Government 'committed to programme of flood defences'

Name: Government 'committed to programme of flood defences'
Uploaded: 2013-01-02T14:56:59.000Z
Duration: 3 min 36 s
Description: After a wet Christmas for some areas rather than a white one, the Environment Minister Owen Paterson says that the government is committed to a "very significant" programme of flood defences.

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After a wet Christmas for some areas rather than a white one, the Environment Minister Owen Paterson has said that the government is committed to a "very significant" programme of flood defences.

Mr Paterson has been visiting the Worcestershire town of Upton-upon-Severn to inspect new flood defences there.

2 January 2013