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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/disaster-team-heads-to-quake-zone.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="British rescue workers inspect the earthquake-damaged buildings in Colombo Street, Christchurch (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-disaster-team-heads-to-quake-zone.jpg" alt="British rescue workers inspect the earthquake-damaged buildings in Colombo Street, Christchurch (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A British taskforce of disaster victim identification experts is heading to New Zealand as the earthquake death toll soared to 145, with 200 still missing.</p>
<p>The UK team is due to arrive in Christchurch on South Island on Monday to help identify those killed when the tremors tore through the city earlier this week.</p>
<p>The deployment comes after New Zealand accepted an offer of help from the British Government.</p>
<p>A British specialist rescue team arrived in the devastated city on Friday to help search for survivors among the flattened buildings.</p>
<p>They are working among the ruins of the Pyne Gould Corporation building in the centre of the city.</p>
<p>The British High Commission said the UK was &#8220;only too willing to help.&#8221;</p>
<p>High Commissioner to New Zealand Vicki Treadell said: &#8220;With New Zealand and Britain being such close friends, this is an opportunity to support and assist each other at this time of crisis.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile British families waiting for news of their loved ones caught up in the disaster were clinging to hopes for their safety.</p>
<p>Jo Morley, 44, whose brother Phil Coppeard from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk is among the Britons missing, was taking comfort from the miraculous tales of survival following the Haiti earthquake.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;Of course you still hope, as anybody would do. That&#8217;s what we have to think.&#8221;</p>
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