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