Flash flooding hits homes for a second time

People who have been waiting to return to their homes following flooding nine months ago have been hit again.

The overnight downpour has thwarted plans, as some had been expecting to return to their properties in Bridgend within a few months.

But Liam Reilly, 30, said it could be many more months before he and partner Ceri Thomas, 29, can move back.

He got a call in the early hours to say a nearby culvert had flooded again with water entering their ground-floor flat for a second time since last September.

"It does feel like our whole lives are now put on hold for the foreseeable," he said.

"We are stuck with a house that we can't live in, that we have to pay for.

"And now we are going to be living with family for the foreseeable future."

He said 10 ground-floor flats needed an overhaul after last year's floods, with three recently having new kitchens fitted after being flooded at Ty Caer Castell last year.

Mr Reilly returned to the property in the early hours to survey the damage and saw firefighters helping an older person to safety.