:00:11. > :00:15.Sentenced to life in prison - a homeless man is found guilty of the
:00:15. > :00:20.brutal murders of a vicar and retired teacher. Stephen Farrow,
:00:20. > :00:23.who has a hatred for Christians, stabbed Betty Yates and Reverend
:00:23. > :00:28.John Suddards in their homes earlier this year.
:00:28. > :00:30.The exams watchdog criticises teachers for overgenerous marking
:00:30. > :00:36.of coursework, which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE
:00:36. > :00:43.English results. Plainly intended to deceive. Denis
:00:43. > :00:46.MacShane faces suspension from the Commons for fiddling expenses.
:00:46. > :00:50.Recovering from sandy - long queues for food and fuel as millions
:00:50. > :00:52.remain without power. Britain's ash trees under threat. The
:00:52. > :00:54.Government's emergency committee meet to discuss the killer
:00:54. > :00:57.infection. And back on earth - Felix
:00:57. > :01:05.Baumgartner says he never feared for his life even though he only
:01:05. > :01:08.On BBC London: A former counter- terrorism officer appears in court
:01:08. > :01:18.to deny misconduct in public office. And what future for London's
:01:18. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:36.airports, as expansion plans are Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:36. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:41.A homeless drifter with a hatred for Christians has been jailed for
:01:41. > :01:45.life for murdering a vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farrow
:01:45. > :01:48.stabbed his victims to death earlier this year in woirst and
:01:48. > :01:52.Gloucestershire, but denied murder on the grounds of diminished
:01:52. > :01:55.responsibility. He claimed he was abused by a priest at boarding
:01:55. > :02:01.school. This morning a jury found the 48-year-old guilty of murder on
:02:01. > :02:05.both counts. He has been sentenced to life in prison.
:02:06. > :02:10.Stephen Farrow, a homeless drifter with a hatred of the church. He
:02:10. > :02:14.claimed as a child he had been abused by a priest. His victims
:02:14. > :02:21.could hardly have been more respected members of their
:02:21. > :02:28.communities. Betty Yates, a retired teacher and regular church gory and
:02:28. > :02:34.Reverend John Suddards were killed six weeks and 75 miles apart.
:02:34. > :02:37.Farrow turned up at Betty Yates' cottage. He battered her with her
:02:37. > :02:42.walking stick before stabbing her four times in the head. Pharaoh,
:02:42. > :02:47.seen here on CCTV, then went on the run, before arriving in Thornbury
:02:47. > :02:53.near Bristol in early February. There, he burgled a cottage leaving
:02:53. > :03:02.a note pibed to the table with two knives referring to Christian scuk.
:03:02. > :03:08."I hate God ," it said. Farrow found John Suddards alone at his
:03:08. > :03:12.vicarage. He told a psychiatrist that he stabbed the reverend and
:03:12. > :03:17.kicked him to keep him down and ordered him to die and hurry after.
:03:17. > :03:22.After, he spent the night here drinking beer and watching DVDs.
:03:22. > :03:31.When the police arrived they found a Bible and a picture of Jesus
:03:31. > :03:37.placed alongside the body. I could well have been another victim.
:03:37. > :03:42.Michaela met him while volunteering at a church vigil. He texted her.
:03:42. > :03:45."I won't stop until I'm caught. You don't know how disturbed I am. The
:03:45. > :03:51.church will be the first to suffer." She said the police
:03:51. > :03:57.ignored her warnings. Maybe the two deaths of Betty and the Reverend
:03:57. > :04:03.would not have happened. I just find it so sad that those two
:04:03. > :04:07.people had to die in those circumstances. But Farrow, who was
:04:07. > :04:11.finally brought to justice by DNA evidence, will no longer be a
:04:11. > :04:16.threat to the public. Let's speak to our correspondent,
:04:16. > :04:22.Jon Brain, who's at Bristol Crown Court. In the last few minutes, the
:04:22. > :04:26.judge has sentenced him to life in prison. Yes, in fact, a whole life
:04:26. > :04:30.sentence. The judge said that he'd acted sadistically and that a whole
:04:30. > :04:35.life sentence was needed. Theoretically he could spend the
:04:35. > :04:40.rest of his days in prison. He actually refused to attend his
:04:40. > :04:44.trial here at Bristol and was in his prison cell while the graphic
:04:44. > :04:48.details of the killings of Betty Yates and John Suddards were given
:04:48. > :04:54.to the court. But it was here in the dock -- he was here as the jury
:04:54. > :04:57.delivered their verdicts on murder on both counts.
