Police searching for a teenager who vanished during heavy flooding in the UK have today found a body.

Towns lining the River Thames are finally seeing conditions improve, the Environment Agency said today.

Stress caused by the flooding in Britain this summer could take years off victims’ lives, a psychiatrist living on the worst-hit street in Oxford said today.

Britain’s deluge-stricken communities are facing another day of chaos today as they await the painfully slow fall of the floodwaters.

Houses in the UK were engulfed today as tributaries feeding the Thames spilled over on to the river’s already waterlogged flood plain.

A man died today after jumping into a flooded river.

A search has been launched for a teenager missing since the height of the floods, police in the UK said today.

Firefighters were today said to be exhausted after dealing with weeks of “flooding hell” which has tested the service beyond its limit.

Premature twins who were rescued from floods by helicopters in the south-west of England have died, police said today.

The worst floods in the UK's modern history began to recede in Gloucestershire, England today as tens of thousands of homes had their power switched back on.