Flooding hits our community — share your photos and help us tell the full story
River levels are rising and roads are closing across the area. Our reporters are out in the field — but you are our eyes across the community. Share what you are seeing and we will publish it to the live map below.
Flooding is affecting communities across the valley this morning after overnight rainfall caused river levels to rise to their highest point in more than a decade. The Environment Agency has issued 14 flood warnings and three severe flood warnings, urging residents in low-lying areas to move valuables upstairs and be prepared to evacuate.
Our reporters are on the ground, but the scale of the flooding means no single team can cover every road, every street, every neighbourhood. That is where you come in. We are asking readers to share their photos and videos directly with our newsroom using the form below. Every submission goes straight to our editors, who will review and publish the most important to the live map and gallery on this page.
The map widget plots every approved reader submission by location, giving journalists and readers a real-time picture of where flooding is worst. This is impossible to achieve with traditional reporting alone. Readers become the newsroom's eyes across the whole community.
During a fast-moving story like this, submissions arrive quickly. Contribly's AI-assisted moderation helps editors review, verify and publish at scale — flagging unverifiable claims and surfacing the most geographically diverse and newsworthy submissions first.
Where readers are reporting flooding
Updating liveEach pin on the map is a reader submission. Click any pin to see the photo, video or message from that location.