“Officers, along with the Underwater Search Team, are working to recover the body which has been located in the Kendal area”.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron visited a swath of northwest England inundated by floods, as rescuers pulled people from waterlogged homes after record rainfall led to at least one death and swamped some 3,500 properties.
On Monday morning police announced they had found a body in the River Kent in Cumbria.
In Carlisle, Cumbria’s administrative centre, hundreds of homes were without electricity and troops were helping emergency workers to evacuate residents from flooded streets.
“The water we have seen in the street would have been a lot higher if we had not spent money on these defences”.
Road services were also badly disrupted.
Following an emergency Government meeting, Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss said that figures from a rain gauge in Honister, Cumbria, suggest a record amount of rain fell in the 24 hours between Friday and Saturday evenings.
The rail network in Cumbria remained “basically at a standstill”, he added.
Here’s what the flooding looks like in the worst-hit areas.
The caravanners, situated at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith, were taken to a higher vantage point as flood waters took hold and the highest level of alert was put into place in what was declared by police as a “major incident”.
Mr Nankivell described how the flood water had caused an explosion in a nearby electricity sub-station and how local people had lost power during the storm.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Nature is nature”.
She will set out more details of the Government’s response in an oral statement to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon.
The Met Office, said in one of the worst affected areas, Cumbria, received 201.8 millimetres (7.94 inches) of rain on Saturday. “We can’t stop the weather, but we can work tirelessly to support our customers affected by the events brought by Storm Desmond”.
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Grainger, who scored in the routine win over Welling which sent Curle’s men into the third round, tweeted: “Anyone affected by the Cumbria floods and need help with anything at all please get in touch and some of the squad can come and help”. “But it’s important to say that many households were protected by our defences”.
