Flights have been cancelled and trains suspended as hurricane strength winds
threaten to bring Britain to a standstill. Britain's largest airport, Heathrow,
plans to run a reduced volume of flights on Monday and the London Overground
train service will be suspended until 9am. The disruption comes as a huge search
operation gets underway for a 14-year-old boy last seen playing in rough seas
off a beach in Newhaven. The local boy is feared to have drowned after
disappearing under the waves while swimming with a friend at 4.15pm. Weather
forecasters warn St Jude's storm will bring heavy rain, flooding and winds
gusting up to 80mph when it hits the West Country in the early hours and the
blasts eastwards across southern England.Heathrow will cut hundreds of flights
as the storm batters the South East. The airpFlights have been cancelled and
trains suspended as hurricane strength winds threaten to bring Britain to a
standstill. Britain's largest airport, Heathrow, plans to run a reduced volume
of flights on Monday and the London Overground train service will be suspended
until 9am. The disruption comes as a huge search operation gets underway for a
14-year-old boy last seen playing in rough seas off a beach in Newhaven. The
local boy is feared to have drowned after disappearing under the waves while
swimming with a friend at 4.15pm. Weather forecasters warn St Jude's storm will
bring heavy rain, flooding and winds gusting up to 80mph when it hits the West
Country in the early hours and the blasts eastwards across southern England.ort,
which operates an average of 1200 flights daily, will cut 20 per cent of flights
between 6am and 11am, ten per cent between 11am and 4pm and around five per cent
for the rest of the day. Aer Lingus has announced that eight of its flights
between Ireland and Heathrow will no longer run due to the expected severe
weather conditions. Track speeds on the Heathrow Express have also been reduced
to operate a half hourly service until 10am. No trains will run to and from
Gatwick airport during the morning and the Stansted Express will not run until
9am. Several train companies have warned of severely disrupted services for
travellers tomorrow morning and have told advised passengers not to take to the
railways.
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