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A warning of exceptional weather to come as bad, possibly worse than we

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have had already. Tidal surges and high winds threaten many coastal

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areas. Severe flood warnings have been issued with a risk of danger to

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life. These floods at the coast will be dangerous. If the warnings from

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the local authority and emergency services are to take heed and take

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action. We will bring you the latest from the BBC weather Centre. Also,

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another increasing the cost of rail travel. Campaigners say that prices

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are three times faster than wages. Nigella Lawson gives her first

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interview since revelations in court about drug-taking. Two have not only

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your private life, but distortions of your private life put on display

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is mortifying. Energy bills will be simpler from today with clearer

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tariffs and discounts. Thanks, everyone! And a dramatic rescue for

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passengers on a ship trapped in thick ice on the Antarctic since

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Christmas Eve. In sport, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the new manager

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of Cardiff city. The former Manchester United striker

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has signed a 12 month rolling contract.

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Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. If you thought the

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weather was bad over the Christmas break, there is more and possibly

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worse to come. The government is warning we are in for a period of

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exceptional weather over the next few days, with a combination of

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rain, wind and high tides. The Environment Agency has issued 13

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severe flood warnings, the highest category indicating a danger to

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life, for southwestern and tomorrow morning. There are also warnings of

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tidal flooding in numerous locations. Jon Kay is in Newquay in

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Cornwall. Standing here this evening, you get

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a sense of the storm coming in. The wind is certainly picking up. The

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waves are getting higher. This area of North Cornwall is one of those

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areas, the severe weather warning areas. But it goes right around the

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peninsular of south-west England. They are the most serious warnings

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that the Environment Agency can issue. It means there is a potential

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risk to life. So, here it comes again. It might be

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new year, but it is the same old weather heading our way. In Cornwall

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today, a reminder of how treacherous the tide can be. A body was found

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after a man was swept into the sea while celebrating the start of 2014.

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The group of people that got into trouble yesterday, it was reported

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they were only in up to their knees. But there were big waves, a

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strong swell, people underestimate the danger. They think they are not

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actually swimming and they are all right. But it only takes one wave to

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knock you off your feet and you have very little chance of rescuing

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yourself. The Christmas storms left tens of thousands of people without

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power and led to criticism of the emergency response. Mindful of that,

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the Government's emergency committee met in Whitehall today to discuss

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more exceptional weather on the way. We will be working very closely

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with local councils, power companies, utilities and transport

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companies, making sure that all of those organisations are absolutely

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prepared for the bad weather that is coming. It has been a relatively dry

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day in the south-west of England, but coastal communities are

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preparing for the worst. It is unusual to have as many severe

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warnings as there are in place tonight. The highest category that

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can be issued. The Environment Agency is describing a potentially

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deadly, nation of high tides, large waves and strong wind. We have a bit

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of a weather window today, but unfortunately tomorrow we are

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expecting some horrible conditions. There is a storm moving in off the

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Atlantic that will generate some very high wind. Unfortunately, they

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are going to combine with high spring tides that are going to

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generate unpleasant conditions. The Environment Agency is warning of

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more flooding in numerous locations. Not just tonight, but into tomorrow

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and the weekend. Here in Carmarthenshire, a taste of what is

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expected in South and West Wales and parts of Scotland. And there is a

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tidal surge predicted in Northern Ireland on Friday lunchtime. In the

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Cornish harbour town of Foy, they are used to high tides and flooding.

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While they are taking the forecast is seriously, some wonder if the

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authorities might be overreacting. I think there is a danger that the

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message is made into... Is overblown, and it becomes

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scaremongering. But I guess the government have got to do something

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about it. Maybe they need to start looking at the infrastructure more

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carefully? This afternoon, there was little sense of the storm to come.

