Guardian: With forecasts of at least another week of gales and torrential rain, severe weather warnings and hundreds of flood alerts covering the entire south and south-west coasts of England, and all rail links to the West Country severed for the first time, the flood waters and the political blame game are both deepening.
Firefighters, assisted by soldiers from a nearby barracks, were working round the clock to keep the floods away from an electricity substation at Burghfield, near Reading in Berkshire,...