"I was on a conference call when I heard a huge breath of wind, a creak, and then a massive bang," he said.
"The whole house shook."
"My girlfriend was working in another room and told me she had heard something, and asked if a window had smashed.
"I said: 'No, the house has just been destroyed'."
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The tree took part of the roof and badly damaged several rooms on the first and ground floors.
Mr Good said his car, which his mother had advised him to move amid storm warnings the previous evening, was also wrecked.
"Ironically, if I'd left it where I'd originally parked it, it would have been fine," he said.
"We stood outside looking at what the storm had done, and my dad had a tear in his eye - and then we did the very British thing, and said, 'Let's go to the pub for a pint'."
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Friday was spent retrieving important items from the home, but the tree remains where it landed.
The family has moved back into the parts of the house that escaped damage - albeit with hard hats on.
They are waiting for a structural engineer and their insurance company to assess the extent of the damage.
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A house in Brentwood has been severely damaged after a large tree was brought down by the high winds of Storm Eunice.
The 400-year-old tree fell on the Essex property, smashing through the roof and into the bedroom where 23-year-old Sven Good was working, having visited his family home for the day.
Image:The ceiling of one bedroom has been wrecked by the weight of the tree
Image:The tree collapsed directly onto the house
'It all happened in a second'
He told Sky News he heard a "creak and then a massive bang and the whole house just shuddered".
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"I could feel the whole roof going above me. It was absolutely terrifying."
He continued: "I leapt up, under a doorway - for some reason, the GCSE knowledge kicked in - jumped off the conference call and ran to see if my girlfriend and family were okay."
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Luckily, no one was injured.
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The house has been in the family for several generations - they are now waiting for a structural engineer and their insurance company to assess the damage, and then a crane will be deployed to lift the tree and work will begin to see what can be saved.
"My room has got no window, no wall. My sister's room has got no walls on either side. We still have heating and electricity which is a silver lining but it was incredibly scary," said Sven.
A white Mazda sports car was also hit by the falling branches.
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His father, Dominic, added: "It was a very lucky escape.
"There was just this massive noise, crash, dust, it all happened in a second."
Clean-up operation underway
Meanwhile, thousands of homes remain without electricity as the country assess the impact of one of the worst storms to hit the UK in a generation, which killed at least three people.
Wrecked cars and toppled buildings can be seen across the UK as the storm left a path of destruction.
Gusts of up to 122mph were recorded at The Needles on the Isle of Wight while London was issued with its first-ever red warning for wind.
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Further warnings issued
Further strong winds and icy stretches could disrupt the big clean-up from the storm, with further yellow warnings issued for parts of the UK, Met Office forecasters have said.
A yellow weather warning for wind is in place across southern parts of England and Wales until 6pm today.
This could prolong power cuts and hamper recovery efforts - and there is a "small chance" some roads and bridges could close.
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for snow covering much of mainland Scotland. This came into force at 3am today and is due to lift at 6pm.
More than 430 flights due to take off or land at UK airports were cancelled on Friday.
A man was killed by a falling tree in County Wexford in the south east of Ireland today while a member of the public was in hospital with serious injuries after being struck by falling debris from a roof in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
The winds were so strong in London that parts of the O2 Arena roof have been “ripped off”.
Train services are running well across Scotland with ScotRail saying travellers shouldn’t expect as much disruption as was brought by Storm Dudley earlier this week.
In Aberdeenshire more than 30 schools were closed due to the forecast heavy snow while some schools were shut in Angus and Inverclyde.
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the woman who tragically lost her life and the man who was seriously injured in Highgate this afternoon.
“I’d like to pay tribute to all those in the emergency services who have been working tirelessly to keep us safe and urge all Londoners to remain cautious and avoid taking risks as this storm passes.”
Woman dies in London after a tree hits her car
The Metropolitan Police said officers were called shortly after 4pm to reports of a tree falling on a car in Muswell Hill Road, Haringey, near the junction with South Close.
Officers attended with colleagues from London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade.
The passenger in the car – a woman in her 30s – was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers believe they know the woman’s identity and her family have been informed. They will be supported by specialist officers.
The driver – a man in his 30s – has been taken to hospital but his condition is not believed to be life-threatening.
Road closures remain in place at the location.
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The Port of Dover has reopened to shipping and some ferry services after closing earlier on Friday due to Storm Eunice.
A spokesperson said: “The port and ferry operators will now continue to work together to ensure that services are running with minimal disruption.”
Travel chaos in England and Wales
Storm Eunice is causing travel chaos, with hundreds of rail lines blocked and road bridges closed.
