Exeter's flood defence scheme has been given the green light - with six million pounds of funding agreed today by DEFRA.
The money tops up contributions from the city and county councils.
The Exeter defences include better protection for two thousand homes, the railway line, the city's sewage system.... and businesses which employ 4,700 people.
The scheme is also expected to create more than a thousand jobs - and it's that economic growth aspect which is thought to have helped attract the six million pounds in Government funding, needed to make up the shortfall.
Councillors have been campaigning hard for the funding since the severe flooding last year.. which caused massive transport disruption, including the closure of the main railway line to London at Exeter's Cowley Bridge.
Today's announcement means the improved defences should be completed by late 2017.
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