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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

MPs call for review of Environment Agency flood failings in England

Cars in flood water
Flood damage in Catcliffe, South Yorkshire. The local MP said people in the village felt let down. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

MPs in areas of England worst hit by Storm Babet have called for a review of Environment Agency (EA) failings after reporting that some residents received flood alerts only after their homes were flooded.

Toby Perkins, the Labour MP for Chesterfield, said some people at Tapton Terrace in the Derbyshire town, where 83-year-old Maureen Gilbert was found dead in flood water, received a phone call from the early warning system only after their houses had been deluged.

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