LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Towyn flood defences not up to the job

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

28 Feb 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:12

Description

More than two thousand homeless people at Towyn in North Wales are expecting another high tide to bring yet more devastation to the already flood-damaged town. The sea wall has been damaged, and residents claim the wall was dilapidated; Mark Williams recalls times when the wall should have been fixed. Phil Edwards reports from Towyn.

Contributors

Phil Edwards; Mark Williams

Keywords

Weather; Storms; Damage; Great Britain; Flood damage; Wales; Natural disasters; Evacuation; Flood defences; Towyn; Sea walls

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