Hurricane Ophelia: 'Smoke smells' force planes to make emergency landings at Heathrow Airport

A number of planes have been forced to make emergency landings at Heathrow Airport as Storm Ophelia pulled tropical dust into the London sky.

Five planes have reportedly made full emergency landings at the airport amid claims of the smell of smoke filling the cockpit due to the Saharan dust.

It comes as the sky over the capital appeared to glow orange on Monday afternoon in a strange phenomenon caused by the former hurricane.

According to experts at the Met Office, the rare spectacle was caused by Storm Ophelia pushing warm air from Africa northwards, and with it came Saharan dust.