Failing Flood Defences To Receive £40m Funding

More than £40m will be spent on strengthening flood defences which were overwhelmed by Storm Eva over Christmas, the Prime Minister has announced. A significant portion of the funding package has been earmarked for York, where hundreds of homes were flooded after the Foss Barrier struggled to cope with record levels of rainfall. The investment is in addition to the £50m pot set aside for local authorities co-ordinating the clean-up effort, and the cash promised to those affected by S