Three dead and hundreds of homes flooded as Storm Babet hits Britain

Three dead and hundreds of homes flooded as Storm Babet hits Britain | ITV News

Three people have died, a man is missing and a plane skidded off the runway in Leeds as Storm Babet battered large parts of Britain.

A man in his 60s, caught in fast-flowing flood water in the town of Cleobury Mortimer, in Shropshire, has become the latest person to die in the extreme weather, West Mercia Police confirmed.

Last night two people died in Angus, where hundreds of homes were evacuated as torrents of water swept through the region.

A 57-year-old woman died after being swept into the Water of Lee at Glen Esk, where rivers reached “unprecedented” levels on Thursday afternoon.

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