Residents in a Lincolnshire market town have described the devastation after dozens of homes were flooded.
"We are going to try and get her to move out, but at 91 she's refusing. She can stay upstairs tonight, and then we will go from there," she added. Andy Pearson said he was woken by a neighbour banging on the door and came downstairs to find several inches of water in his home.Some residents have also expressed anger that a pumping station designed to reduce flooding in the South Forty Foot Drain – which is connected to the Haven by a lock and sluice – was decommissioned several years ago.