BRADFORD was battered by the first named storm of the year yesterday, the ferocious winds wreaking havoc with flights at the region’s main airport and even dumping a trampoline in a random garden.

Storm Otto struck on Friday morning, having been forecasted on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Met Office had already issued a yellow weather warning for wind, with gusts as high as 80mph expected on exposed coasts in northern Scotland, as a result of the storm.

The alert also covered Bradford - between 5am and 2pm - with wind speeds set to peak at 52mph at noon that day.

Leeds-Bradford Airport (LBA), in Yeadon was heavily disrupted, with a large number of departure and arrival services cancelled or severely delayed.

This included two Aer Lingus flights coming in from Dublin (7am) and Belfast City (8am).

Flightradar24 showed that these services had actually taken to the sky but were diverted to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The 8.30am flight out to Belfast City – run by the same operator – was also cancelled.

Meanwhile, only one plane out of 12 services scheduled to fly on or before 8.30am had taken off by that time yesterday morning.

This was the 6.05am service to Amsterdam – run by KLM – which was still heavily delayed, getting airborne at 7.24am.

Most services were running as normal come the afternoon.

A number of trees were felled by the storm, many plummeting onto roads which meant several routes were blocked for a number of hours.

One of these was on East Chevin Road, in Otley.

Paul Willock said at around 9.24am: "We are working opposite and just heard the loud crack and thud, luckily no one was injured that's the main thing."

The road was completely blocked for just over an hour while emergency services and members of the community worked to remove the tree.

Over in North Yorkshire, a picture was captured of large tree which had fallen on top of a Porsche.

The storm also caused trouble on the trainlines, with services between Leeds Railway Station and Bradford Interchange being cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes, or revised due to an obstruction on the track.

One bewildered Bradfordian looked outside to discover a new addition to their garden.

The forceful winds of Storm Otto had managed to dump a large trampoline into the fenced off area, complete with protective netting around it.

More than 21,000 people across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Lincolnshire had their power knocked out by the severe weather system too yesterday. 

One Northern Powergrid customer was still without electricity this morning and workers were mobilised to sort the issue today.

The storm was given the name Otto by The Danish Meteorological Institute, with Denmark forecasted to bear the brunt of the weather system.

The Met Office used this moniker as well in its communications – in keeping with standard practice - as it did with Storm Malik last January which was again handed that title by the Danish group.

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