:00:08. > :00:13.have had the the wettest January for more than a hundred years. The South
:00:14. > :00:17.and South East have been worst hit, with double the usual rainfall.
:00:18. > :00:20.Military planners assess the floods in Somerset - but withdraw as the
:00:21. > :00:29.misery for some communities continues. It's all a little bit
:00:30. > :00:34.late. It has been for weeks, really, that they have been under water or
:00:35. > :00:41.cut off, and it seems that only now, has the panic button been hit. We'll
:00:42. > :00:51.be looking at the latest attempts to help the victims. Also tonight: The
:00:52. > :00:59.murder of a woman and her young son by her former partner could not have
:01:00. > :01:02.been predicted, says a review. A possible breakthrough that could
:01:03. > :01:04.help sufferers - a new treatment for peanut allergies.
:01:05. > :01:08.And, on patrol with the Dambusters - as they make their final flight in
:01:09. > :01:12.Afghanistan. On BBC London - a crackdown on one
:01:13. > :01:14.of the UK's most prolific gangs - 29 are held after dawn raids.
:01:15. > :01:16.And investigators say the speedboat tragedy which killed a father and
:01:17. > :01:42.daughter could have been avoided. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:43. > :01:45.News at Six. Parts of Britain have had their wettest January since
:01:46. > :01:49.records began, more than a century ago. New figures have confirmed that
:01:50. > :01:53.the South and South east have been worst hit - with double the average
:01:54. > :01:56.rainfall. Military planners have today been assessing the situation
:01:57. > :02:01.in Somerset, and tonight say they're ready to step in if needed. The
:02:02. > :02:06.government's emergency committee, COBRA, is meeting again now to
:02:07. > :02:15.discuss the flooding. Our correspondent Jon Kay has the latest
:02:16. > :02:19.for us in Somerset. Yes, this road was flooded in the first couple of
:02:20. > :02:22.days of the month and here we are, nearly at the of January, and it is
:02:23. > :02:29.still flooded. It has been like this putting much in the last few days,
:02:30. > :02:35.you can't get all the way along that unless you are in a 4x4 or retract.
:02:36. > :02:39.We did that earlier today to get to Muchelney, the island village that
:02:40. > :02:43.has been cut off for the whole month and which has become an emblem of
:02:44. > :02:49.the kind of suffering that so many communities have been through. If
:02:50. > :02:54.you live around here, you don't need statistics to tell you how wet it
:02:55. > :03:00.spin. The Somerset levels have been underwater for a month now. In the
:03:01. > :03:06.island village of Muchelney, humanitarian aid mission today. The
:03:07. > :03:11.Red Cross, delivering relief in the form of firewood. It's getting rid
:03:12. > :03:17.of it and getting access back into the village. For people like Paul,
:03:18. > :03:22.cut off since New Year, help is urgently needed. Life needs to move
:03:23. > :03:26.on, we need to clean up, we need to get builders in, we need
:03:27. > :03:33.dehumidifiers, rubbish to be taken out of the village. Today, after
:03:34. > :03:38.growing public pressure, help came in camouflage. Commandos, deployed
:03:39. > :03:43.to see what they could do to assist. Very early days, been on the ground
:03:44. > :03:46.a couple of hours and we have yet to report back to see what we might be
:03:47. > :03:51.asked to do. But when they did report back this afternoon, the
:03:52. > :03:56.decision was that the military weren't needed after all. Extra help
:03:57. > :04:00.from the Fire Service would be enough for now. In communities
:04:01. > :04:06.already feeling ignored and misled, it's just added to the sense of
:04:07. > :04:11.exasperation. Many believe the offers of assistance have been more
:04:12. > :04:17.about petitions saving face than actually saving people here --
:04:18. > :04:20.politicians. We have so much media coverage this time, we have never
:04:21. > :04:29.had this before. That's the reason, I'm sure. For millions of us, in
:04:30. > :04:35.many parts of, the start of 2014 has been horrible. And today, new
:04:36. > :04:39.figures confirm just how wet it has been. Across the UK, rainfall has
:04:40. > :04:45.been more than a third above the January average. The worst hit areas
:04:46. > :04:49.have been the south and south-east, with twice the normal amount of
:04:50. > :04:54.rainfall, the worst in more than a century. But temperatures have been
:04:55. > :04:59.mild. Across the UK, averaging just under five degrees. Believe it or
:05:00. > :05:04.not, some areas have seen less rain than normal, like northern
:05:05. > :05:10.Scotland, which only had 85% of the usual amount for this time of year.
