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<TEXT>All rivers in North Somerset are on flood alert after the Met Office issued heavy rain warnings for this morning.

We're set for more downpours too as the South West is under a severe weather warning for rain.

altogether 35 flood warnings are in place across the UK.

Dave Hornibrook is Area Commander for Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue:
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<TEXT>Parts of England and Wales are facing fresh flood fears - after another night
of heavy rain.

More than 20 millimetres fell in some regions - after confirmation of the
wettest April since records began.

35 flood warnings are in place.

Dave Hornibrook is Area Commander for Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue:

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<TEXT>Police are asking for your help to find a violent burglar - who escaped custody in Somerset before he could be sentenced..

Maxwell Wilson who's 24 was jailed for 14 years in his absence at Exeter Crown Court - for aggravated burglary and trespassing with a gun.

He broke into a house in Devon last January and threatened the occupants.

Anyone who meets him is being told to call 999 straight away.
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<TEXT>Three people are unaccounted for, after a fire which gutted a hotel in Cornwall.

More than 100 firefighters were called to the Best Western Falmouth Beach - Blur guitarist Graham Coxon was among the guests who escaped the fire.
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<TEXT>A group of MPs will give its verdict today on the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.

James Murdoch and former bosses at the paper are expected to be criticised by the Culture, Media and Sport committee - which will decide if parliament has been misled over the scandal.
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<TEXT>Weston College say they've seen the demand for apprentices for local estate agents double - as more people get a mortgage..

18 have been taken on in the last year - to help cope with the number of people buying a house.

Under the scheme employers get a grant of up to 15 hundred pounds if they take on a youngster.
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