Bert bashes Britain

AT LEAST three motorists have died after Storm Bert battered Britain with snow, rain and 82mph winds, causing travel chaos, power outages and flooding.

- Jaymi McCann

Newcastle Airport was shut, flights cancelled, roads closed and football matches postponed, as 16 inches of snow blanketed much of the country.

Hampshire Police reported one man in his 60s died after a tree fell on to a car on the A34 southbound near Winchester yesterday morning.

In West Yorkshire, a 34-year-old man from Bradford was killed after a car collided with a wall in Shipley.

Police were called at 12.59am and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

And Northamptonshire Police reported that a third man died in a two-car collision on the A45 near Flore at around 8.20am.

Five adults and five children also had to be rescued from a house in the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, near Llangollen in north Wales, following a landslide.