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The forecaster continued: "Wednesday will be a windy, blustery day with rain, persistent and heavy in many places, but especially so in Atlantic coastal counties and along the south coast during the afternoon and evening, where some spot flooding is possible.

"There might be the odd blustery shower on Saturday, but otherwise it will be dry," added Stickels.

And there will be rough seas whipped up by the blustery conditions.

In unusually blustery conditions Henman saw off Austrian youngster Jurgen Melzer in straight sets 7-5 6-4 to set up a tie with Tommy Robredo.

THE Nelson seconds travelled to in-form Taffs Well and in the blustery conditions took the valuable three league points.

The second tale, "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," is about a food salesman who has checked into a motel on a blustery winter day.

YOUNGSTERS prayed for blustery weather during a kite-making session at Ryton Pools Country Park near Rugby.

Southern Scotland will start wet but will become brighter, whilst northern Scotland will have blustery showers.

Fire and rescue services across the region were alerted yesterday and told to expect blustery winds of up to 40mph overnight with heavy rain and flooding.

They braved blustery conditions to be hoisted into the sky on a "human mobile", suspended from a crane in Edinburgh.

HURRICANE Gert is poised to bring further misery to Ireland with another bout of blustery and rainy weather this weekend.

A SLIGHT dusting of snow, sub zero temperatures, torrential downpours and of course blustery winds.

"In the more exposed areas winds are likely to reach over 50mph and the centre of Middlesbrough could see 40mph winds." He added that the blustery weather is expected to continue until the end of the week, but the winds will not be as strong.

Clerk of the course William Derby said: "There will be blustery conditions with bright spells and the odd shower passing through.

GOLF: Paul McGinley thrived in blustery conditions with a bogey-free five-under-par 67 to take a share of the clubhouse lead on nine under at the Ballantine's Championship on Jeju Island, South Korea.