The rivers Skell, Ure and Laver all meet at Ripon and the most recent flood, in 2007, affected more than 40 properties.

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After the River Cherwell flooded in 2007 a flood alleviation scheme was built in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.

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The record prices reached in 2007 have brought a flood of new works to the market.

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Thatcham was devastated by severe floods in July 2007 with about 1, 000 homes damaged by flood water which rose to 4ft (1.2m) in places.

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This concept, enacted in 2007, turned the economic equivalent of a serious flood into a tsunami by relentlessly destroying the ostensible value of our banks' regulatory capital.

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Vesty has fallen down the perking order since Pat Howard left the club in 2007 and his chances were further hampered by Toby Flood's move to Welford Road.

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Council leader Mark Hawthorne, said about 50 properties had flooded but the EA believed that figure would have been nearer 500 without the flood defence work that has been carried out in the county since 2007.

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"Longlevens was particularly badly hit in 2007, and as a council we are delighted that this scheme will reduce the flood risk to the Longlevens area, " he added.

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In 2007 the area was severely affected when 40 properties flooded despite the nearby River Severn being low and the flood plain dry.

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