Rapid showers and no flushing toilets: drought pushes Lundy island to the brink

A dry summer has left the Bristol Channel island critically short of water, forcing visitor caps and talk of evacuating its 28 residents Tom Carr was peering up at the clouds scudding around the island of Lundy, 10 miles off the coast of north…
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RegionsUnited Kingdom
Published3 h ago (Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:25 GMT)
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AuthorSteven Morris