26/12/2013 BBC London News

throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the

late news you may have to leave before

evening. This is the band I Good evening and welcome to BBC

London News. Thousands of people in the Home Counties are still

suffering the effects of that storm which hit just before Christmas.

Energy companies have begun to restore power to homes, but for some

families, not in time for Christmas Day. Many won't be reconnected until

tomorrow. We have spent the day in Surrey speaking to those who have

been affected. She never imagined it would go on so long. Jill Nelson's

Street has been without power since Christmas Eve morning, no`one has

been able to tell her when things will improve. The cold hasn't been

too much of a problem, it's the dark. Once it goes dark you are

messing around with candles and boiling hot water and stuff. It's...

You don't feel very safe. Engineers who drove from Scotland yesterday

were trying to fix the problem today. UK power networks insist they

are doing all they. Can People have given up Christmas holidays to come

in and answer calls and give feedback. We are making outbound

calls to customers who called in with the latest information that we

have got to keep them updated. The engineers are hoping to have power

restored to here this evening. They are waiting for the local farmer to

bring his tractor to tow the equipment to more accessible levels.

With further flooding forecast along the River Wye more homes were

evacuated in Weybridge earlier. I picked up anything that is of value

to us, not necessarily financial value, personal value. Some antiques

and stuff like that upstairs. Things that were difficult to replace.

Computers I moved up. Pulled out the Hart disk and things like that.

There is uncertainty with many preparing for `` a long cold night.

Man has died after being shot inside a nightclub in the West End. The

31`year`old was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the early hours of

this morning at the Avalon Soho on Shaftesbury Avenue. A man has been

arrested on suspicion of murder. A patient from Harefield Hospital in

Middlesex has become the world's longest survivor of a heart

transplant. John McCafferty was only given five years to live when he

received his new organ. 31 years later he is still enjoying life life

to the full. John met Rita when she was working as a young nurse on the

transplant ward. 31 years late her they have something to joke about. I

remember John. I remember him being quite cheeky. You know, very easy to

look after. John was in his late 30s when he was diagnosed an enlarged

heart muscle. He needed a heart transplant. It was experimental

surgery. The longest anyone survived was two years. If I didn't have the

transplant I was going to die anyway. High nothing to lose. When I

spoke to the wife about it she said, "it's your choice, whether you go

through the operation or not." I didn't know at that particular time

whether I would come out of the operation. Surgery was successful,

he was told he would only live for another five years. We used to go

out and, yes, we used to let the hair down and party. And it was a

question of ` we only have five years, let us enjoy it. That is what

we did. Five years passed and John's heart kept pumping. He now has a

place in a famous book. He said his health is much more important than a

record, he plans to find a special spot for his remarkable certificate.

Another storm on it is way we can get an up now from Sara Orchard. ``

Georgina Burnett. We are expecting gusts of 40mph`50mph. A wet and

windy commute tomorrow morning. The storm should pass by lunchtime. We

have a couple of settled days to follow. Mitt That is it from me,

Sara Orchard will be back at 10.15pm with more from BBC London News. But

for now, goodbye and enjoy the rest of your Boxing Day.

Hello there, most of us have had a quiet Boxing Day, mostly dry,

chilly, lingering mist, light winds. That is all about to change. The

next storm arriving on our doorstep right now, over night tonight will

see wet and windy weather. The winds peak tomorrow lunchtime. It has

started raining in Cornwall, the rain will sweep eastwards. For all

of us overnight wet and windy weather. Snow to the Pennines. For

most of us wet and very windy. 40-50mph gusts inland, 60-70mph

around exposed coasts. Any extra rain will be unwelcome particularly

for those most prone areas across parts of southern England and up

into East Anglia. 10mm inland, 20mm around the coast. The rain could

well linger for a time across the south-east. It will clear.

Brightness, but a whole lot of showers wrapped around the centre of

the low pressure across the west of