Three dead, residents trapped as Storm Babet batters UK

Three people died in Scotland and England and families were trapped in flooded homes on Friday as Storm Babet moved east after pounding Ireland and headed for Scandinavia.
The UK's Met Office issued a rare red severe weather warning for parts of eastern Scotland with "exceptional rainfall" of up to 22 centimetres forecast for Friday and Saturday. Officials in the southern Irish county of Cork, where hundreds of homes and businesses were flooded earlier in the week, described the flood there as the worst in at least 30 years.