:00:09. > :00:15.been flooded for weeks. Farms and homes remain under water. The
:00:16. > :00:24.government promises action within six weeks. Too little, too late, say
:00:25. > :00:28.local people. Why was this not done ages ago? Why was it not done last
:00:29. > :00:33.year, when it happened then. Why have we are only just had the pumps
:00:34. > :00:37.put in now? We'll be looking at what needs to be done, not just in
:00:38. > :00:40.Somerset but across the country. .Also tonight: Jude Law at the
:00:41. > :00:43.hacking trial. He finds out a relative sold stories to the News of
:00:44. > :00:46.the World. And the journalist who alleges phone hacking went on at the
:00:47. > :00:49.Sunday Mirror too. More trouble for RBS. The
:00:50. > :01:02.taxpayer-owned bank sets aside billions more to settle new claims.
:01:03. > :01:07.50 years after they first conquered America, Paul and Ringo show they
:01:08. > :01:10.can still do it at the Grammys. Tonight on BBC London.
:01:11. > :01:14.The multi-million pound pay-out for the family of a school girl left
:01:15. > :01:17.brain damaged in a medical mix-up. And could councils in the capital be
:01:18. > :01:36.investigated over the way parking tickets are issued?
:01:37. > :01:41.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. They've been submerged
:01:42. > :01:44.in flood water for nearly a month now, and the residents of the
:01:45. > :01:48.Somerset Levels didn't hold back when they confronted the Environment
:01:49. > :01:52.Minister today. Owen Paterson was told that people are living in third
:01:53. > :01:57.world conditions. He's promised an action plan within six weeks, which
:01:58. > :02:01.will include dredging local rivers. Will that work? We'll have more on
:02:02. > :02:11.that in a moment, but first, Jon Kay on a community that's lost its
:02:12. > :02:16.patience. George, we have seen a release of anger here today, a bit
:02:17. > :02:20.like the release of all of this floodwater. 1 million tonnes of it
:02:21. > :02:24.being pumped off the Somerset Levels every day now, to try to get rid of
:02:25. > :02:29.it, to try to free people's homes and return live to normality. People
:02:30. > :02:33.here do feel the authorities are listening, that their message is
:02:34. > :02:36.being heard and their plight is being understood, and that they're
:02:37. > :02:43.rather beginnings of an action plan. But only the beginning. It feels
:02:44. > :02:48.like the coast has come inland. This afternoon, we saw from the sky just
:02:49. > :02:59.how this area is suffering. Villages cut off. Livestock marooned. Why was
:03:00. > :03:04.this not done ages ago? This is what confronted the Environment Secretary
:03:05. > :03:08.when he turned up today. He came to see the pumping operation which is
:03:09. > :03:13.now under way. It's an impressive sight, but many people here feel
:03:14. > :03:17.it's too little, too late. Why was this not done last year when it
:03:18. > :03:24.happened then? Why have we only just had the pumps in now? We've had this
:03:25. > :03:30.for three weeks, going on and on. That's why he's here today, and why
:03:31. > :03:33.we got extra poncey today. After touring the site, the minister
:03:34. > :03:41.promised an action plan for the Somerset Levels. He wants a viable,
:03:42. > :03:46.long-term scheme. The locals have six weeks to work with government
:03:47. > :03:52.and local agencies to come up with a good, concrete plan. Mr Patterson
:03:53. > :03:57.said the action plan would almost certainly involve more of this -
:03:58. > :04:01.dredging the rivers of silt and mud. It's something that was done
:04:02. > :04:06.for generations, but has stopped in recent years. A lot of people who
:04:07. > :04:11.live on the Somerset Levels regard those rivers as the arteries in the
:04:12. > :04:15.human body, and they say they've got clogged up in the last few years and
:04:16. > :04:19.need to be cleared out, so that the whole system can function
:04:20. > :04:25.healthily. Local people have been demanding dredging for years, and
:04:26. > :04:28.they welcomed today's announcement. But the Environment Agency claims
:04:29. > :04:34.much of this year's flooding would still have happened, because there
:04:35. > :04:38.has simply been so much rain. I can get why people latch onto dredging.
