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Good evening. Rising flood waters have caused major problems for | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
drivers in Worcester as a number of roads had to be closed. The River | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Severn is now at its highest level in the city since the summer of | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
2007. Across the Midlands, the Environment Agency has issued 47 | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
flood warnings and many homes and businesses, including an historic | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
pub, have already flooded. Bob Hockenhull reports. | :00:30. | :00:42. | |
City siege `` a city under siege from the Severn once more. The main | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
bridge has been closed, splitting the area in two and causing chaos. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
Tomorrow will be terrible. It will be jam`packed over the bridge. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
It has come up quick but there's nothing we can do about it. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
The waters are due to peak overnight here. The authorities are bracing | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
themselves for a difficult week. Due to the volume going under the | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
bridge the decision has been taken to close it and until they are | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
satisfied it is safe, this busy route will stay shut. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
We are seeing some high levels now. Certainly the highest since 2007 and | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
they are still higher. The impacts are they starting to happen now. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Yesterday, this historic pub in the nearby village of Severn Stoke, had | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
put up makeshift barriers which seemed to be holding up. But in the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
early hours the landlord and his family were forced to flee as the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
waters seeped in. It'll be closed for several weeks. | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
It was the speed it came up. In the end we just grabbed a pair of | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
trousers each and my son and his lady and my wife and I came across | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
and it was above the height of our waders. We just managed to get out. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
The state of the surrounding fields has left the pub's neighbours | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
fearing the worst. We are the second house from a | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
church down here. It is probably about one foot from coming into the | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
house. Back in Worcester, contingency plans | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
are being drawn up as the bridge is not likely to open until Tuesday at | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the earliest. All our emergency staff are working | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
at this time and we will be putting on bus services to get people to and | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
from work during the rush hour in particular tomorrow. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Getting back to work is a distant prospect for some though who are | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
left wondering how they'll be able to recover from the devastation | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
that's already been caused. For the very latest on the flooding | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
in Worcestershire, tune into Howard and Toni at Breakfast on BBC | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Hereford and Worcester from 6am tomorrow morning. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
A man has died in a fire which police say was started deliberately | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
at a house in Dudley. A 42`year`old woman and two boys, aged nine and | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
15, got out of the house just seconds before the fire took hold at | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
the property in Wood Street in the Holly Hall area last night. They | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
were taken to hospital and released later. Police say they're not | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Neighbours have been speaking of their shock. | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
There were police, fire engines, ambulances, police with guns. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
It is a sad situation to have that happening in your own area. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
I'm just shocked because it is a quiet area. I'm just gobsmacked. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
A Shrewsbury man has been charged after pages were torn from a copy of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the Quran and thrown during a football match. The incident | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
happened at the game between Birmingham City and Middlesbrough at | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
St Andrews in December. 25`year`old Mark Stephenson has been charged | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
with causing racial or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
distress. He is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
28th of February. A charity which helps people recover | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
from domestic abuse claims women will die if its funding is cut. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Worcestershire County Council is considering reducing its budget for | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
West Mercia Women's Aid by half. It comes as the authority battles to | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
save tens of millions of pounds over the next three years. But, speaking | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
on the Sunday Politics Midlands, the charity's chief executive claimed it | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
was a false economy. Money is not handed out. We deliver | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
services under contract with very, very tight monitoring. These are not | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
grants. This is money that comes from the local authority for us to | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
deliver services that, if we didn't deliver them, they would have to. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
That is something we need to remember, they would have to do it. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
You can see more on that story on the Sunday Politics Midlands which | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
is now available on the BBC iPlayer. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Coventry`born Amanda Lightfoot finished well down the field in | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
today's Biathlon Sprint. The army corporal, who now lives in the North | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
East, came in 75th place in a time of 24 minutes and 48 seconds. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Time for more detail on the weather now. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
After a showery day, as the temperatures drop away overnight, | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
our next concern is ice so The Met Office has got a yellow warning in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
place which covers large parts of the West Midlands. There will still | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
be one or two showers going into this evening but it is a largely dry | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
picture. We are expecting the temperatures to drop close to | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
freezing and there will be a patchy frost as well. It will be a cold | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
start to the working week. There will still be one or two showers | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
around but they will be lighter. They may turn wintry as we go | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
through the day but then there will be some dry and bright spells | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
around. The winds certainly much lighter than they have been but more | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
wet and windy weather to come. On Tuesday, it remains unsettled. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
That's all for now but please keep sending | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Good evening. We have a significant number of severe warnings out. Most | :05:59. | :06:18. | |
of them have been issued on the River Thames today. Now, of course, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
with more rain due this week, that is not good news, and as well as | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that, we are expecting some gales as well on the coast. But this week, | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
perhaps an increased risk of some snow as well. At the moment we are | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
in a quiet spell of weather, with fewer showers around, this evening | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
and overnight. There is a risk as temperatures get close to freezing | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
that there could be some ice first thing in the morning. Temperatures | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
will be lower out in the countryside. We could even have a | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
smattering of snow tonight and first thing in the morning over the hills | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
of Wales, the Midlands, up into northern England and Scotland. But | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
tomorrow will be quieter, once again. Still scattered showers | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
around. For the east of England perhaps chilly and grey for Match of | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
the Day. But on Tuesday, the next Atlantic low rushes in. -- | :07:14. | :07:15. |