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Homes evacuated and transport disrupted as floods spread across | :00:04. | :00:11. | |
the north of England, Wales and the borders. There are nearly 90 flood | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
warnings in England. Dozens of people have been rescued from their | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
homes. No stopping the rising waters. For some, it is the second | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
time they have been flooded, and they feel let down. How I feel | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
abandoned, actually, like we have been left to our own devices in the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
hope that Mother Nature did not come knocking again, and of course | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
she has. We will be live in the worst-affected areas. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight: Get ready for another helping of | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
cuts. Nick Clegg is warning that the welfare budget could be next in | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the coalition's sights. Abu Hamza's extradition to America | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
- the BBC apologises after revelations that the Queen once | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
raised her concerns about the terror suspect. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Together on the ferry to France - police release pictures of the | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
missing teenager Megan Stammers and her 30-year-old maths teacher. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
And the battle of the golfing giants - Europe's Ryder Cup players | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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are told they can expect a fiery reception from American fans. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
And I will be here with Sportsday later on the BBC News Channel, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
including a setback for Manchester United as they lose their captain | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. There are hundreds of | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
flood warnings and alerts across the north of England, Wales and the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
borders tonight as a band of heavy rain sweeps across the UK. Hundreds | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
of homes have been evacuated and there has been disruption on the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
railways and roads. A 30 mile stretch of the A1 in North | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Yorkshire has been shut for much of the day. Our correspondent is in | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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Morpeth, where dozens of people have been moved out of their homes. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Over the last day or so, large parts of northern Britain have | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
taken a real battering from the weather. The heavy rain has fallen | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
in many places for more than statistics hours. The scene here is | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
typical - a river in flood, and the emergency services standing by, | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
should the situation get worse. As the heavy rain continued to fall, | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
the inevitable happened. Rivers across northern England burst their | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
banks, and chaos ensued. In Morpeth, the River Wansbeck washed out about | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
100 homes and businesses. This is the second serious flood here since | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
2008. He this is a repeat of four years ago at, but not quite as much | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
water as last time. The owner of this riverside bed-and-breakfast is | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
angered that flood defences have not been significantly improved | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
since last time. I just think, four years of chit Chat, it is stuff and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
nonsense. These flood defences should have been built two years | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
ago and completed. This would not have happened. And you are left | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
with a ruined business? Again. emergency services have been on | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
hand to help, but it is little consolation to those left homeless, | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
wondering how much insurance will cost them now. West of the Pennines | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
in St Helens, residents were left mopping up, and businesses were | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
working out their claims. As you can see, it has wrecked the place. | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
It has damaged a lot of the equipment. We are still assessing | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
what damage has been done. County Durham and Cleveland, police | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
declared a major incident. Schools were urged to close early and 30 | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
homes in Stockton were flooded. But some of today's most astonishing | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
sights were on the roads. This is the A1 in North Yorkshire, a 30 | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
mile stretch was closed for much of the day because it was under water. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
The queues built up, and many were left stranded for hours. People | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
struggled to get through on the diversionary routes as well, and it | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
was not much better for those working off-road. There were long | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
delays on the East Coast Main Line. Trains were diverted and passengers | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
were advised not to travel, although tickets will be valid | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
tomorrow. In Wales, there are problems tonight as well. A flood | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
warning and several flood alerts are in place, with poor conditions | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
in the north. In Haddington, the river burst its banks for the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
second time in just a few months, putting flood victims back to | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
square one. Obviously, it is very distressing, particularly when we | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
are watching and there is a minimum you can do. Today, with the lack of | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
response, with the sandbags, we managed to contain it. Scotland | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
also sought these extraordinary scenes. In Aberdeen, the waves | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
whipped up a filthy brown foam which covered buildings, a messy, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
but relatively harmless consequence of today's terrible weather | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
conditions. The irony in Morpeth is that work is due to begin in the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
next few months on a new flood defence scheme here, but I have | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
talked to people who live near the river and they feel that is too | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
little, too late. As you can see, the rain is still falling. Many | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
people living near rivers tonight have some anxious hours ahead of | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
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them. Now, prepare for for another huge | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
