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Environment secretary snubs meeting with flood-hit community
Tory MP Theresa Villiers ducks out of meeting with Ban the Burn campaigners during visit to Calder Valley
Ban the Burn campaigners in Calder Valley
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ENVIRONMENT Secretary Theresa Villiers snubbed a meeting with local residents when she visited two flood-hit communities in Yorkshire today.
And every Tory MP in 2016 still in Parliament today and mewling words of sympathy to their flood-hit constituents voted against an increase in flood defence spending four years ago.
Fire and rescue services battling Storm Ciara have had their annual funding cut by £141.5 million over the last four years.
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