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:00:00. > :00:21.Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. Tonight we're in Scarborough.

:00:22. > :00:26.Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. I'm Toby Foster. Tonight we

:00:27. > :00:32.investigate claims that the former mayor of Scarborough was a

:00:33. > :00:35.paedophile. The claims made by an online blog based in Whitby centre

:00:36. > :00:42.on the now deceased ice cream magnate Peter Jaconelli.

:00:43. > :00:45.We knew if you sit in the front Peter Jaconelli's hands are

:00:46. > :00:50.wondering. Also tonight we go in search of the

:00:51. > :00:56.elusive eel. Look at that. It is a slippery eel.

:00:57. > :01:00.Whoops! And we find out how a health charity

:01:01. > :01:03.is trying to help children get a good night's sleep.

:01:04. > :01:12.After about two to three weeks he was sleeping. It was amazing.

:01:13. > :01:20.He was a pillar of the community. The face of Scarborough. Now the

:01:21. > :01:26.late former Mayor Peter Jaconelli is accused of being a paedophile. The

:01:27. > :01:34.accusers are the online bloggers Real Whitby. Tonight we test their

:01:35. > :01:40.claims. We are going to go for a quick trip

:01:41. > :01:43.to Scarbrough. It's 1971. Jimmy Savile hosts

:01:44. > :01:53.Savile's Yorkshire Travels. And introduces...a friend.

:01:54. > :02:00.What sort of carry on is this? Peter Jaconelli ran the Ippon Judo

:02:01. > :02:03.Club in Scarborough. He was a prominent businessman. And it's

:02:04. > :02:08.claimed he abused young boys. The allegations have been published in

:02:09. > :02:13.an online blog, Real Whitby. He was a paedophile. He was well

:02:14. > :02:16.known to local people and the police for this and he was protected

:02:17. > :02:17.because of his status as a wealthy businessman, mayor and successful

:02:18. > :02:31.local councillor. These are extremely serious

:02:32. > :02:35.allegations being made by a blog. Real Whitby has been criticised for

:02:36. > :02:39.some of the claims it's made on other stories, but have they

:02:40. > :02:43.uncovered the truth here? They're going to need some compelling

:02:44. > :02:47.evidence. For years Peter Jaconelli was a big personality in

:02:48. > :02:53.Scarborough. A councillor, he was also the face of the town, featuring

:02:54. > :02:55.in its publicity material. Claims that "everyone knew" he was a

:02:56. > :03:00.paedophile aren't sufficient to trash a dead man's reputation. The

:03:01. > :03:05.case stands or falls on eyewitness accounts. Real Whitby says it has

:03:06. > :03:08.them. We've got lots of witnesses. They've

:03:09. > :03:12.talked of their personal experiences. They're credible

:03:13. > :03:16.witnesses. So, we set about contacting some of

:03:17. > :03:20.Real Whitby's alleged witnesses. We caught up with Trevor Harrington,

:03:21. > :03:24.who now lives in Australia. When he was 11 he worked in Jaconelli's ice

:03:25. > :03:30.cream parlour. He says Jaconelli assaulted him in his van.

:03:31. > :03:36.When you finished work on a night time Peter used to take us home in

:03:37. > :03:46.his van. There was quite a few of us and, I'll give you a tip, nobody

:03:47. > :03:49.wanted to sit in the front. Somebody had to sit in the front. And they

:03:50. > :03:52.knew when you sat in the front Jaconelli's hands were wandering.

:03:53. > :03:58.One hand's on the wheel and the other hand's playing with you. Or

:03:59. > :04:03.trying to. It didn't matter whether you told him to BLEEP, he just

:04:04. > :04:10.laughed it off took it as a joke. Just a joke to him. You knew it was

:04:11. > :04:15.going to happen. Everybody's aware of it. It's going to happen. So

:04:16. > :04:22.there's a feeling of trepidation. And I feel that. I can still feel

:04:23. > :04:26.that. I can see his face. Jaconelli was larger than life. He

:04:27. > :04:37.featured in his ice cream shop on Jim'll Fix It in 1976.

:04:38. > :04:42.You're a lovely girl, aren't you? Looks easy, doesn't it?

:04:43. > :04:49.He even held the world oyster`eating record.

:04:50. > :04:51.The oysters are gradually disappearing fast.

