As it happened: Storm hits southern Britain
Key Points
- BBC forecasters say the storm has now ended in the UK, but gale-force winds and heavy rain have caused disruption across southern Britain
- A man and a woman have been found dead at a house in Hounslow, west London, following a suspected gas explosion caused by a falling tree
- A teenager died after a tree fell on the mobile home where she was sleeping in Kent, and a man in his 50s was killed when a tree landed on a car in Watford
- Network Rail says the damage has been "worse than expected", with more than 100 trees on the lines, but some train services have resumed
- About 600,000 homes lost power during at the height of the storm, 200,000 of which are still cut off. The strongest gust of 99mph (159km/h) was recorded on the Isle of Wight
- The Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent is using diesel generators to power its site after both reactors shut down automatically due to a power cut