内容摘要：Phillips accepted that more needed to be done to ensure the process was "effective and timely".

Phillips accepted that more needed to be done to ensure the process was "effective and timely".

There are also at least 15 Internal Drainage Boards or IDBs.These IDBs have specialist local knowledge and operate hundreds of pumping stations, sluices and flood gates.

There are lots of moving parts in a flood defence plan.was there to try to make them all work together.It made recommendations, including calls for more government money and it would hold to account the myriad private and public bodies.

The Flood and Water Scrutiny Committee met four times a year. It involved at least 18 councillors and dozens of other specialists.These were drawn from the council itself, from the IDBs, The Environment Agency and private companies such as Anglian Water.

Conservative councillor Ian Carrington said the recent experiences of big storms in Lincolnshire demonstrated the need for the committee: "When you have been through the appalling experiences that many of our local residents have been through, any dilution of our ability to improve the situation has to be deeply worrying." he said.

But Reform UK scrapped the committee on its first day in charge of Lincolnshire County Council.The title of her autobiography, due out in September, is synonymous with her most famous character - Stacey Shipman - but Page believes Lush also sums up her own personality.

She admits to crying "constantly" throughout filming of the final episode last year, then while watching with with her own family on Christmas Day and then being left a "wreck" after watching the documentary that followed."I'm just such a sentimental and emotional person anyway. My emotions are always so much on the surface that it got to the second day [of filming], I mean we were only on day two, I just started crying," she said.

"There was so much joy and so much laughter because we all knew this will be the last time that we're here, playing these characters in these costumes, all together, doing this story."You think about how far all our lives have gone. I started it when I was 29, and for something to be there in the background for the whole of your life.