:00:00. > :00:09.Construction is about to begin on a ?4 million flood scheme
:00:10. > :00:11.in Worcestershire, ten years after 300 homes
:00:12. > :00:14.The money has been provided by the Government,
:00:15. > :00:17.Environment Agency and local councils and will create
:00:18. > :00:24.July 2007, and heavy rains caused chaos in the normally
:00:25. > :00:31.More than 300 homes and businesses suffered severe damage,
:00:32. > :00:33.but it was homes near the Badsey Brook that found
:00:34. > :00:39.It almost looked like a little tidal wave coming across the field
:00:40. > :00:46.It just came down the garden in straight in the house.
:00:47. > :00:48.For ten years, residents in the area have been campaigning
:00:49. > :00:50.to find a solution that would protect their homes
:00:51. > :00:55.All these residents who flooded, and those near the ones who flooded,
:00:56. > :01:02.They go away and they hear it's raining and they ring
:01:03. > :01:08.A multi-million-pound flood scheme is now underway that stores water
:01:09. > :01:13.We are going to construct a three-to-four-metre-high earth
:01:14. > :01:17.There is going to be a control structure which is going to limit
:01:18. > :01:20.the amount of water that flows down into the water course,
:01:21. > :01:25.and at times of high, intense rainfall, water will store
:01:26. > :01:29.in the storage area, rather than going down into peoples homes.
:01:30. > :01:31.Archaeological digs on this area have proven that people lived
:01:32. > :01:40.With a ?4 million investment in this flood defence scheme,
:01:41. > :01:44.the Environment Agency are hoping that future generations
:01:45. > :01:48.will continue to live here without flooding.
:01:49. > :01:52.Joan Cummins, BBC Midlands Today, Broadway.
:01:53. > :01:55.The body of a woman has been found after a fire in an alleyway
:01:56. > :01:57.in Cradley Heath in the Black Country.
:01:58. > :02:00.The police say the death is not being treated as suspicious
:02:01. > :02:07.Coventry City football club have sacked their manager Russell Slade
:02:08. > :02:09.after less than three months into the job.
:02:10. > :02:12.In a brief statement, the club said that they would like to wish Russell
:02:13. > :02:17.Slade was appointed manager in December and although under his
:02:18. > :02:19.management the team qualified for the EFL trophy,
:02:20. > :02:23.the club are anchored at the bottom of League One,
:02:24. > :02:28.An investigation has begun into crowd trouble which forced
:02:29. > :02:32.the game between Hereford FC and Didcot Town to be abandoned.
:02:33. > :02:35.The referee abandoned the game at Didcot after Hereford supporters
:02:36. > :02:38.became involved in scuffles with home-team players.
:02:39. > :02:43.Two 19-year-old men from Hereford have been arrested.
:02:44. > :02:47.After a long campaign by relatives, countless names which were left
:02:48. > :02:50.fading from Quedgeley's War Memorial in Gloucestershire,
:02:51. > :02:54.The century-old monument honours local men killed in the first
:02:55. > :02:58.and second world wars, but it was showing signs of old age,
:02:59. > :03:01.and families decided something had to be done.
:03:02. > :03:15.A corner of Quedgely that certainly does still remember -
:03:16. > :03:18.nearly a century after it was first built,
:03:19. > :03:22.a ceremony's been held this weekend to rededicate the old memorial.
:03:23. > :03:26.After years exposed to the elements, many of the names were becoming
:03:27. > :03:31.illegible, something relatives felt shouldn't be allowed to happen.
:03:32. > :03:36.My uncle David Morgan was a member of the 5th Battalion
:03:37. > :03:39.of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and he died during the
:03:40. > :03:45.He has no known grave, and, actually, his family didn't
:03:46. > :03:49.receive confirmation of his death until five years later.
:03:50. > :03:53.Concerned his name could disappear, Rachel wrote to the parish council,
:03:54. > :03:57.which led to this new section of the memorial being added.
:03:58. > :04:00.I thought, eventually these won't be legible,
:04:01. > :04:04.and they will be...these people will be forgotten,
:04:05. > :04:06.and I feel very strongly that they shouldn't be forgotten.
:04:07. > :04:11.They sacrificed a lot for us and future generations.
:04:12. > :04:13.The new plinth replicates all of the names on the original,
:04:14. > :04:23.A busy route into Birmingham reopened today, more than three
:04:24. > :04:25.months after a water main burst, creating a sinkhole.
:04:26. > :04:28.Thousands of gallons of water flooded Harborne Lane,
:04:29. > :04:31.close to the Queen Elizabeth hospital, after the main
:04:32. > :04:38.Laurie Fisher's future as head coach at Gloucester Rugby is in doubt,
:04:39. > :04:42.after he tweeted that it was time to "make room for someone else"
:04:43. > :04:46.The club says it's aware of the tweet but can't comment further.
:04:47. > :04:51.Rugby, and in the Premiership, Worcester boosted their survival
:04:52. > :04:58.The Birmingham high-jumper Robbie Grabarz has won
:04:59. > :05:00.a silver medal at the European indoor championships.
:05:01. > :05:07.Grabarz cleared a season's best of 2.30m in Belgrade.
:05:08. > :05:09.The Environment Agency still has flood alerts
:05:10. > :05:18.We've still got a few showers in the forecast as we go
:05:19. > :05:19.through the rest of this evening and overnight.
:05:20. > :05:22.They will tend to peter out through the night.
:05:23. > :05:24.There will be a few clear spells to be had as well,
:05:25. > :05:27.and temperatures overnight will drop down to around two or three Celsius
:05:28. > :05:31.A chilly start, then, to Monday morning, but it's actually
:05:32. > :05:35.Yes, there will still be a few scattered showers in the forecast,
:05:36. > :05:38.but we should see some good spells of sunshine coming through as well,
:05:39. > :05:41.and where you get the sunshine, temperatures of around ten or 11
:05:42. > :05:45.Through the rest of the week, there is quite a lot
:05:46. > :05:49.Temperatures by the middle part of the week up to a high
:05:50. > :06:15.Hello, as was the case on Saturday there was a lot of whether around
:06:16. > :06:19.today. Showers for some, some saw the staff of postcard material, for
:06:20. > :06:26.others it was more Christmas card material. We had pictures like that
:06:27. > :06:30.quite widely across the Midlands and Wales as well. This weather system
:06:31. > :06:37.has been here for a good part of the day in Wales and the North Midlands
:06:38. > :06:41.and southern England. It is not that warm underneath that particular
:06:42. > :06:46.front. Some winter arenas about some of the rain as it clears away to the
:06:47. > :06:51.near continent. In the south-west we have already seen gusts of 60 miles
:06:52. > :06:56.an hour. That could be a feature of the first part of the night and then
:06:57. > :07:04.it gets a bit quieter. If the skies are clear, there could be a touch of
:07:05. > :07:10.frost. On Monday across the South West watch out for a lot of surface
:07:11. > :07:14.water and spray, perhaps 20 millimetres. It fades away with time
:07:15. > :07:21.through the morning. Elsewhere a lot of bright weather in Scotland, but
:07:22. > :07:28.once we get into the afternoon it is not a bad day for March. The
:07:29. > :07:29.temperatures are pretty much where we were today between 7-11.