Prime Minister visits dredging site on Somerset Levels
David Cameron is in Somerset to see how the county is recovering after the floods and storms.
Dredging on Somerset Levels to begin this morning
Dredging of the River Tone and River Parrett has begun this morning on the Somerset Levels. A four-kilometre stretch of each river will be dredged near Burrowbridge. The Government had promised work would begin before the end of March.
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Dredging begins on Somerset Levels
People living on the Somerset Levels have campaigned for it for years. Today they celebrated as diggers moved in to dredge the rivers.
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Dredging of the Somerset Levels begins
Three months after the Somerset Levels was struck by the worst floods in 250 years dredging of the rivers has begun.