:00:11. > :00:13.A public apology from the Cabinet minister over allegations he
:00:13. > :00:19.verbally abused a police officer. Opponents say Andrew Mitchell's
:00:19. > :00:22.statement is not enough. He says he wants to draw a line under the
:00:22. > :00:26.affair. I'm very clear about what I said and didn't say. I want to make
:00:26. > :00:29.it clear that I did not use the words which have been attributed to
:00:29. > :00:35.me. The schoolgirl who is believed to have runaway with her teacher.
:00:35. > :00:40.The search moves to France. John Terry appears at a disciplinary
:00:40. > :00:44.hearing on charges of abusive behaviour, the day after quitting
:00:44. > :00:48.international football. The billion-pound bank being set up by
:00:48. > :00:55.the Government to lend to small businesses. Floods, heavy rain and
:00:55. > :00:58.strong winds lash the UK. Autumn has arrived.
:00:58. > :01:01.Later on BBC London: Kew Gardens is closed to the public after the
:01:01. > :01:11.death of a woman who was hit by a falling branch. And the
:01:11. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:28.The Three Peaks to raise money for Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:28. > :01:31.News at One. The Government Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, has made a
:01:31. > :01:37.public apology to the police following his outburst last week
:01:37. > :01:41.when he is alleged to have sworn repeatedly and called an officer a
:01:41. > :01:46."pleb." He acknowledged he had not shown police the respect he should
:01:46. > :01:51.have done, but he said, "I did not use the words which have been
:01:51. > :01:56.attributed to me." The Deputy Prime Minister has called on him to
:01:56. > :02:01.explain fully and in detail what happened.
:02:01. > :02:05.No sign of the famous bike today - the Chief Whip arriving for work in
:02:05. > :02:09.the drizzle, termed to clear the air. Good morning. I want to first
:02:09. > :02:13.of all reiterate the apology I made last week after the incident on
:02:13. > :02:18.Wednesday night in Downing Street. It had been the end of a long and
:02:18. > :02:23.extremely frustrating day. wasn't offering as an excuse, by
:02:23. > :02:26.way of explanation. I have apologised to the police. I have
:02:26. > :02:30.apologised to the police officer involved on the gate and he's
:02:30. > :02:36.accepted my apology. I hope very much that we can draw a line under
:02:36. > :02:40.it there. But what of those words "pleb" and "moron" that he is
:02:40. > :02:45.alleged to have hurled at police? am clear what I said and didn't say.
:02:45. > :02:50.I want to make it clear I did not use the words attributed to me.
:02:50. > :02:54.Sun said it has seen the reports of the incident filed by police, who
:02:55. > :02:58.stand by their account. Scotland Yard has told the BBC that it's
:02:58. > :03:03.investigating how the newspaper obtained the documents. The
:03:03. > :03:07.officers' union says the PM should launch his own enquiry. He is
:03:08. > :03:11.challenging the integrity of the officers by denying he said what
:03:11. > :03:16.was reported. I believe the officers. If an inquiry proves Mr
:03:16. > :03:20.Mitchell was lying, then he should be sacked. While Mr Mitchell
:03:20. > :03:26.acknowledges he did not show the respect to the officers, he
:03:26. > :03:29.maintains he did not use the words attributed to him. So there remain
:03:29. > :03:33.two starkly different accounts of that altercation last Wednesday
:03:33. > :03:37.night. It is up to the Prime Minister to decide who he believes.
:03:37. > :03:41.The Prime Minister's spokesman told reporters this morning that Mr
:03:41. > :03:45.Cameron obviously accepts the statement made by Andrew Mitchell.
:03:45. > :03:49.Some Lib Dem ministers in the Government are not so sure.
:03:49. > :03:52.Explaining what was not said is not the same as explaining what was
:03:52. > :03:56.said. There is a sense of all the lose ends not being tide up. Andrew
:03:56. > :04:04.Mitchell still has the confidence of the Prime Minister. There will
:04:04. > :04:07.be concern that his apology has not brought an end to the matter. Let's
:04:07. > :04:12.speak now to our political correspondent, who joins frus the
:04:12. > :04:17.Liberal Democrats conference in Brighton. So, a public apology. Mr
:04:17. > :04:22.Mitchell has not denied using that word - pleb, - although he said he
:04:23. > :04:30.did not use the words attributed to him. How much does that matter?
