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More flooding is possible as rain and wind is set to continue sweeping across parts of the UK on Tuesday. ... Our teams have worked throughout today restore power to 99.6% of customers impacted by
Storm Babet is battering the UK today (Friday) as the country is put on high alert. Footage captured from around Britain shows sea waves lashing coastal towns, rivers bursting banks and railway ...
Flash flooding from Storm Bronagh in Sheffield on 20 September 2018. This is a list of floods in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Background Sheffield is located on the confluence of five major rivers (Don, Porter, Loxley, Rivelin, and the Sheaf), and is nestled in several hills. As a result, it is prone to flooding. 1864: A newly built dam, at Low Bradfield on the River Loxley, broke ...
The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time. At least 240 people died [ 1 ] and more than 600 houses were damaged or destroyed by the flood.
A major clean-up operation is under way after hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes due to flooding across north-west England. Torrential rain began on New Years' Eve and left huge ...
On 7 November flooding at Denby Dale resulted in trains being unable to run between Huddersfield and Sheffield via Penistone. [12] On 14 November train services between Sheffield and Worksop were cancelled because of floods as was the East Midlands Trains service from Sheffield to London St Pancras via the Midland Main Line .
The city of Sheffield, England was impacted by a major failure of the local natural gas supply network in December 2022, [1] resulting in a loss of central heating and gas stove availability to more than 3,000 properties in the northwestern suburbs of the city. [2]
The county council said it had "flood gangs" attending more than 80 sites across the county to assess and put up road closures. Leicestershire Police said the most severely affected areas included ...