Chris DUNLAVY
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IT’S been wet this year.
And last year. Chances are, it’ll be wet next year, too. And the one after that.
By 2070, the Met Office predicts that winters in the UK will be up to 30 per cent wetter than they were in 1990 and that rainfall will be up to 25 per cent more intense.
As a resident of York, a city that invariably loses its annual battle against the River Ouse, this is quite frankly terrifying.
Rowntree Park, which mercifully acts as a flood plain protecting hundreds of houses (including mine), was submerged for over four of the last 12 months. ...