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91福利社 Radio Berkshire's Andrew Peach spoke to Nikki Maskell from the Environment Agency at 7:15am on Thursday 26 July 2007.

Nikki told Andrew the agency is hopeful that no further flooding will take place in Berkshire.

"The good news is we're now not predicting any flooding of properties in Reading," she said.

"We did see higher levels go through Purley and Caversham last night but that seems to have stabilised and we've had consistent readings for the last few hours.

"And because of what's happened in Reading we're optimistic for people further downstream."

Leave sandbags

The Environment Agency also say they're not expecting a secondary surge to affect the county, after the Thames failed to achieve its predicted peak in Caversham overnight.

"We don't expect another surge at this stage," Nikki added, but she also cautioned that home-owners near the river should remain alert.

"We're leaving the flood warnings in place for the time being and we'll review them across the day."

The agency's advice is not to take sandbags down yet - leave them in place for now.