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“The bottom line,” Gorski writes, “is that, if you trace back the history of the vaccines developed for a disease like, say, measles, you will eventually find the RCT testing the first effective vaccine against it and that vaccine will have had a placebo control.”

But questions remain over how to foot the bill for a long-term fix, with the leader of RCT council telling BBC News in October as much as £800m could be needed over the coming decades.

Andrew Morgan, the leader of RCT council, said he was “amazed” that only a yellow weather warning was put in place after Storm Bert, saying an amber warning was expected.

Save the School Transport RCT said it could mean a two-hour commute for some children, exhausting them and having an impact on their learning.

Save the School Transport RCT said families in the more deprived areas will be hardest hit.