A rare “do not travel” alert was issued across railways in England and Wales, as seven operators suspended all services.
More than 430 flights due to take off or land at UK airports were cancelled on Friday.
Both the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge and the M48 Severn Bridge, which link England and Wales across the River Severn, were closed due to high winds.
It is believed to be the first time both crossings have been closed simultaneously.
The train operators which stopped running all services on Friday afternoon were: c2c, Chiltern Railways, Great Western Railway, Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Southeastern and Transport for Wales.
Flights and ferries have been cancelled in Northern Ireland due to Storm Eunice.
The region escaped the worst of the extreme weather conditions which saw a man killed by a falling tree in the Republic of Ireland and hundreds of flights cancelled in Britain.
However, high winds, snow and ice caused travel chaos in some parts of the region, with a number of collisions on the Glenshane Pass in Co Londonderry.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said no-one required hospital treatment.
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The structure, which later transferred into private hands, was the scene of a foiled diamond robbery, which police said would have been the world's biggest.
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The dome also featured in dramatic opening scenes to the 1999 James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.
An O2 spokesperson said: "Due to today's adverse weather conditions, we can confirm that there has been some damage caused to the tent fabric in our roof at the O2. The affected areas have been cleared and the O2 will remain closed for the rest of the day."
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The golden visa scheme used by bmany Russian oligarchs to live in the UK is now closed to all new applicants, the Home Office has announced.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said she made the decision to close it "immediately" on Thursday afternoon "following our review of all those granted" the Tier 1 investor visa.
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The scheme allows foreigners who invest at least £2m in the UK to get a visa quickly, which leads to being offered residency.
Ms Patel said: "It has been under constant review and some cases had given rise to security concerns, including people acquiring their wealth illegitimately and being associated with wider corruption.
"While work has been done to reform the route in order to prevent abuse, the Home Office has acted to close it today
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"This is just the start of our renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said earlier this week that he was working on deterring Vladimir Putin's allies from benefitting from the UK economy as Russia masses troops on Ukraine's border.
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The Home Office said it would be "making reforms" to the Innovator route, part of the incoming points-based immigration system, which it said will "provide an ambitious investment route which works more effectively in support of the UK's economy".
A government source earlier told Sky News the visa scheme was to be shut down this week over "security concerns".
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What was the golden visa?
The Tier 1 investor visa was nicknamed the "golden visa" because it allows the extremely wealthy to get a visa for them and their family quickly and they are then free to work and study in the UK - or do neither.
Unlike other visa categories, there was no minimum amount of time visa holders had to spend in the UK to preserve their status, though it did lapse after a two-year absence.
It could also be extended indefinitely, provided the investment was maintained, and provided a direct route to UK permanent residency.
Most golden visa holders are from Russia and China.
A significant number of Russian oligarchs have bought homes in London - nicknamed Moscow-on-Thames by some - with many known to have permanent residency.
Many more Russian businesspeople have become oligarchs under Mr Putin than previous leaders, with the president allowing them to maintain their powers in exchange for explicit support for him.
The golden visa was set up in 1994 and re-launched in 2008 in its latest guise. In 2015 and 2019 requirements were tightened after it was found the scheme was at risk of being used for money laundering.
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'Halting golden visa means stopping talent'
Several immigration lawyers said stopping the golden visa altogether was not the right choice because it would prevent "top-tier talent and investment" from coming to the UK.
Kelly Whiter, immigration law partner at Fladgate, said that instead of scrapping the visa, the Home Office should review the criteria and close off any weaknesses in the system while ensuring the rules are "strictly enforced".
"There is currently a lack of viable alternatives for these individuals, so the withdrawal of the Tier 1 Investor route, where many European countries are competing to attract such talent and investment, is likely to impact the UK's attractiveness moving forward significantly," she said.
Antonia Torr, partner and head of immigration services at Howard Kennedy, said closing the scheme has "all the hallmarks of a political move" because the Home Office changed the rules in 2019 so investors have to prove the source of their wealth as part of the application.
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She added: "It is also noteworthy that the past few years have seen a decline in the number of Russians applying for this visa and so really it will be other nationalities who will be impacted by this decision.
"As a move to place pressure on Russia, this may not have the impact that the Secretary of State anticipates."
Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "It has taken international condemnation of our failures to stamp out Russian dirty money for the home secretary to act. But this must go further with a plan to stop illicit finance coming into the UK.
"While this is welcome, we need the full review published and an overall plan to stop illicit finance coming into the UK."
More Russian troops amassing at Ukrainian border
On Thursday morning, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told Sky News that Russia was placing more troops on its border with Ukraine, despite Moscow claiming they were pulling back.
