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Flood Warning for Oxford Residents

Today, the government was accused by Association of British Insurers for failing to give homeowners and businesses enough money for flood defences.The insurers warned that insufficient funding would mean that homeowners could face similar problems to those seen over the summer, with flooding taking over large parts of Oxford.Stephen Haddrill, Director General for the firm, said that government spending for the next three years had dropped below the amount they had been asking for, even before the flood disaster. He said that the government had "completely failed to grasp the importance of improving Britain's flood defences in the wake of the devastating floods across the UK this summer."

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