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But the government insists that the risks are very real and warns that

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Britain must be ready. The government, local councils and

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various agencies are all stressing tonight that they are prepared and

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everything is in place to deal with this storm. I have just heard from

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Cornwall Council. They say they are opening an emergency response unit

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at midnight that will work right through. ABC News teams across the

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UK will be covering it on regional television, local radio. There is

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more information on the BBC News website.

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Travelling by train has become more expensive today at annual rail fare

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increases come into force across much of Britain. All fares are up by

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2.8% on average. Campaigners say that prices are rising three times

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faster than wages. Regulated fares, including season tickets, are up

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3.1% on average. It means for many commuters that the price of

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travelling to work could surpass ?5,000 a year. Many passengers and

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consumer groups have criticised the price hikes, in spite of them being

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the smallest increase for four years.

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It has been as regular as clockwork. For the past decade, it is something

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that busy commuters can always rely on as they rush back after

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Christmas, the January fare rise. Ticket prices were actually meant to

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go up by more until the Government cap the increase last month. I am

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sure these passengers would welcome any respite in the price of the

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ticket. But this comes after a decade worth of above inflation fare

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rises. Will it be enough? It is an improvement on previous years, but I

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still think it is a lot. Commuters get hit hard all the time. ?5,800

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now, it is going to be considerably more. It is going to be a struggle.

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I travel every day from East Croydon. Conditions are horrendous.

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Always delayed. Not happy. It is actually the Government that sets

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the increase for around half of the tickets we die. Known as regulated

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fares, they include season tickets. This year they will go up in line

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with inflation, though companies can add a little more as long as they

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match it with a smaller rise elsewhere. They work coming into

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London from Canterbury -- a worker coming into London from Canterbury

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will only see a rise of ?100 more per year. The Middlesbrough to

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Newcastle commute goes up by 5%, ?128 per year. Successive

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governments keep hiking fares because they want passengers to pay

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a bigger share of the railway running costs. The money also goes

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towards building new stations and electrifying lines to make them more

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reliable. The Government is investing ?16 billion over the next

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five years to upgrade the network in terms of maintenance, new lines and

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rolling stock. That is key. There is some movement in the basis of the

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balance between the fair pay and the taxpayer. The cost of some season

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tickets has almost doubled after ten years of relentless rice rises.

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Slough to London has gone from ?1600 to well over ?3000. Canterbury to

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London has risen from ?2700 to nearly ?5,000. So, how do train

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companies justify the price of a fare? The average season ticket

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holder travels 16,000 miles over the course of the year. If you were

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attempting to drive 16,000 miles in one year and added up the cost that

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you would incur, you would probably spend at least double, probably

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ttreble the cost of a season ticket. In Scotland, the commuters will face

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the same rise as in England. At season-ticket holders in Wales will

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pay a little less than inflation. There was no increase planned in

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Northern Ireland. Despite these price rises, record numbers of

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people are using the railways. I suspect the question a lot of people

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preparing to go home tonight here will be asking, is there any chance

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of a price cut any time soon? I can't see that happening for a few

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years. The government back row pays for about 30% of the railways at the

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moment, and they want to cut that down to 25%. That inevitably means

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more money has to come from passengers.

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Nigella Lawson has said it was mortifying to have details of her

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personal life and drug-taking revealed in court last month.

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Speaking in her first television interview since her two former

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assistants were cleared of defrauding hair and her ex-husband,

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Charles Saatchi, out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, she told a US

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TV station that there only desire during the case was to protect her

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children. The Taste returns tonight with a

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twist... Good Morning America and what would normally have been a

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bright and breezy bit of showbiz, a plug for a cookery programme, The

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Taste. At one of the stars is Nigella Lawson. This is the first

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time she has spoken publicly since the trial of her two assistants. Two

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have not only your private life, but distortions of your private life put

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on display is mortifying. But there are people going through an awful

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lot worse. To dwell on any of it would be self pity. I do that.

