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View Larger Map Watching Sky News over the weekend just reinforced my growing irritation with ‘traditional’ media. There’s a big bust up ove...

Sky was getting properly into the swing of things last night: lots of stories on how communities were coming together and managing to cope w...

Following my wee rant about Sky News and how I think they’re getting the tone of their reporting on the floods in the UK wrong, I was delig...

The recent massive flooding in the UK has been interesting for me, particularly because I’ve been able to sit here in the sweltering heat a...