:04:39. > :04:45.Because it looks like the immediate panacea. At believe me, it's only
:04:46. > :04:50.part of what other solution takes place here. The Somerset Levels to
:04:51. > :04:54.always flood, but the scale of it this winter has taken people by
:04:55. > :05:01.surprise, and many are desperate for a solution. We flipped him a long
:05:02. > :05:07.time, and we have only experienced this this year and last year. -- we
:05:08. > :05:11.lived here a long time. I actually feel quite numb. Before they can
:05:12. > :05:18.find a long-term solution, they have to deal with the here and now, and
:05:19. > :05:21.there's a lot of it. I'm joined by our science editor,
:05:22. > :05:29.David Shukman. Is dredging the answer? It can be, but only locally
:05:30. > :05:34.as a solution. Water has to go somewhere. If you dredge a river,
:05:35. > :05:38.the water flows down faster and may have a knock-on effect for
:05:39. > :05:45.communities downstream. It's all so expensive. The Environment Agency
:05:46. > :05:49.reckons this might cost ?4.1 million. There are communities up
:05:50. > :05:54.and down the country clamouring for better flood protection. I was on
:05:55. > :05:57.the north coast -- north coast of Norfolk ten days ago, and people
:05:58. > :06:01.want the sea walls that have been breached their to be defended.
:06:02. > :06:06.There's going to be very, very difficult times ahead, when the
:06:07. > :06:12.government decides where to act. In the long term, this is a bit of a
:06:13. > :06:19.wake-up call for the country, to decide how best to have -- how best
:06:20. > :06:23.to handle floodwater. In our cities, if car parks are permeable,
:06:24. > :06:27.rainwater can get into the ground. So a lot to think about. Thank you.
:06:28. > :06:30.The phone-hacking trial has heard how a member of Jude Law's family
:06:31. > :06:35.sold stories about his private life to the News of the World. The trial
:06:36. > :06:38.is now in its 12th week and, for the first time, it's heard evidence that
:06:39. > :06:41.hacking went beyond the News of the World. Dan Evans admitted that he
:06:42. > :06:47.intercepted voice mails while working at the Sunday Mirror. Tom
:06:48. > :06:54.Symonds reports from the Old Bailey. It contains flash photography.
:06:55. > :06:57.This is Dan Evans, the former reporter whose evidence today
:06:58. > :07:02.suggested phone hacking was a standard tool in the tabloid kit, a
:07:03. > :07:06.secret he'd been taught at the Sunday Mirror. He said during a
:07:07. > :07:10.breakfast job interview, he later told Andy Coulson, the then editor
:07:11. > :07:15.of the News of the World, there were several ways to get exclusive
:07:16. > :07:19.stories. One way was to target someone's phone call lists, work out
:07:20. > :07:25.who they are having a relationship with, hack their phone, voice mail
:07:26. > :07:31.is, get some exclusive photos. Work on it for a while, and then you get
:07:32. > :07:35.something that is going to shift units from supermarket shelves. He
:07:36. > :07:40.admitted he hadn't used the phrase phone hacking, but said, I think I
:07:41. > :07:44.referred to it as a stuffed with phones. He said that Andy seemed
:07:45. > :07:50.very pleased with his pitch as a whole. He got the job. The jury was
:07:51. > :07:54.told this morning's witness needed no introductions. Actor Jude Law is
:07:55. > :08:00.one of very few hacking victims to give evidence in person. The
:08:01. > :08:04.prosecution says in 2005, journalists at the World were
:08:05. > :08:09.targeting him because of rumours that his partner at the time, Sienna
:08:10. > :08:15.Miller, was having an affair. Jude Law told the court there seem to be
:08:16. > :08:19.an unhealthy amount of information that people had that meant they had
:08:20. > :08:23.access to my life and my whereabouts. But the defence
:08:24. > :08:27.questioned him about the possibility the stories were sourced from those
:08:28. > :08:33.close to him, not phone hacking. Timothy Langdale QC, defending Andy
:08:34. > :08:37.Coulson, handed him a bit of paper. On it was written a single name, and
:08:38. > :08:42.Jude Law confirmed it was the name of a relative of his. The defence
:08:43. > :08:45.lawyer said this was somebody who had been paid by the News of the
:08:46. > :08:50.World to give information about the actor. Jude Law said today was the
:08:51. > :08:53.first time he had heard about this. How did reporters get their
:08:54. > :08:58.stories? One of the key questions the jury will have to consider. Andy
:08:59. > :09:00.Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and the other defendants deny all the
:09:01. > :09:03.charges. There's more trouble ahead for Royal
:09:04. > :09:06.Bank of Scotland, which is largely owned by the taxpayer. It's issued a
:09:07. > :09:10.warning about its finances when the results are published next month.
