Town's outdoor pool forced to close after flooding

Letchworth outdoor pool, which was opened in 1935, is one of North Hertfordshire District Council's venues

A clean-up operation has begun after a town's 1930s outdoor pool was forced to close as a result of flooding.

The operators of the 50m (164ft) lido at Norton Common, Letchworth in Hertfordshire, announced the closure after the rain on Sunday.

Everyone Active, which operates the pool for the council, posted on Facebook and said: "We are busy cleaning up after the flood... it is now raining again". It added it would provide an update in due course.

Owner North Hertfordshire Council is due to mark the pool's 90th anniversary with a family celebration event on 26 July.

Everyone Active did not expand on the nature of the flooding in its social media post.

However, someone responded to the post saying the Pix Brook on the common "burst its banks and flooded the whole area with nasty water" adding it "def seems to happen every year or two".