@DrSdeG Totally agree. It lasted 1 day at our high school in September after the backlash from parents.
The first thing the school do when they have to close is ask the kids to phone their parents on their phones anyway!
The late great Tony Hart left us on this date in 2009. A real childhood hero of mine.
Later in life I found out he once lived on the same road as I did, in Maidstone, Kent! ๐คฏ
@DrSdeG The embankment keeping the canal up failed- the flooding is just all the canal water emptying into a field. It's now empty between locks like you say.