Britons in ravine plunge ordeal
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Two English women survive two nights down a ravine after their car plunges off the road in New Zealand.
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Five people were rescued off the Cornish coast yesterday after drifting for seven days in a life-raft amid storms and 30ft waves after their boat sank near the Isles of Scilly.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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Rescuers have saved a baby girl from torrents of floodwater that surged through the Cornish village of Boscastle by winching her to safety in a rucksack.
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More than 50 people were airlifted to safety after landslides caused by violent rain trapped cars on a road in Scotland, just days after flash floods devastated a tourist village in southwest England.
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Helicopters and boats rescued people in Britain and Northern Europe as heavy rains caused flooding and 128 mph winds downed trees and power lines.
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Three British tourists and a German who drowned off the coast of Portugal's Algarve tourist region on Monday were trying to rescue their children from the sea, a police official said on Tuesday.
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TEWKESBURY, England -- Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people yesterday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
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The flooding today forced some residents to climb to the tops of their vehicles, houses and trees to await rescue.
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Rescue workers combed a coastal village in north Cornwall for missing persons after a flash flood sent a wall of water tearing through the picturesque tourist spot the day before.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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Residents of Boscastle are counting the cost today of the damage estimated at millions of pounds caused by a freak downpour.
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Â· Englishman held after rescue off Irish coast Â· Roads sealed off in search for suspects in British cars
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A major incident is declared by rescue services in north Cornwall after a 3m-tall wave crashes through a village.
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Cornish coastguards were today involved in a desperate attempt to rescue 59 people cast adrift in an inflatable boat off the coast of Libya after falling victim to a human trafficking operation.
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Helicopter and boat crews rescued hundreds of trapped people on Saturday after storms whipped through Britain, flooding towns and villages and sending thousands to emergency shelters.
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A town centre road is sealed off after a pedestrian is badly hurt by a car and reports of a crowd disturbance in the early hours.