:01:16. > :01:21.believe it. Unbelievable, isn't it in no so, a first medal for Britain,
:01:22. > :01:25.Jenny Jones, a happy and history making staff.
:01:26. > :01:42.Good evening I'm Roger Finn with the news in the south. Army Reservists
:01:43. > :01:45.and firefighters have been involved in a major operation to stop flood
:01:46. > :01:50.water engulfing an electricity sub`station in Berkshire. It's one
:01:51. > :01:55.of a series of emergencies across the region caused by high water
:01:56. > :01:57.levels. This evening 200 Royal Navy personnel from Gosport are helping
:01:58. > :03:35.to fill do something.
:03:36. > :03:39.The council is already looking at what improvements could be made.
:03:40. > :03:44.My feeling is that the weather events are so extreme it is most
:03:45. > :03:49.unlikely that the Environment Agency or the councils do will change the
:03:50. > :03:56.situation. We are on the edge of a flood plain, and those flood plains
:03:57. > :04:01.will, by definition, flood. High ground water levels are causing
:04:02. > :04:04.problems in many places. Local people have rallied together to try
:04:05. > :04:12.to limit the damage. People are rallying around trying to
:04:13. > :04:14.manage the traffic. There are warnings of some river
:04:15. > :05:53.levels are expected to continue through. That point was put to the
:05:54. > :06:02.former floods minister and Newbury MP Richard Benyon in today's Sunday
:06:03. > :06:05.Politics programme. The have been some pollen
:06:06. > :06:10.development in the past across all governments. I think it is 97
:06:11. > :06:15.present of the times when the Environment Agency says no to
:06:16. > :06:20.something, it does not go ahead. 4000 houses were built on flood
:06:21. > :06:24.plains against their advice. London is a flood plain, Newbury at
:06:25. > :06:33.a flood plain, York. We can say we would never build anywhere.
:06:34. > :06:34.Now the weather: we have