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Looking back: Five years since floods hit the region

This week ITV Border are looking back at the floods in 2009 which affected thousands of people in a wide area, from Cockermouth and Keswick to Appleby and Dumfries.

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2009 Cumbria floods: The human cost

5 years ago severe flood warnings were in place and parts of our region were about to suffer a deluge.

In West Cumbria alone, 1300 homes and businesses were flooded.

Hannah McNulty has been back to see some of the people whose lives were changed forever by those events five years ago.

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