'Â£1bn needed' to prevent flooding
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The head of the Environment Agency calls for Â£1bn a year to prevent future flooding, as waters continue to rise.
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Building sea defences could increase the risk of flooding in coastal areas of England and Wales, a report claims.
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Â· Up to Â£250m a year needed, say insurersÂ· Three dead and hundreds evacuated from homes.
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Business & money: The government may need to come up with an extra Â£1bn to fund a massive redundancy programme to help the Royal Mail out of its crisis.
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Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned that torrential rains could wreak more havoc than heavy floods in 2001 when nearly 1,000 people died, as authorities urged people to start evacuating.
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Business & money: Â·  Petrol heads to Â£1 a litre for the holiday season Â·  Crude hits near-record level amid hurricane fears
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--An alliance of coastal communities along the Grand Strand could band together to request around $120 million in federal funding to address the problem of stormwater runoff.
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More needs to be done to ensure a more coordinated the approach to flooding in NI, a NI minister says.
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Britain is mulling a second flood barrier for the River Thames in London, amid fears that current defences are inadequate, the environment minister said in a newspaper interview to be published Sunday.
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Water levels still rising as thousands hit by worst floods in modern British history.
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Flooding in India and Bangladesh has now left some 1.5 million people homeless, officials say.
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Water levels in flooded central and western England are expected to remain high for the next 24 hours and about 140,000 homes in Gloucestershire could be without water for the next fortnight.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: There is a north-south divide in the reaction to floods; only when the rich are hit will prevention be pushed up the agenda.
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PM promises 'comprehensive programme' to assist flood-stricken communities in northern England.
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Insurance giant Prudential asks shareholdhers to stump up Â£1bn to fund UK expansion and meet new EU funding rules.
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Business & money: Stores rise above floods to improve profits by 1.6% as Green eschews dividend after 'horrific' summer.
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Residents question why a new flood prevention scheme failed its first proper test.