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United Kingdom: A flooded village waits for the high tides
Posted by Telegraph: Joe Shute on January 30th, 2014
Telegraph: From Burrow Mump, an 80ft high Triassic--age hill that looms over the Somerset Levels, water stretches as far as the eye can see. Miles of field and salt marsh have simply been swallowed up in the deluge. Bruised grey juggernaut clouds glide through the skies above; yet more rain falls on this sodden land.
At the top of the Mump is the ruin of St Michael's Church, built by the monks of Athelney Abbey, one of several monasteries that used to dot the Somerset Levels. It was these monks who, in centuries...
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Fracking protest at Balcombe: ‘People just seem to be looking for a party’
Posted by Telegraph: Joe Shute on August 21st, 2013
Telegraph: An unwanted mob had descended on the Balcombe protest camp yesterday, swarming en masse through police lines and fiercely resisting all attempts to squash them.
"Bloody wasps,' frowns 40-something protester and mother-of-three Ioonah Woods, watching one of the insects greedily burrowing into a jar of marmalade with all the gusto of a Cuadrilla drill. "They weren't a problem a few days ago but now they have invaded.'
Quite who is, and who is not, entitled to be in Balcombe is all the talk in...