Hundreds of homes have been plunged into Boxing Day blackness due to Storm Bella. Winds of up to 70mph are battering the UK with fears about fallen trees on roads and widespread flooding in areas of central England already sodden with rain.
Sandbags have been issued to at risk householders. The West Country and South Wales was first in the firing line as the huge Atlantic storm barrelled in. Have you been affected?
Let us know in the comments below In Cornwall, more than 100 homes were without electricity this evening in the Plymouth and Truro area, and 50 were blacked out in Bristol and Bath.
In Wales, 110 were hit in Cardiff and more than 50 in the Swansea area. But the storm was hitting further inland too - nearly 150 homes were blacked
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