Family can't go home for months

A YOUNG family whose home was wrecked by flooding just days before Christmas won't be able to move back in for another four months.

- ELLIE GOSLEY

> Catherine Jones with children Emily and George after the flood hit their home

(Jonathan Myers)

Catherine and Robert Jones, along with their two small children, were one of a number of families left devastated when water gushed into their homes in Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, on Monday, ruining precious belongings and memories.

Robert, a postal worker, received a call from his wife Catherine early in the morning to say that water had begun flooding into their home.

After sending their two children, five-year-old George and eight-year-old Emily, to their grandparents' house, Catherine and Robert were forced to begin shovelling the water - which reached 2ft high in some places - out of their home.

The family's Christmas tree, among other items including photo albums and furniture, were ruined in the flood.