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Nigella! Nigella! In the court appearance, she had been accused of

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being a regular user of cocaine, which she denies. The intense

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interest in her life had begun before her trial, -- the trial, when

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these photographs of her and her now former husband appeared. Over the

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months, her private life has become very public. That appearance in

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court was bruising. She said her reputation had been maliciously

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vilified. Today, she appeared more reflective than angry. Still,

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wounded the experience. My only desire was to protect my children as

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much as possible, alas, that was not always possible and I couldn't

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always do it, but that is what I wanted to do. Since then, I have

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eaten a lot of chocolate, had a very good Christmas and I am into the New

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Year. Time to move on and return to talking about food was the message.

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But her feelings about the way she has been treated in court were

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clear. The health of the former is rarely

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prior minister aerial Chevron has worsened significantly. -- aerial

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Chevron. He has been in a coma for eight years since suffering a

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stroke. Doctors say that there are problems with several vital organs

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and his family are at his bedside. The energy bill should be easier to

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understand today. Each company can now offer just four tariffs per

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customer for both electricity and gas.

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If you cannot understand your bill or compare it to what else is on

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offer, you could end up on a gas and electricity deal which costs too

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much. So, energy suppliers have been told by regulators to cut down on

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the Bill will bring variations which end up confusing customers into

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overpaying. We have had people saying that they go to switching

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sites or phone suppliers and get bamboozled by the complete array of

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tariffs that currently exist. These complex, multi-where you pay one

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rate until you get to a certain point and then pay a different rate,

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all of that is gone. Even though bills are being made simpler, each

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company will still be able to offer four different electricity tariffs

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and four different gas prices. There will be fixed or variable prices,

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green deals, and they will have a standing charge, which can vary, as

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well as the unit price, along with possible discounts for dual fuel,

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taking both gas and electricity from the same company, and keeping your

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account online. It could still get complicated. But anything simpler

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might help. I think if there are fewer tariffs, it will be easier to

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compare. Before, you have many different tariffs and it was

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difficult to work out worked well for your particular property. My

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concern is, have they levelled them off at a slightly higher rates

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because the Government was saying make it simpler? Bills have doubled

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in recent years because the price of gas out of the North Sea, and

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imported, has gone up, along with electricity at the power station, a

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problem simpler tariffs will not solve. Today, Labour accuse

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suppliers of overtired jink households to the June of ?40,000 a

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year by inflating wholesale costs. -- overcharging households.

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Wholesale prices are linked to what is happening internationally. What

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individuals and households want is that they do not want prices to go

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up. Of course that is understandable. The regulator says

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making it easier to spot a cheaper deal will boost competition and keep

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prices as low as possible. Soon, suppliers will be forced to tell

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customers if they would do better on a different tariffs.

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Our top story: 13 severe flood warnings for south-west England as

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storms and high tides are set to batter the coast. Still to come: In

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training and hoping to be picked for Team GB, the Iraq war veteran turned

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Paralympic skier. Coming up on Sportsday, trying to avoid a

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whitewash. England's cricketers will start the final Ashes test in Sydney

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with a possible three debutants in the side.

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House Fraser has reported its best ever Christmas after a last-minute

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rush to stores and a record increase in online shopping. -- House of

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Fraser. John Lewis's cells also rose. Evidence has been fearing --

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Debenhams has an faring less well. Emma Simpson report.

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Just some of the products that have been flying off the shelves. It has

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been boosting the fortunes for House of Fraser and John Lewis. The

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Christmas story for retailers is starting to be unwrapped. The boss

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of House of Fraser has plenty to be pleased about. This tour is

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celebrating its best ever Christmas. We had increases in stores but on my

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more significant. We saw it come late as the customer was more

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confident about using their iPad at home. People were shopping late

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buying at home. That has been the change I have seen over the last few

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Christmases. Online sales is where the real growth is coming from. At

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House of Fraser, they were up 58% in the last three weeks of December

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compared to the previous year. At John Lewis, online sales were up by

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nearly a quarter. But the numbers for ordering online and picking up

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in-store were even bigger, with click and collect up by nearly 62%.