:04:30. > :04:38.may seem bizarre we're having a huge political row over a bit of
:04:38. > :04:46.Latin vokab. The word "plebs" conveys the impression there are
:04:46. > :04:53.people who have a dismiss sieve view of the mere hoypoloi toiling
:04:53. > :04:57.below. It compounds the Government's difficulty over this
:04:57. > :05:02.saga. Here at the conference they have not come saddling up to come
:05:02. > :05:07.to the rescue of their coalition partners. Far from it. When Nick
:05:07. > :05:12.Clegg was asked if it was over, he did mot say it was. We had another
:05:12. > :05:20.minister saying there are lose ends to be tied up and a Lib Dem calling
:05:20. > :05:25.for the Chief Whip to resign. Although Downing Street has put a
:05:25. > :05:29.comforting arm around him saying he has full confidence in him and did
:05:29. > :05:35.not deny the pleb word because he thought he would have to deny every
:05:35. > :05:40.other word, the difficulty is this, not merely damage to relations - I
:05:41. > :05:46.think the real difficulty is I am not sure the Government now how to
:05:46. > :05:50.close the gate on the pleb row. Police say a 15-year-old girl,
:05:50. > :05:54.missing from her home in East Sussex, may have travelled to
:05:55. > :05:58.France with her maths teacher. Detectives believe Megan Stammers
:05:58. > :06:02.bordered a ferry bound to Calais with Jeremy Forrest on Friday
:06:02. > :06:07.evening. 15-year-old Megan Stammers has been
:06:07. > :06:12.missing for three days now. She's presumed to be with a man twice her
:06:12. > :06:16.age somewhere in France. Megan set off for her school in Eastbourne as
:06:16. > :06:20.usual on Friday morning. When she did not appear in class her
:06:20. > :06:28.teachers were worried and the teacher was called in. Also missing
:06:28. > :06:34.on Friday was one of the staff. Hi, I live in Brighton. 30-year-old
:06:34. > :06:40.Jeremy Forrest is a maths teacher and musician, shown here on YouTube.
:06:40. > :06:43.Police think he and Megan are travelling in his black Ford Focus.
:06:43. > :06:51.Internet postings by both suggest they may have been considering some
:06:51. > :06:58.kind of relationship. On a blog Mr Forrest appears to talk of facing a
:06:58. > :07:01.moral dilemma. "how should we define what is right or wrong?" Her
:07:01. > :07:06.family have pleaded for her to get in touch, saying they are worried
:07:06. > :07:10.and miss her terribly. Everyone is talking about it. It is just such
:07:10. > :07:14.an awful - and I saw her going to school on Thursday. I didn't think
:07:14. > :07:22.anything of it. It is horrible. doesn't seem the kind that would
:07:22. > :07:27.run off. She's from a nice family. I hope she comes back safe.
:07:27. > :07:33.Facebook campaign has been set up to alert people to what has
:07:33. > :07:37.happened. Sussex Police say they caught the 9.30pm ferry on Friday
:07:37. > :07:41.night. Officers are liaising with their French counterparts. They are
:07:41. > :07:45.in close contact with the two families. Jeremy Forrest was
:07:45. > :07:49.married just last year. Police don't believe Megan is in any
:07:49. > :07:51.danger, but at the moment they still don't know where she is. Just
:07:51. > :07:55.hours after announcing his retirement from international
:07:55. > :08:00.football, the former England captain, John Terry, has appeared
:08:00. > :08:04.before an FA disciplinary panel. He is accused of using racist language
:08:04. > :08:09.during a row with a queen parks Rangers' player, Anton Ferdinand.