:04:57. > :05:01.The exams watchdog has criticised teachers for overgenerous marking
:05:02. > :05:05.of coursework which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE
:05:05. > :05:09.English results. Ofqual claims that examiners were forced to raise the
:05:09. > :05:11.grade boundaries as a result. Teaching unions have accused the
:05:11. > :05:17.regulator of shifting blame. Our education correspondent, Reeta
:05:17. > :05:20.Chakrabarti, reports. The row over GCSE English has been a bitter one.
:05:21. > :05:24.Until now, it's focused on exam boards raising the bar to get a
:05:24. > :05:28.good grade halfway through the year so that those pupils, who sat the
:05:28. > :05:32.paper in January needed fewer marks than those would sat it in June.
:05:32. > :05:36.Ofqual has looked closely at coursework for the exam or
:05:36. > :05:39.controlled assessment as it's called, done under strict classroom
:05:39. > :05:45.supervision. It said teachers in some secondary schools were guilty
:05:45. > :05:49.of significantly overmarking the work to boost grades. I have been
:05:49. > :05:54.shocked, I think students have been let down and it won't do. They need
:05:54. > :05:58.to learn the skills of English. It's so important to them. What I
:05:58. > :06:02.suspect here is that too many of them have been taught how to get
:06:02. > :06:05.through hoops rather than really get the life skill that's they need.
:06:05. > :06:10.It's half term at this London school, but these pueprilz
:06:10. > :06:14.preparing for resits this month. They were predicted C grades but
:06:14. > :06:18.got Ds. They're now at college but have been coming back to school to
:06:18. > :06:22.revise. I feel let down. Because I was supposed to trust the
:06:22. > :06:28.Government and teachers and schools that I can achieve this grade when
:06:28. > :06:32.they help me. But because now that I was supposed to a -- achieve the
:06:32. > :06:36.grade but they lowered it for not a good enough reason. The head
:06:37. > :06:42.teacher is furious that teachers are being blamed. Outraged,
:06:42. > :06:46.absolutely outraged. The report that came out today failed, and I'm
:06:46. > :06:49.disappointed with Ofqual, because they failed to recognise and take
:06:49. > :06:53.responsibility for their own mistakes and have pointed the
:06:53. > :06:57.finger at others. Thousands have been unhappy with their English
:06:57. > :07:02.marks. 45,000 pupils are resitting the exam this month. Unions
:07:02. > :07:06.estimate tens of thousands were predicted C grades who then got a D.
:07:06. > :07:10.Playgrounds may be empty this week, but the fallout from the marking
:07:10. > :07:15.row goes on with questions being asked not just about last summer's
:07:15. > :07:20.grades but about the system of school league tables too. Ofqual
:07:20. > :07:24.maintains that teachers being overgenerous forced examers to
:07:24. > :07:28.raise the number of marks needed to get a good grade. The but the
:07:28. > :07:33.watchdog faces legal action from groups who want papers to be
:07:33. > :07:37.regraded, as in Wales. We all become better... The Education
:07:37. > :07:42.Secretary Michael Gove is strongly opposed to MoD lar exams sat at
:07:42. > :07:46.different times of the year and they're be phased out by 2014. The
:07:46. > :07:50.pressure that league tables put on schools to get good grades has yet
:07:50. > :07:53.to be addressed. The former Labour minister, Denis
:07:53. > :07:57.MacShane, faces suspension from Parliament for 12 months for
:07:57. > :08:01.fiddling his expenses. The committee for Standards and
:08:01. > :08:04.Privileges has found he committed a series of -- submitted a series of
:08:04. > :08:08.invoices plainly intended to deceive. Calling it the gravest
:08:08. > :08:12.case on which it has passed judgment. Our correspondent Chris
:08:12. > :08:18.Mason is at Westminster. When do these claims date back to? These
:08:18. > :08:23.claims relate to 2005 to 2008. The Standards and Privileges Committee
:08:23. > :08:27.unflinching in its criticism of Denis MacShane. The criticism
:08:27. > :08:32.pertains to two aspects of expenses. Firstly, computers. MPs are allowed
:08:32. > :08:36.to claim for IT equipment. But they believe that Mr MacShane's claims
:08:36. > :08:41.were excessive. He had access to three laptops and three PCs in
:08:41. > :08:45.addition he claimed for a further eight computers. Criticism too for
:08:45. > :08:52.claims relating to Denis MacShane's interest in European politics. He
:08:52. > :08:57.submitted a good number of invoices from the European policy institute.
