The entire West Country was covered by a Met Office yellow weather warning for high winds, as Storm Éowyn battered parts of the region on Friday. Elsewhere, the sentencing of a drink-driver, whose crash caused a woman to lose an arm, also sparked a lot of reaction.

Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,