Environment Agency chair warns of "difficult choices" on flood protection priorities

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Lord Smith warns "there are no quick fixes in the face of this kind of extreme rainfall"

The chair of the Environment Agency has predicted the UK will have to make some "difficult decisions" about which areas it will try to protect from escalating flood risks, warning that there is not a "bottomless...

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