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Hello, welcome to the programme. People struggling to cope as another | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
storm is on the way. This is horrendous and each flood has been | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
worse than the last one. Charles Dickens comes home to Portsmouth. He | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
is the theatre of life. And celebrating her 106th birthday, but | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
what was Hilda's big birthday surprise? | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
Most of us have glimpsed the sun today, but water is rising fast | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
everywhere and more wild weather is on the way. Gale`force winds and | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
waves, and yet more very heavy rain will hit the south tonight. The | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Environment Agency says it's doing all it can but is warning it can't | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
stop the floods and communities must be prepared to help themselves. We | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
have three reports for you tonight across the region, starting with | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Lewis Coombes in Romsey, where there have been scenes of chaos. | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
Absolutely, you join me from the centre of Romsey where the water has | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
been cascading over from the River Test. The residents were evacuated | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
at some stage today. This is turning into a serious incident, the | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
emergency services are trying to help and there is water in this | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
garage forecourt behind me. It hasn't just been Romsey that has had | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
problems with floodwater today. The rain stopped briefly during the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
day, not that it stops people getting wet. The damage was done | :02:03. | :02:14. | |
last night. The River Itchen burst its banks, leaving this pub | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
flooded. What we are experiencing today is the worst that I have | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
experienced in my time. The River Avon and caused this primary school | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
to close. This was the scene on the Hampshire Dorset border. The River | :02:35. | :02:46. | |
Test burst its banks, engulfing everything before it. The water | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
filled up the garage and came into the house. The worst in 38 years, | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
they say. Elderly residents evacuated. Sandbags should help, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
they hope. We are working closely with the emergency services to | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
reduce the impact as much as we come, but with more rain on its way | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
we would urge people to be prepared. The Environment Agency has called on | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
communities to do their bit as the heavy rain continues looming. | :03:18. | :03:29. | |
That is the bad news. It has been raining just now and I can feel the | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
water is getting stronger and fought. The Environment Agency say | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
that with more rain predicted, it will only get worse from here, which | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
for the residents of Romsey is not very good news. | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Let's go to the Isle of Wight because Isle of Wight is expected to | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
be in the eye of the storm this weekend. Today a special meeting was | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
held in Newport to discuss the floods, and residents are braced for | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
further storms. Sean Killick reports. This guesthouse has studied | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
eight times since Christmas Eve. The owners were asleep when I arrived, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
having slept only four hours over the last two days. Then he's told me | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
they cannot get insurance and it has cost them dearly. My auntie had a | :04:14. | :04:29. | |
letter from the Environment Agency saying it is only likely that they | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
would get flooded once every 100 years, which is not the case. We | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
believe there should be bigger pipes or bigger pumps. It backs up and | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
then floods the streets and the houses. Today the MP chaired a flood | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
meeting so the residents could tell the authorities directly their | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
issues, such as the problem of flooded bungalows. They have been | :04:59. | :05:12. | |
uninhabitable since Christmas, the owners are elderly, and we don't | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
seem to be able to get anywhere. The council is carrying out an | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
investigation into the flooding. Are you confident we can deal with this | :05:21. | :05:33. | |
better in the future? With financial constraints I would be silly to say | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
we can do absolutely everything. The Environment Agency said it is | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
searching for solutions at the pumping station near Ryde. | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
In Berkshire the River Kennet reached record levels today on the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
day the former flood minister and local MP Richard Benyon celebrated | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Newbury's newly completed flood defence scheme. Nikki Mitchell has | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
been to see it in action. The river was just inches from the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
top of one of Newbury's new flood walls. Rainwater lapped against it | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
on the other side. The drains can take no more. This is where the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
plaque celebrating the town's ?2.2 million defences was to be unveiled. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
But there weren't enough wellies to go around, so the celebrations were | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
moved inside. There was a fundamental rethink of strategy | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
following the floods in 2007 and things work a lot better but you | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
cannot stop it raining and in the last two years we have seen | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
historically high levels of rain and we have got to be better at planning | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
for this in the future. Who knows what is going to happen next week? I | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
am standing beside a river I have never seen higher. We have issued a | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
number of flood warnings and we are urging communities to stay in touch | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
with flood risk in their area. This flood alleviation project might | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
never had happened had local councils and businesses not helped | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
the Environment Agency pay for it. Unfortunately since the flood | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
defences have been put in our car park, since the rain started has | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
been nearly two foot under water, but it's never done this before as | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
far as I'm aware. I live in the street next to the canal and I'm | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
worried. I'm just hoping that the flood defences they've done are | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
working, they'll carry on working, and I don't know what it would have | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
been like if they hadn't done it. This earth bund is also part of the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