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For John Lewis, it doesn't matter these days whether the sales are

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online or in store. As long as it can keep up with our shopping

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habits, which are changing fast. The combination of a tough economy and

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this mega chains to customers using online in a different way has really

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separated the winners and losers. -- change. It is a crowded, competitive

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high Street. At Christmas, the trick for retailers is not just how to

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stand out but you try to hold their nerve and not cut prices to early. I

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Debenhams come they are already counting the cost of heavy

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discounting. -- at Ibn is, there are already counting the cost.

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Three big names with different Christmas stories. On the high

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street, the spotlight will now be on Marks Spencer 's' performance.

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Michael Schumacher remains critical but stable in hospital in France,

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where he is being treated for severe brain injuries. The motor racing

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champion hit his head during a skiing accident at the weekend.

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Let's speak to Richard Conway in Grenoble. Still no sign of

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improvement? Michael Schumacher remains in intensive care in

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Grenoble this evening. He has been here since Sunday since the accident

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on the outs. Yesterday we heard from his manager, who said he was stable

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following a second operation on Monday night to relieve pressure on

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his brain. Doctors today at the hospital say they would not be

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providing any update to that. They would only come before the cameras

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when they have something to say. There would be no commentary on his

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health. Tomorrow is his 45th birthday. He will be joined by his

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family. They have been a constant presence here since the accident.

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They will also be joined here by Ferrari fans. Ferrari is his old

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team, where he achieved so many successes. They announced today they

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want to hold a silent and dignified show of support, in their words, for

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Michael Schumacher. They are urging fans to come down just in red to

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show their support and appreciation for him. Tonight, here in Grenoble,

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he remains in a medically induced coma and he continues, in the words

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of his doctors, to fight for his life. The Prime Minister has said

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that life should mean life as the government considers US style

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hundred-year prison sentences for murderers and serious offenders.

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Last year the European Court of Human Rights declared whole life

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tariffs in England illegal, although ministers believe they can cite that

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the ruling by letting judges impose sentences for hundreds of years. --

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sidestep. Cardiff City have confirmed that Ole

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Gunnar Solskjaer is to be their new manager. He replaces the sacked

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Malky Mackay and met his new squad at the club's training ground this

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morning. He said it was a fantastic challenge and at the club is ready

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to take the next step up. I British older who was badly

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wounded in Iraq could be chosen for the UK's Winter Olympics team in

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Sochi. Mick Brennan lost both his legs nine years ago and started to

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ski in 2008. He has become one of Britain's test disabled skiers.

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Caroline Wyatt reports. Mick Brennan has been fighting his

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way back to health. Not just from the wounds he sustained in Iraq

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where he lost both legs, but the skiing injuries of the past year

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which culminated in a broken wrist. It is only now healing, just weeks

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before the team selection for the Paralympics in Sochi. I have lost a

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lot of time on the snow, nine months compared to everybody else in the

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world, whether it be on snow or working in the gym. I'm quite a long

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way behind that but I have got the determination. That has never been

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in short supply for the 34-year-old former sergeant. This was the moment

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his comrades in Iraq heard he had just been blown up by a suicide

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bomber. That was in 2004. The time until getting injured was the best

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time I have had in my life. The Iraq tour that I did with bomb disposal,

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it was fantastic. I don't think it is ever going to happen, but I am

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lucky, I am still here and I have got my aesthetic legs on. On the

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Breda 14th, some people get valentines cards. I got new legs. --

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February 14. He has got new legs built for him using cutting edge

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technology. Training as part of the combine

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services disabled ski team, he is now determined to get back onto the

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slaves to qualify for team GB. -- the slopes. What does he focus on

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when he is going down the mountain? Please don't crash! You think about

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the things the coaches have told you to work on. You are staying calm,

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getting the body positions, and getting down there each time faster

