Storm Desmond: Train services resume with delays as clean-up operations continue in aftermath of floods
Heavy downpours are expected again this week in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Your support makes all the difference.- David Cameron promises to provide more funding for flood-hit councils
- Over 1,000 homes still without power in Cumbria
- At least three people have died due to the severe weather
- More than 5,200 homes and businesses have been flooded, according to The Environment Agency
- West Coast mainline services have re-opened
- Further severe weather warnings issued for week ahead
Thousands of people remain without power following damaging floods caused by Storm Desmond.
Homes and businesses have been devastated by rainfall which broke records set in 2009, while three people have died as a result of the extreme weather.
Severe weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office as heavy downpours were forecast again this week in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The weekend saw a new record created for the largest amount of rain in a 24-hour period, with 341.4mm recorded at Honister Pass in Cumbria.
The maximum wind speed recorded was 81mph, in Capel Curig, Gwynedd.
Hundreds of families were temporarily left homeless as they were evacuated from houses devastated when lakes and rivers burst their banks in Cumbria, Lancashire and other nearby areas.
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