round of spending cuts. Nick Clegg said the government will have to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
agree where another �16 billion of savings can be made. That is on top | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
of the austerity measures that have already been announced. Mr Clegg | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
said ministers should consider whether the British pensioners | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
should give up some benefits -- whether the richest pensioners | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
should give up some benefits. If you thought the cuts were bad, | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
be prepared. In Brighton, there have been cuts to school buildings, | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
bus routes, council services and so much more we don't see. Now the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
coalition is beginning the negotiations about how to find a | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
further �16 billion worth of annual savings to start in three years' | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
time. No wonder Nick Clegg has warned his party of scars to come. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
That is a huge number, but it should be put in context. There | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
will be a major debate. Do you accept that you will have to cut | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
the welfare budget in part to meet those savings? It will not be | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
possible to set the welfare budget entirely aside. It constitutes a | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
third of total public spending. Being discussed by ministers | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
behind-closed-doors is whether to stop benefits like jobseeker's | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
allowance rising with inflation. The Lib Dem leader says no to | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
freezing benefits, but... Of there is an understandable case that some | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
people say, my earnings have only gone up by X amount last year. Why | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
shouldn't people who receive support from taxpayers through | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
benefits be on a similar footing? We can look at that. I am not | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
prepared to introduce a huge cut in real terms to many vulnerable | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
people who rely on benefits. Wood a fairer could be to stop | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
better-off pensioners getting free bus passes, free TV licences and a | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
winter fuel allowance? One Lib Dem minister with a bus pass thinks so. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Somebody like me on an MP's salary should not be receiving a �200 | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
winter fuel allowance. That is money that could be saved out of | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
the welfare bill. It would avoid us having to take more from the least | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
well-off. The coalition will not do that, says the Lib Dem leader, but | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
as for the future? There is a question mark about whether it is | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
right that Peter Stringfellow or Alan Sugar have available to them a | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
free bus pass, subsidised by normal workers paying normal taxes who are | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
struggling to make ends meet. Lib-Dems say what they really | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
wanted in is introduce a tax on mansions. If only the Tories would | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
let them. If, as seems unlikely, the Conservatives agree to your | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
mansion tax, how many more billions of savings, cuts or tax rises, | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
would you still have to find? Considerably more, of course. A | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
mansion tax in and of itself will not fill the black hole. In isn't | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the honest thing to say to the country be that it will not come | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
from mansions or oligarchs or millionaires... It will come from | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
you. You are missing the point. In politics, as in life, your values | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
are reflected in where you start. When you have to tighten your belt, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
who do you first asked to make a sacrifice? Nick Clegg came to | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Brighton, having said sorry. He knows all too well there could be | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
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other difficult things to say in the next few months. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
The BBC has apologised after its security correspondent revealed | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
that the Queen once raised her concerns about the radical cleric | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Abu Hamza. Earlier today, Frank Gardner said the Queen had told him | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
she had spoken to a Home Secretary in the Labour government. The BBC | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
said this was a breach of confidence. After losing his final | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
appeal, Abu Hamza is now due to be extradited to the US on terrorism | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
charges. Abu Hamza, a hugely controversial | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
figure who for years appear to be making a mockery of the British | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
justice system. There was public and press fury at the apparent | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
inability of police and the Home Office to arrest a man regarded as | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
a threat to public order. After a police raid on Finsbury Park mosque | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
in 2003, where Abu Hamza had previously been the imam, he caused | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
outrage when he preached in the streets. It has now emerged that | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the Queen herself shared the sense of frustration. This morning, the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner revealed on Radio 4's Today | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
programme what the Queen said to him about the affair over a private | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
lunch. The Queen was pretty upset that this man, there was no way to | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
arrest him. By the revelations have led the BBC to make an apology to | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the Queen her because they related to a private conversation held in | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
2008. Frank Gardner has written personally to the Queen, saying he | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
is extremely sorry for the embarrassment caused. The Queen is | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
known to express her views to journalists at private meetings, | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
but strict protocol dictates that her comments should not been | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
reported. But constitutional experts say there is nothing | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
surprising about the monarch asking questions of her government's | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
ministers on matters of public concern. The Queen can discuss | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
