Thousands of schools are expected to close, with drivers also warned to stay off the roads and rail services suspended amid rare red weather warnings as Storm Eowyn gets set to batter parts of the UK.

Brave scientists on a 'hurricane hunting' plane that is used to study the world's most lethal tempests are preparing to fly into Storm Eowyn as it roars towards Britain.

More than four million people across Northern Ireland and Scotland received emergency alerts on their phones in the “largest real-life use of the tool to date”, as a damaging storm with winds of up to ...