Storm Babet: Plane skids off runway at Leeds Bradford Airport amid extreme weather
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Major incidents were declared in parts of the UK after three people were killed as Storm Babet continues to batter the UK with high winds, torrential rain and severe flooding.
Across the UK, roads have closed and train services have been left in disarray or cancelled.
Suffolk and Derbyshire county councils declared major incidents, and a man died in fast-flowing floodwater in Shropshire.
It was the storm’s first death in England after a van driver was killed by a falling tree near Forfar, Scotland, and a woman was swept away in a river in Angus.
A passenger plane had to be evacuated after it skidded off the runway at Leeds Bradford Airport as it tried to land in high winds.
The village of Edzell, near Brechin in eastern Scotland, was completely cut off by flooding, while people in 60 homes around Brechin who had refused to budge when the rest of the town was evacuated were finally rescued as hundreds of houses flooded.
The Met Office issued a new red warning for rain, meaning there is a risk to life, in eastern Scotland for all day on Saturday.
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In pictures: Storm Babet raging through the UK on Friday
A couple and their dog are rescued by a Coastguard team from a flooded street in Brechin, northeast Scotland on Friday
Storm Babet Plane skids off runway at Leeds-Bradford Airport amid extreme weather
Waves crash near to the 'Freddie Gilroy' sculpture by artist Ray Lonsdale in Scarborough, as Storm Babet batters the country
‘A very wet start to Saturday’, says Met Office
“A very wet start” is how the Met Office has described the beginning of Saturday as Storm Babet continues to batter the UK.
The forecaster wrote on X: “A very wet start to Saturday in Scotland and parts of northern England with strong easterly winds.”
“Brighter further showers, although scattered showers continue, particularly in the southeast.”
Storm Babet shows no signs of abating on Saturday
Storm Babet shows no signs of abating as downpours continue to batter the UK on Saturday, with three people dead and another red "danger to life" warning in place.
The rare red weather warning has been issued for parts of eastern Scotland all day, prompting First Minister Humza Yousaf to warn: "We have not seen the last of this."
Yellow and amber warnings for rain that were in place across much of England overnight have expired, however a yellow warning for wind remains in place until 12pm across the north east of England and eastern Scotland.
Across England, there were over 353 flood warnings and 248 alerts on Saturday morning, while 55,000 people were left without power on Friday as a result of the storm. Around 45,000 of those were reconnected to the grid as of the evening, the Energy Networks Association said.
Met forecaster Jonathan Vautrey said: "The focus of the rainfall from Saturday shifts back northwards over towards eastern and northern Scotland.
"Some parts of those areas have seen about a month and a half's worth of rain already, but there's another band that's forecast to track its way northwards over the course of the night and push its way towards relatively similar areas.
"So there are further red and amber rain warnings in force for Saturday, with the potential to push those areas close towards two months of rain in the span of three days."
Simon O'Brien (left) using his homemade boat, which he built for his grandchildren, to rescue elderly residents from their home in the village of Debenham, Suffolk
Dozens in rescue centres in Angus
More than 75 people were in rescue centres in Angus, east Scotland, on Friday night, while Angus Council said people in more than 60 homes in Brechin, who refused previous evacuation attempts, required rescue.
Jacqui Semple, head of risk, resilience and safety for Angus Council, said: “People are devastated. This is awful.
“It would be awful. Your house flooded, your belongings, the impact emotionally and physically and everything that goes with that.
“They’ve got all of those people who have been affected arriving at our rest centres in such a state – wet, cold, and just so unbelievably upset.”
Flood warnings
Across England, there were over 283 flood warnings and 243 alerts on Friday evening, while 55,000 people were left without power as a result of the storm.
By Friday evening, around 45,000 of those were reconnected to the grid but 10,000 were still without power, the Energy Networks Association said.
Flooding caused 70-minute delays on the A1 near Grantham, National Highways said, while further south, Suffolk declared a major incident on Friday as Storm Badet caused “major flooding” across the county.
Flights cancelled after Tui runway incident
The closure of Leeds Bradford airport after a Tui plane veered off the runway caused dozens of delayed, cancelled or diverted flights.
More than 2,000 passengers were hit by a total of 34 cancellations, including Ryanair flights to Palma, Malaga and Chania in Crete.
Wizz Air has cancelled flights linking Leeds Bradford with Krakow and Katowice in Poland as well as Bucharest and Cluj in Romania.
Travellers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to be flown to their destination as soon as possible, and meanwhile the airline must provide hotels and meals as appropriate.
Tui holidaymakers hoping to return from Corfu to Manchester were also affected.
The aircraft involved in the runway excursion was flying what is known as a “W-pattern”. It began in Manchester on Friday morning, with a plan to fly to Corfu, back to Leeds Bradford and out to Corfu again before the return flight to Manchester.
ICYMI: Tui plane skids off runway
A passenger plane at Leeds Bradford Airport had to be evacuated yesterday after it skidded off the runway as it tried to land in high winds.
Operator Tui said no one was injured, although the airport was briefly closed.
One passenger, Malcolm Fell, said the skid had been “a little bit dramatic” but everyone onboard was “quite calm”.
“'My wife, [who] was sat next to me, turned to me and said I think you better brace yourself because this is not going to stop. And then all of a sudden...we were at a standstill on the grass,” he told MailOnline.
In pictures: winds and rain
Waves crash near sculpture in Scarborough
High water levels around a stadium in Rotherham
People stand on a bench at a bus stop in Dublin’s city centre
Roads and bridges collapse
Roads and bridges collapsed as Storm Babet hit Scotland.
A 200-year-old bridge on the Rottal Estate in Angus was washed away by torrential flood water, while a road connecting Marykirk, Angus, where some houses were evacuated also collapsed.
Dee Ward, 58, estate manager for the Rottal Estate said: “I think this is the new pattern, I don’t think we will go back to normal.
“The frightening thing is how much water is coming down in a short space of time.
“I wasn’t surprised the bridge got washed away.
“Big posts had been ripped out further up the hill.”
Zena Cowie, 28, said a road had collapsed that connected Marykirk with the dual carriageway to Montrose, Angus.
Ms Cowie said: “The road at the start of the bridge that crosses the river has collapsed.
“Marykirk is the main way to the dual carriageway to get to the dual carriageway, to go into Montrose.
“The other way is to go into Brechin which is also flooded.”
Amber and yellow weather warnings for swathes of UK
An amber weather warning for rain is in place for some parts of northern England including Yorkshire and Manchester, as well as some of the Midlands, including Nottingham.
And a yellow weather warning for much of the east coast of the UK has been put in place for wind and rain on Saturday.
Weather warnings for Saturday
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