Storm Isha LIVE updates: Travel chaos as trains and flights cancelled

A pensioner has been killed after a automobile hit a fallen tree, as Storm Isha batters the UK.

The 84-year-old man, who was the passenger within the entrance seat of the Hyundai, was pronounced lifeless on the scene in Grangemouth, close to Edinburgh.

The different passengers within the automobile weren’t injured and the street has been closed as investigations proceed.

Road Policing Inspector Andrew Thomson mentioned: ‘Our ideas are with the household and associates of the person who died, and all these concerned within the collision. We proceed to supply them assist as our enquiries progress.

‘I’d be eager to talk to anybody who noticed what occurred or was on the A905 round 11.45pm yesterday (Sunday).

‘I’d additionally request anybody with dashcam footage of Beancross Road round that point, please assessment your footage and convey something of significance to our consideration.’

This is the second a helpless pilot addresses his passengers as he warns them they might have to seek out their very own means dwelling as their airplane was grounded by Storm Isha.

He tells holiday-goers ‘its chaos on the market in the meanwhile’ as he admits he’s not positive whether or not there can be buses placed on to take them again to Bristol.

The journey – from Lyon to Bristol – landed in Birmingham, practically a two hour drive from their vacation spot.

Numerous bushes in Northern Ireland made well-known by sequence Game of Thrones have been broken and felled by Storm Isha.

Work is ongoing to clear the location on the Dark Hedges in Co Antrim.

The tunnel of bushes grew to become well-known when it was featured within the HBO fantasy sequence and now attracts vital numbers of vacationers from around the globe.

Mervyn Storey, chairman of the Dark Hedges Preservation Trust, mentioned: ‘It appears like there are three bushes down.

‘We have had individuals out since daybreak attempting to clear the street. There are various different bushes down within the space as properly.

‘This is one other blow to the Dark Hedges.

‘In reality one of many bushes that was wholesome has been blown down. It may be very unhappy.’

At Leeds Bradford Airport, three departing flights have been cancelled at present and a few are delayed by greater than six hours.

Winds reached 50mph in a single day within the metropolis, however are anticipated to drop to 40mph later at present.

Transport Scotland mentioned a gust of 107mph was recorded on the Tay Bridge and the Met Office mentioned there was certainly one of 84mph at Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire.

ScotRail suspended providers at 7pm on Sunday and mentioned there could be no providers on Monday morning following the storm.

The firm mentioned every route must bear a security inspection on Monday, which means it will likely be afterward earlier than any trains can run.

This is the unimaginable second a coastguard helicopter crew performs a dramatic rescue of three canine walkers and their pets throughout Storm Isha’s 60mph winds.

The emergency providers have been referred to as by the get together after they discovered themselves stranded on a seashore on Britain’s Jurassic Coast.

The ladies, aged of their late teenagers, 30s and 40s, set off from Lyme Regis to Charmouth in Dorset in deteriorating climate circumstances.

The oldest member of the group had injured her leg when she was blown over by the robust winds.

She was unable to maneuver and the opposite ladies bought lower off on the rocks at Black Ven and have been sinking into mud because the tide quickly got here in.

They referred to as 999 and Lyme Regis coastguard, West Bay coastguard, Lyme Regis RNLI lifeboat and the coastguard helicopter from St Athan in Glamorgan have been dispatched to the scene.

The ferocious sea circumstances meant it was too dangerous for the lifeboat to get to them and so it was determined to winch them off the seashore one after the other.

The helicopter crew needed to take care of the 60mph winds to hover for half-hour above the seashore to hold out the rescue at 1.30pm yesterday.

The injured lady was placed on a stretcher and hoisted into the helicopter first, adopted by her two associates and the three canine.

The ladies have been flown to the automobile park at Charmouth the place they have been handed into the care of South Western Ambulance Service.

Eye-witness Rich Lisney mentioned: ‘From a protected vantage level I watched the coastguard helicopter winching a member of the general public onboard and throughout the subsequent half-hour, one other two individuals.

‘It was terrifying to observe as Storm Isha winds have been gusting to 50mph or extra.

‘I used to be in awe of how secure the helicopter stored its place all through the rescue and have a substantial amount of respect for the courageous coastguard service who’re tasked with saving lives in all weathers.’

This is the second a foolhardy diver leaps into crashing waves as Storm Isha rolled in over the Atlantic and folks have been warned to ‘keep away from the ocean’.

The swimmer ignored native warnings and braved the icy waters as he took a operating bounce off the well-known Blackrock Diving Tower in Galway, Ireland on Sunday.

