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Ministers hold flood insurance talks
2014-02-18 02:20:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Insurance bosses are to meet ministers at No 10 to discuss their response to the floods, as insurers say they have so far paid out 14m to victims.
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United Kingdom: Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
2014-02-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flood-stricken communities, including those visited by David Cameron in the Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have been left without planned defences following government funding cuts, the Guardian can reveal. Undelivered defences, totalling many millions of pounds, also include schemes on the stretch of Devon coast at Dawlish where the mainline railway fell into the sea and near the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Ministers have been heavily criticised for cutting flood...
United Kingdom: Flood defences: George Osborne tackled yesterday's crisis at the cost of today's
2014-02-16 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is no excuse. In 2010 the coalition slashed spending on flood defences when it should have gone up. Even last year's increase in flood defence spending was under duress. The insurers, some of the most enlightened big businesses on this issue, have repeatedly warned about the rising claims and losses from climate change-induced extreme weather. A confidential deal struck last June, ahead of the spending review, increased flood defence spending as a payback for the insurance companies continuing...
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United Kingdom: On Thames, centuries of history tell a less apocalyptic flood story
2014-02-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A British fixation with the weather seems to link readily with a pessimistic view of our vulnerability to flooding. This has been underlined through an outstandingly wet winter, with often protracted floods. For those directly affected, in Somerset especially, this has been a harrowing experience, and the impact on transport, agriculture and commerce has been severe. Many believe that the cluster of major floods in the early years of the 21st century herald much worse as global temperatures continue...
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Thames flood: army and Environment Agency's response leaves locals divided
2014-02-15 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Neil Lemon stood at the end of his back garden and shrugged his shoulders. "Nervous? No, not really. Well not with that there," he said, nodding at the glistening steel barricade that had materialised on a nearby patch of grassland bordering the Thames. Through the night and during Saturday morning, soldiers from the Gurkhas and the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment had erected the barrier in a race to save Penton Avenue, in the Surrey town of Staines. This is the frontline in the battle with the swollen...
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