:00:12. > :00:15.Hundreds of homes are evacuated, schools are closed and part of the
:00:15. > :00:18.East Coast main line is a shot as torrential rain brings flooding.
:00:18. > :00:26.The north-east of England has been particularly hard hit, as rivers
:00:26. > :00:29.burst their banks. And the problems are particularly bad here in the
:00:29. > :00:34.Northumberland town of Morpeth, which has been flooded for the
:00:34. > :00:37.second time in four years. It has emerged that the Queen raised
:00:37. > :00:41.concerns about the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza with the previous
:00:41. > :00:44.government. The teenager missing with her maths teacher. Their
:00:44. > :00:51.school confirms concerns about a relationship have been raised
:00:51. > :00:54.before. And the waiting is almost over. Europe's golfers arrive in
:00:54. > :00:59.the US for one of sport's most fiercely fought contests, the Ryder
:00:59. > :01:01.Cup. On BBC London. Smiling once again. We meet seven-year-old
:01:01. > :01:04.Thusha, who was left paralysed after being shot in Stockwell. And
:01:04. > :01:14.the young people priced out of rural areas as property prices soar
:01:14. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:31.Good afternoon. There's been widespread flooding across many
:01:31. > :01:35.parts of the UK after yet more heavy rain. The north-east of
:01:35. > :01:39.England has been particularly hard hit and nearly 300 homes had been
:01:39. > :01:43.evacuated. The floodwaters have also cut of train services on the
:01:43. > :01:47.East Coast main line between York and Darlington. In total, 65 a
:01:47. > :01:57.flood warnings had been issued in England, Wales and Scotland. Let's
:01:57. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:04.This is Grange Road, not Grange river. It started raining here at
:02:04. > :02:09.11pm last night and it just didn't stop. Problems in East Lothian in
:02:09. > :02:13.Scotland, too, homes and schools flooded. In North Wales, rail
:02:13. > :02:17.services disrupted. In the north- east, hundreds of homes evacuated.
:02:17. > :02:26.It may not be raining here now. The problem is that more rain is
:02:26. > :02:32.expected. The village of Hambleton, once landlocked but now parts have
:02:32. > :02:39.become Islands. It has meant roads closed, homes flooded and people
:02:39. > :02:43.left worried. You are fighting for your possessions here, aren't you?
:02:43. > :02:47.Yes. We are trying to keep water away from the house, which we are
:02:47. > :02:51.winning at the moment. But if any more rain comes down we will have a
:02:51. > :02:54.severe problem. At the moment, everybody is trying to help but
:02:54. > :03:00.nothing is happening. For some it feels like it hasn't stopped
:03:00. > :03:06.raining since April. This has happened six times like this, not
:03:06. > :03:11.quite as bad but more or less as bad as this, since June. A fed up.
:03:11. > :03:16.Fed up. Six times. We pay council tax, United Utilities a fortune and
:03:16. > :03:22.this happens. And in the north-east, this was Morpeth after a month's
:03:22. > :03:28.rain in just 24 hours. Hundreds of homes had to be evacuated. We've
:03:28. > :03:34.been through the World War, we've done a lot. We have fought our way
:03:34. > :03:40.into by inch. Do you think that a drop of water is going to put us
:03:40. > :03:43.off? You are sadly mistaken! On the trains, the East Coast main line is
:03:43. > :03:49.advising passengers not to travel because parts of the track are
:03:49. > :03:56.flooded. In St Helens, people were rescued in life rafts after the
:03:56. > :04:01.Sankey Canal flooded. It left people counting the cost. It is
:04:01. > :04:07.devastating. It has destroyed everything that was in its path.
:04:07. > :04:12.Luckily, I wasn't here while it was being flooded. That would have...
:04:12. > :04:19.That is the hard part, if you are actually physically here.
