A £75m project to reinforce flood defences on an island has been completed after three years of work.A 3km (1.9 mile) stretch of revetment on Canvey Island in Essex has been renewed with new material.

The clean-up operation has begun in the historic university city of Oxford, badly affected by the recent floods. At their height, flood waters in Oxford exceeded the levels of the “Great flood ...

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In pictures: the worst overall 20th century flood of the River Thames, March 1947. 11 February 2014 • 4:42pm . In the second half of March 1947, ...

Plans to build a 10-mile barrier along the Thames to protect London from flooding are being considered. The embankment, from Sheerness in Kent to Southend in Essex, would contain gates to allow water ...

Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks. Skip to content Open sections menu Sections.

The first flood-resilient street has been unveiled in Richmond upon Thames. Kitson Road is the borough's first fully ...

The alert covers the Thames from Hurley to Cookham and also includes Harleyfoed and Bisham. The Environment Agency said: "River levels are rising on the River Thames as a result of heavy rainfall.

According to the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA), April 26 marks the 80th anniversary of the Flood of 1937, the largest flood recorded on the Thames River.

The flood water was everywhere.” She said her husband-to-be, Dennis, was 10 years older and working in Cornwall at the time of the floods. He lived in Southview Avenue at the time.

Thames floods of 1947. The flooding of the River Thames in March 1947 came after a particularly severe winter and resulted in tens of thousands of people being displaced. ... East Coast flood of 1953.