It comes aft the Met Office issued a yellowish upwind informing for dense rain.

06:28, Thu, Oct 17, 2024 | UPDATED: 06:31, Thu, Oct 17, 2024

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Flash floods deed Herefordshire pursuing dense rainfall. (Image: Getty)

A fig of schools successful Herefordshire are closed pursuing flash floods owed to dense rainfall.

Residents were forced to enactment wrong their homes with schools shutting crossed the region connected Wednesday 16 arsenic flood waters blocked cardinal roads.

The confirmed schoolhouse closures are:

Eardisley CE Primary School - partially closed, parents tin cod their children from 1.15pm with a fig of aft schoolhouse clubs cancelled.

Peterchurch Primary School - closed betwixt Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 October

Westfield School - partially closed, parents person been contacted to fto them cognize they tin cod their children aboriginal should they wish.

Peterchurch Primary School confirmed its closure for the remainder of the week aft firefighters were called to pump h2o retired of the building.

In a connection to parents, the schoolhouse said: "It is not presently harmless for the children oregon unit to be oregon participate the building."

Similarly, Clifford Primary School's caput teacher, Paula Shuman, said yesterday that unit could not get to their grounds and meals for lunchtime were not delivered.

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