The city's Rapid Repairs programme helped restore heat, power and water to 15,000 homes.
Very quickly the city set up its Rapid Repairs programme, which restored heat and power to 54,000 people and got them back into their homes.
The Westminster estate includes a hotchpotch of buildings from different eras, from the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, to the modern Portcullis House, with its vast glass atrium, which opened in 2001 and would be unaffected by the repairs programme.
They are among the stranger objects recovered in a four-month survey of rubbish thrown in waterways, as part of a £45m restoration and repairs programme by the Canal and River Trust.
With some repair programmes expected to take months, factory owners say they cannot shoulder the costs of paying staff while factories are closed, alongside the expense of some major works needed to ensure buildings are safe.
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Last year up to one in five youngsters in some parts of the country missed out on their parents' top choice of school, although efforts by local authorities to provide more places averted a serious overall shortage, as funds were diverted from repair programmes to create extra classroom space.
Roy Perry, the Tory leader of Hampshire county council and chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said councils had created 300,000 extra primary school places by expanding class sizes, converting non-classroom space and diverting money from vital school repair programmes, but now needed to be able to expand schools or establish new ones to meet demand.
After a revisit of some historical collapses of cooling-tower shells, and a brief consideration of condition surveys and repair programmes instituted in the aftermath of these events, focus shifts to the important question of damage and deterioration, and progress made over the past 30 years in the understanding of these phenomena.
As a result, the Government of Sweden agreed to finance two repair programmes (value US$22 million) which started in December 1999.
