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Rising Seas Forcing Britain to Plan Coastal Evacuations. By Tamara Cohen, Daily Mail (UK), August 18, 2008. "Stretches of Britain's coastline will soon have to be abandoned due to the rising tides, [Lord Smith of Finsbury, the new head of Britain's Environment Agency] has warned. [He] said… plans would have to be drawn up to evacuate people from the worst-hit areas. 'This is the most difficult issue we are going to face as an agency,' he said. 'We know the sea is eating away at the coast in quite a number of places, primarily -- but not… exclusively -- on the east and south coasts. 'It's a particularly huge issue in East Anglia, but in quite a number of other areas as well.' While promising to do his 'level best' to fund engineering solutions to the problem, Lord Smith warned that all coastal areas could not be saved."