Flood News

A severe weather warning has been issued for parts of Scotland still recovering from serious flooding.

WIND and showers are set to continue across East Lancashire this week. After the flooding in the county last week, the Met Office has withdrawn the severe weather warnings for the time being.

Thai civil society leaders representing 189 organisations demanded Monday the government withdraw from the controversial Hutgyi dam project in Myanmar or face dire consequences.

Flood-hit communities are facing up to the devastation brought about by the torrential downpours, as homes and businesses in Cumbria found themselves cut off by collapsed or damaged bridges.

Torrential downpours claimed a second victim yesterday in Devon as emergency medical supplies and food parcels were sent to communities marooned by floods in Cumbria, and rescue teams searched the swollen river Usk in Wales for a missing woman.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 -- The flood situation in Terengganu and Kelantan has taken a turn for the worse with all districts in Terengganu affected except for Kuala Terengganu.

Britain's flood-hit northwest braced Saturday for more devastation after river levels rose again and forecasters warned of more rain following unprecedented torrential deluges.

Flood warnings remain across parts of Scotland as more rain is forecast to raise river levels.

Flood response efforts continue across County Clare with local authority staff, Clare County Fire and Rescue, the Army and Gardai providing 24-hour cover to the flooding crisis.

Inpspectors concerned for safety of bridges after policeman's death as search under way for woman swept away in Wales Northside bridge in Workington, which was destroyed by flooding in Cumbria.

Residents of Duncan, B.C., rescued a car from the flooded streets Friday. An evacuation order has been lifted for hundreds of south Vancouver Island residents forced from their homes by flooding.

A canoeist pulled from a river during stormy conditions has died, the fire service has confirmed.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to residents at a rescue centre in Cockermouth, northern England, yesterday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds in the heaviest rainfall on record in England.

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Towns and communities across the country were today counting the cost of the clean-up operation after being devastated by some of the worst floods in living memory.

The emergency services are searching homes as residents braced themselves for more rain after England's wettest day on record caused chaos, flooding homes, sweeping away bridges and claiming the life of a policeman.

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Angry business people hit out at the ESB tonight after a dam on the River Lee was opened piling pressure on Cork citya s strained flood defences.

Army units joined emergency crews volunteers and worried locals around the country as communities rallied in the face of rising flood waters.