:00:00. > :00:10.50 years on, it is still being felt. That's all from us.
:00:11. > :00:14.Hello, I'm Shaun Peel. The Environment Agency is warning of
:00:15. > :00:18.more bad weather on the way, after heavy rain caused havoc on the roads
:00:19. > :00:21.today. The army helped to rescue stranded motorists in Essex and a
:00:22. > :00:26.number of schools across the region were closed. The ground is already
:00:27. > :00:36.saturated as the rain came in the space of just a few hours.
:00:37. > :00:41.This is the playing field at a primary school, one of 15 schools
:00:42. > :00:48.forced to close today in Essex. The school is very, very wet on the
:00:49. > :00:51.field and there is a picnic table on the field and it is literally
:00:52. > :00:58.covered in water. The centre of finishing field was submerged. Only
:00:59. > :01:02.four by fours could make and in Bury Saint Edmunds, gardens and some
:01:03. > :01:06.houses were flooded. The ferry service pumped them out. Water had
:01:07. > :01:11.come up so quick we could not fill the sandbags quick enough to put up
:01:12. > :01:15.against the doors and it was just so quick and I have never seen it come
:01:16. > :01:19.up so quickly that before. Police have been urging drivers not to go
:01:20. > :01:26.into deep water but many ignored the advice. Fire crews rescued an
:01:27. > :01:34.84`year`old man whose is disabled. His car was stuck in a foot of
:01:35. > :01:38.water. Earlier, a lorry hold another car to safety. This car bought like
:01:39. > :01:42.a cork as a tractor went by. I thought he might have stopped and
:01:43. > :01:45.offered a hand but he did not. He went past and the ways send me
:01:46. > :01:51.bobbing across the water. Eventually, she was pulled to safety
:01:52. > :01:54.by a passer`by. She was in a dangerous spot. Nobody stopped to
:01:55. > :01:59.help. They just keep coming past fast, don't they? You have seen
:02:00. > :02:06.them. It is terrible. Eventually, everybody stranded was rescued.
:02:07. > :02:10.This region has obviously not been affected as badly as the south west
:02:11. > :02:13.but earlier I asked Norman Robinson from the Environment Agency how
:02:14. > :02:22.concerned he was about the situation here. I think compared to other
:02:23. > :02:25.parts of the country, we have been very lucky. We are just seen the
:02:26. > :02:28.back of these storms that have really battered the south`west and
:02:29. > :02:32.are just working their way up South and East and really we have seen a
:02:33. > :02:39.very intense rainfall event last night but a very limited one. We did
:02:40. > :02:42.see half of February's rainfall fall in a very short time but we have
:02:43. > :02:46.coped very well. The biggest problem we have had is that the rainfall
:02:47. > :02:49.systems have struggled to get the rain away. We have seen areas where
:02:50. > :02:54.we have had with significant servers water flowing. You will know that
:02:55. > :02:58.the Environment Agency has that criticism another part of the agency
:02:59. > :03:03.MAG country for acting too late in some instances. Could that be the
:03:04. > :03:07.case here? `` parts of the country. We are confident that we know what
:03:08. > :03:10.is betting on and we have issued the warning is that we need to. The
:03:11. > :03:14.servers water problems were cleared away. Effectively, we are getting
:03:15. > :03:18.away quite likely. Our hearts go out to anybody who has experienced
:03:19. > :03:25.flooding and are looking at the south`west and trying to help them.
:03:26. > :03:30.Any final advice? If you have got any concerns, give us a call. Check
:03:31. > :03:33.online for the flood warnings. We think the weather is coming down was
:03:34. > :03:36.about. As I say, the key thing will be to watch what happens over the
:03:37. > :03:40.next week or two weeks because the ground is wet. We will keep
:03:41. > :03:42.everybody will thirst and I am sure your weather forecast will let
:03:43. > :03:45.everybody know what is coming. `` well versed.
:03:46. > :03:47.A carer from Essex says he's been left feeling abandoned and alone
:03:48. > :03:51.after the re`organisation of mental health services. He got in touch
:03:52. > :03:54.with BBC Look East after we highlighted what some see as a
:03:55. > :04:00.crisis in mental health care. Kim Riley reports.
:04:01. > :04:05.Still shows me his wedding album. Be happy Day 43 years ago, when he
:04:06. > :04:08.married Vivian, just 18. They are still together but besides a serious
:04:09. > :04:13.heart condition, Vivian suffers from severe depression. She has twice
:04:14. > :04:17.attempted suicide. Phil says the withdrawal last year of the
:04:18. > :04:21.community psychiatric nurse who provided wonderful support to them
:04:22. > :04:25.both his Lib Dem breast. It is very difficult to get her motivated to do
:04:26. > :04:30.anything. She is in bed at the moment because she had a bad night.