whatever she likes with the Prime Minister, Home Secretary and | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
whoever. That is completely private. No record is ever kept. There are | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
no others present when discussing it. And that is for the good. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
meanwhile, the Home Office today said they were hopeful that after | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
an eight-year battle against extradition to the United States, | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Abu Hamza would be on a plane within weeks. Once there, he faces | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
charges including allegations that he was involved in the 1998 | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen, three Britons and an | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
Australian died during an attempted rescue. My concern is that I want | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
him tried to see exactly what his involvement in Yemen was. I feel | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
that there is so much evidence. Today has been another embarrassing | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
reminder of the frustration that Abu Hamza seems to have been able | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to inflict upon the British establishment for well over a | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
decade. The relatives of two murdered | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
policewomen have joined hundreds of their colleagues and the public for | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
a vigil and a minute's silence. It took place exactly a week after the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
attack in which PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes died. Dale Cregan has | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
appeared in court, accused of the murder of the officers. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said the police would have been | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
within their rights to arrest the Government Chief Whip, Andrew | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Mitchell. His comments come after the Daily Telegraph published what | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
it calls the official police log of comments Mr Mitchell made to | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
officers in Downing Street when they stopped him cycling out of the | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
main gate. The document appears to confirm that Mr Mitchell swore at | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
officers and called them "plebs". Mr Mitchell has denied using the | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
words attributed to him. It has emerged that concerns about | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
a maths teacher and his relationship with teenager Megan | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Stammers were already under investigation before they went | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
missing together last Friday. This evening, police have released | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
images of 30-year-old Jeremy Forest, with Megan on board a ferry to | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
France. Ben Geoghegan is at Megan's school in Eastbourne. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Megan's School are extremely concerned about her. The police | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
said today that they think it is her friends and classmates who | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
perhaps hold the vital clues in this investigation both as to where | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
she may have gone, but also as to her relationship with her maths | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
teacher. This report contains flash photography. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Arm in arm, hand in hand. These pictures appear to show a 15-year- | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
old Megan Stammers and her maths teacher have just been released by | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Sussex police. The two are on board the ferry that took them to France | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
last week. Megan has now been missing since last Friday, and a | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
huge effort is being made to find her and Jeremy Forest. 30 years old, | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
he is an amateur musician as well as a maths teacher. Megan had been | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
having extra lessons with him before they both disappeared. Today | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
it emerge that classmates at her school in Eastbourne had raised | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
concerns about Megan and her teacher's relationship several | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
months ago. They were reportedly seen holding hands on a flight back | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
from a school trip to the United States. That has led to concern | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
among some parents. They should have done something straight away, | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
not waited seven months. He should have been suspended as soon as they | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
were aware. To date, the local authority said it had been looking | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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into Jeremy Forest's conduct, I am absolutely certain that when a | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
report, and I gather that say a authority will be doing a report on | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
this, that the school will come out in flying colours. Bishop Bell is | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
that good a school. For the moment, the focus is on getting making home. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
I just want you home. Yesterday, her parents made an emotional | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
appeal for her to get in touch. Other parents have sent e-mail | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
messages to friends in France to raise awareness. At Jeremy | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Forrest's home today, the blinds were drawn, windows screened off. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
This afternoon, police arrived without commenting on their | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
investigation. Megan is thought to have talked to some of her friends | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
about going away. Police are still trying to find out exactly what she | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
was planning. Well, it appears that Megan did | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
actually contact a friend of hers after she left Britain to say that | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
she was OK. Since that, there has been silence. In spite of this huge | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
effort by British embassy officials, the British police, the French | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
police as well, it seems that the authorities still do not know where | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
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Our top story: Homes evacuated and transport disrupted as heavy | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
downpours caused chaos across parts of the UK. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Coming up: Good news in the battle against cancer. Death rates are set | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
for a big fall. Later on the news channel, morn | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Funding for Lending. Is the scheme working? And RBS, why is it back in | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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the headlines again over the libel President Obama has used his | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