:09:11. > :09:14.It's had to set aside more than ?3 billion to cover claims over its
:09:15. > :09:22.conduct both here and in America. Our personal finance correspondent,
:09:23. > :09:28.Simon Gompertz, is with me. This is a huge amount of money. What is it
:09:29. > :09:33.for? Its compensation for people who were mis-sold payment protection
:09:34. > :09:38.insurance, or PPI. They are getting bigger claims than expected. Also
:09:39. > :09:42.for small businesses who were mis-sold policies to protect them
:09:43. > :09:46.against interest rate movements. There are claims and finds in the
:09:47. > :09:51.United States too. It doesn't stop there. They have said they are
:09:52. > :09:56.setting aside ?4.5 billion for bad loans during the financial crisis,
:09:57. > :10:14.which means that next month, they could announce a total loss of mere
:10:15. > :10:17.?8 billion. So how they are turning to the taxpayers for that, who own
:10:18. > :10:20.80% of the bank? Senior managers are not going to get bonuses, but that
:10:21. > :10:22.is just a fraction of the amount that has been lost.
:10:23. > :10:25.The Coronation Street actor William Roache has been cleared of one of
:10:26. > :10:29.seven sex abuse charges at his trial. Jurors at Preston Crown Court
:10:30. > :10:31.were directed by the judge to return a not guilty verdict, after the
:10:32. > :10:34.prosecution offered no further evidence. Mr Roache is still on
:10:35. > :10:36.trial over two rape and four indecent assault allegations. He
:10:37. > :10:40.denies the charges. The former Radio One DJ Dave Lee
:10:41. > :10:44.Travis has told a court he is not a sexual predator and has a "cuddly
:10:45. > :10:47.nature" towards women. At the start of his defence against 13 indecent
:10:48. > :10:50.assault charges and one of sexual assault, the court heard how he told
:10:51. > :10:55.police that he'd lost work, money and health because of the
:10:56. > :11:05.allegations. From Southwark Crown Court, June Kelly, reports.
