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A new flood warning service from the Environment Agency in Cornwall includes Helston, St Blazey and Par.

PLANS to bring new health centres to Kincardine and Lochgelly are already likely to cost £8 million more than planned.

Plans to deliver a vital flood defence and regeneration scheme for Looe have taken a step forward - thanks to a £2.3 million grant.

Black Death Trotting on ‘The Devil's Hoof’ The Great Plague lasted from the beginning of 1665 until September 1666, representing the last major epidemic of the  bubonic plague  to occur in England, killing an estimated 200,000 (one quarter of London's population). Fatalities soared in the city of London in part because Londoners failed to self-quarantine, but this was not the case in the rural English village of Eyam located idyllically in the Derbyshire Dales within the Peak District National Park.     An early nineteenth-century scene showing the Eyam village pond, plague cott...

Construction of Exmouth tidal defence scheme recommencing in January Exmouth moves a step closer to increased protection from tidal flooding as construction of the £12m scheme restarts. From: The new flood wall completed earlier this year in Morton Crescent, Exmouth The Environment Agency scheme will reduce flood risk for 1,800 properties, including 1,400 homes and 400 businesses. Construction will restart in January and is due to finish by the end of 2021. A team of community flood volunteers will be established to open and close flood gates. Construction work on the Exmouth tid...