
A flood-hit community has pulled together to support each other in a similar way to the Covid pandemic, a councillor has said – as “helpless” residents share their devastation at the damage they have suffered.
Derbyshire was one of the vast swathes of England that had been badly affected by flooding caused by Storm Babet over the weekend, with a woman in her eighties found dead at her home in Tapton Terrace, Chesterfield, on Saturday.