:05:11. > :05:15.Tonight, large areas of the UK are back on flood alert with warnings of
:05:16. > :05:21.more heavy rain and high tides this weekend. In Somerset, the pumping
:05:22. > :05:27.goes on, and although the military aren't visible, they do remain on
:05:28. > :05:31.stand-by. I have to say, there are quite a few people in Somerset this
:05:32. > :05:35.evening who are quite angry and confused about the messages they are
:05:36. > :05:38.getting. Last month they heard from the Secretary of State that they
:05:39. > :05:42.would be amphibious military vehicles in the water here by this
:05:43. > :05:47.evening. Tonight they are told, we don't think they are necessary after
:05:48. > :05:51.all. People here want to know what help are they getting, when are they
:05:52. > :05:57.going to get it and when is all this rain going to be over?
:05:58. > :06:00.The government has backed down tonight in the face of a planned
:06:01. > :06:04.rebellion by more than 80 Conservative MPs over immigration. A
:06:05. > :06:07.backbench demand for ministers to take greater powers to deport
:06:08. > :06:09.foreign criminals was criticised by the Home Secretary as unworkable -
:06:10. > :06:17.but she and other Conservative ministers decided not to oppose it
:06:18. > :06:20.and face headlines about a split. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson
:06:21. > :06:27.has the latest at Westminster for us now.
:06:28. > :06:32.Imagine for a second proposal described by the Home Secretary as
:06:33. > :06:34.illegal, unworkable, likely to ensure that more foreign criminals
:06:35. > :06:39.stayed here than were deported abroad. You would probably imagine
:06:40. > :06:44.that she and Conservative ministers would vote to reject that idea. Not
:06:45. > :06:50.here, not today. The day began with Tories arguing with each other on
:06:51. > :06:53.the radio. What is needed at this stage it's a degree of
:06:54. > :07:01.self-discipline by Conservative backbenchers. I am just trying to
:07:02. > :07:03.fix a problem. That backbencher was try to force ministers to toughen up
:07:04. > :07:08.the law on deporting foreign criminals. These convicted killers,
:07:09. > :07:12.rapists, drug dealers and other serious criminals should be sent
:07:13. > :07:17.home, they shouldn't stay on the streets of them. The debate about
:07:18. > :07:24.the power to deport is focused on cases like Mohammed Ibrahim, an
:07:25. > :07:28.Iraqi Kurd who Houston in a hit-and-run in 2003. He was jailed
:07:29. > :07:34.for four months but following his race, was not supported after
:07:35. > :07:37.immigration judges ruled that send him back to Iraq would breaches
:07:38. > :07:42.human rights family life. Home Secretary insists she is changing
:07:43. > :07:45.the law to make deportation is easy but today argued with those on her
:07:46. > :07:50.own side who say she is not doing enough. I strongly support the
:07:51. > :07:54.intention that is behind the amendment. Everybody in this house
:07:55. > :07:58.wants to ensure that we can deport more foreign criminals but it is
:07:59. > :08:02.absolutely clear that the amendment as drafted is incompatible with the
:08:03. > :08:07.European Convention on Human Rights. You would expect the Prime Minister
:08:08. > :08:13.to back his Home Secretary, but they get with the -- faced with a huge
:08:14. > :08:17.backbench rebellion, he ordered his ministers to back down. News the
:08:18. > :08:24.leader of the rebellion learned from the BBC. The BBC is reporting that
:08:25. > :08:29.the Prime Minister support his aim and has ordered his ministers not to
:08:30. > :08:32.oppose him. So when it came to the crucial moment, it took the combined
:08:33. > :08:44.votes of Liberal Democrats and Labour to defeat a Tory rebellion.
