:00:00. > :00:00.throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the
:00:00. > :00:00.late news you may have to leave before
:00:00. > :00:18.evening. This is the band I Good evening and welcome to BBC
:00:19. > :00:20.London News. Thousands of people in the Home Counties are still
:00:21. > :00:24.suffering the effects of that storm which hit just before Christmas.
:00:25. > :00:28.Energy companies have begun to restore power to homes, but for some
:00:29. > :00:34.families, not in time for Christmas Day. Many won't be reconnected until
:00:35. > :00:37.tomorrow. We have spent the day in Surrey speaking to those who have
:00:38. > :00:44.been affected. She never imagined it would go on so long. Jill Nelson's
:00:45. > :00:48.Street has been without power since Christmas Eve morning, no`one has
:00:49. > :00:52.been able to tell her when things will improve. The cold hasn't been
:00:53. > :00:56.too much of a problem, it's the dark. Once it goes dark you are
:00:57. > :01:03.messing around with candles and boiling hot water and stuff. It's...
:01:04. > :01:07.You don't feel very safe. Engineers who drove from Scotland yesterday
:01:08. > :01:14.were trying to fix the problem today. UK power networks insist they
:01:15. > :01:17.are doing all they. Can People have given up Christmas holidays to come
:01:18. > :01:21.in and answer calls and give feedback. We are making outbound
:01:22. > :01:26.calls to customers who called in with the latest information that we
:01:27. > :01:33.have got to keep them updated. The engineers are hoping to have power
:01:34. > :01:38.restored to here this evening. They are waiting for the local farmer to
:01:39. > :01:46.bring his tractor to tow the equipment to more accessible levels.
:01:47. > :01:52.With further flooding forecast along the River Wye more homes were
:01:53. > :01:58.evacuated in Weybridge earlier. I picked up anything that is of value
:01:59. > :02:04.to us, not necessarily financial value, personal value. Some antiques
:02:05. > :02:09.and stuff like that upstairs. Things that were difficult to replace.
:02:10. > :02:14.Computers I moved up. Pulled out the Hart disk and things like that.
:02:15. > :02:22.There is uncertainty with many preparing for `` a long cold night.
:02:23. > :02:26.Man has died after being shot inside a nightclub in the West End. The
:02:27. > :02:32.31`year`old was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the early hours of
:02:33. > :02:38.this morning at the Avalon Soho on Shaftesbury Avenue. A man has been
:02:39. > :02:41.arrested on suspicion of murder. A patient from Harefield Hospital in
:02:42. > :02:46.Middlesex has become the world's longest survivor of a heart
:02:47. > :02:51.transplant. John McCafferty was only given five years to live when he
:02:52. > :02:58.received his new organ. 31 years later he is still enjoying life life
:02:59. > :03:05.to the full. John met Rita when she was working as a young nurse on the
:03:06. > :03:13.transplant ward. 31 years late her they have something to joke about. I
:03:14. > :03:18.remember John. I remember him being quite cheeky. You know, very easy to
:03:19. > :03:27.look after. John was in his late 30s when he was diagnosed an enlarged
:03:28. > :03:30.heart muscle. He needed a heart transplant. It was experimental
:03:31. > :03:34.surgery. The longest anyone survived was two years. If I didn't have the
:03:35. > :03:40.transplant I was going to die anyway. High nothing to lose. When I
:03:41. > :03:43.spoke to the wife about it she said, "it's your choice, whether you go
:03:44. > :03:46.through the operation or not." I didn't know at that particular time
:03:47. > :03:49.whether I would come out of the operation. Surgery was successful,
:03:50. > :03:54.he was told he would only live for another five years. We used to go
:03:55. > :04:00.out and, yes, we used to let the hair down and party. And it was a
:04:01. > :04:07.question of ` we only have five years, let us enjoy it. That is what
:04:08. > :04:14.we did. Five years passed and John's heart kept pumping. He now has a
:04:15. > :04:19.place in a famous book. He said his health is much more important than a
:04:20. > :04:24.record, he plans to find a special spot for his remarkable certificate.
:04:25. > :04:39.Another storm on it is way we can get an up now from Sara Orchard. ``
:04:40. > :04:43.Georgina Burnett. We are expecting gusts of 40mph`50mph. A wet and
:04:44. > :04:46.windy commute tomorrow morning. The storm should pass by lunchtime. We
:04:47. > :04:53.have a couple of settled days to follow. Mitt That is it from me,
:04:54. > :04:57.Sara Orchard will be back at 10.15pm with more from BBC London News. But
:04:58. > :05:06.for now, goodbye and enjoy the rest of your Boxing Day.
:05:07. > :05:13.Hello there, most of us have had a quiet Boxing Day, mostly dry,
:05:14. > :05:17.chilly, lingering mist, light winds. That is all about to change. The
:05:18. > :05:23.next storm arriving on our doorstep right now, over night tonight will
:05:24. > :05:27.see wet and windy weather. The winds peak tomorrow lunchtime. It has
:05:28. > :05:31.started raining in Cornwall, the rain will sweep eastwards. For all
:05:32. > :05:38.of us overnight wet and windy weather. Snow to the Pennines. For
:05:39. > :05:45.most of us wet and very windy. 40-50mph gusts inland, 60-70mph
:05:46. > :05:49.around exposed coasts. Any extra rain will be unwelcome particularly
:05:50. > :05:55.for those most prone areas across parts of southern England and up
:05:56. > :05:59.into East Anglia. 10mm inland, 20mm around the coast. The rain could
:06:00. > :06:02.well linger for a time across the south-east. It will clear.
:06:03. > :06:05.Brightness, but a whole lot of showers wrapped around the centre of
:06:06. > :06:07.the low pressure across the west of