Councillors from all parties are urging the government to give the environment agency more money - so that it can implement a £100 million Leeds flood defence scheme which was delayed earlier this year.

So far, the city has been allocated just £100,000 of the £14 million pot donated by the government to help alleviate the damage caused by flooding - a figure the council's deputy leader Andrew Carter has branded "not acceptable".

"I have asked the council's chief officer to look at what we can do to supplement the government money," the Yorkshire Evening Post quotes him as saying, as he outlined how the council would continue to support the £100 million flood defence scheme.

The concerns have been prompted by the experiences of home owners in one particular part of the city, on the Dunhills estate. There, the river Wyke Beck recently burst its banks, causing many homes to be flooded for the third time in four years.

Unsurprisingly, insurance premiums in the area have rocketed as a result - prompting councillors to highlight the importance of a new flood defence scheme to protect householders in the area.