This shows the value of having a good solicitor and a good surveyor when you're buying a property. If one of them were to tell me a house I was interested in was built on a flood plain I'd leave it right there.
Some people here in Ashington lost power on 23rd and only got it back last night. I feel more sorry for them than I do for people who live on a floodplain that already has recent "previous" of devastation, in this case the year 2000.
Maybe instead of whingeing more people should take an...