flooding Articles

Britain's flood defences are far too important to be used as a political football, writes former parliamentary candidate for Windsor Fiona Dent In 2014 large areas of Somerset and the Thames Valley were flooded, in 2015/16 Cumbria, Lancashire, Dumfries and Galloway...

We need prosperity that is fairly shared You might have thought George Osborne would have learned a lesson from his 2012 omnishambles budget. Not a bit of it. He surpassed himself with a megashambles. No budget has unravelled as quickly and as comprehensively as this...

The first month of the year was bad for Labour but for the country was made worse by the Tories, argues Mary Creagh January 2016 marked the beginning of the first full year of majority Conservative government for two decades. Its slim electoral mandate has not...

This week, I returned to parliament from my constituency of Leeds West where for many people the Christmas period has been dominated by floods which have ruined their homes and businesses. On Boxing Day night, the River Aire which runs through the Yorkshire Dales to...