:08:09. > :08:14.He denies doing anything wrong. Our correspondent joins us now. Well,
:08:14. > :08:18.John Terry is a player who has a reputation for never taking a
:08:18. > :08:23.backwards step. Last night he did that, when he turned his back on
:08:23. > :08:29.England and sent shock waves through the game. The latest twist
:08:29. > :08:33.in an increasingly bitter saga. He'll be remembered as one of
:08:33. > :08:38.England's greatest ever central defenders, proudly patriotic, his
:08:38. > :08:41.career has come to be defined by courage and commitment, but also by
:08:41. > :08:50.controversy. It was during this Premier League match that the
:08:50. > :08:54.Chelsea captain was alleged to have abused Anton Ferdinand. Almost a
:08:54. > :08:57.year on, Ferdinand arrived at Wembley for an FA hearing this
:08:57. > :09:07.morning, just hours after Terry turned his back on England N a
:09:07. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:19.Terry denies racially abuses Ferdinand and was acquitted by a
:09:19. > :09:23.magistrate in July. The FA then opened their own disciplinary
:09:23. > :09:29.proceedings. I understand Jon's frustration with this. The truth is
:09:29. > :09:34.there is, there are supple differences between the charge in
:09:34. > :09:39.the Magistrates' Court and the charge that he faces in front of
:09:39. > :09:46.the FA disciplinary commission. Terry may have suspected a vendetta,
:09:46. > :09:53.but he knew he faced the prospect of a lengthy ban if found guilty.
:09:53. > :09:57.Sues was suspended last year for abuse, as the FA came under
:09:57. > :10:05.pressure to clamp down on discrimination. The fallout from
:10:05. > :10:11.this increasingly acrimonious dispute has spilled into this
:10:11. > :10:15.season. Terry played 7 8tiement force the national team, but -- 78
:10:15. > :10:19.times for the national team. One of the more remarkable playing careers
:10:20. > :10:24.is now over. Well, I can tell you that John
:10:24. > :10:28.Terry is at Wembley, behind me, for the first day of that independent
:10:28. > :10:33.panel hearing N the past half an hour, the FA have responded to news
:10:33. > :10:38.of his international retirement. Roy Hodgson, who backed John Terry
:10:38. > :10:45.said this." I am disappointed to lose a player of his experience and
:10:45. > :10:50.I have enjoyed a relationship with him as my time as manager. I
:10:50. > :10:55.reluctantly accept his decision." On one hand they praise the player
:10:55. > :10:57.who is so important to the national team's hope, on the other a four-
:10:57. > :11:03.man panel prepare to ban him for some time.
:11:03. > :11:06.Thank you. A soldier who died from wounds
:11:06. > :11:11.sustained in a shooting incident in Afghanistan on Friday has been
:11:11. > :11:20.named by the Ministry of Defence. He was captain Townend town from
:11:20. > :11:25.the Corps of Royal Engineers. The Government will make �1 billion
:11:25. > :11:28.of taxpayers' money available for a new business bank, to provide loans
:11:28. > :11:32.to firms struggling to borrow from the high street banks. The Liberal
:11:32. > :11:38.Democrats hope it will make it easier for companies to get credit
:11:38. > :11:41.and then stimulate the economy. The high street banks - some see
:11:41. > :11:44.them as villains for not lending more to small businesses. They say
:11:44. > :11:50.many companies are cautious and don't want to borrow. Few would
:11:50. > :11:53.disagree that credit is not flowing around the economy as it should be.
:11:53. > :11:59.So, Vince Cable at his party's conference set out a plan to tackle
:12:00. > :12:05.what he saw as a shortage of loans to business. We need a new British
:12:05. > :12:10.business bank, with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand
:12:10. > :12:15.loans to the exporters, the high- growth companies that power our
:12:15. > :12:19.economy. And I can announce to you today that we will have it.
:12:19. > :12:25.The new business bank will not actually lend to companies like
:12:25. > :12:29.this one, but it will take on loans made by banks. They will be
:12:29. > :12:35.packaged up and sold on to investors. �1 billion will go into
:12:35. > :12:37.the scheme. Business groups have welcomed it. This is a sincere
:12:38. > :12:42.attempt to welcome the problem. They have taken on board what has
:12:42. > :12:48.failed in the past. We would expect this one to actually deliver going
:12:48. > :12:53.forward. This is not the first time ministers have launched an
:12:53. > :12:56.initiative for banks to lend more to small businesses w the aim of
:12:56. > :13:02.supporting an economic recovery. Previous schemes have met with
:13:02. > :13:07.mixed results. A plan which set targets for banks last year,
:13:07. > :13:15.Project Merlin involved �76 million of new lending. Not all targets
:13:15. > :13:18.The guarantee scheme is being phased out. That is because of a
:13:18. > :13:22.new scheme involving the Bank of England which hopes to generate an
:13:22. > :13:25.extra �80 billion of loans. Full details of Mr Cable's latest scheme
:13:25. > :13:30.have not been worked out. Labour says there are many questions still
:13:30. > :13:35.to be answered. The Business Secretary has not said where the �1
:13:35. > :13:41.billion will come from. We are unsure of that. That is why many
:13:41. > :13:46.people question all he'll be doing is rebadging existing schemes and
:13:46. > :13:50.calling it a bank. The new bank will take at least 18 months to get
:13:50. > :13:54.going, so it cannot get the wheels of business accelerating fast
:13:54. > :13:58.enough to help pull the economy quickly out of recession.
