Residents in Dorset towns including Wimborne and Wareham are being told to ensure they're 'flood aware'.

The Environment Agency are putting on a series of library displays this month to coincide with a national emergency flooding exercise, designed to test how ready the UK is to deal with wide-scale floods.

Exercise Watermark will use scenarios based on severe weather conditions including flooding from the sea, rivers, surface water and reservoirs. 

While it will mainly involve national government departments, there will also be regional exercises and locally based community activities.