The World - News from Feb. 26, 1989
Six people died when winds of up to 60 m.p.h. battered Spain, and plunging temperatures snapped Britain out of one its mildest winters in 300 years. Heavy snowfall brought chaos on the roads from Cornwall to Scotland, and parts of Wales and southwest England were flooded by torrential rains.
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