:00:10. > :00:18.from the Atlantic. The winds hit the south west at 80mph and are moving
:00:19. > :00:21.up the south coast. Flood waters awash with raw sewage
:00:22. > :00:28.rise still further and new areas are at risk. Just when you think the
:00:29. > :00:33.water can't get any higher, it does, up to the door knocker here. That's
:00:34. > :00:37.the worst we've seen it through these weeks of flooding.
:00:38. > :00:42.But with tonight expected to be the last in the conveyor belt of storms,
:00:43. > :00:46.is the worst behind us? Also on the programme: Questioned by
:00:47. > :00:49.police over phone hacking, the former editor of the Daily Mirror,
:00:50. > :00:51.Piers Morgan. The British fashion designers
:00:52. > :00:59.leading the charge for the huge Chinese clothing market - we have a
:01:00. > :01:01.special report. And a gold medal for Team GB at the
:01:02. > :01:10.Winter Olympics. More defences go in, as flood hit
:01:11. > :01:14.areas prepare for the waters to rise again.
:01:15. > :01:15.And engineering work to fix the rail line into Paddington could mean it's
:01:16. > :01:40.closed for a week. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:41. > :01:43.News at Six. Parts of Britain are being battered
:01:44. > :01:47.again by yet another huge storm sweeping in from the Atlantic.
:01:48. > :01:51.Forecasters are warning that by the end of the day some places will see
:01:52. > :01:55.well over an inch of rain, potentially flooding new areas. The
:01:56. > :02:00.winds have yet to peak but are expected to reach 80mph along the
:02:01. > :02:03.south coast. This is the storm as it's moving at speed across the
:02:04. > :02:06.country from the south-west. One of the areas worst affected is
:02:07. > :02:15.Somerset, and our correspondent Jon Kay is in the village of East Lyng
:02:16. > :02:21.now. It might look like I am standing at
:02:22. > :02:24.the seaside. In fact, this is farmland, flooded farmland. The
:02:25. > :02:29.level of the water is getting deep bowl the time and the wind today has
:02:30. > :02:33.been incredible. 70 mph already, getting higher and stronger in the
:02:34. > :02:43.next few hours, not just here but right across the southern part of
:02:44. > :02:48.Great Britain. Valentine's Day, but not the time for a romantic walk in
:02:49. > :02:52.the countryside. In Somerset, waves crashed 20 miles from the coast,
:02:53. > :03:01.floodwater whipped up by another violent storm. In East Lyng,
:03:02. > :03:07.Georgina is the latest victim. For her, it has just been one deluged to
:03:08. > :03:13.many. I just can't believe it is keeping on and on raining, and
:03:14. > :03:17.raining so hard as well. And we are under now. We've never been flooded
:03:18. > :03:24.before. There are going to be I don't know how many other
:03:25. > :03:30.properties. It's just ridiculous. Next door, Richard now has 2000
:03:31. > :03:33.sandbags, but will it be enough? You can't beat nature. If the water is
:03:34. > :03:40.going to rise that much I will lose the battle for the house. The third
:03:41. > :03:46.big storm in a week and the water is still spreading, wider and deeper.
:03:47. > :03:52.Just when you think things can't get any worse, just when you think the
:03:53. > :03:56.water can't get any higher, it does. Up to the door knocker. That is the
:03:57. > :04:00.worst we have seen during these weeks of flooding on the Somerset
:04:01. > :04:07.Levels. Every day, still, new properties are being affected.
