130 KILLED AFTER STORMS BATTER EUROPE More than 130 people are now thought to have been killed across western Europe as a result of the severe weather.
A quarter of the French national grid is out of action after a second wave of 100mph gales blew down power lines.
French troops and British electricity workers are helping to restore power to 3.4m homes before New Year's Eve.
Meanwhile a search is beginning for the bodies of nine people killed by avalanches near Galtuer in Austria.
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