Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has announced that Sir Michael Pitt, Chair of the South West Strategic Health Authority, will lead the review into the recent UK floods.
The Government's discussion with the public about the country's future energy needs has moved up a gear with an extensive programme of nationwide consultative events starting in Bristol today.
Yorkshire Water has become mired in a growing controversy after it acknowledged that one of city's major pumping station was out of action at the height of the Hull floods, because it itself had become flooded.
