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From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Home Correspondent 22/10/17

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mishal Husain presents more reflections on life in Britain today, including diesel car dilemmas, a mother remembers her army son and picking up the pieces after devastating floods

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. I'm Michelle Hussein.

0:04.8

In this edition, what do you do if you own one of those increasingly friendless diesel cars?

0:11.1

One motorist ponders her options. How things have changed for universal credit. The welfare

0:17.2

reform once widely welcomed and now much questioned. The children who can laugh and live normally in a refuge in a way

0:25.6

they never could in their own home. And as we enter the annual period of

0:30.6

national remembrance, the bereaved families fighting for care and

0:34.4

sensitivity from the military. We begin with a flood, just as the school summer

0:40.8

holidays began three months ago and seaside towns and villages prepared

0:45.4

for their most economically important time of year, one community was hit by a thunderstorm. This was no passing shower but a wall of water and

0:55.9

hailstones and the Cornish village of Kovarach was flooded. Petrop Trelawney

1:01.0

has been to the Lizard Peninsula to see how those affected have been coping.

1:06.0

There's an enormous picture window in the general store in Kovarach.

1:11.0

Through it you get a perfect view of the crescent-shaped village. Houses stretch down the

1:16.2

hillside, old workers' cottages, Edwardian villas and modern bungalows, some of them perched

1:22.2

on the very edge where the land falls into the sea.

1:26.3

A road winds along the front, the beach is largely sandy, pockmarked with patches of barnacle

1:32.4

encrusted rocks.

1:34.0

On this autumn Saturday, a dog runs in the surf.

1:37.0

A man in a wetsuit launches a kayak.

1:39.0

Geology pupils from a school in Nuki take rock samples. The shop well reflects the

1:45.7

makeup of this community, a fishing village where tourism has become the principal

1:50.4

trade, organic vegetables, craft cheeses and cornish-distilled gin sit alongside frozen peas, dried

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