:04:08. > :04:11.Buffeted by wind and sprayed by rain, we headed to Gloucester. Badly
:04:12. > :04:16.flooded seven years ago, the new flood defences are holding up for
:04:17. > :04:21.now, but the weekend tides will be a challenge. If we get water coming
:04:22. > :04:24.over the defences, which are protecting here now, we will see
:04:25. > :04:31.possibly up to one metre of water in this street. That is just below
:04:32. > :04:36.those windowsills. It is all making this family rather paranoid. They
:04:37. > :04:40.came to Gloucester for safety after their street in Surrey was flooded
:04:41. > :04:46.on Tuesday. Now, their temporary home could go under as well. It is a
:04:47. > :04:51.bit surreal. The boys have moved from one flood zone to another but
:04:52. > :04:58.they are taking it in their stride. Where next? Spain, I think. Once
:04:59. > :05:03.this storm has passed, forecasters say the worst may be over for a
:05:04. > :05:05.while, but before that, southern Britain faces a long and wild Friday
:05:06. > :05:08.night. Well, among those helping with the
:05:09. > :05:11.relief effort in the Thames Valley today were Princes William and
:05:12. > :05:14.Harry. They joined the sandbagging effort in the village of Datchet
:05:15. > :05:16.just down from Windsor Castle, as today's storm pushed the flood
:05:17. > :05:18.waters higher. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy spent the day
:05:19. > :05:21.travelling through the flood zone, from Marlow in Buckinghamshire,
:05:22. > :05:31.through Berkshire, to Egham in Surrey.
:05:32. > :05:39.Making us feel vulnerable in the face of nature. The thunderous River
:05:40. > :05:47.Thames in full flood, recreating and reshaping everything before it. This
:05:48. > :05:52.is one of three buildings that survived the floods. Our first stop
:05:53. > :05:55.was in Marlow, taking us to an activity centre which should be full
:05:56. > :06:02.of disadvantaged children, not deluged with water. The river is
:06:03. > :06:05.over by the trees. He fights to control his emotions when he tells
:06:06. > :06:10.me how one volunteer died trying to save the centre. There has been a
:06:11. > :06:17.lot of effort from staff to try to protect the centre from flooding.
:06:18. > :06:23.One of my colleagues, unfortunately... I can't do this.
:06:24. > :06:30.Mark says, like the boats, if this does not end, Longridge may go
:06:31. > :06:34.under. These winter storms have not only caused personal tragedy as in
:06:35. > :06:40.that case, but also destroyed homes and businesses across a vast swathe
:06:41. > :06:44.of this country. Whether it is here in Marlow, or down the Thames Valley
:06:45. > :06:48.towards London, where we are heading now, thousands of lives have been
:06:49. > :06:54.turned upside down by all of this wind and water. We moved from
:06:55. > :07:00.Buckinghamshire to Berkshire, and cook, its centre underwater.
:07:01. > :07:04.Soldiers are helping, but homes have flooded, so here, at the house of
:07:05. > :07:10.the vicar, they put the dam into damnation. Can communities like this
:07:11. > :07:16.take much more of this weather? You have too. That is an interesting
:07:17. > :07:22.question, but people are very resilient. Resilient and resource
:07:23. > :07:28.full. They have to be. Just like here, at Purley-on-Thames, reluctant
:07:29. > :07:33.host to yet more floods. That is the stunning pool. For 182-year-old,
:07:34. > :07:38.inundated three times since Christmas, it is getting too much.
:07:39. > :07:44.You must be sick of this. Of course, but there is nothing I can
:07:45. > :07:49.do about it, just press on. In Purley, they worry about more rain
:07:50. > :07:55.coming down, but at a gum in Surrey, it is the sewage coming up that
:07:56. > :08:00.haunts them. Our last stop shows the streets awash with it. But some have
:08:01. > :08:03.stayed, even though it hurts. It does not matter about the fridge or
:08:04. > :08:17.the washing machine, which can be replaced, but stuff in here that you
:08:18. > :08:21.have built up. Winter, 2014. With today, Valentine's Day, quite
:08:22. > :08:24.possibly the moment when Britain finally ended its love affair with
:08:25. > :08:28.the weather. Today the Prime Minister said again
:08:29. > :08:31.the government would do "whatever it takes" to help the victims of the
:08:32. > :08:34.floods. And the Environment Agency insisted that planned job cuts won't
:08:35. > :08:37.affect its ability to respond. But some experts are saying the
:08:38. > :08:39.politicians need to do much more to protect us from flooding in the long
:08:40. > :08:50.term. Our political correspondent Vicki Young has more.
