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Met Office issues red warning for 100mph winds
The Met Office has issued a red weather warning for parts of the UK. What does it mean and should you be worried?
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Floods: British government turned down Dutch help
Channel 4 News can reveal that Dutch emergency flood relief has been turned down because British authorities said it was not needed.
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Abandoned in Surrey – how one flooded street is coping
“We’re all desperate. We’re all really, really scared”: in one flooded street in Egham, all 70 houses have been flooded, and residents are terrified of looting.
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‘Money is no object,’ says PM on flood relief – FactCheck Q&A
David Cameron said “money is no object” when it comes to flood relief. How expensive might that end up for the government? And who is going to pay the most? FactCheck does the sums.
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Liam Dutton
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After the deluge, the huge insurance bill
It is not yet clear how much it will cost to repair homes damaged by floods in the west country and Thames Valley, but the bill will be substantial – and insurance premiums may rise.
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Lights out on flooded Britain as more storms move in
As a power cut hits flood-stricken Datchet, David Cameron promises that money is no object in tackling the crisis. But could its scale have been averted by spending more before now?
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Gary Gibbon
Armchair hydrologists go to war
There was talk before the floods that Eric Pickles might be a marked man in the reshuffle expected after the elections in May. It’s hard to imagine he’s helped his chances in the last day or so.
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Network Rail ‘in complete denial’ over Dawlish sea wall
A rail passenger body says its report called for the re-routing of the south west rail line ten years ago but Network Rail thought it could “engineer its way out” of the problem.
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A trip through the flooded Thames towns
Mark Greaves takes a trip along the flooded Thames in Surrey armed with a smartphone capturing water levels reaching their highest point in 30 years.
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Thames flooding fears: thousands of homes at risk
Fourteen new severe flood warnings are in place along the River Thames, as the Environment Agency chief blames Treasury funding rules for the failure to dredge rivers.
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More storms, more floods and politicians blaming each other
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles says the government “made a mistake” and should have dredged the flood-hit Somerset Levels.
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Water, water, everywhere: Romantic about the floods
Beleagured Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith wrote his doctoral dissertation on the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. What might the Romantic poets have taught him about floods?
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Into the eye of the storm: Cameron heads to Somerset
Waterlogged Somerset gets two illustrious guests – the prime minister and Environment Agency boss Chris Smith. But what took them so long to visit a county that has been underwater for a month?
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FactCheck: Government still mired in dubious flood claims
The waves continue to batter Britain and the political storm over the coalition’s flood defence strategy is still raging too. Is this government really spending more than the last?
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FactCheck: a deluge of spin on floods spending
The government says that despite the cuts, it is still spending more on flood defences than Labour. But this claim is far from watertight, as FactCheck finds out.
