Emergency crews battle to restore power to more than one million homes and businesses after Storm Eunice carved a deadly trail across Europe
The train network in the Netherlands was also paralysed, with no Eurostar and Thalys international services running from Britain and France after damage to overhead power lines.
Train operators in Britain urged people not to travel, with trees still blocking several lines after most of the network was shut down when Eunice brought the strongest wind gust ever recorded in England – 196 kilometres per hour. Poland still had one million customers cut off on Saturday afternoon, officials said, after the country's northwest took a battering.Eunice sparked the first-ever "red" weather warning for London on Friday. It was one of the most powerful tempests in Europe since the "Great Storm" hit Britain and northern France in 1987.
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