A popular community centre in Bedale will be shut for at least three weeks after flooding over the weekend.

Residents looking forward to a jumble sale, which had been planned for October 21, will have to wait until the event has been rearranged.

Thankfully, meals which would usually be provided on Tuesday and Thursday will still be provided around the corner at the Wycar Methodist Chapel Schoolroom.

A tidemark left around the bottom of the North Yorkshire building shows that five inches of water built up during the weekend downpours.

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Anne Gregg, treasurer at the Dales Centre, wanted to reassure regulars that the usual Tuesday and Thursday services would still be going ahead.

She said: "We are still open but not in the usual centre.

"We are providing the usual Tuesday and Thursday round the corner at the Wycar Methodist Chapel Schoolroom.

"We also wanted to break the news that the jumble sale which had been planned will be postponed.

"We wanted to get younger people into the centre to see what we do.

"It's a good job we installed flood defences in 2018 otherwise it would have been much worse.

"There was about a watermark of about four or five inches of water on the outside of the building.

"The carpets inside are wet but if we hadn't had defences and that level of water got into the building it would have been much worse.

"We have once again been impacted by heavy rainfall and flooding.

"As it is we hope that we will be re-opening in three weeks time.

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"We have dehumidifiers in there drying out the building.

"Hopefully it will be dry soon and we can get back in there.

"The jumble sale will still happen we just need to set another date for it."