One man is dead and there are fears for six others after wild weather battered the British Isles causing transport chaos and leaving thousands without power.
A man was killed in the the village of Britty Common in Somerset when a tree collapsed on the car he was travelling in.
A search was under way off the coast of Cornwall for a woman believed to have been swept overboard from a cargo vessel by winds. Meanwhile, in Ireland hopes were fading for five fishermen whose trawler went missing off the Wexford coast.
Around the UK there were other serious accidents because of high winds which hit 86mph.
A 17-year-old girl in Warwickshire was airlifted to hospital with suspected spinal injuries after the car she was driving was hit by tree.
In Hertfordshire a woman escaped with only minor injuries when a tree fell on top of her on a footpath while another woman escaped injury when a tree fell onto her car in Sevenoaks.
In Wales around 80,000 homes were left without power after falling trees brought down cables and in Scotland engineers dealt with 60 power line faults.
Motorists and rail passengers faced disruption because of uprooted trees and flooding, prompting restrictions on a string of major roads and bridges. Ferry services also suffered.
In total, more than 170 areas of England and Wales were on different levels of flood alert including more than 50 areas where residents and businesses were warned to take immediate action.
The most severe was around the rivers Vyrnwy and Severn - straddling the English-Welsh border - to the west of Shrewsbury, which was under a Severe Flood Warning, which warns of "extreme danger to life and property".
