Two Christmases after floods drove 8,000 people from their homes in Hull, the city is tackling a fresh round of evacuations, skips loaded with ruined carpets and sodden plaster peeling off walls.

A flood forecast centre is to be set up as part of the government's response to last summer's devastating floods, the environment secretary Hilary Benn has announced.

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China's heavy industries have tipped so much waste into the river that enormous stretches of it, amounting to over a third of its entire length, cannot be used at all anymore, either for drinking, fishing, farming or even in factories, according to criteria used by the United Nations Environmental Programme.

Severe pollution has made one-third of China's Yellow river unusable, according to new research.