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shortly. They have an investigation into why some police forces in the | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
UK are Good evening. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
It's been claimed that flooding along parts of the Thames this | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
winter was made worse by thd lack of dredging over recent years. BBC | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
London has spoken to former employees with decades of dredging | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
experience who claim the authorities were warned in the 1990s about the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
risk of not removing sediment from the river. This special report from | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Gareth Furby. It's a new housing developmdnt by | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
the Thames in Sunbury. But what is bothering some locals is not that | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
this is in their backyard btt the fact that a large piece of kit is | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
now missing from the yard. Dverybody was sad to see it go becausd we | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
believed it was a necessity. He s talking about this, one of the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
dredgers that used to work tp and down the Thames. Now the Environment | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Agency yard is changing. Thd big dredgers have gone and some people | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
believe that recent floods were made worse because the Thames wasn't | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
being regularly cleared of silt All throughout the office was sdven | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
inches of water. Johnny used to work as a dredging contract. His property | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
was flooded last month. He has no doubt that if the Thames was still | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
dredged, the flood would not have been as bad. The water levels would | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
have been lower, up to four or five inches. It would have saved a lot of | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
properties. How much materi`l was being removed before dredging was | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
wound down in the mid`1990s? BBC London has tracked down two | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
ex`employees. Kenny Beard w`s a supervisor. In his career, he thinks | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
he personally shifted 100,000 tonnes. He remembers well the day | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
his bosses said the river w`s self dredging. We just laughed! We said, | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
OK. All right. If that is what you reckon. It is going to cost | :02:21. | :02:32. | |
millions. Malcolm says some staff tested by the policy still went | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
ahead. Now, following the floods come he is angry with his former | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
employers. They have ignored people. They can protect a Kingfishdr and a | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
badger, but not people. Conservation overtook flood defence. This | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
afternoon the Environment Agency said flooding... | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
This is an issue which isn't going away, though. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Marc Ashdown is by the river in Teddington now. But, of course, the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Environment Agency needs to convince residents along the Thames they have | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
a long`term plan. That is rhght This is where the tidal Thales ends. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
The Environment Agency has ` lot to do to convince people they `re doing | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
enough. They say that dredghng has a place in some rivers, just not here | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
in the Thames. They maintain they are spending lots of money to | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
protect homes. It is about what is right for the locations. We have | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
scheme down on the lower part of the Thames, the River Thames scheme | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
?256 million for flood risk reduction. That is the long`term | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
solution. Dredging is a verx short`term solution which, during | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the low flows and summer droughts, sediment coming down will fhll those | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
holes very quickly and we whll be back to square one. It is not | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
cost`effective. That is why we want to work with partners to provide | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
that long`term solution. It is worth pointing out that we have h`d | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
exceptional rainfall, as much, apparently, in the past few weeks as | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
in the two big floods of recent years combined. The fences have come | :04:25. | :04:36. | |
a long way. `` defences. Thousands of homeowners who would be | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
affected by noise from a possible second runway at Gatwick ard being | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
promised ?1,000 a year towards their council tax. Airport bosses say it's | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
to compensate for the noise. But has it been welcomed by residents under | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
the flight? Here's Sarah Smhth. Gatwick has long been a noisy | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
neighbour and 30 year residdnt Ian White is not impressed at the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
compensation on offer. You get used to living with it over the xears, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
but with another one it is going to be bringing the aeroplane is close | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
to the built`up areas. One `` and the money won't help? Not at all. | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
What is it going to do. It will not stop the night. The money would go | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
to council tax payers in ardas affected. We are reacting to | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
questions put to us by local authorities and local peopld who | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
want to understand how we could minimise the impact of a second | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
runway here. We see the compensation as one part of that. Here, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
campaigners have long campahgn against airport noise. They are | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
outside the compensation arda. Those against the second runway s`y it | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
would not have works, anywax. It is ?1000 for the complete change in | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
infrastructure, schools, hospitals, doctors surgeries, the traffic on | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
the roads, etc, that people will experience. Some, though, are happy | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
with the offer. Nobody is going to say no to that, so, yeah, if it was | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
there to be taken off the b`ck of a second runway, then why not? Many | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
businesses believe expansion is crucial and Gatwick is despdrate for | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
the airports commission to choose a new runway. If it does, then new | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
runway would open about ten years later. `` the new runway. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Just before the weather, a puick reminder that Late Kick Off has a | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
round`up of Football League action at11:20. I'll say goodnight and hand | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
you over to Wendy. Good evening. We have a beattiful | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
and the weekend. This is how it looked. Through this week it will be | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
sometimes as sunny and also dry as high pressure stays with us. At the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
moment we have got a fair alount of cloud cover. It is not going to turn | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
to chilly through the night. We will have those grey skies first thing | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
tomorrow morning, and also ` north`easterly breeze. That will | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
make it feel a bit cooler, H should think. Further south`east, the more | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
likely you are to hold on through the day. Parts of Buckinghalshire | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
and Essex are likely to get some brightness. Temperatures at around | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
11 or 12 degrees. This is the outlook. | :07:33. | :07:32. | |
11 or 12 degrees. This is the outlook. If you are heading | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
somewhere else in the UK, you need the forecast. Hello. The local | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
weather detail you have just heard fit into an overall pattern which is | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
now equivocal in different from the one that gave us our wettest winter | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
on record. We have spent the day watching high | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
pressure pushing across the UK. It is settling our weather down like | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
any area of high pressure. It is here for a while. It is here for | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
this week. The Jetstream has moved north and the wet and whether - | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
whinny systems have moved towards Iceland. | :08:05. | :08:06. |