The UK has been battered by heavy rain causing severe flooding with people trapped in their cars and the outlook is for further downpours and fog with “atrocious” driving conditions.
Motorists are being warned to stay off the roads with cars having been caught in flood water and there are expected to be "miserable conditions" over the next two days.
The Met Office issued weather alerts as a band of rain, which arrived in Cornwall on Wednesday afternoon, travels across the country before passing over Scotland's east coast on Friday.