:04:19. > :04:24.Hamilton, many are now waiting and hoping more rain doesn't come. How
:04:24. > :04:29.has it left you feeling? A bit vulnerable. There's only me and my
:04:29. > :04:36.son here. We've had the wettest of summers. The start of autumn is
:04:36. > :04:40.looking no different. Yes, and that start of autumn starts with a clean
:04:40. > :04:45.up or at least three houses along this road. The sandbags on the
:04:45. > :04:49.other side are protecting their homes. But the problem is more rain
:04:49. > :04:54.is expected. We've got over 60 flood warnings right now across
:04:54. > :05:00.England and Wales. Gales expected in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
:05:00. > :05:09.It doesn't look like this will end any time soon. Let's go to Morpeth
:05:09. > :05:13.now. The river once Beck has breached the local flood defences.
:05:13. > :05:17.For a short time, late morning and early lunchtime here today, the
:05:17. > :05:21.rain to ease off but it's now lashing down again. People here are
:05:21. > :05:26.growing increasingly concerned. The Environment Agency say the river in
:05:26. > :05:30.Morpeth has peaked, that happens this morning. It should hopefully
:05:30. > :05:36.drop off but there are still concerns. Quite a few houses have
:05:36. > :05:41.been evacuated. Let's talk to one of the senior fire officers here.
:05:41. > :05:48.What are conditions like this morning? We had about 100
:05:48. > :05:52.properties in the flood risk area. We've had to carry out 37 rescues
:05:52. > :05:58.using our water rescue teams. We've had to close the bridge because of
:05:58. > :06:02.the impact of the debris on the bridge. It has been quite a
:06:02. > :06:08.torturous time for the residents. This place was flooded four years
:06:08. > :06:12.ago. Perhaps not as bad today, would you say? The wasn't as bad.
:06:12. > :06:17.Added is still quite severe for the residents who have suffered.
:06:17. > :06:21.it's pretty dangerous if you get too close. A yes, very dangerous.
:06:21. > :06:27.There's been a good community spirit, all of the neighbours are
:06:27. > :06:32.very community orientated. other thing to note, Cleveland
:06:32. > :06:37.police have just declared a major incident in their area. That is
:06:37. > :06:41.around Middlesbrough and Stockton, because of rising water levels. It
:06:41. > :06:46.really is the north-east of England this lunchtime where the worst of
:06:46. > :06:50.the weather is. That really is reflected by his high water level
:06:50. > :06:54.in Morpeth. And in every other river across the North-East this
:06:54. > :07:01.lunchtime. The flooding means that many main roads and some rail lines
:07:01. > :07:07.have been badly disrupted. The East Coast main line, that has literally
:07:07. > :07:10.been cut off in two places. It's been dropped twice today. Trains
:07:10. > :07:14.are literally under water. There's a limit to what we can do.
:07:14. > :07:18.Effectively, if you have got to Gibbs on that line the advice is
:07:18. > :07:21.don't travel. It is bad in Yorkshire and the north-east but
:07:21. > :07:26.there will be problems all across the line. You can use those to
:07:26. > :07:29.Gibbs tomorrow and you can use them on Virgin Trains, which go up the
:07:29. > :07:33.west coast main line, so you can still get to Scotland. But the
:07:33. > :07:36.advice is don't bother travelling. Similarly with the roads, we had
:07:36. > :07:40.the A 1 shot in Catterick, but problems all over Yorkshire and the
:07:40. > :07:44.north-east. There's a limit to what they can do. There are hundreds of
:07:44. > :07:49.engineers out there trying to sort out the problems. But that the
:07:49. > :07:53.railways, the easiest thing to do is wait for the water to go down.
:07:53. > :07:56.With the roads, we've now got the Highways Agency's digging ditches
:07:56. > :08:01.alongside the road to try to get rid of some of this water. But the
:08:01. > :08:05.real limit to what we can do. The websites are brilliant, the BBC,
:08:05. > :08:11.but were to feed and travel alerts, BBC local radio as well, or just
:08:11. > :08:14.don't bother travelling. The Queen raised concerns with the previous
:08:15. > :08:17.government about the case of the radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza
:08:17. > :08:20.or, it has emerged after the European Court of Human Rights
:08:21. > :08:24.yesterday rejected his right to make a final appeal against being
:08:24. > :08:28.extradited to the US on charges of plotting to set up a terrorist
:08:28. > :08:32.training camp and assisting hostage taking. But in the last few minutes
:08:32. > :08:42.the BBC has said it deeply regrets that the private conversation with
:08:42. > :08:47.the Queen has been made public. Just do it! If it is killing, do
:08:47. > :08:50.it! Abu Hamza. For years, for the government, unfinished business. He
:08:50. > :08:56.is not yet on a plane to the United States but ministers sincerely hope
:08:56. > :08:59.he will be soon, along with four other terror suspects. Now that the
:08:59. > :09:04.rights of appeal under the extradition Act have been exhausted,
:09:04. > :09:08.we think it is right and proper that these individuals are
:09:08. > :09:12.transferred to the US authorities to stand trial in respect of the
:09:12. > :09:19.very serious allegations that have been made against them. A decade
:09:19. > :09:23.ago, Abu Hamza banished from his mosque, preached from the streets.
