Ralph Thompson spent a nervous night watching the raging flood waters creep up the glass-topped flood barrier outside his pub on the banks of the swollen river severn.
On Monday police were knocking on doors in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, advising residents to evacuate their homes as the river threatened to overwhelm its defences.
The small town, subject to a warning that flooding posed “a significant threat to life”, has had a long history of flooding and in 2007 it was turned into an island. This prompted the building of a defensive wall and earthworks in 4000. Last night the defenses held and saved more than 60 homes and businesses.
Ralph Thompson, , landlord of the Swan Hotel, watched nervously as the river levels rose and then began to fall outside
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Mr Thompson,
, who took over the Swan Hotel in 2012, moved all his furniture to the
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