FRESH warnings of heavy rain were issued for most of Scotland as Storm Imogen is set to dump high tides and heavy showers across parts of Britain.

The Met Office's yellow alerts valid till 8am on Monday warn of difficult driving conditions due to water, spray and localised flooding.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency had seven flood warning in force on Sunday night covering areas of Tayside.

The weather forecaster's warning surround showers or longer spells of rain which it said will continue to affect southern Scotland on Sunday evening, and overnight into Monday morning.

The Met Office said: Atlantic fronts will cross from the southwest on Sunday evening, followed by a strong showery southwesterly airstream overnight, with troughs enhancing these showers at times."

Between half an inch and an inch of rain was expected within the warning area, with as much as one-and-a-half inches over the hills.

"With the ground still saturated after the recent wet weather, these amounts of rain will be enough to cause some low impact surface water flooding," said the Met Office.

South of the border, there were warnings of 80mph gales and amber alerts of wind were issued for much of the South West.

On Sunday flooding hit the M9 and a major road in Greenock, as wet and windy weather persisted in Scotland.

On the M9, flooding closed lanes north and southbound around Bannockburn and Craigforth.