:08:57. > :09:01.The MPs conclude the bank account of the institute was controlled by
:09:01. > :09:04.Mr MacShane. What happened now? has been, as far as the committee
:09:04. > :09:08.are concerned, recommended for suspension from the Commons for a
:09:08. > :09:12.period of 12 months. It is at this stage a recommendation. But it
:09:12. > :09:16.would appear likely that Parliament is likely to follow through and
:09:16. > :09:19.carry out that suspension. Mr MacShane has said he's shocked and
:09:19. > :09:23.saddened at the news. He has apologised and repaid the money
:09:23. > :09:28.that he had claimed. The Labour Party this lunch time have said
:09:29. > :09:33.that they have suspended him. Mr MacShane says his career has been
:09:33. > :09:36.all be destroy -- but destroyed. COBRA the Government crisis
:09:37. > :09:40.committee, which normally meets to discuss national emergencies, has
:09:40. > :09:46.been meeting to discuss the threat to the UK's native ash trees. The
:09:46. > :09:49.fungal disease, which has wiped out up to 90% of ash trees in Denmark,
:09:49. > :09:55.was first identified in mature trees here last month. Our rural
:09:55. > :09:58.affairs correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, reports. It is a killer disease, a
:09:58. > :10:05.fungal infection which first weakens, then wipes out ash trees
:10:05. > :10:09.in their thousands. The symptoms are obvious, dead, blackened leaves,
:10:09. > :10:12.linear scars along the bark. Britain's 80 million ash trees are
:10:12. > :10:17.under threat with potentially disastrous consequences for the
:10:17. > :10:22.landscape, environment and the economy. So today the Government's
:10:22. > :10:27.response, a meeting of the COBRA committee, normally associated with
:10:27. > :10:30.cor alerts and national crises. This amid claims that ministers
:10:30. > :10:34.ignored warning that's may have stopped the disease before it got
:10:34. > :10:37.here. We know this is a very serious disease which has caused
:10:38. > :10:42.real damage in other countries, such as Denmark. That is why we, as
:10:42. > :10:47.a Government, are taking it so extremely seriously. I've called
:10:47. > :10:51.together the COBRA meeting today so that every Government agency and
:10:51. > :10:56.devolves administrations can work together to control it. These
:10:56. > :11:00.Government labs outside York are in the front line of this battle.
:11:00. > :11:04.Their first task is to establish how fart disease has spread. The
:11:04. > :11:11.work here starts with this -- how far the disease has spread. The
:11:11. > :11:16.work here starts with this, this piece of ash. There is a dark
:11:16. > :11:25.lesion there. That's a classic symptom. We need scientific
:11:25. > :11:28.evidence. That means extracting the DNA. They need to identify the
:11:28. > :11:33.fungus. Good news is that cases in the wild are limited to East Anglia.
:11:33. > :11:36.The bad news, there's no known way to control the spread. It is very
:11:36. > :11:42.difficult to control. Any organisation, particularly wind
:11:42. > :11:48.borne, it is very difficult to have control on it. We are looking into
:11:48. > :11:53.measures which we can manage this problem. At stake is some of our
:11:53. > :11:58.most Cherished countryside. Ash trees make up about 30% of British
:11:58. > :12:02.woodland, seldom have they been under such grave threat.
