Shropshire couple spend £10k prepping for annual floods

A couple say they've spent nearly £10,000 adapting their cottage to reduce the damage caused by repeated floods. Sarah Jackman and her partner Paul Fairhurst say flooding has become an almost annual event at the property in Montford Bridge, near Shrewsbury. They have stopped using carpet altogether as part of their anti-flooding hacks. Preparation, they add, is key when it comes to living with flooding and they encourage other at-risk households to have a plan - which they deploy on a room-by-room basis. There is a brook to the front...