Tory MP Says River Severn Flooding Requires Government to ‘Think Like the Victorians’

A Conservative MP has called on the government to “think like the Victorians” and back his £500 million plan to “tame” the Severn and prevent the flooding which regularly devastates towns and villages across a large swathe of the English Midlands. Daniel Kawczynski, the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, told The Epoch Times he and a group of other parliamentarians with constituencies in the Severn valley had come up with a “very innovative concept” to “manage the river holistically” and remove the perennial threat of flooding. Last week heavy rainfall during Storm Henk caused widespread flooding in Shrewsbury, Worcester and several other towns and communities along the Severn, which is Britain’s longest river and runs from the mountains of north Wales down to the Severn estuary, near Bristol....