Storms hit the West Country

Claire's hair salon in Dawlish was flooded out this morning after storm passed through Devon last night.

The owner of the salon, Heather Hartup, says it's happened every two years since 2003. She believes storm drains that had clogged up may have been responsible.

A lightning strike has damaged Police Communications at Devon and Cornwall Police Headquarters in Exeter.

It hit a mast this morning and has caused what the Police says is "significant disruption to telephony services". As a result in order to keep disruption to a minimum all telephone calls to police are being diverted to the Plymouth control room.

All 999 calls will be answered as a priority.

People are being asked to keep telephone contact to a minimum and that non urgent contact is made through the Force internet service until normal service is resumed.

Storms have hit the West Country over night causing flash flooding across the region.

Exeter airport has seen 23mm of rain in the last two hours. And there are reports that homes have flooded in South Devon.