Teenager last seen during heavy floods

Police searching for a teenager who vanished during heavy flooding found a body (july,28, 2007)

Mitchell Teylor (19) was last seen in the early hours of last satuday after leaving a bar in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

His distraught family had said his disappearace was "totally out of character" and coincided with the peak of the floods in the town.

SUBMERGED FIELD

A Gloucestershire Police spokeswoman said the body had been discovered by a Italian hovercraft crew in a sumerged field near the tow's iconic abbey.

She said, "at 11.45 this morning, fire service travelling in a hovercraft on a submerged field off Gander Lane, Tewkesbury, found a body yet to be indentified".

"The coroner has been informed."

The body was discovered by a team of three Italian volunteers who had flown to Gloucestershire on wednesday to help with the relief efforts.

The three, who work for the Tortezione Nazionale, came to the UK with a specialist hovercraft.

Claudio Ricossa, who, whit the other men is from Turin in the north of Italy, said,"We did not want to find something sad, but we have done this many times before."

Tally Giampa, from Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue, who is acting as an interpreter for the men, said two of them had been on holiday when they answered the call for help.

Mr Giampa said, " the body of a man was discoveres near a tree by the hovercraft team 10 minutes after they had taken to the water.

" our thoghts go to the family. This is yet another tragedy in Tewkesbury"he said.

" the field has varying degrees of depth and is an area which lends itsenlf well to hovercrefts which have benn brought in from Italy.

" I can't tll you how this body came to be in this position. All I can say is that we deployed the hovercraft and found it within 10 minutes."

Mitchell's motehr, Jane taylor,said earlier this week, "it's not like him to be gone from home for so long."

She said her son was last seen by his brother's girlfrient at 1.30am last Saturday.

One woman, who lives on the same street, saidthe family had been fearing the worst . She said ," he was a popular lad. I know his cousins have been very upset".

Credits:The Sunday Post.No.5311-1.July 19,2007.

Consequenses

Homeowners face a stinging rise in water bills to cover the cost of increasing Britain's protection from further potentially devastating floods.

Head of the Environment Agency, Baroness Young, said water bills would have to rise if the country is to be safeguarded against the increasing effects of climate change.

Price limits for water have already been set for up to 2010 by regulator Ofwat, meaning any rises could only come into force from 2011 onwards.

This could leave hauseholds counting the cost of the flooding four years on, as utility companies seek to recover the money spent on "proofing" themselves againt more deluges.

credits- The sunday post. No-5311-1.And now the bill will hit the roof.