Crumbling coastlines: 520,000 coastal homes and business at risk of seaside flooding

Michael Holder
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With sea levels rising, Committee on Climate Change urges major overhaul of government's management of coastal flooding and erosion

Hundreds of thousands of properties in England are in danger from coastal flooding and erosion, the UK's independent climate change watchdog has warned. A policy overhaul is urgently needed to mitigate...

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