:00:00. > :00:12.more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We're back with
:00:13. > :00:18.A Good evening. The latest news in the south. Work to reconnect
:00:19. > :00:22.electricity to thousands of homes across the region has been
:00:23. > :00:24.continuing. The power companies say everyone should have their lights
:00:25. > :00:28.back on by the end of the day. Meanwhile, many families and
:00:29. > :00:35.businesses are focusing flood damage and rail engineers are working to
:00:36. > :00:41.reopen lines hit by landslips. The sound of chainsaws has signalled
:00:42. > :00:47.a return to normality of fallen trees are cleared and power lines
:00:48. > :00:52.are repaired. But for many it has been a long, long wait. Amongst
:00:53. > :00:55.those who had a cold and dark Christmas were friends Joan and Roy,
:00:56. > :01:00.who live in Bishopstoke and Hampshire. At night time in the
:01:01. > :01:05.middle of the night you wake up, you are shivering and cold and it is
:01:06. > :01:11.only the fact they brought your water bottle. Along with power cuts
:01:12. > :01:15.flooding continues to be a severe problem in some areas. Today, the
:01:16. > :01:20.Lands End Equestrian Centre between Twyford and Charcoal in Berkshire
:01:21. > :01:24.was still only accessible by boat or by wading. My wife looked out of the
:01:25. > :01:30.window at 4am in the morning and within an hour it had flooded the
:01:31. > :01:33.whole yard completely and it was about one foot deep and got higher
:01:34. > :01:37.and higher. I have never seen it come up so quick in my life. The
:01:38. > :01:43.horses were OK but some chickens perished in the flood and the car
:01:44. > :01:47.workshop on the site suffered damage. Water levels peaked on
:01:48. > :01:52.Christmas Day in many places. Here on the Bournemouth Christchurch
:01:53. > :01:57.border two mobile home parks were evacuated but over the past 24 hours
:01:58. > :02:04.river levels have fallen. If I had been standing here on the edge of
:02:05. > :02:07.the river Stour at Iford on Christmas Day the water would
:02:08. > :02:11.virtually have been over my head, but now it has come down by a couple
:02:12. > :02:17.of metres. The Environment Agency says if there is more heavy rain
:02:18. > :02:20.river levels will rise quickly. The flood plains are completely
:02:21. > :02:25.saturated. There is water lying absolutely everywhere. Any rainfall
:02:26. > :02:29.we get over the next couple of days, even further on Bond that,
:02:30. > :02:33.we'll bring live `` will bring river levels quickly back`up. The heavy
:02:34. > :02:37.rain has caused landslips on three railway lines in the region
:02:38. > :02:44.including here at Haslemere on the line from Portsmouth to London.
:02:45. > :02:48.A second reward has been offered for information about the driver of the
:02:49. > :02:55.car involved in a fatal hit and run incident in poll `` in Poole.
:02:56. > :03:01.Christopher Colegate died earlier this month. He was on his way to the
:03:02. > :03:06.Oakdale Conservative Club which has joined Crimestoppers in offering
:03:07. > :03:10.?1000 for information leading to an arrest.
:03:11. > :03:13.Sport, Southampton's 3`0 win at Cardiff yesterday means they are
:03:14. > :03:16.ninth going into Sunday's trip to Everton. Bournemouth on Portsmouth
:03:17. > :03:21.were among the winners in the Football League's Boxing Day
:03:22. > :03:24.schedule. Festive cheer at Dean Court has
:03:25. > :03:29.Bournemouth picked up their first win at home in the Championship
:03:30. > :03:32.since early October. Matt Ritchie scored two second`half goals as
:03:33. > :03:35.Bournemouth thumped Yeovil three ` zero. I can't keep producing moments
:03:36. > :03:41.like that and not take them and thankfully with Matt Ritchie in the
:03:42. > :03:45.form he is in today at the moment it is going really well for him and us.
:03:46. > :03:50.First half power failure threatened Reading's game at Leicester before
:03:51. > :03:54.an emergency generator was bought in and Nigel Aji Kings' men went down
:03:55. > :03:59.one ` zero. Oxford United missed the chance to go back to the top of
:04:00. > :04:03.League Two. They went down 3`2 at home to Plymouth. But it was a win
:04:04. > :04:08.for Portsmouth that Fratton Park, Romain Padovani's first goal in a
:04:09. > :04:14.wish football saw Pompey and a nine match winless run with a victory
:04:15. > :04:15.over Dagenham Redbridge. Some soggy pitches. Sarah has the
:04:16. > :04:24.weather. We have one or two showers this
:04:25. > :04:29.evening. They will fade away. Most of us have a dry, chilly night and
:04:30. > :04:34.patchy frost. Any showers fade away by the middle of the night and with
:04:35. > :04:38.clear skies overhead light breeze, we are looking at temperatures in
:04:39. > :04:41.towns and cities dipping down to two or three Celsius. Patchy frost is
:04:42. > :04:47.possible but also the risk of ice from untreated surfaces. We start
:04:48. > :04:51.tomorrow on a bright, crisp note. Some good sunshine for much of the
:04:52. > :04:54.day. Along the coast and for the Isle of Wight we could see some
:04:55. > :04:58.rather heavy showers through the course of the day and there is a
:04:59. > :05:03.chance they could lift inland as well. But in the most part some good
:05:04. > :05:07.sunny spells and temperatures seven or eight Celsius. Tomorrow night
:05:08. > :05:11.those showers tend to ease away into the channel, drier conditions
:05:12. > :05:16.follow. Broken cloud overhead and the misty conditions. Temperatures
:05:17. > :05:21.close to freezing. For Sunday, by day a pretty fine picture. We have
:05:22. > :05:25.tried, settled conditions. The winds start to pick up as the isobars
:05:26. > :05:29.squeeze. This weather system arriving from the Atlantic brings
:05:30. > :05:33.more wet, windy weather into the overnight periods. That is Sunday
:05:34. > :05:38.and Monday night. Your summary for the coming days. Tomorrow, not doing
:05:39. > :05:42.too badly. Along the coast while two showers. Elsewhere some good bright,
:05:43. > :05:46.sunny skies. A fine, dry day for Sunday with wet weather overnight
:05:47. > :05:52.into Monday to stop unsettled to start the new week. News continues
:05:53. > :05:56.on the BBC News Channel and on the BBC website and we will be back with
:05:57. > :05:58.another update at 10:15pm. Enjoy your evening and we will see you
:05:59. > :06:13.later. Good evening. What a week it has
:06:14. > :06:19.been, a stormy start, a law through Christmas, then a wild end to the
:06:20. > :06:25.week, had to keep up, isn't it? This was a vicious area of low pressure
:06:26. > :06:29.last night, but today the winds have been strongest across northern
:06:30. > :06:34.areas, where it is still blowing a gale. That will gradually subside as
:06:35. > :06:37.we go through the night, although a windy night across Scotland with
:06:38. > :06:41.frequent, heavy showers. A few showers whistling in elsewhere, but
:06:42. > :06:46.a lot of dry weather, and temperatures will ease down first
:06:47. > :06:47.thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, a