Supplies are being distributed in North Yorkshire following flash flooding which hit the region this weekend.

Food and water, along with baby food and nappies have been flown to the worst affected villages by Northumbria Police who also helped in Sunday's rescue efforts.

Supplies were also delivered to Hawnby after three bridges were washed away, cutting access to the remote village.

Today, 48 customers in Arden, near York, were still without power after a month's rain fell in three hours.

At one time more than 38,000 homes in the North East were cut off, Northern Electric Distribution said.

Company spokeswoman Anne Walker said power generators were being given to those without electricity and engineers were continuing to work to reconnect customers.

"The engineers have worked through the night but it was extremely difficult because two bridges had been washed away as well as equipment," she said.

Among the worst places affected in North Yorkshire were the market town of Helmsley and nearby Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe on the edge of the North York Moors.

A major clean-up operation is continuing in Helmsley, about 20 miles north of York, where floodwaters coursed through the town, cutting it off and closing the A170 and the B1257.

Chief Constable Della Cannings, of North Yorkshire Police, praised emergency services for their actions during the rescue operation but said it will be a long time before residents' lives returned to normal.

"Hopefully, insurance assessors and work people can be got into the area pretty quickly to assist the local people.

"Obviously emergency response from the police, fire and others is still our priority at the moment to make sure we make the place as safe as possible and for normality to return."