Storm Frank: kayaker's body found as Scotland battered by extreme weather

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As the battering winds and torrential rains of Storm Frank subsided, leaving the people of Scotland, Ireland and northern England to survey the damage in its wake, police confirmed that one man had died in the latest bout of extreme weather.

Police Scotland recovered the body of a kayaker, believed to be in his 50s, who had been missing since he got into difficulties on the Findhorn river near Inverness on Wednesday afternoon.