A week after Storm Desmond wreaked havoc across Cumbria work is almost complete removing around 1000 tons of rubble from the A591.

On the East side of the Lake, five major landslides were identified totalling some 536 cubic metres of mostly fallen rock.

A huge local effort got underway to clear the boulders and tackle the piles of debris, the Army were called in for support and added vital equipment & manpower, scaling up the effort and clearing the road to allow Council inspections to proceed.

The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, in the north-west of England. The stretch of the road between Windermere and Keswick has been voted Britain's Favourite Road. The A591 passes Grasmere, which is fully open & accessible, before rising up Dunmail Raise and passing down the side of the Thirlmere reservoir and leading onto Keswick.

After leaving Grasmere, the road climbs up a section called Dunmail Raise, a popular place for starting walks to Helvellyn and then it drops down to the resevoir. The destroyed section of A591 road starts just before the Lake and goes onto a section referred to as Wythburn.

The rubble has been hauled into two cars parks.