In Pictures: Transport disrupted and trees uprooted as Storm Pia pummels UK

Travellers returning home for Christmas were among those affected as Storm Pia lashed parts of the UK in the countdown to the festive season.

Winds of more than 80mph battered northern parts of the UK with gusts of 81mph recorded at Brizlee Wood, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and at Baltasound on Shetland, with gusts of more than 70mph found elsewhere in the North East of England.

A tree fell on a petrol station in Derby while another was toppled in the village of Stanley.