Nearly three quarters of a million customers in Florida and Alabama were without power early on Saturday, according to poweroutage.com.

Demonstrators, many wearing keffiyehs, and some with Palestine flags, started gathering on the Embankment at midday.

The UK has pledged to “maintain pressure on Russia” through “the toughest sanctions regime” it had ever imposed, after Donald Trump announced a deal to buy diesel from Moscow.

Two attacks at schools earlier in the week left one person dead and several others wounded, including children.