Liam Dutton
10 fascinating facts about the recent record breaking weather
After the warmest and wettest December on record for the UK, the statistics are in and they are fascinating.
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Liam Dutton
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Liam Dutton
December 2015 was UK’s wettest month on record
December 2015 was the wettest month on record for the UK, but how much did climate change and El Nino play a part?
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Liam Dutton
More heavy rain brings Christmas flood risk
More heavy rain through the Christmas period could bring further flooding – including to places already hit in recent weeks.
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Village flooded twice in a week
The Lake District village of Glenridding is cleaning up again after a torrent of flood water crashed through its main street for the second time in five days.
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Alex Thomson
Two floods in five days in Lake District village of Glenridding
Despite facing new torrents of flood water through their main street last night, residents of Glenridding say everyone is helping each other and others are worse off than them.
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New fund for flood victims
George Osborne has promised a new £50m fund to help families hit by the Cumbria floods, saying households would be able to claim up to £5,000 each.
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Liam Dutton
Flood risk to continue this week
As residents in flood-hit areas start cleaning up, the news that more rain is on the way this week will not be welcome.
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Alex Thomson
Cumbria floods: the home invasions
A woman from Appleby-in-Westmorland is enjoying a night out in a local hotel in circumstances she would never have wanted: her home is flooded. The violation? The filthy, stinking floodwaters that have inundated so many homes across Cumbria: the Desmond Deluge.
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Under water: before-and-after images from the 2014 floods
In February 2014 large parts of southern England were flooded – from Surrey to Somerset and beyond. One year on, how are they faring? Move the slider across each image to see what happened.
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Will the government’s flood defence project hold water?
The Government is to invest £2.3bn in more than 1,400 flood defence projects to provide better protection from flooding for hundreds of thousands of homes.
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Deadly flooding in Italy and Switzerland
Heavy rain over the weekend has left at least four dead after mudslides in Switzerland and northern Italy. Recent severe storms have exposed the fragile infrastructure in many parts of Italy.
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Rain, floods and collapsed M25 – but no repeat of February
Heavy rain and gales sweeping across the UK have brought flooding and travel disruption to some parts of the UK.
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Italy landslide leaves one dead
Torrential rain caused a landslide on Wednesday that killed a man in the town of Crevacuore, near the city of Biella in the northern Piedmont region. A number of homes were also destroyed.
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Flash floods hit India and Pakistan
The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reaches 400 as armies from both countries scramble to provide help to victims.
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Ex-Hurricane Bertha sweeps across Britain
The storm remnants of Hurricane Bertha which battered the Caribbean hits the UK, bringing fierce winds, torrential rain and more than a few floods.
