I've just been watching the BBC TV reports of the flooding in Cumbria. A police officer has been killed when the Workington Bridge - on which he was directing traffic away - collapsed. They've just found his body on a beach not far away. Deepest sympathies to his wife and four children.

My sympathies to all the folk in Cumbria who are suffering from the flooding, and I hope that all the relevant authorities can work together to get things back to normal as soon as possible.