Footage of the person plunging from the platform prompted backlash, with some criticising him for risking not solely his life however those that may need to rescue him.

‘What idiots like this clearly don’t care about is after they get in bother it will likely be RNLI volunteers who will reply, voluntarily placing themselves in peril to maintain others protected, reckless and silly,’ one particular person mentioned on X.

It comes after the RNLI and Irish Coast Guard urged storm chasers to take care round coastal areas as massive waves and excessive winds batter the UK and Ireland.

The following Train Operating Companies have issued climate associated journey info and recommendation, which could be considered through the hyperlinks under:

Police Scotland has suggested all street customers to train additional warning because of the disruption attributable to Storm Isha in a single day.

The Met Office has downgraded the Amber climate warning for wind, nonetheless a Yellow warning for wind remains to be in place for all of Scotland.

Conditions for journey should still be hazardous and street customers ought to drive to the circumstances and permit additional time for journeys.

In true British style holiday-goers have made gentle of flight chaos hitting the UK – as they take to social media to snigger within the face of the perilous winds.

Planes have been grounded, with flights sure for Britain and Ireland pressured to divert to mainland Europe as an alternative.

Flightradar knowledge exhibits how a Ryanair flight from Tenerife sure for Dublin was diverted to France, whereas one other airplane headed for Scotland was rerouted to Germany as winds struck the nation.

Twitter/X customers shared memes in response to the diversions, with one writing: ‘Flew from Manchester to Dublin at present, solely we did not land in Dublin, or again to Manchester. Bonjour from Paris!’

A flight from Copenhagen to Dublin was diverted to Manchester yesterday. After 4 hours on the bottom, the airplane took off once more for an additional try to succeed in Dublin.

But three hours later it was diverted to Liverpool – 30km away from Manchester.

And it isn’t simply holidaygoers on their means overseas who’ve been affected by Storm Isha.

Experts say caravan-goers may have misplaced a median of practically £4,000 because the storm tears up their awnings and even rips roofs off their motorhomes.

Ripe Caravan Insurance analysed three years of inner knowledge and located that storm associated claims have a median value of £3,947.11.

They say incidents involving storms make up round 9% of all caravan insurance coverage claims submitted and are extra expensive than the common injury declare.

John Woosey, founding father of Ripe Caravan Insurance, commented: ‘For caravan homeowners, a serious storm is not only a nuisance, however an enormous trigger for concern.

‘Most caravans are designed to resist a variety of climate circumstances, however the unpredictable nature of a extreme storm can depart them uncovered and weak.

‘We would urge caravanners to remain protected and our ideas exit to these homeowners affected.’

Heathrow Airport :

• One Air to Frankfurt – 8:00
• British Airways to Amsterdam – 8:25
• British Airways to Copenhagen – 8:40
• KLM to Amsterdam – 8:40
• Air Canada to Halifax – 9:00
• British Airways to Paris – 13:05
• TAP Air Portugal to Lisbon – 13:40
• British Airways to Aberdeen – 14:20
• British Airways to Jersey – 14:30
• British Airways to Geneva – 15:05
• British Airways to Manchester – 17:30

Gatwick Airport:

• British Airways to London City Airport – 8:35
• Ryanair to Dublin – 9:00
• British Airways to Glasgow – 10:20
• British Airways to London City Airport – 13:10
• British Airways to London City Airport – 13:20
• Ryanair to Dublin – 17:35

London Stansted Airport:

• British Airways to London – 10:30
• British Airways to London – 12:00

Bristol Airport:

• KLM to Amsterdam – 9:00
• Barcelona – 12:15

Edinburgh Airport:

• British Airways to London – 10:50
• Ryanair to Dublin – 12:15

Dublin Airport:

• Ryanair to Liverpool – 8:50
• Ryanair to Kerry – 9:05
• Ryanair to Edinburgh – – 10:45
• Aer Lingus to Donegal – 11:40
• Ryanair to Rome – 15:00
• Ryanair to London – 15:40
• Ryanair to Birmingham – 15:40

Birmingham Airport:

• KLM to Amsterdam – 9:20
• Ryanair to Dublin – 19:25

Manchester Airport:

• KLM to Amsterdam – 9:06
• British Airways to London – 19:25

Glasgow International Airport:

• British Airway to London – 8:40
• British Airways to London – 12:45

Leeds Bradford Airport:

• Aer Lingus to Belfast – 8:50
• Aer Lingus to Dblin – 8:55
• Vistajet to Munich – 10:00

While trains and flights could also be down, lots of the nation’s most devoted have fought rain and wind to get into the workplace as they slog to work this morning.

