Cornwall floods

Children sit on a wall by a flooded street in St Blazey Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Workmen try to clear a blocked drain in St Blazey Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Residents on a flooded street in St Blazey, near St Austell, which was hit by heavy rain and strong winds Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Firemen stand in a flooded house in St Blazey Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

A clear-up operation begins on the A390 main road through Lostwithiel Photograph: Kelly Hancock/Rex Features

Residents move a car stranded in floodwater in St Blazey Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

People ride horses through a flooded St Blazey street Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

High waters in the River Fowey, by Lostwithiel Bridge Photograph: Kelly Hancock/Rex Features

A flooded road in Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

A woman bails water from her home in Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Floodwater gushes down a road outside Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Residents look at a bank of silt that was washed down a street in Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

A man tries to unblock a drain outside a garage in St Blazey Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Cars washed down a road in Lostwithiel by the floodwater Photograph: Adam Gerrard /SWNS

A resident navigates wades through floodwater in Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Council workers clean up after floods hit Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

A woman carries her dog in St Austell Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Resident Jane Hurd bails water from her flooded home in Lostwithiel Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

A woman walks along a flooded road in St Blazey Photograph: Adam Gerrard/SWNS

Workmen try to clear a drain in St Blazey, Cornwall where flooding has cut the village off Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Flood damage in the Eden Project's Link building Photograph: Eden Project/PA

A resident looks out of the front door of her sandbagged house in Lostwithiel Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Rob and Edward Rusbridge, aged eight, clean up after the floods in Lostwithiel Photograph: SWNS

Vince Reeves cleans up his property in Lostwithiel after the flooding Photograph: SWNS