Photographs of waterlogged English towns fill the front pages, with Tewkesbury, its abbey rising as a lonely island from the brown water, a particular favourite. There is "looting, panic-buying - and a water shortage", splashes the Times.
The water shortage is an irony many of the papers dwell on. A treatment plant flooded, leaving thousands of residents of Gloucestershire without clean water and supermarket shelves bare of bottled water. The Guardian reports that with thousands cut off by rising water, the RAF was airlifting people to safety in one of its biggest peacetime operations
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