With hair catching within the wind and vehicles ballooning water as they crash via enormous puddles, Storm Isha proves no match for Britain’s mighty workforce.

This is the terrifying a automobile has an extremely fortunate escape – as they drive previous seconds earlier than a roof crashes into the street.

The enormous constructing work crashes into the precise level of the street the place they have been simply seconds earlier than they sped away.

Seen from a second angle, the true terror of the incident is revealed – because the second half of the tiled shelter in Belton, North Lincolnshire, crashes into the tarmac.

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A highways boss has warned that it may take days for Britain to get again to regular as employees battle to clear the roads.

Nick Raymond, senior supervisor for highways, instructed of how his employees put their lives on the road within the face of flying particles as they labored to clear the backlog.

And their helpline had greater than 20 occasions their traditional variety of calls as drivers fought to forge a path dwelling.

He instructed the Today Programme: ‘The extreme extent of each the wind and the rain brought about each us and our multi-agency companions vital issues.

‘We had properly over 100 to 200 hundred calls to cope with. Put in context, we’d usually anticipated to get wherever between 10 and 15 in that kind of interval.

‘We had a excessive variety of our employees out on the community attempting to cope with fallen bushes, flying particles and flooding thrown at us. We have been pretty assured two hours in the past [of getting things back to normal quickly] however as daylight comes and folks get up we’re beginning to see the total extent of the injury.

‘I’d usually say two or three days to clear the backlog, however with the potential for additional storms coming within the subsequent two or three days which may hinder it even additional.

‘Ten years in the past we’d have thought elements of this was enterprise as traditional. But we’re seeing it occur far too ceaselessly now.

‘We have solely simply come off the again of the chilly and the snow, earlier than Christmas was one other occasion.

‘We are beginning to see this occur way more ceaselessly and the injury is much extra in depth and its inflicting us extra issues to cope with.’

Andy Giles was as a result of fly from Newquay, Cornwall, to Faro in Portugal on

Sunday afternoon.

But Andy, from Looe, Cornwall, mentioned: ‘The flight was diverted to Stansted

due to the climate.

‘We have been instructed to leap on a bus to go to Stansted to catch the airplane up.

‘Six and half hours later and we arrived at Stansted at 12.15am this

morning and we’re nonetheless ready.

‘We’ve nonetheless right here. We’ve been her all evening with no sleep as a result of they mentioned

when you fall asleep and miss the e-mail, you miss the flight and also you

wont get there.

Andy, who’s working in Portugal, mentioned 31 passengers selected to journey to

Stansted however some individuals went dwelling reasonably than face the lengthy bus journey. He mentioned they got meals vouchers at Newquay which weren’t

redeemable at Stansted.

An complete greenhouse was picked up by Storm Isha and thrown onto railway traces final evening.

Just after midnight, Southeastern Railway posted this image of a greenhouse blocking the tracks at Westgate-on-Sea, close to Ramsgate in Kent.

They mentioned: ‘This is the greenhouse that’s presently blocking the road at Westgate-on-Sea.

‘If you reside close to the railway, please do examine that gadgets in your backyard are as safe as attainable in stormy climate.’

They added afterward that that they had cleared it by 3am.

There have been additionally experiences of a trampoline blocking the road at Rainham.

But by this morning, a lot of the particles had been cleared nd providers, although delayed, have been operating.

Many Brits found their flights have been cancelled or diverted as Storm Isha batters the UK, with one airplane heading to Dublin ending up in Paris and one other sure for Scotland touchdown in Germany.

The 100mph gales and heavy downpours barrelled down on the nation in a single day, with many flights attempting to come back into the nation going through a shaky touchdown.

A flight travelling from Sharm El Sheikh to Glasgow Airport declared an emergency as a result of Storm Isha.

A spokesperson for Glasgow Airport mentioned the TUI flight was ‘diverted to Manchester as a result of present climate circumstances’.

But regardless of the disruption, many discovered the humorous aspect of issues and really quickly lots of of memes concerning the odd locations of the flights have been circulating on social media.

One particular person wrote ‘Flew from Manchester to Dublin at present, solely we did not land in Dublin, or again to Manchester. Bonjour from Paris!’

ScotRail providers have been suspended since 7pm on Sunday and will not be anticipated to renew till round midday on Monday as dozens of traces are closed as a result of fallen bushes and flooding.

A Network Rail spokesman mentioned: ‘Hundreds of engineers are already out, armed with chainsaws and cherry pickers to take away and restore.

‘Once performed, route-proving trains can be dispatched earlier than passenger providers can restart.

‘It’s been a wild evening, however passengers and railway employees have been stored protected and we are going to work tirelessly to get the railway again on its toes as rapidly as we will.’

