It was the storm of the century, an unstoppable force of nature which swept across Scotland leaving devastation in its wake. But unlike Storm Éowyn, the damage wrought by the hurricane came not ...

On the evening of 31 January 1953 a devastating flood caused by the lethal combination of a high spring tide and a heavy storm surge in the North Sea wreaked catastrophic damage and loss of life ...

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The storm surge which struck the east coast of Scotland during the night of Saturday, 31 January, 1953, has been called the worst natural disaster to hit northern Europe for two hundred years.