As the great mop up continues, Local Democracy Reporter Niki Hinman looks back to 2014 and the floods that galvanised communities to fix the problem. It’s been ten years since West Berkshire was last properly deluged. But 2017 wasn’t great either. Nor for that matter, 2020. But it was the winter of 2014 which saw widespread floods across 19 parishes. It was so bad the army was brought in. And it prompted a district-wide look into how flooding could be held back in future years. This prompted a range of investments to hold back the water, know as flood alleviation schemes. (FAS). “Without the f…