:09:23. > :09:27.It infuriated the British authorities. So much so that the
:09:27. > :09:34.Queen once privately told the BBC she had raised their concerns with
:09:34. > :09:38.a Labour Home Secretary. But a final decision - extradite or not -
:09:38. > :09:42.rested with the European Court of Human Rights. It has despite --
:09:42. > :09:46.decided that despite his disability, he would be humanely treated in an
:09:46. > :09:50.American prison. The wife of Laurence Whitehouse was killed
:09:50. > :09:56.during an attempt to rescue her from kidnappers allegedly connected
:09:56. > :10:01.to Abu Hamza or in Yemen. He believes in America, evidence will
:10:01. > :10:06.breed produced about the preacher's true role. That he wasn't just a
:10:06. > :10:12.very able orator, but that he actually was an organiser of
:10:12. > :10:19.kidnapping British citizens, his own countrymen, and bringing that
:10:19. > :10:23.out in the public. But some of the extraditions could yet be delayed.
:10:23. > :10:28.Babar Ahmad and his co-defendant are accused of running a pro-jihad
:10:28. > :10:32.website from Britain. Anti extradition campaigner plans to
:10:32. > :10:37.attempt a rare private prosecution here to prevent them being sent to
:10:37. > :10:44.the States. Because any crimes he is supposed to have committed,
:10:44. > :10:48.allegations against him are in this country, the UK, so Babar Ahmad
:10:48. > :10:52.should be tried in a British court here, he should get a chance to
:10:52. > :10:56.prove his innocence in front of our courts. But after years of
:10:56. > :11:06.arguments in the courts, this and other legal moves have a slim hope
:11:06. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:10.of succeeding in even delaying extradition, let alone stopping it.
:11:10. > :11:14.The BBC has issued a statement about the conversation with the
:11:14. > :11:19.Queen. Yes, this information that the Queen had an interest in the
:11:19. > :11:22.Abu Hamza case was revealed on the Today programme this morning by
:11:22. > :11:26.Frank Gardner. He revealed details of a private conversation which
:11:26. > :11:30.took place some years ago with the Queen. The conversation should have
:11:31. > :11:34.remained private, according to a statement at the BBC has put out.
:11:34. > :11:38.The BBC Anne Frank have said they are deeply sorry for what amounts
:11:38. > :11:42.to a breach of confidence. They say it was wholly inappropriate, Frank
:11:42. > :11:48.is sorry for the embarrassment caused and Batty has apologised to
:11:48. > :11:51.the palace. It has emerged that East Sussex County Council was
:11:51. > :11:56.already invested concerns about the relationship between the missing
:11:56. > :11:59.15-year-old schoolgirl, Megan Stammers, and her 30-year-old maths
:11:59. > :12:02.teacher, before they ran away together. The couple having been
:12:02. > :12:05.seen since last Friday and it's thought they may have travelled to
:12:05. > :12:11.France. Detectives say her friends may know where she had planned to
:12:11. > :12:16.go. The last time Megan Stammers was seen. A CCTV image of the car
:12:16. > :12:21.owned by her maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, taken last Thursday
:12:21. > :12:25.evening as the pair travelled to Dover ferry terminal. The last time
:12:25. > :12:30.it Megan made contact was buy text, which she sent to a friend saying
:12:30. > :12:37.she'd arrived in France. The police say it wasn't from the teenager's
:12:37. > :12:41.foam but are confident it was from her. And this is the man she is
:12:42. > :12:46.with, Jeremy Forrest, an amateur musician who performs under the
:12:46. > :12:52.stage name Jeremy Ayre us. Detectives believe Megan's friends
:12:52. > :12:56.might know where she is. They may be children and pupils and friends
:12:56. > :12:59.who are aware of any aspect with regard to Whitby in plant, may be
:12:59. > :13:03.aware of where they were likely to go to. I would also ask them to
:13:03. > :13:08.come forward. Don't be scared and feel that you were are in trouble
:13:08. > :13:12.if you've not disclosed any of that information so far. At Megan's
:13:12. > :13:15.school there was already unease about the teenager and Jeremy
:13:15. > :13:17.Forrest's clusters. The local authority has told us that the
:13:17. > :13:21.school and the county council had been addressing and investigating
:13:21. > :13:24.concerns that had been raised in line with procedure when this
:13:24. > :13:31.happened. That investigation will continue and we will decide what
:13:31. > :13:36.action to take. Her parents are hoping more than ever that their
:13:36. > :13:43.actions and appeals on the vicar day since Megan disappeared will
:13:43. > :13:47.make their affectionate, loving and intelligent daughter return home.
