Storm Bert batters Britain: Hundreds of flights are cancelled as strong winds sweep across the country and downpours cause 'unprecedented' flooding - with the wild weather already claiming four lives

 

             

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled as Storm Bert continues to batter Britain with torrential downpours, gale-force wind and unprecedented flooding. Travel plans have been plunged into disarray as 70mph gusts and thundery showers ripped through the country, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.  It comes as it emerged a fourth person lost t