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Flood simple: the UK flooding crisis explained
2014-02-13 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The only way now into the heart of the village of Moorland on the Somerset Levels, the epicentre of the unprecedented battering Britain is taking from the elements, is in an amphibious vehicle or on a tractor trailer. Mark and Kate Kirby were using the tractor trailer method to take another look at their four-bedroomed semi, which had never flooded in its 150-year history, but is now waist-deep in water. Its got worse, said Mr Kirby, a wholesale fruit and veg supplier after his latest trip...
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Living with contaminated flood water
2014-02-13 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The water running thigh deep through Ham Sandhu's house in Wraysbury in Berkshire is freezing cold and murky. Floating around in his kitchen is a toy car and a pair of slippers. Clunking gently together near the sink are two rubbish bins. "I brought them in here," he says, "so they didn't drift away." An unpleasant smell thickens the air. "That must be the freezer," says Ham. "When we were flooded back on 8 January the insurance company told us not to empty it." He doesn't want to...
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David Cameron using flood crisis to 'drown embarrassing news'
2014-02-13 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron was accused of using the floods to "drown embarrassing news" after the government announced it is publishing a raft of reports on Britain's relationship with the EU, one of which concludes that the single market is vital to the UK economy. In one of the most eye-catching findings of the eight volumes, easyJet says it would not exist were it not for the EU's single market. The low cost airline told the review: "easyJet is a product of the EU's deregulation of Europe's aviation...
VIDEO: Counting the cost of UK flood crisis
2014-02-12 18:12:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
There will be "no penny pinching" when it comes to funding flood relief efforts, David Cameron has said as he announced extra financial help.
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United Kingdom: Flood crisis: dredging simplistic response to complex problem
2014-02-12 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Across the country, we have seen our neighbours' homes and farms devastated by the floods. We understand their anger and frustration. We also understand their demands for swift action, but what they have been given is political gamesmanship: blame-shifting from party to party and from minister to minister, late responses, dramatic reversals of opinion. This reached its well-publicised nadir at the weekend with Eric Pickles's appearance on the Andrew Marr show: "I apologise unreservedly and I'm...
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