Residents are glad to receive encourage as they clean up after flooding but see petite point in protecting ruined homes against more heavy rainFour days after the worst floods anyone in Rochdale can remember,the town was gearing up for the next torrent after forecasters predicted yet more heavy rain. Everyone was playing their part. A group of Syrian refugees from Manchester had even pitched up ready to encourage, and were assign to work shovelling sand into sandbags, or in the car park of the Conservative club in Littleborough.“We saw the pictures on TV and wanted to encourage,” said Yasser al-Jassem, 35, and a teacher who came to Britain in the back of a lorry from Calais in May. “The people of Greater Manchester gain been very kindly to us and so we wanted to offer our encourage to them.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com