:04:52. > :04:57.After Real Whitby published, more alleged victims of Jaconelli came

:04:58. > :05:03.forward. It was 1972 or '73 at the time. I

:05:04. > :05:09.was 12 or 13. I was walking along the seafront at Scarborough south

:05:10. > :05:14.bay. And he called me over and said do you want a Saturday job? I went

:05:15. > :05:20.upstairs. He turned up later. Sat next to me. Put his hand on my inner

:05:21. > :05:31.thigh and said let's see what we can do now. Well, with that I just got

:05:32. > :05:34.up and ran away. This man was 15 in 1968 when he

:05:35. > :05:41.claims Jaconelli propositioned him outside his ice cream parlour.

:05:42. > :05:47.He came over and started to talk to me and made conversation. Then he

:05:48. > :05:52.asked me when I was going to go upstairs and show him my BLEEP? I

:05:53. > :05:55.told my parents. My father took me to the police station and I gave a

:05:56. > :06:04.statemen And after I told the police officer what had happened, he said

:06:05. > :06:07.he believed what I'd told him. He was aware of similar stories, but

:06:08. > :06:10.Peter Jaconelli was a town councillor, a county councillor,

:06:11. > :06:27.judo club owner, businessman and a pillar of Scarborough society

:06:28. > :06:31.effectively. That was the impression I drew from it and that was the end

:06:32. > :06:34.of it. What did you make of it?

:06:35. > :06:41.To think that he would do that and know he would get away with it. It's

:06:42. > :06:44.just amazing. In total, we've spoken to five

:06:45. > :06:47.witnesses, from the 13`year`old assaulted in a men's loo in 1951, to

:06:48. > :06:59.the 15`year`old grabbed from behind while trying to collect cash. They

:07:00. > :07:05.all tell a similar story. Peter Jaconelli died in 1999. He's still

:07:06. > :07:11.listed as an honorary Alderman of Scarborough. This is a dead man who

:07:12. > :07:14.can't defend himself. You've made one of the most serious allegations

:07:15. > :07:17.any paper can make against him. You've called for his Alderman

:07:18. > :07:19.status to be removed. Are you comfortable with that?

:07:20. > :07:22.Of course he can't defend himself, but neither can he be punished,

:07:23. > :07:26.neither can he be censured, neither can he go to jail. It's very clear

:07:27. > :07:31.there's sufficient evidence to say he's not a fitting figure to carry

:07:32. > :07:33.the status of Alderman. Scarborough Borough Council told us

:07:34. > :07:37.they had passed on allegations of abuse to North Yorkshire Police. We

:07:38. > :07:40.wanted to ask North Yorkshire Police why none of the alleged victims

:07:41. > :07:54.we've spoken to say they've been interviewed. The Police declined to

:07:55. > :08:00.speak on camera. They said they had reviewed the handling of the claims

:08:01. > :08:02.and no further action was required. It will consider any allegations

:08:03. > :08:05.made in this programme or elsewhere. So, still no reason why the alleged

:08:06. > :08:08.victims say they haven't been interviewed. We also asked Peter

:08:09. > :08:17.Jaconelli's relatives to be interviewed. They declined. In a

:08:18. > :08:27.statement, they said there wasn't one occasion where they'd received

:08:28. > :08:35.complaints or factual allegations regarding `` factual allegations.

:08:36. > :08:38.They are not satisfied these claims are compelling evidence. We've seen

:08:39. > :08:40.no compelling evidence of an organised cover up or of a

:08:41. > :08:43.paedophile ring operating in Scarborough. But all of the

:08:44. > :08:45.witnesses we have spoken to have given credible and consistent

:08:46. > :08:56.accounts of being propositioned or assaulted by Peter Jaconelli.

:08:57. > :09:01.If you have been affected by any of the issues on this film we will have

:09:02. > :09:06.a helpline at the end of the programme.

:09:07. > :09:10.Eels were once such an important part of the Fenland economy that

:09:11. > :09:16.they were used by villagers to pay their taxes. Changes in habitat have

:09:17. > :09:22.sent it into a spiral of decline. Its fortunes could be about to

:09:23. > :09:30.change though. We have been off in search of one of the world's most

:09:31. > :09:39.mysterious creatures. In a ritual which has been part of

:09:40. > :09:50.Fenland tradition for centuries, this boat is in search of eels. Once

:09:51. > :09:54.this thriving population, now brought to the brink of collapse.

