‘No difference whatsoever’: Yorkshire residents criticise flood defence scheme

Mytholmroyd community members say slow progress left properties unprotected

Sue Slater has been cutting hair at Headquarters on Mytholmroyd's main street for 38 years. For the first three decades the only real drama came from the gossip at the sink.

Then in the summer of 2012 the village flooded, along with nearby Hebden Bridge and much of West Yorkshire's Calder valley. It was a "one-in-100-years" freak occurrence, residents were told. The community was largely ignored by the government while London prepared to host the Olympics.