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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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Woman marks 2009 floods with positivity

It's 5 years since floods in West Cumbria destroyed 1300 homes and businesses.

But out of the devastation came some positive stories. Livy Bremner's Cockermouth home was badly damaged, but a year later she followed a dream which was to open a children's clothes shop.

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