The worst of Frank appears to have passed, but the damage remains.
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“One of the reasons I’m here is so that I can see it for myself, so we can make sure we are doing everything we reasonably can to help people with that recovery”. “Windy throughout with gales, locally severe, these generally easing later in the day too”, it added.
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The report detailed 27 incidents that he said showed Allegiant pilots had to divert or return to the airport they left. The crew reported heat in the rear of the aircraft, the statement said, without providing any other details.
The RSA highlighted the hazardous conditions set to be created by a combination of high tides, strong winds and heavy rain. Winds light. Minimum Temperature 1°C. Showers will become more scattered during the afternoon with some sunny spells developing.
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Three hundred homes were evacuated in Peebles.
The news comes as parts of northern England suffer their worst bouts of flooding in decades, with areas of Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire under several feet of water.
The power outages were caused by downed power lines, and left more than 2,000 homes with no power in Westport, while 3,000 homes across Donegal, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary lost their electricity.
Gusts of up to 55 knots, or about 63 miles per hour, disrupted flights in and out of Belfast International Airport where planes had to be held or diverted.
On Tuesday evening Britannia Bridge was closed to all high sided vehicles, with diversions in place over Menai Bridge, which remained in place today, with speed limits set to 20mph this morning.
The Met Office has issued no further weather warnings as Storm Frank begins to move on from the UK.
A general view of a collapsed bridge over the River Wharfe is seen in the market town of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, Britain, on Wednesday.
The 18th-century bridge started to collapse into the swollen river at around 5pm, with a crowd gathering as masonry fell into the swirling torrent. Those in this area are advised to evacuate immediately.
“Clearly there are very significant problems in some urban areas and there are serious problems in areas throughout the country where people are isolated”.
“Emergency services, volunteers, members of the public, the council, working together”.
Meanwhile, police in York said it was “extremely disappointing” that thieves had targeted homes submerged in flood water.
The Environment Agency had earlier warned of the potential for further significant flooding, especially in Cumbria, while floods minister Rory Stewart said a potentially “very bad situation” lay ahead.
When he was asked why it had taken him five days to come to York, he said: “I didn’t want to get in the way of people doing an emergency job at a highly critical time”.
The government-affiliated Environment Agency said more than 6,700 homes in the north of England were flooded during the last week as river levels reached all-time highs.
As the clean-up operations got under way across the country, dozens of flood warnings and flood alerts remained in place throughout Scotland.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued 50 flood warnings and 14 flood alerts for Angus, Dundee, Tayside and Dumfries.
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Flooding in the village of Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, as as Storm Frank begins to batter the UK.
