{"id":285520,"date":"2024-12-07T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=285520"},"modified":"2024-12-07T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T13:20:13","slug":"power-cuts-and-train-cancellations-as-storm-darragh-batters-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=285520","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts and train cancellations as Storm Darragh batters UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, Dec 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tens of thousands of people across the UK were left without power on Saturday morning after Storm Darragh hit the country with strong winds and caused pre-Christmas travel disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK’s Met Office had issued a rare red alert for high winds overnight to Saturday morning (0300 to 1100 GMT) covering parts of Wales and southwest England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government warned three million people living in the area with a siren-like alert on their phones to stay at home on Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the storm posed a “challenging situation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“About three million homes will have had the emergency alert system to their mobile phone. I would just encourage anyone who has had that to follow the advice,” Reynolds told Sky News on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darragh, the fourth named storm of the season, is also expected to bring heavy rain through the weekend, with more than 100 flood warnings and alerts in place across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wales, the Met Office estimated gusts of up to 150 kmph, which knocked out power for over 50,000 people, according to the PA news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power cuts affected 86,000 homes in England, Scotland and Wales, according to the Energy Networks Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Network Rail Wales suspended trains on the Welsh northern coast due to a “fallen tree blocking the line”, and several bridges in southern England and Wales were closed for safety reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A separate amber warning, which is less serious than the red alert but still poses “potential risk to life and property”, covering a larger stretch of the UK and Northern Ireland is in place until Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Northern Ireland, thousands were left without power, and several bus and train services were suspended or delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas markets and sporting events were postponed, including the Merseyside derby between Premier League leaders Liverpool and Everton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ireland, which issued an “orange” wind warning, 400,000 people were left without electricity, according to the RTE news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dublin Airport said a “a number of flights scheduled for Saturday morning have been cancelled by airlines” due to the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darragh comes two weeks after Storm Bert battered much of Britain, causing “devastating” flooding in parts of Wales and knocking out power to thousands of homes in Ireland. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Dec 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tens of thousands of people across the UK were left without power on Saturday morning after Storm Darragh hit the country with strong winds and caused pre-Christmas travel disruption. The UK’s Met Office had issued a rare red alert for high winds overnight to Saturday morning (0300 to 1100 GMT) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":285521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285522,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520\/revisions\/285522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}