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Sophie Robinson

Son calls for flooding investment after ‘nightmare’ of finding mother drowned

Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield (Matthew Cooper/PA) - (PA Archive)

The son of an 83-year-old woman who died in her home during Storm Babet described finding her drowned as a “nightmare” and has called for more money to be invested as there is still a risk to life from flooding.

Grandmother Maureen Gilbert lived in Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, for her whole life until she died on October 21 2023 when the River Rother burst its banks and flooded her home.

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