Hundreds evacuated after flooding – as it happened

Army called in as flooding misery continues in York, Leeds and elsewhere

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Helen Pidd has the latest from Calder Valley

2,000 properties "badly affected" by flooding in the Calder Valley, Calderdale Cllr Rob Holden says. Mytholmroyd "easily" the worst.

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The floods have hit three cities and scores of towns and villages, in what the prime minister David Cameron described as an "unprecedented" situation.