BBC: “Flood plain communities reassured”
Villagers in Norfolk in fear of a scheme to flood them to save the coast have been told that is not the government’s intention.
The floods minister, Phil Woolas, has been visiting Sea Palling, 15 miles up the coast from Great Yarmouth.
He told people there that a scenario by Natural England to allow six villages to succumb to rising sea levels, was not what was going to happen.
He said it was the government’s duty to protect the area.
Read the full story on the BBC News website
