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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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Five years without Bill: 'Time has no meaning'

The widow of PC Bill Barker says 'time has no meaning' when it comes to coping with the death of her husband.

PC Barker, a father of four, died when the Northside Bridge collapsed in Workington in November 2009. He was swept away in the flood water and his body found several hours later.

On the fifth anniversary of the flooding, Hazel Barker has spoken of her families grief and of the support she says she still receives from the public:

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