:09:55. > :10:01.Now the tide may be turning because efforts have been made to make one

:10:02. > :10:07.of the most enigmatic, mysterious and curious of all species to come

:10:08. > :10:14.back. The eel is an indicator of how well

:10:15. > :10:19.we are treating the natural world. We are doing all we can to make sure

:10:20. > :10:26.they are here for future generations.

:10:27. > :10:36.Big years ago, the European eel was on the critical danger list.

:10:37. > :10:39.Looking forward to a good stay on the water. We got everything and are

:10:40. > :10:53.ready to go. Over the last 30 or 40 years eels

:10:54. > :11:00.numbers have dropped. Why is that? The big reason is the change in

:11:01. > :11:07.ocean currents somewhere. That affects them going back into the

:11:08. > :11:10.Atlantic. The eels amazing lifecycle starts in

:11:11. > :11:13.the warm Sargasso Sea near Bermuda. The young drift on the Atlantic

:11:14. > :11:16.currents all the way to Europe, entering our river systems where

:11:17. > :11:19.they mature for up to 20 years before returning to the warm ocean

:11:20. > :11:21.to breed and die But man`made changes to our waterways, including

:11:22. > :11:27.sluices and weirs, means the free passage they need to get in and out

:11:28. > :11:31.is often blocked. The traditional way of trapping eels is by laying

:11:32. > :11:40.fyke nets which have been used here in the Fens for hundreds of years.

:11:41. > :11:49.Effectively, there is a long wall which acts as a barrier and then

:11:50. > :11:55.they hit the entrance to the net. Then we will take them out to

:11:56. > :11:58.measure them. While netting takes time, there's a

:11:59. > :12:01.quicker option for us in shallower water upstream. Here Jake and our

:12:02. > :12:04.team are about to start electro fishing, giving us an instant

:12:05. > :12:09.picture of how healthy eel stocks are here.

:12:10. > :12:17.They won't harm the eels or me in the water.

:12:18. > :12:37.Now they come up straightaway. Let's get going.

:12:38. > :12:46.Before too long I'm in luck. It is great fun eel monitoring. Look at

:12:47. > :12:55.that! After a quarter of a mile it's time to take stock. We have

:12:56. > :13:06.ourselves a net full of eels. It is annexed on issuing `` it is an

:13:07. > :13:15.astonishing life cycle. Imagine that is going to swim all

:13:16. > :13:19.the way across the Atlantic. It's a far cry from days gone by

:13:20. > :13:22.when eels were so commonplace in the Fens that they became not just a

:13:23. > :13:35.staple diet but a valuable commodity to trade.

:13:36. > :13:37.They are submerged in water keeping the fish alive.

:13:38. > :13:41.It was eels from the Fens and Thames which kept Londoners fed during the

:13:42. > :13:46.Second World War. And in much of Lincolnshire, people could count on

:13:47. > :13:52.a ready supply. It is an incredibly important and

:13:53. > :13:54.symbolic species for the Fenland people. Part of their social

:13:55. > :14:04.history. They've been here for many, many

:14:05. > :14:11.years. Fishing both legal and illegal has gone on for many years.

:14:12. > :14:13.We are very keen to exploit that history and bring it back.

:14:14. > :14:18.At Lincoln Cathedral there's evidence of the fish's value that

:14:19. > :14:25.stretches back to the Middle Ages. What we have here is an example of a

:14:26. > :14:32.document in the archives which relates to payment for rent a

:14:33. > :14:40.property partly in money but partly in eels. People were more likely to

:14:41. > :14:44.bat out than they are today. So eels were part of that belief.

:14:45. > :14:47.Today the eel's fightback is well and truly underway. In the heart of

:14:48. > :14:50.Lincolnshire's former wetlands a truck makes its way through the

:14:51. > :15:01.countryside with a cargo that is could help reverse its fortunes. We

:15:02. > :15:09.have 20,000 deals on board and we are going to distribute them. Today

:15:10. > :15:13.is the first attempt by the Lincolnshire Rivers Trust And

:15:14. > :15:20.Sustainable Yield Group to try to restock the rivers. How many will

:15:21. > :15:26.survive, we do not know. Maybe one in this box will get back to breed.