:12:02. > :12:06.Freddie Starr has been released on police bail after being questioned
:12:06. > :12:11.by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. The
:12:11. > :12:16.immediation was arrested last night -- the comedian was arrested last
:12:16. > :12:19.night. He has denied claims that he groped a girl of 14 while in a room
:12:19. > :12:23.with Savile. The Foreign Office has raised the
:12:23. > :12:29.terrorist threat for Egypt to severe. There is now a high risk of
:12:29. > :12:33.attack. It warns travels not to go to Sinai where there have been
:12:34. > :12:38.hijackings and kidnaps. On the East Coast of America, food
:12:38. > :12:43.and fuel shortages have led to long queues in New York and New Jersey,
:12:43. > :12:47.as residents try to get their lifdz back to normal after superstorm
:12:47. > :12:50.sandy. About 4.5 million people are still without power. Some have been
:12:50. > :12:54.told they won't be reconnected for another ten days. More than 90
:12:54. > :12:59.people are known to have died during Monday's devastating storm.
:12:59. > :13:02.Here's Mike Wooldridge. As the week draws to a close, after one of the
:13:02. > :13:07.worst storms this part of America has seen, in some places the
:13:07. > :13:17.frustration is now boiling over. We're going to die. We're going to
:13:17. > :13:18.
:13:18. > :13:24.freeze. We've got 90-year-old people. I just spent $30,000 in my
:13:24. > :13:28.home. And it's all gone. We are working class neighbourhood and
:13:28. > :13:32.it's just like fend for yourselves kind of thing. Transport of all
:13:33. > :13:37.kinds is severely affected. Motorists are forced to wait for
:13:37. > :13:40.hours in some cases, to fill up. At one point power cuts affected eight
:13:40. > :13:45.million homes and businesses. The power is still out for nearly four
:13:45. > :13:50.million and that's also a source of growing impatience. We're looking
:13:50. > :13:57.for some type of support here. We have no power. I was hoping that I
:13:57. > :14:03.would come down here and maybe we would have generators or power
:14:03. > :14:08.supplies. Generators are not available. FEMA is one of the
:14:08. > :14:11.targets of those criticising the response of the authorities and of
:14:11. > :14:18.others involved in disaster relief. All these people making these big
:14:18. > :14:21.salrilz should be out there on the front line. -- salaries. I am
:14:21. > :14:25.disappointed. Some of the frustration is shared by local
:14:25. > :14:29.politicians. The city of New York is talking about getting water out
:14:29. > :14:33.of the battery tunnel and preparing for a marathon. We're pulling
:14:34. > :14:37.bodies out of waurtd. You see the disconnect here? There are recovery
:14:37. > :14:40.operations taking place across the affected areas of New York and the
:14:40. > :14:44.surrounding states. There are various kinds of relief supplies
:14:44. > :14:47.being distributed. But if the accusation and the perception gains
:14:47. > :14:52.ground that the response is much slower in working class districts
:14:52. > :14:58.than in wealthier areas, the question is whether there could yet
:14:58. > :15:02.be political fall out as election day approaches. Today's October
:15:02. > :15:06.employment figures show the jobless rate slightly up after falling in
:15:06. > :15:11.September. Employers are adding more jobs and highering more
:15:11. > :15:14.strongly. All this with the campaign now back in full swing and
:15:14. > :15:16.the presidential raise judged too close to call. President Obama
:15:16. > :15:20.acknowledging that there's a long way to go in dealing with the
:15:20. > :15:27.superstorm, but insisting that in the last few days, America has been
:15:27. > :15:31.With four days until the presidential election the campaign
:15:31. > :15:34.is back if full swing. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in
:15:34. > :15:38.Cleveland in the crucial swing state of Ohio.
