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PASSENGERS were left injured when a large stream of water smashed a train window as Britain got battered by the tail end of Storm Brendan.
The water crashed through the service from Exeter to Paignton in Devon, while 161 flood alerts were issued across the country.
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Flooding is not all that’s in store with forecasters warning of a temperature plunge to -4C over the weekend.
But today is expected to reach highs of 11C in certain parts of the country while most people will enjoy mild conditions of 10C.
Great Western Railway said its 10.57 service from Exeter was "damaged by sea debris".
Passenger Gill Garratt said: “Huge wave smashes into moving train and breaks windows passing through Dawlish, several passengers injured.
“Two trains stuck and ours abandoned at Newton Abbot.'
Huge wave smashes into moving train and breaks windows passing through Dawlish, several passengers injured.
Passenger Phil Garratt
After the train terminated at Newton Abbot, customers were transferred to a Cross Country service.
Paramedics were called to Dawlish Railway Station at about 12pm and treated one person for a minor injury.
A spokeswoman for South Western Ambulance Service said: "The caller reported to us that someone was injured after a wave hit a train.
"Our crew treated one patient at the scene for a minor injury. The patient did not need to be taken to hospital."
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FLOOD WARNINGS
Brits have been warned of rivers bursting their banks with alerts in Kent, Devon, West London and as far North as the Lake District.
But Met Office meteorologist Luke Miall said temperatures today will not be as chilly as recent days.
He said: “We have another low pressure storm coming in bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Rain is likely to be heaviest in the west of the country.
“Going into the weekend there is a big area of high pressure, so most places in the country will see a nice day but also some frost, which we haven't seen so far this winter. It will be mostly sunny skies although cold and clear.”
We have another low pressure storm coming in bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Rain is likely to be heaviest in the west of the country.
Luke Miall
BRENDAN'S BITE
Parts of the UK are dealing with the fallout from Storm Brendan that sparked travel chaos on air, land and sea.
In Christchurch, Dorset, high tides flooded car parks by the quay, with the same happening in nearby Mudeford.
Inland, the River Avon burst its bank in places on Wednesday morning, spilling on to roads near Chippenham, Wiltshire, and leaving some vehicles stranded.
Clear-up work has continued in Slough, Berkshire, after high winds blew a roof off a building on to the High Street on Tuesday.
Taxi driver Haris Baig, 30, said he had to slam on his brakes as a large section of roof crashed in front of him, saying: "It was a disaster. It was a miracle no one was killed."
A ten storey scaffolding tower also fell from a block of flats in Orpington, Kent, while an uprooted tree crushed a Kia Sorento at Dartford train station.
On Tuesday, a car was pictured in the sea during rising tides in Starr Gate near Blackpool, Lancashire, but was later recovered by the Coastguard.
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It comes as Sir David Attenborough has warned that "the moment of crisis has come" and "life-or-death decisions" must be made to tackle climate change.
Scientists said the last decade was the world's hottest ever.
And 2019 was among the warmest ever seen, with the second highest average global temperatures on record.
The renowned broadcaster said action has been put off "year after year" but there is no more time to "prevaricate".
Sir David said: "We have been putting things off year after year, we have been raising targets and saying 'Oh well, if do it within the next 20 years...'.
"The moment of crisis has come, we can no longer prevaricate.
"We can't go on saying 'but there's hope' and leave it to next year - we have to change and we have to change not by appeals to different kinds of optimism but to deliberate, compelling, life-or-death decisions."
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