The Environment Agency increases the number of severe flood warnings in place across the south of the UK, and warns that flood problems will continue to hit the UK for another week.
“There’s nothing we can do”. You keep hearing this mantra every time we experience floods, well I think there is something we can do, writes flood expert Britt Warg.
Channel 4 News can reveal that Dutch emergency flood relief has been turned down because British authorities said it was not needed.
As politicians in the UK argue over how to fund flood defences in the future, Channel 4 News finds six restoration projects that have been successful in protecting communities.
Channel 4 News has travelled the width of the country to report on the UK floods and storms. Watch the video reports and see how the story of the terrible weather was told from your area.
The swollen river has brought chaos to communities along the Thames – and as the Channel 4 News team has been finding out, there is anger at a perceived lack of support from the authorities.
The West Midlands, the worst hit area in the 2007 floods, has been hit by fresh misery in cities like Worcester – where bridges have been closed and large areas are submerged.
More than 128,000 acres in the Somerset Plains have been flooded and vast areas have been submerged for more than eight weeks, as the Channel 4 News team has found in places like Bridgewater.
Channel 4 News reporters have ventured to the very end of Cornwall to report on the impact of the storms – from physically damage to causing economic hardship for the fishing community.
Wales has borne the brunt of ferocious winds and tempestuous seas, and, as Channel 4 News Reporter Ciaran Jenkins has been finding out the hard way, hurricane force winds.
We’ve heard about the sandbag stealers and the communities abandoned. But what about the stars of the storm? Channel 4 News lifts the lid on the misery and seeks out the heroes of the floods.
Alex Thomson
It is quite natural, right and proper that in the immediacy of what is happening in the UK, from politicians down, it is helping people out with flooded homes that comes top priority.
Thousands of properties are still without power and train lines suffer continued disruption. But as the weather looks set to worsen, some residents are complaining of being charged for sandbags.
Reporter Ciaran Jenkins is literally blown off his feet in Abergele, north Wales, as he tries to bring us the news in the face of gale force winds.
“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.