Property Developer Anita Somner is taking legal action over the house that she and her company recently acquired in Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk which was flooded this morning.

She told the Norfolk Daily Press, “We only bought the house last week, and the previous owners, the Days, were very keen to get rid of it. They pushed and pushed us to sign the contract and complete. We don’t know that much about Norfolk, coming from London as we do, and we trusted that when we bought the house, it would be safe from flooding. But now we find that Mrs. Jean Day, has written a book about flooding in Cley, and has published on an internet site called Great Writing, naming our very house, and we think that she must somehow have had access to information about this impending disaster, and that is why they were so keen to sell quickly.”

In her book, Mrs. Day apparently links flooding in Cley to hearing a strange phantom hound barking - which no one paid much heed to - but the local veterinary surgeon, Peter Bolt, says that the dogs in his care have been very disturbed by a very unusual barking that seems to come at sunset each evening.

Mrs. Somner said, “The water came in the house up to four feet - leaving trails of smelly mud when it finally drained out. Our builder had only just begun remodelling the kitchen, the new units had been put in place the day before - and they are of course, completely ruined. We intend to sue.”

When we contacted Mrs. Day for her reaction she denied any pre-knowledge, and said that her book was fiction, as she made clear in the chapter at the end. Any coincidental flood that has occurred now can not be laid at her door, she says. However, she admitted that she and her husband are very pleased that the deal did go through on time, as Norfolk house prices will no doubt plummet following the floods.