:13:47. > :13:51.David Shaw has been held in Greater Manchester to remember two police
:13:51. > :13:55.officers who were shot dead last week. Colleagues of PCs Nicola
:13:55. > :13:59.Hughes and Fiona Bone walk from Hyde police station, where they
:13:59. > :14:03.were based, to the scene of the shooting in Mottram. Around 400
:14:03. > :14:07.people, including dozens of officers, attend the service before
:14:07. > :14:09.a Minute silence was held. The former England football captain
:14:09. > :14:13.John Terry has returned to Wembley for the second day of his FA
:14:13. > :14:17.disciplinary hearing. He is accused of using racist language in a match
:14:17. > :14:22.against Queens Park Rangers last October. A criminal court cleared
:14:22. > :14:28.him of the charge two months ago. What has been happening this
:14:28. > :14:33.morning? John Terry arriving here shortly before 9am this morning for
:14:33. > :14:38.that second day of this FA hearing. He joined his QC, George Carter
:14:38. > :14:42.Stevenson, who represented him during that trial at Westminster
:14:42. > :14:46.magistrates in July when Terry was cleared, but now he faces this FA
:14:46. > :14:50.panel, this independent oar macro man panel who will continue this
:14:50. > :14:54.afternoon to hear this case. Yesterday they heard from the QPR
:14:54. > :14:57.defender Anton Ferdinand. He is not expected to return today. With
:14:57. > :15:01.Terry making it clear he no longer wishes to be considered for
:15:01. > :15:04.international duty, it is clear that his anger against the FA for
:15:04. > :15:08.proceeding with these charges is evident. Yesterday we heard from
:15:08. > :15:12.Roy Hodgson, who praised him for his time with the England team. But
:15:12. > :15:16.that charge is going ahead at the hearing will continue this
:15:16. > :15:20.afternoon. Do you know how long this will take? There's a high
:15:20. > :15:24.degree of secrecy around these FA disciplinary procedures. Yesterday
:15:24. > :15:28.morning we saw the various parties or been to Wembley Stadium, or that
:15:28. > :15:32.was when we knew this was the exact location. We are expecting around
:15:32. > :15:37.two to three days for the hearing to complete. If we use the Suarez
:15:37. > :15:40.case, the Liverpool striker who was accused of racially abusing Patrice
:15:40. > :15:43.Evra last year as some sort of yardstick, that took several days
:15:43. > :15:48.upon completion of the hearing before the panel issued their
:15:48. > :15:56.decision. That level of legal Rego will also be applied here in John
:15:56. > :16:00.Dozens of warnings across the UK as torrential rain brings widespread
:16:00. > :16:06.flooding. Coming up - how did the driver in this accident manage to
:16:06. > :16:10.walk away from it completely unharmed?
:16:10. > :16:16.Health exploitable Ginty to investigate how a man critically
:16:16. > :16:19.ill in hospital contracted a potentially fatal virus.