:15:38. > :15:44.Is there any sense of this growing disquiet having any sort of impact
:15:44. > :15:49.on the campaign trail? Well, undoubtedly it will do and both
:15:49. > :15:52.candidates are here campaigning in Ohio today. Both want the crucial
:15:52. > :15:55.18 votes that it has in the electoral college and when
:15:55. > :15:59.President Obama is here he is going to have to respond to this growing
:15:59. > :16:03.sense of frustration that people without power, that people without
:16:03. > :16:07.homes are feeling. Equally for Mitt Romney, he may want to criticise
:16:07. > :16:10.aspects of the storm response, he will have to be careful not to be
:16:10. > :16:13.too critical. For both men it's very difficult. They are
:16:13. > :16:18.campaigning. The election is on Tuesday. But they don't want to
:16:18. > :16:21.make a political issue out of what is a natural disaster, while at the
:16:21. > :16:26.same time they may wish to but they can't do it overtly. With a few
:16:26. > :16:32.days to go there's been good news for President Obama on the jobs
:16:33. > :16:39.front. Some good news. 171,000 jobs were created in the last month. But
:16:39. > :16:42.the unemployment rate has ticked up from 7.8% to 7.9% because more
:16:42. > :16:46.people are joining the workforce. There's something interesting going
:16:46. > :16:49.on here, which is that consumers are feeling quite confident.
:16:49. > :16:54.They're starting to spend again. Here where I am actually the
:16:54. > :16:57.economy is doing relatively well and unemployment is actually below
:16:57. > :17:02.the national average, at about 7%. Businesses are very concerned about
:17:02. > :17:07.something called the fiscal cliff. This will hit early next year where
:17:07. > :17:10.there will be big automatic spending cuts in Government and tax
:17:10. > :17:15.increases unless congressional leaders can agree their way out of
:17:15. > :17:17.this impasse. Thank you. Our top story:
:17:17. > :17:24.A homeless man has been jailed for life for the brutal murders of a
:17:24. > :17:30.vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farro warbgs stabbed
:17:30. > :17:34.Reverend John Suddards and Betty Yates in their homes.
:17:34. > :17:40.Coming up, after the wettest summer for 100 years many parts of the UK
:17:40. > :17:43.face the risk of flooding. On BBC London: Claims a mother from Surrey
:17:43. > :17:47.was given electric shock therapy without permission from her family.
:17:47. > :17:57.We are at the O2 getting ready to host the world's best tennis
:17:57. > :17:59.
:17:59. > :18:04.Members of China's ruling Communist Party are getting ready to appoint
:18:04. > :18:06.new leaders who'll rule the country for the next decade. But what sort
:18:06. > :18:09.of legacy will they inherit? The remarkable Three Gorges Dam may
:18:09. > :18:12.have become a symbol of China's development, but while it produces
:18:12. > :18:20.vast amounts of hydroelectric power, it's come at an environmental and
:18:20. > :18:25.human cost, as our correspondent Martin Patience reports.
:18:25. > :18:31.It's one of the biggest dams ever built. Stretching for over two
:18:31. > :18:37.kilometres and costing over $40 billion, the Three Gorges Dam was
:18:37. > :18:40.designed to tame the mighty YangtzeW a project on this scale
:18:40. > :18:45.nobody was allowed to get in the way.
:18:45. > :18:51.When the dam was completed these fishermen were told to leave. But
:18:51. > :18:54.they say it's the only job they know. TRANSLATION:
:18:54. > :18:59.We can't make a living if we can't fish. We have appealed to the
:18:59. > :19:03.Government but no one is listening. This huge dam stands as a symbol of
:19:03. > :19:07.China's development. Over the last decade, the scale and pace of
:19:07. > :19:12.change has been unprecedented. But the way that millions of people
:19:12. > :19:20.have been pushed aside by the Communist Party has generated
:19:20. > :19:25.enormous resentment. Fu Xiancai was one of millions forced to relocate
:19:25. > :19:30.because of the dam. He never received compensation he was due.
:19:30. > :19:37.When he he complained to local officials he says he was beaten,
:19:37. > :19:41.leaving him paralysed. TRANSLATION: If ordinary people can defend their
:19:41. > :19:48.own rights, and if Government officials follow the law, then this
:19:48. > :19:54.country will change for the better. Much of China's wealth is now
:19:54. > :19:59.flowing down the Yangtze. Like in other cities the people here are
:19:59. > :20:04.becoming used to being better off. Many are no longer prepared to be
:20:04. > :20:11.pushed around like in the past. And for China's new leaders that means
:20:11. > :20:15.ruling a population less likely to follow the party line.