:08:51. > :08:54.The south coast, battered again, bringing disruption to homes,
:08:55. > :08:58.transport and power supplies. Overall, 5 million properties in
:08:59. > :09:02.England are at risk from flooding and these dramatic scenes are
:09:03. > :09:04.raising questions about how we adapt. Desirable riverside
:09:05. > :09:10.properties along the Thames in Maidenhead, but should this be a
:09:11. > :09:15.no-go area for development? Some say it is not where we build but how it
:09:16. > :09:20.is done. The building is raised up one level and this area is used for
:09:21. > :09:23.temporary storage, car parking, but when it floods, the cars can be
:09:24. > :09:29.moved and nothing of any value is going to be damaged. In the last few
:09:30. > :09:33.years, the talk from politicians has been about growth, the demand for
:09:34. > :09:36.more housing and better infrastructure, but recent extreme
:09:37. > :09:39.weather events mean they have to think about achieving all of that
:09:40. > :09:45.without scenes like this. We don't need to throw money at it, but what
:09:46. > :09:49.we do need is a long-term consistent investment plan. That is what has
:09:50. > :09:53.been missing. Successive governments have applied and on the -off
:09:54. > :09:59.approach to investing in flood risk management. This company is finding
:10:00. > :10:06.creative ways to help us protect our homes. The water should disappear on
:10:07. > :10:12.this side. But on this site it is impermeable. Simply improving
:10:13. > :10:16.materials, improved Strinic. For now, the authorities are focused on
:10:17. > :10:20.the immediate devastation. In Dawn is, rebuilding the rail link between
:10:21. > :10:24.Devon and Cornwall. Money is no object, said the Prime Minister, but
:10:25. > :10:26.was forced to deny that flood staff would be among hundreds of
:10:27. > :10:31.Environment Agency workers about to lose their jobs. Those have never
:10:32. > :10:35.been announced plans and they are not planned that will be put in
:10:36. > :10:38.place. Every organisation has to make sure it is efficient but
:10:39. > :10:43.nothing will be done at the Environment Agency that will hamper
:10:44. > :10:47.our flood relief effort. Perhaps the biggest challenge for politicians is
:10:48. > :10:49.how to prevent a repeat of these scenes long after the images have
:10:50. > :10:52.faded. Well, after tonight's rain and
:10:53. > :10:54.gales, there are signs that the current succession of storms which
:10:55. > :10:58.has been battering Britain for weeks may finally be coming to an end, at
:10:59. > :11:07.least for now. Our Science Editor, David Shukman, is here. Is the worst
:11:08. > :11:12.of it behind us? It doesn't feel like that right now. Let's look at
:11:13. > :11:16.some satellite pictures of the storm that has been battering Britain
:11:17. > :11:20.today, and the gales and heavy rain looks set to continue overnight. But
:11:21. > :11:24.The Met office is saying that they reckon this storm is the last of
:11:25. > :11:28.this great barrage that has been hitting us over the last couple of
:11:29. > :11:31.months. They reckon next week it should be karma, but still with the
:11:32. > :11:37.risk of rain. Where does that leave us? As we have been reporting in the
:11:38. > :11:41.past week, the ground is now so saturated that any rain will lead
:11:42. > :11:45.inevitably to more flooding. On top of that, the rivers are incredibly
:11:46. > :11:49.full. I was at ridding this afternoon and the Thames is flowing
:11:50. > :11:52.four times faster than normal for the time of year, 200 tonnes of
:11:53. > :11:56.water flowing through every second, and there is more upstream that has
:11:57. > :12:00.to work its way down through the system. So even if the weather does
:12:01. > :12:03.look a little more favourable next week, I am afraid the flooding is
:12:04. > :12:07.set to go on. Other news now and it's emerged the
:12:08. > :12:09.former editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, has been interviewed
:12:10. > :12:13.by police over allegations of phone hacking. Mr Morgan, now a host for
:12:14. > :12:15.CNN in the United States, was questioned under caution in
:12:16. > :12:25.December. Our correspondent Matt Prodger reports.
:12:26. > :12:29.Piers Morgan is an international celebrity, as famous in the United
:12:30. > :12:33.States as a talk-show host as he is in the UK. In the 1990s he was the
:12:34. > :12:39.UK's youngest newspaper editor and he went on to edit the Daily Mirror.