:13:58. > :14:03.Let's go back to Brighton and hear from our political correspondent
:14:03. > :14:06.who is at the Lib Dem conference: So a new plan to stimulate the
:14:07. > :14:12.economy, but the coalition's economic plans have come under
:14:12. > :14:16.attack from delegates there. They have indeed. I think what Cable
:14:16. > :14:19.would like to see from this business bank is a symbol that the
:14:19. > :14:22.state is willing to step in and help boost the economy. That did
:14:22. > :14:27.not go far enough for some of the activists here this morning. We've
:14:27. > :14:31.had some disagreements between the two coalition parties. The glue
:14:31. > :14:34.which binds them together is this strategy to get the deficit down,
:14:34. > :14:40.to cut public spending. This morning, for the first time, from
:14:40. > :14:46.the floor of conference, we heard attacks on that strategy by some of
:14:46. > :14:50.the activists, including criticism by a former MP. No longer can
:14:51. > :14:54.deficit reduction, by means of cuts in public spending be our top
:14:54. > :14:59.priority. Instead the priority has to be boosting the economy and
:14:59. > :15:05.reducing our cuts, or at least spreading them over a longer period.
:15:05. > :15:15.Plan A is not working. We have the power, if we have the courage, to
:15:15. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:21.stand up and argue for a better In response, Tim Farron did not
:15:21. > :15:25.mince his words, saying it would be crackers for the party to adopt an
:15:25. > :15:30.approach similar to Labour's. The critics were defeated desisively,
:15:31. > :15:35.but what we saw were frayed nerves showing among the activists,
:15:35. > :15:44.halfway to the next election with the economy in recession.
:15:44. > :15:48.Let's have a quick look at the top story: The Government Chief Whip,
:15:48. > :15:53.Andrew Mitchell made a public apology to the police, after his
:15:53. > :15:57.outburst, where he is alleged to have sworn repeatedly and called an
:15:57. > :16:02.officer a "pleb". Coming up in the Emmy Awards: Dame
:16:02. > :16:07.Maggie Smith picks up an Emmy award for Downton Abbey.
:16:07. > :16:12.On BBC London: Eight people are accused of being involved in a sham
:16:12. > :16:22.marriage scam. They await sentencing. Why cooking extra can
:16:22. > :16:26.help to replace the traditional meals on wheels.
:16:26. > :16:32.JD Sports is calling in the administrators, trading in shares
:16:32. > :16:37.in the sports cloths and equipment, the retailer has been suspended but
:16:37. > :16:42.the fate of its 4,000 employees is yet to become clear.
:16:42. > :16:45.It was once the UK's biggest sports retailer.
:16:45. > :16:49.But the final whistle is being blown.
:16:49. > :16:55.Administration is now looming for JD Sports.
:16:55. > :17:01.Even a glorious summer of sport was not enough to kick-start sales.
:17:01. > :17:06.After struggling the last few years, JD Sports is simply running out of
:17:06. > :17:11.time and money to turn things around.
:17:11. > :17:16.For Dave Whelan, the owner of Wigan Football Club, the news came at not
:17:16. > :17:25.much of a surprise. I founded the company.with one shop
:17:25. > :17:30.in Wigan. The old JJ Broughton. I kept the initials, JJB and went
:17:30. > :17:35.from strength-to-from one shop to over00 shops. When you see this
:17:35. > :17:40.thing happening, it is really sad. At one point, JJB was a �1 billion
:17:40. > :17:44.company, but since the financial crisis, the value has tumble. The
:17:44. > :17:50.shares are now worthless. JD Sports is at its heart a
:17:50. > :17:54.sporting goods retailer. It moved into glimpse, it moved into selling
:17:54. > :17:58.shoes, and neither of which were a success. It caused management to
:17:58. > :18:02.take their eye off what is their core business. As a result they did
:18:02. > :18:07.not notice that their business was no longer keeping up with what the
:18:07. > :18:11.change in the marketplace was doing, with Sports Direct and JD Sports
:18:11. > :18:16.taking different positions. It is this arch rival that is now
:18:16. > :18:21.the front runner to buy a chunk of the business out of administration.
