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12/12/22 - Natural flood management, mounted police volunteers and cheese trading - Publication Date |
- Dec 12, 2022
- Episode Duration |
- 00:11:25
More of the government’s £5.2 billion flood management budget is to be spent on nature-based methods of flood prevention. The Environment Agency has been trialing 60 Natural Flood Management projects over the last five years, they use techniques like targeted tree-planting and restoring wetlands to prevent flooding further downstream, and on the back of those pilot schemes Natural Flood Management is now to be more widely incorporated into flood defence strategy in years to come.
A mounted police ‘volunteer scheme’ is being trialed in Cumbria - with members of the public on horseback supporting the work of the county’s police officers. Cumbria Constabulary’s 'citizens in policing team' is working with riders in some rural parts of the county to help with crime prevention and building relationships within their communities.
And nearly a third of all the milk produced in the UK goes in to making cheese, 70 per cent cheddar. 130,000 tonnes of it is exported, worth more than half a billion pounds. But since Brexit, trade has been more complicated.
Presented by Caz Graham
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons
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