new defences. The Environment Agency says it's working well and the small | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
amount of surface water on the other side is not putting homes at risk. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
This is where the River Kennet flows into the Kennet and Avon canal and | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
today on the day the flood defences here were officially launched the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Kennet topped it highest ever level. This is an unbelievably long spell | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
of rainy weather and it is just going to go on. Figures from the Met | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Office show it has been the wettest December to January four 250 years, | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
going back as far as the 12th of December last year. Tonight we see | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
the next deep low`pressure sweeping in from the Atlantic, and amber | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
warning from the Met office is in place for that. On Monday we do it | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
all again, another low driving across the Atlantic from the East | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
coast of America bringing more stormy weather our way. It does look | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
like the jet stream will lose its power so less stormy conditions. A | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
full weather forecast later, and send us your photos and pictures but | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
please ensure you are safe to do so. And listen to BBC Local radio for | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
weather and travel reports. "Why did you leave him in the road | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
to die?" The question from the daughters of Christopher Colegate, | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
as Dorset Police release new CCTV footage of a car they want to trace. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
The 69`year`old from Poole was knocked down in December last year. | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The driver didn't stop. No one has been arrested. Our reporter, Tim | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Robinson has been speaking to Mr Colegate's daughters. We really need | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
to know what happened. Why didn't you stop and help my dad? Please | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
have the decency to put a stop to this uncertainty. While nothing will | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
ever bring their father back, finding the person responsible for | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
their deaths would bring some comfort. Rachel and Natasha can | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
still not understand why the driver who knocked down their frail father | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
simply drove off. When I last saw him he still had rosy cheeks and | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
that is the last memory of my dad. When I last saw him was after a | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
postmortem and it wasn't my dad lying there. I know that inside he | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
was in pieces and that is difficult to come to terms with. This CCTV | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
could hold the key. This driver was seen shortly after the collision | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
around 7pm on Friday the 13th of December. We have seen from | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Christopher Colegate's family the upset they have been caused so it is | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
essential we speak with that driver. I know that you may have made a | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
mistake but you do need to come forward. | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Police want the driver or anyone who recognises that car to call them so | :10:38. | :10:56. | |
the family can begin to move on. A former Isle of Wight conservative | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
councillor, who was found guilty of sex offences against children | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
including sexual assault has been sentenced to six years in prison. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
David Whittaker stepped down as a Conservative councillor several | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
years ago but took up a role as a parish councillor in Newport. He | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
denied all six charges but was found guilty after a retrial. He will be | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
placed on the sex offenders register for life. | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
There was a big celebration in Portsmouth today. 202 years to the | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
day since Charles Dickens was born in the city, a statue of the writer | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
was unveiled in Guildhall Square. It's the life size version of the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
model we have here in the studio and it's the first ever statue of | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Dickens in this country. David Allard is with me ` there's quite a | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
story behind this statue, isn't there? Yes ` this is the original | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
maquette that the artist Martin Jennings created as the basis for | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
the statue. Hundreds of people around the world from Tokyo to | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Sarajevo to Philadelphia ` they've all donated to help raise a ?140,000 | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
to get this statue made. There was a real carnival atmosphere in | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
Guildhall Square today ` people riding penny farthings, dressed up | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
in costume ` and a big crowd to see the statue unveiled. That was | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
performed by Esher Abadin, a pupil at Charles Dickens Primary School, | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
and Oliver Dickens who is the writer's great great great grandson. | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Oliver was one of about 50 members of the Dickens family who were | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
present there today. They were joined by Dickens fans who had flown | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
in from around the world, and of course of plenty of local residents | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
who were pleased to see Dickens finally return home. I think it is a | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
lovely positive thing for Portsmouth. We have had a lot of bad | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
news recently and this is cheering everybody up. We came from the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
States because we have seen the statue in Philadelphia but we have | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
never seen the one in Australia, but now we have seen two out of three. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
This is a way to remind people to read more books, not just his novels | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
but other people's. He is the theatre of life. So many people, and | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
Edward Fox was there as well? Yes, he said that Dickens's heart would | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
have swelled with pride at the number of people who turned out | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
today. It's taken a long time for this day to come ` even in the past | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
week the statue's been sprayed with chemicals to give it a darker hue | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
and withstand the elements. Here's the story of how Charles Dickens | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
finally came home. Writer, actor, social campaigner. Charles Dickens | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
was one of the first global celebrities and a complex man. A new | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
film delves into his relationship with the actress Ellen turned on. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
