Some areas of Somerset flooded for the last 10 months

2014-02-11 27

The Telegraph's Andrew Giligan visits North Curry in Somerset and speaks to a residents who's home has been uninhabitable for 14 of the last 21 months.

As the Environment Agency continues to issue severe flood warnings, the Telegraph's Andrew Giligan speaks to residents in one of Somerset's worst affected areas, North Curry.

Resident Keith Madge has been suffering with flood waters for ten out of the last 13 months.

"You just don't hear from anybody, the environment agency, the town council, no one at all.

"So, it makes you think, does anyone really care. They've flooded my house, because they haven't maintained the rivers and dredge them.

"They're going to have to make a decision one way or the other, is this area for people to live in, or for the wildlife?"

For Keith Madge, it will be nearly Easter, at the earliest, before the waters go down.

And even the plan put forward by the locals envisages that some residents and farmers may have to "relocate".

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