Torrential Rain Causes Floods Across Large Parts of Country

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RESIDENTS were left to clean up after torrential rain caused widespread flooding across parts of Scotland that saw people evacuated from their homes, schools closed, shops damaged, roads and a railway line blocked.

Towns in North Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire were the worst-hit, with the emergency services called in to help people affected by the downpours, which began on Wednesday evening and continued for much of yesterday in some places.

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Torrential Rain Causes Floods Across Large Parts of Country

One-third of a month's rainfall fell in the space of just a few hours on Wednesday evening in Glasgow, while the Lothians and Argyll and Bute were a...

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