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Liam Stych insists he's 'not a hero' and that he was 'acting on instinct' when he rushed to free the pair from their sinking Fiat Punto in Hall Green, Birmingham.
Nearly 750 flood alerts or warnings were imposed, while raw sewage was discharged by Thames Water into the river in Surrey and Berkshire which flooded footpaths.
Footage taken in the Midlands, in places such as Loughborough (pictured), Leicester and Derbyshire, shows people's homes lying under deep floodwaters on Wednesday.
We're NOT cut off by floods, say villagers in Naburn, York
The Environment Agency says it is "monitoring rainfall and river levels", with flooding expected.