:08:45. > :08:46.To the right, 97. To the left, 241. The Conservatives are comforting
:08:47. > :08:51.themselves that at least they all agreed on the need to skip -- speed
:08:52. > :08:56.up deportations. Labour was just a little less charitable. The
:08:57. > :09:02.immigration bill has been a complete car crash. Tonight Tories insist
:09:03. > :09:06.that they are all really on the same side and might just disagree on how
:09:07. > :09:10.to achieve what they want to do. But that doesn't alter the fact that the
:09:11. > :09:15.Tory leadership used parliamentary procedure to try to avoid this vital
:09:16. > :09:20.together. They try to twist the arms of Tory backbenchers, to get them
:09:21. > :09:25.into line. Eventually the promise to simply ordered his troops to retreat
:09:26. > :09:29.in the face of embarrassment -- the Prime Minister. The issue is
:09:30. > :09:32.important, whether politicians or judges should decide who comes to
:09:33. > :09:36.this country and who is deported from it. Also at issue is the
:09:37. > :09:41.struggle the prime Minister has two control his own party. One senior
:09:42. > :09:48.Conservatives said to me tonight, this looks like chaos at best.
:09:49. > :09:50.Well the rules for Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants to the UK
:09:51. > :09:56.changed on January first, but it's not clear how many have arrived in
:09:57. > :09:59.Britain since then. Official figures are expected to be published in May,
:10:00. > :10:02.and some parts of the country have reported very few arrivals so far -
:10:03. > :10:13.as Jeremy Cooke reports from Peterborough. James
:10:14. > :10:23.it is good, honest hard graft. Fruit packing, the key business in
:10:24. > :10:26.eastern England. But the languages in this workplace are largely
:10:27. > :10:32.Eastern European. There are polls, Latvians, Lithuanians. But no
:10:33. > :10:36.Romanians, no plug-in regions. We haven't seen any hair. I have
:10:37. > :10:42.checked with the agency and they have had no application either. We
:10:43. > :10:46.have always got jobs. If they were able to do the jobs, if they shared
:10:47. > :10:51.our values and had the right skills, we would employ them. There is no
:10:52. > :10:55.official record of the number of new immigrants from dog area and
:10:56. > :11:00.Romania. But if they are heading here, you might expect to find at
:11:01. > :11:03.least some in Peterborough. It is the UK's fastest-growing city and
:11:04. > :11:09.with a recent history of welcoming thousands of immigrants. But here,
:11:10. > :11:15.too, there is no evidence of a new influx. I never thought it was
:11:16. > :11:19.likely. Because we never thought it was likely, I didn't think it would
:11:20. > :11:25.be any bigger challenge than one we already had. Our evidence shows as
:11:26. > :11:31.we have one Romanian family that has arrived in Peterborough recently. So
:11:32. > :11:35.why aren't Romanians and Bulgarians arriving in their thousands was Mike
:11:36. > :11:43.this woman is a trained nurse who moved here in her -- was her family
:11:44. > :11:49.a decade ago. She set the tone of the debate is humiliating. They are
:11:50. > :11:55.not on benefits, I don't know one Romanian who is on benefits.
:11:56. > :12:02.Immigration is one reason this city and others are spending millions
:12:03. > :12:07.building schools. Preparing for new arrivals, possibly from Romania are
:12:08. > :12:12.all Bulgarians, just as likely it seems, from other countries across
:12:13. > :12:16.the EU. Michael Adebolajo, one of the two
:12:17. > :12:18.men found guilty of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, has lodged an
:12:19. > :12:23.application to appeal against his conviction. Adebolajo and Michael
:12:24. > :12:25.Adebowale were convicted in December of murdering Lee Rigby outside
:12:26. > :12:33.Woolwich Barracks in London last May.
