About one in five homes and businesses in England are in areas at risk of river, sea and flash flooding, analysis from the Environment Agency has warned – with Cornwall described as a hotspot ...

Major flash flooding has affected a village in Cornwall as huge torrents of water swept through the coastal village of Coverack. Video has emerged of the coast guard rescuing two elderly people ...

Projects earmarked in the scheme include culvert replacement in Higher Brixham and flood defence improvements in Lympstone Flood schemes in Devon and Cornwall will receive about £33m of ...

In 1952 a flash flood in Lynmouth, Devon, caused the death of 34 people as debris smashed into buildings. Exactly 52 years later, an eerily similar event struck ...