Don’t leave home! Government calls COBRA meeting and Met Office issues rare RED warning to stay indoors as Storm Eunice bears down on Britain threatening to bring 100mph gales, power cuts and blow ROOFS off houses
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An emergency Cobra meeting was called by the Government today to discuss the incoming Storm Eunice after the Met Office issued a rare ‘red warning’ for what could be the worst storm to hit Britain in three decades.
The Met Office has placed almost all of England and Wales under an amber warning from 5am tomorrow, while an even more severe red warning for the South West says there could be ‘flying debris resulting in danger to life’.
The warning has been issued along the coastline of Devon and Cornwall as well as the south coast of Wales due to extremely strong winds that could reach up to 100mph amid concerns roofs could be blown off houses.
The Government said the Cobra emergency committee will meet ‘to discuss the response to Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice’ – and Cabinet Office Minister Michael Ellis will lead the meeting.
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