Calm after the storm?
Hurricane-force winds which battered parts of Britain on Thursday causing power cuts and forcing school closures have eased off, but weather warnings remain in place.
Scotland and northern England were the worst affected areas, with a top wind speed of 165mph recorded at the top of the Cairngorms in Aberdeenshire yesterday.
Scottish power companies will be working today to reconnect over 60,000 homes left without power.
Scottish Hydro said on Thursday night that more than 50,000 of its customers were without power and it expected the number to increase overnight before things got better.
ScottishPower said it had reconnected more than 18,000 customers who had lost power because of over 100 individual faults.
Thousands of schools across all but six of Scotland’s 32 local authorities were shut by lunchtime to allow pupils to get home safely.
Latest updates: Channel 4 News weather service
The Met Office has today issued yellow weather warnings for the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, north-west England, Northern Ireland and much of Scotland, and have advised people to be aware of icy conditions this morning.
The Scottish government said there were 95 incidents on road networks, mainly due to fallen trees.
In Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, two people were rescued by the RAF and airlifted to hospital after being trapped in a partially-submerged car. Emergency services said they are suffering from suspected hypothermia.
Cumbria also saw heavy rain, and police received several calls from motorists stuck in floodwater in Ambleside, Windermere, Troutbeck and Selside.
The Environment Agency issued seven flood alerts at different locations on 12 rivers and lakes in the county.