address to the Annual General Assembly of the United Nations to | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
highlight the conflict in Syria. Calling for President Assad's | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
government to call to one end, Mr Obama also denounced the violence | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
in the wake of what he called a disgusting and internet film. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
In the Big Apple, it is the year's biggest concentration of global | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
power. World leaders bring much of New York to a standstill as they | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
converge on the United Nations. This year, it feels deeply | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
disunited, paralysed in the face of Syria's bloodshed,. Today, the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
world's most powerful leader, focused both in getting re-elected | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
and in speaking to the wider world. In Syria, the future must not | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
belong too late dictator who massacres his people. If there is a | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
cause that cries out for protest in the world today, peaceful protest, | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
it is a regime that tortures children and shoots a rockets at | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
apartment buildings. The President also confronted the anger against | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
America, the murder of one of his ambassadors and the violent | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
protests stirred by the anti Islam video made in the United States. He | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
condemned the hate in the message, but not America's freedom of speech. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. There is no | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
video that justifies an attack on an embassy. There is no slander | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon or | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
destroy a school in Tunis. To cause death and destruction in Pakistan. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
There will be lots of frantic activity, comings and goings at the | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
United Nations. The eyes of the world are on this concentration of | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
global leadership. But while the words become backed by agreement or | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
action? That seems much more unlikely. David Cameron will urge | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
the world to stick to the promises of its Millennium Development Goals. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
The Government says British spending on aid cannot be cut. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
is in our own national interests for other countries to develop | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
successfully and in a peaceful way. It is a characteristic of our | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
country that we believe in the development and prosperity of | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
others. Mr Cameron will also be stepping into showbiz, following | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Boris Johnson by appearing on the Late Show With David Letterman. The | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Prime Minister will bang the drum for British business and urge the | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
watching millions to consider The death rate from cancer in the | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
UK is forecast to fall by almost 17% over the next two decades. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Cancer Research UK says the death- rate from ovarian cancer is | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
expected to see the biggest drop. Fergus Walsh is here with me. Which | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
cancers are we talking about? this is good news. Every family in | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
the UK is touched by cancer at some point. 150,000 deaths last year. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Cancer death rates have actually been falling for quite a while. It | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
would look at the figures, in 2010, 117 people in every 100,000 died | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
from cancer. Scientists from Queen Mary's University of London have | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
done projections to 2030, and that will fall to 142 people in every | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
100,000, a drop of 17%. In ovarian cancer, the fall is projected to be | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
42%. The other big fallers, breast cancer will fall by 27% and bowel | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
cancer by 23%. That is not taking into account a new screening | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
programme for bowel cancer. So, why? Better treatment and earlier | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
diagnosis. For some cancers, we are getting much better at treating | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
them really effectively. There is a wider range of not just new drugs | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
but also more sophisticated types of surgery and radiotherapy. There | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
are many more treatments than they used to be. For some cancers, we | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
are getting much better at finding them earlier. And it is it the same | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
story for all cancers? Sadly not. Some cancers are projected to rise. | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
In particular, liver cancer is projected to rise by a staggering | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
39%, mostly due to alcohol and obesity. Also, oral cancer is due | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
to rise by a significant amount. There, alcohol and a sexually | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
transmitted virus are playing a role. We are still picking up far | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
too many cancers far too late. Late diagnosis. That is one of the key | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
reasons why the UK is still lagging behind on survival rates with many | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
cancers against comparable countries. But we are beginning to | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
bridge the gap. The Chief Constable of Strathclyde | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Police has been appointed to lead the new Police Service of Scotland. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Steven House is expected to take up his role would be new force in the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
autumn, when the Police Service of Scotland begins to operate next | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
April. It will be Britain's second largest police force. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Former England football captain John Terry has returned to Wembley | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
for the second day of his FA disciplinary hearing. He is accused | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
of using racist language in a match against Queen's Park Rangers last | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
October. A criminal court cleared him of the charge two months ago. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Europe's golfers have been told to expect a fiery reception from the | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
crowds when the Ryder Cup begins next week. Practice round start | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
today. Even though the USA has home advantage, Europe's captain, Jose | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
:23:01. | :23:01. | ||
Maria Olazabal, says that the odds It is where dazzling golf meets | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
