Flood-Prone Areas Facing 'Unacceptable Risk'

The warning comes in a report which claims that flood defences are getting worse because of a lack of investment and that the country is still without a proper plan for dealing with future damage. A cross-party group of MPs also accuses the Government of leaving vulnerable communities at the mercy of a short-term approach to climate change. "That leads to inefficient flood defences, it means that the state of the flood defences we already have can fall into disrepair and that presents an unaccep