pray that the water doesn t come even higher. but almost everyone here has told me how exhausting it s been. i ve been speaking to chloe, one local here, who s been telling me how those last three days have been for her. it s crazy being told that you have to leave your home and just grab what you can. you know, a lot of stuff was left behind. we don t really know what we re really going to go back to. so we re just hoping that our house is safe and all our belongings and whatnot are going to be there when get back and try and get back to being normal. and time and time again, people tell you, look, dealing with one catastrophic flood is hard enough. the shock, the trauma, the fact that you have to leave your house. dealing with three or even four, for some, in less than two years has just been devastating. the rain is still going, the wind is still going. we now have more than 100 evacuation orders that is affecting at least
in their subsequent questioning. and i think that is not working. the deputy prime minister domic raab was being interviewed on bbc breakfast as simon mcdonald published his letter. i don t know, and that is news to me that the prime minister was briefed on the specific complaint that was made and then the outcome, precisely because it didn t lead to a formal disciplinary grievance process, let alone formal action. and i don t know how sir simon would know that, but if he does know that, he was briefed directly, that s news to me. and i think the distinction that is being drawn is awareness of a complaint that may have been. ..or an allegation that may have been made, and something that trips the wire, if you like, meets the threshold for formal disciplinary action. and there was none taken here. and, indeed, that was the advice of sir simon in this case,
in an area where you have grown up and you have lived, been part of the community, you have been to school, all your friends and family are here, to feel that you are being pushed outjust so somebody can have a holiday, or that somebody can have a second home just doesn t really resonate as fair. and we have both said we understand that people want to move to the area. we understand that people want to have holidays, especially after being locked up after covid. but there has got to be a balance. figures obtained by the bbc show that here in north devon, the number of holiday lets went up by a third in a period of three years up to november last year. but this isn t just an issue facing the south west of england. other tourist hotspots across england are facing similar issues. in scarborough, which includes the resort of whitby, the number of holiday lets rose by 43%. on the isle of wight, the number went up by 39% and there have been significant rises in norfolk, including in great ya
south asia always experiences downpours during monsoon season, but this year the flooding has been extreme, especially in bangladesh. thousands of people across bangladesh have been affected by raging floods and landslides. many people are still stranded and in desperate need of fresh food and water. sylhet is the worst affected area. there is estimated to be over half a million bangladeshis in the uk, with a large amount coming from the sylhet district. i went out and spoke to one who was in sylhet just over a week ago, to find out how this has affected him and his family. you ve just recently come back from bangladesh. how was your experience? what did you see? occasionally, we have floods in the uk. what i have seen there, entire areas, entire communities. the water doesn t discriminate
running into a roadblock. showerheads, you take a shower. the water doesn t come out. you want to wash her hands, the water doesn t come out? what do you do, you stand there longer or take a shower longer? my hair. i don t know about you, but it has to be perfect. [laughter] the biden administration has reversed the do you have one coming on his hair before i sit the story? let s hear this stupid rule? layer reverse the trump administration rule that increased how much water we could use in the shower. i pay the water bill no matter what so if i use 100 100 gallons in the shower or ten gallons, i pay the price. i know if there s a drought, you can t sprinkle on your lawn in a subdivision but when you pay a water bill, you pay a water