also, the queensferry crossing bridge is closed at the moment because of the danger of falling ice frome, so the traffic being diverted. scotland being particularly badly hit by the conditions. it has been snow that has been hitting the northeast of england and scotland but it is the winds that are causing issues in the western area. we have seen pictures from lyme regis, the winds they are, and also port levin in cornwall. that is affecting the railway services. we are hearing from south—western railway who run services out of waterloo, they go down from the south into exeter, they are going to sea journey time is extended between salisbury and exeter, and also between bournemouth and also between bournemouth and weymouth, and they say this disruption could last into monday, so it won'tjust be today that there are issues. it could well be that public transport services are having problems into monday. you also mentioned ireland, who saw pictures from county donegal because of storm bert went through the republic of ireland before it hit parts of the uk. 60,000 homes are without power i

what you don't want is ice dropping from that height onto vehicles on the queensferry crossing.a diversion route and that takes the traffic over the neighbouring forth road bridge, so that is in scotland. just going to mention northern ireland because there has of course been storm bert across the republic of ireland quite badly, we are hearing that rail lines are shut in northern ireland. the lines between belfast, antrim, and portadown are closed due to flooding. that is the public transport operator telling us that. also a great that went out to try and keep the roads open got stranded in the coleraine mountain road. —— gritter. this is edinburgh, it is quite bad there, and the north—east of england is the other place i had mentioned where the roads around barnard castle are closed. a little earlier, before it got too bad our reporter was there and sent us this update. we reporter was there and sent us this update-— this update. we were told that we could be — this update. we were told that we could be expecting - this update. we were told that we could be expecting up - this