Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Nice to see Norman Baker is going cap-in-hand to Government to get funding for the flood defences in Lewes rather than trying to get the local council to spend its money more appropriately:
from the BBC
Call for more flood defence funds
Thousands of campaign letters calling for more flood defence funding have been handed to the government.
Norman Baker, Lewes MP, said more than 2,000 people have signed letters to the Chancellor demanding more investment.
The letters claim government figures predict a national £700m flood defence shortfall over 10 years.
Mr Baker said swathes of Lewes remained unprotected. Defence work was carried out after floods in 2000, but residents in the East Sussex town asked for more.
After the letters were handed in at Downing Street, Mr Baker said: "The long-term cost of not funding comprehensive flood defences will far exceed that of funding them."
He said most of the letters handed in on Wednesday had been signed by people from Lewes.
The MP said he would be meeting Treasury Minister John Healey next week to discuss flood defence funding.
Homes, shops and businesses were devastated by flooding in 2000 after the River Ouse burst its banks in the autumn.