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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