Engineers are working to restore power to around 22,000 properties in the north and north-east of Scotland on Tuesday morning after Storm Floris hit the country with high winds.

Work is also under way to clear trees from several railway lines which were blocked by the storm.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said it had restored power to 50,000 properties since the onset of the high winds.

The company said: “Now the winds have died down and moved into the North Sea, it’s become safer for our field teams to get to faults on the network, although strong gusts are still forecast for today and we’ll be monitoring the forecast closely.

“Our teams worked for as long as the light permitted last night and were deployed again early this morning, with the support of helicopters t

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