dazzling knitwear. The European Ryder Cup team, relaxed, refreshed | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
and resplendent in orange. They gathered at the Medinah Course, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
hoping once again to topple their American rivals. They did it two | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
years ago in a quite spine-tingling finish. The hero of Celtic Manor | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
believes that will count for nothing. If it is going to be an | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
exciting week. Like I say, we all start from scratch. It is a lot of | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
fun having the Ryder Cup in our team run this week. We certainly | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
want to play hard and take it back to Europe with us. I don't think | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
there is any advantage from history. The USA can certainly pack a punch. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
They have big names and, after last time's disappointment, they have | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
high expectations. The USA will start this year as slight | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
favourites, mainly because they have home advantage. Year Para | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
against not just 12 American golfers, but thousands of American | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
fans. In the past, that passion has spilled over. Remember the American | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
team's premature celebrations in 1999? Such hostility between the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
players has suit. But American knows their fans will still make | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
life difficult. It will be loud. It will be a ruckus. And it will be | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
fun. It is the same as when we go to Europe. They get into it for | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
their team and our fans get into it for our team. But the USA has lost | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
four of the last five Ryder Cups. Once again, the prize is within | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
their sights. The question is if, this time, they can take it. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
More now on our main news, the problems across a swathe of the UK | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
caused by heavy rain. Bad weather is moving across North Wales now. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Sion Lloyd is in the town of Rochester. What is it looking like | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
there? Well, it is pretty bad. The owners of this pub are bracing | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
themselves for the worst. The Rev Alan has already burst its banks. I | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
am standing in the beer garden and half of it is already under water. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Members of the Environment Agency have already been bringing in | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
mobile flood defences as a precautionary measure. We are just | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
metres away from the pub. This is the highest that this river has | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
been for the last 12 years. Across North Wales, police are warning | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
people not to travel unless necessary. There is a great deal of | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
surface water and many roads are closed. There is great disruption | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
on the trains as well. Arriva trains Wales has apologised for | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
destruction. They are warning that there is more to come across North | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Wales and for people to check before they leave the house. It has | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
also been a very busy time for North Wales Fire and Rescue. They | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
have been called out for incidents from Anglesey right across the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
North Wales coast, Colwyn Bay, and it is still raining here. There is | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
more rain forecast. People are being warned of more disruption to | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
come. For all of the latest pictures and | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
video on how different areas of the UK are experiencing floods, you can | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
find an interactive map on the BBC Let's get the latest on the weather | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Very unusual weather for September. We have seen widespread floods, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
severe gales in places, bringing down trees. A lot of disruption to | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
transport. No surprise that The Met Office has confirmed this is the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
most intense September storm to hit the UK and around 30 years. It has | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
not left our shores yet. Still some problems to come, potentially, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
through this evening. Tonight, The Met Office weather warning is still | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
out for that heavy rain across northern England and North Wales. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Those other places that have borne the brunt of it so far. This is the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
wettest place I could find, over the last couple of days Ravensworth | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
has picked up 117 mm. That is well over twice the September average. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
The bright colours are telling us that the rain is still heavy. It is | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
curling across northern England and northern parts of Wales. You can | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
say that it sticks around for a good few hours. Eventually, later | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
tonight, we see the rain easing away from north-east England. It is | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
affecting south-east Scotland for a time. It never gives up across | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
north-western parts of England. Strong wind is still a feature for | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
North West Scotland and Northern Ireland. Heavy rain and wind a | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
future for some parts of England and Wales. Still some problems | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
potentially through tonight. BBC local radio is a great source of | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
information for the latest travel problems, and the BBC website will | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
also give you the latest. Is it going to get better? It will | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
tomorrow, but only slowly. The sun is coming out across northern | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
England, eventually across North Wales. Northern Ireland and | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
Scotland are looking brighter as well. Maybe one or two localised | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
problems in the south-west, but if you get sunshine between the | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
showers, 14 or 15 degrees should not feel too bad. We are moving | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
back towards more normal September weather. By Thursday, much, much | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
brighter. There is more in the way of sunshine and light the wind | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
coming as well. Light at the end of A reminder of the main news: Holmes | :28:41. | :28:44. |