Floods claim fourth life and leave worst insurance bills for five years

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The Guardian - 11/27/12

  • Water emergency teams in St Asaph, north Wales

    Emergency workers recovered the body of an elderly woman from her flooded house, one of 500 local properties damaged or evacuated. Photograph: Geoff Abbott/Corbis

Flooding in Britain has claimed a fourth life and brought misery to hundreds more homes, as torrential rain moves away into the North Sea leaving the worst insurance bills for five years in its wake.

Firefighters in the devastated centre of St Asaph, the small but historic north Wales community which was given city status by the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee, recovered the body of an elderly woman from her flooded house, one of 500 local properties damaged or evacuated.

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