Clean-up under way after floods

Families and businesses in Yorkshire and the Midlands are counting the cost after days of torrential rain left hundreds of properties under several feet of water.

The Environment Agency has downgraded its final severe flood warning - which was in force for a large area of flat land to the north east of Doncaster - as levels on the River Don fell.

Here, as with many other catchment areas, the threat had moved down stream along with the massive quantities of water which have fallen over the last few days.

In York, the River Ouse burst its banks in the centre of the city producing scenes common in autumn and winter but unusual in June.

A forecaster for MeteoGroup UK, the weather division of the Press Association, said more rain was expected this week but it was unlikely to be as heavy as recent days.

He said: "We're not out of the woods yet. There is going to be some quite steady rain this week. But I don't think it's going to be as heavy as it was over the last few days."

In North Yorkshire, an investigation is continuing into how a 17-year-old soldier died after he was swept down a fast-flowing stream while on a training exercise near Catterick Garrison on Friday.

Police and the Army have still not named the teenager whose body was found by a rescue team.

Another man had a heart attack as firefighters in boats plucked him from his flooded home in Darfield, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire.