'Send for Disney' to save Venice

The waters are rising around Venice. Each year the floods worsen and last longer.

Carpets of slime coat St Mark's Square. Statues and church walls are coated with filth. The city is drowning. But there is a solution: run the place like Disneyland. 'Send for Disney' to save Venice The Italian government recently backed a £3bn plan that would involve building barriers between the lagoon around Venice and the sea.

The barriers would be raised when abnormally high tides were due. But, unless global climate controls are agreed in the next few years, no one will be able to save one of the world's most glorious cities. Not even the Disney Corporation.