Forecasters are warning more floods are on their way after a weekend of torrential rain.

Monday's clear skies are likely to be the calm before more storms, as another depression brings heavy rain across Northern Ireland, the North East, Wales and southern Scotland.

A spokesman for the Environment Agency, which has seven severe flood warnings in place for the North East, said: "With river levels being high already, we can expect more floods to hit."

At least five people died in weather-related incidents over the weekend, with floods hitting the North East and parts of Yorkshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

A 17-year-old girl from Thamesmead, southeast London, died when the vehicle she was in plunged into floodwater in a remote area of forestry in Powys, mid Wales.

A man and a woman died when their vehicle collided with a tree in Embankment Road, Plymouth, in heavy rain.

A 42-year-old Sheffield man was killed when the Kawasaki motorbike he was riding hit a tree branch on the A66 near Scotch Corner.

And 27-year-old engineer Alex Wright died when a muddy trench he was working in collapsed at a building site in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

In Morpeth, Northumberland, the clean-up operation began after yesterday's floods put the high street under 2ft of water, with more than 400 people needing to be evacuated.

Many residents were plucked to safety using an RAF helicopter.

Homes also needed to be pumped out in parts of Birmingham, and defences were deployed around the River Ouse in York.

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