UK weather: Storm to batter Britain this weekend

Blustery showers will bring spell of warm, dry weather to an end

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TUESDAY, FRANCE: Waves breaks against a pier and a lighthouse in Les Sables-d'Olonne. High winds buffeted north-western Europe, leaving one woman in France in a coma after she was hit by an advertising billboard. 
(Image credit: LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images)

Severe weather warnings for wind have been issued for areas of the UK this weekend as a 1,500-mile-wide Atlantic storm threatens to bring the summery spell to an end.

The strong winds, rain and large waves on exposed coastlines will "bring an early autumn" to the country, says the Daily Telegraph.

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