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Residents return home after floods

November 24, 2009 Edition 1

LONDON: Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse.

Police said residents and business owners in the hardest-hit town, Cockermouth, were allowed to return to their properties yesterday.

Some of the heaviest rainfall recorded in Britain triggered floods in the mountainous Lake District last week. A police officer was swept to his death when a major bridge collapsed on Friday.

More than 1 000 homes were flooded and people had to be rescued by helicopter when rivers burst their banks. - Sapa-AP