Parts of Sussex are spending the first day of the new year with flooding, with six warnings issued across the county.
Drone footage shows many flooded fields in the village of Shermanbury, near Henfield, after a deluge of rain in recent days.
Meanwhile, cars were seen driving through part of the B2110 near Handcross which had become flooded after heavy rain.
It comes after fire crews spent the first hours of the new year rescuing a child and several adults from vehicles that had become stranded along a flooded road.
A spokesman for East Sussex Fire and Rescue said that the drivers of the vehicles had moved barriers closing the road out of the way to allow them to pass through.
In Billinghurst, flooding near a railway bridge on the A272 has caused slow traffic, with the road between Wooddale Lane and West Chiltington Lane just passable.
Flood warnings remain in place for the following parts of Sussex:
- Alfriston
- Barcombe Mills
- Fittleworth on the western Rother
- Hellingly and Horsebridge
- Langney Haven at Langney, Willingdon and Eastbourne
- Mock Bridge, near Shermanbury on the River Adur
While the new year started off with a wet start, conditions are set to be drier later this week, with some sunny intervals - with the exception of some scattered showers this afternoon and into this evening.
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