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🌩️ Storm Eunice has prompted rare danger-to-life warnings, with Britons being told to stay indoors to avoid winds of up to 90mph

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🔴 BREAKING: The Met Office has just issued a red warning for London and the East of England

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East Midlands Railway has just issued new advice about trains to London as rail operators scramble to run their morning services.

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⚠️The Met Office has taken the unusual step of issuing a severe weather alert with National Highways for strong winds covering the whole of the country's strategic road network from 6am to 6pm
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❄️The Met Office has issued a yellow snow warning for northern England, including Durham, and has warned snowfall could be heavy in places due to Storm Eunice
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🔴People should "take precautions" during Storm Eunice, the Government has said, adding that the Army is on "high readiness standby" to help
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⛈️The UK's second storm in a week has prompted rare danger-to-life warnings, with people being told to stay indoors as winds are expected to reach 90mph
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🚨A sting jet is a small area of very intense winds (often 100mph or more) that can sometimes form in powerful weather systems crossing the UK.

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❌British Airways has cancelled "a number of flights" due to "gale force winds".

"We're expecting extreme weather conditions at airports across the UK as a result of Storm Eunice, which will cause significant disruption"
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#StormEunice is a "really, really serious situation" and some people may have to leave their homes, Roy Stokes, the Environment Agency spokesperson for the Midlands has said

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🔴The Government's Cobra civil contingencies committee is to meet on Friday afternoon to discuss the response to Storm Eunice, a Government spokesman has said
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan echoed TfL's advice to avoid non-essential travel in the capital.

🗣️He said: "I urge all Londoners to stay at home, do not take risks, and do not travel unless it is absolutely essential"
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❌More than 55,000 homes, farms and businesses in Ireland have lost power.

ESB estimates that more disruption to power supplies can be expected in the hours to come

🔴London City Airport is the first airport in the country to announce the cancellation of all flights out of the airport until 16.30 this afternoon.

The M48 Severn Bridge near Bristol is closed in both directions #StormEunice
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🌬️Gusts of up to 92mph have been recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight,

At Mumbles Head near Swansea, on the South Wales coast, gusts have reached 87mph, while at St Mary's Airport on the Isles of Scilly they have hit 79mph

🚆Rail passengers in many parts of Britain have been urged to only travel if absolutely necessary.

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✈️At Heathrow at least 65 flights - both departures and arrivals - have been cancelled so far and a further 114 have been delayed by more than 15 minutes.

At Gatwick there have been 15 cancellations and 67 delayed flights
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🚆Network Rail said a fallen tree around 50 feet (15 metres) long at Ewell West, Surrey is blocking the line between London Waterloo and Dorking, Surrey
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🔴 NEW: The London Fire Brigade have urged people to only call them in a "genuine emergency" or an "immediate risk to life" after they reported that they have received their daily average number of calls before midday today

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🚨 Storm Eunice has brought England's highest ever recorded gust of wind of 122mph on the Isle of Wight

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🔴 NEW: A hole has been torn in the O2 dome amid gale force winds in the capital

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❌Storm Eunice is affecting flights, with some airports cancelling all departures.

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"One Frenchman had passed out. I put my head in my hands to shut out the screaming children.

"I’ll admit there were tears, maybe the occasional prayer"

A nervous flyer tells of two failed attempts to touch down this week ✍️
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#StormEunice is on par with Category three level wind speeds on the Hurricane Wind Scale.

This means that structural damage to small buildings and serious coastal flooding to those on low lying land may take place, as well as the potential for evacuation
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✈️Viewers are tuning into Jerry Dyer’s Big Jet TV channel on YouTube in their thousands as he livestreams dramatic scenes of passenger jets being buffeted side to side as pilots struggle to land them safely
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🚆❌Network Rail has stopped all trains running in and out of London Euston due to Storm Eunice.

The organisation said: "All lines are suspended affecting services between Euston and Milton Keynes until further notice"

⚠️Britain's rail industry has issued a blanket "do not travel" warning to passengers.

"Starting tonight and carrying on through the weekend we will be working round the clock to fix the damage that the storm has done to the railway"
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🚨The roof of the O2 Arena has been blown off, with parts of it now floating down the Thames
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🔴London Ambulance Service confirmed two people had been injured in separate incidents.

A man was taken to hospital after being injured by falling debris in Waterloo, south London, at around midday
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🔴A man has been killed by falling tree in southeastern Ireland

Wexford County Council said: "It is with deep regret and sadness that Wexford County Council confirms that one of our employees was fatally injured earlier today in a workplace accident"

🔴Around 1,000 people were evacuated from The O2 when its roof was damaged in Friday's storm.

London Fire Brigade said firefighters had been called to a "partial roof collapse" at the venue

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🔴A number of planes have been forced to abort landings amid stormy conditions.

Many flights, however, are already in the air and are attempting to land in the UK. So what, if any, are the risks posed by high winds?

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🔴NEW: London Fire Brigade declares major incident over deluge of 999 calls

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🔴Storm Eunice has seen wind speeds reach 122mph at the Needles on the Isle of Wight, provisionally the highest gust ever recorded in England.

Here is how this gust compares with other wind speeds recorded by the Met Office in the UK 👇

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🚨BREAKING: First person in England killed during Storm Eunice by falling tree

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🔴Gale-force winds have closed Preston railway station to passengers amid concerns about its roof.

Network rail said engineers were inspecting sections of metal panelling which have come loose in gusts of up to 80mph

🔴NEW: Woman in thirties is second person killed by falling tree in England

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More than a million homes were left without power after Storm Eunice brought chaos to roads and rail and damaged homes and landmarks across Britain

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