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It might be better if we just built a bloody great flood defence for Upton but they don't want that because it would wreck the middle of a pretty village

— Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone

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We have been pressing the idea of sustainable urban drainage for over 10 years. Because of the heavy, intense downpours and the fact there is more concrete, it overtops the systems very rapidly.

I've been briefing Gordon Brown non-stop, he is very involved.

It dumped so much in such a short space of time - one town had six months' rain in six hours. That kind of thing is unpredictable up to the minute it happens.

I've been working 19-hour days ever since

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