Shrewsbury residents frustrated as floods grow more frequent

Pleas for short- and long-term solutions as town is flooded for third consecutive year

Trapped in her home on the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Siobhan Connor said this was the 17th time she had been flooded in 14 years - and it was only becoming more frequent.

If you look at all the forecasts, this is going to become an annual or biannual occurrence," Connor said from her first-floor window, as flood water filled the ground floor up to waist height. We've had four major floods here in two years, and they're now at record level."