This is my favourite time when the day is creeping up on us... But | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
Dickens left an extraordinary legacy of work and that is why these men | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
are waiting outside a foundry in the cold in Gloucestershire. This man | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
has been hoping to get a statue in Portsmouth, this man is Charles | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
Dickens' great great great grandson. I am itching to see what it will | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
look like but I think it will be emotional. It will be gobsmacking. | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
Miniversion was unveiled at the bicentenary celebrations. The | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
research for this is to read all of his novels and biographies and what | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
better fun can one have? May 2012, this is Martin's studio and he first | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
models the statue in clay on a steel frame. There is something great | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
about making people out of mud. This is Dickens but before that it was | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Philip Larkin, the same clay before that was Ronnie Barker, then John | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Betjeman, and Dickens. Not someone who settled back, he was always on | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the go, so even though I am representing him seated, I want to | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
suggest he was a man who was about to spring up. It is so strange not | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
have a monument of Dickens in Britain yet. It is often said | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Charles Dickens didn't want to statue based on these words in his | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
will. Dickens didn't want to statue, he | :15:08. | :15:19. | |
was categorical about it and he said he wished to be remembered for his | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
work. If you read the will in its entirety, he was talking about his | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
burial and grave, and we believe it is 200 years overdue to have a | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
statue that celebrates his life, work and achievements. Ian has | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
helped spearhead the drive to raise the money, taking part in | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
fundraising walk from London to Portsmouth. Actress Gillian Anderson | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
has added some star quality the campaign. Hundreds of people have | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
donated, they have got a share of it. They can go along and say, this | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
is my statue. January 2014, the statue has been cast in bronze and | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
it is ready for inspection. That is extraordinary, isn't it? Aren't we | :16:14. | :16:31. | |
glad! I love this little touch. Portsmouth will be very proud. If it | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
inspires a child walking past ` who is that man? And if it encourages | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
them to read, that will be terrific. Fabulous. And to sport | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
now, and the Winter Olympics ceremony is still going on in Sochi. | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
It seems that many of our sporting athletes may not get that far, it | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
will be a struggle and it is because of financial reasons. Funding has | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
been withdrawn for several sports, one of those is synchronised | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
swimming. They have pledged to fight that funding cut saying it could | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
mean the end of the sport at an elite level. The athletes have been | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
based in Aldershot since 2007 but earlier this week it was announced | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
that their entire ?4.3 million budget was being withdrawn by UK | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Sport, after the retirement of key athletes. It's part of a "no | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
compromise" policy that rewards sports financially if they win | :17:37. | :17:46. | |
medals. GB rowing who are based at Caversham lake maintained their ?32 | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
million of funding after a year where they won two gold and three | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
bronze medal at the world championships. And the Bisham | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
Abbey`based national hockey squad saw their funding increase after | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
bronze medals in the world league. Today the GB synchro squad were back | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
in training in Guildford. Ed Sherry reports. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
The Olympic dream is a medal in Tokyo in 2020, but to get their will | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
takes `` take six years of this for up to 45 hours a week. I have made a | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
lot of sacrifices but if I had to do it again, I would. It means so much | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
to me to train with such high quality coaches and athletes. There | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
is no other sport like it and it means so much to compete for my | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
country. But to have a national squad costs. Athletes train so many | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
hours there's no time for a job. Coaches are employed, physios | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
required. And while their HQ in Aldershot is being refurbished the | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
squad have to hire space in pools like here at the Surrey Sports | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Centre. If they are not successful with their appeal, it will cease to | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
exist and Great Britain will go back to how it functioned prior to | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
funding before the 2012 games. They will have to be happy with maybe a | :19:04. | :19:17. | |
top 20 finish if any entries at all. UK Sport say money is only be given | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
to those sports that have medal potential at the next two games. If | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
we embarked on this journey to Rio, it will cost more, and then onto | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
2024 then it would be a significant public investment which is not | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
affordable. We agree we are not a medal target for Rio but we are very | :19:38. | :19:49. | |
credible for 2020. GB Synchro are now preparing to appeal the | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
decision. Without financial support the dreams of these young athletes | :19:58. | :20:12. | |
could well be over. One of the south's winter Olympians | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
has had to withdraw from the Games in Sochi after suffering a slipped | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
disc during training. Craig Pickering from Milton Keynes had | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
been selected as part of the British Bobsleigh team. He's a former | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
Olympic sprinter, switching from athletics to bobsleigh just over a | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
year ago with the aim of winning selection to a second Olympics. He | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
would have been only the eighth British athlete to compete for Team | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
GB at both a Summer and Winter Olympics. It is difficult to replace | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
an athlete of his calibre, and it is very disappointing for everybody. In | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
football, Southampton play Stoke at St Mary's tomorrow. Saints come off | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
the back of a 3`0 win at Fulham last weekend. They're now unbeaten in | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
