RAF rescues flood-hit villagers
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RAF helicopter crews help rescue more than 60 villagers after a Worcestershire river breaks its banks.
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Volunteers and emergency staff are recognised for their rescue work during the floods across England.
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LONDON  - Heavy rain caused flash floods in seaside communities in southwestern England on Monday, and dozens of people were rescued from cars, trees and rooftops by emergency helicopters and lifeboats, officials said.
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Firefighters in Perthshire respond to a number of calls from people trapped by floodwater in Milnathort.
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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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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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Boscastle is saved from a repeat of serious flooding after a defence system was tested by torrential rain.
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The people of Heuersdorf have lost their village but saved their church.
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Officials yesterday sought international help to rebuild villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 566 persons dead and 546 missing in mostly poor northern agricultural regions.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead
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More than 30 aid workers have been airlifted to safety from a town in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region after fighting broke out and their base was bombed, a British charity says.
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Babies born in floodbound home were airlifted out by RAF helicopter but did not survive.
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By MICHELLE FAUL  COCORICO, Mozambique - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Government announces grants to help local authorities affected by recent floods.
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Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday 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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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.