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Mon 11 Nov 2009UK floods claim second victim as emergency supplies delivered
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS claimed a second victim yesterday in Devon, southwest England, as emergency medical supplies and food parcels were sent to communities marooned by floods in Cumbria, northern England, and rescue teams searched the swollen river Usk in Wales for a missing woman.
Hundreds of police, soldiers and volunteers were in action along Britain’s western seaboard, as a second slow-moving weather front unloaded hours’ more rain from Dartmoor in the south to the Scottish border, with even more expected this week.
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