One dead, as storms hit Britain
NZPA-Reuter London One man died and another was feared drowned as winds of up to 160km/h lashed southern England and Wales yesterday, tearing up trees, flooding roads, ripping off roofs and blacking out villages. A 19-year-old man was presumed drowned after being swept out to sea while fishing off Cornwall, south-west England, and a 16-year-old youth was killed in the southern county of Hampshire when a car he was in hit a fallen tree.
The police issued flood warnings as 7.6 cm of rain fell in some areas. In the south-west county of Devon alone, 200 trees were uprooted, some blocking main roads, and power supplies were cut when winds brought down cables.
Some channel ferry services were cancelled, and weathermen warned North Sea oil and gas rig workers to expect “a rough time” as the storms head north.
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