:12:34. > :12:38.A report about the controversial HS2 rail project won't now be published,
:12:39. > :12:40.after ministers blocked its release. Campaigners opposed to the
:12:41. > :12:43.construction of the high speed rail link, between the north of England
:12:44. > :12:46.and London, had been granted a freedom of information request to
:12:47. > :12:58.see the results of an investigation into the project's value for money.
:12:59. > :13:02.But ministers said publication wasn't in the public interest.
:13:03. > :13:06.The partner of a woman who was stabbed to death with her young son
:13:07. > :13:09.says more could have been done to warn her she was at risk. Rachel
:13:10. > :13:12.Slack was pregnant when she and her son Auden were murdered by Andrew
:13:13. > :13:15.Cairns, who had a history of mental health problems. Today a review
:13:16. > :13:22.found their deaths could not have been 'reasonably predicted.' Sian
:13:23. > :13:26.Lloyd reports. This is Rachel Slack and Auden on a
:13:27. > :13:32.day out, the 38-year-old artist and her son were killed in a frenzied
:13:33. > :13:34.attack. Andrew Cairns stabbed his former partner and their son more
:13:35. > :13:40.than 40 times before killing himself. The 44-year-old had a long
:13:41. > :13:44.history of mental illness. He had been sectioned by police under the
:13:45. > :13:48.Mental Health Act and arrested for making threats to kill Rachel. The
:13:49. > :13:54.horrific crime triggered the serious case review, published today. It
:13:55. > :13:58.highlighted missed opportunities and said agencies hadn't always shared
:13:59. > :14:07.information. It found their deaths couldn't have been predicted or
:14:08. > :14:12.prevented. At this unit, Derbyshire police now work with other agencies
:14:13. > :14:16.to help victims. The force was criticised for not warning Rachel
:14:17. > :14:20.that Andrew Cairns could kill her. After Rachel and Auden's death,
:14:21. > :14:24.Derbyshire police changed their procedures to ensure that every
:14:25. > :14:29.victim is adequately warned. This is the form they now use in cases of
:14:30. > :14:33.domestic abuse. It is a scoring system. We then go back to the big
:14:34. > :14:39.Tim and make it clear what that assessment means, and allows them to
:14:40. > :14:44.consider what protective measures, given the fact the assessment is a
:14:45. > :14:49.high risk. The domestic abuse charity Refuge says more still needs
:14:50. > :14:54.to be done. We're talking about systemic failures across a number of
:14:55. > :14:59.agencies, police, CPS, social services, health. We have a major
:15:00. > :15:03.problem in this country, women and children are just not getting the
:15:04. > :15:07.protection they need. When she was killed, Rachel was expecting a baby
:15:08. > :15:15.with her new partner. She just let any rumour. She was what any mother
:15:16. > :15:21.would like to be, she had unconditional love for Auden.
:15:22. > :15:23.Despite a report's findings, Rachel's family believe the deaths
:15:24. > :15:35.could and should have been prevented. Our top story this
:15:36. > :15:39.evening: Figures show it has been the wettest January on record for
:15:40. > :15:44.many parts of Britain. There is more bad weather on the way. Still to
:15:45. > :15:47.come: The Art banned by the Nazis for being too miserable and
:15:48. > :15:52.subversive. Later on BBC London: We talk to the
:15:53. > :15:54.man accused of stealing food from a supermarket skip - and why he's
:15:55. > :15:55.defended his actions. And how the Cutty Sark has become
:15:56. > :16:11.London's newest theatre space. It affects thousands of children in
:16:12. > :16:14.the UK, and millions worldwide. Peanut allergy is the biggest cause
:16:15. > :16:20.of severe allergic reaction, and has blighted the lives of many
:16:21. > :16:23.sufferers. Now researchers believe they may have cracked the problem,
:16:24. > :16:28.by giving tiny amounts of peanuts, under strict medical supervision.
:16:29. > :16:34.The trial, carried out in Cambridge, involved 99 children. After six
:16:35. > :16:37.months, 80 to 90% of them were able to eat five peanuts a day. Our
:16:38. > :16:49.health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson has more details.
