Pavements were torn up and parts of the road surface was washed away to leave behind sand while several businesses were flooded during heavy rainfall. The road was destroyed as water ‘got underneath the block paving’ and then ‘washed the sand down the street, blocking the drains and causing the water to build up at the bottom, flooding the businesses down there’. The storm dropped almost 40mm of rain in just an hour, forcing the main road to close in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on Sunday... Read this story at www.northantstelegraph.co.uk , www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk , www.thestar.co.uk
