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However, a number of other towns and villages have also been hit by flooding, including Great Glen, where Cimi Kazazi waded through waist-high water to rescue a woman from a stranded car.

A blanket of cloud will greet early risers on Christmas morning, with the threat of rain isolated to the western and northern isles of the UK, and around the Highlands' Great Glen.

Parts of Argyll, Lochaber and Wester Ross are expected to be the worst affected areas, while river levels around Speyside and Great Glen are most at risk of reaching high levels.

It involves two reservoirs at different heights in the Great Glen, the geological fault which slices through Scotland between Inverness and Fort William.

It was designed by German bridge engineer Hellmut Homberg to withstand extreme weather and potential earthquakes caused by geological movement in the Great Glen geological fault.