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Welcome to Friday's Look North. Rainfall records broken, flash | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
floods across Yorkshire as rivers struggle to cope with the rising | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
levels of water. I am lied s brought Borough | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
alongside the River Don where all day today people have been mopping | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
We will get the full detail on rainfall levels a little later. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
The police search for a man suspected of killing two people | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
moves to Scarborough. Detectives investigating the death of Julie | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Davison in which police say he stayed in Scarborough on the night | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
of her murder. A loss of two lives does not get any more catastrophic | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
and we must find James Allen as soon as possible. And 70 years | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
after the York Blitz, we speak to one of those in Bomber Command the | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
night nearly 100 people were killed. There is a lot of rain to come | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
later this weekend. The Met Office have an early warning in force for | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Our main story, it has been confirmed tonight in parts of | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Yorkshire it is now the wettest April since records began in 1882. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Today the rain has continued to cause problems across the region. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
There are currently nine flood warnings in place although the | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
situation keeps changing. Today warnings have been issued on these | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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rivers. The latest information can be found on the Environment Agency | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
website, but Nick galleries is close to the River Don in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Sprotbrough. Just a few weeks ago I was speaking | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
to you live from a very different place, a dry riverbed in North | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Yorkshire. I was standing on the river bed without any water. What a | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
difference a few weeks makes. The Rev I don is as you have never seen | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
it before, it is many years since it has been as high as this. People | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
here have been mopping up as their homes, farms and businesses have | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
been flooded. What is happening around the rest of your chair? | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
It had been expected and today it arrived. From the air you can see | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
just how swollen up the River Ouse near York has become. The city | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
relies on palms to shift flood water away, but this morning half | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
of them broke. We are running through about 30 or 40 bath loads | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
of water a seconds. We lost half of that for him because half the palms | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
went down, so that makes a difference. Quick action saved | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
hundreds of homes from the misery of flooding. Others were not so | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
lucky, but many of those affected are well prepared. In this pub in | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Stamford Bridge they have stone floors. We are used to it by now. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
As soon as the pump start, the water is corn and wheat clean-up in | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
a couple of hours and are back to normal. The problem was water | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
backing up from the drains. The pub is the lowest point in the village. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
More heavy rain is on its way over the weekend. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
This would normally be a busy stretch of road, but at the moment | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
with the flood water it is impassable to all but four by for | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
cars. This garage owner moved his cars to | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
higher ground days ago, but they still wrecked his workshop. I am | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
devastated because the Environment Agency does not give you enough | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
warning and it has been going on for years and they have not done | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
anything about it. It has got to be cleaned up and we have to start | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
again. Next to a Lisa and her daughter were stranded by rising | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
water. She cannot get to school today and we are just stuck and we | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
are waiting for it to go. Unless it does not go. This field is often | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
flooded to say Castleford from rising rivers. Today that happened | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
faster than anticipated. Work was under way to rescue these horses. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
It is hard to encourage the Highland cattle on to dry land, | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
though. A few weeks ago fire crews across | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Yorkshire were being called out on an almost daily basis to grass | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
fires and more fires. The residents in one town in South Yorkshire S8 | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
it has been a miserable day and fire crews have been called in to | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
help them pump out water from flooded basements. What fun. | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Despite his positive attitude it has been a miserable 24 hours. He | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
has been fighting a losing battle against floodwater sense yesterday | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
afternoon. The seller is this high with water. Luckily it has not come | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
to the second floor, but everything is ruined. I feel like sitting down | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
and crying. I will put a brave face on and carry on. Colin's office is | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
under six feet of water and it is a similar picture for the House next | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
door. I have been up all night literally from 2 o'clock and I set | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
the alarm. Like many parts of Yorkshire the ground is completely | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
saturated after days of torrential rain and snow the water is forcing | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
its way up through the tyre. There's water has been seeping out | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
of the pavement and flooding down the road since yesterday afternoon. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
The fire crews have lined up sandbags along the road to channel | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
