Flood warnings in place after Storm Bert hits

The clean-up operation has begun in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden after flooding yesterday

Three flood warnings remain in place across Yorkshire after Storm Bert brought snow and heavy rainfall to the region.

Flood sirens sounded in parts of Calderdale on Saturday, with river levels around Todmorden exceeding 2.4m (7.9ft) - 34cm (1ft) short of levels during the Boxing Day floods of 2015.

The MP for Calder Valley said a "relatively small" number of residential and business properties had been flooded.

The remaining warnings are in place at Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, riverside areas in York, and in Horbury, West Yorkshire.

Early on Sunday morning, 13 flood warnings were in place, most of them in Calderdale.

Melting snow coupled with heavy rainfall throughout Saturday and Sunday caused localised disruption, with a number of road closures.

Speaking on Sunday morning, the Labour MP for Calder Valley, Josh Fenton-Glynn, said: "We're still wary because it's still raining, but it feels like we've escaped the worst of it.

"But here in Hebden Bridge we've been waiting almost a decade for a proper flood scheme to get underway, in terms of the hard infrastructure.

"Hopefully this will remind the Environment Agency of the need for that."

Calderdale has seen the worst of the flooding in West Yorkshire so far this weekend

Flood warden Andrew Entwistle was involved in the clean-up operation.

"In Hebden Bridge, the floods come very, very quickly," he said.

"It can look as if it's doing very well and then suddenly we get a surge and it floods the town."

Flood warden Andrew Entwistle said Hebden Bridge was prone to flooding "very, very quickly"

In North Yorkshire, police urged drivers to "consider whether you really need to make a journey" after three vehicles broke down trying to pass through deep standing water on the A65 near Settle on Saturday evening.

The force urged motorists not to drive through floodwater.

One flood warning remains in place in the county at Boroughbridge Camping and Caravanning Site, where the Environment Agency said levels of the River Ure had reached 1.80m (5.6ft) on Sunday afternoon, slightly above the point at which flooding is possible.

Burnley Road at Callis Bridge was closed due to flooding.

A further 19 flood alerts, which are less serious than flood warnings but still indicate flooding is possible, are dotted across North, West and South Yorkshire.

Storm Bert initially brought a thick blanket of snow to the region on Saturday morning, but as temperatures rose this gave way to an intense period of wet weather.

A Met Office's amber weather warning for snow and rain, which had been in place across Yorkshire on Saturday, has now ceased.

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