Royal gardener Richard Baines, 60, is killed by a falling tree while walking near his home during Storm Boelo
A lifeboat listing in rough seas off Newquay, Cornwall, as Storm Boelo's 84mph gusts left 82,600 homes without power across Britain.A youth knocked off their feet by Storm Boelo's floodwaters, as amber wind warnings remained in force until 9pm with 82,600 homes still without power.A Jet2 aircraft on the runway at Birmingham Airport during Storm Boelo. Storms Boelo and Austen together cut power to 838,700 UK properties over the weekend.Rain falling across the entire United Kingdom as Storm Boelo bombs out over the North Atlantic, the storm that — combined with Austen — knocked out power to 838,700 UK properties over the weekend.
Richard Baines had been curator of Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer for 14 years. He was struck near Mid Kelton, outside Castle Douglas, at around 10:30am on Sunday and died at the scene. Hours later a driver in his 20s was killed when a tree crushed his moving car on Dollis Road in Mill Hill, north London. Fresh weather warnings have now been issued.
David Knott of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh said staff were 'desperately sad, devastated'.
Baines led fieldwork in China, Vietnam and the Canary Islands that yielded seven plants new to science.
He coined Logan's nickname, 'Scotland's most exotic garden'.
