Tens of thousands of households have been warned that more flooding could occur this week after Storm Babet battered the UK over the weekend.
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Two friends died after the car they were travelling in plunged into a river in Wales on Christmas Day, an inquest heard.
Jay Kyle Jenkins and Rachel Curtis, from Swansea, had been out for festive drinks before the BMW Mini coupe entered the River Tawe in Swansea in the early hours of December 25 last year, WalesOnline reports.
The bodies of the two friends, who were both 36, were found nearby after emergency services were called to the scene near the A483 New Cut Road.
An inquest into their deaths at Swansea's Guildhall heard Miss Curtis had been driving the vehicle prior to the crash. The car then collided with a pedestrian barrier before entering the water after she took a hard right turn.
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Miss Curtis and Mr Jenkins had met in Swansea city centre earlier that evening and had enjoyed Christmas drinks together along with two other friends.
Miss Curtin was seen by a witness at one bar drinking a large glass of rose, and then Jack Murphys. The pair left at around 2.30am and Miss Curtis and Mr Jenkins walked to The Strand, where the car was parked. They got into the vehicle and drove towards New Cut Road where the collision took place.
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