UK bad weather

Cars and vans struggle through floodwater on Forge Lane in West Bromwich Photograph: David Jones/PA

A 300 metre-long mobile flood barrier rushed into service alongside the burst banks of the river at Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA

The wind is too strong for one woman's brolly as she walks across London's Millennium Bridge Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA

Botley train station in Hampshire, where flooding forced the cancellation of services between Eastleigh and Fareham Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Engineers inspect the railway line near Botley Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Large waves break at the seafront in Dawlish, Devon Photograph: Will Leach/Picture it now

Sheep keep to the high ground above flooded fields near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, scene of severe flooding last summer Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA