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25 November 2012 Last updated at 22:33 Share this pageEmailPrint
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Floods in UK: More than 800 homes flooded as storms hit
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Aerial views of Exeter show the extent of the flooding along the River Exe
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More than 800 homes have been flooded after storms hit parts of England and Wales, the Environment Agency has said.
It said 816 houses had been affected after a band of heavy rain and strong winds swept across the country.
Devon and Cornwall are badly hit, along with Malmesbury in Wiltshire and Kempsey in Worcestershire.
Two people have died in the storm – a woman killed by a falling tree in Exeter and a man whose car crashed into a swollen river in Cambridgeshire.
However, Cambridgeshire Police later said that the death of the 70-year-old man, whose car plunged into a river near Earith, on Saturday night, was not weather related.
A spokesman for the force said: “This particular accident could have happened at any time