A five-year-old girl died after falling into a swollen river and a driver was crushed to death by a falling tree as storms battered the country.
The girl was swept half a mile in raging waters after slipping from a riverbank while she played with her dogs in Stratton, north Cornwall.
After clinging to a piece of driftwood for 90 minutes the schoolgirl was spotted by rescue teams and pulled from the water. But she later died in hospital.
In south London a driver was crushed to death when a tree crashed onto his van after being toppled in high winds. His two passengers also suffered back, neck and shoulder injuries.
The accident happened in Clapham Common around 2pm. Neighbours said the tree had been dead for ten years and could not stand up to the strong winds.
Police also named a 14-year-old diver who vanished in squally conditions off the coast of Berry Head, Brixham, Devon, on Monday.
Louis Price is feared drowned after he failed to surface on a diving trip with his father. Rescue teams have now called off the search.
The stormy weather prompted several flood warnings from the Environment Agency.
The South West was among the areas worst affected by flooding as half a month's rainfall fell in 24 hours in parts of the country.
Dozens of homes were flooded in Fife, Scotland, with some householders deluged by four feet of water. Trees were downed by high winds which disrupted trains on lines out of London to the South East and ferries out of Dover were delayed.
Overnight, three men were rescued from the roof of their car in Grantham, Lincolnshire, after becoming stranded in a ford. In Northern Ireland, three teenage girls on a camping trip were pulled from their cars after becoming trapped in the floods.
Earlier a child and two adults were pulled from their cars after floodwater engulfed the vehicles in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire.
The unsettled weather is set to continue throughout the rest of the week and over the weekend across most parts of the country. But there were tentative indications that finer, more settled weather may be in store later in the month.
