Residents in communities along rivers swollen by heavy rain after the recent storms are anxiously eyeing their flood defences tonight.

Two severe flood warnings- indicating a danger to life- remain in place.

One is at Ironbridge in Shropshire, where last night the River Severn came within a few centimetres of breaching flood barriers.

The other is at Bewdley in Worcestershire, a town still waiting for the permanent barriers it was promised two years ago.

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