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Council staff remain on standby in Dumfries and Galloway with more rain forecast after flooding hit the region on Friday The south west of Scotland remains on flood standby with more rain forecast to hit the region over the...
Britain faces being battered by storms well into next month. The only comfort is that the Met Office believes that a slight shift in wind direction next week will bring cooler air, which means that rainfalls will diminish. But...
After a series of devastating storms since late September, many communities in the Philippines are still badly flooded, and the government estimates it may take months for the waters to drain. The BBC's Daniel Vincent in Manila...
WELL we were all warned last weekend that there was a storm coming and boy were they right. A south westerly wind whipped up the centre of our valley and tore through the allotments. Any loose items were snatched up and...
COCKERMOUTH, England -- Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
By Ralph Riegel Saturday November 21 2009 THE ESB warned Cork householders and traders last night that one more inch of rainfall in the next 24 hours could trigger another major water release. ESB officials told Cork City...
One of the major causes of the flooding is the exceptionally high November rainfall, already well beyond normal amounts for the month and likely to set new records in many parts of the west and south.
1:55pm UK, Friday November 20, 2009 Hazel Tyldesley, Sky News Online Shop and cafe owners in a flooded Cumbrian market town have been dealt a devastating blow in the crucial run up to Christmas, a local business network has...
NEW DELHI, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were killed Friday in northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh after being hit by a snow storm, Indian official broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) Saturday reported. These...
The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. “What an isolation system does is that it enables the building to...
