In my senior years, it is somewhat frightening to find that the “City by the Lee” continues to be devastated during spring tides by floods, not withstanding the intervening years of advances in technology and a ravaging tiger in funding availability.

There were emotional scenes as hundreds attended the removal of the youngest victim of the sinking of the trawler Tit Bonhomme, which hits rocks off the South-West coast.

The Minister for the Environment has been contacting county managers in preparation for the effects of the storm currently battering the south and east of the country.