:12:40. > :12:43.During a recent visit to the UK, Piers Morgan was interviewed under
:12:44. > :12:47.caution by detectives investigating phone hacking allegations. The
:12:48. > :12:49.officers are working for a strand of the investigation examining claims
:12:50. > :12:56.that journalists from the Mirror group intercepted voice messages. In
:12:57. > :13:00.a statement, Piers Morgan said, in early November I was asked to attend
:13:01. > :13:04.an interview by officers from Operation Weeting, when I was next
:13:05. > :13:08.in the UK. This was further to a full witness statement I had already
:13:09. > :13:14.freely provided. I attended that interview as requested on the 6th of
:13:15. > :13:18.December 2013. In 2012, Mr Morgan gave evidence to
:13:19. > :13:22.the leather son enquiring into press standards. He said he had once been
:13:23. > :13:27.played what he believed was a voice mail left by Sir Paul McCartney for
:13:28. > :13:29.his then girlfriend, Heather Mills. But he denied knowing about any
:13:30. > :13:38.phone hacking which may have happened. Did you see this sort of
:13:39. > :13:46.thing going on, Mr Morgan? No. Are you sure about that? 100%. His
:13:47. > :13:49.employer, CNN, said it had been aware of his interview with police
:13:50. > :13:55.since it took place. The Mirror group said it had no comment to
:13:56. > :13:58.make. The pensions system is not working
:13:59. > :14:01.for consumers and could be stopping people receiving a fair income in
:14:02. > :14:05.their retirement. That's according to a report by the City watchdog. It
:14:06. > :14:07.says many people could get more cash from their annuity if they shopped
:14:08. > :14:14.around. Here's our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz.
:14:15. > :14:18.Pensions are not working, and that is no surprise that Anthony from
:14:19. > :14:22.Essex, 75, financially fit and sceptical about the insurance
:14:23. > :14:26.companies who manage them. He has been through the pension work-out,
:14:27. > :14:31.building up a pot of savings while in his job, then using it to buy an
:14:32. > :14:36.annuity, a guaranteed income for life, but making sure to shop
:14:37. > :14:42.around, unlike most of the 400,000 who buy annuities each year. I would
:14:43. > :14:47.say I have probably got about ?100 per month, or thereabouts, more by
:14:48. > :14:51.shopping around. Generally, I think it would be beneficial all the way
:14:52. > :14:58.through those extra years. The financial watchdog says pensioners
:14:59. > :15:03.are missing out on ?230 million each year. Typically, their annuity
:15:04. > :15:08.should be 7% more, roughly the game that Anthony made, ?70 extra a year
:15:09. > :15:13.which the insurance company keeps. It is a huge difference over the
:15:14. > :15:17.2225 years you may take a pension. Small increments at this stage make
:15:18. > :15:22.a difference. 20 years on, you are still living on that income. The FCA
:15:23. > :15:27.says that people turning to the internet have been misled, so
:15:28. > :15:30.websites are having to change, and insurers are accused of making extra
:15:31. > :15:35.profit out of customers who do not shop around. There is no evidence in
:15:36. > :15:38.the report, nor in any of the reviews that have been done that
:15:39. > :15:43.there is profiteering going on in the insurance industry. Millions of
:15:44. > :15:47.us are being signed up for pensions in the workplace so it is a major
:15:48. > :15:51.worry for the future. But there is also criticism that in the year at
:15:52. > :15:54.has taken to do this investigation and the extra year the watchdog says
:15:55. > :15:58.that it needs to come up with solutions, another 1 million people
:15:59. > :16:01.will have bought annuities. And we now know that a large proportion of
:16:02. > :16:06.those will end up with poor value pensions. And there is another
:16:07. > :16:14.danger, that people will simply be put off going through the
:16:15. > :16:17.pension-saving regime. The time has just gone a quarter
:16:18. > :16:21.past six. Our top story this evening: Another storm is hitting
:16:22. > :16:26.Britain with winds of up to 80mph hitting the South West. And still to
:16:27. > :16:29.come: Beneath this building in Chicago, the scientists building a
:16:30. > :16:32.tunnel across America in a bid to find out how the universe began.
