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Good evening. I'm Laura Trant with the news in the south. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
One of Portsmouth's Liberal Democrat councillors has resigned her cabinet | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
post in protest over how the party has handled the suspension of MP | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Mike Hancock. On Friday, the city's Liberal Democrats decided he should | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
be allowed to stay in his Cabinet post, although he has been suspended | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
from the party amid claims of sexual misconduct. Councillor Eleanor Scott | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
disagreed with that decision. Mike Hancock denies all the allegations. | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
Residents have described experiencing a mini tornado in parts | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
of the South yesterday afternoon. Trees were torn down, including this | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
one in West Sussex, which fell onto a house. Thousands of people were | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
without electricity in Sussex and Surrey, although most are now | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
reconnected. Meanwhile, residents are pressing | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
the Prime Minister to make flood defences an urgent priority in the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Hampshire village of Hambledon. The area has been very badly affected by | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
this year's floods, with weeks of disruption and road closures. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
It was at the top of the skirting. Ian was a GP in Hambledon for many | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
years but this is a situation he can't remedy. Southern Water and | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Hampshire County Council know that it floods and nothing really has | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
been done. I visited the village on Monday, when water levels were | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
worryingly high. Flood cellars were at bursting point and roads had | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
turned into rivers. Almost a week on, not much has changed. Temporary | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
measures, like 15,000 sandbags and an additional sewage pipe are | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
helping, but it is permanent solutions the community wants to | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
see. Shaun Woodward, from Hampshire County Council, has taken the issue | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
up with the Prime Minister. I have put it to the Prime Minister, when I | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
met him a couple of weeks go, saying we have got these problems, do you | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
know where Hambledon is? Yes, he did, he is a cricket fan, so he had | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
certainly heard of Hambledon. I am hoping the Environment Agency will | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
agree that, yes, Hambledon is the top priority in Hampshire and we | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
should get the money from the Environment Agency to do this | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
desperately needed work. How much money are we talking here? Around | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
?3.5 million. The ground water isn't going anywhere just yet. There is a | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
ten`day delay between it raining and the water surfacing. It will be | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
weeks before this village returns to normal. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
All this rain is causing problems for wildlife and, ironically, that | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
includes some creatures who usually love the wet. The Arundel Wetland | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Centre in West Sussex has had to move some of its wildfowl away to | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Gloucestershire. Roger Finn reports. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Arundel was fully open today, but it has been partially closed for most | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
of January. The centre is a refuge for wildfowl and home to a | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
collection of 250 rare and threatened birds. This winter, it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
has experienced the worst flooding in its history. Many pathways were | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
underwater. And some of the hides were swamped. You would think this | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
would make a paradise for wetland birds, but it is not necessarily so. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Initially, the flooding causes a huge boom of food. Seeds and insects | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
get wafted out of the ground but then, very quickly, that food supply | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
disappears and anything they usually would reach is under too much water. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Your diving ducks, they are fine, they can dive, but your dabblling | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
ducks, they need to find somewhere not as flooded. There have also been | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
problems for the captive birds. 60 rare geese and swans had to be moved | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
to the Trust Centre at Slimbridge, because their enclosure was almost | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
entirely underwater. Elsewhere, palettes have been put into | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
enclosures to give the birds somewhere to perch. One is also | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
being put under this black necked swans' nest, so that rising water | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
doesn't swamp the four eggs laid here. And it is not just the | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
birdlife that is causing concern. Some of the things we have seen, | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
really desperate to get some high ground, are things like moles, we | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
have seen swimming. Things like our water voles ` their winter store | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
food will have been flooded out, so again, they are quite desperate to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
feed. Though the water levels have now fallen, the floods may soon be | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
back here as there is even more rain forecast and high tides due at the | :04:28. | :04:41. | |
end of the week. Some football news and Southampton | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
have drawn Sunderland in the FA Cup fifth round draw, following their | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
comfortable win over Yeovilton yesterday. And Brighton have drawn | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
Hull City. That have a look at the weather now, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
with Emily. Good evening. After the wet weather | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
today, some colder weather to look out for tonight. As temperatures | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
drop away, the risk of some ice on the roads through tonight and into | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
tomorrow morning. We have some wintry showers with us as well. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Through the evening and overnight, the showers are a mix of rain and | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
sleet but also some snow, particularly for the hills but even | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
to lower levels at times. As it showers, it could be quite localised | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
where we see snowfall accumulating but temperatures are generally | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
getting down close to freezing, so anywhere can see some icy stretches | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
for tomorrow morning. So a few wintry showers with this at first | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
tomorrow as well. As we move into the afternoon and temperatures lift, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
we're looking at a generally more rain showers but still a few heavier | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
showers are possible. Windy through tomorrow and temperatures up to nine | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
degrees. It remains unsettled with further rain to watch out for on | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Tuesday. After that, drier but colder. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
But snow for some. That's all from us for now. We are | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
back at 10:15pm, in the meantime, plenty of updates on the BBC website | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
and local radio. Goodbye for now. Until then, plenty more news on our | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
website. Bye-bye. Good evening. | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
will keep going through the nights tonight and as the air turns | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
colder, tonight and as the air turns | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
wintry. A mixture of sleet and snow leaving us with the risk advice The | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
band of rain has cleared his leaving us with the risk advice The | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
cloud on the satellite picture, the centre of the low. Around that, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
strong winds at cross -- strong winds across the Western Isles. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
strong winds at cross -- strong possibility of sleet and snow at | :06:38. | :06:38. | |
lower levels into the morning. As temperatures fall close to freezing, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
it is the ice that is our main concern for Monday morning. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
it is the ice that is our main of showers still with us on Monday. | :06:47. | :06:46. | |
It will be another windy day, with of showers still with us on Monday. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
lines of showers to the south, turning back to sleet and rain | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
lines of showers to the south, the afternoon. More frequent showers | :06:57. | :06:56. | |
further north. Mainly wintry across the afternoon. More frequent showers | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
the high ground, particularly parts of the Highlands and Grampians. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Temperatures tomorrow afternoon at around 80 | :07:06. | :07:06. |