Schools were closed and a road running through a Shropshire village collapsed after heavy storms deluged the county.

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The road at Brockton, near Much Wenlock, was ripped to pieces by cascading floodwater when the village stream burst its banks.

It also caused the village school to close.

Across the UK, at least six people died after one of the worst storms of the year.

Flash flooding has left roads across the region impassable and the banks of the River Severn burst swamping farmland.

Insurers today said the clean-up cost could run into tens of millions of pounds.

In Brockton, a torrent of water poured through, catching motorists unawares and ripping up the road between Brockton and Easthope.

The village school has also been closed.

David Gibbon, Much Wenlock councillor, said: “It’s not flooded now but the road needs to be rebuilt because it has gone.”

Brian Bennett, Shropshire County Council’s assistant divisional surveyor, said that the road was now passable with care and that a temporary road surface would be constructed tomorrow.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said that it had received a “significant increase” in calls.

A number of specialist 4×4 ambulance vehicles were used in areas where there were problems with flooding.

A 17-year-old girl who died when a 4×4 plunged into floodwater in a remote area of forestry in Powys, Mid Wales, was named today as Louise Ferreira.

The teenager from the Thamesmeade area, in south London, was travelling in a convoy of three 4×4 vehicles, enjoying the forestry roads above the Llyn Briane Reservoir, when the accident happened on Friday.