:04:31. > :04:36.It means that I am now on 24`hour suicide watch. We have been cast
:04:37. > :04:42.adrift. Do you feel that the entire responsibility is on you keep your
:04:43. > :04:46.wife alive? Very much so I think I put on my e`mail to you that she has
:04:47. > :04:52.to be only lucky ones to achieve ends. I have to be lucky every time.
:04:53. > :04:55.We raised the couple's plight with the trust running mental health
:04:56. > :05:08.services in North Essex. It says being a carer can be very stressful.
:05:09. > :05:14.Phil has a deep sadness for Vivian, for what she has lost, and for their
:05:15. > :05:17.retirement together being so different from the one they had
:05:18. > :05:20.hoped for. With their relatives hundreds of miles away, he says a
:05:21. > :05:24.little more help and support would make all the difference.
:05:25. > :05:27.One man's died and another's in a critical condition after a crash
:05:28. > :05:30.between two cars and a lorry in Suffolk. It happened on the A140
:05:31. > :05:34.near Stuston, during the evening rush hour. The injured man has been
:05:35. > :05:37.taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. The road's still closed
:05:38. > :05:39.while police carry out an investigation.
:05:40. > :05:42.A fire service sniffer dog has found another dog alive in the rubble
:05:43. > :05:45.after a gas explosion in Clacton yesterday. Rex, who works for
:05:46. > :05:54.Hertfordshire Fire Service, found four`year`old Carryad. She was freed
:05:55. > :05:58.from the rubble and Fire crews dug her out of the rubble and she was
:05:59. > :06:01.taken to the vet for a check`up. Scientists have found footprints on
:06:02. > :06:05.a Norfolk beach that were probably made by a family walking on the sand
:06:06. > :06:09.nearly a million years ago,. They're among the oldest footprints in the
:06:10. > :06:11.world, thought to be five people including children. And the
:06:12. > :06:15.scientists at Happisburgh had only days to record their find before the
:06:16. > :06:19.evidence was washed away by the sea. We are obviously Homo sapiens and
:06:20. > :06:25.then Neanderthals came before us. Before that was another species,
:06:26. > :06:30.which we have evidence of here also. Before that, the people who made
:06:31. > :06:33.these footprints, were probably a species different from that.
:06:34. > :06:39.Let's take a look at the weather now with Julie.
:06:40. > :06:46.Five millimetres of rain expected quite wildly but `` widely but we
:06:47. > :06:49.cannot rule out more. As that rain pushes away, we should see the winds
:06:50. > :06:56.easing down just a touch. Lows of around six office. A blustery start
:06:57. > :06:59.to tomorrow but largely dry. Some skilful sunshine but I think as we
:07:00. > :07:03.head towards the afternoon, we will start to see more showers pushing in
:07:04. > :07:05.from the south`west and the wind is picking up to a strong
:07:06. > :07:10.south`westerly, perhaps gale`force at times around the coasts, with
:07:11. > :07:15.gusts of 60 mph. The windy end to the day with further sours banding
:07:16. > :07:20.together. Some on the heavy side and those showers continuing through
:07:21. > :07:24.into Sunday. In a moment, people have your national forecast. I will
:07:25. > :07:26.finish with the Outlook. Further heavy showers on Sunday and
:07:27. > :07:28.hopefully those strong winds eventually easing down. Hopefully
:07:29. > :07:43.less windy on Monday, Hello again. Nelson's flag ship, HMS
:07:44. > :07:46.victory, was launched in 1765 and you can still see it today in
:07:47. > :07:50.Portsmouth Harbour. But through the whole of that history, you will
:07:51. > :07:54.struggle to find a wetter winter than this one across southern
:07:55. > :08:00.England. Scotland has already been in the record books. Their December
:08:01. > :08:05.was the wettest since standardised records began about 100 years ago.
:08:06. > :08:08.There's plenty more where that came from. Another storm is knocking on
:08:09. > :08:13.the door and will affect the whole of Western Europe, steaming in from
:08:14. > :08:18.the Atlantic. Giving us a steady stream of rain in most places.
:08:19. > :08:24.Severe gales ahead of that rain, gusts up to 60 mph. Battering the
:08:25. > :08:27.coasts once again. For the North, across the Scottish mountains yet
:08:28. > :08:31.more snow. It's really piling up here at the moment. A cold night for
:08:32. > :08:38.northern Scotland, elsewhere the temperature is holding up quite
:08:39. > :08:39.well. Tomorrow it is wind that we have to focus on. That