:15:27. > :15:30.That would be fantastic. If the EU is doing well it tells us we are

:15:31. > :15:38.managing water intelligently and for greater good of nature. `` if the

:15:39. > :15:42.eel is doing well. Across Europe the trade in eels is still big business

:15:43. > :15:44.so there's a commercial as well as environmental imperative to arrest

:15:45. > :15:47.the eels decline. As well as restocking rivers, the Sustainable

:15:48. > :15:49.Eel Group are trying to encourage responsible fishing. Licensing is

:15:50. > :15:52.now tightly monitored ` and people like Corine Rozendaal of the Dutch

:15:53. > :15:55.Eel Company, who supply British restaurants from eel farms in

:15:56. > :16:05.Holland, are keen to make sure the Industry is seen to be responsible.

:16:06. > :16:11.How long is each of these smoked for? Between two and three others.

:16:12. > :16:19.To use sustainable animals macro from the farms, you let the eel in

:16:20. > :16:26.the wild recover. It does not mean you cannot fish for them but I want

:16:27. > :16:29.my end product to be sustainable. But restrictions on fishing and

:16:30. > :16:38.initiatives on restocking can only go so far. Now modern technology is

:16:39. > :16:50.playing a vital role in helping eel RIB move in and out of their beloved

:16:51. > :16:56.Fens. `` in helping eels. So it comes in here and migrates upstream

:16:57. > :17:02.and eventually pops out above the Shropshire and away they go. And the

:17:03. > :17:08.water is still going rapidly through here. This breaks up the flow,

:17:09. > :17:15.reduces the velocity, and it provides a way for the eel to find

:17:16. > :17:18.its way through. You can get all sizes through these. James and his

:17:19. > :17:20.team are now using special underwater cameras to monitor how

:17:21. > :17:32.many eels are successfully negotiating these former barriers.

:17:33. > :17:41.Isn't that good? How many of these eel passes have you manage to put

:17:42. > :17:47.in? Five. For the first time in generations we have free passage up

:17:48. > :17:51.to tens of kilometres of river. Are you optimistic about the future of

:17:52. > :17:57.the European eel, certainly in eastern England? Yes, there is a lot

:17:58. > :18:04.being done by many organisations that are trying to improve things.

:18:05. > :18:09.There is research going on. Hull University are involved. There is a

:18:10. > :18:13.huge amount being done and we are optimistic that the eel will go on

:18:14. > :18:16.to recover. We may have a long way to go before the Fens are teeming

:18:17. > :18:19.with eels again but it's hoped the conservation work being carried out

:18:20. > :18:21.in its essential habitats will prevent these mysterious creatures

:18:22. > :18:35.from slipping out of our lives forever.

:18:36. > :18:40.Imagine you are physically exhausted, depressed and ill simply

:18:41. > :18:45.because you cannot get enough sleep. That is a reality for a growing

:18:46. > :18:51.number of children and teenagers. Now a South Yorkshire health charity

:18:52. > :18:55.is helping to cure chronic sleeping disorders. We have met some very

:18:56. > :18:58.tired parents. It's every parent's dream ` children

:18:59. > :19:02.peacefully asleep ` good for their development, for their health, and

:19:03. > :19:04.for their parents' sanity. But for a growing number of children and

:19:05. > :19:10.adolescents, a good night's sleep is a rare occurrence. Sleep problems

:19:11. > :19:13.have been linked with obesity, with difficulties at school, and can have

:19:14. > :19:23.a devastatingly disruptive effect on families. But it needn't be like

:19:24. > :19:29.this. This is Elise. She's 14 years old, and hasn't slept properly since

:19:30. > :19:33.early childhood. It's a couple of hours, when I don't I end up walking

:19:34. > :19:38.round the house, just trying to get my mind to do something. Mary Anne's

:19:39. > :19:43.son, Arran, is three years old, he doesn't sleep and she's desperate.

:19:44. > :19:46.Since he's been born he's not slept. He might have a couple of nights

:19:47. > :19:52.here and there when he's that exhausted, or poorly. Elise and

:19:53. > :19:55.Arran are among the one in four children in this country who will at

:19:56. > :20:00.some point suffer sleep problems. But Mary Anne and Elise are about to

:20:01. > :20:06.do something about it. It's December, and Elise is at

:20:07. > :20:10.Sheffield Children's Hospital. This glue will feel quite cold. She's

:20:11. > :20:13.worried she might have a medical condition that's causing the

:20:14. > :20:19.insomnia, and her need for sleep is getting more urgent. I don't want it

:20:20. > :20:24.affecting education, at the moment, being in Year Ten, it's quite an

:20:25. > :20:27.important time in my life in school. Elise is undergoing a sleep study.

