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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury and Jordan King

Storm Ciaran latest LIVE: 100mph-plus winds recorded as flights cancelled, schools shut and thousands of homes without power

Thousands of homes have been left without power and hundreds of schools have closed as Storm Ciarán wreaks havoc across southern England.

By this afternoon, 9,000 homes in Cornwall had been left without power due to the storm, while schools across Dorset, Sussex and Hampshire - where a major incident was declared for much of the day - have shut their doors.

Some children may only be able to return to the classroom on Monday, because of all the damage.

British Airways and airline KLM are among the airlines cancelling flights, with some 100 cancelled between them.

Meanwhile train operating companies such as Southern and Southeastern have warned of disruption, and urged passengers to only travel if necessary.

AA, which had a large number of callouts in southern England, said it had "rescued 84 customers stuck in flood so far today, with thousands more impacted by the weather".

The Jersey government said wind speeds had reached 102mph while Langdon Bay in Kent recorded 71mph winds earlier.

Six people across mainland Europe have died in the storm, including a five-year-old in Belgium.

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