Thanks to Johua Cope, Matt Kenney, Penny Holland and Amara Pickerill for these photographs of flooding in and around Stone.
The town certainly took a battering from the rain today – let’s hope this is as bad as it gets. As the photos show, the River Trent through Stone was swollen and bursting its banks, with Crown Meadow looking like a swamp. The Swan was flooded and, as pictures here show, The Swan’s beer garden was under water too. Things should be OK for the start of The Swan’s beer festival though.
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Unfortunately we’ve got no photographs yet but a herd of cows was rescued from land to the west of Crown Meadow after water was up to their midriff.
