Update 20:30
RISK TO LIFE – IF TOLD TO EVACUATE, PLEASE LEAVE
The latest modelling from @SEPA is that river levels could reach an unprecedented 5m about normal levels. The Brechin flood defences are designed to deal with river levels of 3.8m.
There's not being a fan of the Royals (an understandable position), then there's actively celebrating the death of an elderly woman. The second one makes you a very unsavoury person. She was an icon. Undeniably. And as someone who isn’t a royalist, I for one will mourn her loss.
liz truss hasn’t even finished her online workplace health and safety training module and she’s had to announce one of the biggest events of this decade