As the UK, with NATO allies, tries to prevent an invasion, Mr Heappey said the UK was "entering into a new period of Russian relations... a new period of sustained competition between the West and Russia that probably will last for a generation or more".
As a result, he said parliament is bringing forward measures to "strengthen our ability to sanction Russian oligarchs and deny them financial gain in the UK".
Mr Heappey added: "The message to Moscow is that the price to Russia as a country, in terms of state-on-state sanctions but it's a reflection of Russian politics that this may matter more.
"The cost to the elite around President Putin and those oligarchs that own all of these vast companies and have had the world as their oyster for so long.
"If President Putin continues on the course of action that he's on then the UK will not be alone in making it extraordinarily hard for those individuals to enjoy the trappings of their wealth in the West."
Wales has become the first UK nation to announce it will offer COVID-19 vaccines to all five to 11-year-olds.
Health minister Eluned Morgan said she has received the "yet to be published" final advice from the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on COVID-19 jabs for children aged five to 11 who are not judged to be at clinical risk.
"I have accepted this advice and thank the JCVI for scrutinising the science and evidence and setting out its advice in a careful and considered way," Baroness Morgan said.
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"Our intention, as it has been from the start of the pandemic, is to follow the clinical and scientific evidence."
She said the full JCVI advice would be published in "due course".
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Delay to JCVI announcement 'perplexing'
There has been a delay to the official announcement, reportedly because of disagreements between the UK government and the JCVI - with an announcement expected on 21 February.
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Facing questions in a Plenary session at the Senedd, Baroness Morgan said the delay was a "shame" and "perplexing".
"In relation to vaccination of children, the JCVI has yet to publish its report, although there are lots of clues in The Guardian and other places where there seems to have been lots of leaks come out," she said.
"It's a shame and it's perplexing to understand why that has not been published yet.
"But I have seen a copy of that advice and we will be commencing the rollout of vaccinations for five to 11-year-olds."
Baroness Morgan did not lay out a timetable for when this would happen, saying: "We're not going to do that as a matter of urgency, as we did over the Christmas period. That's partly because the risk isn't as great to that cohort.
"And we're also waiting to hear from the JCVI to see whether they'll need a booster on top of the booster for older age groups in the spring."
She added: "Of course, it's likely to have been a very difficult decision for the JCVI, because generally, children have a milder illness and fewer hospitalisations.
"But, of course, they have to balance that against the prospect of missing school.
"We have to consider very different issues when it comes to the vaccination of children as young as five years old, of course, so we'll be in a position where we will expect those children to be accompanied by an adult.
"There will be a need for informed consent, but there will be an opportunity for siblings, for example, to be brought at the same time."
'No decisions' made by Westminster government
In December, the JCVI updated its guidance to suggest that children aged five to 11 who are in a clinical risk group or who are a household contact of someone who is immunosuppressed should be offered a primary course of vaccination.
At that time, the vaccine experts said further advice regarding jabs for healthy five to 11-year-olds would be issued in due course "following consideration of additional data relevant to this age group and on the Omicron variant more broadly".
The government in England is expected to make an announcement on jabs for all five to 11-year-olds next week.
"No decisions have been made by ministers on the universal offer of a COVID-19 vaccine to all five to 11-year-olds," a spokesperson said.
"We are committed to reviewing the JCVI's advice as part of wider decision-making ahead of the publication of our long-term strategy for living with COVID-19."
Raess Jamal, 21, of Lingdale Close, Loughborough, and Rekan Karwan, 28, of Tomlin Road, off Gipsy Lane, Leicester have been remanded into custody and will appear before Leicester Magistrates' Court tomorrow, police said.
Natasha Akhtar, 21, of Alum Rock Road, Birmingham; Ansreen Bukhari 45, and Mahek Bukhari, 22, both of George Eardley Close, Stoke, were charged with murder appeared at Leicester Magistrates' Court this morning.
They have been remanded in custody and are set to appear at Leicester Crown Court tomorrow (February 16).
Officers were called to the collision near the junction for Six Hills at 1.30am on Friday, February 11.
The force said a silver Skoda Fabia had left the carriageway and that two men who were inside it were pronounced dead at the scene.
In a statement, the force said: "Following initial inquiries into the collision, two other cars were reported to have been travelling in the area at the same time of the collision – a grey Audi TT and a blue Seat Leon.
A 20-year-old man who arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder has since been released from custody and will face no further police action.
An earlier version of this story gave the address of one of the charged men as 'Lingdale Close, Leicester'. This was based on information given by police. LeicestershireLive has queried this, and can now confirm the address is in Loughborough.
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