:18:21. > :18:28.For now, JD Sports continues to trade as normal, but significant
:18:28. > :18:32.store closures seem likely, with hundreds of jobs under threat.
:18:32. > :18:36.A former Chinese police chief who was at the centre of a political
:18:36. > :18:41.scandal has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Wang Lijun was
:18:41. > :18:44.convicted of several crimes, including seeking to cover up the
:18:44. > :18:48.murder of the British businessman, Neil Heywood. He was killed by the
:18:48. > :18:51.wife of a leading politician. Sudden infant death syndrome has
:18:51. > :18:56.sent thus report. It is a hard fall from grace for
:18:56. > :19:02.one of China's most senior and high-profile police chiefs. As he
:19:02. > :19:06.began his 15-year prison sentence, Wang Lijun was contrite.
:19:07. > :19:12.TRANSLATION: I would like to express my regret for the crimes
:19:12. > :19:17.that I committed. I will spend the rest of my life repaying the party.
:19:17. > :19:24.But a line has not yet been drawn under the scandal. It will rumble
:19:24. > :19:30.on because of the undecided feat of this man, Wang Lijun's former boss,
:19:30. > :19:35.Bo Xilai, once one of China's most powerful politicians. Earlier
:19:35. > :19:40.police chief sought refuge and told the officials here this
:19:40. > :19:44.extraordinary story that Bo Xilai's wife, Gu Kailai, had murdered Neil
:19:44. > :19:48.Heywood, her British business partner.
:19:48. > :19:52.Wang Lijun has been accused of trying to defect. Along with the
:19:52. > :19:56.charge of corruption and another relating to his role in initially
:19:56. > :20:00.covering up the murder he could in theory have been given the death
:20:01. > :20:04.penalty, but he has been shown leaniansy. Had he not blown the
:20:05. > :20:10.whistle it is likely that the crime would never have come to light.
:20:10. > :20:15.As a result of his evidence, Gu Kailai, at her trial last month,
:20:15. > :20:21.was convicted of poisoning Neil Heywood. Her husband, while he
:20:21. > :20:25.waits to hear if he too waits to hear from a criminal court has been
:20:26. > :20:32.suspended from his country's powerful seat in the Politburo.
:20:32. > :20:38.He was tipped for an even higher position later this year. This has
:20:38. > :20:41.altered the political landscape, raised corruption at the high level
:20:41. > :20:46.and unsettled what was meant to be a smooth political transition.
:20:46. > :20:50.Here, the Government is going to miss its target of providing basic
:20:50. > :20:54.broadband access for the whole of Britain by 2015, that is according
:20:54. > :20:58.to the Conutry Land and Business Association. The CLA claims up to a
:20:58. > :21:02.fifth of people in rural areas don't have adequate access to
:21:02. > :21:06.broadband, that the economy is suffering as a result.
:21:06. > :21:09.Here is Theo Leggatt. The green and pleasant land of Britain's
:21:09. > :21:13.countryside it can be a great place to live, but a difficult place to
:21:13. > :21:17.do business. Many rural areas are not just off the beaten track, they
:21:17. > :21:20.are also a long way from the information superhighway. That is
:21:20. > :21:25.because bringing broadband to the countryside can be expensive.
:21:25. > :21:30.The Government says it is doing all that it can to solve the problem.
:21:30. > :21:34.We have set aside �500 million to help the rural areas. We are
:21:34. > :21:38.working with the local authorities, who have also put in money and the
:21:38. > :21:42.private providers to bid for the contracts who will put in their own
:21:42. > :21:45.money. So �500 million of Government investment will turn
:21:45. > :21:49.into about �1..5 million in investment in rural broadband in
:21:49. > :21:55.the next two-and-a-half years. But the CLA say that the pace of
:21:55. > :21:58.change is not fast enough. That urgent action is needed.
