© Dan Kittwood/Getty ImagesA Gurkha regiment helps place sandbags outside homes along the river Thames in Staines.
Two people were killed late on Friday in the stormy weather and the high winds left more than 16,000 homes in north Wales without power.
A cruise ship passenger died and another was airlifted to shore after their 22,000-tonne vessel was hit by a freak wave in the English Channel. Water crashed through a window, injuring a number of the 735 passengers. An 85-year-old male passenger and a woman passenger in her 70s were airlifted off the ship. The male passenger later died.
In Holborn, central London, a woman died and a man was taken to hospital after a building collapsed on to a car. The accident happened at 11.05pm last night opposite Holborn tube station, a Metropolitan police spokesman said. "There were two occupants in the car and a woman was pronounced dead at the scene. A man was pulled from the car and was taken to hospital, where he is in a stable situation at the moment."
A man also died in hospital on Friday night after being hit by a falling tree in his garden in Gwynedd during Wednesday's storm.
Comment: Different animal species are going extinct every day because the agricultural industry wants its profits above their - and our - lives; the greed of conscienceless scientists is causing the death of animals due to the GMOs; Hollywood is killing animals for entertainment; sadists kill animals because they have the opportunity and they want to.
In all times through history, the respect humanity showed to the animals who cohabit our planet reflected the health of the society as a whole. News as the above and
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tell us that our current society's sickness has reached very dangerous levels. Read a very interesting discussion on the subject that is taking place in our forum.