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Twenty hospitals in England will be receiving an extra £850m of funding to go towards upgrades for outdated facilities and new equipment. The £850m will be spread out over five years and will come on top of an extra £20bn a year by 2023. Some of the money will be used to build a new…
Farms in country lanes and surrounded by fields are being targeted by criminals. According to NFU Mutual, losses to British farmers from theft hit a seven-year high of £50 million in 2018. There was a 26% rise in claims for stolen farm vehicles such as tractors and quad bikes last year with all claims adding…
An RAF helicopter has been brought in to help repair a damaged reservoir which hold a threat of flooding a town. Engineers have been pumping water out of the Toddbrook Reservoir, in Derbyshire, after part of a dam wall collapsed. The Toddbrook Reservoir contains 1.3 million tonnes of water and sits above hundreds of homes…
A town in Derbyshire is being evacuated due to parts of a wall of a nearby reservoir have collapsed in the floods. The Toddbrook Reservoir dam, above Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, was damaged after a spell of heavy rain. Police have told the town’s 6,500 residents to gather at the local school where they will…
Homes have been evacuated and stranded people have been rescued as heavy rainfall causes flooding in northern England. Major incident has been declared in Cheshire after severe flooding. The Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West over eight hours on Wednesday after heavy rain started on Sunday. Six flood warnings remain…
Travellers are now facing disruption across Northern England due to a heavy downpour of rain overnight. The Met Office have warned storms could bring 40mm of rain in two hours in areas of the UK. In Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe/Stoke-on-Trent trains have been disrupted after heavy rain flooded the railway causing both lines to be…
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