There's a yellow Met Office warning in force. Another band of rain is expected later this evening, but it'll push through quite quickly and give around 10-20mm of rain to north west England and south west Scotland. This shouldn't add to or give any additional flooding, but might just slow down the receding process.

A statement on the Cumbria Police website says: "A body has been found in the search of the River Kent, Kendal."Police were called at 10.01am yesterday (December 6th) to reports than an elderly man had fallen in the water."Officers, along with the Underwater Search Team, are working to recover the body which has been located in the Kendal area."There is no further information at this time."  

Police say they've found a body in the River Kent in Cumbria. They had been searching for an elderly man who was reported to have fallen into the flooded river near Kendal.  

The ferocity of the storm and the sheer volume of the rainfall have inevitably raised questions about whether global warming has exacerbated the risk. The answer is not straightforward. 

Scientists always shy away from blaming any particular weather event on climate change. But they also point to a basic physical property of the atmosphere: that warmer air can hold more moisture. That means that rising temperatures are likely to lead to storms that may drop more rain - and in more intense bursts. And figures from the Met Office do point to a slight increase in the intensity of rainfall in the UK over the past 60 years. 

Flood engineers already try to take account of climate change in their planning. That work needs constant updating. And whatever the factors involved - everything from saturated soil to new acres of car park to the always fickle British weather - many people here in Cumbria will be asking whether the authorities are getting their calculations right.

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BBC Radio Cumbria travel news reports that 8ft of water will need to subside before checks can be made to reopen the tracks.

Electricity North West have just given us some updated figures on power cuts. They had said all 55,000 homes who lost power in Lancaster had been reconnected, but it looks like around 300 are still cut off due to localised flooding.

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Heavy rain and flooding caused by Storm Desmondbrought a famous waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales back to life for "the first time in living memory".

Water flowed over the top of the white limestone cliffs of Malham Cove on Sunday, briefly making it England's highest unbroken waterfall.

Footage of the occurrence, filmed by Stuart Gledhill, has been seen online more than 100,000 times.  

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The entire Carlisle United football team has offered to take part in the clean-up of flooded homes.

Nigel Cobb, from search and rescue charity Water Safe UK, estimates that about a third of people in Carlisle whose homes have been flooded tried to "stay put" last night.

"They're now obviously thinking that was a bad decision and they want out," he told the BBC.

"In places last night it was six or seven feet deep. It has receded quite a lot today, but it's still impassable by vehicle, three or four feet in places."

He said his advice to anyone left in their homes in Carlisle was to leave now: "There's no services, no electricity, and it's just going to get worse."

A bit more from Environment Secretary Liz Truss:

She stressed again the £45m spent by the government during the last parliament in Cumbria and the rise in real-terms of spending on flood defences in this parliament. 

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Time for a quick recap:

- Storm Desmond has left severe flooding across Cumbria and parts of Lancashire, western counties of Northern Ireland and parts of southern Scotland.

- Cumbria Police say 4 or 5,000 homes are flooded and hundreds of people have been evacuated. The official estimate from the government at the moment is 2,100 homes.

- Power has now been restored to all 55,000 people who lost power in Lancashire, but more than 2,000 homes are still cut off in Cumbria.

- Several hospitals have cancelled operations and clinics, about 40 schools are closed and Lancaster University has begun the Christmas holidays early.

- David Cameron has chaired an emergency Cobra meeting and will visit the affected region later. 

- The Environment Agency and ministers have defended the performance of flood defences built in Cumbria after the 2009 floods, insisting they reduced the extent of the damage but couldn't be expected to hold back an "unprecedented" amount of water.

- Yellow "be aware" warnings, external are in place for much of this week, but any rain isn't expected to be on the scale of that at the weekend.

According to Electricity North West, all 55,000 people cut off in Lancaster have now had their power supplies restored.

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