A 57-year-old woman has died after being swept into a river in Angus in Scotland as Storm Babet batters the country.Police Scotland said the woman's body was recovered on Thursday afternoon at Water of Lee, Glen Esk, where a red weather alert for heavy rain is currently in place.Residents of hundreds of homes have been urged to evacuate in one of the areas worst hit by Storm Babet as thousands more were left without power and facing flooding from "unprecedented" amounts of rain.The second named

A 57-year-old woman has died after being swept into a river in Angus in Scotland as Storm Babet batters the country.Police Scotland said the woman's body was recovered on Thursday afternoon at Water of Lee, Glen Esk, where a red weather alert for heavy rain is currently in place.Residents of hundreds of homes have been urged to evacuate in one of the areas worst hit by Storm Babet as thousands more were left without power and facing flooding from "unprecedented" amounts of rain.The second named storm of the season sparked warnings of major flooding, landslides and the prospect of record rainfall as it swept across Scotland before spreading into northern and eastern England later.