PRINCE William yesterday met the family of a 13-year-old Australian boy who gave his life to save his younger brother during devastating floods earlier this year.

AUTHORITIES told townspeople in Australia’s south-east to flee homes with three days of supplies yesterday, as a surging river threatened another community in a flooding crisis that has devastated the mining industry.

MILITARY flights rushed yesterday to restock an Australian city before it was cut off by floodwaters that have turned a huge swath of the outback into a lake, while police confirmed two more deaths in the crisis.