:20:15. > :20:25.You can get more information on the issues and challenges facing
:20:25. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:29.China's new leaders on our website. Two men have been arrested in
:20:29. > :20:32.connection with the murder of a prison officer in Northern Ireland.
:20:32. > :20:34.David Black was shot yesterday as he drove to his job at a high-
:20:34. > :20:38.security jail in Country Antrim. It's believed dissident republicans
:20:38. > :20:43.were responsible for the attack. The men, aged 31 and 44, were
:20:43. > :20:47.detained in the Lurgan area. Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports.
:20:47. > :20:51.David Black was a prison officer during some of the worst periods of
:20:51. > :20:54.the Troubles but his family are grieving at a time of relative
:20:54. > :20:57.peace and today detectives arrested two men in connection with his
:20:57. > :21:01.killing. When police first found his car at
:21:01. > :21:05.the side of the M1 motorway they thought it was a simple road
:21:05. > :21:10.accident, rather than a murder. In fact, David Black was already dead
:21:10. > :21:14.when his car veered into this ditch, killed by gun shots fired from
:21:14. > :21:18.another vehicle. The Government will do whatever we can to help the
:21:18. > :21:23.PSNI bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice. One of the men
:21:23. > :21:27.that's been arrested is the well- known Republican Colin Duffy.
:21:27. > :21:30.Earlier this year he was acquitted of killing two soldiers outside a
:21:30. > :21:35.barracks in Antrim. He always denied any involvement in the
:21:35. > :21:40.attack. But he has described himself as a dissident Republican.
:21:40. > :21:45.If that means somebody who dissents from mainstream Sinn Fein thinking,
:21:45. > :21:49.then I am quite happy to class myself in that light. Awaiting
:21:49. > :21:52.trial Colin Duffy had been held on remand in Maghaberry prison. David
:21:52. > :21:56.Black had been travelling to work there when he was shot. It's
:21:56. > :21:59.understood that Mr Black's son drove past the scene of the murder
:21:59. > :22:03.yesterday morning without realising that his father had been the victim
:22:03. > :22:07.of an ambush. And this shooting does raise real security concerns.
:22:07. > :22:16.He is the first prison officer to be killed in Northern Ireland by
:22:16. > :22:19.paramilitaries in almost 20 years. Another leading bank has increased
:22:19. > :22:22.the amount it has set aside to compensate customers who were mis-
:22:22. > :22:29.sold Payment Protection Insurance. RBS, which is 80% owned by the
:22:29. > :22:32.taxpayer, is earmarking an extra �400 million for the payouts. The
:22:32. > :22:35.additional cost helped plunge the bank into a loss of �1.25 billion
:22:35. > :22:39.in the three months to September. Our personal finance correspondent
:22:39. > :22:43.Simon Gompertz is here. Another bank that seems to have got figures
:22:43. > :22:46.wrong over this. Lloyds and Barclays have had to set aside
:22:46. > :22:52.large extra sums. This PPI cover was supposed to help you out with
:22:52. > :22:55.your loan repayments if you fell sick or lost your job but in many
:22:56. > :23:01.cases it was inappropriate. Let me take you through the compensation
:23:01. > :23:05.figures. With Royal Bank of Scotland it's now 1.7 billion, the
:23:05. > :23:10.funds they've set aside with this extra sum. If you take all the
:23:10. > :23:13.banks and building societies together, the total has reached
:23:13. > :23:16.�12.7 billion. A staggering sum. More than they expected. Partly
:23:16. > :23:20.because there's been so much publicity encouraging people to
:23:20. > :23:23.claim and partly because they're having to go directly to some
:23:23. > :23:26.customers and tell them they may have lost out. A lot of people
:23:26. > :23:31.making claims. What kind of compensation are they getting?
