Flood victims still not back home

More than 2,500 properties in the west Berkshire area were flooded

More than 684 Thames Valley households are not back in their homes following last summer's floods and 42 are living in caravans, the government has said.

Figures show 347 households in West Berkshire are still not back in their properties, with 23 living in caravans.

In West Oxfordshire, 159 households are still not home and 12 are in caravans. Residents in the Vale of White Horse, Wokingham and Oxford are also affected.

Across the UK, more than 5,500 households are not back in their homes.

More than 1,400 are still living in caravans, the figures show.

Floods Recovery Minister John Healey promised affected families they had not been forgotten.

But he said some were frustrated over the pace of repairs to their homes.

The areas with the most households still displaced are Hull; East Riding, Yorkshire; and Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

Mr Healey said the number of households living in caravans had fallen by more than 40% between March and the end of April - down from 2,400 to 1,429.

But he said about 5,650 households were not fully back in their homes.

Mr Healey described the response to the floods, which saw 48,000 homes affected, as one of the biggest operations since World War II.

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