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Cameron's pledge.


CONSERVATIVE Party leader David Cameron Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  pledged to support the stricken county if he wins the next general election.

During a visit to Cockermouth yesterday, he walked down the town's devastated dev·as·tate  
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.

2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.
 Main Street and took a tour around the Fire and Rescue headquarters.

"They're going to need support," said Mr Cameron, left. "Cumbria is a very sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory.  county, a very big county but with a relatively small population.

"The cost of restoring some of these bridges and securing the infrastructure is going to come into the millions of pounds and they are going to need help, and central government needs to provide that help."

He said: "Obviously these were completely horrific floods.

"When you walk down Main Street in Cockermouth you can just see that it was a flood of biblical proportions and there wasn't any set of flood defences that could have really withstood what happened."
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Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Nov 25, 2009
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