Metro: Britain faces a period of flooding on a scale ‘beyond most people’s living memory’, experts warn. The number of people and properties likely to be affected has been underestimated because predictions are based on figures first collected in the 1960s, they add. Since then, there have been only relatively low levels of flooding. The scientists examined last year’s wet summer in the context of records dating from 1753 and in the light of climate change. They found the …