:00:00. > :00:07.Construction is about to begin on a ?4 million flood scheme
:00:08. > :00:09.in Worcestershire, ten years after 300 homes
:00:10. > :00:13.The money has been provided by the Government,
:00:14. > :00:16.Environment Agency and local councils.
:00:17. > :00:22.July 2007, and heavy rains caused chaos in the normally
:00:23. > :00:28.More than 300 homes and businesses suffered severe damage,
:00:29. > :00:31.but it was homes near the Badsey Brook that found
:00:32. > :00:36.It almost looked like a little tidal wave coming across the field
:00:37. > :00:43.It just came down the garden and straight in the house.
:00:44. > :00:46.For ten years, residents in the area have been campaigning
:00:47. > :00:48.to find a solution that would protect their homes
:00:49. > :00:53.All these residents who flooded, and those near the ones who flooded,
:00:54. > :00:57.They go away, and they hear it's raining, and they ring
:00:58. > :01:04.A multi-million-pound flood scheme is now underway that stores water
:01:05. > :01:10.We are going to construct a three-to-four-metre-high earth
:01:11. > :01:16.There is going to be a control structure which is going to limit
:01:17. > :01:19.the amount of water that flows down into the water course,
:01:20. > :01:21.and at times of high, intense rainfall, water will store
:01:22. > :01:23.in the storage area, rather than going down
:01:24. > :01:29.Archaeological digs on this area have proven that people lived
:01:30. > :01:36.With a ?4 million investment in this flood defence scheme,
:01:37. > :01:38.the Environment Agency are hoping that future generations
:01:39. > :01:40.will continue to live here without flooding.
:01:41. > :01:49.Joan Cummins, BBC Midlands Today, Broadway.
:01:50. > :01:51.Coventry City football club have sacked their manager Russell Slade
:01:52. > :01:53.after less than three months into the job.
:01:54. > :01:57.In a brief statement, the club said that they would like to wish Russell
:01:58. > :02:02.Slade was appointed manager in December,
:02:03. > :02:04.and, although under his management the team qualified
:02:05. > :02:08.the club are anchored at the bottom of League One,
:02:09. > :02:14.An investigation has begun into crowd trouble which forced
:02:15. > :02:17.the game between Hereford FC and Didcot Town to be abandoned.
:02:18. > :02:20.The referee abandoned the game at Didcot after Hereford supporters
:02:21. > :02:24.became involved in scuffles with home-team players.
:02:25. > :02:29.Two 19-year-old men from Hereford have been arrested.
:02:30. > :02:33.After a long campaign by relatives, countless names which were left
:02:34. > :02:36.fading from Quedgeley's War Memorial in Gloucestershire,
:02:37. > :02:40.The century-old monument honours local men killed in
:02:41. > :02:43.the First and Second World Wars, but it was showing signs of old age,
:02:44. > :02:45.and families decided something had to be done.
:02:46. > :02:56.A corner of Quedgely that certainly does still remember -
:02:57. > :03:00.nearly a century after it was first built,
:03:01. > :03:06.a ceremony's been held this weekend to rededicate the old memorial.
:03:07. > :03:09.After years exposed to the elements, many of the names were becoming
:03:10. > :03:14.illegible, something relatives felt shouldn't be allowed to happen.
:03:15. > :03:18.My uncle David Morgan was a member of the 5th Battalion
:03:19. > :03:22.of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and he died during the
:03:23. > :03:28.He has no known grave, and, actually, his family didn't
:03:29. > :03:31.receive confirmation of his death until five years later.
:03:32. > :03:36.Concerned his name could disappear, Rachel wrote to the parish council,
:03:37. > :03:40.which led to this new section of the memorial being added.
:03:41. > :03:43.I thought, eventually these won't be legible,
:03:44. > :03:46.and they will be...these people will be forgotten,
:03:47. > :03:49.and I feel very strongly that they shouldn't be forgotten.
:03:50. > :03:53.They sacrificed a lot for us and future generations.
:03:54. > :03:56.The new plinth replicates all of the names on the original,
:03:57. > :04:04.The Environment Agency still has flood alerts
:04:05. > :04:14.We still have some showers through this evening and overnight.
:04:15. > :04:17.Some of those could be a touch wintry over higher ground
:04:18. > :04:19.for a time, but gradually they will tend to fade away
:04:20. > :04:22.and we will have some clear spells as well.
:04:23. > :04:24.Under the clear skies, temperatures could fall to around
:04:25. > :04:29.and under the cloud more like four or five Celsius.
:04:30. > :04:33.We will have a few showers around here and there,
:04:34. > :04:37.It should be a better-feeling day if you can manage
:04:38. > :04:39.to dodge those showers, and temperatures in the sunshine
:04:40. > :04:42.could get up to a high of around 10 Celsius,
:04:43. > :04:47.It should be dry as we go through the day on Tuesday,
:04:48. > :04:49.some wet weather to come overnight to take us into Wednesday,
:04:50. > :04:56.Midlands Today will be back tomorrow just after 6am.
:04:57. > :05:10.Good evening. We have seen all sorts today. Some rain, some hail, some
:05:11. > :05:16.snow and even a bit of sunshine. Things are calming down for the most
:05:17. > :05:18.part but still a bit damp in some eastern counties overnight and some
:05:19. > :05:22.showers in the western side of Scotland with a touch of frost
:05:23. > :05:27.already here. And another weather system bring rain and snow towards
:05:28. > :05:31.the south-west by dawn, it's quite chilly 3-5 will be fairly typical. A
:05:32. > :05:35.little snow to be had over the tops of the moors in the south-west of
:05:36. > :05:39.England but generally a lot of rain. Not a great commute. Some might
:05:40. > :05:41.fringe nooted south of Wales. But generally speaking through Wales,
:05:42. > :05:45.Midlands, and south-east a reasonable start. Although for many
:05:46. > :05:48.eastern counties a fair bit of cloud and pockets of light rain and
:05:49. > :05:50.drizzle. Further west that bit brighter. A decent start