Powys family distraught after dog drowns in garden sinkhole

A family have been left distraught after the “tragic” loss of their pet dog who drowned after falling in a sinkhole that opened up in their garden.

Milo, a 17-year-old terrier whippet cross, fell into the hole at the family home in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys.

Simon Powell, who works as a builder, was doing some repair work at the time and said: “We’d been so careful but we were distracted. I’d just come in covered in mud after working on it, my wife was in the bath and the dog managed to find a way outside.”

Heavy rain over the new year period and a collapsed culvert – a tunnel or structure that typically runs waste water under a road or railway – led to a large sinkhole opening up on Beulah Road.