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North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it received numerous reports of flooding in the Flintshire and Wrexham areas and warned people to keep away from fast flowing watercourses.

People in the area are advised to avoid using low-lying footpaths near local watercourses and to plan driving routes to avoid low-lying roads near rivers.

This is intended to ensure that the effluent does no damage to the watercourse it flows into.

Introduced in 2018 they state that farmers must make sure that fertiliser does not get into watercourses and that they should not put more on fields than is needed.

For the serious racers, there was a kind of 'Le Mans' start, with competitors running around a kilometre to the first watercourse, before putting on their skates.