:16:33. > :16:36.Later on BBC London: Stay away from the water. The weather means rowers
:16:37. > :16:38.are given a red flag warning for the first time in the history of the
:16:39. > :16:41.Thames. And the Duchess of Cambridge goes
:16:42. > :16:50.back to school, opening a special art room in Northolt.
:16:51. > :16:55.It's the first day of London Fashion Week, and it's not just an
:16:56. > :16:57.opportunity for impossibly thin models to stalk down catwalks
:16:58. > :17:00.wearing clothes most people could never afford. British fashion is a
:17:01. > :17:03.serious part of our manufacturing industry and exports, and designers
:17:04. > :17:09.showing this week will have one eye on the huge business potential of
:17:10. > :17:15.China. Here in the UK the fashion industry is worth ?21 billion, and
:17:16. > :17:17.it's expanding by 20% every year. British labels are seen as highly
:17:18. > :17:22.desirable among China's growing middle class. As a nation it now
:17:23. > :17:27.ranks third in the world table of millionaires. But for British
:17:28. > :17:37.designers, it's not an easy market to crack - as I've been finding out.
:17:38. > :17:43.Graceful, meticulous, handcrafted. British fashion worn by the
:17:44. > :17:50.well-known and well healed from the catwalk to the red carpet. Leading
:17:51. > :17:54.British designer Alice temporally's label launched 15 years ago. She
:17:55. > :18:04.knows what appeals to foreign clients. It is a beautiful print,
:18:05. > :18:11.everything is engineered. The label is keen to attract a slice of the
:18:12. > :18:17.market, and is taking its first steps in China. Dish fashion is
:18:18. > :18:25.unique and has historic context, it is more Artisan. It is much more
:18:26. > :18:29.design focused and ultimately very different to what they have got out
:18:30. > :18:32.there at the moment. When it comes to exporting British fashion, it is
:18:33. > :18:36.not just about luxury brands and boutiques. Fashion is the most
:18:37. > :18:40.popular product category sold online here in Britain, and the people
:18:41. > :18:47.making clothes here at this factor in north-west London want to
:18:48. > :18:53.replicate that success abroad. Fashion brand Asos has factories all
:18:54. > :18:58.over the world, but had to set up a factory to teach British workers the
:18:59. > :19:02.new skill. We realise we had a shortage of people knowing how to
:19:03. > :19:07.use the machines. Asos has just launched a website in China. We
:19:08. > :19:11.launched in the UK thinking that we could be a UK centre of business,
:19:12. > :19:16.but suddenly we are taking orders from all over the world. Australia
:19:17. > :19:22.and now China are now 60% of our sales. And it has given young
:19:23. > :19:29.apprentices and opportunity. I want to be a fashion designer, so me
:19:30. > :19:35.doing an apprenticeship here is a good start off. Not many designers
:19:36. > :19:39.you come across know-how garments are made.
:19:40. > :19:43.Fashion is about more than clothes. It is luxury accessories, too.
:19:44. > :19:47.Watches are the collectable of choice for a growing number of
:19:48. > :19:51.Chinese millionaires. The watches are British made and worn by RAF
:19:52. > :19:58.pilots and film stars like Tom Cruise. With a turnover of ?15
:19:59. > :20:09.million, they are keen to expand into China. The potential is huge,
:20:10. > :20:13.but so are the pitfalls. If you go into the wrong partner, into the
:20:14. > :20:19.wrong cities, your brand DNA gets misunderstood out there. But if you
:20:20. > :20:23.can get it right, it will help your market throughout the world, as
:20:24. > :20:27.well. London Fashion Week is a crucial
:20:28. > :20:29.shop window for to Zainab is. Many will be hoping the words made in
:20:30. > :20:31.Britain will translate into warning China.
