19/01/2007
Ten fatalaties and travel disruption across UK
There have been ten fatalities as severe gales and heavy rain swept across many parts of the UK yesterday.
The high winds, the strongest in almost two decades, caused disruption to power supplies and travel schedules were severely affected.
Rail services have been delayed and cancellations were still being posted as a huge clear-up of fallen trees and debris on lines continued overnight. Travellers have been advised to check for revised emergency timetables on many lines.
On the roads, work was continuing on Friday morning to recover a number of vehicles overturned by the high winds. The Highways Agency has reported that a number of A-class roads are affected by flooding and fallen trees.
London Bridge Station, which was closed after part of a roof collapsed, has since re-opened.
The Met Office said that while data was still being analysed, the last time such high wind speeds were experienced across such a large area of the UK was the Burns' Day storm on Jan 25 1990.
Tonight Scotland is facing the prospect of further high winds on Friday with winds of up to 60 mph, but this is short of the 99mph gusts recorded across the UK on Thursday.
Further wintry weather is expected in the UK over the weekend.
(SP)
The high winds, the strongest in almost two decades, caused disruption to power supplies and travel schedules were severely affected.
Rail services have been delayed and cancellations were still being posted as a huge clear-up of fallen trees and debris on lines continued overnight. Travellers have been advised to check for revised emergency timetables on many lines.
On the roads, work was continuing on Friday morning to recover a number of vehicles overturned by the high winds. The Highways Agency has reported that a number of A-class roads are affected by flooding and fallen trees.
London Bridge Station, which was closed after part of a roof collapsed, has since re-opened.
The Met Office said that while data was still being analysed, the last time such high wind speeds were experienced across such a large area of the UK was the Burns' Day storm on Jan 25 1990.
Tonight Scotland is facing the prospect of further high winds on Friday with winds of up to 60 mph, but this is short of the 99mph gusts recorded across the UK on Thursday.
Further wintry weather is expected in the UK over the weekend.
(SP)
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