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Friday, 2 August, 2002, 10:34 GMT 11:34 UK
Rainswept UK in pictures
Torrential rain has caused flooding in the UK for a second time this week. BBC News Online pictures a waterlogged country.

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Flooded street in Pickering
On Friday, Pickering in North Yorkshire got a month's rain in 12 hours and roads became rivers

Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, shelter under an umbrella at St Bees in Cumbria
The Blairs were determined not to let the rain spoil their Cumbrian holiday

Seven year-old Jade gets pulled in a dinghy by her father David Crichton
Earlier in the week, Glasgow was hit by floods estimated to have cost the city several million pounds

Ally Allan carries an inflatable Spiderman figure across flooded Cockenzie Street, Glasgow
Shettleston resident Ally Allan was among many desperately trying to save their possessions

A television camera operator shelters from the torrential rain at the City of Manchester stadium
Cameramen at the Commonwealth Games had to take cover when rain hit Manchester

Athlete's foot during the men's 50km walk
Commonwealth athletes had to take care not to slip on roads around the city

The women's 1,500m semi-final, and Hollywood actor Dougray Scott joking about the torrential rain at Gleneagles
The stadium was also drenched, while players at a charity golf contest in Gleneagles made the best of it

Angus Adams and his two hunting dogs outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh
Dogs awaiting a legal challenge to anti-hunt legislation in Edinburgh didn't seem to mind

The Queen in Leicester, with Alex Best at the Cromwell Hospital where her husband George was having a liver transplant
The Queen wore a raincoat on her Leicester tour, while George Best 's wife Alex watched the drops in London

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