17/10/2014

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Farmers Stage Iceland Milk Price Protest

Famers have staged a protest outside a supermarket's distribution centre in Cheshire.

Around 100 members of the group Farmers for Action demonstrated outside Iceland's depot in Warrington, to protest over a drop in milk prices.

It is understood that the supermarket has dropped the price of four pints of milk from £1 to 89p.

The group has accused the supermarket of "devaluing milk" and causing "massive problems" for farmers.

Ground-Floor Flats Evacuated In Exeter Flooding

A number of elderly and disabled people had to be evacuated from their ground floor flats due to flooding in Exeter on Thursday night.

Fire crews attended 55 incidents across the area due to heavy rainfall.

Lightning also struck a house in Plymouth sending masonry into the street.

Ladysmith Infant School was forced to close for the day due to the torrential rainfall.

Three Injured As Bus Crashes Into Bungalow

Three bus passengers received minor injuries after an East Yorkshire Motor Services bus left the road and crashed into a bungalow near Hull.

The bus crashed through a garden wall and smashed into the front of the property in Northgate.

No-one was in the house at the time.

Police say that the road remains closed and diversions are in place.

(MH/JP)

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