Storm Eunice: at least four die as winds of up to 122mph batter UK and Ireland – latest updates

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• Three people in England and one in Ireland have died from Storm Eunice. A man in his 20s died after a collision between a car he was travelling in and a tree in Alton, Hampshire. One man is in hospital with “serious injuries”.

• A woman in her 30s has died after a tree fell on a car in Haringey, north London, on Friday afternoon, the Metropolitan police said.

• Merseyside police said a man in his 50s died in Netherton, Merseyside, after debris struck the windscreen of a vehicle he was travelling in, .

• Earlier, a council worker in his 60s was killed by a falling tree while clearing storm debris in County Wexford, Ireland.

• Eunice is now making its way across mainland Europe, and is causing devastation there too. In the Netherlands, four people were killed by fallen trees, Reuters reports, along with the death of a British man in Belgium.

• UK government officials are “relieved” that Storm Eunice is not a “worst-case scenario”, according to one report this evening. ITV News’s deputy political editor Anushka Asthana tweeted that there is relief in Whitehall that the storm has not proven to be a severe as planned for.

The front page of Saturday’s Guardian newspaper:

Off the Belgian coast, two ships, one tanker and one cargo, were at one point adrift and got stuck in a windfarm, Reuters reports.
The cargo was safely towed away, without causing any damage, the tanker, carrying 31,000 tons of fuel, was still waiting for help.

Eunice is now making its way across mainland Europe, and is causing devastation there too. In the Netherlands, four people were killed by fallen trees, Reuters reports, along with the death of a Briton in Belgium. Along with the deaths in UK and Ireland, it brings the total to nine.

You can read about the devastation in mainland Europe here:

… while chaos in UK and Ireland is covered here:

A 79-year-old British man died in the Belgian town of Ypres this afternoon after being pushed from his boat by the strong winds of Storm Eunice, according to Reuters and Sky News.

The man was pulled from the water and taken to hospital where he died from his injuries.