His first thoughts, for the young soldier who died alongside him and for those whod helped his recovery. Its quite hard to put into words. I mean, im a product of all the people whove slightly helped me along away. So from the guys who tucked a tourniquet on my leg, to the doctors, the nurses, the physios, to the racing world. Just quite nice quiet moment to just try and take it in and think back to a few people as well. Just competing though has been a victory. For four years, the authorities wouldnt let him, fearing his Prosthetic Leg could get trapped in his own stirrup. If i had my foot in the iron and fell backwards and right, id get my toes caught like that and then be dragged, which is, you know, a pretty horrific experience. It took this device, called a toe stopper, to allow him to race. It means you physically cant get stuck in the iron. My foot is all the way in it. If i fall, you slide along the top and you would come out. Yeah, so far so good, it works really effectively.
But otherwise for the rest of the uk it is a blustery day, a day of sunshine and showers, some of those showers will have hail and thunder mixed in with them and certainly the strong winds will continue to make you feel a little bit on the cool side with temperatures between eight and 11 celsius. The week ahead, we are going to see low pressure moving in. Miles days in space with cooler days so it will be quite changeable day by day. At mild days. There will be heavy showers for all of us at some point on tuesday, showers in the night could be heavier across england and wales was top of that traffic moves through, it turns colder for scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of england. That system is away and things quieten down for a time of night but then into wednesday we are looking at the next area of low pressure approaching from the west. That will bring a warm front. A band of rain that will put into Northern Ireland, eventually reaching western scotland, western england. Is th
Tonight at ten storm dennis rages across the uk, as the Emergency Services rush to help communities around the country. Residential streets turned into rivers in the worst affected areas as heavy rain fell on ground already saturated by last weeks storm. Towed to safety in knee deep water. People in south wales endured some of the worst conditions. As we were trying to block the front door, it was all pouring in through the backdoor as well, and there was nothing we could do. Well be live with our correspondents across the country, with disruption expected to continue into tomorrow. And the other main stories on tonights programme. Itv cancels tonights edition of love island following the death of the shows former host Caroline Flack, who took her own life. America sends two planes to take home us citizens quarantined britons on board are critical of the uk government. For coronavirus on a cruise ship in japan. Britons on board are critical of the uk government. And victory for england