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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Are you like me sick to death of switching on the news to see some reporter standing at the end of a street where it is quite obviously flooded ?. They then show lots more pictures of flooded houses and distressed people but tell you no new facts.

I have every sympathy with the people flooded but I can do without dumbed down reporters. Rolling Eyes

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

gfloyd · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Enough reporting of floods ?

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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

OK some interesting things going on, and some heroes, but I'm still sick of reporters standing in floods in their wellies Rolling Eyes

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I must admit that I have heard the words "as you can see behind me" rather too much now.

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

I tend to agree with nod, there is some good, hard news still in the floods, but it is being trivialised by a poor standard of reporting. It's OK to send Kate Silverton down to Gloucester, but if all she does is hand over to local reporters and then back to London, What is the point?
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

So were the floods in Hull, Sheffield and Bentley not as severe as the Midlands? All the floodwater up there is gone and they are back to normal or at least waiting on insurance money or social handouts for those not insured?

I've not heard anyone in Tewksbury say they were not insured.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Just think what would happen if London was flooded?

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In scenes that may no longer be dismissed as far-fetched, a new film is to chart what would happen if the Thames Barrier was overwhelmed.

The movie, based on a book by Richard Doyle, imagines how London would look if it was deluged by a surge of water.

Flood, which features Robert Carlyle, was shot over 11 weeks last year.

The author has said he believes there is a real threat to the capital. He has called for the government to take "its head out of the sand".

Save London

Guernsey-born Doyle, who now lives in Dartmoor, wrote the book in 2003 after spending two-and-a-half years researching the issue.

Writing on his website Doyle says he came up with the idea for the book after reading an article on global warming.

"[It was] one of those terrifying pieces about more extreme weather, rising sea levels and frequent violent storms. Suddenly I remembered the Thames Barrier. I wondered how it would cope.

"I started to look into some of the details. Barrier height, tidal reports and so forth. The more I looked, the more concerned I became."

The film also stars Poirot's David Suchet and screen and stage actor Tom Courtenay.

Carlyle plays an engineering chief (Rob Morrison) who realises that his estranged father's worst predictions are coming true.

They have to put aside their personal differences to save London from destruction.

The film is due to be released in August.

OLD GORDON WOULD HELP THEN!! Laughing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6920284.stm