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The Environment Agency has announced a programme of maintenance work on access gates and fencing alongside several Somerset rivers over this coming winter.
Work is starting on Monday 15 September 2014 to reduce the flood risk in Girton, Cambridgeshire.
The Environment Agency has started refurbishment works in King's Lynn.
Over five million people are at risk from the devastating effects of flooding in the UK, with thousands of properties at risk in the south west.
UK’s biggest ever coastal realignment scheme at Steart, a joint project between WWT and Environment Agency, has been completed.
The first phase of Exeter’s £30 million flood defence scheme has begun this week with works to deepen the Trew’s flood relief channel.
Thames Water has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of £6,887 for polluting the Chase Brook in Newbury.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Young people encouraged to give fishing a go to boost their health and improve school performance.
People on the coast between Hunstanton Cliffs and Wolferton Creek have just a week left to share their views on its future management.
The Environment Agency is staging a community open morning after passing the halfway point of dredging on the Somerset Moors and Levels.
The Environment Agency will be carrying out annual testing of its flood warning sirens in Grimsby and Cleethorpes next week.
Introduction of water voles to Cornwall sees them return to every county in England for the first time since 1989.
Rocks are being delivered as work starts on the £30m scheme to protect 1,400 properties at Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme in Kent.
The Environment Agency has dredged 4 km (8 km of river bank) of the Parrett and Tone and is now passing halfway in the dredging operation.
Anglers on the River Sence in Leicestershire are excited after catching a species of fish which disappeared from the area over 40 years ago.
More than 1,400 properties between Camber and Lydd will benefit as work begins on the Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme in Kent.
Crayfish plague has been found on Dorset’s River Allen following an investigation by the Environment Agency and Dorset Wildlife Trust.
Some of the worst floods ever seen in Britain devastated Boscastle and surrounding areas of North Cornwall ten years ago on 16 August, 2004.
The Environment Agency will be hosting an event at Oakington Sports Pavilion on Saturday (16 Aug) for residents affected by recent flooding.
The Environment Agency has been out practicing its emergency response to high tides in Kings Lynn this morning (13 August 2014) to ensure staff are familiar with emergency procedures to prevent the town flooding.
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