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Humphrys asks the question - what's gone wrong with Wales? But now on | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
BBC One, it's time Good evening. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
BBC London has learned that plans to build thousands of new homes in a | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
flood`hit area of Berkshire are to be ruled out. The Royal Borough of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Windsor and Maidenhead has now promised to put a stop to developing | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
properties on the worst hit flood plains. But there are concerns that | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
this could mean house building targets aren't met. Tarah Welsh | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
reports. This current crisis has temporarily | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
taken the spotlight of another, the need for more housing. But now it | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
seems the floods will have a big impact on where new homes can be | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
built. These campaigners say it should never be on a flood plain. We | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
should not really build where the river wants to go naturally when it | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
floods. We would not build in the river so why build where the river | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
goes when it is overflowing? This site in Wraysbury is earmarked for | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
development but like much of the village it is still waterlogged If | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
the evidence of flooding clearly demonstrates that regardless of how | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
you develop the site, you cannot deal with a flooding risk. We will | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
happily go to the Inspectorate and say this site cannot be developed. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
That that leaves them with a problem. The Royal Borough of | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Maidenhead and Windsor says it needs to build 12,000 new homes in the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
next 15 years. But it is an area that is nearly all green belt and | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
much of it is flood plain is. You can see why people are opposed to | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
more building. But a lot of these homes are dry inside because they | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
were built on a raised platform But there is another issue. It is | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
thought developments would bring more concrete and more homes and | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
that would increase the chance of flooding because the water would | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
have nowhere to go. Katherine now lives in Wraysbury that says in her | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
native Malaysia there was regular flooding but the homes were designed | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
with flooding in mind. The floods would go four feet deep. We would | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
live downstairs but we have cement floor. To prevent more scenes like | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
this, the council is considering building on the green belt. The | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
water may be subsiding but the demand for housing just keeps | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
growing. So as we've heard, the Government's | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
been meeting with the insurance industry to call on them to help | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
residents and businesses affected by the floods more quickly. Alice | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Bhandhukravi is in Datchet for us tonight, where I imagine that's | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
welcome news? Well, in a word, yes. That chip is one of the worst | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
affected towns by the flooding. `` Datchet is one of the worst affected | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
towns. Business owners will be relieved to hear that news. It is a | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
complex picture for people who run businesses which have been affected | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
by flooding. We can speak to the owner of this hotel. How badly has | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
the flooding affected this hotel? It has been the loss of business. We | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
have had to turn away a lot of business. Valentine's Day, wedding, | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
banqueting, we have lost. It is not just last week but this week. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Hopefully it is coming to an end but it is a big loss for us. Could this | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
make the difference between staying afloat and going under? We are paid. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
I think a lot of small businesses will be affected even more so. It is | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
important for us to get on our feet. Are you going to be able to claim | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
against your insurance policy? We are starting the process tomorrow. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
For us, it is a question of it being quick and fast so we can get on with | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
it rather than waiting so long. But hopefully business as usual here? | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Yes. Definitely a defiant tone here but a lot of uncertainty. Thank you. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
The future of Pentonville Prison has been put in doubt after a highly | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
critical report. The Chief Inspector of Prisons found it was seriously | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
overcrowded with staff shortages, and inmates left feeling unsafe Our | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
special correspondent Kurt Barling has more. | :04:41. | :04:52. | |
A prison built in 1854, conditions described as likely to embarrass the | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Victorians. Such is the state of the overcrowding and vermin infestation | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
at Pentonville prison along the Caledonian Road. There will need to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
be a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow if the government is to | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
recover a jail the chief inspector believes is currently not fit for | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
purpose. We all want prisoners to come out of prison less likely to | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
offend that they went in. The level of chaos and need in the prison the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
lack of staffing, the poor environment, made that really | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
difficult to do. At Pentonville the report says there was a high | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
incidence of drug use, chronic overcrowding, 12,000 inmates in a | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
jail designed for 913, living with rats and cockroaches, an unusually | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
high sickness and absent rates. This is a policy which is allowing more | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and more people to go into prison who do not need to be there. We have | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
a suicide every three days. We will have a riot. There are serious | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
problems in the prisons. The National offender management service | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
told us that at the time of the inspection, the prison was | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
transitioning to new staffing profiles and working arrangements | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
which will provide a decent, stable and consistent regime for prisoners. | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
Her Majesty's Inspector of prisons lays the gauntlet down to the | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
government saying invest or shut up shop. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
That's it from me. So I'll wish you a very goodnight, and hand you over | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
to Wendy for a look at the weather. Hello, good evening to you. Apart | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
from the heavy showers today which you might have caught, we have a | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
quiet spell of weather. It will be mostly dried, cloudy and calm and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
quite mild as well. This evening, we have had clear skies to begin with. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
The temperatures dropped quite quickly. The showers have moved | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
away. It may be misty and murky by the start of tomorrow. There could | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
be some drizzle first thing. It is gradually improving picture. It will | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
feel quite pleasant tomorrow. It will turn more unsettled on Thursday | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
with some rain around. Nothing too heavy. More international weather | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
next. Good evening. Whilst today did bring | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
some heavy showers, they moved through quite quickly. For much of | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
tomorrow, it will stay dry if a bit cloudy and relatively mild. Patchy | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
cloud at the moment. There will be some rain later in the day on | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Wednesday. Any rain through the night tonight will be patchy and | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
light. We will see some occasional breaks in the cloud. Foremost, it is | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
a touch cooler it was last | :08:09. | :08:10. |