Regional Resilience
As part of the work to enhance preparedness for civil contingencies post-9/11, it became clear that in addition to the national civil resilience programme, some work would need doing at regional level. Among other things, this improves planning for civil contingencies by ensuring that it takes account of specific regional and local circumstances.
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Nationwide pandemic flu exercise
Exercise Winter Willow, the largest ever civil contingencies exercise held in the UK, took place on 30 January and 16–21 February |
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USAR team mobilised to Milton Keynes
The Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team from Beaconsfield made a vital contribution to the rescue operation which followed a scaffolding collapse in central Milton Keynes in mid-April. FRS explains how the incident was handled. |