:21:58. > :22:03.We think that there is a responsibility to provide broadband.
:22:03. > :22:07.We know that the demand is there, we need the supply coming to the
:22:07. > :22:11.rural areas, but this is too slow. We need the process to speed up. To
:22:11. > :22:16.say that the Government's commitment of 2015 will be met by
:22:17. > :22:21.2015, is not realistic. The CLA wants the Telecoms firms to
:22:21. > :22:26.be forced to provide rural services. That remote communities should be
:22:26. > :22:29.allowed to use public sector broadband networks. Otherwise the
:22:29. > :22:33.divide between town and countryside will get wider.
:22:33. > :22:39.Despite a hatful of nominations, it was a mixed night for British
:22:39. > :22:43.television in LA at the Emmy Awards. Shows including Sherlock, Luther
:22:43. > :22:48.and The Hour, missed out. Downton Abbey was nominated for a record 16
:22:48. > :22:52.awards. It was not the clean sweep that they were hoping for, but Dame
:22:52. > :23:00.Maggie Smith did pick up the prize for Best Supporting Actress. Damien
:23:00. > :23:05.Lewis picked up a Best Actor award for his role in Homeland.
:23:05. > :23:10.The Emmys are the Oscars of television. The best of American
:23:10. > :23:13.prime time, comedy and dram are. Tonight is the night in which we
:23:13. > :23:19.honour and love more than anything else, ourselves.
:23:19. > :23:22.It was a close race, but there was one run away winner in the drama
:23:22. > :23:27.category. Homeland.
:23:27. > :23:32.A homegrown terror thriller, Homeland, scooped four top prizes.
:23:32. > :23:37.Benefit series, benefit writing Best Actress for Claire Danes, Best
:23:37. > :23:42.Actor for Damien Lewis. Hello everybody, I am Damien Lewis,
:23:42. > :23:49.one of those pesky Brits, apologies! I don't really believe
:23:49. > :23:54.in judging art, but I thought I would show up just in case! It
:23:54. > :23:57.turned out lrt! There was a lot of hype over the British period drama,
:23:57. > :24:04.Downton Abbey, and a lot of nominations.
:24:04. > :24:08.Is there news of Sybil? But the only big winner on the night was
:24:08. > :24:11.Dame Maggie Smith. The family nust never be a topic of
:24:11. > :24:18.conversation. -- must.
:24:18. > :24:25.It was a disastrous year for 60s add agency drama, Mad Men, which
:24:25. > :24:30.did not win a single gong. It could have made Emmy history had it won.
:24:30. > :24:34.In the theatre there was a comedy scrum as John Stewart's Competition,
:24:34. > :24:42.tried to stop him collecting his tenth award in a row for a news
:24:42. > :24:49.programme, the Daily Show. And sweeping the boards in the
:24:49. > :24:58.comedy category was Modern Family. Benefit show, benefit dro directing,
:24:58. > :25:01.and Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
:25:01. > :25:06.Heavy rain and strong winds or gales are expected over much of the
:25:06. > :25:10.UK today and tomorrow. The Met Office is warning of floods in
:25:10. > :25:15.south-west England, Wales and the north-east. Flooding is causing
:25:15. > :25:19.delays and disruption to train services in Devon and downpours are
:25:20. > :25:27.forecast in Somerset due. Our correspondent joins us from the
:25:27. > :25:31.village of Chew Magna. You can see that some vehicles are
:25:31. > :25:36.chancing it. A couple of hours ago, you could not go through here at
:25:36. > :25:39.all. So things are improving, the water levels are dropping, but this
:25:39. > :25:44.is after the effects much that storm. The weather forecasters have
:25:44. > :25:49.been watching as it head to the UK. It seems that the south-west of
:25:49. > :25:53.England has had it the worst so far. Autumn made a dramatic entrance in
:25:53. > :25:58.this part of Somerset. After raining all day yesterday, and all
:25:59. > :26:06.night long, it was a wild Monday morning in the village of Chew
:26:06. > :26:09.Magna. The start of the week, even more challenging than usual.
:26:09. > :26:13.The Howe family were trying to keep the floodwater out of their house.
:26:13. > :26:17.Adults and children working together, but it was no good.
:26:18. > :26:22.It came up to about a foot-and-a- half.
