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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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Then and now: Mabel, Cockermouth's oldest flood evacuee

Pam Royle went to celebrate Mabel's 100th birthday in May this year. Credit: ITV Border

Mabel Proctor was Cockermouth's oldest evacuee at 95-years-old . Earlier this year Mabel celebrated her 100th birthday. Here's a reminder of her story:

Well Mabel has moved again and she's still in Cockermouth.

Pam Royle went to meet Mabel her, to be shown around her new room in the home where she's now settled.

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