FLOODING UPDATE: Crumbling walls, human chains and concerns about speeding traffic

It is reported that residents have formed a human chain across Halifax Road to stop vehicles driving through and causing further flood damage to homes and businesses.

Neighbourhood Policing Team officers are warning that a foot and a half of water is affecting the Halifax Road at Eastwood.

Residents are reporting a collapsed wall near the junction with Bacup Road is affecting Rochdale Road, water streaming onto it.

At Mytholmroyd residents are critical of the speed motorists are driving through flood water at, fearing the waves will flood businesses and homes again.