{"id":413623,"date":"2026-02-07T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:50:20","slug":"knock-heads-together-to-sort-flood-defences-says-spelthorne-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413623\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Knock heads together&#8217; to sort flood defences, says Spelthorne MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MP for Spelthorne has urged the government to &#8220;knock some heads together&#8221; over delays to the River Thames flood defence scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The multi-million pound project, which is being delivered by the Environment Agency (EA) and Surrey County Council (SCC), involves building new relief channels alongside the river to reduce the risk of flooding between Egham in Surrey and Teddington in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative Lincoln Jopp raised the issue in the Commons on Thursday in light of a recent spate of weather warnings across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Will the Secretary of State please get both the EA and SCC to say something about what is happening?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MP for Spelthorne has urged the government to &#8220;knock some heads together&#8221; over delays to the River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-413623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413623","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=413623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}