Clear-up under way after flooding

Cars became slowly submerged following the floods

People on Arran are mopping up after their island suffered landslips and flooding in a torrential downpour.

Strathclyde Police said a number of properties were waterlogged, including a bistro which had been open for only three weeks.

One eyewitness, John Jackson, said it was the worst downpour he had seen.

Meanwhile, rescuers had to pick up eight people who became trapped on an island in the middle of the River Almond at Sma'glen near Crieff.

The four adults and four children were camping overnight when a storm caused the river to rise.

They were winched to safety at about 1030 BST on Sunday by a Royal Navy rescue helicopter, an RAF spokesman said.

Down on the shore, water was pouring from almost every gap in the hillside and flooding over the road John Jackson

The spokesman added that the eight managed a "lucky escape" as cloud cover was hampering attempts to pick them up.

The van they had used to travel to their camping spot was washed away by the swollen river.

Tayside Police said nobody in the group, who were taken to Perth Royal Infirmary, was injured.

The party, which came from Perth, included two teenage girls and two three-year-old children.

The Met Office had forecast that a band of heavy, showery rain would spread east across many central and western areas of Scotland on Saturday night into Sunday morning.

It confirmed that 22mm of rain fell in the affected areas in just an hour-and-a-half.

'Very dramatic'

Mr Jackson, who is from Glasgow but was staying on Arran, said it had been quite a dramatic night for those on the island.

He explained: "We had been mountain climbing during the day and we had got pretty tired so we settled ourselves below the summit of Goatfell, then the rain came on.

"It was torrential from a thunder storm, so we made our way down the mountainside and saw streams of water I had never seen before.

The clean up process on Arran got under way after the rain

"Then down on the shore, water was pouring from almost every gap in the hillside and flooding over the road.

"There were sections where rubble was being swept across the road, from where the cart tracks were being eroded and boulders were being carried by the water across the road. All in all it was very dramatic.

"I haven't seen rain like it on Arran, I am sure these rivers and streets have never been so full."

The rising flood water led to more than 20 people being moved from a camp site at Glen Rosa.

They were looked after at the library in Brodick, which was used as an emergency centre on Sunday morning.

In contrast, cities like Aberdeen recorded a sunny weekend with temperatures hitting 24C.