:26:22. > :26:26.I understand that there is more weather on the way. So we are
:26:26. > :26:31.bracing ourselves. You think of belongings first. You try to rescue
:26:31. > :26:33.the house. In the end you know it is more important to get yourself
:26:33. > :26:38.out. It is not just the recent rainfall
:26:38. > :26:43.that is causing problems, but the fact that the ground is wet from
:26:43. > :26:46.our terrible summer. Can you imagine the mess in there...
:26:46. > :26:49.Maureen was one of many homeowners clearing up. The gravel from her
:26:49. > :26:54.drive had been worked all the way down the lane.
:26:54. > :27:00.It is a mess. I'm hoping it is not sewage in there. Also next door,
:27:01. > :27:03.the lady is a childminder, the people were trying to ferry the
:27:03. > :27:10.little children, carrying them through as they could not drive.
:27:10. > :27:14.Here, at least, there is respite this after noon. The water levels
:27:14. > :27:18.are -- this afternoon. The water levels are dropping but there is
:27:18. > :27:21.more rain and high winds expected to follow.
:27:21. > :27:25.Although the rain has left Somerset, it is heading up and causing
:27:26. > :27:31.problems in other parts of the UK. North Wales getting it badly, the
:27:31. > :27:36.north of England and to the east. Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire too
:27:36. > :27:39.suffering ten millimetres of rain an hour this afternoon.
:27:39. > :27:43.Thank you very much. Now the latest on the weather with
:27:43. > :27:46.Now the latest on the weather with Matt Taylor.
:27:46. > :27:51.The conditions are deteriorating for some, but the biggest impact so
:27:51. > :27:55.far has been across parts of the south-west and Wales. It is jufpbd
:27:55. > :28:00.standable when you take Hereford a month's rainfall here in the space
:28:00. > :28:05.of 24 hours. The rain band is moving to the north and to the east.
:28:05. > :28:08.Lively in the east and the north of London. It is in the Midlands and
:28:08. > :28:13.to the parts of North Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland where
:28:13. > :28:18.there is concern. The Met Office have an amber warning out. There is
:28:18. > :28:22.a risk of not only travel disruption, but surface water and
:28:22. > :28:26.river flooding in the next 24 to 36 hours.
:28:26. > :28:30.The rain is in for the rest of the day in Northern Ireland. It is
:28:30. > :28:34.heavy. Turning wet in southern and eastern parts of Scotland.
:28:34. > :28:42.Thoroughly wet, windy and cold as it is in northern parents of
:28:42. > :28:48.England. To the east of the pen tkwriens is also in place.
:28:48. > :28:57.-- Pennines. Another issue to watch out for on the south coast, that is
:28:57. > :29:01.the strength of the winds. 60 mph, even maybe 07. Similar strengths
:29:01. > :29:08.too in parts of northern England and Scotland. Adding on to that we
:29:08. > :29:12.still have the rain. 80 millimetres, up to four inches is possible in
:29:12. > :29:17.parts of north England and North Wales. So keep on your guard. The
:29:17. > :29:20.river levels will continue to rise. To the south, heavy showers and to
:29:21. > :29:23.the north-west, but clearer periods, the temperatures not dropping for
:29:23. > :29:26.some lower than they are this afternoon.
:29:26. > :29:31.Responsible for this is the area of low pressure. Tuesday morning it is
:29:31. > :29:34.with us still. This is where the wettest weather will be.
:29:34. > :29:36.The strongest winds causing disruption in parts of Scotland and
:29:36. > :29:40.Northern Ireland. Blustery conditions in the south with a
:29:40. > :29:45.mixture of sunshine and heavy showers, but look, northern England,
:29:45. > :29:49.parts of Wales, the blues do not depart it will be cold under that
:29:49. > :29:54.rain. A little warmer if you have sunshine in the south-east corner.
:29:54. > :29:58.The low in the south-west on Wednesday. More heavy rain but not
:29:58. > :30:03.as bad as it has been in Wales and the south-west. Sunshine and
:30:03. > :30:06.showers elsewhere. The next 367 hours are of greatest concern. We
:30:06. > :30:10.will keep you up-to-date with the forecast. If you are concerned call
:30:10. > :30:14.the Environment Agency. With disruption likely to travel