:20:28. > :20:29.She'll spend the night at the hospital, with nurses and

:20:30. > :20:36.physiologists monitoring her every breath and movement. Are you amazed

:20:37. > :20:38.at how many wires? Many of the children treated in the unit have

:20:39. > :20:43.respiratory problems, but they check Elise for other things too. We

:20:44. > :20:47.monitor brain activity using EEG electrodes, so they have electrodes

:20:48. > :20:50.stuck on their head. We're looking at oxygen levels, carbon dioxide

:20:51. > :20:56.levels, body position, movement of the legs. Altogether, if we do a

:20:57. > :20:57.full sleep study, we have 22 different channels that we're

:20:58. > :21:06.observing. Welcome. I want to tell you what

:21:07. > :21:11.we're going to do today. Mary Anne' s tried everything. Today she's at a

:21:12. > :21:17.Sleep Success workshop in a last attempt to get her son to sleep.

:21:18. > :21:21.Everything I've been advised to do I've done, but its not helping. But

:21:22. > :21:24.I've been fighting for a long time to get somehwhere, so fingers

:21:25. > :21:30.crossed I'm hoping I might take something away from today that might

:21:31. > :21:34.help. The workshop is being run by a charity, set up by a teacher from

:21:35. > :21:38.Barnsley who was appalled at the lack of help she got when her own

:21:39. > :21:43.child had sleep issues. She's passionate about passing on the

:21:44. > :21:49.techniques that changed her life. Sleep Success workshop is about a

:21:50. > :21:52.behavioural approach to sleep. Some of Vicki's advice sounds obvious.

:21:53. > :21:55.Switch off the TV, have a regular routine, and make whatever you do in

:21:56. > :22:04.the hour beforehand lead firmly but definitely towards bed. Also, keep a

:22:05. > :22:09.diary to record what works. Which will be something different for each

:22:10. > :22:12.child. It's up to the parents to pick out the information that's

:22:13. > :22:15.suitable for their child, and to take that away and implement it,

:22:16. > :22:18.rather than to be told "this is exactly what you need to do,"

:22:19. > :22:22.because every child is so individual in their sleep needs. Last year

:22:23. > :22:25.almost 6,000 children in the UK received hospital treatment for

:22:26. > :22:29.sleep disorders. Sheffield Children's Hospital is one of only a

:22:30. > :22:36.few centres in the UK to run a sleep clinic especially aimed at children.

:22:37. > :22:42.The two main groups that we see are the preschool children who can't

:22:43. > :22:45.settle to sleep on their own. And the other main group are the

:22:46. > :22:48.adolescents, who are using technology, and all the time that

:22:49. > :22:51.you're using a screen, it is keeping your brain stimulated, and it's

:22:52. > :23:00.harder for the brain to switch off and go to sleep. Heather's

:23:01. > :23:04.experience is backed up by research which suggest sleep problems are

:23:05. > :23:07.becoming more common in teenagers. Recent studies suggest that up to

:23:08. > :23:13.three quarters of them may be affected by sleep deprivation.

:23:14. > :23:17.For some parents, getting their children to sleep has transformed

:23:18. > :23:20.their lives. Carol and Claire from Immingham combine working for the

:23:21. > :23:30.sleep charity with caring for their sons Luke and Jack. They haven't

:23:31. > :23:33.always been this happy. He didn't sleep at all. 20 minutes at a time,

:23:34. > :23:37.day and night. It was horrendous. This carried on for about eight

:23:38. > :23:42.years. You feel that run down, exhausted, depressed, tired. Our

:23:43. > :23:47.marriage broke up because of no sleep. They'd been told that

:23:48. > :23:50.disabled children would always have sleep problems, but after a

:23:51. > :23:57.colleague of Claire's trained as a sleep practitioner, they decided to

:23:58. > :24:00.try her techniques. Got rid of the telly for a start, changed it for

:24:01. > :24:06.soft music playing in the background for him to settle with. And every

:24:07. > :24:11.night I used to tun it down a notch until he settled with nothing in the

:24:12. > :24:19.room. After about two to three weeks he was sleeping. It was amazing.

