The government has set up a website app to help separating parents work together to minimise the impact of their break up on their children and avoid the courts - ' Sorting Out Separation' - has already been visited by 40, 000 parents.

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One proposal: a set of giant movable gates to be built on the land separating Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf that when closed could block tidal surges, and when open, improve water flow.

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