:16:50. > :16:53.Elizabeth to Lee used to have a potentially life-threatening
:16:54. > :16:57.allergic reaction to peanuts. The day after her fifth birthday she was
:16:58. > :17:01.rushed to hospital with severe swelling after eating peanut butter.
:17:02. > :17:06.But since taking part in a trial, she can eat peanuts safely and now
:17:07. > :17:11.has to eat them every day. She prefers them chocolate coated. I am
:17:12. > :17:17.happy that I am able to eat the peanuts and there is a trial to help
:17:18. > :17:25.me not be allergic any more. It is life transforming. The worry that it
:17:26. > :17:29.has removed from our lives. The researchers, whose findings have
:17:30. > :17:32.been published in the Lancet, say this treatment has never been used
:17:33. > :17:37.to successfully overcome a food allergy until now. This peanut study
:17:38. > :17:42.is the largest and most successful of its kind in the world. Scientists
:17:43. > :17:47.here are describing it as a breakthrough and save for the first
:17:48. > :17:53.time ever, a treatment for peanut allergy is now a possibility. Some
:17:54. > :17:57.experts are calling for more research to assess long-term risks,
:17:58. > :18:02.but the report's authors say the results speak for themselves. We do
:18:03. > :18:08.mainly clinical research and to see something which we might be able to
:18:09. > :18:15.take into real-life treatment and hugely benefit patient care is for
:18:16. > :18:19.us, the pinnacle. It is hoped the technique used to help unless the
:18:20. > :18:26.birth will now be able to be tested on other allergies such as eggs,
:18:27. > :18:31.wheat and milk. -- the technique used to help Elizabeth. The study
:18:32. > :18:35.was taken under tight supervision and should not be attempted without
:18:36. > :18:39.medical supervision. The former editor of the News of the
:18:40. > :18:43.World, Andy Coulson, has said was out of the office on the day a voice
:18:44. > :18:46.mail left for the actor Daniel Craig was intercepted by a journalist
:18:47. > :18:49.working for him. Mr Coulson's lawyer told a jury at the Old Bailey that
:18:50. > :18:52.allegations that Andy Coulson ordered a copy of the voice mail to
:18:53. > :19:04.be anonymously dropped off at the newspaper's offices were untrue. Tom
:19:05. > :19:10.Symonds has the latest for us now. This is all about the evidence of
:19:11. > :19:13.Dan Evans, a reporter at the time at the News of the World. He says he
:19:14. > :19:20.illegally accessed a voice mail from Sienna Miller to Daniel Craig, the
:19:21. > :19:27.Bond actor. The voice mail said, I am at the Groucho, that is a London
:19:28. > :19:32.club, with Jude, that is Jude Law, I love you. He said that as proof that
:19:33. > :19:37.Sienna Miller had a relationship with Daniel Craig. He says he played
:19:38. > :19:41.the recording to Andy Coulson. Today, Timothy Laurence del QC said
:19:42. > :19:50.Mr Coulson was not in the office that day, he was not even in London
:19:51. > :19:54.-- Timothy Langdale QC. He said he was making the story up. He had not
:19:55. > :19:58.hacked the voice mail, Sienna Miller had not been at the Groucho club and
:19:59. > :20:03.even the tape this to Evans said was put in a safe could not have been
:20:04. > :20:07.because there was no safe in Andy Coulson's offers. It was quite a
:20:08. > :20:12.tense day of evidence and during it, Mr Evans said he was sticking
:20:13. > :20:18.with his story, even if he could not remember all the details. He said,
:20:19. > :20:21.why bother making this up, this is not a fun experience. The jury
:20:22. > :20:26.tomorrow we'll hear from Sienna Miller herself via a video link from
:20:27. > :20:30.the USA. Thank you. The Canadian pop star Justin Bieber
:20:31. > :20:34.has turned himself in to police in Toronto, and been charged with an
:20:35. > :20:37.assault. It relates to an alleged attack on a limousine driver in
:20:38. > :20:39.December. The 19-year-old has pleaded not guilty to charges of
:20:40. > :20:42.drink-driving and resisting arrest, in connection with a separate
:20:43. > :20:47.incident earlier this month in Miami.
