Flood defence work costing £65.5m is set to begin later this year in Staffordshire. It will include drilling boreholes at 86 locations across Tamworth to discover what materials are in the ground and ...

Flood defences on a stretch of the Humber estuary are to be raised to protect properties at risk of flooding from coastal erosion, the Environment Agency (EA) has said. The existing defences between ...

Work on a £17m scheme to strengthen flood defences near Goole has started. The Environment Agency said the scheme involved strengthening about six miles (10km) of existing defences on the northern ...

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has called on the federal government to provide long-term funding for flood defences ...