BBCNEWS BBC News February 21, 2022 17:54:00
Storm franklin brought more floods, swelling rivers, like the aire in leeds last night, a pontoon was swept away and crashed into a bridge. forecasters had warned of a risk to life and property if the mersey broke its banks, but here, south of manchester, defences worked. the water flowed instead into woodland and a golf course. there was no protection against high winds, though, in some of manchesters residential streets, nor on the m6 in lancashire, where a lorry hit a bridge and burst into fl...
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