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One of the leading voices in the fight against flooding has given his backing to a controversial scheme to create a tidal ...
The creation of a fen to act as a "giant sponge" could help restore a flood-prone area to its natural landscape, campaigners ...
River tributaries snake throughout the landscape, creating a network of marshes, fens, swamps and bog, which spread flood water and energy more widely. Gravel is dispersed across the floodplain ...
Keen skaters have been making the most of the recent cold snap by taking to the ice after flooded fields in the Fens froze over. Hundreds of people flocked to Upware, near Wicken, Cambridgeshire ...
The Salters Lode lock, near Downham Market in Norfolk, was shut from early April until mid-June, meaning boaters in The Fens could not ... by the wet weather and flooding. The lock, at the ...
Paul Jansen skates on a frozen flooded field in Upware, Cambridgeshire (Joe Giddens/ PA) Ice skaters made the most of the bitter conditions in the Cambridgeshire Fens by heading out on frozen ...
in 2012 Thousands of years ago the East Anglian Fens was densely forested by large oak trees which, due to rising seas, fell into the silt of the flooded forest floor and were preserved in the peat.