A man dubbed ‘Worcester's King Canute’ after building his own flood defences to protect his £600,000 home has shared his tips on how to "stop the tide".<br /><br />Nick Upton, 60, won the admiration of his neighbours when he kept his 17th century property safe by surrounding it with a wall and pumps last winter.<br /><br />Dramatic aerial pictures showed the four-bedroom detached house circled by rising flood water after the River Severn burst its banks earlier this year.<br />
