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Good evening. A charity's encouraging more people | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
to plant trees as a way of helping to reduce the risk of flooding. The | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Woodland Trust says trees can help the soil absorb more water, as well | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
as filtering it. In Holland, however, they've embraced much more | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
extreme measures to protect their towns. Here's our environment | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
correspondent David Gregory Kumar, who's been investigating whether | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
similar schemes would ever be adopted here. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Traditionally, the Dutch have always relied on a vast network of dykes to | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
protect themselves. But, following huge floods of 1995, the authorities | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
decided on a whole new plan of defence. And, now, in some parts of | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Holland, they're deliberately lowering dykes to encourage | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
flooding. It sounds illogical, but it's all part of a cunning plan. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
It's part of a ?1.8 billion project called Room For The River, taking | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
place at 34 locations across the Netherlands. The premise is simple | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
enough. By pushing the dykes back in certain specific areas, they're | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
creating more of an overflow for the river. So, now, when the water | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
reaches a critical level, it has a new flood plain to spill onto. But, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
to create this space, the Dutch had to evict over 200 home owners and | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
farmers. To find out more, I've arranged to | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
meet Professor Nigel Wright, an expert in flood management. | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
What about radical solutions like in Holland? Could we do something like | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
that here? That's just the sort of thing we | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
should be looking at. There may be other measures, but we need to think | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
differently. What are the choices we have to | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
make? Widen the river? Displace farmers, shops businesses, people? | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
In some cases, that may be what needs to be done. And there has to | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
be a discussion. And, in the end, people will need to be compensated. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
That would be popular with farmers. None of this is popular with | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
anybody. After our fourth major flood in 16 | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
years, is it time to take the Dutch approach, and talk about radical new | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
ideas to protect the Midlands? You can see more on that story on | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Inside Out, with Mary Rhodes, at 7.30pm tomorrow, here on BBC One. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
The Environment Agency has now lifted all of its flood warnings for | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the region. This was the picture in Worcester today, as the clean`up | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
continues. Compare that now to the situation a fortnight ago. Those | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
pictures are on the right of your screen, before the debris was | :02:35. | :02:35. | |
removed from the bridge. The Department Of Education has | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
confirmed it's investigating concerns about the way Park View | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Academy School in Birmingham is being run. A report in The Sunday | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Times says a former member of staff has claimed that non`Muslim staff | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
were being "sidelined", while female pupils are not allowed to be taught | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
PE by male teachers. The government says it will take action if the | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
school, which was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted in 2012, is | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
found to have broken equality rules. Crew members from HMS Ledbury were | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
in Herefordshire today, for special reception and parade. It's only the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
third time that the Navy has exercised its rights to march, since | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
it was granted the Freedom Of Ledbury in 2007. The mine`hunter, | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
which bears the town's name, is based in Portsmouth, and is the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
second ship to be linked to the area. | :03:19. | :03:31. | |
It is very important the town marks this day, this affiliation goes back | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
50 years, and two warships. It is to say thank you to all the hard work | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
that the Navy does. The chairman of Kidderminster | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Harriers Football Club has resigned, partly because of comments he's | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
received via email and social media. In a personal statement, Mark | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Serrell, seen here in January, said he was stepping down because of | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
"vile and abusive attacks", while his wife has also resigned as a club | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
director. Staying with football, Aston Villa's | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
relegation worries continue, after they were beaten 1`0 by Newcastle | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
United in the Premier League. Loic Remy got the winner for the home | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
side, 90 seconds into second`half injury time. Villa's best chances | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
fell to Gabby Agbonlahor in the first half, but he failed to convert | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
any of them. The result leaves Villa in 13th, just four points clear of | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
the bottom three. The family of Joel Fearon from | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
Coventry say they're extremely proud of him, and the rest of his four`man | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
bobsleigh team, for finishing fifth at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Despite a very fast fourth heat, the team were pushed out of the medal | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
places in the last few runs of the competition. But his family say Joel | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
has come a long way through hard work and training to even be able to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
compete at the Games. Shropshire's Ben Simons in GB two finished in | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
19th place. We want to say thank you to everyone | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
who supported us, even before we believed in ourselves. Two years | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
ago, we didn't dream we would be here. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Good evening, a fairly gloomy day. We will see sunshine tomorrow but we | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
will have to wait before we see that. Not a lot of change tonight. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Dry but a lot of cloud and breezy. Not particularly close `` called | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
tonight, down to six Celsius. Tomorrow, we will soon see the rain | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
pushing its way in. Slowly moving east through the day. Eventually, it | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
will dry up, the skies will brighten. The winds will ease down | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
with temperatures around 10 Celsius. Staying quite breezy this | :05:41. | :05:41. | |
week. Before we go, you might like to know | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
that we'll be launching our World War One At Home series, from | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
tomorrow, on Midlands Today, and every morning on your BBC local | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
radio station, as part of the BBC's commemorations of the centenary of | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
the First World War. I'll be back with more news just | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
after a 10.15pm tonight. But, Hello. Still no sign of the weather | :06:00. | :06:11. | |
really settling down next week. There should be an improvement for | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
most of us tomorrow. It will not be as windy as it has been today, and | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the band of rain will slowly peter out. We still have some rain to come | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
through the night. This band of rain is quite slow moving, it will wander | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
northwards into Dumfries and Galloway. Close to Northern Ireland, | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
heavy rain in Cumbria and later in the night it will turn whether in | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Wales and the south-west. Southerly wind, quite strong at the moment, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
that will ease as the night goes on but it should be pretty mild, six or | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
seven degrees, typically. Tomorrow, we start with heavy rain, especially | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
over the hills, as it slips slowly eastwards so the rain tends to | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
become light and patchy. Buying it, we get some sunshine and maybe a few | :06:51. | :06:51. |