In pictures: Building barriers

British cities, towns and villages continue to build sandbag defences against rising flood waters.

Soldiers in Clementhorpe pile up the sandbags

Trying to stem the tide in Edinburgh

Army Chinooks drop sandbags on the flood-defence walls

Rivers still threaten to burst their banks

Police use trail bikes to get around

What petrol crisis? Pedestrians brave the floods in Malton

Young and old: A boy from Cawood helps build defences