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Here's what happened with the Wayne County Commissioners this week.

Rainfall in winter, and you have the difficulty, in a very low lying environment, of getting rid of that water. the airport here provides a lifeline service to islanders. £1 million has been spent on the latest work to protect the runway, which ends just metres from the shore. the problem around here was, over the years, we were losing up to five metres at a time, during a storm event, off the dunes. so, the solution we had was designers came up with a system called gabion baskets, which meant you got mattresses and filled them with rock, and then embedded them into the dunes. if this hadn't ...