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Of coastal areas the government is saying that schools should close today to enable everybody to stay safe. there is is what storm barra is doing to the high pennines at the moment. this is the a66. behind me or go into cumbria, down this direction is county durham. we've been talking to some of the people that live in the remote communities appear this morning. they say they did come back up with power in the last day or so but there are still about 700 properties across north—east england that do not have power at the moment. but we have seen the workers down on the wires further down from...

Are running on that section of the west coast. so, there has been impact on schools. but if you compare it to storm arwen a week ago, really, the impact of storm barra seems to be much less. the northeast suffered the worst of storm arwen last week. here in the north of england, the worst— here in the north of england, the worst areas affected by storm arwen have missed it the worst of the weather — have missed it the worst of the weather from storm barra today. it did get— weather from storm barra today. it did get through the middle of the day, just— did get through the middle of the...

Should close today to enable everybody to stay safe. well, this is what storm barra is doing to the high pennines at the moment. this is the a66, behind me you go into cumbria and in this direction is county durham. we have been talking to some of the people that live in the remote communities up that live in the remote communities up here this morning and i say they came back home with power in the last day or so —— they came back on but there are still several hundred properties across north—east england that do not have power at the moment. but we've seen the workers down on the wires...

Let's get more on storm arwen. 29,000 homes are facing a third day without electricity and travel is still disrupted, following the damage caused by the bad weather. northern powergrid says engineers are continuing to work round the clock to get remaining supplies restored. train operator lner says it will now not be able to run services between newcastle and edinburgh today. julie smith reports. weathering the storm in cumbria, both hartside pass and the a66 between county durham and cumbria have been closed due to snow. in alston today the community are keeping an eye out for each other. it'...

The incident happened northbound towards the A66 westbound carriageway and there's huge tailbacks