In pictures: UK flood misery continues

Torrential downpours and gale-force winds have battered a great swathe of the UK, forcing people out of their homes and cutting off power supplies. Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England have borne the brunt, with some towns facing the second floods in a week.

The people of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, have had their town split in two after its historic stone bridge collapsed. Fire crews and the military have been helping to restore some calm to the market town.

The community rallied around to help one another too. Five-year-old Isabelle Scott handed out biscuits to the emergency services.

People in the South Ayrshire village of Straiton needed help from fire crews to leave their homes as water levels rose all around them

People in Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, were evacuated from low-lying properties. Most are now without electricity and phones.

People watched as waves crashed over the Cobb at Lyme Regis, Dorset

Further east along the coastline, Newhaven Lighthouse was being battered by waves too

Roads have been flooded as heavy rain and 80mph winds whipped across Northern Ireland