{"id":393948,"date":"2026-01-27T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:05:09","slug":"flooding-as-devon-and-cornwall-hit-by-storm-chandre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393948\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding as Devon and Cornwall hit by Storm Chandre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Beacon Community Centre in Exeter appealed for volunteers to help sweep water away after it was flooded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Cranston, trustee of the centre, said: &#8220;Last night with the torrential rain that came down, we&#8217;re unfortunately at the bottom of a hill on the Beacon Heath and there&#8217;s a whole load of debris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said leaves in front of the building had blocked the drain in the road so &#8220;the water was building up on the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although we&#8217;ve got some flood prevention doors on the building it&#8217;s just got overwhelmed,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have also been dozens of school closures across Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, Devon County Council said 56 schools had been shut or partially closed, including Tipton St John Primary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2x3wqlg8jo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">future is uncertain<\/a> as it is in a flood risk area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Education has agreed to fund a new building two miles (3km) away in Ottery St Mary, but a petition has called for the school to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Beacon Community Centre in Exeter appealed for volunteers to help sweep water away after it was flooded.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}