| Areas of Bradford could be abandoned to floods as the cost of protection spirals, a conference was told yesterday. |
| More than three weeks after the floods began, water still lies waist-deep or higher in some areas. |
| It had been there hundreds of years but until Hawnby Bridge was washed out by the weekend's flash floods nobody appreciated it. |
| The event was washed out by flash floods in the pre-dawn hours on the day of the race. |
| Experts will also be on hand to explain how the Agency forecasts floods and how its warnings are issued. |
| A terrified Essex family waded waist-deep through a raging torrent to escape flash floods which devastated a Cornish village. |
