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Good afternoon. As the flood waters start to drop, | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
very strong winds and more rain overnight have caused further | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
problems in the region. Army trucks have been ferrying people across | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
flood water in Upton on Severn. And narrow escapes for many motorists as | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Warwickshire police and West Midlands ambulance service received | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
numerous calls about fallen trees. And there's one severe flood warning | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
at Alney in Gloucester and 40 flood warnings in the rest of the region. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
In Worcester, water levels are going down but may rise again later. Tim | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
Aviss has this report. The swollen River Severn still | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
flowing fast through the heart of Worcester. Its level had dropped but | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
overnight more heavy rain fell across the county. The authorities | :00:44. | :00:53. | |
are staying alert. It appears that the weather systems we have seen | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
coming across the Atlantic may be subsiding slightly. There might be | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
level is falling within the River Severn and there could be laid at | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
the end of the tunnel but the work does not stop there. We must check | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
the infrastructure and the barriers that we have in place to make sure | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
that they are all case should anything happen in the future. We | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
had a brief respite but it has just started to rain again. That means | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
river levels are expected to rise, something like ten or 15 For | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
district nurse Liz McCauley the waters can't recede quickly enough. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Centimetres in the next 24 hours. She and 11 others care for dozens of | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
patients who can't get out of their homes. The flooding has made their | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
jobs extremely difficult. Patients are getting their visit, they are | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
being very patient with us, but it puts the team under tremendous | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
pressure with all of the transport issues and because they are visiting | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
patients who are unfamiliar with. But the floods remain a sight to | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
behold for many ` with keen photographers making the most of the | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
situation. We have mixed feelings because you think, you have a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
photogenic subject here but then you think all of the unfortunate people | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
who have been hurt by it. For now the Worcester Road Bridge | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
remains open to traffic. Tomorrow work begins to clear up the mass of | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
derbis collected underneath. Tim Aviss BBC Midlands Today, Worcester. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
And in other parts of the region, around 400 homes in Shropshire are | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
still without power because of the storms. The rail line between | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Leamington and Banbury has been closed because of a landslip. And | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
bus and rail users are being asked to check before they travel as many | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
services have been delayed or cancelled. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
For the latest information listen to your BBC local radio station. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
A West Midlands police officer is being investigated for alleged | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
misuse of his Twitter account. The force has confirmed that Inspector | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Michael Brown's Twitter account "mental health cop" has been | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
suspended. The officer ran a blog alongside Twitter on mental health | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
policing. Onto the days football and in the | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Championship Birmingham City lost 2`1 to Huddersfield at St Andrews. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Ollie Lee with the consolation goal deep into injury time. Blues haven't | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
won at home in the league now since October. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
In League One it ended goalless in the lunchtime kick`off between | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
Shrewsbury and Port Vale. Coventry's clash with Bradford was postponed | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
due to a waterlogged pitch. And Wolves are now three points clear of | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
third place Leyton Orient after a 2`0 win against Notts County at | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Molineux. In League Two it finished one all | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
between Burton and Dagenham and Redbridge. Meanwhile, Cheltenham's | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
home game with Wycombe Wanderers was postponed due to the recent bad | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
weather. And in the Conference Premier, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Barnet beat Tamworth one nil. Kidderminster lost 2`0 away at | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
Lincoln City. Hereford United suffered a 7`0 thrashing at the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
hands of top of the table Luton Town. Luton got six of their goals | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
in the second half. And it finished Nuneaton one, Hyde zero. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
Finally one rugby result to bring you and in the Aviva Premiership | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Worcester are still looking for that elusive win after losing to | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Northampton by 30 points to 14. A look at the weather now with Sara | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Blizzard. It has only felt very cold today | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
with that strong winds that has changed direction, it is coming more | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
from the North West but the good news is it is easing now and the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
showers that have been present throughout today are starting to | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
diminish with the exception of one or two towards Stoke`on`Trent. The | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
cold night in prospect, a contrast to the windy weather from last | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
night. We will see a fast developing with Herefordshire and | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Worcestershire seeing low temperatures. A cold and frosty | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
start to Sunday, it will be bright with sunshine and the wind will be | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
much lighter. Daytime temperatures to model a That's it. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Maximum of nine degrees. Sunday Politics will be discussing the | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Midlands towns vying for a stop on the controversial high speed rail | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
link. That's with Patrick Burns from 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. But for | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
now enjoy your Saturday night. Hello, good evening, finally some | :04:55. | :05:15. | |
quieter weather on the way for the British Isles for the remainder of | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
this weekend, also somewhat for the week ahead. More on that in a | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
moment. | :05:21. | :05:22. |