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In Pictures: Violent Storm Darragh leaves trail of disruption

A rare red warning for wind was issued by the Met Office for parts of Wales and south-west England as gusts of 93mph were recorded in some areas.

In Pictures: Violent Storm Darragh leaves trail of disruption
In Pictures: Violent Storm Darragh leaves trail of disruptionA rare red warning for wind was issued by the Met Office for parts of Wales and south-west England as gusts of 93mph were recorded in some areas.The branches of a tree which landed on a car in Liverpool on Saturday (Pater Byrne/PA)PA Wire

Storm Darragh swept through the UK on Saturday as millions of people were warned to stay indoors, thousands were left without power and travel was disrupted.

One man died when a tree fell onto his van in Lancashire.

People watch as waves crash over the seafront in Porthcawl in Wales (Ben Birchall/PA)PA WireLlandudno Pier has been damaged (Paul Williams/Llandudno Pier Trading Limited/PA)PA MediaA fallen tree in St Johns Road, Bristol, following the high winds (Olivia Amey/PA)PA MediaA dog braves the conditions in Porthcawl earlier on Saturday (Ben Birchall/PA)PA WireWind and rain lashed central London (Yui Mok/PA)PA WirePart of a fallen tree which hit a car in Greenbank Road, Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA)PA Wire

An alert came into effect at 1am on Saturday and was sent to people within the area covered by the Met Office’s rare red warning for wind in parts of Wales and south-west England.

Broken rails at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, as Saturday’s meetings at both Aintree and Chepstow were abandoned (Peter Byrne/PA)PA WireOutside Goodison Park in Liverpool after the Premier League Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool was postponed (Peter Byrne/PA)PA WireA fallen tree in Queen’s Drive in Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA)PA WireA participant at a soggy corgi Christmas jumper parade in central London on Saturday (Yui Mok/PA)PA WireWorkers survey a fallen tree blocking Cecil Road in Weston-super-Mare (Rob Palfrey/PA)PA MediaSnow covered the mountains behind Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland, on Saturday (Andrew Milligan/PA)PA Wire

Almost 400,000 customers were left without power in Ireland after the country was battered by Darragh.

A person takes shelter under an umbrella as they cross the Sean O’Casey Bridge in Dublin’s city centre ahead of Storm Darragh (Brian Lawless/PA)PA WireA Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary mural which previously read ‘Prepared for peace, ready for war’, in the Mount Vernon area of north Belfast on Saturday morning following a night of high winds (PA)PA WirePeople brave the weather to take part in the Scrambled Legs Running Club 10k Santa Run in central London (Yui Mok/PA)PA WireDamage caused by Storm Darragh in the back garden of a house in the Lenadoon area of west Belfast (PA)PA WireThe wreckage of a bus which crashed close to Belfast International Airport in the early hours of Saturday amid Storm Darragh (Rebecca Black/PA)PA Wire