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Floods and weather: How to survive a very English apocalypse
Posted by Telegraph: Cole Moreton on February 16th, 2014
Telegraph: The wind sounds like a jet engine as it tears across the floodplain. Yet another Atlantic storm is ravaging the West Country, but in the hamlet of Burrowbridge in Somerset there are dozens of men and women hauling sandbags in atrocious conditions to save the homes of people they don't even know.
"We are shocked and amazed and astounded at how well everyone has pulled together, the kindness of strangers and the generosity they have displayed,' says Rebecca Horsington, a 38-year-old farmer's wife...
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Posted by Telegraph: Cole Moreton on August 4th, 2013
Telegraph: "I was reading the Telegraph on the train and I noticed a little paragraph saying, 'Cuadrilla to Frack in Sussex'. I knew this was the company that caused the earthquakes in Lancashire, so I thought, 'How interesting'. Then I looked down the story and saw they were coming to my village...'
He smiles and steps out of the way as a battalion of police officers comes past. We are on the road just south of Balcombe in West Sussex, where the oil and gas company Cuadrilla is trying to drill a well, and...
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