Thousands of homes are already without power following the arrival of Storm Eunice in the early hours of Friday, amid travel chaos and rare danger-to-life red weather warnings.

Millions of people have been urged to stay at home for the day and winds are expected to reach 90mph as one of the worst storms in a generation hits the UK.

The highest alert red warning, meaning a high impact is very likely, was issued on Friday morning for London and the South East of England due to the expected combination of high tides, strong winds and storm surge. A second red warning is in place for the coastline of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset as well as the south coast of Wales.

The Met Office has also taken the unusual step of issuing a severe weather alert with National Highways for strong winds covering the whole of the country's strategic road network from 6am to 6pm.

On Friday morning, a Government minister said that the Army is on "high readiness standby" to help and echoed the red weather warning indicating a "risk to life and limb".

This comes amid severe transport disruption across the UK, with British Airways and EasyJet cancelling a number of flights due to "gale force winds" and many rail networks operating a significantly reduced service with emergency 50mph speed limits in place.

Transport networks have warned people to avoid all non-essential travel today, with London Mayor Sadiq Khan echoing this advice by urging people in the capital to "stay at home until the storm has passed".

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