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Smug git with canoe ‘on standby’ after further flood alerts

Residents expressed their fears that 36-year-old Steve Roberts could once again add insult to injury by paddling his occasionally appropriate craft up the High Street like some kind of psychic Popeye.

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Posted: Jul 11th, 2012
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Cockermouth ‘well placed to emerge from water-based recession,’ claims Chancellor

Deluge due to MET office policy of quantitative easingAlistair Darling today claimed that the government’s prudent management of the environment meant that Cumbria was better placed to emerge from flooding than many other regions.

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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2009
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