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Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 14:19 GMT

Roads are reopened after floods

Police have reopened some roads in Cambridgeshire that were closed owing to overnight flooding caused by heavy rain fall.

Many routes in the Huntingdonshire district were impassable which led to meetings between emergency services, councils and the Environment Agency.

Police said roads at Offord, Little Paxton and the A660 between Hamerton and Old Weston remain closed.

Routes through Kimbolton, Wistow and St Neots have been opened.

Water levels at Alconbury, Alconbury Weston and Alconbury Brook were described as receding but still not clear to pass.

No evacuations necessary

Fourteen flood warnings are in place in the east, with communities around the rivers Kym, Great Ouse and Alconbury Brook on alert.

Police officers have been sent to areas worst affected by the rising waters to close roads where necessary.

Huntingdonshire District Council is providing sandbags to residential properties in Buckden, Offord, Kimbolton, Little Paxton and Alconbury.

Cambridgeshire County Council has been in contact with social services to identify vulnerable premises, although no evacuations have so far been necessary.



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