More high winds hit parts of UK as Storm Boelo clean-up continues

Strong winds are expected to continue across Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland on Tuesday, after Storm Boelo brought flooding and power cuts to thousands over the weekend.

While conditions are set to improve for much of the UK after a wet and windy morning, clean-up efforts could be hampered elsewhere - including in Scotland, where a third of a month's rain fell during the storm.

The Energy Networks Association (ENA) said almost 8,000 people were still without power after more than 800,000 experienced cuts.

Two men were killed by falling trees during the storm on Sunday - a man in his 20s whose car was hit in north London and a 60-year-old man in Dumfries and Galloway identified as Richard Baines, the long-serving curator of Logan Botanic Garden.

A deep area of low pressure, while not severe enough to be a named storm, still brought strong winds with gusts of 65-80mph to parts of western England and Wales in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Through the rest of Tuesday, the strongest winds will be across Scotland and the northern coast of Northern Ireland, where a Met Office yellow warning is due to be in place until 21:00 GMT.

Gusts will continue to reach 50-60mph, possibly up to 70mph in the most exposed parts of northwest and northern Scotland.

That is is likely to bring further travel disruption and more power cuts in places.

Elsewhere across the UK, Tuesday will be a blustery day, but the wind is not likely to cause any major impacts.