:23:31. > :23:37.Typically it's just under �3,000 or more than that in some cases. By my
:23:37. > :23:42.calculation it's around 10,000 cheques or payments per day going
:23:42. > :23:47.out from the banks, around �30 million a day. This could go on for
:23:47. > :23:50.another year or so. That's barring further claims coming in. So it's a
:23:50. > :23:57.massive exercise. A lot of money going into people's pockets. Thank
:23:57. > :23:59.you. We've had the wettest summer in a
:23:59. > :24:02.century and many heavy downpours since and now the Environment
:24:02. > :24:08.Agency has warned of a heightened risk of flooding across parts of
:24:08. > :24:11.the UK. It says the south-west and northern and western parts of
:24:11. > :24:14.England and Wales are at risk and that even relatively small amounts
:24:14. > :24:16.of rain could trigger floods, because rivers are full and ground
:24:16. > :24:18.saturated. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith reports.
:24:18. > :24:22.After a summer that left Britain soaked through, get ready for even
:24:22. > :24:27.more of this. The wettest April to June on record was followed by even
:24:27. > :24:31.more heavy rainfall, leaving rivers full and the ground saturated. That
:24:31. > :24:36.means it won't take much to trigger a flood. We are especially
:24:36. > :24:39.concerned about south-west England, Wales and north-west England. We
:24:39. > :24:43.have seen a lot of floods over the course of the summer and autumn
:24:43. > :24:48.period already, over the summer we issued in excess of 100,000 flood
:24:48. > :24:51.warnings to people. Back in June the residents here
:24:51. > :24:56.were given a warning but it came too late for many to save their
:24:56. > :25:01.homes from the flood. The river actually came in and rose to about
:25:01. > :25:04.6ft high throughout the whole of the house. In the aftermath, Mick
:25:04. > :25:08.showed me around his sodden home and what was left of the gardens.
:25:08. > :25:13.For months they've been trying to put life back together here and now
:25:13. > :25:18.they've been told it could all happen over again. It's not good
:25:18. > :25:21.news, as you might expect. We did hope to be back in by Christmas but
:25:21. > :25:24.that's out of the window now and looks like it's going to be January
:25:24. > :25:28.or February before we can get back into the house. We are really
:25:28. > :25:32.anxious to get back in, we are tired of it all now. I have lost my
:25:32. > :25:36.sense of humour about it all, I have to say. It's only three weeks
:25:36. > :25:40.since the people here in Devon witnessed two inches of rainfall in
:25:40. > :25:50.an hour. It's one of the areas that will be vulnerable again during the
:25:50. > :25:52.
:25:52. > :25:54.autumn. Over five million people in England and Wales live and work in
:25:54. > :25:57.places at risk of flooding. The Environment Agency says they should
:25:57. > :25:58.start thinking now about moving valuables to a safe and dry place,
:25:58. > :26:01.rather than wait for the rivers to rise.
:26:01. > :26:05.More than a million people have already signed up to receive free
:26:05. > :26:14.flood warnings by e-mail, text or phone message. Those lines are set
:26:14. > :26:17.to be busier than ever before this autumn.
:26:17. > :26:20.Just a few weeks ago, not many people knew the name Felix
:26:20. > :26:23.Baumgartner. But that all changed when he leapt from a balloon 24
:26:23. > :26:25.miles above the Earth. Now back safely on the ground, he's been
:26:25. > :26:33.speaking to our correspondent Tim Muffett about his record-breaking
:26:33. > :26:37.skydive. He began by describing his feelings as he got ready to jump.
:26:38. > :26:41.When you are up there on top of the world and you stand there, you
:26:41. > :26:51.finally realise this is a very quiet moment, you know. You are the
:26:51. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :26:56.only person at that point. So you go into that spin. That
:26:56. > :27:01.could have killed you theoretically. Did you think you might die at that
:27:01. > :27:10.moment? When I went into that spin it was very violent. It was way
:27:10. > :27:14.more violent than we anticipated. I constantly thought about at that
:27:14. > :27:17.moment it slows you down so much you cannot break the speed of sound
:27:17. > :27:21.any more. That was the worry at that moment. Even at that moment
:27:22. > :27:25.your big he is concern was the record as opposed to survival?
