Entire high street in Dunstable underwater after deluge of rain sparks flooding

Sixty-eight flood alerts, which mean flooding is possible, have also been issued by the Environment Agency.

These are: Bottle Brook in Derbyshire, Bourne Brook (Tamworth), Burton Trent, Loughborough urban watercourses and local tributaries to the River Soar, Lower Derwent in Derbyshire, Lower Dove, Lower Dove Brooks and Egginton Brook in Derbyshire and Lower Dove Brooks in Staffordshire.

Others are: Lower Lee tributaries, Lower River Soar in Leicestershire, Lower Tame, Mersey Estuary at Warrington, Middle Avon Rugby to Bidford, Middle Tame, River Amber in Derbyshire, River Anker and River Sence, River Arrow and River Alne, River Blithe and River Swarbourn, River Blythe in Warwickshire, River Churnet and River Tean.

Also listed are: River Cole, River Ecclesbourne in Derbyshire, River Erewash in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, River Erewash Tributaries in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, River Frome in Herefordshire, River Hamps and River Manifold, River Ivel in Hertfordshire and Central Bedfordshire, River Leadon catchment, River Leam and River Itchen.

Flood alerts also affect: River Lee at Luton, Harpenden and Wheathampstead, River Leen, Day Brook and Tottle Brook in Nottinghamshire, River Maun in Nottinghamshire, River Mease, River Pinn and Woodridings Stream, River Rea, River Rother and its tributaries from Turks Bridge to the Royal Military Canal, Rivers Beam and Rom.

Included as well are: River Sence in Leicestershire, River Sow and River Penk, River Sowe, River Sherbourne, Canley Brook and Finham Brook, River Stour and Smestow Brook in the Black Country and South Staffordshire, River Stour in South Warwickshire, River Trent in Derbyshire, River Trent Tributaries in Nottinghamshire and River Ver in Hertfordshire.

River Wreake in Leicestershire, River Wye in Derbyshire, Rothley Brook, Quorn Brook and Sileby Brook in Leicestershire, Rugeley Trent, Silk Stream and the Deans, Edgware, Dollis, Mutton and Wealdstone Brooks, Stoke Trent, Stone Trent, Tern and Perry catchments and Tidal River Crane.

Tidal Thames riverside from Putney Bridge to Teddington Weir, tributaries in Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, tributaries in Gloucester, tributaries in Leicester City, tributaries in North Derbyshire, tributaries in South Derbyshire, Upper Avon River Swift and Clay Coton Brook, Upper Dove, Upper River Colne and Radlett Brook, Upper Soar catchment, Upper Tame, Upper Tame at Sandwell Valley, Upper Teme and Yeading Brooks in the London Boroughs of Harrow and Hillingdon