the water into this train. There is a burst to somewhere. We do not | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
know if it is from a natural supply or a water main. The council and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the water authorities have been out and at the moment they are trying | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
to decide whose responsibility it is. Yorkshire Water's say they are | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
still investigating the cause of the flooding and this afternoon | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
engineers from Barnsley council have been on site. But it is little | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
comfort to the residents of Manchester Road. They are preparing | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
their barricades for another uncertain night. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
It is worth pointing out that there is not a flood alert on the River | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Don, but what a spectacle this is. On that central area there are | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
normally people walking and picnicking. It is an extraordinary | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
scene. It looks precarious on that plank. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
That is without a flood warning. You have been going on about the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
amount of rainfall. This is your field. I thought we would break the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
record on Sunday, but last night it was so heavy we have got three | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
records. The best one is in Sheffield. It has the most data in | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
the country. The average for April is 63 mm. The record was previously | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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set in 2000. Already we have beaten it. There is probably another inch | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
to come on Sunday and those records go back to 1882. Is it 18 82 it was | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
wetter? And normally in those records we have about 40 years. But | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
this site has been there for 132 years and it is a significant | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
weather event. It has been the most significant for all those years. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
The Environment Agency will be rightly concerned. There are fresh | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
revelations about a man on the run up to two horrendous murders. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
Police told us this afternoon that James Allen booked into a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Scarborough hotel the night of the killing of a 50 year-old charity | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
worker from Whitby. Police have warned the public not to report the | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
man. Our reporter Andy Smythe spoke to us from which to beat. | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
It is as quiet town and this area is a very quiet area. It is full of | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
bed-and-breakfasts which are full of tourists. Earlier I was trying | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
to gauge the mood of the tourists and the locals and there is fear. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
People are scared. They are trying to keep it in proportion and are | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
keeping normal precautions might locking their doors. Today I heard | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
a lot more about the lady who died, Julie Davison. She was 50 and had | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
only recently moved back to the area. She has been described as | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
being well liked and a very charitable person. She did a lot of | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
work for local charities. Earlier I spoke to a childhood friend and | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
this is what he had to say about the mood of the community. Whitby | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
is often described as being the biggest village in the world. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Everybody rallies around. The family of duly are coveted by the | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
amount of nice words and things people have said. I know until late | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
this afternoon this man had been in two places, Whitby and | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Middlesbrough. But this afternoon the search move to another coastal | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
resort town. Yes, the focus is now on the town of Scarborough further | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
down the coast. James Allen, the man the police are looking for, in | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
connection with the murder of Julie Davison and also of Colin Dunford | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
in Middlesbrough, that he checked into a hotel in Scarborough on | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Wednesday night just up to Julie Davison was killed. He booked in | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
for two nights, but only stayed for one. It is where he went after that | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
that the police are trying to get to grips with. They sectioned off | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
the street in Middlesbrough as well. It was a street where he has | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
reportedly been living, but he was not there. Cleveland police | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
arranged a press conference this afternoon and this is what the lead | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
investigator had to say. The loss of two lives does not get any more | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
catastrophic and that is why we must find James Allen as soon as | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
possible. He represents a threat and we have a massive police | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
operation that will not cease until we catch him. As I said earlier, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
the investigation is now centring on Scarborough and the hotel which | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
was the last place where he was cited. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Thank you for bringing us up to date. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
We will have a look ahead to the weekend's sport. Including | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Sheffield's big two are battling it out for the final, automatic | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
promotion place in League One. Now more of today's news and | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
hundreds of people lined the streets of St Annes for the funeral | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
of Sergeant Nigel Coupe, a soldier killed while serving with the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Yorkshire Regiment in Afghanistan. He died with five other soldiers | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
from the regiment in an explosion last month. He was 33 and leaves | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
behind a wife and two children. He was described by those who loved | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
him and worked with him as a man of great character. He was an | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
exceptional individual. Not only was he a highly professional | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
