Many roads in Cambridgeshire are blocked by floods

Flood warnings are in force along the River Great Ouse from Bedford to Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire and St Ives in Cambridgeshire.

Buses are replacing trains between Pitsea and Shoeburyness in Essex and the Dartford Bridge has been closed.

Trinity and Landguard terminals at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk, are closed but ferry services are still operating.

In Northamptonshire, police said the banks of the River Ouse had burst, leaving the main road through the village of Old Stratford, near Passenham, under water.

At least eight other roads in the county also remained blocked, or partially blocked, by fallen trees.

Plans have been put into action to remove the trees, but motorists are advised to drive carefully on all roads because of the weather conditions, a police spokesman said.

Police warn drivers

In Cambridgeshire, Church End in Hilton, Mill Lane in Little Paxton and Low Road in Fenstanton are all closed by flood water.

The county council said refuse collections could be suspended in Bedfordshire because of strong winds and the tip at Elstow has already been closed.

Police in the Thames Valley area have warned drivers to take care on Thursday morning because of high winds which have brought down trees.

Warrendene Road in High Wycombe is one of the routes blocked by a fallen tree.

In Norfolk, a car came off the A47 at Narborough and hit trees leaving obstacles on the carriageway.

In Hertfordshire, a woman had to be rescued when a tree fell on top of her outside Baldock railway station.

Emergency services were called to the station on Thursday after reports a person was trapped under the tree on the approach road.

Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said officers cut away branches to free the woman, who was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The Environment Agency said it had received no reports of rivers bursting their banks in the east of England, but there had been reports motorists had been left stranded after rivers overflowed in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.

A spokesman said: "There has been a great deal of surface water flooding that has caused travel chaos on roads and rail, but no rivers have burst their banks at all."