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Preparing for the deluge to come

Focus: They are the kind of floods that hit twice a century - but they have come twice this summer already. Some of England's biggest rivers were still rising last night, swollen by record rainfall.

They are the kind of floods that hit twice a century - but they have come twice this summer already. Some of England's biggest rivers were still rising last night, swollen by record rainfall.

Scientists used to expect such events once every 50 years.