:11:06. > :11:09.For the past two weeks, Dave Lee Travis has been portrayed at this
:11:10. > :11:14.trial as a sexual predator who targeted vulnerable females. More
:11:15. > :11:19.than a dozen women have testified against him. His alleged crimes
:11:20. > :11:24.spanned more than 30 years. Today, it was his turn to answer his
:11:25. > :11:30.accusers. He said he was fighting for his reputation. In the early 80s
:11:31. > :11:34.at the headquarters of BBC Radio, he is said to have indecently assaulted
:11:35. > :11:39.a colleague while she was making an announcement on air. Asked about
:11:40. > :11:49.this from the witness box today, he said:
:11:50. > :11:57.He spoke about his long broadcasting career, and said he was also a keen
:11:58. > :12:03.photographer. He told the jury he'd taken some nude shots, but said they
:12:04. > :12:08.were never tacky. Explaining he touched lots of girls, he said, I
:12:09. > :12:14.like women, because I think they are wonderful. The sexual predator bit
:12:15. > :12:20.is completely nonsensical. I'll hug them and give them a kiss. For
:12:21. > :12:26.years, DLT, as he was known, fronted one of the BBC's bigger shows. He
:12:27. > :12:28.said that while some people in show business went in for a kissing, that
:12:29. > :12:50.wasn't his style. He said: It was the Jimmy Savile scandal
:12:51. > :12:53.which led to the police operation under which Dave Lee Travis was
:12:54. > :13:00.arrested. Today he said that -- he said he had no inkling Southall was
:13:01. > :13:05.a paedophile, which he said was the worst crime. -- no inkling that
:13:06. > :13:10.Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. He denied he had ever played on the
:13:11. > :13:15.fact that he was a big name. Of his colleagues who are now accusing
:13:16. > :13:19.him, he said that there were no unimportant people. Everybody is
:13:20. > :13:23.important. The former DJ is due back in the witness box tomorrow, where
:13:24. > :13:26.he will continue his defence. The Prime Minister says there's been
:13:27. > :13:29.what he calls a reasonable level of immigration to the UK from Romania
:13:30. > :13:32.and Bulgaria since restrictions were lifted at the start of the New Year.
:13:33. > :13:39.Our political editor, Nick Robinson, is in Westminster. I wonder what the
:13:40. > :13:47.Prime Minister means when he says reasonable. I wonder that too! I
:13:48. > :13:52.asked him the question at a news conference today. What do you mean
:13:53. > :13:57.by a reasonable level of immigration, I asked, and how do you
:13:58. > :14:00.know? The Government never published any forecasts of the number of
:14:01. > :14:04.Romanians and Bulgarians who would come here, and has not published any
:14:05. > :14:09.information on the number that has come since then. He made it clear
:14:10. > :14:13.that he had no private papers or secret knowledge, he was just going
:14:14. > :14:18.on reports, what he has read in the news. The problem with that
:14:19. > :14:22.statement, reasonable, is it is inflaming a group of Conservative
:14:23. > :14:26.MPs in the House of Commons who are determined to defy him on a vote on
:14:27. > :14:33.immigration later in the week. They want to tear up Britain's legal
:14:34. > :14:37.obligation to take Romanians and Bulgarians. He says that is
:14:38. > :14:42.impossible and would be illegal, but they are not backing down, and these
:14:43. > :14:45.words will not help him. He is also under pressure over Syrian
:14:46. > :14:53.refugees, and letting some of them in. He is saying, what ever you
:14:54. > :14:58.think about immigration, Britain should take some of those vulnerable
:14:59. > :15:04.people in the refugee camps. Children who are orphaned, or people
:15:05. > :15:09.with very serious medical needs. The government has, until now, been
:15:10. > :15:14.saying no, we do not take refugees. Private talks are going on to take
:15:15. > :15:19.hundreds, but to try and do it outside the United Nations. He made
:15:20. > :15:22.no connection between refugees and economic migrants. They are
:15:23. > :15:26.connected because both sets of people appear in the government's
:15:27. > :15:36.immigration targets, a target they looked like missing. Our top story
:15:37. > :15:39.this evening: Angry residents confront the Environment Minister in
:15:40. > :15:43.Somerset over three weeks of flooding and little respite. And
:15:44. > :15:49.coming up: The financial crisis a century ago, how the prospect of war
:15:50. > :15:53.prompted a run on the banks. On BBC London: Death threats and calls for
:15:54. > :15:57.his deselection. The Lib Dem candidate facing a backlash after
:15:58. > :15:59.re-tweeting a religious cartoon. And minimal surgery required, the
:16:00. > :16:10.pioneering procedure delivering pacemakers to heart patients.
