Yesterday morning found shops in Tregenna Place severely damaged by flooding. Ruined stock out on the pavements and fire crews in attendance pumping out water. All this despite the £10 million spent by The Environment Agency on our "award winning" flood defence scheme.

Full story and video is on the St Ives Blog:
http://www.stivescornwallblog.co.uk/2009/04/flooding-chaos-in-st-ives.html

I see that the Council has stil come under fire for having responsibiity for surface water drainage and therefore responsibility of the flooding. Difficult to split the two, when one action forces another to happen. There is the blame culture for you!