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two weeks' time. That is all from us tonight but | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Hello, I'm Shaun Peel. First, more on the death of a | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
retired businessman from Essex who was killed during Friday's storms. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
James Swinstead, who lived near Colchester, died on a cruise ship | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
when it was hit by a huge wave. His widow is demanding a thorough | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
inquiry into what went wrong. He was lovely. He was a very good | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
husband. James and Helen Swinstead had been married almost 60 years. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
They had been on a number of cruises, but their latest adventure, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
a 42 night voyage to the Azores, was to end in tragedy. The couple were | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
in the restaurant at lunchtime on Valentine's Day when a wave smashed | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
four windows right beside them. Suddenly, it blew in. Then it was | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
real pandemonium. Four windows came in, people were bleeding. The dinner | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
waiter found me and moved me to a chair away... Because I was terribly | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
wet, you can imagine with the sea breaking over you. I sat there and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
they called for the doctor and he took my husband away. James, who was | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
85, bore the brunt of the torrent of water and glass and died before he | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
could be airlifted from the vessel which was just two days from its | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
home port at Tilbury. A number of the other 700 passengers on board | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
were also hurt. Mrs Swinstead says the ship was badly maintained and | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
that was clear to see. I said to my husband that it was a rusty patch. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
There was water on the windowsill next to him. It's common sense, if | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
you have rusty water come in through a window, you plug it, you don't | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
have rusty water coming in. The Marco Polo is nearly 50 years old | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
and was built for a Soviet shipping company. Five years ago, when it was | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
chartered by a German company, it hit the headlines. 400 passengers | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
and crew went down with a sickness virus and one man from Norfolk died. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
It is now run by a different operator. The company said it would | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
not comment on Mrs Swinstead's views, but she is adamant there must | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
be a full investigation to establish if safety on board was in any way | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
compromised. Engineers have been working through | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
the weekend to restore electricity supplies which were cut during the | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
storm. Around 11,000 homes and businesses across the east lost | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
power when falling trees brought down overhead lines. By today, only | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
a handful of homes were still off. Across the region, assessment of the | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
damage caused to buildings is continuing. Part of the roof was | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
ripped off the sports hall of the Manor School at Raunds in | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Northamptonshire. And a former antique shop at Chatteris in | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Cambridgeshire was flattened by the force of the winds. Falling masonry | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
wrecked a car parked outside. And the Imperial War Museum at Duxford | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
near Cambridge is unlikely to reopen this week. The main hangar has | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
suffered damage to its roof for the second time this year. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Once we've been able to go up onto the roof, make it safe and assess | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the conditions, we will then be looking at some long`term structural | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
improvements to make sure that when we do endure these very difficult | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
weather conditions that all our buildings are very safe. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
A patient who went missing from Colchester hospital has been found. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
The disappearance of pensioner Gerald Shelcot this morning prompted | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
a police search of the hospital grounds and surrounding area. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Officers found the 78`year`old safe and well this afternoon at a | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
supermarket on the other side of the town. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
OK, let's look at the weather. Here's Kate Kinsella. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
After a beautiful day today, the temperature dropped quite suddenly | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
once it became dark. Fairly chilly first thing. But the temperature | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
could rise as we head towards dawn as the cloud is set to arrive. We'll | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
also get some outbreaks of light, patchy rain. This area of cloud is | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
heading towards us. But when it reaches us, it will have broken up, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
so it is light and patchy rain. The wind is a little stronger tomorrow, | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
nothing to worry about. As we head into the afternoon, some brighter | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
spells further south. Further north are likely to hold onto that patchy | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
rain until sunset. For the rest of the week, some quite heavy showers | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
around for Tuesday. For Wednesday, a dry day and more rain for Thursday. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
That's it. We're back in breakfast news tomorrow from 6.30. Goodnight. | :04:31. | :05:07. | |
Good evening. In the midst of any normal winter weather for the week | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
ahead would be fairly unremarkable. Some rain in places, some | :05:16. | :05:16. |