:16:11. > :16:14.The economic gap between London and the rest of the UK has widened
:16:15. > :16:18.during the economic recovery according to new research by the
:16:19. > :16:21.Centre for Cities. It says that between 2010 and 2012 the capital
:16:22. > :16:27.accounted for four fifths of all growth in private sector jobs. It
:16:28. > :16:32.also found that almost a third of people aged between 22 and 30 who
:16:33. > :16:34.moved cities headed for London. Danny Savage reports now on the
:16:35. > :16:45.contrasting fortunes of London and Sheffield. The streets may not be
:16:46. > :16:50.paved with gold, but London is still the place to move to four jobs. But
:16:51. > :16:54.such is the pace of growth it is happening at the expense of other
:16:55. > :17:00.cities as people leave their home towns and head to the capital. I am
:17:01. > :17:05.here in London for the job opportunities here. I am a surveyor
:17:06. > :17:09.and there were not any jobs in Manchester. Experts say other UK
:17:10. > :17:17.cities need to rise to the challenge. The people who go there
:17:18. > :17:21.to study stay there to earn their living and make their way and
:17:22. > :17:26.develop the jobs and the businesses that cities need. 170 miles from
:17:27. > :17:32.London Sheffield is one of the cities that needs to do more to
:17:33. > :17:38.retain its talent. But this is not about the old North -South divide
:17:39. > :17:43.argument. Edinboro, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds are also said to
:17:44. > :17:47.be showing signs of growth. What is the issue in Sheffield?
:17:48. > :17:55.Manufacturing has always been big here. The boss of this engineering
:17:56. > :17:57.firm believes jobs growth is coming, but it takes time to show. The
:17:58. > :18:03.difference between engineering and service sector jobs can be several
:18:04. > :18:08.years. It takes a lot more time to develop a manufacturing base and it
:18:09. > :18:14.is a generational thing rather than a short-term fix. Not everyone wants
:18:15. > :18:19.to be drawn like a moth to the light of London. Local graduates say
:18:20. > :18:24.friends have soon return from the capital. They used it as a career
:18:25. > :18:28.springboard because there are more opportunities to move up the ladder
:18:29. > :18:33.quickly, but when it comes to making a lifestyle choice, having a family
:18:34. > :18:38.and getting on the housing ladder, it is impossible to live in London.
:18:39. > :18:42.I would not have been able to make much more money down there and I
:18:43. > :18:48.have stayed here because it is a great city and I have found work
:18:49. > :18:52.even after periods of redundancy. The best performing cities have seen
:18:53. > :18:57.private sector jobs offset the losses in the public sector. But the
:18:58. > :19:01.lure of London shows no signs of abating. British skiers heading to
:19:02. > :19:03.the Alps are being warned by French authorities that off-piste skiing
:19:04. > :19:06.this season is the most dangerous in years. This season has seen unstable
:19:07. > :19:08.conditions with 24 killed so far in avalanches in France and
:19:09. > :19:13.Switzerland, including two yesterday and two today. Our correspondent
:19:14. > :19:15.Christian Fraser has been to Montgenevre on the Franco-Italian
:19:16. > :19:18.border to join search teams in training.The TV presenter Nigella
:19:19. > :19:26.Lawson will face no criminal charges after she told a court that
:19:27. > :19:36.the perfect day in the mountains. A blue sky and a fresh blanket of
:19:37. > :19:40.snow. These slopes tempt powder hungry skiers and boarders, but many
:19:41. > :19:49.a day has ended in tragedy. Lucky for this snowboarder they manage to
:19:50. > :19:53.pull him out in time. They had barely 30 minutes to save those
:19:54. > :20:00.buried. Crucial to that mission is the keenest of noses. This is the
:20:01. > :20:04.most elite of police dogs and he can pick up the faintest human scent
:20:05. > :20:09.even through packed snow. That is the most suffocating feeling you can
