeline behind me, and within that steelwork you can see | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
all sorts of debris which has been caught up in it, drawn down by the | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
sheer weight and force of the water. There is plenty more to come down | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
tonight, we are expecting another peak at around midnight tonight. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Further upstream in the centre of town, the boss has become stranded | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
blocking the 858 to Lancashire. Downstream, as Judith mentioned, | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
around the Royal armouries in number of properties are underwater there | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
due to the river air bursting its banks. There's people all along the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Calder Valley, sandbagging and preparing tonight, they will be | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
hoping for the rain not to continue, and for the river levels to go down, | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
but I think it is a waiting game. They are watching and waiting but | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
hoping simply for the best. Judith, towns been cut off, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
fire service having to rescue people, and there's more | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
rain to come tonight? It doesn't sound like the worst is | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
over? Not at all, and as we speak it is coming down continually here and | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
forcefully. They are still pumping out. They say they expect the rain | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
to peak at around midnight tonight, just as in Sowerby Bridge. Tomorrow | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
they think will be drier but don't underestimate the effects of a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
knock-on water, which will come down from the hills, then going forward | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
is concerned there could be more rain further into the week. Tonight | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
I should add as well we have had a warning from the Fire and Rescue | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Service to people who are told to evacuate their homes. They say, if | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
you are told to get out, get out, because if we have got to come back | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
to get you you are not only putting your own lives at risk but also the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
lives of the rescue workers. Thank you. | :06:38. | :06:38. | |
Millions of people have hit the shops for the Boxing Day sales, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
with some queuing from early this morning. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Despite some retailers starting online discounts on Christmas Eve | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
there's predictions of record trading, with one London department | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
store taking ?2 million in its opening hour. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Our business correspondent Joe Lynam has more. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
The shoppers go up and the shoppers pile in. It's been happening all | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
over the UK today, bargain hunters on the prowl. It's been a Christmas | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
to remember for consumers who have been enjoying discounts of up to 50% | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
for a month. I got a couple of handbags and a couple of jumpers, | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
but nothing I needed. We've got some shoes, perfume, so yeah. It's crazy | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
in there, up to 70% off on some lines so it's getting violent at | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
times. Sentiment could be described as open down over the last seven or | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
eight years, as costs went up and incomes stage stagnant but that's | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
all changed now. Income is rising and the cost of filling your car and | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
heating your home has gone down, and as a result the consumer has more | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
money to spend. In places like this they are spending it. In the days | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
immediately after Christmas, an estimated ?3.7 billion will be spent | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
in the shops and online, up by 6% last year. Today an estimated ?856 | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
million could be spent on mine alone, 22% more than it was last | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
year. The surge in online via -- buying means traditional retailers | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
have had to raise their game. The shops have got all of their | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
merchandise on display. Sometimes, and I found this yesterday looking | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
online, it is difficult to see what's available. The more sedentary | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
online shopper may be on the descent, but for physical shoppers | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
grabbing your bargain just cannot be beaten. | :08:40. | :08:40. | |
Football now and Premier League leaders Leicester City were beaten | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
1-0 by Liverpool while Manchester City and Tottenham both | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
won their matches to close the gap at the top. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Manchester United's manager, Louis Van Gaal, is under even more | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
pressure after their fourth defeat in a row, this time to Stoke City. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
What must it be to be Louis van Gaal right now? | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Having walked out of a press conference in the week, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
he found his face on the back of tabloids and the front of turkeys. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
His authority is questioned, though he continues to use it, | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The problem with was with those he sent out there. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Memphis Depay lost his bearings for a second, that's all it | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
A trip to the Potteries isn't what you need when feeling fragile, | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Stoke have the players to take the game beyond you | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Van Gaal sent his captain on for the second half but any | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
United flickers were snuffed out by the fingers of Jack Butland. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
After four losses in a row, Van Gaal probably didn't | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
We have lost today so there's a new situation, but I feel | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
the support of my players and I feel the support of my board. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
The strength and depth of that support is about to | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
We'll be back with all the latest at 10pm. | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
Now on BBC One its time for the news where you are. | :10:01. | :10:04. |