On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:11:13 -0000, Artic wrote:

coverage of the floods, winds, power outages, transport problems, etc,
over Xmas.

There doesn't seem much point. It's the SE so grabs the headlines by
default.

Strange that when the whole East Coast took a hammering from the
biggest storm surge in decades together with widespread damage across
Northern England and Scotland it hardly got a mention...

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Cheers
Dave.