内容摘要：, damaging thousands of properties, flooding dozens of Tube stations and even causing patients to be evacuated from hospital wards.

, damaging thousands of properties, flooding dozens of Tube stations and even causing patients to be evacuated from hospital wards.

"When you need expertise, when you need specialist material and equipment, when you need to attract funding, it's like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle inside a Rubik's cube. It's a very difficult journey," he added.Built in 1821, the mill was created to harness the power of the wind but natural elements have weathered its structure.

It is approximately 58ft (17.7m) high and residents said it was a focal point for the community."Everybody in East Yorkshire knows Skidby Mill is here. It was grinding corn up until the 1960s," local businessman Peter Fenwick said."On a good day, I can see the mill from my bedroom window. It's a tourist attraction," added James Tunnicliffe, who often visits the coffee shop adjacent to the mill with his wife.

"It's quite sad and disheartening to see they've (sails) just been left here."The four carefully crafted sails are stacked on top of each other against a brick wall surrounded by wire fencing at the mill.

Ann Griffiths, who has lived in Skidby for almost 30 years and regularly attends the council's public meetings, said the village was disappointed with the length of time it was taking.

She said: "You come in from Little Weighton over the hill and it's the first thing you see. Now there's nothing."“It was a dream story for the far-right,” he said.

“They had no interest in solutions, they were interested in exploiting the situation."Ten years on, tensions remain in the town and recently came to the fore at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, near Rotherham, when a riot broke out outside the hotel, which housed asylum seekers, in the wake of the Southport knife attack.

“There is such a danger in allowing people to blame ‘the other’, especially when your life itself isn't great,” he said.Mr Norfolk first became aware of cases in West Yorkshire when Ann Cryer, at the time the MP for Keighley, publicly raised concerns about the abuse of two girls in her constituency.