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The Environment Agency cares more about wildlife than people

In fact, if you're a depressed river mussel, it's handled the floods perfectly

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

What do voles, beetles, mussels, trout and the golden plover have in common? Believe it or not, they have all been used as excuses by the Environment Agency not to improve flood defences.

Travelling around the worst of the flooded areas last week, I met family after family who said their local rivers had been left to clog with debris — and always because of some critter or other.

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