Protect Pickering From Flooding - campaign by Gazette & Herald to back flood defences in Pickering

MP Anne McIntosh urges rethink on flooding aid for North Yorkshire

12:18pm Wednesday 26th August 2009

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Hilary Benn has been urged by MP Anne McIntosh to think again on the allocation of funds for flood defences , after schemes for Pickering, Thirsk, Sinnington and Filey failed to get help.

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Flood campaigners take fight to London

12:19pm Thursday 24th January 2008

A PETITION of more than 4,000 names collected as part of a Gazette & Herald campaign to win the go-ahead for the multi-million pound flood defence scheme for Pickering, is to be handed to the Government's floods minister, Phil Woollas on Monday.

Home for Christmas

10:56am Wednesday 19th December 2007

RESIDENTS made homeless by this summer's floods are finally back in their homes - six months after the devastating deluge.

Flood victims face fear of huge hike in insurance bills

10:40am Thursday 30th August 2007

Householders and businesses face rocketing insurance bills as a result of the floods which caused widespread devastation in Pickering in June.

Flood defence? It's years away

9:47am Wednesday 1st August 2007

FLOOD victims in Pickering have been dealt a cruel blow by Environment Agency bosses who admitted the badly hit town was 'low down on their list of priorities' for defence work.

Flood defence 'must be shared responsibility'

11:03am Thursday 26th July 2007

PICKERING'S only hope of getting flood defences lies in local and regional agencies coming together to help fund a scheme.

Minister backs campaign for action in flood-hit town

11:16am Thursday 19th July 2007

As homeowners and businesses continue to mop up after the recent flooding in Pickering, Vale of York MP and shadow floods minister, Anne McIntosh has visited the town to see the devastation at first hand. DAVID JEFFELS reports.

Councillors call on former Pickering pupil for help with defence scheme

11:15am Thursday 19th July 2007

EX-Lady Lumley's student turned Government minister, John Healey is being urged to make a special case of his old town of Pickering in the Gazette & Herald-backed campaign to get the goahead for the £6.5 million flood defence scheme.