:27:25. > :27:30.That's extraordinary. Yeah, you know because this is my job. Here
:27:30. > :27:36.he is coming. And there you can see by the approaching - just about
:27:36. > :27:39.there! Then finally you land and you know everything is over now. I
:27:39. > :27:44.did not know if I broke the speed of sound at that moment because
:27:44. > :27:47.there is no sign for it. It's hard to tell. People on the ground told
:27:48. > :27:51.me that they heard the supersonic boom. Did you already plan to do
:27:51. > :27:54.that kneel down and arm in the air, had you thought about that?
:27:54. > :28:00.that's a natural reaction. This is victory, you know, after so many
:28:00. > :28:04.years of preparation. When I was a little kid I got this
:28:04. > :28:08.coin when I was born and it had the three astronauts on it, Collins,
:28:08. > :28:12.Armstrong and Aldrin and when I was five years old I always had that
:28:12. > :28:17.coin and I looked up to the moon and thought how did they do it? It
:28:17. > :28:24.was inspiring for me and maybe the reason I did it. You hope now I am
:28:24. > :28:31.sure that maybe kids watched your jump will now be inspired? Yeah,
:28:31. > :28:36.that's a great honour, you know. Felix Baumgartner speaking there,
:28:36. > :28:39.extraordinary images. Let's look at There is a chilly breeze outside
:28:39. > :28:43.today but at least we are compensating with it with sunshine.
:28:43. > :28:48.For many areas decent spells of sunshine but also heavy and
:28:48. > :28:52.thundery showers around. Especially for southern and western areas, the
:28:52. > :28:55.radar picture shows where we have seen the showers, the green colours
:28:55. > :29:00.indicating torrential downpours particularly across parts of
:29:00. > :29:04.Northern Ireland to the north-west of England and also filtering in to
:29:04. > :29:07.the Bristol Channel. These areas are prone to showers throughout the
:29:07. > :29:10.afternoon. Inland many areas are dry. Overnight the winds ease away
:29:10. > :29:13.and that's going to allow temperatures to take a tumble and
:29:13. > :29:18.then later in the night further showers working in from the west.
:29:18. > :29:22.That's the recipe for a khaeully and -- chilly and icy start
:29:22. > :29:26.particularly across the northern half of the UK. It is a little bit
:29:26. > :29:31.milder further south. I don't think we are going to have icy patches.
:29:31. > :29:34.But we have those showers filtering in on a brisk breeze.
:29:34. > :29:39.It's looking like a pleasant morning to come across Wales with
:29:39. > :29:42.spells of sunshine. We have still got that heavy rain in the north-
:29:43. > :29:46.west of England. Equally across Northern Ireland, after some
:29:46. > :29:50.overnight showers a chilly morning, could be slippery first thing on
:29:50. > :29:55.the roads. For Scotland temperatures around about freezing,
:29:55. > :30:01.below in some sheltered Glens. We could see frosty patches first
:30:01. > :30:05.thing. It's looking dry and bright across much of the Midlands and
:30:05. > :30:08.into East Anglia but we still have a risk of sharp showers pouring in
:30:08. > :30:15.around the southern coasts of England. That's the way it looks
:30:15. > :30:19.through the day. Another day of sunshine and showers. Some of the
:30:19. > :30:24.showers wintry. But for many eastern areas it's a pwroeut and
:30:24. > :30:29.sunny day but temperatures still on the cool side.
:30:29. > :30:32.It's going to feel chilly. Chilly into Saturday evening, as well. We
:30:32. > :30:38.keep the risk of showers in the far south and for western areas. If you
:30:38. > :30:42.are heading to any bonfire displays instance, we could catch a shower.
:30:42. > :30:45.For eastern areas, Edinburgh, Norwich, skies are looking clear
:30:45. > :30:49.although we have a brisk breeze. Through Saturday night into Sunday
:30:49. > :30:53.you can see this area of low pressure that continues to be be in
:30:53. > :30:57.command of our weather. It's pushing further south. Sunday looks
:30:57. > :31:00.like another day of sunshine and showers but we could have more
:31:00. > :31:05.persistent rain working in to the south-east of England and
:31:05. > :31:08.temperatures at best perhaps around about 7-11 Celsius. It's going to
:31:08. > :31:17.be feeling chilly into the weekend and we are going to see that