Britain is braced for further heavy rain in areas already saturated after being battered by storms.
The Met Office has severe weather warnings for rain for southern and south-west England and south Wales from Thursday afternoon.The Environment Agency has two severe flood warnings in the Somerset Levels.
A meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra will be chaired by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles in place of the environment secretary.
Owen Paterson has been forced to pull out of leading the government's response to the floods to have emergency surgery on a detached retina.
'Rain is back'
Forecasters said there could be 20mm-40mm (0.8in-1.6in) on saturated ground, with further bouts of rain to come into the weekend
BBC weather presenter Matt Taylor predicts more rain and strong winds throughout February
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