How my pharmacy responded to a nightmare flood before Christmas

A Lincolnshire contractor describes the shock of being told the pharmacy where he has spent 11 years building a business had been badly flooded

"In the last few weeks I’ve learned more about how much resilience the people that work with us have"

Ehsan Hussain recounts his experience of being told water was gushing from the ceiling of Stamford Pharmacy, where he is a pharmacist and a director, when he was on a family holiday to Morrocco:

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