PICNIC benches swept away from a riverside pub by floodwater have washed up in Somerset almost a month after going missing.

Ten benches were seemingly lost as floods destroyed the cellar and beer garden at Ye Old Ferrie Inn in Symonds Yat, near Ross-on-Wye.

Landlord of the riverside pub Jamie Hicks said: "They're the worst floods I've seen in nine years.

"The river was up about five metres to where it is usually, we lost the cellar completely.

"Because it came up so fast, we lost the benches. We lost the ferry rope, the ferry was crashing against the buildings.

"It got to the point where it wasn't worth saving."

Despite the river Wye causing damage to the pub after it burst its banks at the end of October, they were able to reopen after just two days.

More than three weeks later, some friends of Mr Hicks were walking on the beach at Portishead and spotted some of the lost benches.

"Friends that got married at the pub in 2016 who live in Portishead saw them," he added.

"One of them (the benches) looks okay, they were sat on it on the sand drinking coffee."

Mr Hicks hopes that he might be able to bring the benches back, a journey which is 47 miles by car.