‘Under 4ft of water in 10 minutes’

Bill Dunlea has seen more than his fair share of floods swamp Blackpool — but he has never seen the village flood as fast as it did on Thursday night.

“This flood was completely different to the last one,” he said yesterday morning after he and two staff spent the night clearing flood waters from his Coffee Pot outlet.

“The place was under four feet of water in 10 minutes. The cause was totally different to the flash flood last June.”