:20:48. > :20:50.Doctors in France are to begin bringing the former Formula One
:20:51. > :20:54.racing champion, Michael Schumacher, out of his medically-induced coma.
:20:55. > :20:57.Michael Schumacher has been in hospital since a skiing accident a
:20:58. > :21:01.month ago, in which he suffered serious head injuries. His agent
:21:02. > :21:08.says doctors are lowering his sedation, in order to wake him up.
:21:09. > :21:13.They're the RAF's most famous fliers. The men and women of 617
:21:14. > :21:16.Squadron are, of course, better known as the Dambusters. The
:21:17. > :21:19.Squadron's pilots have been supporting British and other troops
:21:20. > :21:24.in Afghanistan, but now they've flown their final mission before
:21:25. > :21:34.temporarily disbanding. Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt joined
:21:35. > :21:37.them at Kandahar air field. Soaring through the Afghan skies,
:21:38. > :21:46.for one of the final missions for the Dambusters. This is one of their
:21:47. > :21:50.Tornado GR4s, being refuelled by an American tank while in the air, a
:21:51. > :21:57.move which requires precision when you are travelling at 450 mile --
:21:58. > :22:01.400 55 miles an hour. This country is a beautiful country. On a day
:22:02. > :22:06.like this, it is a beautiful place to look at. The view from my office
:22:07. > :22:10.is one of the best in the world. Even on the days when the weather is
:22:11. > :22:15.not nice and communications are poor and it is becoming hard work, it is
:22:16. > :22:18.not about what we are doing, we are here to support the guys on the
:22:19. > :22:24.ground who are in a more vulnerable position than we are. Day and
:22:25. > :22:29.night, Ben and his fellow aviators have provided air cover for NATO and
:22:30. > :22:33.Afghan troops. Now they will all move on to new jobs in different
:22:34. > :22:38.squadrons. The planes themselves will be handed over to 2 Squadron
:22:39. > :22:43.who are taking over from 617. For the men and women of the Dambusters,
:22:44. > :22:47.this is the end of an era. It is the last time they will fly their
:22:48. > :22:52.Tornado GR4s. For most of the Squadron it is a last tour of
:22:53. > :22:57.Afghanistan. Later on this decade the Dambusters will reform. 617 will
:22:58. > :23:04.be the first lightning 2 Squadron. It will reformat RAF Marham. As the
:23:05. > :23:09.Squadron says goodbye, there will be sadness as they fly their separate
:23:10. > :23:21.ways. Formed for just one task in 1943, the Dambusters have endured.
:23:22. > :23:24.One day they will fly again. They are popular works by some world
:23:25. > :23:27.renowned artists, but to the Nazis these works were known as
:23:28. > :23:37."degenerate art", and they were seized and banned by Adolf Hitler.
:23:38. > :23:39.Now for the first time, the Victoria and Albert Museum has published
:23:40. > :23:43.online documents which record what happened to the works after they
:23:44. > :23:51.were seized. Our arts editor Will Gompertz has been taking a look.
:23:52. > :23:57.Vincent van Gough's portrait is considered to be a great and
:23:58. > :24:00.important work of art but was thought ugly and negative by Adolf
:24:01. > :24:05.Hitler who had it removed from public view along with thousands of
:24:06. > :24:10.other works of art which he considered degenerate. He was
:24:11. > :24:15.particularly scornful of expressionist artists who, in his
:24:16. > :24:20.opinion, distorted reality. Anyone who paints a sky green and fields
:24:21. > :24:23.blue, he said, ought to be sterilised. Tomorrow, the only
:24:24. > :24:27.complete surviving legends of these confiscated works will be made
:24:28. > :24:31.available to the public for the first time. The books are held at
:24:32. > :24:36.the National Art library at the end a in London. They are dull and
:24:37. > :24:43.innocuous looking ledgers until you open them up. -- they are held at
:24:44. > :24:46.the Victoria and Albert Museum. It lists all the museums from
:24:47. > :24:55.throughout Germany where the Nazis took the art of the walls. Then you
:24:56. > :25:01.come to the abbreviation pages, they stand for swap, sold and destroyed.
