Floods causing chaos for Welsh children
Floods causing chaos for Welsh children
Pupils on a school trip from Caerphilly were left stranded miles from home, as parts of Wales and England were hit by more flooding overnight.
The pupils from Blackwood Comprehensive School were on their way back from the West Midlands Safari Park when they became stranded overnight.
The 22 children and eight members of staff had to spend the night in Ludlow leisure centre in south Shropshire before they could be taken safely home to worried mum’s and dad’s.
On Friday, three schools were evacuated when torrential rain caused flooding in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
Pupils were sent home from St Richard Gwyn High School after a stream burst its banks and two primaries, Oakfield and Gwaun y Nant, were also flooded.
Seventeen-year-old Harry Potter lookalike Joseph Evans was also stranded by the floods whilst travelling by train from his home in Pontypridd to help launch the final Harry Potter book.
He was left stranded in Hereford by the flooding whilst on his way to a Wigan shopping centre where he was due to greet shoppers buying the new Harry Potter book, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’.
Joseph Evans is the same age as Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter on the big screen, and can get up to £100 for appearances as the character.
“I was really looking forward to the book launch. It’s the last book, which means it was my last chance, the weather is spoiling everything at the moment!” he said.
