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almost 80 mph work recorded. In Devon, the storm brought 40 | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
millimetres of rain Good evening. The West is being | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
battered by more heavy rain and high winds tonight after yet another day | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
of storms. Jon Kay has spent the day on the Somerset Levels and joins us | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
now. Jon, how's it looking? It is horrible and very gusty here. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
We have had all sorts of problems along our coastline will stop here | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
on the Somerset Levels, these areas that are normally surrounded by | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
fields, which are now full of water. The wind has been ripping it | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
up so we have seen waves racing across the countryside. It has been | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
quite a sight. A couple of miles in that direction is Moorland, where we | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
have reported from a lot in the last few weeks. Scott Ellis reports from | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
their, where the water is still rising. | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
The waters are still rising. Most residents left a week ago. Today, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
some returned to check their homes. How was it? It is not great. The | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
police can access the flooded homes of Moorland to retrieve possessions | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
for residents forced to live elsewhere. These wartime medals are | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
now safe from the invading floodwater. I've come to realise | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
that if you can go in for them and wing out one thing. I brought out a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
bottle of wine for the gentleman who is with us today. It is a bottle of | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
wine that some friends in Canada sent to them. That means the world | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
to them. It makes them feel more at home. The Royal Marines are now | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
here, helping to sandbag the last of the dry homes here in Moorland. They | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
have built up the mud banks and it is starting to wear away with the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
water, so we are reinforcing it with sandbags, try to make it more | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
substantial. So that it doesn't wash away. How pleased I you to see the | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Royal Marines? At last! We have been runners them since the start. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Yesterday, they came and looked but they could not guarantee it because | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
they could get posted elsewhere I hope that they will not say that | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
elsewhere is more important than here. In all, 15 residents remain in | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Moorland, holding back the water with dams and pumps. A barricade | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
against the weather. If we can get through tonight, then hopefully | :02:36. | :02:47. | |
Sunday will be better. They are exhausted, physically and | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
emotionally but they say it is worth it because by being here they feel | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
the authorities will not abandon the village altogether. Scott Ellis | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
reporting there from Moorland. The trouble is, despite the pumps that | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
have been brought in, that are skirting the water into the sea the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
rate that is falling from the sky more than makes up for it. Water | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
levels are still rising here tonight. There are concerns over the | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
weekend about how rich water `` how Bridgwater might cope. The wind is | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
the biggest problem. Our cameraman's hat just blew off in the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
latest gust! It's been a tense day in | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Gloucestershire, with concerns the River Severn could burst it's banks | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
and breach flood defences. So far, that hasn't happened, but a severe | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
flood warning remains in place along the River Severn in the city and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
people are being told to be vigilant. | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
In other news tonight, an inquiry's to be held into the deaths of | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
children after heart surgery at Bristol's children's hospital. It | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
follows concerns by parents about the care given to their children. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Our Health Correspondent, Matthew Hill, reports. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Some these families had travelled from as far as Cornwall to find | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
answers to questions that still haunt them following their child's | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
death. Last November saw the first of several inquests into deaths of | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
children who'd had heart surgery at the region's specialist cardiac unit | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
in Bristol. The father of one of them, seven`year`old Sean Turner | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
from Wiltshire, was instrumental in making today's meeting with the | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
doctor in charge of the NHS happen. One Sunday morning, I picked up the | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
paper, read a horrific story, with regard to Bristol's cardiac unit, | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
asked Sir Bruce Keogh to pick up the reins and sort this mess out. After | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
a three`hour meeting, parents came out with a smile on their faces It | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
was a really promising meeting. He has agreed to get Ian Kennedy back | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
in to review the hospital, so we feel quite pleased that something | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
has come of today and hopefully we are looking to `` they will | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
hopefully look into our concerns. The Medical Director of the NHS Sir | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Bruce Keogh, told me this will be an inquiry by the parents, but led by | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Sir Ian Kennedy, who investigated the unecessary deaths of dozens of | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
babies in the 1990s. We have heard some very harrowing stories in a | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
very dignified way from the Hamleys. He understands the issues and he can | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
hit the ground running `` from the families. We want this to be one of | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
the best units in the country as quickly as possible. In a statement, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
the hospital say they are troubled that families continue to have | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
concerns and they hope today's meeting will help resolve their | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
issues. They stress their results have been shown to be safe but that | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
they have made improvements which include better communication with | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
families. But, with this new inquiry, this is by no means the end | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
of the matter. There were celebrations at Bath | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
University this evening as one of their own, Lizzy Yarnold, stormed to | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
victory in the women's skeleton at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Back | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
home in Bath, her team manager says he's certain Lizzy would have | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
remained focused while competing in the biggest contest of her life She | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
will have followed her normal race routines, not changed anything wrong | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
what she normally does during the season. She would have done what she | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
normally does. I am sure you would have accepted her to win. But by a | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
second? We are surprised by the overall result. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
There's more news and information on your local BBC Radio stations and | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
online. But now let's get the latest weather with Ian Fergusson. | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
There's more news and information on your local BBC Good evening. It will | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
remain distinctive wild as we head into the weekend. Met Office amber | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
warnings still in force on the south coast and yellow warnings elsewhere | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
throughout the day tomorrow. Even the yellow areas, it does | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
potentially up to six T5 master hour. They will turn more westerly | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
as the night wears on. Temperatures down to between five and seven | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Celsius. A decidedly windy start to tomorrow. Heavy showers, some hail | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
as well. A slow improvement into the afternoon. The wind will gradually | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
lessen, the showers lesson as well, particularly as we head into the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
evening. Temperatures tomorrow between seven and eight Celsius I | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
will leave you with the outlook a better day to come on Sunday. By the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
end of Sunday, they will be some further rain coming in from the west | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
and that will set us up for a wet day on Monday. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
will leave you with the weekend summary for London. Let's go to the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
weather centre to get the national forecast. | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
Our love hate relationship with the weather has become unbalanced this | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
winter, I suspect there is not a lot of love left. Today's storm has not | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
helped. It gave us 20 to 30 millimetres of rain. Snow in the | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
past few hours at lower levels in eastern Scotland. That should turn | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
to rain again but the blizzards in the Scottish mountains will | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
continue. This evening, it has been the wind which has been most | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
disruptive in southern England. Met Office amber warning remains in | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
force with gusts up to 80 miles an hour along the south coast producing | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
big waves crashing into the shoreline. Dangerous conditions and | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
more coastal flooding. Inland, winds 50 to 60 miles an hour up the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Bristol Channel and other southern counties. Trees | :08:31. | :08:32. |