内容摘要：Street parties have also taken place up and down the country, with local communities encouraged to organise their own get-togethers to echo the celebrations from 80 years ago. Councils hosted events and some waived their usual road closure fee. Check your local council website to see what festivities are taking place in your area.

Street parties have also taken place up and down the country, with local communities encouraged to organise their own get-togethers to echo the celebrations from 80 years ago. Councils hosted events and some waived their usual road closure fee. Check your local council website to see what festivities are taking place in your area.

They were settling down for an overnight stay at school when, at about 22:00 BST, Suffolk’s Lowland Search and Rescue team was diverted to the school.Farmers in a convoy of tractors began to arrive to take the children home.

Mr Martin said: “In the moment you don’t think about what’s happening - we had to sort logistics and contact parents, as there were safeguarding issues putting children in tractors in the middle of the night."It wasn’t until it stopped at about 03:00, when you have a coffee and you think, goodness that was a very interesting and unusual evening.”All the stranded pupils got home safely and only four members of staff, including Mr Martin, had to stay at the school overnight.

In Framlingham, just nine miles (14km) from Debenham, another emergency was unfolding.The River Ore had burst its banks and water was rushing down Riverside and Station Road, flooding businesses and homes.

Amy Goulding, a mother-of-two, was an operations assistant at Fairweather Law, which is based in the Riverside area of the town.

She said: "The river was rising rather quickly and so we put the flood boards up but the river burst its banks and we had to evacuate everyone. It was all very hectic.”"I knew something wasn't quite right," Ms Thomas said.

"My skin seemed a lot worse than anyone I knew, my back pain was crazy. It didn't seem quite normal to me."Three weeks out of every month I was going through that."

Her doctor put her on the Pill to help manage the pain but it gave her migraines, so she came off it in 2018.The pain then grew worse, and her doctor said it must be caused by "anxiety or over-exercise".