Britain hit by floods after record rainfall

2009/11/20 09:40:45 @Reuters: World News

COCKERMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Lifeboats and military helicopters rescued hundreds of people overnight in northern England and a policeman was feared dead as torrential rain flooded homes and washed away bridges. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=SZQWt0FCvs0:gtrSdo2yyow:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=SZQWt0FCvs0:gtrSdo2yyow:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=SZQWt0FCvs0:gtrSdo2yyow:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=SZQWt0FCvs0:gtrSdo2yyow:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=SZQWt0FCvs0:gtrSdo2yyow:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/SZQWt0FCvs0" height="1" width="1"/
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