Showing posts with label dawlish. Show all posts
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Friday, 14 February 2014

Spiral Notebook: The prime minister is taking charge of the flooding crisis. Feel better now?

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COMMENT
By Giles Broadbent

Every saga has a tipping point. The Hanging Rails of Dawlish was perhaps the moment when the flooding story moved from an idiosyncratic spasm of mid-Atlantic weather patterns to a political crisis lapping at Downing Street's door.