Child's picture of house with rain cloud and gushing water in front of it. The initials C.N. are in the top left

Storm Desmond

The BBC online 鈥渓ive reporting鈥 of events during Storm Desmond has been illuminating 鈥 that鈥檚 if of course you鈥檝e had electricity. Many people in the affected zones had none, and with no mobile phone coverage over the weekend, battery or wind-up radio would have been their only source of information. 鈥淯nprecedented鈥 has been the mantra[…]

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Children's picture of flooded house and car with 2 rainclouds

Children and flooding

As severe floods hit the North West of England last weekend a 快播视频 research team, led by Professor Maggie Mort (Sociology), called for the Government聽to take notice of how flooding affects children. Working with school children hit聽by severe flooding two years ago both on Humberside and Thames Valley, the ESRC project, partnered by Save[…]

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