IF we want to stop these floods from happening frequently, all we have to do is reinstate the countryside that we have ripped up over the years to build motorways, housing estates and industrial estates.
The countryside is not just a place of beauty and a home to wildlife, it is also there to soak up the rain.
PAUL WHITEHEAD, Silloth Close, Blackburn.
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