and the residents, the communities of herefordshire and worcestershire seem of herefordshire and worcestershireve, but even when we have serious flooding we do not seem to get the events we had in 2007. if 2007 happened again today, hopefully it won't, but if it happened again new emergency services are much better prepared to deal with it. we have learned some of the lessons, although we did perform very well in 2007. thanks remote, it is an amazing transformation stop the ground is rock hard, people are out on the river having fun. you would not believe what it was like ten years ago, it was horrific living through it, and i'm glad to say lessons have been learned and the situation is a lot better now than it was then. talking to the emergency services in hereford and worcester. a reminder of today's headlines column brexit secretary david davies and the eu's michel barnier have outlined what process has been made at the end of the latest round of talks. they say there are still fundamental disagreements about citizens‘ rights, and clarification is needed on britain‘s position on a number of

first part of the week on tuesday with temperatures reaching 25, 20 6 degrees in shropshire and herefordshirein will become more of a player. wet and windy weather because of this low— pressure and windy weather because of this low—pressure dominating the weather charts through the week. this weather front brings a wet start to the wednesday across ireland and western scotland and western england and wales. heavy rain in the northern parts. strong and gusty winds. bright start in eastern england, cloud and occasional lighter patchy rain in the afternoon. if you want to get something done on wednesday, in the west, hold fire, take a lazy brea kfast west, hold fire, take a lazy breakfast and enjoy it and get out in the afternoon. sunny spells for many, showers and western scotland and northern ireland, and the best temperatures, high teens and low 205. low—pressure into thursday. strong winds and western scotland and northern ireland, close to the low—pressure, shell is most frequent. northern ireland and scotla nd frequent. northern ireland and scotland could see thunder. the showers. the show

if you take herefordshire as a really good example, a big and growing county currently employing 3500he challenges we face. we really welcome the commitment for a transition, this interim period. how clear is the strategy and what do you make of the timescale, this report finding is going to be published in the autumn of next year? the timescale is incredibly tight. we desperately need certainty. people have been coming here from europe, encouraged by government policy for the last ten oi’ government policy for the last ten or 15 years. these same people coming backwards and forwards to do seasonal work. we really feel that we can have a visa restricted, a permit scheme, that allows them to continue to do that. also, the permanent sector, food and farming is the largest manufacturing sector in the country, worth £109 billion., and a significant employer. it will ta ke and a significant employer. it will take time to make changes and again, the number of people available to do those jobs, they are always advertised within the uk, and it is about achieving and not disadvantage in the br

we invest a huge amount of time and effort in gloucestershire and herefordshire, working with businessesed outstanding? what is it you do in manchester that has been rated outstanding7m particular, our services being responsive was outstanding rating because we have worked hard to integrate with children's services, reaching out to those vulnerable groups, and youth justice. reaching out to those vulnerable groups, and youthjustice. we know about mental illness and i cannot access traditional services. we are out there reaching in communities we know it is a challenge to access mental health for that population. what are they doing? how does that mean teenager will access mental health services? they will by a long side say the jus youth justice worker, so with their allocated worker, so with their allocated worker and the mac—17 nurse will be with them, outreaching, if the youth justice worker is worried about them they can headache sure they would get an assessment to access the specialist service previously they wouldn't want to have engaged with. it isa wouldn't want to have engaged