SEEING major flooding return to Worcester this weekend, a year after 2020's damaging floods, is heartbreaking.

With it happening during lockdown it feels like there has been no time to escape bad news, no space to breathe.

The city is now dealing with two crisis, but will come through and bounce back.

But I'm one of those people that sees a crisis and thinks not only how we get through it but asks the key question how we learn from it, and stop it happening again.

It is why I have been critical over the government's handling of coronavirus - none of what we are seeing now, the thousands of deaths announced a week, was inevitable.

Just look at other countries around the world. Japan for example has just reached its 5,000th death for the entire pandemic, and called an emergency declaration, such is the concern there.

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To prevent flooding becoming an even more frequent event we desperately need real action on climate change.

It is still too much of a minor issue, not enough of a priority, and easily forgotten by many.

Don't get me wrong, climate change has become more of an issue and efforts have been made in recent years - but it has been nowhere near enough.

Similar to dealing with Covid, we need our leaders to lead, while we all play our part.

If we don't act now we are forcing ourselves to just accept events like flooding - and all the devastating consequences it brings with it - are inevitable.