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Prince William visits Skenfrith in Monmouthshire, a village in south-east Wales which was affected by flooding from the River Monnow last winter. The Prince of Wales is also gifted a handmade Welsh love spoon from one of the residents. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:06This is your patch here? Yes. Excellent. And were you flighted quite a civilian last year?
00:12Just under a metre. Under a metre? Wow. And where's the river from here?
00:17Just where the trees are. Over there is there? Yes.
00:22We see on BBC weather, the forecast, we see double rain.
00:25You do start thinking, how's the river looking? And then you go and have a look at the river levels
00:29and you think, actually this doesn't look good.
00:31Have you lived here a while? Sixty years. Sixty years? Yes.
00:35Have you ever seen anything like the last five seasons?
00:39No, the last one was the worst one because it came over the floodgates. So we're hiring the floodgates now.
00:47We can't have the Prince of Wales coming to Wales without having a little Welsh love spoon.
00:52Oh, that's very good. Did you make it? Yeah.
00:55Can you tell? It's not perfect.
00:57It looks like it's sort of in the process of being made.
00:59It is. It's definitely not. You can finish it.
01:00It's a work in progress. Yeah, but it's not perfect, but like...
01:04I appreciate that. No, thank you very much. That's very kind.
01:06Are you going to put it on your fridge? I will find, I'll find some appropriate for it, definitely.
01:09Please do. Thanks for coming. Not at all. I appreciate it.
01:13Really nice to meet you. And I hope this winter is not too bad. We need a bit of rain,
01:18but not that much rain.
01:18Yes, exactly.
01:19Yes, exactly.
01:20Bye-bye.
01:20Bye-bye.
01:20Bye-bye.
01:20Bye-bye.
01:20Bye-bye.

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