NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
More than 1,500 households were hit with power cuts after flooding caused chaos in low-lying areas of the UK.
Almost 50 houses in Plymouth, Devon, were among the first to be hit by blackouts after heavy rain and gales swept in from the Atlantic at around 4am today.
In west Wales, more than 50 homes near Tenby woke up to no electricity.
As the weather moved further inland, 70 homes were blacked out near Nottingham, 86 at Loughborough, 70 near Coventry, 30 near Wolverhampton and almost 50 in Boston, Lincolnshire.