The home of an 83-year-old woman who drowned during Storm Babet was not protected by formal flood defences, an inquest heard.

Maureen Gilbert was found "floating in the water" by her son Paul on the morning of 21 October 2023 in Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, after the River Rother burst its banks.

Mr Gilbert told Sky News at the time of his mother's death that he was "very angry" and added: "I don't think there's enough being done with flood defences.

"People get forgotten down here - nobody got it as bad as we did in 2007 and now this year."

He added that he had attempted to secure his mother's house with flood defences himself but she rang him on Friday 20 October 2023 to say there was "water coming in the house".

Mr Gilbert said it took him seven hours to reach th

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