:20:10. > :20:16.imagine and that was just a drill. It is like being buried under
:20:17. > :20:22.concrete. Thank you, Trixie. Two weeks ago, this man was saved by a
:20:23. > :20:27.dog like Trixie. He was unconscious when rescuers found him buried on
:20:28. > :20:32.this slope under a metre of snow for 40 minutes. He is one of only 13
:20:33. > :20:38.people they have pulled out of an avalanche alive. TRANSLATION: I
:20:39. > :20:46.could not even move, not even my fingers. It was a sense of
:20:47. > :20:48.helplessness. I thought I was dead. Local British expat Craig Parkin
:20:49. > :20:57.says the fresh powder is not sticking to the unusual icy base
:20:58. > :21:01.layer, so even the most benign off-piste can be volatile. Materials
:21:02. > :21:06.have developed and it has become a lot more accessible for a lot more
:21:07. > :21:14.people. A powdered track can be very tempting and before they think, they
:21:15. > :21:20.can find themselves in danger. In each snow hole the trainer buries a
:21:21. > :21:24.favourite toy with a missing skier, but in some cases the dog is just
:21:25. > :21:29.too late on the scene of an avalanche and often they are hunting
:21:30. > :21:35.bodies. It was not quite a Beatles reunion,
:21:36. > :21:40.but it was a rare occasion when the two surviving members of the band
:21:41. > :21:43.performed together. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr entertained last
:21:44. > :21:48.night's Grammy awards with a new song half a century after the
:21:49. > :21:55.Beatles first appeared on American TV. There is flash photography in
:21:56. > :22:00.this report. Paint was in red, Katy Perry was wearing white, styles of
:22:01. > :22:07.dance and country on the same red carpet, a nod to the past and some
:22:08. > :22:12.of the latest new talent. Music's power couple, Beyonce and Jay Z,
:22:13. > :22:19.opened the night. The Grammys are all about the spectacle. Katy Perry
:22:20. > :22:29.was burnt at the stake. And Pink swung in to add a bit of drama. It
:22:30. > :22:34.was a big stage reunion for Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, playing
:22:35. > :22:38.alongside one another. A lifetime achievement award for the Beatles 50
:22:39. > :22:44.years after their first ever US appearance. And there was a Grammy
:22:45. > :22:49.for Sir Paul McCartney for best rock song. In the main prizes it was the
:22:50. > :22:54.night of the robots. Stevie wonder sang with Daft Punk who won Best
:22:55. > :23:02.group, record of the year and album of the year. Speaking for them was
:23:03. > :23:07.Farrell Williams who is for Mac Grammys included Best producer. It
:23:08. > :23:13.was an amazing night for Lorde, the 17-year-old New Zealander won Song
:23:14. > :23:18.of the night for oils and for best performance. The best newcomers were
:23:19. > :23:25.Macklemore and Lewis with the anthem of the same-sex marriage movement
:23:26. > :23:29.marked at the Grammys with a mass wedding. Gay and straight, old and
:23:30. > :23:36.young, and who else would be the wedding singer but Madonna. This
:23:37. > :23:41.show may be over for another year, but many of the stars will be
:23:42. > :23:45.hanging around an extra day to record another TV spectacular, a
:23:46. > :23:52.concept remembering the 50 years since the Beatles first came to
:23:53. > :23:57.America. Sir Paul and Ringo will no doubt be a part of that.
:23:58. > :24:02.100 years on from the start of World War I there will be a major focus on
:24:03. > :24:06.the early battles of the conflict. But before any shots had been
:24:07. > :24:13.fired, the city of London faced an unprecedented crisis as investors
:24:14. > :24:16.panicked at the prospect of war. The bank of England has just released
:24:17. > :24:22.its archives on the little-known 1914 financial crisis. Before the
:24:23. > :24:27.war had even been declared in 1914, a crisis hit the city of London.
:24:28. > :24:33.Crowds gathered fearful of what might happen to their investments.
