Richfords news

The day a flash flood smashed its way through a Cornish village has been remembered on a national radio station. BBC 5 Live went back to 16th August 2004 when a river suddenly turned into a torrent and caused massive destruction to Boscastle.

At Richfords, we are passionate about preservation of our national heritage as well as taking care of our local community. We decided help the community and make a difference.

The chairman of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Select Committee, Neil Parish MP, has been on a fact-finding mission to a damage restoration depot in his own constituency.

The rapid advance in mobile internet technology means a growing range of possibilities for damage restoration. We look at three key examples.

The National Farmers Union is outlining its case in its new Flooding Manifesto, which insists that further funding is needed to make coastal farmland more resilient when extreme weather hits and tidal surges put pressure on defenses.

A panel of MPs are claiming the Government needs to tackle urgently what it considers ‘fragmented and ineffective’ flood management. However, ministers have rejected the Commons Environment Committee’s criticism that more needs to be done on how flooding is affecting home insurance and local authority planning. One idea proposed by the Environment, Food and Rural […]

The Environment and Rural Affairs committee is issuing its suggestions for changing the way we cope with the growing tide of flooding events across the UK. 

Beavers have been reintroduced to the UK and are reshaping land to be flood-resistant.

It was the hottest September day since 1911 in the south east of England – however, in Cornwall, it turned out to be among the wettest.

Braunton suffered severe flooding on Boxing Day 2012 and thus sparked a stream of works to rectify the North Devon town’s problems.