This Worcester car park is full up

Phil Mackie, BBC reporter

A surge of flood water, which caused havoc along the River Teme in Ludlow and Tenbury Wells yesterday, has now reached the Severn, about a mile south of Worcester.

It has caused much of the flooding that is now affecting the city.

It caught the Environment Agency out and its officers failed to erect flood barriers along the Hylton Road in Worcester.

It now means that it, along with half a dozen roads on the western side of the city, are impassable. Businesses and homes are now also under threat because the defences aren't up.

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In the tiny village of Powick, just outside the city, 25 people had to be rescued in the middle of the night when the Teme burst its banks.

They are complaining that information from the local authority has been poor.

Residents claim that Malvern Hills District Council didn't provide them with enough sandbags, and sent them to a village hall that was locked.

Flood barriers have been erected in Upton upon Severn, and so far appear to be holding the main force of the river back.

Today's race meeting in Worcester has been cancelled as the course resembles a large lake.

The county cricket ground is under six feet of water and the club is counting the cost of damage as well as lost revenue after the cancellation of three home twenty/twenty games.

Danny Savage, BBC reporter

The heavy rain may have stopped 24 hours ago, but in some places the floodwaters are still rising.

In the village of Toll Bar, near Doncaster, a combination of a river bursting and groundwater rising has flooded many homes.

Residents estimated 80% of houses here have been affected.

Firefighters are paddling around pushing dinghies with rescued residents in them.

Areas close to Doncaster city centre were flooded

Inflatables which are usually seen off beaches in the summer have been hastily inflated by teenagers who are paddling down the main road and through a school playground.

Other people on the fringes of the flood are standing outside their homes anxiously watching the water.

Elsewhere, a face occasionally appears in upstairs windows peering out at the aquatic view.

Just outside the village, a major search operation is ongoing after a woman reported hearing a man or a boy calling for help from a river.

These floods seem to be haunting South Yorkshire - as the water subsides in one village or town, it rises in another.

Many people are desperately worried that they are next.