{"id":412388,"date":"2026-02-07T05:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:07:13","slug":"arun-residents-very-fearful-as-flooding-hits-again-says-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412388\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun residents &#8216;very fearful&#8217; as flooding hits again, says councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dennis said the Environment Agency had identified the area as one with a &#8220;very high risk area of surface water flooding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are looking again at the issues to see what we can do to try and minimise or alleviate some of the issues,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said it had been &#8220;one of the wettest Januarys on record&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is only going to get worse as our climate continues to change, so we&#8217;re predicting that the winters are going to get wetter &#8211; so, wetter that what they are at the moment, and the summers are going to get drier,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis said the Environment Agency had identified the area as one with a &#8220;very high risk area of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-412388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}