09/02/2014 South Today

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Good evening I'm Roger Finn with the news in the south. Army Reservists

and firefighters have been involved in a major operation to stop flood

water engulfing an electricity sub`station in Berkshire. It's one

of a series of emergencies across the region caused by high water

levels. This evening 200 Royal Navy personnel from Gosport are helping

to fill do something.

The council is already looking at what improvements could be made.

My feeling is that the weather events are so extreme it is most

unlikely that the Environment Agency or the councils do will change the

situation. We are on the edge of a flood plain, and those flood plains

will, by definition, flood. High ground water levels are causing

problems in many places. Local people have rallied together to try

to limit the damage. People are rallying around trying to

manage the traffic. There are warnings of some river

levels are expected to continue through. That point was put to the

former floods minister and Newbury MP Richard Benyon in today's Sunday

Politics programme. The have been some pollen

development in the past across all governments. I think it is 97

present of the times when the Environment Agency says no to

something, it does not go ahead. 4000 houses were built on flood

plains against their advice. London is a flood plain, Newbury at

a flood plain, York. We can say we would never build anywhere.

Now the weather: we have