However, the Russian space agency is already hard-pressed financially and although it has been given a budget increase to cover the next six months, it says it will be unable to meet its commitments next year without American help.

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She said she arrived at the factory on Tuesday morning to find it 8in (20cm) deep in water and said Gedling Council and Severn Trent had been unable to help them.

BBC: The Ferry Boat Inn at Stoke Bardolph

The charity revealed 36% of the 16, 500 people who asked it for help during 2001, had been unable to keep up with rent payments because they suffered from the high cost of housing.

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Many come from people outside India who have been unable to contact their family members in Mumbai, asking for help from third parties inside India who might find it easier to contact them.

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