Last year, Storm Babet tore through Chesterfield in Derbyshire, an at-risk town that had been hit before. Could the devastation have been avoided?

The flood alert was issued on the morning of 21 October 2023. Storm Babet was coming. Be prepared.

Paul Gilbert, a 47-year-old landscape gardener from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, did what he always did when a flood alert came in: he went to check on his mum, Maureen.

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