• Army teams arrive in flood-hit villages

   
  
   
   
   
   
  Members of 24 Commando Engineer Regiment in Burrowbridge, Somerset SWNS
   

Philippe Naughton and Simon De Bruxelles

Last updated at 11:02AM, January 30 2014

Army reconnaissance teams in Land Rovers arrived this morning in flood-hit areas of Somerset as military planners sized up the scale of their deployment to help villagers marooned for up to a month.
Six teams fanned out across the Somerset Levels while three planners began talks with officials from Somerset County Council after its urgent plea for help yesterday.
The reconnaissance mission is expected to take just a few hours and could be followed as soon as today with the deployment of specialist amphibious vehicles and other materiel from Army bases at Taunton and Yeovil to help deliver food and

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