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Two men have been killed as winds of more than 100mph battered the UK.
A man in his 50s was crushed by a falling tree as he sat in the driver's seat of a parked van in Kent.
Meanwhile, a member of crew on board a tanker was killed after the vessel was hit by a large wave off the coast of the south Devon/Cornwall border.
The strong winds swept across the country, bringing travel chaos as millions of people returned to work after the Christmas and new year break. Trees fell on to railway tracks and power lines, lorries toppled over on busy roads and flood warnings were issued after rivers swelled.
High seas and rocky swells buffeted ferries and caused the Port of Dover to close, while gusts of wind damaged the roof of a stand at Epsom Downs racecourse in Surrey.
[SUB]Roof was blown off this Grand Designs house in Kilcreggan after facing winds of up to 100mph[/SUB]
[SUB]This worker was left bemused after strong winds off Chesil Beach, Dorset, swept a boat into a bus stop[/SUB]
[SUB]The driver of a single decker bus in Witley, Surrey, was badly injured when an oak tree came crashing down on the vehicle
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In Southampton, bricks rained down on a pavement as a shop front collapsed in the face of extreme winds[/SUB]
A man in his 50s was crushed by a falling tree as he sat in the driver's seat of a parked van in Kent.
Meanwhile, a member of crew on board a tanker was killed after the vessel was hit by a large wave off the coast of the south Devon/Cornwall border.
The strong winds swept across the country, bringing travel chaos as millions of people returned to work after the Christmas and new year break. Trees fell on to railway tracks and power lines, lorries toppled over on busy roads and flood warnings were issued after rivers swelled.
High seas and rocky swells buffeted ferries and caused the Port of Dover to close, while gusts of wind damaged the roof of a stand at Epsom Downs racecourse in Surrey.
[SUB]Roof was blown off this Grand Designs house in Kilcreggan after facing winds of up to 100mph[/SUB]
[SUB]This worker was left bemused after strong winds off Chesil Beach, Dorset, swept a boat into a bus stop[/SUB]
[SUB]The driver of a single decker bus in Witley, Surrey, was badly injured when an oak tree came crashing down on the vehicle
[/SUB]
In Southampton, bricks rained down on a pavement as a shop front collapsed in the face of extreme winds[/SUB]
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people who go out in this weather are twats unless they have a really good reason
