Windsday

yesterday, the library had to be evacuated because apparently the winds were blowing tiles off the roofs.
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Weather Damage - Buildings Closed
Update (Friday 19 January)

Thorough safety checks have been carried out this morning. The Library will be open from 10am, Library road is open now, as is Café Library. The roof has been made safe, with the exception of the side facing Humanities, so the walkway between Humanities and the Library remains closed until 10am.

Owing to damage caused by today's high wind a number of buildings on campus have been closed: the Library and the Westwood Games Hall. Rootes Residences D to H Entrance has also been closed - please use alternative entrances.

Library Road has been closed because of a potential health and safety issue caused by flying debris. (However University members can still collect cars parked on Library Road).

Library & Library Road: Small parts of the Library roof are being blown off.

Rootes Residences: The entrance to D-H has a panel hanging off above the doors - please use alternative entrances.

Westwood Games Hall: Lights have fallen down inside the hall, one roof light has fallen into the hall and one roof light has disappeared.

No injuries have been caused and damage will be assessed when the wind drops.

The wind is not forecast to drop during daylight today - and the safety of the buildings will be assessed first thing tomorrow morning. Those buildings that are closed will remain so until tomorrow's safety check.

The Estates Office is arranging for repairs to be made once the wind has dropped and the full damage has been assessed.
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and traffic was bad because of the bad weather.

and today on the news (news.bbc.co.uk):
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UK braced for second day of gales

Reduced services are running while the clear up operation takes place

Parts of the UK are braced for more severe storms after 10 people died and thousands of homes were left without any power.

Northern England, central and southern Scotland and Northern Ireland could be hit by more gales by nightfall, the BBC Weather Centre warned.

Friday will be "a much quieter day" for the rest of Britain, but "gusty".

A clean-up of fallen trees and overturned vehicles is expected to affect some rush hour travel.

On the railways most services have returned to normal although there is some disruption.

Network Rail engineers worked through the night to clear obstructions and repair overhead power lines.

STORM DEATHS A two-year-old boy was killed when a wall fell on him, London An airport chief died after a branch fell on his car, Shrops A man died when a tree fell on his car, Streatley, Berks A lorry driver was killed when his vehicle overturned, N Yorks A man died when a lorry blew into his car, Chester A woman was crushed to death by a falling wall, Stockport A man was killed when he was blown into a metal shutter, Manchester A man died when he was hit by a tree, Cheshire An elderly man was killed when a shed collapsed, Humberside A man died after he was hit by a falling canopy, Lancashire In pictures: Windy weather In pictures: Europe's storms

Train company GNER says it expected to operate a reduced service, as work is carried out to clear debris from the tracks and fix damaged power lines.

Two trains will run every hour between London Kings Cross and Newcastle, with one going on to Edinburgh.

An hourly train shuttle service will run between Doncaster and Leeds, and in Scotland there will also be a revised timetable, connecting with First Scot Rail services.

Virgin Trains West Coast is running an emergency timetable.

Arriva Trains Wales has a line closed due to flooding between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The M20 coastbound is closed between J11 and J12 due to traffic queuing for the ports and there are similar closures on the A14 southbound into Felixstowe harbour.

A number of A-roads around the country have sections closed due to fallen trees, flooding or accidents.

Storm victims

On Thursday a two-year-old boy died when a wall fell on him in Kentish Town, London.

The managing director of Birmingham Airport, Richard Heard, 49, died after a branch fell on his car between Bridgnorth and Broseley, Shropshire, and a male passenger in a Ford Fiesta was killed when a tree fell on the car in Streatley, Berkshire.

A lorry driver died when his vehicle left the road and overturned in high winds on the A629 Skipton western bypass, in North Yorkshire.

Another man was killed when a lorry was blown onto a car on the A55 on the outskirts of Chester, Cheshire.

In Stockport, Greater Manchester, a woman in her 60s was crushed to death when a wall toppled onto her in high winds.

HAVE YOUR SAY We can see parked cars moving in the wind and lamp posts swaying Myra Davis, Swansea Send us your comments

A man also died after being blown into a metal shutter at an industrial estate in the Strangeways area of Manchester.

A 60-year-old man was pronounced dead at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, after he was struck by a tree while working on a site in Byley, Middlewich.

Meanwhile, an elderly man died from injuries after a shed collapsed on him in Humberside.

A 58-year-old man from Essex also died after he was struck by a falling petrol station canopy in Lancashire.

Gusts of up to 99mph saw flights cancelled, rail speed restrictions enforced and sections of motorway shut.

Thousands of homes across the UK were left without power when the storms were at their peak, including some 100,000 people in Godalming, Surrey, and tens of thousands across the north east of England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

While England experienced high winds, Scotland saw its first major snowfalls of 2007, bringing road and rail disruption.