Gavin George, a representative of a Flood protection product company, being interviewed live on Sky TV News, lamenting the fact that Government had not taken up his product range and saying that the emergency services were relegated to using sandbags.
"basically sandbags are only good for stopping bullets, not floods...."... more »
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A cross-party group of MPs is calling on Gordon Brown to renegotiate urgently the wording of the new European Union treaty because they say it risks relegating national parliaments to mere satellites of Brussels.
The demand came as EU foreign ministers, including David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, prepared to meet in Brussels today to launch the formal Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) that over the next few months will decide the precise treaty language. more »
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Does the Environment Agency and the Housing minister understand where flooding comes from?
This statement today from Housing Minister Yvette Cooper sums it up: more »
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Ben Bradshaw MP is the new minister of state in charge of the NHS IT programme
His role as minister of state for health services was announced by the Department of Health (DoH) on 20 July 2007. It sees him take over responsibility for Connecting for Health and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) from Lord Philip Hunt, who moved to the Ministry of Justice in June. more »
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