soldier, he was a diligent individual, exceptionally | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
professional, experienced, knowledgeable about his job, but he | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
was also a very loving, family man. A former leader of the Union of | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
Democratic Mineworkers has been jailed for stealing �150,000 from a | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
charity. 61 year-old Neil Greatrex spent the money on a new kitchen | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
and hope improvements for himself and another official. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Three men arrested in the investigation into the naming on | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Twitter of the victim in the Sheffield United football at Ched | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Evans rape case have been released on bail today. He was jailed last | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
week or five years for raping a woman in North Wales. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
70 years ago this weekend saw a terrible night in York's long | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
history. The City was bombed by the German air force. Dozens of | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
buildings were flattened and nearly 100 people were killed or died as a | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
result of their injuries. This weekend they will commemorate | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
what has become known as the Baedecker raid. It was believed the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Luftwaffe and used the tourist guides of the same name to target | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
England's historic cities. Research has revealed the city was probably | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
targeted because of its railings. Cathy Killick looks back on a night | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
that many can still remember. It is not Hull or Coventry, but | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
Europe, bombed for around two hours on the night of 29th April, 1942. | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
It is thought around 80 tons of explosives were dropped on the city. | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
The rate was seen at the time as a revenge attack. Whatever the motor, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
factories and houses were destroyed and the station clearly targeted. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Across the city more than 80 people died. The damage was extensive, | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
although arriving in York today you would have no idea. There are signs | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
of that off on night. You just have to know where to look. Remembered | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
here is well you Milner, a station foremen and St John Ambulance a | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
volunteer. He was on night duty and he was persuading passengers from a | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
train that had just come in to go down into the passageways | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
underneath for safety. He then realised he would need some first | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
aid equipment and went back to collect it. Sadly there were in | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
century bombs by that time and the building collapsed on him. He never | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
came out. That is when I first joined in 1940. Colin was working | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
at Bomber Command in Europe when the bombs started to fall. It was | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
horrendous. You have seen it in the movies, but it is worse because you | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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can feel the ground as well. The Minster always dominates the city, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
and buildings were on fire. raids will be remembered this | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
weekend, but some of the City's school children have already done | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
their research finding out about wartime fireman after one pupil | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
discovered what happened to her great, great uncle. He was a | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
fireman and he was very brave because a bomb could have dropped | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
any time and a man called Frank Fox sent him back to check the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
connection between the hose and the fire engine. A bomb dropped and he | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
got blown to bits. The loss of life was sobering, but gave rise to a | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
determination to carry on business as usual. The station reopened the | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
next day, but the rate was never Well, two people with dramatic | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
stories to tell are brother and sister, Christopher Backhouse and | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Jane Whitworth. They were buried in their house in York during the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Blitz 70 years ago. Christopher has vivid memories of what happened to | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
him and his family. I have indeed. It is my first conscious memory. I | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
remember the sound of the air raid sirens. We got used to them over | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
the years. The noise of the bombs got closer and closer, the whistle, | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
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followed by the boom. You were a baby. You do not have those | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
memories. But, people have told you about the shock and the tremors and | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
buildings collapsing. Yes, the local butcher was walking down the | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
street. He was devastated with what had happened. Suddenly, from the | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
rubble there was a baby crying and he realised there was somebody a | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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live, then my father had to go to the steps of York Minster to look. | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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There was nothing left. Many other people will remember it as well. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
don't suppose there is that many people who are still around. I am | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
fortunate to be almost 75. My sister was a baby and his younger. | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
But that is embedded in my memory. I will be honest with you, I did | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
not relies so many lives were lost in that glorious city of yore. | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
to be precise, spread all over the city. -- City of York. The | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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Baedecker Raid iss were in revenge for Allied raids on the city of | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
Lubeck. They were aiming for the railway, but the wind was blowing | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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the bombs on to residential areas. Thank you for sharing that with us. | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
