As well as identifying places in the home counties for evacuation, places suitable for becoming temporary mortuaries are also being identified.

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That makes it hard to find suitable sites for temporary portable shelters: less than a third of the 23, 000 currently available have been erected.

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Businesses would be given subsidies to hire people on a temporary basis, with those refusing a suitable job having benefits docked.

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The NHS trust said the changes were being brought in for safety reasons because it was unable to recruit suitable specialist doctors which had led to an over-reliance on temporary and agency staff.

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Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.

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