:16:19. > :16:26.And we will have a full forecast for the rest of this week or's
:16:26. > :16:30.weather. A collection of tiny island in the
:16:30. > :16:33.East China Sea have become the centre of a diplomatic row between
:16:34. > :16:38.China, Taiwan and Japan. In the latest incident, Japanese
:16:38. > :16:42.coastguard ships fired water cannon at Taiwanese fishing vessels. The
:16:42. > :16:46.boat had approached the island, which are controlled by Japan, but
:16:46. > :16:55.claimed by China and Taiwan. Tension over the area has increased
:16:55. > :17:01.recently because of a dispute over oil and gas fields in the region.
:17:01. > :17:05.Sailing off to disputed waters more than 50 Taiwanese fishing boat to
:17:06. > :17:10.leave their ports. The deal with Japanese patrol ships using water
:17:10. > :17:14.cannons. It is just the latest confrontation in the East China Sea.
:17:14. > :17:21.The US has warned that it is scenes like this which could lead to
:17:21. > :17:26.conflict. The completed -- competing territory of claims over
:17:26. > :17:34.these islands is making the region nervous. In China's main news
:17:34. > :17:39.bulletin, yet another symbol of its rising power. Its first aircraft
:17:39. > :17:43.power -- career doesn't have operational planes. But it is a
:17:43. > :17:47.sign of the country's growing military ambitions. As Steiner
:17:47. > :17:51.become -- China becomes more powerful, it nationalism is
:17:51. > :17:56.alarming it neighbours. When Tokyo bought the disputed islands earlier
:17:57. > :18:02.this month, a triggered a wave of violent anti-Japanese protests.
:18:02. > :18:07.Japanese shops and businesses were attacked. Now China and Japan
:18:07. > :18:11.appear to want to cool the tensions. They do pity foreign ministers held
:18:11. > :18:19.talks in Beijing for the first time since this dispute flared up. But
:18:19. > :18:23.neither side wants to back down. TRANSLATION: China would never
:18:23. > :18:29.tolerate any unilateral actions by Japan which harm Chinese
:18:29. > :18:33.territorial sovereignty. But China gearing up for a once in a decade
:18:33. > :18:38.leadership change, its leaders cannot afford to look weak. Taking
:18:38. > :18:45.a tough line with Japan it is popular with the Chinese public.
:18:45. > :18:49.But that means there is little room for compromise.
:18:49. > :18:51.David Cameron is travelling at the United Nations in New York to
:18:51. > :18:57.appeal to the world's richest countries to honour their pledges
:18:57. > :19:00.of aid to the developing world. World leaders are gathering there
:19:00. > :19:04.for the Annual General Assembly debate, which this year will be
:19:04. > :19:09.overshadowed by events in the Middle East.
:19:09. > :19:12.New York prepares for the annual influx of world leaders. They are
:19:12. > :19:20.focused this year on crisis in the Middle East but Britain no new
:19:20. > :19:24.ideas on how to solve them. First, the anti-American protests caused
:19:24. > :19:29.by the video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad. Then there is the
:19:29. > :19:37.war the UN cannot stop. I believe Syria will be top of every leader's
:19:37. > :19:41.mind. Syria is a failure for the UN. The Security Council could not
:19:42. > :19:47.reach a common position let alone take action. So the United Nations
:19:47. > :19:52.has become an audience, watching a tragedy. With the reported deaths
:19:52. > :19:56.in the civil war now averaging at least a 100 a day. For America's
:19:56. > :20:02.president, Syria may not be an election issue, but Iran is,
:20:02. > :20:06.because it involves a Israel. Israel's Prime Minister has taken
:20:06. > :20:10.to American air waves to press for a tougher line on Iraq. He will
:20:10. > :20:13.take the same message to the General Assembly. Iran will
:20:14. > :20:20.continue to insist its intentions are peaceful, but few others think
:20:20. > :20:23.so. Israel is pushing for at least the threat of armed action. The
:20:23. > :20:28.Middle East remains an uncomfortable reminder of the UN's
:20:28. > :20:34.shortcomings. Syria is a monument to diplomatic failure, and Iran's
:20:34. > :20:37.nuclear programme may trigger the region's next war.
