It's now a year since the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal burst its banks at Gilwern, near Abergavenny. Eight people had to be rescued and water based businesses were left literally high and dry by the breach. But repairing the damage hasn't been cheap or easy and the waterway will not fully reopen before next season.

Country Focus - Sunday 5 October at 07.30am presented by Mel Doel

As the credit crunch eats away at people's finances, many families are finding it's nibbling away at their diets too. Cash strapped parents are being forced to look at cheaper cuts of meat and change the way they shop and cook. Hybu Cig Cymru-Meat Promotion Wales have a few suggested recipes.

Use it or lose it - we look at a campaign to support small businesses and local chapels and people are being asked to deliberately set out next weekend to support local services.
Sticking with community spirit.... how do you keep it alive in a village of just 30 residents? Roughly halfway between Beddgelert and Porthmadog is one of the smallest villages in Wales - Croesor. But despite it's size it has just about everything - a communal swimming pool, a small school - fighting for survival ; a communal café and now, through the latest in a long series of community projects, a communal bread oven.