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oups.com...
Looks to be kosher:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...710398,00.html

This was posted to TWO as well and a bit of digging shows the 24hr
record is 1870mm, so this is well within the bounds of possibility.

and this from Yahoo: ( a good site to keep an eye on for such as this)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...=574&ncid=1112

Martin.