:20:37. > :20:41.The Liberal Democrats say that further spending cuts will have to
:20:41. > :20:44.be introduced in this Parliament, but according to the chief
:20:44. > :20:48.secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, they wouldn't be
:20:48. > :20:53.entirely at the expense of the poor. He has been speaking at their party
:20:54. > :21:00.conference in Brighton. What is he proposing? He is proposing quite a
:21:00. > :21:04.tough message. He is saying that new cut have to be taken to get the
:21:04. > :21:08.coalition parties through to the next election. Up to �16 billion
:21:08. > :21:15.worth of cuts, and welfare cuts cannot be exempt from that process.
:21:15. > :21:18.He also pledged that the rich would pay a fairer share. Are welfare is
:21:19. > :21:26.a third of all public spending, and despite our painful reforms, it is
:21:26. > :21:31.still rising. We will have to look at it. But that cannot, must not,
:21:31. > :21:35.and will not be the only place we look. We insist that the difficult
:21:35. > :21:41.choices must be fairly shared. That does you can afford more must
:21:41. > :21:47.contribute more. -- those who can afford more. There has been a lot
:21:47. > :21:51.of talk about new taxes on the 12 the, but little detail. There is a
:21:51. > :21:55.suspicion that Nick Clegg isn't pressing hard enough for the much
:21:55. > :22:00.cherished mansion tax on expensive properties in return for making
:22:00. > :22:05.some of these future welfare cuts. So much so that a former Treasury
:22:05. > :22:09.spokesman got the party to we can be to -- recommit itself to the
:22:09. > :22:12.mansion tax policy. Nick Clegg has been hinting at looking at other
:22:12. > :22:17.ways of hitting of the wealthy, questioning whether richer
:22:17. > :22:20.pensioners should still receive the winter fuel allowance in the future.
:22:20. > :22:24.The official record of the Aardman between the government chief whip
:22:24. > :22:27.Andrew Mitchell and police officers in Downing Street has been
:22:27. > :22:30.published in full for the first time. It appears to confirm that Mr
:22:30. > :22:38.Mitchell called the officers plebs and said they should know their
:22:38. > :22:44.place. The crucial thing is that is what he denies saying. Yes, it
:22:44. > :22:48.doesn't really change much in that sense. He has denied using that
:22:48. > :22:52.word, and has denied previously swearing at the officers, although
:22:53. > :22:57.that seems to have been acknowledged. The early reports
:22:57. > :23:04.suggested he used the word more runs, and that doesn't appear in
:23:04. > :23:09.this account of what police reported on. One thing that does
:23:09. > :23:13.come out is how close he came to being arrested by the officers.
:23:13. > :23:16.They warned him that if he didn't stop swearing at them, they would
:23:16. > :23:22.use their powers, and that is the thing that stopped him shouting at
:23:22. > :23:25.them. Downing Street will be reasonably content that this story
:23:25. > :23:29.is not really going anywhere any more. There are no fresh
:23:29. > :23:36.revelations here. We still have the stand-off over the fact, what one
:23:36. > :23:39.man said verses what the account of another officer says. Unless
:23:39. > :23:46.members of the public come forward, who were apparently present, and
:23:46. > :23:49.give their account, it seems that Mr Mitchell is likely to survive.
:23:49. > :23:53.Europe's golfers have been told to expect if by a reception from the
:23:53. > :23:58.crowds on the Ryder Cup begins this week. Practice rounds start today,
:23:58. > :24:08.even though the USA has home advantage, Europe's captain Jose
:24:08. > :24:13.Maria Olazabal, says the odds are still even.
:24:13. > :24:17.Fresh from Chicago airport, Jose Maria Olazabal plus hand luggage.
