It’s been a year since Thunder Thursday stopped us all in our tracks and sent the region into a state of emergency.

One place badly hit by the torrential rain was the rural village of Bellingham in Northumberland. I went to find out how things were looking one year on:

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Unfortunately I then lost signal…but I was then about to say so this part of Northumberland still has the scars of Thunder Thursday on opts landscape but the community’s pulling together to repair it.