Storm Boelo batters Britain with 80mph gusts as rail passengers are told not to travel a day after Storm Austen
The Met Office warns power cuts and structural damage to buildings are a significant risk as the storm targets Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth and the Isles of Scilly from…
Near Stansted, overhead electric wires were brought down when a tree fell across them, leaving airport passengers among the hardest hit by the storm. Gusts of 76mph have already lashed South Uist in the Western Isles. Scotland's amber warning runs a full 24 hours until 9pm on Sunday, an unusually long spell over such a wide area. Hundreds of homes in south-west England remain without power after Storm Austen.
National Grid had restored power to 131,225 properties hit by Storm Austen by Saturday evening.
Londonderry's Foyle bridge is shut both ways, and flights to Belfast City Airport have been cancelled.
Halloweenville owner Barbara Ikim axed two sold-out nights after a 'massive tree' fell.
