Insurance bosses will meet ministers to discuss their response to the flood crisis. Victims have received £14m in emergency payments so far. Ed Miliband will call for faster processing of insurance claims when he too meets industry representatives.
Two days after they were forced to evacuate all of their animals from the rising floodwater, a pair of Somerset farmers say that solders have arrived to help.
The pair, who describe themselves on Twitter as a "farming couple living and working on a farm soundred [sic] by vast amounts of water", live on one of several farms that were forced to evacuate.
Yesterday, they tweeted: "Farm is so eerie now, no animals left. I don't really know what to say anymore."
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The residents of one street in Egham in Surrey have described how they have coped with the devastating impact of the floods.
Somerset Levels have been one of the worst-affected areas during the floods and today's aerial images reveal the situation remains bleak.