A PUBLIC meeting is due to be held tonight to discuss plans to protect Worcester from future floods.

The Environment Agency, Severn Trent and Worcester City Council will be among the speakers at the Guildhall.

They will be joined by Gill Holland, of the Bewdley Flood Committee, who will explain how the riverside town won its flood defences.

Victims in Worcester are calling for urgent action, but groundwork is not due to start until 2007 following a feasibility study.

Organiser Mary Dhonau is hoping everyone hit by flooding will voice their concerns at the meeting which is due to start at 7.30pm.

Mrs Dhonau, of Waverley Street, who has battled on behalf of her neighbours, says they cannot wait six years.

"We can't sit and wait for help to come to us, we have to make it happen," she said.

"I hope everyone who comes will be interested in joining the Worcester Residents Flood Committee, which will be set up formerly after the meeting."

The group is then aiming to lobby Parliament and other agencies to push for action.