Remember the floods of ’53

2005-09-09T00:00:00

As John Prescott presses on with plans to build tens of thousands of houses on the flood plains of the Thames Gateway, history tells us the North Sea has a record of devastating the coastal areas of England and the Netherlands with deadly regularity.

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