Adventure trip girl who drowned in the floods

Louise Ferreira, 17, was in a 4x4 being driven by her father when the accident happened on the last day of their adventure holiday.

The Land Rover Discovery was being driven slowly along a sheep track in a remote beauty spot when its tyres lost their grip crossing a ford.

Louise, a student from Thamesmead in south-east London, was trapped in the vehicle after it overturned at Llyn Brianne. She was airlifted from the scene with her parents, but died in Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth.

Friends set up an online group in her memory called Rest In Perfect Peace Louise Ferreira.

Louise's boyfriend Jamie Larner said: "She was my babygirl and I can't believe she has gone. She didn't deserve 2 die. I always love u baby."

A friend, Michael Olatunde-Kehinde, suggests that her school, Bexley Business Academy, holds a minute's silence in her memory at midday tomorrow.

He writes: "Hey if you are in BBA sixth form, I think we should have a big picture of her in the common room as remembrance. That's how much I don't want to miss seeing her face every morning xxx."

Another friend, Francesca Morris, writes: "Rest In Peace Louise. You were such a lovely girl, so funny and always polite. You didn't have a bad bone in your body. It's so sad you have gone but you will never be forgotten. What a tragedy xx."

Police believe Louise's father may have under-estimated the depth of the stream. He escaped, but had no mobile phone signal and walked three miles to a farm for help. Louise's parents were kept in hospital overnight suffering from hypothermia and shock.

The accident happened during one of the wettest 48 hours on record in Wales with parts of the country getting a month's rainfall in a day.

At least seven other people died in Britain because of severe weather with more than 1,000 homes evacuated in the Northumberland town of Morpeth. Hundreds left the Bestival music festival on the Isle of Wight early after the campsite turned into a mud bath.

The Met Office has issued weather warnings across large areas of the country. and it is thought that Britain could be heading for its the wettest September yet.

Met Office forecaster Barry Gromett said: "It's perfectly feasible that places will have seen their entire September rainfall by the end of tomorrow.

"If it carries on in the same vein we will definitely start to see some records falling."