57 tube stations at high risk of flooding, says London Underground report

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Busy stations including Waterloo, King's Cross and London Bridge among the most threatened, unpublished review states

Eighty-five sites on the London Underground are at high and rising risk of flooding, according to a report that says it is "only a matter of time" before serious flooding strikes. Most threatened are...

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