Shropshire Star1d
Towns across Shropshire and Severn and Wye catchment to benefit from multi-million investment in flood defences
Towns in Shropshire and across the River Severn catchment are set to benefit from a multi-million cash injection to tackle ...
Staffordshire and West Midlands towns that will benefit from multi-million investment into flood defences - and how much they will receive
Towns across the West Midlands and Staffordshire are set to benefit from a multi-million cash injection to help tackle the ...
Second Severn bridge construction blamed for flooding in castle grounds
A resident living in the Castle Lodge area has claimed that the building of the second Severn bridge in the mid 1990s has ...
Opinion
Funding for flood defences is welcome - and not before time
The Bewdley, Shrewsbury, Stafford and south Shropshire have all been named as beneficiaries, and for the people who have had to endure regular flooding over the past 20-odd years, it is not before ...
Claim construction of second Severn Bridge has increased flooding risk
CONSTRUCTION of the second Severn Bridge in the mid 1990s has been blamed for contributing to flooding of a caslte grounds.
Industrial chicken farms are trashing Britain’s rivers – and planning reforms could make things worse
Once voted the UK’s favourite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary – 150 miles through ...
La Brújula Verde2d
The Worst Floods in History: What Science Reveals and No One Had Told You
Frame (B): Measured and reconstructed peak discharges for the Upper Severn River (United Kingdom). Frame (C): Proxy flood magnitudes based on boulder berm deposits in upland catchments in the United ...
Paleo-flood records reveal ancient deluges that dwarf modern 'unprecedented' events
The Severn analysis shows that floods in the last 72 years of monitoring are not exceptional in the context of paleo-flood records of the last 4,000 years. The largest flood in the Upper Severn ...
Mirage News3d
£16M Boost for Flood Defense in Farms, Rural Areas
Additional funding for internal drainage boards (IDBs) to boost farm and rural flood resilience, bringing total IDB Fund to ...
South Wales Argus3d
Second Severn Bridge 'contributed to flooding' in Caldicot
CONSTRUCTION of the second Severn Bridge in the mid 1990s has been blamed for contributing to flooding of a caslte grounds.
Ancient Floods Reveal Today’s Extremes Aren’t the Worst We’ve Faced
A study of ancient flood records shows that recent extreme floods in Europe are not historically unique. Recent “unprecedented” floods are not exceptional when viewed in the context of the distant ...