More than £2k raised for flooded village residents

A community has come together to raise more than £2,000 to support residents of a village blighted by flooding following downpours in Shropshire.

The collection since Sunday was to help those in All Stretton who were "really badly affected", Church Stretton mayor Andy Munro said.

A wall collapsed and a stream burst its banks last week, with the mayor stating water went into the village "like a mini-tsunami" as a result.

A flooded care home, Stretton Hall, which had to move out residents, said a planned refurbishment might take four weeks.

Mr Munro said the village of All Stretton had "really pulled together to get repairs in place" and he was grateful for help from the Shropshire Council highways team and others.

One of the two areas affected was where "the water couldn't get under the road bridge", he explained.

The mayor added: "It built up, backed up... and it was held in place by a very old wall.

"But after so much water pressure, the wall suddenly gave way and the water just went down into the village like a mini-tsunami."

Mr Munro said water then affected a number of houses.

The second area was up "in the hills", he explained.

"Stretton is famous for its hills, but water came cascading over the top.

"Some experts, people, ground workers who've been up to look at it, they estimated perhaps maybe in some of the houses there they'd received... tonnes of stone."

The mayor said the whole of the area was built on sedimentary rock and it "breaks up very easily".

"This creates these chunks of rock about the size of a tennis ball and actually [they] had just come in the water. They flow down and they have caused an awful lot of damage."

Residents were moved out of Stretton Hall care home after the ground floor and car park were flooded.

It said 10 residents slept on mattresses on the first floor on Thursday before being relocated to a sister site in Telford.

Ruth Slater-Bloy, regional support manager at Welford Healthcare, said staff from the affected site had gone to the other home so that "they're supporting the residents' familiarity, that sort of thing".

Workers and the fire service had been "amazing", she added.

"The residents are settled where they are for now, but hopefully when they come back, we have nice refurbished units."

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