‘The roof is destroyed, and the bedrooms are completely filled with rubble’: Storm Eunice

Across the country, heavy winds devastated properties, threatened lives and forced businesses to close

Francesco Manni feared for his and his wife's lives on Friday when, just after 9am, he heard a loud crack and turned to their home office window to see an enormous tree falling towards it. I just had time to alert my wife, she was sitting close to me and she started shouting," he said.

They were among thousands of people across the UK impacted by the devastation caused by the deadly Storm Eunice.