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How Welsh homes are being overwhelmed by rain that local drains…
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Stories from Round Our Way collects and tells the stories of people being impacted by climate change across the UK
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- How Welsh homes are being overwhelmed by rain that local drains can’t handle · 14 min.NOTE: BCBC, which is mentioned several times throughout this story, stands for Bridgend County Borough Council, the local authority responsible for the Bridgend area in South…
- A South Wales community café is responding to a major coal tip landslide · 25 min.In this story we meet Ralph Connor and Tina Honeyfield, who live in Cwmtillery, a former coal-mining town in the South Wales valleys. They run Caffi Tyleri, a community café, and…
- A grassroots football coach on preparing for a hotter climate · 15 min.In this story we meet Oli Gibson, a volunteer coach at Ringmer Football Club near Brighton, where three generations of his family are involved in the club. We visited Ringmer’s…
- How a Lincolnshire builder is preparing for a warmer, wetter future · 22 min.In this story we meet Chris Carr, managing director of Carr & Carr Builders, a family-run housing company that has been building homes in Northern Lincolnshire for more than 110…
- The Stockport family learning to live with the rising risk of flooding · 23 min.In this story we hear from Abi and Steve Churchley, whose family home in Stockport, where they live with their two daughters, has been flooded twice in recent years, first in…
- How changing weather is putting pressure on Britain’s beekeepers · 10 min.In this story we speak with Ian Campbell, a beekeeper and spokesperson for the British Beekeepers Association, at his apiary near Newcastle. Ian has been keeping bees for…
- How a village pub is feeling the pressure of floods, rising bills, and climate change · 13 min.In this story we visit The Royal Oak in Brandon, just outside Coventry, a pub that flooded 12 times during the winter of 2023/24. Owner Khara Schrijvers describes the devastation…
- How a Cornish harbour is using clean engine tech to future proof fishing · 24 min.In this story we speak with Adrian Bartlett and Dave Stevens at Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, home to the trawler the Crystal Sea for the past 47 years. Adrian began his fishing…
- How a Devon farm uses silvopasture and wetland creation to help weather climate extremes · 18 min.In this story we speak with David Thomas and Jason Greenway at Springwater Farm, on the Killerton Estate in Devon. David is a senior land advisor who works on natural flood…
- How a village’s first flood changed one man’s view on climate change · 11 min.In this story we hear from Pete Paragreen, a retired electrician and long-time resident of Burstwick, a small village just outside Hull that was hit hard during the devastating…
- How a Kilnsea farmer came to terms with the sea taking his land · 13 min.In this story we speak with Andrew Wells, a retired dairy farmer who now runs a B&B in Kilnsea, a small village teetering on the edge of the Holderness coast. Kilnsea is about 20…
- How improving public health and combating climate change are the same issue · 22 min.In this story we hear from Dr Munro Stewart, a GP in Dundee. He works in a busy medical practice which covers a mixture of areas, some with serious deprivation and some more…
- How repeated flooding has shaped one family across generations · 17 min.In this story we hear from Alister Haywood, who shares her harrowing experience of living through three devastating floods - twice as a child, and again as a mother during the…
- How introducing beavers and slowing the flow of rivers reduces flood risk · 23 min.In this story we speak with Mike Potter in Pickering, a market town in North Yorkshire which was flooded four times in eight years between 1999 and 2007. The final flood caused…
- The school students losing land to rapid coastal erosion · 20 min.Sarah Harris-Smith and three of her students at Withernsea High School describe the impacts of the rapidly changing coastline on their future. In this story we speak with Sarah…
- The grassroots football club in North Yorkshire dealing with the impacts of flooding · 11 min.In this story we speak with Andy Charlesworth, the chairman of Tadcaster Albion FC, a team based in North Yorkshire that competes in the Northern Counties Eastern League. Andy…
- How floods are making it harder for small businesses in Pontypridd · 14 min.We went to the South Wales valleys at the end of last year to speak to some people about the impact of the flooding caused by Storm Bert in late 2024. Mill Street in Pontypridd…
- A Wiltshire midwife discusses the impact of flooding and air pollution on childbirth · 12 min.Angie’s been a midwife in Heddington, Wiltshire for the last twelve years. In this episode, she discusses the complications that climate change can have for pregnant women. Air…
- How a Gloucestershire paramedic is coping with hotter summers and the challenges of overheating · 17 min.We went for a walk in Stroud with Andy West. He’s been a paramedic for the South Western Ambulance Service in Gloucestershire for 21 years, and he’s currently a clinical trainer…
- The CEO of Mountain Rescue England and Wales talks the changes in weather and urban flood rescue · 24 min.We took a walk with Mike Park through the Buttermere valley, up the Gasgale Gill trail, a path known for hiking and running which frequently sees accidents. He’s been a Mountain…
