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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

Environment secretary Therese Coffey blames wrong kind of rain for Storm Babet floods

PA Wire

The environment secretary has suggested the damage done by Storm Babet was harder to predict because rain came in from the east.

Therese Coffey told MPs a “rapid review” would be conducted after highlighting that some flood-hit communities felt they could have been given more pumps to stop them from becoming submerged.

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