DOZENS of homes have been evacuated following a mudslide while hundreds of Christmas shoppers have been left stranded in a shopping mall after flooding caused chaos across the country.

Residents on a road in Mansfield were evacuated just before 5pm today after part of a quarry collapsed following heavy rainfall.

Further north, hundreds of shoppers and concert-goers were left stranded inside the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield.

Thousands had headed to the mall this afternoon for the annual Christmas Live event which was due to feature acts including Ella Henderson, Tom Zanetti, Jonas Blue.

But the show was called off at the last minute as torrential rain saw levels on the nearby River Don rise dramatically and several routes around the complex affected by flooding.

This evening, cops announced the area was completely gridlocked and began to turn trapped motorists back into the centre's massive car parks.

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