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first British champion. That is it for now. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Good evening. A leading flood campaigner's called on the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Government to apply for European funding to help victims in | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Worcestershire. Ministers h`ve already promised support for homes | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
and businesses affected by last month's floods, but extra c`sh is | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
still available from the EU. Matthew Bone reports. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
It was some of the worst flooding that Worcestershire had seen for | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
years and the village of Seven Stoke was one of the worst hit. One month | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
on, the water may have gone but the damage remains. The village Church | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
is still recovering. The water came up to this first step here. Just, | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
just about there. The local pub s makeshift flood barriers weren't | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
enough. There's still holid`y money and bits of wages we have bden | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
paying out. To be honest, it is a struggle... Businesses can `pply for | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
up to ?3,000 to the cost of the cleanup but could more help be on | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
the way from the continent? The European Union set aside hundreds of | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
millions of pounds in what's called a solidarity fund to help countries | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
out with things like flooding. To qualify, the Government needs to | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
show there's been around ?3 billion of damage. That's where the problem | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
is. Ministers say as bad as it's been there hasn't been enough damage | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
across the UK to make it worth applying. Speaking on the Stnday | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Politics in the MP Midlands a leading flood campaigner sahd the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Government should at least try for some of the help. It's remisnot to | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
apply for the funding, if wd stop and think about the ` a lot of the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
money is for infrastructure. So we think about the railway linds, the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
bridges, electricity, the g`s and everything and the roads right | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
across the board, I think wd need that money to help us recovdr. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
People in Seven Stoke are now campaigning for better flood | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
defences, they want to make sure this kind of damage doesn't happen | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
again. In the meantime, households and businesses are trying to recover | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
and they say they'll take all the help they can get. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
The Ministry of Defence is coming under pressure to provide ftnding | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
for the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The arboretum, near Alrewas, attracts almost quarter of ` million | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
visitors every year but has had its grant withdrawn. At the samd time, | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
the National Army Museum receives over ?6.5 million a year. Along | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
visitors today views were mhxed over how the memorial should be funded. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
The MoD should be making its contribution just as visitors here | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
do. Something like this shotldn t be totally dependent on Governlent | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
handouts, nevertheless, bec`use it is what it is, I think therd should | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
be some Government contribution There was a hell of a lot of people | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
gave up their lives for us, so why don't the Government keep ftnding | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
it? Demolition work on part of | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Coventry's infamous ring ro`d got under way today. The aim is to make | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
the city centre more accesshble Kevin Reide reports. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
With traffic diverted and dhversions in place, the long`awaited | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
demolition of junction six was almost here. They're just moving in | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
the final demolition machindry and once in place it will take `bout two | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
hours to remove the bridge section and the rest of the day to clean up. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
It's carried traffic for more than 40 years but in the any mord. The | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
bridge was first to go. Work has also started taking out this longer | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
section, including two unpopular underpasses. The development in the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
post`war years isolated the city centre from the rest of the city as | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
it's grown. The council has a real can`do attitude and is readx to try | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
and regenerate much of the city The aim is to create a new business | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
district and better link thd railway station to the city centre. I think | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
it's for the best. Very upsdt to see it, more so than I thought H was | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
going to. I knew it before ht was the ring road in the first place. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
All of a sudden it's come down so quickly. The main ring road will | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
reopen tomorrow morning but drivers are advised to avoid junction six. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
The Coventry City chief executive Tim Fisher was attacked by fans in a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
pub following the team's defeat by Brentford in League One yesterday. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Chairs and glasses were thrown when Mr Fisher went into the London pub | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
where Sky Blues fans were drinking. He's not believed to have bden | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
injured. A club spokesman s`id they would prefer not to comment on the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
incident. Football now Stoke City camd out on | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
top in today's Midlands derby with Aston Villa in the Premier League. . | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Villa started well with Chrhstian Benteke opening the scoring after | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
just four minutes. But Stokd hit back with three goals beford the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
interval including this effort from Charles N'Zonzi. Geoff Cameron | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
sealed a 4`1 victory for Stoke with a goal late in the second h`lf. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
Let's look at the weather now with Kay. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
We had some lively showers `gain today, some hail and thunder around | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
this afternoon. They're starting to fade away now so we are entdring | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
into a dry night. We will h`ve clear skies throughout the night `nd with | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
those winds fall falling th`t's a recipe for a cold one, a widespread | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
frost. Lows in some rural spots down to minus three. Gardeners t`ke note. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
It's a dry start tomorrow morning. Lots of lovely sunshine arotnd. We | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
will see the sunshine turning hazier into the afternoon with clotd | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
rolling in. But most of us staying dry until the evening. It whll feel | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
warmer, with temperatures up to around ten or 11. That rain is | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
around on Tuesday but some showers by Wednesday. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
That's all for now. I will be back with a late bulletin at 10. 20, join | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
me then if you can. From all of us, good bye. | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
Hello. Following today's showers, tonight is going to be much colder. | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
Clear skies, light winds, a recipe for a widespread frost. Sharp | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
showers for the next couple of hours. From East Yorkshire to the | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
south-east. Hail and thunder. Skies will clear across many areas. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Temperatures tumbling across rural parts it could be as low as minus | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
six. Not as cold across Northern Ireland and the far south-west. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Increasing cloud ahead of the weather front pushing rain very | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
slowly in from the Atlantic. Central and eastern areas staying dry and | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
bright all day. Good-looking day across Scotland. Sunshine turning | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
hazy later in the West. Thickening cloud. Rain in the afternoon. The | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
band of rain will work its way into Wales in the afternoon. Robbery | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
arriving a little bit sooner in the far south-west. -- probably | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
arriving. Further east, dry with plenty of sunshine after the | :07:10. | :07:10. |