Tributes pour in for Richard Baines, the Logan Botanic Garden curator killed by a falling tree 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, 60, was walking near his home in Mid Kelton, just outside Castle Douglas, when the tree struck on Sunday morning. David Knott of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh said colleagues were 'desperately sad, devastated'. Baines coined Logan's billing as 'Scotland's most exotic garden'. A man in his 20s also died when a tree crushed his car in Mill Hill, north London.
His fieldwork in Vietnam, China and the Canaries catalogued seven plant species new to science.
