Hundreds of people spent a second night in evacuation centres as a huge clean-up operation continued after catastrophic floods that claimed four lives.
Householders are counting the cost of the unprecedented downpours as forecasters warned Britain could be hit by more heavy rain this weekend.
Police searching for a man whose car was overwhelmed by floodwaters, confirmed they had found a body with a submerged vehicle at Bow Brook, in Pershore, Worcestershire.
A search was launched for the motorist after he telephoned his wife on his mobile phone to raise the alarm.
It was the fourth life to be lost as a result of the disastrous flooding that has caused misery and devastation across the country.
Schoolboy Ryan Parry, 14, was swept to his death in a swollen river in Sheffield while returning home on Monday.
His father Chris said the teenager phoned him after school to say the buses were not running and he would make his own way back. Mr Parry told a newspaper: "I've been over that short and sweet conversation 10,000 times. I can't think about it now. I'm in bits."
Earlier the same day Mike Barnett, 28, died after becoming trapped in a storm drain in Hessle, near Hull, despite a frantic attempt by emergency services to save him.
The flooding also claimed the life of a 68-year-old man in Sheffield as he tried to cross a flooded road.
He was with two other men and was swept away, possibly as he tried to leave his stranded car.
