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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Will Maule

Inside the UK's most flooded town where streets are often awash with 'mud and debris'

A number of locals from the UK's most flooded town have recalled their experiences of living in a town where their quaint high street is often submerged in waist-high water.

The idyllic Cornish town of Looe - which is also the filming location of BBC crime drama Beyond Paradise - falls victim to spring tides every year, with seawater rising up above the quay wall and pouring through the streets.

The floods cost the local economy an estimated £39million between 2012 and 2017, with almost all the businesses in the town affected.

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