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Danny OCallaghan on 10 Jun 13"The UK's first self-closing flood barriers have been installed to protect a Lake District town hit by devastating flooding. The £4.4m scheme has been put in place in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, where the automatic barriers aim to prevent a repeat of the floods in 2009, when a month's rain fell in 24 hours, destroying 900 homes and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate."