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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. Emergency planning is a vital occupation.