Join local botanist Juliet Bailey for an amble around this interesting wetland.

Excellent montage video, to Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars.

When I saw this back in August, I cried. It was the first time that I had actually reacted emotionally to the flooding - apart from that it was knuckle down and get on with it.

Military personnel from the Army and Royal Navy have played a vital role in preventing an electricity switching station in Gloucestershire from flooding.

BY NEIL ROBINSON, 19

We are be recruiting a number of local people to work for the NHS in the community
as Community Health Trainers.

The Fire Service was called to the incident just after 10am this morning, Wednesday, July 7, at Highfield Business Park on Tewkesbury Road, Deerhurst, Gloucester, in which a blue BMW is believed to have been set alight.

Tewkesbury: “…there was a remarkable high flood in consequence of the waters overflowing the banks of the Severn.”

5th March: “Great flood in Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth, Tewkesbury & Bewdley…"

“…as a result of wind & rain some time before, the waters of the R. Severn rose suddenly during the night."

“…as a result of wind & rain some time before, the waters of the R. Severn rose suddenly during the night."

4th – 12th January: “Due to great tempests & rain the Severn rose.

December: "At Gloucester the express was retarded by ten hours by the floods,

February: "…the river Severn has overflowed its banks and covered an extent of country for a great number of miles with water…

28th January: Flood at Gloucester ranked 3rd in annual flood peak level list 1770 – 1970.

November, Worcester: "The incessant rains of Wednesday and Thursday tended to augment the swollen waters to an extent truly alarming.

7th January: "Very heavy floods were reported from all parts of the country; in some cases, it was said they even exceeded those of November, 1852. The Severn is said to have been more flooded than since that year."

10th August, Gloucester: "Constant rain. The country near here is dreadfully flooded and accounts are bad from all parts of the country."

July, Worcester: “The river rose very rapidly, the meadows on each side of it from hence to Gloucester were under water;

11th November: "The floods are out again as far as the eye can reach west of Gloucester".

“The low-lying districts of the Severn were much flooded in November..."

16th August, Cheltenham: "... The Severn of course is flooded, and all the low-lying ground adjacent thereto”.