{"id":400478,"date":"2026-01-31T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:20:07","slug":"damage-in-devon-and-cornwall-after-storms-chandra-and-ingrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400478\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage in Devon and Cornwall after storms Chandra and Ingrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flooding has hit Jennie Spicer&#8217;s 17th Century cottage at Ruan High Lanes in Cornwall three times this week, leaving her family back in temporary accommodation, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS). <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had repeatedly reported blocked drains and wants a CCTV investigation because the system is often buried under compacted mud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot live like this, we haven&#8217;t had a home in two years as we keep getting displaced by flood water,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornwall Council said the area had a long history of flooding from water running off nearby fields, which overwhelmed drains designed only for highway runoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the drains were cleaned and functioning as expected and the issue had been passed to the Environment Agency to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flooding has hit Jennie Spicer&#8217;s 17th Century cottage at Ruan High Lanes in Cornwall three times this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400478","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\/400478","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=400478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}