In Scotland, a fifth severe flood warning had earlier been issued for the east of the country as the emergency services grappled with substantial flooding from Storm Babet. A further 177 flood alerts warning of possible flooding, covering rivers across western, central and northern England. Meanwhile, in England, the Environment Agency issued further flood warnings covering 105 sites, largely clustered around Bristol, the Midlands and Yorkshire, with a string of warnings along the east coast stretching from the Tyne south to Ipswich. Rescue services have had to extract residents by boat who had not evacuated after Thursday’s order for about 350 homes in the town, after the river reached 4.4 metres and breached the town’s flood barriers. More localised than the red warning in force for Friday morning, the second red warning centres on the town of Brechin, where hundreds of homes have been inundated by flood water, as well as the coastal town of Montrose.