:20:32. > :20:35.A helicopter that crashed into a Glasgow pub last November killing
:20:36. > :20:38.ten people suffered double engine failure. That's the finding of an
:20:39. > :20:42.interim investigation. Specialists say both engines ran out of fuel,
:20:43. > :20:46.despite there being enough onboard to keep the helicopter flying. James
:20:47. > :20:57.Cooke is outside the Clutha pub where the helicopter crashed. What
:20:58. > :21:01.more can you tell us? We are getting gradually closer to
:21:02. > :21:07.establishing exactly what caused the terrible crash here on that busy
:21:08. > :21:12.Friday night in November. In short, as you say, we now know that both
:21:13. > :21:16.engines simply stopped. They ran out of fuel. The question is, why did
:21:17. > :21:20.that happen, because there was enough fuel on board the helicopter
:21:21. > :21:23.at the time of the crash, investigators reckon, for it to fly
:21:24. > :21:27.for a number 20 minutes or so, and it was just descending back to the
:21:28. > :21:32.heliport when it came down on this pub. So they are focusing in on two
:21:33. > :21:43.things in particular. They are looking first of all at whether to
:21:44. > :21:48.pumps -- two pumps in the system was switched off, and they are also
:21:49. > :21:51.looking at the fuel displays and what warnings they might or might
:21:52. > :21:56.not have flashed up, and what that might add. The people affected by
:21:57. > :21:58.this tragedy still don't know the full truth.
:21:59. > :22:00.James, thank you. It's been described as the biggest
:22:01. > :22:04.scientific experiment ever attempted, to discover how the
:22:05. > :22:06.universe was created. Researchers in the United States working with
:22:07. > :22:09.scientists from British universities will fire subatomic particles called
:22:10. > :22:16.neutrinos through 800 miles of rock from Chicago to South Dakota. How
:22:17. > :22:21.those particles change during the journey may provide clues to how it
:22:22. > :22:29.all began. From Chicago, our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh sent this
:22:30. > :22:32.exclusive report. It's the centre of a ?1 billion
:22:33. > :22:40.project, to discover how the universe was created. Deep
:22:41. > :22:42.underground here at Fermilab in this warren of tunnels, researchers from
:22:43. > :22:48.across the world plan to build instruments to create a team 100
:22:49. > :22:54.times more powerful than the sun. Their aim is to study mysterious
:22:55. > :22:56.particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos are particles that are
:22:57. > :23:03.generated by the sun. They are all around us. Billions of them pass
:23:04. > :23:08.right through the Earth. As we zooming towards Chicago to Fermilab,
:23:09. > :23:13.every now and again, one of them bumps into part of our world and
:23:14. > :23:18.changes slightly. There is a greater chance of such changes if they pass
:23:19. > :23:25.through lots of rock. So here, deep underground, researchers plan to
:23:26. > :23:30.artificially create a beam of trillions of neutrinos in the
:23:31. > :23:34.biggest experiment ever carried out. They plan to fire at 800 miles
:23:35. > :23:43.across the country to a gigantic detector. Located in South Dakota,
:23:44. > :23:48.it will monitor how they change along the way. At the other end,
:23:49. > :23:52.scientists will be able to measure how many of the particles have been
:23:53. > :23:57.changed. The detector will be like this, only 200 times larger. It has
:23:58. > :24:02.emerged that nine British universities will help to build it.
:24:03. > :24:06.Neutrinos are very exciting to work with. They are the most abundant
:24:07. > :24:10.matter particle in the universe, but we know basically nothing about
:24:11. > :24:15.them. So it will be very exciting to unravel some of the mysteries that
:24:16. > :24:18.neutrinos are holding. It was the Japanese that first
:24:19. > :24:23.discovered that neutrinos change as they travel, 60 years ago. Ever
:24:24. > :24:27.since then, researchers have been convinced that the way neutrinos
:24:28. > :24:31.change was important in the first few moments of creation. The aim of
:24:32. > :24:37.this new international project is to learn more about how these
:24:38. > :24:46.mysterious particles helped shape the early universe. Pallab Ghosh,
:24:47. > :24:51.BBC News, Chicago. Labour has held its Parliamentary
:24:52. > :24:56.seat in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election with an increased
:24:57. > :24:59.majority. Mike Kane is the constituency's new MP. The UK
:25:00. > :25:02.Independence Party came second, pushing the Conservatives into third
:25:03. > :25:03.place. The Liberal Democrats didn't get enough votes to keep their
:25:04. > :25:06.deposit. Britain has a winter Olympics gold
:25:07. > :25:09.medal. Within the last hour, 25-year-old Lizzy Yarnold from Kent
:25:10. > :25:14.has won the skeleton, beating off strong competition along the way.
