Floods clean-up continues across the West Country
There have been major problems across the region after a band of heavy rain hit the West.
River bed is now ten feet higher than it used to be
The Bridgwater MP Ian Liddell-Grainger today added his voice to calls for two rivers to be dredged to ease flooding on the Somerset Levels.
There have been arguments in recent years about how much water could be carried by the Tone and Parrett if they were cleared of silt - and how much flooding would be prevented.
Our Somerset correspondent David Woodland has found proof at Somerset's first pumping station that the bed of the River Parrett there is now ten feet higher than it used to be:
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Residents struggle after two weeks of flooding
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Calls for a solution to flooding on the Somerset Levels
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