Alex Thomson
The Severn bore comes – and the levee breaks…
Alex Thomson waits with the surfers and residents for the arrival of Severn bore, and the flooding that inevitably follows it.
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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.
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Storms hit the south west – interactive gallery
Storms batter the south west of England, causing damage to homes, sea walls and listed buildings. Channel 4 News collects pictures from across the area.
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Kayaks in the street as Cork city centre flooded
Hundreds of businesses in Cork city centre are flood after the River Lee burst its banks, leaving the high street under water.
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UK storms: wild seas soak Weymouth
We’ve been filming along the esplanade in Weymouth, currently subject to one of seven severe flood warnings stretching along the coast from Dorset to Cornwall.
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UK storms: Dawlish sea wall collapses under railway line
David Cameron says an extra £100m will be made available to fund essential flood defences, after high winds and stormy seas cause the collapse of the the railway at Dawlish, Devon.
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Charles visits flood-hit West Country
The Prince of Wales travels to the Somerset Levels to visit areas hit by flooding in recent weeks.
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Prince Charles gives £50,000 to Somerset flood victims
Prince Charles pledges £50,000 to support residents of the Somerset Levels affected by flooding, with the Duke of Westminster set to match the sum.
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‘Town or country’: Britain’s flood defence dilemma
Britain faces the “difficult choice” between saving “town or country” from future flooding because it is too costly to defend both, the chairman of the Environment Agency says.
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Lord Smith: ‘more floods on constrained budget’
Lord Smith tells Channel 4 News that the Environment Agency is dealing with “more water” on “constrained budgets” and climate change means “difficult decisions” need to be made.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
‘The Environment Agency are lions, but they’re led by donkeys’
It may well be unparliamentary language, it may not raise the tone of public debate – but it does adequately convey the scale of local anger.
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Liam Dutton
Are tumbling weather records more evidence of climate change?
Following weeks of heavy rain and flooding, yesterday brought news of yet more records tumbling by the wayside. Is this more evidence of climate change?
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Alex Thomson
South west and Wales braced for more floods as ‘perfect storm’ looms
Some Somerset Levels residents have been stranded since Christmas – and and the weather could get worse. Meanwhile there are severe flood warnings for Cornwall, Devon and the Severn estuary.
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Weather to come: a very wet story
Channel 4 News Weather Presenter Liam Dutton predicts wet weather as we enter the month of February.
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Somerset Levels: to dredge or not to dredge?
The RSPBs Mark Robins says if heavy flooding continues, residents will have to adapt their behaviour. Farmer John Hebditch argues that dredging would give locals more control over the environment.
