And the soil is waterlogged. One farmer in wiltshire says the losses are heart breaking. Our reporter liz beacon has the story. So this is our wheat thats been damaged by the wind and the rain, as you can see. For a farmer, august should be one of the busiest times of year, harvesting crops. This year, the Unrelenting Rain has put paid to that and everythings ground to a halt. Its pretty depressing and its pretty heartbreaking because weve gone to lot of effort to grow this wheat and, of course, weve spent all the costs on it, so were completely cost stacked now, and without selling it, we cant, you know, we cant reclaim those costs. So we are. Yeah, its actually a lot worse than i thought. Tom collins is a fourth generation farmer here on his family farm. He knows it can rain in august but, after one of the wettestjulys on record, he believes Climate Change is having huge consequences for his business. What we really want is a level price at a time like this. If you worked in a shop a
days to repair it according to the highways act. mike is not alone in failing to get compensation from the council for pothole damage. out of 548 claims since january, only 25 have received compensation. potholes can be dangerous and are very much a source of concern to motorists. nottinghamshire county council says it is doing what it can with its programme of inspections and repairs but for motorists like mike, it s not enough. rachael royce, bbc east midlands today, nottinghamshire. taylor swift is edging closer to becoming a billionaire thanks to her hugely successful sold out the eras tour. the show is set to last another year. the grammy winning singer has increased her personal fortune to $740 million up from 570 million in april. robbie robertson the lead guitarist for the rock group the band has died at the age of 80. the canadian american group spent years as backing musicians for bob dylan.
this is where mike utton nearly came a cropper driving his car home from work on the busy west leake road on a gloomy dark winters night. so this is where you were, what happened? how dangerous did it feel? extremely dangerous and, as you will see when you have a look at the road and vehicle that is about to go past us, the speed that vehicles do go along this road is phenomenal. and it was pitch black. there s no lights on the road and extremely dangerous and there is a very sharp blind bend just past where i got. hit the pothole. the urgency with which potholes are fixed depends on their condition at inspection. those deemed a real emergency should be repaired within two hours. other categories take either 28 days or 90 days. workers for nottinghamshire county council are today mending potholes which appeared in east leake after the winter. we have a team of inspectors out every day monday to friday looking
at the roads picking up on any actionable defects, actionable potholes that make cause harm, injury or damage to highway users. and that gets programmed into the works for us. the public are encouraged to contact the council to report potholes. additionally, a new website gives information about when they ve been mended. the highways agency which is responsible for major roads says weather can affect how quickly potholes can be repaired. we try and fit in repairs as much as we can during the warm, dry weather. rain obviously can be a slight challenge for us. mike spent £180 getting the two wheels on his car fixed. he applied for compensation from the council but has been told he is not eligible. basically saying that they d inspected the road to make weeks inspected the road two weeks before the incident and that they d got 28