Wintry storm batters the Midlands
BRITAIN woke up to a wintry storm battering much of the country this morning with heavy rain and snow causing flooding and power cuts.
Some areas in southern England recorded close to their monthly average rainfall for February in just 24 hours, forecasters said.
Meanwhile, a band of snow stretching from south Wales into the Midlands left up to 3,000 homes without electricity in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
Emily Highmore, a spokeswoman for electricity distribution company Central Networks, said engineers were working to restore supplies.
She said: “What we’re seeing is very large amounts of snow that are either landing on major bits of kit and giving us problems there, or it’s actually weighing down tree branches and then bringing down overhead lines themselves.”
