Flooding, fires and roads closed across Scotland after extreme weather

Heavy rain and thunderstorms are causing travel disruption and flooding in several parts of Scotland.

Rail passengers and motorists were facing disruption due to the conditions on Wednesday morning.

ScotRail tweeted that due to "extremely heavy rain'' and flooding on the railway, services across the country will be delayed or cancelled.

Passengers were advised to check before travelling and consider alternative transport where possible.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to multiple reports of flooding in the Perthshire area with many domestic properties affected.

Perth and Kinross Council said there were several roads impassable in the area due to flooding.

At 7am, the council tweeted that Feus Road/Marshall Place/Wallace Crescent/Crammond Place/Crieff Road/Glasgow Road and A912 at Bogle Bridge were affected while surface water was causing problems in many other areas.

Pictures posted on social media showed cars half-submerged in floodwater in streets in Perth.

In Fife, a landslide caused the closure of the A921 between Kinghorn and Burntisland.

Police urged motorists to use an alternative route.

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of thunderstorms for the eastern half of Scotland which is in force until midnight on Wednesday.

It warned that some places are likely to see "further severe thunderstorms'', but with "significant uncertainty in location and timing''.

The warning covers Central, Tayside and Fife, Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Stirling.

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