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Insurance claims for damage caused by the floods have reached £100million, it was estimated today.
Up to 1,000 claims have been made since record amounts of rainfall devastated Cumbria, northern Scotland and Wales.
The Association of British Insurers said it was braced for more as torrential storms, which have flooded at least 1,500 homes, continued to wreak havoc.
The floods claimed the life of Pc Bill Barker, 44, in Cumbria and of kayaker Chris Wheeler, 46, in Devon. A 21-year-old woman in south Wales is also feared dead after she was swept into the river Usk in Brecon on Saturday night.
Meanwhile in Cumbria, families say they are running out of food as many are unable to reach shops after six bridges collapsed.
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Gordon Brown gives £1Million to Cockermouth, Every day we give £2Million to India, and what do they with it, they buy 200 Tonnes of Gold from the European Central Bank, well I am sorry Mr Brown, CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, and no many hands you shook in Cockermouth this week it wont work for you any more,
- Ann Other View, Real World, 24/11/2009 03:11
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Well Komrade Brown has given £1m to help. How very generous, until you see that he gave £293m in the same week to foreign countries with whom we have absolutely no connection.
- Jimbob, Kensington, 23/11/2009 11:05
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