Thousands left without power as winds of up to 93mph batter UK

Thousands of homes have been left without power as gale force winds hit parts of the UK. Severe weather warnings of wind and snow are in place for Scotland, the North of England and Northern Ireland throughout Wednesday. Northern Powergrid, which supplies power to homes in the North East and Yorkshire, said 3,000 of its customers had experienced outages as winds reached 93mph in High Bradfield, South Yorkshire.