Region put on flood alert as further downpours forecast

PARTS of Yorkshire have been put on flood alert with the Met Office warning of heavy thundery showers today.

The yellow warning follows torrential rain in parts of the country over the weekend which led to a landslip and homes flooding.

Forecasters say up to 15mm of rain could fall per hour and as much as 40mm in three hours, but the showers will be very 
localised and some places will escape.

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In northern England properties and roads were inundated 
after heavy showers moved across the Yorkshire Dales and 
Northumberland on Saturday evening.

North Yorkshire Fire Service said they were first called to a flooded property at Little Ouseburn, near Boroughbridge, at about 6.30pm and a house in Grewelthorpe, near Ripon, which had 2ft of water in the kitchen.

A spokesman said crews were then called to properties flooded on the main street in nearby Kirkby Malzeard and a restaurant in Harrogate. At 8.50pm a crew from Masham came to the aid of a driver whose car had got stuck in flood water in Thorpe Road, in the village.

The South West was hit by 
two storm fronts over the weekend which resulted in flooding across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.

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In north Somerset fire crews spent more than six hours pumping water out of homes and two hours at the scene of a “serious” landslip which brought soil, rocks and debris down on to a country lane. Rescue teams helped search Failand Lane in Portbury, near Bristol, in case anyone was trapped underneath.

Last month Rosemary Snell, 67, and Michael Rolfe, 72, were killed by a landslide in Beaminster, Dorset.

The Met Office says the weather will become more settled by mid-week, drier and warmer.