It says many miles of the East Coast of England are at risk.

BBC: By BBC News Online Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby

Since 1984 London has been safely protected by the Thames Flood Barrier, built to prevent a repeat of storm surge that caused widespread destruction and killed 307 people along the east coast of England in 1953.

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Starting at Kirkcudbright in the Solway Firth, he sailed round St Kilda, Shetland, and landed at Blyth on the north east coast of England before cycling 165 miles back to Kirkcudbright.

BBC: Alan Rankin on his yacht Trade Winds

For the residents of Skipsea, on the Holderness coast in the North East of England, coastal erosion is a fact of life.

BBC: Lost villages

President Obama was briefed this morning via phone by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate on the preparations for potential impacts of Hurricane Earl on the East Coast and New England.

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Sixty years on from the 1953 east coast floods, one in 25 homes in England and Wales is at risk of coastal flooding, the Environment Agency has warned.

BBC: Flooded street in King's Lynn

Snow is expected on Saturday in the south of England, in the Midlands, Wales and along the east coast, from East Anglia to Aberdeenshire.

BBC: Snowfall due for parts of Britain