:25:02. > :25:05.It was such a systematic list. It was difficult to imagine how it was
:25:06. > :25:10.done while the war was going on. But nevertheless, they did and they did
:25:11. > :25:15.it in a very organised manner. For me, it has echoes of what also
:25:16. > :25:21.happened to people. For every artwork sold, there is the identity
:25:22. > :25:27.of the person who bought it. In a few instances it was glaring. But
:25:28. > :25:32.another name leaps out at you whose son was discovered to be sitting on
:25:33. > :25:35.a horde of 1400 artworks handed down to him by his father, some of which
:25:36. > :25:40.are likely to be listed in the ledgers. The Nazis held an
:25:41. > :25:49.exhibition of degenerate art in order to ridicule it. People who
:25:50. > :25:53.loaned to museums, very often there records were destroyed by the Nazis
:25:54. > :25:57.as well because they were persecuted. The museums hold the
:25:58. > :26:02.record which could provide the evidence as to what they owned and
:26:03. > :26:07.where it went. The Nazis did not limit their purge to art. They also
:26:08. > :26:11.burned books they considered to be anti-German and to generate. For the
:26:12. > :26:14.pictures that survived and have yet to be returned to their rightful
:26:15. > :26:19.owners, the publication of the B and eight's ledgers could be extremely
:26:20. > :26:21.helpful. Time for a look at the weather,
:26:22. > :26:34.here's Alex Deakin. We are not at the end of January
:26:35. > :26:38.yet. We have already heard it is the wettest January on record. One day
:26:39. > :26:45.to go and there is more to come. There is a three pronged attack. As
:26:46. > :26:49.the rain arrives it will hit some cold air in Scotland. There could be
:26:50. > :26:53.problems in the evening and overnight for snow. And then on
:26:54. > :26:57.Saturday, strong winds. Let's get back to tonight. The weather is
:26:58. > :27:02.relatively calm. One or two showers across eastern England, pushing
:27:03. > :27:10.across Scotland on the hills. It could turn I see where we see breaks
:27:11. > :27:16.in the cloud. -- it could turn I see. The rain will spread steadily
:27:17. > :27:23.from west to east across all areas tomorrow. Maybe 30 millimetres
:27:24. > :27:28.across parts of Somerset where the Met Office has an amber warning in
:27:29. > :27:31.force. The rain will not reach eastern areas until the middle of
:27:32. > :27:41.the day. It will feel particularly cold. Over the hills there will be
:27:42. > :27:44.some snow. Through the evening rush-hour across Scotland,
:27:45. > :27:49.particularly over the Grampians, it will not be pleasant at all. The wet
:27:50. > :27:55.weather tries to clear away for a time. Further bands of showers will
:27:56. > :27:59.come marching in. They could provide a covering of snow. A cold start to
:28:00. > :28:06.the weekend. The bands of showers keep feeding round. The winds could
:28:07. > :28:14.cause an extra hazard as they pick up. And coupled potentially with
:28:15. > :28:20.some high tides may cause some extra coastal flooding issues. It is still
:28:21. > :28:25.breezy on Sunday but the weather is calming down a little bit. The show
:28:26. > :28:30.was not as frequent. Definitely the dryer, brighter day of the weekend.
:28:31. > :28:35.Before we get there, some potential hazards. The warnings or on the BBC
:28:36. > :28:42.weather website. Thank you. A reminder of our main story: New
:28:43. > :28:45.figures show it has been the wettest January on record for many parts of
:28:46. > :28:50.Britain and there is more bad weather on the way. That's all from
:28:51. > :28:51.the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC