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A fresh band of rain sweeps across the UK, threatening more flooding. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The downpours mean it is a festive washout for some, who will spend | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Christmas clearing up damaged homes and businesses. Roads are closed | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
and rail services are disrupted as the bad weather caused his | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
cancellations and delays. expected it to happen. I knew what | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
was going on on the news and you still have to try and get back home | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
for Christmas. There is nothing worse than not being with your | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
family at Christmas. In America, a gunman attacks firefighters as they | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
tackle a blaze, two are killed and two critically injured. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Acceptable but not exceptional, the retailer verdict on the run-up to | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Christmas. And the Queen and 3D. Her high-tech | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Christmas message pays tribute to Good evening. People in many parts | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
of the UK are being warned to prepare for more flooding tonight | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
with another band of heavy rain sweeping across the country. There | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
are around 156 flood warnings in place in England and Wales and 259 | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
flood alerts. Road and rail journeys are being disrupted, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
particularly in the south-west with part of the main train line between | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
London and Plymouth closed all this week until Friday. John Kay has | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
spent the day in Devon and tries the from Tiverton Parkway railway | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
station. This is hugely frustrating for people, especially on Christmas | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Eve? Absolutely, racing home on | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Christmas Eve is never going to be easy. But tonight it is proving to | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
be exceptionally difficult for millions of people because of | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
flooding. At this railway station, people are having to get off the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
trains, get on to coaches instead. But it's not just the south-west of | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
England. In many parts of Britain there are people for whom this is a | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Christmas they would already sooner forget. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
There will be no Christmas dinner served here tomorrow. While the | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
rest of us are settling down for a quiet couple of days, in Stonehaven | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Aaron Burton is clearing a band moving out. Although driving away | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
will not be an option. I'm just in shock. Mud is everywhere, it has | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
got everywhere. As 600 miles south, the same story. In Braunton, they | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
have been flooded twice in the last few days. Instead of wrapping | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
presents, Darren has been throwing them away. Ruined stock from his | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
gift shop. It will be an anxious Christmas here. Hopefully it has | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
blown through and we have seen the worst. The trouble is, when you are | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
sitting at home and it starts raining again, you're thinking, I'd | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
better get down here again. track? | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
It might have been a drier day in most places, but rivers like the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Thames are still dangerously high. At this caravan park, they are | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
worried. If the river comes up even more, I would be able to get to my | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
daughters and spend Christmas with the grandsons. Tomorrow, we will be | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
stranded. I have taken precautions and got my own turkey. The rail | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
network has been thrown into chaos. This is the line in Exeter. As a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
result, hundreds of thousands of passengers have been forced to get | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
off the trains and continue their journey by road. The rail companies | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
promise, one way or another, everyone would get where they need | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
to be. But that doesn't mean it would be easy. Coach, train, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
another bus and then to my mum's. Quite a long time. There is nothing | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
worse than not being with your family at Christmas. With more rain | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
to come, the Environment Agency has spent Christmas Eve correcting | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
flood defences. Beneath the historic Ironbridge, there is some | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
new engineering. Do you think it will spoil your Christmas? | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
nothing can spoil Christmas! Tonight, flooded communities across | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
the UK are trying to revive some festive spirit. But in 2012, on | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
thousands of doorsteps, this could be the best Christmas present of | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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I have to say, it is astonishing. In Broughton an at this station, it | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
has been good natured, people helping it about and offering each | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
other lifts. It was summed up by a couple of passengers eyesore, Santa | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
hats on their heads, tinsel round their necks, but with rather pained | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
and anxious expressions on their face. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
In the United States, a gunman shot at firefighters, killing two, as | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
they arrive to tackle a fire in Webster in New York State. Two | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
others were critically injured. It comes as debate continues about gun | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
control following the Connecticut School massacre. | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
A fire in a comfortable lakeside community. A phone call that leered | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
four small-town firefighters to the blaze. Out of nowhere, a violent | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
tragedy on Christmas Eve. Upon arrival, the firefighters all drew | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
fire. All four were shot at the scene. One was able to flee the | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
scene and the other three were pinned down at the location. To two | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
firefighters died of their wounds at the fire. It took an armoured | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
personnel carrier to evacuate residents. The town's leadership is | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
distraught. It's very... It's a very difficult situation. There is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
a heightened awareness to this kind of violence in light of what | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
happened in Connecticut. I want everyone to remember it is | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Christmas Eve. We have first responders and families in pain and | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
crisis today. As a community, we need to keep them in our thoughts | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
and prayers. It's a very, very difficult day. All week they have | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
been burying the dead in Newtown, Connecticut. All week, the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
arguments over the kind of guns available in America and the kind | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
of people that can get hold of them have gone back and forth. A cold | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
Christmas awaits for two firefighters' families. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
In Afghanistan, a police officer has shot dead six colleagues at a | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
checkpoint in the north-west of the country. Earlier, a policewoman | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
shot dead an American NATO adviser outside police headquarters in the | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
capital, Kabul. It's thought to be the this d'etat of its kind by a | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
woman there. A referendum on Egypt's draft | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
constitution has been postponed until tomorrow. It is already clear | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
there will be a comfortable majority in favour of the document | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
backed by President Morsi and The Muslim Brotherhood. But the | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Electoral Commission must investigate allegations of voting | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
fraud. Opposition groups believe the document will quash religious | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and other freedoms. The British Retail Consortium says | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
sales figures in the run-up to Christmas have been acceptable, but | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
not exceptional. Reports from shopping centres and high streets | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
across the country suggest that trade over the past few days has | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
The final countdown to Christmas and these shoppers were leaving it | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
late this evening to finish buying gifts and decorations. For some | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
families, all hands were needed to get the job done. Some stores have | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
been on the go since just after midnight. Marks & Spencer and Tesco | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
has opened some outlets to allow those who wanted to an escape from | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
the rush. I came here yesterday and it was a manic. You can see, there | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
is no one about. Easy stuff. In and out in half an hour, it's done. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
rather stay up late and have a little bit longer in bed. It suits | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
us fine. We would be up anyway. It's quite exciting! By the time | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Christmas Eve had dawned, shopping centres were filling up, including | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
at the Trafford Centre in Manchester. Some were not afraid to | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
admit they had left their Christmas shopping until the last minute. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Just getting bits and bobs for Christmas, last minute shopping, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
everything I need. I prefer to shop properly instead of doing it online. | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
Get it all in one day! All done, one bag, a voucher and chocolate! | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
We are going out tonight and we don't have an outfit. So we are | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
going for that. And I'm getting a teddy bear for my nephew. Earlier, | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
it suggested a slow start to shopping. But figures show that | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
football was up slightly, 1.3% in the week up until Sunday compared | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to last year. October and November were marginally disappointing. But | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
we have seen some rise in consumer confidence. I think that will be | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
enough to support people when they say, right, let's just make sure we | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
have a good Christmas. I think the last 10 days they have gone out to | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
spend. These are challenging times for consumers. Inflation is running | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
well ahead of average pay rises, there is a squeeze on household | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
budgets. Policy makers as well as retailers are keen to know if | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
spending has been holding up its Christmas season. They will not get | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the answer until a full set of figures is published in January. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Retail bosses were cautious ahead of Christmas. They say that sales | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
have been acceptable, but not much more. There will be hoping for a | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
turnaround in fortunes in the new year. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Three people have been killed in a road accident in the east of | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Scotland. Lothian and borders police say the accident happened at | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
around 7:30am on each Aor 68 near Pathhead. One car carrying five | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
people ended up on its roof. The driver escaped and fire crews cut | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
another man free but three passengers died at the scene. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Police in Manchester are searching for a mugger who still a | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
substantial amount of money from an elderly woman on her way home from | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
a casino. The man snatched the handbag from the 83-year-old as she | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
got out of a taxi. Police say she had a won a relatively large amount | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
of money at the casino in Salford and was also carrying some life | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
savings in her handbag because she was afraid of being burgled at | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Christmas. Parents who want to adopt in | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
England will be allowed to play a greater role in selecting a child | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
under new plans aimed at speeding up the adoption process. The | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
changes would let approved would-be parents see the register of | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
children waiting to be adopted. It is hoped that the changes will | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
reduce the number of children in care. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
More than 25,000 families inquired about adoption in England last year. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
But just 4000 saw the process through. The Government admits | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
there is a problem and says the new plan will help. It will give | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
confidence to anyone that wants to come forward, thinking about | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
adopting, that we are on their side. We want to help them through that | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
process. If it is right for them, it is right for the child that the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
match is made as soon as possible so that child can get that | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
permanent family, that stable, loving home. Ministers want to give | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
new rights to potential adoptive parents, including access to the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
nationwide register of children to give families more say in the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
selection process. There would be allowed more time off work to meet | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
their future son or daughter and more paid leave and free child care | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
entitlements to match those of biological parents. Francesca's | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
adopted her children in Mexico after being told that there were no | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
suitable children in her area. She welcomes the help on offer but says | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
the bigger problem is being allowed to adopt in the first place. There | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
is almost some sort of hostility towards adoptive parents at the | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
moment. When you enter the process, it seems like they start looking | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
what is wrong with you, rather than looking for what is right with you. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
The whole system is in complete crisis. By trying to address one | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
little problem here or there, we are not addressing the bigger | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
problem, though one of the system actually needing a complete review. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
But local councils say that they accept adoptive parents at twice | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the rate of other agencies and they warned that finding the right | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
families for children in care is never going to be a speedy process. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
What we do need to make sure is that if you're taking on | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
responsibility for a child that may have suffered serious sexual or | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
physical abuse, neglect or have very significant health needs that | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
you are ready for that challenge. We want to make sure that every | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
parent that comes forward willing to adopt goes through that system | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
with their eyes open so that children find loving, stable and | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
long-term homes to go to. Families hoping to adopt will not benefit | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
from these proposals for a while. The Government says that some | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
measures will require legislation and may not come into force until | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
2015. The Queen has praised the UK's | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Olympic and Paralympic athletes in her Christmas message, which will | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
be broadcast in 3D for the first time. Buckingham Palace has | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
released a short excerpt of the speech, filmed earlier this month. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Yesterday, she missed a church service at Sandringham because of a | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
cold but she is expected to be there tomorrow. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
At the end of a memorable year for Britain and the Royal Family, the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Queen's Christmas broadcast is expected to look back at some of | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the highlights, from her Diamond Jubilee when crowds celebrated his | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
60 years on the throne and the London Olympics. The broadcast was | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
recorded earlier this month at Buckingham Palace. For the first | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
time, a version has been made in 3D, the Vueling of which requires not | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
just a special television but 3D glasses. The Queen, we are told, is | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
happy with the result. In an extract issued in advance of the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
broadcast, she talks about the achievements of the 2012 Olympic | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
and Paralympic Games. As London hosted a splendid summer of sport, | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
all those who saw the achievement and courage at the Olympic and | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
Paralympic Games were further inspired by the skill, dedication, | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
training and teamwork of athletes. In pursuing their own sporting | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
goals, they gave the rest of us the opportunity to share something of | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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the excitement and drama. Much of the Royal Family is at Sandringham,, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
where they traditionally spend Christmas. Absence will be the Duke | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
and Duchess of Cambridge, they are spending Christmas with The | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Duchess's parents, a departure from normal routine to hold Catherine, | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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still in the early months of her In Bethlehem, thousands of | :15:05. | :15:12. |