Flights and trains have been cancelled and red weather warnings are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn hits the UK.

One of the strongest storms in decades leads to cancelled flights, suspended rail services, and closed schools.

The supermarket giant has confirmed stores which are the most significantly impacted areas by Storm Eowyn will be closed from 7am to 6pm on Friday, January 24.

One person has died in Ireland and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power in the UK as Storm Éowyn brought record-breaking wind gusts. The man died when a tree fell on his car in County Donegal, Gardaí (Irish police) said.

SNOW and ice warnings have been issued to Brits as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the UK. THE Met Office have urged Brits to “be prepared” with a number of snow and ice

Hundreds of thousands of homes lost power as gusts of 183 kilometers per hour lashed the western coast of Ireland. In Scotland, hundreds of schools were closed and train operator ScotRail suspended all services.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. are being urged to stay at home as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks.

The entire rail networks in Scotland and Northern Ireland were closed all day on Friday. TransPennine Express, Northern, LNER and CrossCountry cancelled Anglo-Scottish trains. No trains ran north of Preston on the West Coast main line nor north of Newcastle on the East Coast main line.

Flights, rail services, sporting fixtures and hospitals were all affected on Friday after Storm Eowyn slammed into the UK, with disruption expected to continue into the weekend. More than a thousand flights to or from the UK and Ireland on Friday were cancelled,

There remain questions about how authorities in both Ireland and the UK handled the events around the 1998 bombing that killed 29 people.

UK weather warnings as London faces more wind and rain - London faces more wind and rain as Storm Herminia continues to impact the UK

The latest list of the rarest £1 coins still out there has revealed one special series of designs worth checking your change for