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Looking back: Five years since floods hit the region

This week ITV Border are looking back at the floods in 2009 which affected thousands of people in a wide area, from Cockermouth and Keswick to Appleby and Dumfries.

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Flood defences: how safe is Cumbria?

Since 2009 thousands of homes have been protected by new defences.

People have got involved in local flood groups but has enough been done and could an event like 2009 happen again?

Tim Backshall has been investigating.

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