Workers close off the side of a cafe-restaurant to protect customers from heavy winds on December 23, 2013, in Cancale, northwestern France.
Paris - High winds and heavy rain battered parts of Europe, leaving at least two people dead and one man lost at sea off France, and disrupting travel two days from Christmas.
In Britain, a man was found dead in a swollen river in northwest England where the water was "fast flowing, and a lot more water than normal", said Inspector Chis Wright of the Cumbria police, adding: "It's fair to say that the weather contributed to the problem."
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