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Rapid showers and no flushing toilets: drought pushes Lundy island to the brink

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Rapid showers and no flushing toilets: drought pushes Lundy island to the brink
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A dry summer has left the Bristol Channel island critically short of water, forcing visitor caps and talk of evacuating its 28 residentsTom Carr was peering up at the clouds scudding around the island of Lundy, 10 miles off the coast of north Devon. “That one’s definitely got rain in it,” he said. “The mainland will be wet at the moment. And look over at Wales – it’s getting a real soaking just now.”But above Lundy the sky was, stubbornly, blue. No significant rain has fallen here since the star

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