Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home.

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Calum Carmichael, 19, died in hospital on Saturday from his injuries after his car was hit by the tree in East Ayrshire

The First Minister delivered a keynote speech on the NHS at Heriot Watt University amid growing concern at the state of the health service.

First Minister, John Swinney, has passed on his condolences to the family and friends of a teenager who sadly died at the weekend.

Writing in his regular Record column, the Scottish Labour leader says John Swinney's years at the heart of the SNP Government cannot be overlooked.

The first minister asks for patience as power outages and travel disruption look set to last over the weekend.

Fresh weather warnings for wind and rain have been issued and gusts of up to 80mph recorded as Storm Herminia hits the UK.The new weather front arrived in the South West on Sunday morning and will move northwards across England and Wales,

Storm Eowyn ‘probably the strongest to hit the UK in at least 10 years’ - Met Office forecasters described it as ‘pretty exceptional’.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.

Snow and ice warning as 100mph winds cause travel chaos and leave one million without power - The first Storm Eowyn-related death has been recorded in Ireland after a tree fell on a man’s car

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,