08/02/2014 Spotlight


08/02/2014

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Good afternoon. Large parts of the southwest continue to be on flood

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alert today as yet another storm with winds of up to 70mph is

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expected to arrive this afternoon and into the evening. The Somerset

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Levels where many residents have already been forced from their homes

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remain at the highest risk of continued flooding. There are also

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flood warnings in place for the coastline of Devon, Dorset and

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Cornwall. This report from Simon Clemison in Looe.

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Still, what storm? The bins still need to be collected and Looe matter

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what the weather. And getting to their place of work has been tricky

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for the fishermen. Many have not been out all the port for weeks,

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leaving gaps in the shelves. It is not only the flooding, but the

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effects it has on work, income. People have mortgages to pay, staff

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have mortgages to pay, no fish, no jobs, nothing.

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Talk of winds gusting up to 70 mph is worrying even very close line

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used to braving the elements. Those bumps on a normally smooth horizon

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are waves. I've never known such a sustained

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period of bad weather, and we're not getting the respite in between the

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storms to effect permanent repairs. What we're doing at the moment is

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all emergency response. For some, VCs are exciting and to be

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enjoyed. And Simon Clemison joins us now.

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Gardening. High tide has passed now in Looe, and hasn't been any

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flooding. Those large waves which we saw, the sandbags have been in

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place, people have been prepared but have been very lucky this time. It

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really is a consistent weather, which is very unusual for Britain,

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but consistently bad. A lot of people say they are keen to see the

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end of it before it costs too much money.

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Rail engineers in Dawlish have begun spraying concrete onto damaged

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sections of the track and the cliff behind it to stop it deteriorating

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any further. Network Rail has said the work to repair the line, which

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was badly damaged in storms earlier this week, will cost about ?10

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million and take up to six weeks. And work's begun to shore up a

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section of the historic clock tower in the Cornish village of Kingsand

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which was damaged in the storms earlier this week. Engineers began

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reinforcing a vulnerable corner of the building before first light this

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morning to try to make it more stable.

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Let's see just how bad the forecast is going to be ` here's Emily.

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We still have some strong winds to come through the rest of the day.

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Still an amber warning in force through this afternoon and

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overnight. Gusts of perhaps up to 80 mph are possible, combined with

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large winds, the risk of coastal flooding once again. You can get the

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latest on the Environment Agency website. Some locally heavy showers

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this afternoon, some hail and thunder mixed in, also. These are

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the wind speeds in miles per hour. Temperatures reach a degrees. This

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evening the winds become more westerly and that could impact

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different parts of the coast, parts of the north coast, for example,

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could have strong winds through the night. Still windy with gale`force

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winds tomorrow, and still locally heavy showers. The winds eased

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towards the end of tomorrow. On Monday, lighter winds and fewer

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showers, by warning out for further wet weather on Tuesday.

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That's all for now, I'll be back with the next bulletin and any

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weather updates for you just after 7pm this evening.

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evening. -- the winds will ease Good afternoon. It is yet another

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stormy day to day with heavy rain around and very strong winds. The

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Met office has issued an amber warning for the strong winds. They

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could be disruptive and damaging. This is the latest in a string of

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storms that we have seen this winter. For southern England, this

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looks like one of the wettest winters for 250 years. Scotland saw

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the wettest December 4/100

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