:25:15. > :25:18.Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss has just sent this report on success
:25:19. > :25:21.in Sochi. Hoping to hurtle headfirst into
:25:22. > :25:33.Olympic history, 25-year-old Lizzy Yarnold with her so-called Yarny
:25:34. > :25:37.Army cheering her on, could she get the gold? She was leading by four
:25:38. > :25:43.tenths of a second overnight, and only took up the sport five years
:25:44. > :25:52.ago. She once again set a blistering pace. Nearly 80 miles an hour. The
:25:53. > :25:56.result, a new track record. Just one more to go for Lizzy Yarnold. These
:25:57. > :26:00.are nervous times. The question now is can she hold onto gold?
:26:01. > :26:04.She began her final run with a massive lead over her rivals, the
:26:05. > :26:14.best part of a second. And any fears of a last hitch soon melted away as
:26:15. > :26:18.ice cool yarn old -- Lizzy Yarnold race to glory. Four years ago, Amy
:26:19. > :26:23.Williams won this event, and now once again, Britain had an Olympic
:26:24. > :26:26.champion. Show the world what I am capable of, and I wanted to do
:26:27. > :26:31.myself justice, and I can't believe I won the race!
:26:32. > :26:38.And so an athlete who was spotted as a 19-year-old has completed an
:26:39. > :26:42.extraordinary journey. Lizzy Yarnold came to Sochi as favourite, and
:26:43. > :26:45.delivered in scintillating style. A golden moment the Team GB and an
:26:46. > :26:52.unforgettable one for Lizzy Yarnold. What a night it has been here for
:26:53. > :26:57.Lizzy Yarnold, such an emphatic win. Nearly a second, which is a huge
:26:58. > :27:00.margin in this sport. It is Britain's first gold of the games,
:27:01. > :27:07.so if people hadn't heard of Lizzy Yarnold before Sochi, they certainly
:27:08. > :27:11.have now. Andy Swiss, thank you. Time for a look at the all-important
:27:12. > :27:16.weather forecast now. Here's Nick Miller. Is it going to get any
:27:17. > :27:20.better? Signs of an improvement next week,
:27:21. > :27:25.but the storm we have now hasn't finished with us yet.
:27:26. > :27:36.First of all we had the rain to feed the floods, and now the snow. There
:27:37. > :27:41.is a Met Office Amber be prepared warning for the potentially damaging
:27:42. > :27:45.gusts of wind across the South. Squally thundery showers moved
:27:46. > :27:52.through. The main rain band is now in Scotland. And it is windy
:27:53. > :27:58.everywhere, but the strongest winds are across southern parts of the UK
:27:59. > :28:03.through this evening and tonight. Right along the coast up to 80 mph
:28:04. > :28:06.winds. Big waves crashing on to the coastline coupled with high tides,
:28:07. > :28:12.and a significant rest of coastal flooding again. Dangerous conditions
:28:13. > :28:19.here, but even inland, we could see gusts of around 60 mph. Disruptive,
:28:20. > :28:28.damaging gusts of wind. Tomorrow is still very windy with bands of wet
:28:29. > :28:32.weather working South. It could be thundery. Conditions slowly improve
:28:33. > :28:35.from the north-west during Saturday. The wind will ease and it turns
:28:36. > :28:41.dryer and brighter. Sunday is a better day. It will be a chilly
:28:42. > :28:47.start, but many of us will stay dry and bright. The next system were
:28:48. > :28:50.coming Sunday night and Monday, bringing more rain to where it is
:28:51. > :28:53.not needed, but this is not as severe as the ones we have had
:28:54. > :28:58.recently, and that is a trend that continues next week. Still some
:28:59. > :29:03.rain, but not as much, and less windy. Some signs of an
:29:04. > :29:07.improvement, but we are not there yet. Keep up-to-date with the
:29:08. > :29:10.weather and flood warnings we have now online.
:29:11. > :29:16.Nick, thank you. A reminder of our main story. As we have just been
:29:17. > :29:20.hearing in the weather forecast, winter storms opposing more danger
:29:21. > :29:23.to British coastlines, with winds of up to 80 mph. That's all from the
:29:24. > :29:24.BBC News at Six,