:24:34. > :24:38.Jews build up at the bank of England with people desperate to change
:24:39. > :24:43.their paper money into gold. 100 years on, the bank of England has
:24:44. > :24:49.released archives from that period. I was given exclusive access to look
:24:50. > :24:53.at papers covering the story of the early days of World War I. This
:24:54. > :24:58.shows transactions between commercial banks and the bank of
:24:59. > :25:04.England where the banks handed in their bonds in exchange for cash. In
:25:05. > :25:11.a normal week, even in July, 1914, there was not a lot of business. But
:25:12. > :25:17.look at July the 31st, 1914, when fears of impending war were gripping
:25:18. > :25:21.the city. A huge number of deals went through as banks scrambled to
:25:22. > :25:27.get cash out of the bank of England in exchange for their bonds. That
:25:28. > :25:34.they are total of nearly ?11 million was withdrawn. The bank's official
:25:35. > :25:37.interest rate was doubled to 8% and then 10%. Commercial banks and the
:25:38. > :25:43.stock exchange closed down for several days. In the week before
:25:44. > :25:47.Britain went to war all the London financial markets collapsed and it
:25:48. > :25:53.was a systemic crisis that overtook Britain and the world. There were
:25:54. > :25:59.something like 50 countries that had stock exchange crashes and runs on
:26:00. > :26:03.banks in that last week of July. Intervention by the authorities
:26:04. > :26:09.propped up the markets, at the next challenge was to raise money for the
:26:10. > :26:12.war effort. So-called tank banks persuaded people to buy war bonds,
:26:13. > :26:20.in other words lend money to the government. This ledger names the
:26:21. > :26:24.people who bought the war bonds. It makes fascinating reading. It
:26:25. > :26:29.records a gent and a married woman bought the bonds, so to an Apple
:26:30. > :26:34.store and a farmer, an example of the range of people who spent money
:26:35. > :26:38.on the bonds. The Bank of England has had to tackle the many crises
:26:39. > :26:47.since then. The former governor Lorde King said at the time, Sir
:26:48. > :26:56.Mervyn King, said the only other financial crisis as bad as that of
:26:57. > :26:58.2008 was that in 1914. It is time for a look at the
:26:59. > :27:08.weather. There are some changes on the way
:27:09. > :27:13.this week. We start the week with more showers and the threat of
:27:14. > :27:17.further flooding. But around the middle of the week spell of
:27:18. > :27:23.something much colder with a risk of frost and ice, but probably a bit
:27:24. > :27:26.drier. It is very wet in northern Ireland at the moment because we
:27:27. > :27:32.have the centre of the low pressure over there right now. It is driving
:27:33. > :27:38.in the showers blustery winds. It may not be as cold as it was last
:27:39. > :27:43.night, so the chance of eyes is much lower. The winds are crucial
:27:44. > :27:49.tomorrow. The change of direction will force more showers into
:27:50. > :27:55.southern counties. For some western parts of Scotland it may well be a
:27:56. > :27:59.bit drier and the chance of some sunshine as well. We should not see
:28:00. > :28:04.as many showers in Northern Ireland as we have seen today, but by
:28:05. > :28:09.contrast it has been drier in the North East of England and the
:28:10. > :28:14.Midlands. Frequent, heavy showers across the southern counties fed by
:28:15. > :28:19.the warmer waters of the English Channel. Those showers pushed inland
:28:20. > :28:25.and some hail and thunder in there. A log of showers in Wales as well.
:28:26. > :28:29.Around the middle of the week the low-pressure drifts away into the
:28:30. > :28:33.near continent allowing us to pick up more of an Eastern or south
:28:34. > :28:41.easterly breeze and the chance of dragging in some much colder air as
:28:42. > :28:45.well. The showers tend to ease down on Wednesday. On Thursday you will
:28:46. > :28:53.notice the chill. There will be a few snow flurries and it will feel
:28:54. > :28:57.colder. It could be short lived. That is all from the BBC's News at
:28:58. > :28:59.six. On