:24:20. > :24:22.They did want to label my other son with ADHD, because he was so erratic

:24:23. > :24:25.misbehaving, and once Jack started sleeping and we started sleeping, he

:24:26. > :24:34.never did get that diagnosis, which I'm pleased about. They both now

:24:35. > :24:41.volunteer for the charity, giving online and telephone support to

:24:42. > :24:45.other struggling parents. A lot of the advice is around having a good

:24:46. > :24:50.evening routine. Getting the child to realise that it's coming up to

:24:51. > :24:56.bedtime. And about being persistent, keeping going even if things don't

:24:57. > :25:02.seem to be working. Because it will happen. Now they're taking their

:25:03. > :25:05.sleep message on the road ` they've got a Big Lottery grant to set up

:25:06. > :25:12.sleep clinics at children's centres throughout North East Lincolnshire.

:25:13. > :25:15.Maybe some of the things we advise are quite obvious, but when you're

:25:16. > :25:21.living it it's not so obvious, what things you can tweak and change. And

:25:22. > :25:25.you'll do anything just to get that hour's sleep. It's morning at the

:25:26. > :25:32.Children's Hospital, and Elise's sleep study has not gone as

:25:33. > :25:39.expected. She went to sleep about 11 and she slept really well. However,

:25:40. > :25:42.there was one incident. She woke at four, sat up, went on her mobile

:25:43. > :25:49.phone for a bit, but she did eventually go back to sleep at

:25:50. > :25:53.4.45am. You don't feel like you've had any

:25:54. > :25:57.sleep? Really? Mobile phones aside, the study shows some of Elise's

:25:58. > :26:00.sleep patterns were unusual. We can see that she is sleep deprived. It's

:26:01. > :26:05.reassuring that all the sleep cycles are represented. She's having each

:26:06. > :26:10.of the stages she should have. However, you would expect more of

:26:11. > :26:13.them over the course of the night. The study also shows Elise's

:26:14. > :26:15.breathing patterns and oxygen levels are regular,which means respiratory

:26:16. > :26:25.problem aren't causing her broken nights. So do you think you know

:26:26. > :26:30.what the problem is now? I think that this study has ruled out things

:26:31. > :26:37.rather than finding things. Now it's a matter of getting her to relax and

:26:38. > :26:41.go off to sleep. At the workshop, it's time for the

:26:42. > :26:47.parents to go away and practice. And Mary Anne's feeling hopeful. Just

:26:48. > :26:54.being here today has made me feel less alone. There are other parents

:26:55. > :26:59.that struggle. I know it's going to be tricky and hard. Go away, have

:27:00. > :27:03.confidence in your own skills. Yu've got the knowledge now. Just two

:27:04. > :27:09.weeks after the workshop, Mary Anne's life has been transformed.

:27:10. > :27:14.He's slept five nights since I've done the course. I've just tried few

:27:15. > :27:22.different things, what I was told on the course. It's just amazing. Her

:27:23. > :27:28.new routine includes cuddling Arran in a warm towel, and feeding him

:27:29. > :27:31.supper an hour beforew bed. You wouldn't think that you don't think

:27:32. > :27:38.doing brown bread and whole banana and things like that would work.

:27:39. > :27:42.Elise is sleeping too, helped by medicine. They've put me on

:27:43. > :27:48.melatonin tablets to help me sleep at night. They're really helping.

:27:49. > :27:55.She's still got work to do, but Mary Anne has her child back. He's the

:27:56. > :27:59.happy little boy I knew when he has sleep. He's no longer so tired and

:28:00. > :28:08.grumpy and nasty. He's just a lovely little boy.

:28:09. > :28:15.That is all for tonight from here in Scarborough. Make sure you join us

:28:16. > :28:22.next week, when we will be asking why a disabled man has to a more to

:28:23. > :28:28.go by taxi, meeting people building a new steam train, and find out

:28:29. > :29:15.white burlesque dancing was banned in one local area.

:29:16. > :29:16.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update. More flooding

:29:17. > :29:16.misery. Thousand of homes in Berkshire and Surrey are now

:29:17. > :29:17.vulnerable as Thames river levels reach record highs. 14 severe flood

:29:18. > :29:21.warnings are in place - meaning lives are at risk. Full update at

:29:22. > :29:22.ten. Two men have been convicted of helping triple