24th July 2007, 08:55 PM
All excellent points, but I am more concerned with the Thames being a worrying and ever decreasing distance from my front window. Its apparrently worse here than in living memory. Probably worse since 1886.
All the hullabaloo about the government 'refusing to rule out building on flood plains' has missed the fact that most of our historic towns, apart from the coastal ones, are on the flood plains.
Surely that Thames barrier has been closed before?
Otherwise, why would they have built it.
All the hullabaloo about the government 'refusing to rule out building on flood plains' has missed the fact that most of our historic towns, apart from the coastal ones, are on the flood plains.
Surely that Thames barrier has been closed before?
Otherwise, why would they have built it.