Lines in England and Wales have been cleared and ‘an excellent service is anticipated in most areas’ on Monday, he added.

Network Rail mentioned the stays of a backyard shed have been blown on to the road at Bellgrove station in Glasgow and a small fireplace broke out after a tree fell on overhead wires in Gartcosh, Cumbernauld.

At least 10 bushes fell on the road between Garrowhill and Easterhouse close to Glasgow and broken overhead traces.

A wall and fence have been blown onto the road at Glasgow Queen Street, whereas the River Tay breached security limits on the Dalguise Viaduct on the Highland Mainline, forcing the in a single day watchman to desert the location.

East Midlands Railway has mentioned delays and alterations to its providers are ‘doubtless’, whereas no LNER trains will run north of Newcastle till midday.

Avanti West Coast warned of modifications and delays on Monday and mentioned no passengers ought to try and journey between Preston and Scotland till providers are as a result of resume at 9am.

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation final evening mentioned there was a danger of the massive storms alongside hail of as much as 20mm in diameter throughout everything of Ireland and far of Scotland.

This has since been modified in a single day to warnings of ‘extreme thunderstorms’ throughout England and Wales which may trigger ‘a number of tornadoes and / or waterspouts’ alongside 80mph wind gusts.

You can discover out extra about TORRO’s predictions right here.

Thousands of individuals have been left with out energy as Storm Isha crippled the nation’s electrical energy networks – and lots of face not being again on the grid till tomorrow night.

ESB Networks reported greater than 170,000 properties in Ireland have been with out energy, whereas Electricity North West mentioned crews had been stood down because of the circumstances, with nearly 8,000 properties shedding energy.

The firm mentioned anticipated restoration occasions had been pushed again to 5pm on Tuesday.

Northern Ireland Electricity Networks mentioned lots of of additional employees had been introduced in and incident centres opened after round 45,000 clients have been left with out energy, a lot of them in a single day.

Shocking photographs present an enormous tree that has come down on Gristhrope Road, within the Selly Oak space of Birmingham.

Phone traces within the space are additionally down as utilities are hit by Storm Isha

Network Rail imposed 50mph pace restrictions throughout most routes to maintain passengers and trains protected from falling bushes and particles blown onto tracks, with disruption anticipated into this morning.

A spokesman mentioned: ‘The railway has recovered rapidly this morning following Storm Isha with bushes and particles cleared throughout routes in England and Wales, and route proving trains reporting traces clear.

‘Passenger and freight providers have restarted and an excellent service is anticipated in most areas. Passengers ought to nonetheless examine earlier than they head out for the most recent journey information on trains operators’ web sites.

‘The exception is Scotland the place we don’t count on to have the ability to restart providers till round noon with dozens of traces shut as a result of fallen bushes and flooding.

‘Hundreds of engineers are already out, armed with chainsaws and cherry pickers to take away and restore. Once performed, route proving trains can be dispatched earlier than passenger providers can restart.

‘It’s been a wild evening, however passengers and railway employees have been stored protected and we are going to work tirelessly to get the railway again on its toes as rapidly as we will.’

In Scotland after a ‘tough evening’ Network Rail has cancelled all passenger and freight trains throughout the nation till they’ll examine rail routes and restore the injury of the storm. It is anticipated to restart at round midday.

Engineers outfitted with chainsaws must clear the fallen bushes and particles in no less than 20 areas throughout the traces earlier than the traces can get going once more.

This included the stays of a backyard shed, which had been blown onto the road at Bellgrove station in Glasgow, and a small fireplace had damaged out after a tree fell on overhead wires in Gartcosh, Cumbernauld.

Network Rail Scotland added to their clients: ‘Given the variety of points handled final evening, and injury to infrastructure we already know of, comparable to fallen bushes, and overhead wire injury in no less than 20 separate areas, reopening Scotland’s Railway goes to be a problem. We’ll maintain you up to date on progress.’

Britons are at present going through commuter hell with rail providers throughout the nation cancelled after Storm Isha’s 100mph gales and heavy downpours barrelled down on the nation in a single day.

Thousands of individuals have been left with out energy as Isha introduced disruption to the electrical energy and transport networks throughout the UK – and for a lot of this may occasionally not return till Tuesday afternoon.

Last evening the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation mentioned there was a danger of the massive storms alongside hail of as much as 20mm in diameter throughout everything of Ireland and far of Scotland.

This has since been modified in a single day to warnings of ‘extreme thunderstorms’ throughout England and Wales which may trigger ‘a number of tornadoes and / or waterspouts’ alongside 80mph wind gusts.