Michael Moynihan: If flood relief is worth doing in Blackpool, it’s worth doing right

Covering the river isn’t the only solution. Upstream storage was and is a possibility, Michael Moynihan is told.
Michael Moynihan: If flood relief is worth doing in Blackpool, it’s worth doing right

Chris Moody on the Bride: “I and other people have spent countless hours cleaning it. It’s a disgusting job.”

HERE’S how my conversation with Chris Moody started.

I asked him where his interest in the river Bride came from, and he gave the most obvious answer you could think of: “The Bride flows at the bottom of my garden in Blackpool, where I moved to around 12 years ago.

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