Flood watches and rivers on rise

Thousands of homes in Oxfordshire and Berkshire were flooded in 2007

Flood watches were in place on a number of rivers after storms swept across Britain, leaving one teenager from south-east England dead.

The Environment Agency placed the rivers Evenlode, Ray and the Windrush in Oxfordshire, on flood watch.

The River Thame from Long Marston to Dorchester-on-Thames also had an alert.

The 17-year-old girl who died was a tourist from the south-east who died when a vehicle overturned while trying to cross a swollen ford in Wales.

A man in the vehicle had to walk some distance from the scene to the nearest property to raise the alarm Insp Robert Price Dyfed-Powys Police

The girl had been with two others - a male and a female - when the incident happened on a forestry track at a remote location north of Llyn Brianne Reservoir in Powys.

Dyfed-Powys Police said that flood water from the river had caused the vehicle to "lose its footing" and tip into the river at about 1745 BST on Friday.

Insp Eric Evans, from Dyfed-Powys Police, confirmed the teenager who died and her travelling companions were from the south east of England.

"They were tourists," he said.

The officer added the next-of-kin had been informed and more details were expected to be released later on Saturday.

'Quite traumatised'

Insp Robert Price told BBC Radio Wales one of the pair suffering from hypothermia had to walk several miles to a farmhouse to get help.

"A man in the vehicle had to walk some distance from the scene to the nearest property to raise the alarm," he said.

"The weather conditions were extremely bad and it took him a long time.

"He must have been quite traumatised by his journey."