Teenager missing in UK floods

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

Mitchell Taylor, 19, from Tewkesbury, has not been seen since he left a bar in the deluged Gloucestershire town in the early hours of Saturday.

Officers said they were investigating all possibilities.

Gloucestershire Police spokesman Matt Ford said: “He has been registered as a missing person.

There are a lot of resources in Tewkesbury at the moment and our officers are aware that he has not been seen.”

His mother, Jane Taylor, told the Gloucestershire Echo: “It’s not like him to be gone from home so long.”

Mrs Taylor said her son was last seen by his brother’s girlfriend at 1.30am on Saturday.

She said officers have been looking for him in the flooded areas, on the ground as well as from the air.