05/03/2017 Midlands Today

Construction is about to begin on a ?4 million flood scheme

in Worcestershire, ten years after 300 homes

The money has been provided by the Government,

Environment Agency and local councils and will create

July 2007, and heavy rains caused chaos in the normally

More than 300 homes and businesses suffered severe damage,

but it was homes near the Badsey Brook that found

It almost looked like a little tidal wave coming across the field

It just came down the garden in straight in the house.

For ten years, residents in the area have been campaigning

to find a solution that would protect their homes

All these residents who flooded, and those near the ones who flooded,

They go away and they hear it's raining and they ring

A multi-million-pound flood scheme is now underway that stores water

We are going to construct a three-to-four-metre-high earth

There is going to be a control structure which is going to limit

the amount of water that flows down into the water course,

and at times of high, intense rainfall, water will store

in the storage area, rather than going down into peoples homes.

Archaeological digs on this area have proven that people lived

With a ?4 million investment in this flood defence scheme,

the Environment Agency are hoping that future generations

will continue to live here without flooding.

Joan Cummins, BBC Midlands Today, Broadway.

The body of a woman has been found after a fire in an alleyway

in Cradley Heath in the Black Country.

The police say the death is not being treated as suspicious

Coventry City football club have sacked their manager Russell Slade

after less than three months into the job.

In a brief statement, the club said that they would like to wish Russell

Slade was appointed manager in December and although under his

management the team qualified for the EFL trophy,

the club are anchored at the bottom of League One,

An investigation has begun into crowd trouble which forced

the game between Hereford FC and Didcot Town to be abandoned.

The referee abandoned the game at Didcot after Hereford supporters

became involved in scuffles with home-team players.

Two 19-year-old men from Hereford have been arrested.

After a long campaign by relatives, countless names which were left

fading from Quedgeley's War Memorial in Gloucestershire,

The century-old monument honours local men killed in the first

and second world wars, but it was showing signs of old age,

and families decided something had to be done.

A corner of Quedgely that certainly does still remember -

nearly a century after it was first built,

a ceremony's been held this weekend to rededicate the old memorial.

After years exposed to the elements, many of the names were becoming

illegible, something relatives felt shouldn't be allowed to happen.

My uncle David Morgan was a member of the 5th Battalion

of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and he died during the

He has no known grave, and, actually, his family didn't

receive confirmation of his death until five years later.

Concerned his name could disappear, Rachel wrote to the parish council,

which led to this new section of the memorial being added.

I thought, eventually these won't be legible,

and they will be...these people will be forgotten,

and I feel very strongly that they shouldn't be forgotten.

They sacrificed a lot for us and future generations.

The new plinth replicates all of the names on the original,

A busy route into Birmingham reopened today, more than three

months after a water main burst, creating a sinkhole.

Thousands of gallons of water flooded Harborne Lane,

close to the Queen Elizabeth hospital, after the main

Laurie Fisher's future as head coach at Gloucester Rugby is in doubt,

after he tweeted that it was time to "make room for someone else"

The club says it's aware of the tweet but can't comment further.

Rugby, and in the Premiership, Worcester boosted their survival

The Birmingham high-jumper Robbie Grabarz has won

a silver medal at the European indoor championships.

Grabarz cleared a season's best of 2.30m in Belgrade.

The Environment Agency still has flood alerts

We've still got a few showers in the forecast as we go

through the rest of this evening and overnight.

They will tend to peter out through the night.

There will be a few clear spells to be had as well,

and temperatures overnight will drop down to around two or three Celsius

A chilly start, then, to Monday morning, but it's actually

Yes, there will still be a few scattered showers in the forecast,

but we should see some good spells of sunshine coming through as well,

and where you get the sunshine, temperatures of around ten or 11

Through the rest of the week, there is quite a lot

Temperatures by the middle part of the week up to a high

Hello, as was the case on Saturday there was a lot of whether around

today. Showers for some, some saw the staff of postcard material, for

others it was more Christmas card material. We had pictures like that

quite widely across the Midlands and Wales as well. This weather system

has been here for a good part of the day in Wales and the North Midlands

and southern England. It is not that warm underneath that particular

front. Some winter arenas about some of the rain as it clears away to the

near continent. In the south-west we have already seen gusts of 60 miles

an hour. That could be a feature of the first part of the night and then

it gets a bit quieter. If the skies are clear, there could be a touch of

frost. On Monday across the South West watch out for a lot of surface

water and spray, perhaps 20 millimetres. It fades away with time

through the morning. Elsewhere a lot of bright weather in Scotland, but

once we get into the afternoon it is not a bad day for March. The

temperatures are pretty much where we were today between 7-11.