A helicopter crash in which five family members with Irish connections were killed happened after the pilot failed to turn around when entering low cloud, accident investigators said.

The rector who baptised the youngest child of Ruth and Kevin Burke, killed in a helicopter crash while en route to Ireland this week, has said the community in England where they lived is “in disarray”.

The bodies of all five victims who died when their helicopter crashed in Snowdonia have been recovered by rescue workers.

A massive clean-up operation was under way today after violent thunderstorms wreaked havoc across parts of the UK, emergency services said.