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VIDEO: What to do if your business floods
2014-02-11 11:52:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Graeme Trudgill from the British Insurance Brokers Association discusses what people should do if they have been affected by flooding.
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Can UK's transport cope with floods?
2014-02-11 01:09:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Allan Urry investigates how well prepared Britain's transport infrastructure is to weather winter storms.
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United Kingdom: Floods: Environment Agency frontline staff hit by cuts, whistleblowers reveal
2014-02-10 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Whistleblowers within the under-fire Environment Agency have told the Guardian that frontline flood staff are being cut, despite pledges by its chairman that reducing the agency's emergency response was a "red line". Weeks of savage weather have battered England and frontline EA staff have been working round the clock to ensure timely warnings, rapid responses and straining defences continue to defend over a million highly vulnerable properties. But deep government cuts to the EA budgets means...
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UK floods: severe warnings issued along Thames, with more rain to come
2014-02-10 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sixteen severe flood warnings have been issued for southern England, with another band of strong winds and heavy rains set to lash Britain on Monday night. The Environment Agency has issued 14 warnings of danger to life along the Thames, focusing on Berkshire and Surrey, with the remaining two applying to areas already devastated by flooding in the Somerset Levels. A further 141 flood warnings, indicating less serious risk, are also in place. The Thames flood barrier has been closed for the...
What Britain has to do if it doesn't want to live with floods (no, it's not dredging)
2014-02-10 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ten years ago Sir David King, the chief scientist, warned that existing policies on flooding were not an option "Hard choices need to be taken we must either invest more in sustainable approaches to flood and coastal management or learn to live with increased flooding." The floods foresight report in which he sounded the warning explained what King meant by "sustainable" approaches to flood and coastal management, and it doesn't mean dredging. Sustainable flood management actually involves...
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