Northampton railway station out of action as flooding hits Northamptonshire

Benita Magierska and her 18-month old daughter had to be evacuated from their home in Overstone Road, Northampton, due to a suspected sinkhole on their street.

The mum said: “We’ve been evacuated yesterday. There is a massive hole under the building. As far as we know they had some water issues on the basement.

“We didn’t take anything with us because we were like ‘you probably have to leave as quick as possible’.”

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Ms Magierska added: “We don’t have a place to live, just waiting for the problem to be solved, we don’t know when we can come back to our living place.

“All of our belongings are there, you are not prepared for that situation, you hear that in the news, TV and the movies but you’re not expecting for them to happen to you.

“It is a worrying situation.”