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on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
on the BBC News Channel. We are back Hello, good evening. Insurance | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
companies have been criticised for delays in helping the victims of a | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
gas explosion, which wrecked homes in Essex. It's three months today | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
since the blast tore through a house in Clacton. It left two people badly | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
injured, and dozens of other homes damaged. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Sharon Partridge and her family lived just two doors down from the | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
scene of the blast. This is our conservatory at the | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
back. The roof was blown off. Luckily, her husband was already at | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
work, she was on her way to work. Son Jack, 11, had left for school | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
and daughter Emily, eight, had been dropped off at a breakfast club. The | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
only injury was to the family's pet cat, who is still recovering from an | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
injured leg. The damage to their home was extensive and ever since | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
they have been living in a rented house. It is very difficult to | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
settle in a house that is not your own. We know it is only temporary. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
We are living out of boxes. We have lost contents in the explosion and | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
to water damage afterwards. All those small things sort of make life | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
difficult. The explosion happened on February fifth and left a scene of | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
devastation across a wide area with homes damaged and debris strewn | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
across roads and gardens. Locals could not believe what they had | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
seen. It sounded like the roof had come off the building. I made some | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
quick enquiries to see if it was anything in the kitchen or boiler | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
room. As I came out the front of the school, I could see, just up the | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
road, there were big flames coming out of the house. This is the site | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
today. The two homes which bore the brunt now cleared. This is Sharon | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
and her family's home. The windows have been replaced, the conservatory | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
rebuilt, but they still have not been told when they can return. To | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
them, obviously, we are a job, a policy number. To us, it is our | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
lives, our home. I do not think they understand. She desperately wants | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
the insurance company to speed things along, but fears they could | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
be renting for some months yet. People living in Brentwood have | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
welcomed the news that a Conservative election candidate has | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
stood down. David Bishop has quit in a row over homophobic and | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
anti`Islamic tweets. He was standing in the Local Council elections, but | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
he's now quit the Tory party, saying it's to "avoid any further | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
embarrassment". Banners in the town centre say what make redwood proud. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Cummins posted by the Conservative party ``... Comments were nothing to | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
be proud about. On his Twitter site, he posted Islam was the religion of | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
peace and rape after former them men were found guilty of the offence. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Other tweets were homophobic. In a letter he apologised to the real | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
offence that he had caused. He said he let himself and his party down. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
He said he hoped people from the south Brentwood would forgive him | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
that his lack of judgement. As the local party here, they said they | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
acted swiftly and conclusively and in the interest of the Conservative | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
party. The resignation comes only weeks after David Bishop was | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
selected as the Conservative candidate for Brentwood South. Those | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
I spoke to in the town centre that standing down with the correct thing | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
to do. How can you represent people if you | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
are being prejudiced to a group of people in that community? He said | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
things that can be to `` misinterpreted. He must take the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
consequences of how a joke is interpreted. He is not very caring. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
The resignation means there will not be a concerted standing in the local | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
elections for Brentwood South later this month `` Conservative | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
standing. Labour and UKIP will test the board. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
5,000 people have been running through the streets of Milton Keynes | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
today. The town's annual marathon has been | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
voted one of the best in Britain, by marathon runners themselves. And | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
today many thousands more turned out to watch. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
The thousands today in Milton Keynes, a relaxing bank holiday was | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
not on the agenda. How you feeling? A little nervous. Very nervous. I am | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
only doing a half marathon. It is the first I have done in many years. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
You are not running with this surely you? Yes! We are a bit mad. We need | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
new members. Organisers, delighted with the turnout, were concentrating | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
on safety. Their only 40,000 bottles of water on the course. We have | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Saint Johns everywhere. We medical cover. It was a fun run which saw | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
the biggest smiles of the day. Finally, the pop star Ed Sheeran | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
played what he called a secret gig at a pub in Ipswich today. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
The audience were only told shortly beforehand exactly where in the town | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
it was being staged. All 50 tickets for the event sold | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
out last week in one minute. We drove from Faversham in Kent and | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
turned up here, looked at the venue, and thought, how many people are | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
going to be able to fit inside? It will be lovely to have 40 people | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
inside there with him. It is awesome to have an intimate venue. You feel | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
quite emotional. Wow, it is so surreal. | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
We have some rain waiting in the wings. A dry start to the evening. | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
The rain is moving eastwards and some could be heavy. By 5am oh 6am | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
most should have cleared. It will not be a cold night because of the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
cloud and rain. Many of us in double figures. Tomorrow, the last of the | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
overnight rain clears and then we had a few showers. Lots of fine dry | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
weather with some spells of sunshine. Temperatures around 80 | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Celsius or 16 Fahrenheit. Light to moderate south`westerly winds. Some | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
showers, but not for everybody. Wednesday is looking similar. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Thursday, a few more showers then some rain in the night. Rain gone by | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Friday, but Friday will be windy with heavy showers. At least the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
overnight frost will be gone. Have a good evening. | :06:54. | :07:09. | |
The sunshine today for the bank holiday produced the highest | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
temperature of the long weekend in eastern England today, at 20 | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Celsius. But to the west, the cloud has been gathering. We have seen a | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
bit of rain in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, but the thicker | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
cloud now pushing into the south-west of England is delivering | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
more rain. It will become more extensive over the next few hours. A | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
ragged area of rainfall will move east as the night goes on. If you | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
have yet to make your journey home from the bank holiday weekend, you | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
may encounter sums are a. -- some spray. Temperatures are not too bad | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
. The good news is that most of the rain has gone by the morning. Some | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
may be lingering in the north-east of Scotland and into the Northern | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Ireland -- the northern | :08:00. | :08:01. |