My brother was his life to me. you get the milk from the steps of | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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the Minster? I believe that I did and I am here now! We have got an | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
absolute ruler at Featherstone tonight in the sport -- thriller. | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Can they do it? All the logic and the World says No But what they did | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
in the last round, and it has been wet, which will help them, and on | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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that little pitch. The fifth round of the challenge cup kicks of this | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
evening with Championship side, Featherstone, taking on the holders | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Wigan. Rovers caused the big shock of the last round knocking out | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
their Super League neighbours, Castleford. You can get full match | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
commentary on the game on BBC Radio Leeds. They could do with another | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
try, like that one. Football, and the big two in Sheffield are still | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
fighting it out for promotion to the Championship. Wednesday have | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the chance to land the first blow tomorrow while United will know | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
They need to do ahead of their evening kick-off. Paul Ogden | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
reports. So often this season, Sheffield Wednesday have set out | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
their stall impressively only for a Sheffield United to come and knock | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
it over with a win of their own, restoring the status quo. With two | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
wickets left in League One, the pressure to win and then wait and | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
watch his on Sheffield Wednesday again. If they falter at Brentford | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
and Saturday, United would have advance notice of the won promotion | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
party if they can beat Stevenage in their teatime kick-off. Been second | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
on stage has not always suitable. would say this is something we have | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
to deal with. It plays games with both teams. But knowing what we | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
have to do, we have got to be thankful for that. A Sheffield | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Wednesday are finishing the season with a flourish and have not lost a | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
match since Dave Jones took charge in March. His experience of | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Sheffield football culture the shorter than Danny Wilson's, but | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
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that diplomacy is genuine. It the one thing I would say with all | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
right -- all the rivalry, D Dunn, both sets of fans would like to be | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
promoted. -- deep down. A but however the row over second place | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
is resolved between United and Wednesday, BBC Sheffield will be | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
right in the middle of its starting with tour match commentary from | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
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both teams tomorrow, one after the There are more heroics going on at | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the other end of League One as Chesterfield keep defying the odds | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
to avoid the drop. The Spirites have stared relegation in the face | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
in each of their last three games, but each time have come away with a | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
win. Last week they came from behind to beat Rochdale and they'll | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
have to win their last two games to have a realistic chance of staying | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
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up. On to cricket, and Yorkshire are trailing in their County | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Championship match at Kent. In reply to Yorkshire's 247, the hosts | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
finished on 316 for 6 with Brendan Nash unbeaten on 114. The Yorkshire | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
pair of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow have been named in the Lions squad | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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to face the West Indies next month. Purple, purple, Paul was wearing | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
purple. Why didn't you ring me? You obviously just all run each other. | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
On to the weather. Tell us how bad I can show you some topical | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
pictures. This is a picture of the reviews in Europe. This is very | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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impressive, High Force. And that is the view looking towards | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
Scarborough, some brightness there. The best of the weekend weather | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
will be a Saturday, although a lot of cloud, it should brighten up | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
later. A nondescript looking weather chart on Saturday but we | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
have a bigger area of low pressure in the Bay of Biscay, heavy rain | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
pushing up from the South and there could be another inch of rain, | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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perhaps, in places. It is a knock- split -- north-south split. North | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Yorkshire is in the dry. With a bit of practice in places. Further | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
south, a little bit patchy, like rain. A patch of ground frost | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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possible in the North. The Sun will rise in the morning at 5:35am. It | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
will be a cloudy, damp start in places, especially in the soap, but | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
on the wall, things will dry up, and into the afternoon, at least | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
north from West Yorkshire it should become a little bit brighter. Top | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
temperatures, chilly for the time of year, cold and Scarborough, with | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
a moderate north-easterly wind, a little better inland, at around ten | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
Celsius. Round about 10 in Doncaster. Then we moved on to the | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Met Office weather warning for Sunday for heavy rain and strong | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
winds. Gale-force winds on the tops of the hills and along the coast. | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
By the middle of the day, that heavy rain will pursue from the | :25:40. | :25:48. |