Local MP David Lock said the flooding was possibly one of the worst ever to affect the town.

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History shows that such efforts can lock local firms into dead-end technologies and leave them unable to compete globally.

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They assumed they had a lock on local advertising to individuals with their papers' classified ad departments, and on major advertisers like auto manufacturers, auto dealers and movie distributors and theaters with their display ads.

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