four games as they go into the match against Stoke, two places below | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
them. Southampton are currently ninth. In the Championship Reading | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
could further boost their play off chances. Currently in the sixth spot | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
the Royals play bottom half Sheffield Wednesday at the Madjeski | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
stadium. Bournemouth are away at Bolton, while Brighton host | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Doncaster. In League One, MK Dons are away at Walsall while Swindon | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
are at Port Vale. And in League Two Oxford go to Bristol Rovers. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Meanwhile, with things tight at the bottom of League Two, Portsmouth | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
remain dangerously close to the relegation zone. Pompey have | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
tightened up their defence, but suffered a disappointing 1`0 defeat | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
to Torquay last weekend. They're away at Exeter, where a win would | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
put some distance between them and the bottom places. We could do with | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
a few more goals. We had an issue in terms of conceding them before and | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
I'm not saying we have 100% solved that but we would like to think we | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
have become harder to score against and harder to beat. We need to turn | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
that around and move it on from harder to beat to winning more | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
football matches. The bottom ten may be is probably as close as I have | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
ever seen. Anybody who can put a run together will probably come out of | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
the bottom half very quickly. Full commentary of those games on BBC | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
local radio and the goals are on the football league show tomorrow night. | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
And there's a big game tomorrow night for the Worthing Thunder | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
basketball team ` the Thunder are unbeaten at home so far in 2014 and | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
they'll be looking to hang onto that as they play Manchester Magic in the | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
National Trophy semi final. Tip off at Worthing Leisure Centre is at | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
7.30. This is the moment you have all been | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
waiting for, you want to know what will happen with the weather | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
tonight. How bad is it going to be? We have another storm and an amber | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
warning with wet weather, roughly an inch of rain fall through a six`hour | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
period overnight tonight. That doesn't sound like a huge amount but | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
when you have the sodden ground, it is really bad news. Yes, stay tuned | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
to your local forecast. Today we have had some respite and it seems a | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
long time since we have had blue skies and sunshine. More flooding of | :23:05. | :23:20. | |
course at Bicester, thank you for this picture. After that dry | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
weather, we are already starting to see signs of the wet weather | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
arriving from the west. An amber warning in place through this | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
evening and into tomorrow morning as well. Roughly an inch of rain fall | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
in sunspots. The band of rain proper sweeps through the course of tonight | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
and it will bring some gusty winds with it as well. By the time we | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
reached Dawn, it has pretty much cleared and we will see some showers | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
cropping up. We do see a windy one through the day tomorrow. That | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
weather front has cleared through but you can see this area of low | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
pressure and be isobars attached to it mean that we will have strong | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
winds because they are tightly packed together. Tomorrow the winds | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
are key concern, 70 mph along the coast. Very blustery day, some | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
showers with hail or blunder, temperatures up to 10 degrees but | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
that is academic because it will feel miserable with the wet and | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
windy weather. The windy weather is with us through the overnight period | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
as well. Temperatures at around four degrees through the overnight | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
spell. With that wet weather on top of the sodden ground already, the | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
potential for further disruption. Into Sunday, we still have some wet | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
weather to come. Further showery conditions and a breeze as well, but | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
becoming drier and less windy into the afternoon, so just darting to | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
see a slight respite. Then Monday, the winds drop out a touch but not | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
for long because the next system arriving through the overnight | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
period in situ stay will be arriving. It looks set to stay the | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
same for the next couple of weeks. Now we all know we're living longer, | :25:25. | :25:38. | |
but still 106 is going some isn't it? And what on earth do you give | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
someone who's had that many birthdays? Well, you're never too | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
old to have the ride of your life. And that's what happened to the | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
lovely Hilda Baybutt. Katie Austin explains. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
It wasn't the sort of present you could wrap, Elder was treated to a | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
surprise helicopter ride, the oldest ever president of this care home. `` | :26:00. | :26:11. | |
resident. Her first flight was at the couple 's flying Circus on | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Blackpool beach. She is an incredible woman. Helder and her | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
husband moved to Bournemouth to run a hotel and they never left. 84 | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
years, you must like it. I love it! World War II left some bitter | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
memories. Five planes came over and hit everything, and then went back | :26:38. | :26:49. | |
again. A bomb went through Beales, that went up in flames. They used to | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
be a very high`class furniture shop across, that was on fire. But today | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
was all about celebrating a special lady's birthday. The helicopter ride | :27:03. | :27:15. | |
took Hilda to a cream tea. It has turned out quite different, very | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
exciting. Hilda's family will have a job eating this birthday present | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
next year! How wonderful, all of the candles | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
out! We were just chatting, what is your secret because you look | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
fabulous! Have a good weekend, stay safe with all of this weather coming | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
our way. Goodbye. It's your job to keep law | :27:42. | :28:24. | |
and order, isn't it? It must be exciting being | :28:25. | :28:36. | |
a policewoman. It has its moments. | :28:37. | :28:39. |