29th October - Today's News: Severe Flooding Hits Cumbria and Borders
Heavy rain hits Cumbria with homes flooded and travel disrupted whilst Glasgow floods days before it is due to host world leaders at COP26
In the Borders, there were two bridges 'washed away' by heavy downpours, with a "major incident" declared at Hawick.
However, despite well over a foot of rain falling in the Lake District in the space of 36 hours, flooding was not nearly as bad as happened, under very similar synoptic conditions, in November 2009.
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