内容摘要：It seems it is easier to get agreement in principle to welfare reform than to put it in to practice.

It seems it is easier to get agreement in principle to welfare reform than to put it in to practice.

"It's a real mystery," said Ms Clifford.Alongside North Tyneside Council and the EA, the water firm has worked on several attempts to rectify the issue, including taking more than 1,000 water samples, repairing connections in scores of properties on the seafront and sealing highway gullies.

But none of these fixes has solved the issue, said Ms Clifford, and the main cause is yet to be identified.Currently, 17 boreholes are being drilled at Cullercoats in a project jointly funded by North Tyneside Council and the EA.It is hoped regular testing of water found in the holes over the summer will narrow down the source of contaminated groundwater.

Ms Clifford said the team hopes to have some answers later this year, though it is unclear how easy it will be to fix the problem even after it has been identified."I would like to think it would be really easy," she said.

"If we do find the source, we can mobilise and do something about it, but the truth is we don't know at the moment."

The EA and North Tyneside Council claimed they could not comment due to pre-election restrictions."He likes the idea of being the guy to bring in a huge land mass," says Mr Heath-Rawlings. "He probably wants the Arctic, which is obviously going to become much more valuable in the years to come."

For Trump, even the US-Canadian border itself is suspect. "If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the US," he said in March. "Somebody did it a long time ago, and it makes no sense."Needless to say, Trump's comments have rankled Canadian leaders, who warn of the president's ultimate designs on their homeland.

In March, Trudeau accused the US president of planning "a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us".The previous month, after Trump first announced new tariffs on Canada, Trudeau had said: "Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that [annexing Canada] is absorbing our country. And it is a real thing."