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Caz Graham meets farmers in Cumbria, still struggling six months after record floods. As Cockermouth town slowly recovers, upstream, fields continue to erode and thousands of tons of gravel lies on farmland.

The Cumbrian floodplains are the county's most fertile land, yet it will take years to return them to agriculture. As Natural England and the Environment Agency plan the future of the river Derwent, Caz walks along its banks with the National Farmers' Union's newly-appointed farm recovery coordinator Sandy Brown to assess progress.