Inquiry ordered into June floods
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A government review is ordered into whether floods in parts of England could have been prevented.
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A Canadian board of inquiry is convening in Scotland to investigate the cause of the fire on the submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, in which an officer was killed.
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Government announces grants to help local authorities affected by recent floods.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced extra financial support Saturday for parts of northern England hit by floods which have killed at least four people.
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Insurers were sending loss adjusters to the coastal village of Boscastle today to begin assessing the damage caused by the flash floods.
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Flood-weary residents assessed the damage to their homes and businesses on Friday, while the governor planned to visit areas hard hit by heavy rains.
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Flooding in the UK is a threat on the scale of terrorism or a flu pandemic and should be planned for accordingly, the independent review into the summer floods said Monday.
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Hull's drainage system was overwhelmed when severe flooding affected the area in June, a key report says.
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Communities Secretary Hazel Blears says local authorities will be given financial aid to help deal with flood damage.
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Torrential rains hit the region this week and floods submerged more than 10,000 houses and brought traffic to a standstill. A disaster management official from the coastal province of Quang Ngai says a red
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A clear-up operation is due to begin after flash floods left people trapped in cars and their homes.
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Alan Johnson and John Prescott have written to the environment secretary, Hilary Benn, calling for extra funding to help with the clear-up after last week's flooding.
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Boscastle - Emergency services searched the wreckage of a picturesque English fishing village on Tuesday for 15 people unaccounted for after flash floods created a wall of water which tore through the valley.
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People may be unable to return to flooded homes in South Yorkshire for months, a government minister says.
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Much of Britain has been under flood alert as heavy rain sweeps across the country.
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Insurers says they are already looking at Â£1bn worth of claims arising from this week's floods.
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ENVIRONMENT Agency experts were last night investigating after a blaze in a wood pile at a skip hire company.   The agency said a fire at the same site last year polluted the Dee, but this time the river was clean.