1.   He will initially help local authorities and other agencies plan for the economic recovery of Cumbria, the worst hit area.

2.   The worst hit area is East Anglia, but the deficit affects much of the country.

3.   Worst hit areas include the Lake District, the Pennines, the far south-west, and high ground in southern England.

4.   Worst hit areas have been on the Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire border and in the Forest of Dean.

5.   Any of this in the hit areas?

6.   But it is perhaps the hardest hit area given its concentration of technology firms.

7.   Downed electrical and phone lines in the hardest hit areas kept some offline.

8.   Dusk to dawn curfews were put into effect at the hardest hit areas.

9.   He said he was lucky because Liberal is on the eastern edge of the hardest hit areas.

10.   In the hardest hit areas, almost every creekbed, every depression, every low-lying crossroads was under water on Monday.