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Flood fears of Spanish baker in Birmingham for cake show

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Her husband and son were still at home and everyone she knew was affected, she added.

But she felt she had to come to the the UK as the event was a huge one in the baking calendar and one she attended every year, Ms Anghel added.

“They have no food, no water, no power and they can’t leave their home,” she said.

“They lost their car, their job, their everything. It’s terrible. I don’t know when this will fixed.”

Cayetana Belda Marti lives in Coventry but went to university in Valencia and her brother and sister still live there.

“They are saying that now is devastated, everything and thanks God they are OK. It’s hard, because from here I cannot do anything,” she said.

There are fears the death toll could rise in the coming days as many people remain missing across the affected areas.

More than a year’s worth of rain fell in the area over just eight hours on Tuesday.

Meteorologists believe the extreme weather is due, in part, to the Dana phenomenon – when a pool of cold air interacts with an area of low pressure to create an intensely unstable atmospheric environment.

While studies suggest Dana events occur many times each year in the western Mediterranean, the intensity of such rainfall events appears to be increasing due to climate change.

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