:24:17. > :24:22.The European captain and the Ryder Cup arrived to blue skies and warm
:24:22. > :24:29.welcome from the American counterpart. It is the resumption
:24:29. > :24:34.of one of sport's greatest battles. Two years ago at Celtic Manor, it
:24:34. > :24:39.was Europe, under Colin Montgomerie, that celebrated. His replacement
:24:39. > :24:43.believes this time it is too close to call. The crowds are going to be
:24:43. > :24:48.rooting for the home team, so we have to be prepared for that. I
:24:48. > :24:54.have said it all along, I think both teams are pretty much even. It
:24:54. > :24:58.is going to be a close match. the deluge at Celtic Manor, this
:24:58. > :25:02.year, conditions almost perfect. With their home advantage, the USA
:25:02. > :25:07.team are marginal favourites. They know that the peace and quiet will
:25:07. > :25:14.soon be replaced by deafening support. Chicago is an incredible
:25:14. > :25:24.sports down. They are going to be fired up. It is an incredible, big
:25:24. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:30.golf course, and a big stage. years ago that support helped the
:25:30. > :25:36.USA win in Kentucky, although it is their only victory in the last five
:25:36. > :25:42.Ryder Cups. They came pretty close last time. The very last match,
:25:42. > :25:47.before Graham McDowell's heroics. A yet more proof of the Ryder Cup's
:25:47. > :25:51.capacity for spellbinding drama. Once again, the stage is set.
:25:51. > :25:55.And so the waiting is almost over. The players now have three days of
:25:55. > :26:02.practice before the latest chapter of one of sport's most enthralling
:26:02. > :26:06.sagas. How about this for a remarkably
:26:06. > :26:13.lucky escape? This lorry took a sharp left, hitting another lorry
:26:13. > :26:17.coming in the other direction. But look at what happens to the driver.
:26:17. > :26:21.Amazingly, he somehow went straight through the windscreen, landing on
:26:21. > :26:31.his feet, and manages to walk away from the accident completely and
:26:31. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:38.injured. Let's have a look at the Unfortunately the warnings of rain
:26:38. > :26:47.have been realised in much of the country. We have seen well over 100
:26:47. > :26:57.mm in Antrim it. Not far behind in Wales. Some of the wetter spots
:26:57. > :26:58.
:26:58. > :27:02.have been across northern England. That is just in the site where we
:27:02. > :27:06.measure rainfall. Even more is falling on the hills. This is the
:27:06. > :27:13.radar chart for the last few hours. This bulk of rain isn't moving
:27:13. > :27:17.anywhere particularly fast. The rain falling on the hills is set to
:27:17. > :27:22.make its way down through the river system as well. So we still have an
:27:22. > :27:28.ample warning in place for northern England and Wales. Anticipate some
:27:28. > :27:34.more flooding as well. Either side of that, to the south we have some
:27:34. > :27:40.heavy showers. To the north, turning wetter, accompanied by gale
:27:40. > :27:44.force of winds. Particularly cold in that wind as well. Some good
:27:44. > :27:48.news in Northern Ireland, the heavy rain will continue to ease away.
:27:48. > :27:55.But in northern England and parts of North and Wales, the rain may
:27:55. > :28:00.return, even if it is dry at the moment. By contrast, a lovely
:28:00. > :28:03.bright day across part of the Midlands, but East Anglia and the
:28:04. > :28:10.south-east, some heavy and thundery showers. They could cause some
:28:10. > :28:15.problems for the evening rush-hour. The low-pressure system, centred
:28:15. > :28:19.around the swirling wind two, will be on the move tonight. In north-
:28:19. > :28:27.east England, the rain will gradually ease, but it will turn
:28:27. > :28:33.water across the Midlands and the south-west. If you're early, across
:28:33. > :28:39.parts of north-west England, around Cheshire, Merseyside, some wet
:28:39. > :28:43.weather to come, but the rain is pushing its way southwards. The
:28:43. > :28:48.focus for the rain will be across Wales, the Midlands and southern
:28:48. > :28:58.England. Though showers could be pretty intent and thundery in
:28:58. > :29:00.
:29:00. > :29:06.places. -- intends. But many places will turn drier a mortal help the
:29:06. > :29:13.situation. It improves again for some of your on Thursday, some
:29:13. > :29:18.showers around to the south and the East, some of these will heavy.
:29:18. > :29:28.Some brightness as well, and a quick look at Tuesday, going back
:29:28. > :29:29.
:29:29. > :29:34.Our top story - a torrential rain has brought widespread flooding
:29:34. > :29:38.across the UK. Police in Cleveland have declared a major incident