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Good evening. The Environment Agency is warning | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
that river levels in Herefordshire and Worcestershire are still | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
unstable despite today's drier weather. They're predicted to | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
fluctuate across the two counties over the next 24 hours, but not to | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
the extent they did last week when record levels were reached. There | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
are still 41 flood warnings across the region but the numbers are | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
finally starting to fall, with teams of council workers and volunteers | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
now beginning to remove tonnes of debris trapped under Worcester | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
Bridge. Sarah Falkland was there. It was quite the Sunday morning | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
spectacle, pulling in crowds of onlookers. It is pretty amazing when | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
you see what it has brought down in what has gotten stuck. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
A huge pile of debris, there was all sorts in here, 28 tonnes were | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
removed in the first hour. It is mainly wood, folks and jetsam but I | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
have seen a wheelie bin, a beer barrel, a life going, plastic | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
bottles, much debris. Do not be fooled into thinking this is some | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
kind of floating island of rubbish because this is the proverbial tip | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
of the iceberg. All of this degree is about three metres underwater. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
The dredging machine operator can't see what he's picking up` he's | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
relying on guidance of the team and the pile is ever growing. In the | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
normal way you would let the river go down and take everything away by | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
a craft on the water but as the road is closed we have an opportunity to | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
reach down from the top so we thought we would get a deli is fast | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
as possible. The excavator can reach 18 metres in depth. That is the | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
perfect kit for getting rid of this. You might also see the difficulty we | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
have is the lights on the bridge, that is difficult for us to work | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
around so we need is All the wood will be chipped and made into mulch. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
To be very careful. In all they're expecting to take out around 500 | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
tonnes. Sarah Falkland, BBC Midlands Today in Worcester. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
And you can get the latest on the flood situation, road closures and | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
river levels by tuning into your BBC local radio station. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
A 20`year`old man from Stratford`on`Avon has been arrested | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
on suspicion of the murder of a teenager in Oxford. 17`year`old | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Connor Tremble was stabbed in Fairacres Road in Oxford on Thursday | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
night. He was taken to hospital but died yesterday. A 21`year`old man | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
from Birmingham has also been arrested on suspicion of assisting | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
an offender. The Chief Executive of HS2 Limited | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
says Stoke`on`Trent "hasn't been ruled out" in a battle to get a | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
station on the new high speed rail line linking London, the Midlands | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
and the North. The city has just submitted its case to get a stop on | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
the line, but it's facing stiff competition from just 15 miles away, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
as BBC Radio Stoke's Political Reporter Phil McCann reports. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
It used to be one of Stoke`on`Trent's industrial | :02:59. | :02:59. | |
powerhouses. Thousands of people produced tonnes of steel at Shelton | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Bar in its heyday, but 14 years after it closed, this is all that's | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
left. The hope now is that HS2 will fill the gap. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
The derelict land here would be home to international arrivals, with high | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
speed trains thundering to London in less than an hour. Unlike councils | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
in Coventry, Warwickshire and rural Staffordshire, the city council here | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
is actually fighting for high speed rail. This will actually make | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
Stoke`on`Trent a core cities, the amount of growth that will happen is | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
unimaginable. And actually the amount of contribution that in any | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
links Stoke`on`Trent and Staffordshire can make to the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
overall economy of the UK is huge. Local businesses say it'd give this | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
city the boost it's been waiting for for decades. It will create jobs, it | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
will bring investment, it will attract new businesses to this great | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
city. But 15 miles up the road, a | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
competitor in the shape of a true railway town. Crewe has already | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
appeared as a stop for some HS2 trains on the government's preferred | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
route. Stoke's plan would involve dragging the track away, launching | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
officials here into battle mod. The total connectivity argument that the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
government talk about that their capacity argument is enhanced with | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
what you get from Crewe. It is a good bet, but the real deal is in | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Crewe. Despite the initial preference for Crewe, the chief | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
executive told Sunday politics that they will look at what | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Stoke`on`Trent has two offer. We have just completed a public | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
consultation and I'm sure still have submitted their views to that. The | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Secretary of State will make a decision by the end of the year. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
Stoke`on`Trent have high hopes they'll win, but it'd mean a | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
significant change in the government's HS2 strategy. Phil | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
McCann BBC Midlands Today, Staffordshire. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Onto sport now, and there are a couple of Rugby results for you, in | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
the Aviva Premiership Gloucester were beaten by Leicester eleven | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
points to eight. Meanwhile in the Championship | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
Moseley had a miserable trip to Yorkshire getting thrashed by Leeds | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
by 62 points to five. Well onto the forecast now and I | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
suspect there's more on the way, let's get the details now with Sara | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
Blizzard. It is all changed overnight, we will | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
see some wet weather and ahead of that weather front it is quite cold | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
initially, or three degrees the minimum temperature. As soon as the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
clouds comes in the temperatures left and we see the first signs of | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
that weather front. It will be surely an Apache as the weather | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
works its way northwards and there could be heavy bursts across | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Daytime temperatures tomorrow in the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
region of nine degrees. Quite a murky day with low cloud associated | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
with this. Tuesday showery and the wind later. When 60s in. I am back | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
at quarter past 11 after the BAFTAs. Goodbye. | :06:02. | :06:15. | |
Whilst we are talking about wet and windy weather in the week ahead we | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
will lose the extremes of last week. The first glow of the week will | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
approach overnight. Clear skies will cause temperatures to fall awake, | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
and we are looking at a frost in eastern England and for northern | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Scotland with Pitt -- patches of mist and fog. Temperatures will rise | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
through the night as the cloud comes in and the wind begins to lift and | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
the rain arrives. The far north of Scotland will get off to a frosty | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
start. Further south, outbreaks of rain for the rush hour. Rain from | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Northern Ireland and across northern England. In the East, contending | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
with more stubborn patches of fog. Grey skies of East Anglia and the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
far south-east of England but essentially | :07:07. | :07:07. |