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and faster. How likely is he to get into Team GB? He is doing well. His

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aim will be to get to the event, to try to get to the event, to put in

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his best performance and to see how it is on the day. We haven't got

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unrealistic expectations but you have got to go for it. As he heads

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to the qualifiers, he will find out in January if he has made it to the

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team. Or 52 passengers on board a Russian

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ship that has been stuck in the Antarctic have been rescued. The

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research vessel became trapped in the eyes of Chris and Steve during a

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fierce storm. Icebreakers made sense to reach the ship in eastern

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Antarctica but were thwarted by thick sea ice, blinding snow and

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fog. Today, helicopters were used to carry passenger to a rescue ship.

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The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker was on board.

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It was the site everybody had been waiting for, the first rescue

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helicopter descending onto the same ice that has kept me and all on

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board the Russian research ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy, stranded for

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over a week. Previous attempts to bring about the rescue of the

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scientists and tourists on board had been aborted due to poor weather.

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Finally, today the skies were clear. The first of the helicopters!

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Passengers were ferried in groups of 12 to an icebreaker, the Aurora

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australis. The operation lasted several hours. I was one of those

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who made the journey. That is the last group of people to

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be ferried from the vessel through a 15 minute white knuckle helicopter

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ride to just outside the Australian icebreaker. Scientists on board the

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Akademik Shokalskiy had been recreating the journey of the

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Australian explorer Douglas Mawson and his 19 11th voyage to

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Antarctica. On Christmas eve, six flows of ice driven by strong winds

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had led the vessel to be unable to move further.

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Singing Auld Lang Syne, Oxford -ish and -- expedition members and worked

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towards their own rescue. We are pairing for the helipad by stopping

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down the snow and ice so the Chinese helicopter from Snow Dragon can

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reach us. Finally, with aware of -- whether clear, the rescue could go

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ahead. The Aurora australis is now breaking through Diarra. The

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eventual destination is Tasmania, 1700 miles away. For the crew of the

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Anne, the weight remains. -- of the Akademik Shokalskiy, the weighting

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remains. Time for a look at the weather.

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Peter gives is here. You can tell us more about the bad weather. -- Peter

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Gibbs. We haven't had to worry about ice so

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far but a nutty combination tomorrow is going to be the problem. -- a

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nasty combination. Let's have a look. We have had a decent day

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today. It is a brief window. It is shutting fast. We have got more

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gales sweeping in from the Atlantic. Heavy rain to come in the next few

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days. We have got the flood threat. We will see some heavy rain tonight.

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It does not last long. It produced through quickly. Not a major issue.

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It is once we get into tomorrow that we get the deep area of low pressure

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pushing to the north-west of the UK that is associated with strong

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winds. That is when we start to see some issues in southern and western

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coasts, particularly. We have got this combination of onshore winds in

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the English Channel and through the Irish Sea. Gusts of up to 60, 70,

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possibly 80 mph on the Irish Sea. That is combined with some of the

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highest tides of 2014 and lots of water coming down the rivers from

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the rain we have had in recent days. That is a bad combination. That is

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why we have the weather warnings. Southern Scotland will have some

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snow on the Scottish mountains. The cheat day in the North, but will

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it -- achieved a in the North, particularly in the wet conditions.

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A quieter day generally for Northern areas tomorrow. It doesn't last. If

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we take a look at Sunday, another massive area of low pressure. This

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one is giving snowstorms on the eastern side of the USA. When it

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gets to us, it is going to produce heavy rain and more gale force

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winds. Severe flood warnings at the moment. We could see more overnight.

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This is the flood line number. At the moment, it is a case of watching

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and waiting. As you were hearing, our main story

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tonight is the weather. There are 13 severe flood warnings for South West

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England as storms and high tides are set to batter the coast. Another

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increase in the cost of rail travel. Campaigners say prices are rising

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three times faster than wages. That is all from BBC News at Six. It is

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goodbye from me and

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