Storm Bert: Flood warnings in place after man dies

Dozens of flood warnings and alerts stay successful spot crossed England connected Sunday arsenic disruption from Storm Bert continues successful galore parts of the UK.

A antheral successful his 60s died connected Saturday after a histrion deed his car adjacent Winchester, portion a fig of homes were flooded successful counties Down and Tyrone successful Northern Ireland.

Yellow warnings for upwind and rainfall are successful spot for occidental parts of Scotland and Wales, south-east England and Northern Ireland connected Sunday.

Meanwhile, determination were 81 flood warnings successful spot crossed England, Wales and Scotland connected Sunday morning.

As of 08:00 GMT, determination were 56 flood warnings successful spot successful England, 36 successful Wales and 4 successful Scotland. There were besides 169 flood alerts successful spot successful England, 36 successful Wales and six successful Scotland.

Storm Bert has caused roads and homes to flood, and led to powerfulness cuts. Around 28,000 properties are without powerfulness crossed the UK, according to PowerOutage, a information aggregator.

In Denbighshire, northbound Wales, 5 adults and 5 children were rescued from a location pursuing a landslide connected Saturday.

Following hours of dense rainfall and upwind caused by Storm Bert, residents successful Dundonald successful Northern Ireland were stuck successful their houses owed to the flood water connected Saturday.

Meanwhile, up to 10 homes whitethorn person been flooded successful Coalisland.

Travel has besides been disrupted, with roads and bid lines affected by floodwater, fallen trees and different debris.

Since Storm Bert made landfall connected Friday, 3 men person died connected the roads - though lone 1 has been straight linked to Bert.

Parts of Scotland are bracing for a 2nd time of disruption with precocious winds and localised flooding aft Storm Bert swept dense snowfall and rainfall crossed the country.

The cardinal loop was deed by much snowfall that anticipated connected Saturday, causing disruption connected roads. The M8 saw agelong postulation jams and 2 of the main routes southbound - the M74 and A68 - were closed for a clip owed to accidents.

Milder temperatures are causing the snowfall which covered the northbound of England and overmuch of Scotland earlier this week to melt.

Avanti West Coast cancelled its work betwixt Edinburgh and Carlisle each time connected Saturday with the adjacent nonstop work from Carlisle not scheduled to tally until Sunday afternoon.

Train journeys to and from Manchester Piccadilly were disrupted connected Saturday evening arsenic flooding betwixt Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent blocked immoderate lines.