Liam Dutton
10 fascinating facts about the recent record breaking weather
After the warmest and wettest December on record for the UK, the statistics are in and they are fascinating.
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Met Office warns of ‘danger to life’ as South Yorkshire braces for more heavy rain
Boris Johnson has called a meeting of the government’s emergency committee – as more heavy rain is expected in flood-affected areas of England.
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Thousands evacuated over flood fears
The army is on standby and thousands of people are evacuating their homes: eastern England is bracing itself for a winter storm surge with severe flood warnings in force along the coast.
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Liam Dutton
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Liam Dutton
December 2015 was UK’s wettest month on record
December 2015 was the wettest month on record for the UK, but how much did climate change and El Nino play a part?
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Liam Dutton
More heavy rain brings Christmas flood risk
More heavy rain through the Christmas period could bring further flooding – including to places already hit in recent weeks.
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Village flooded twice in a week
The Lake District village of Glenridding is cleaning up again after a torrent of flood water crashed through its main street for the second time in five days.
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Alex Thomson
Two floods in five days in Lake District village of Glenridding
Despite facing new torrents of flood water through their main street last night, residents of Glenridding say everyone is helping each other and others are worse off than them.
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New fund for flood victims
George Osborne has promised a new £50m fund to help families hit by the Cumbria floods, saying households would be able to claim up to £5,000 each.
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Liam Dutton
Flood risk to continue this week
As residents in flood-hit areas start cleaning up, the news that more rain is on the way this week will not be welcome.
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Alex Thomson
Cumbria floods: the home invasions
A woman from Appleby-in-Westmorland is enjoying a night out in a local hotel in circumstances she would never have wanted: her home is flooded. The violation? The filthy, stinking floodwaters that have inundated so many homes across Cumbria: the Desmond Deluge.
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UK sees record rainfall in 24 hours
Large areas of north-west England remain under water tonight after almost 14 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in parts of the country, leaving hundreds of homes flooded and tens of thousands of families without power.
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Under water: before-and-after images from the 2014 floods
In February 2014 large parts of southern England were flooded – from Surrey to Somerset and beyond. One year on, how are they faring? Move the slider across each image to see what happened.
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FactCheck: how governments mislead
The government is taking credit for spending on flood defences that was set out by the previous Labour government. And its claim ignores the effects of inflation over the past five years.
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Will the government’s flood defence project hold water?
The Government is to invest £2.3bn in more than 1,400 flood defence projects to provide better protection from flooding for hundreds of thousands of homes.
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Deadly flooding in Italy and Switzerland
Heavy rain over the weekend has left at least four dead after mudslides in Switzerland and northern Italy. Recent severe storms have exposed the fragile infrastructure in many parts of Italy.
