People in Maidstone are waking up to gale-force winds and driving rain.

Police are warning them to take extra care with the worst weather expected between 8am and 10am.

Trees are down at Ashford Road near the Mercure Hotel, College Road, by Maidstone Hospital in Hermitage Lane, and Maidstone Road in Paddock Wood.

There are delays on the Ashford Road, A20, at the junction with Square Hill Road, due to flooding under the railway bridge.

Power cuts are also affecting parts of the town.

Arriva buses are operating as normal but Southeastern trains were not expected to be running until after 9am.

Some commuters went to Maidstone West station after Southeastern announced an 8.18am service would run to Tonbridge.

But they were later met with a notice over the station tannoy saying there was no service on Monday morning because of fallen trees at Cuxton and at Beltring.

One man - Elvy Manum'ebe arrived at 6.55 this morning and was still hanging around, going nowhere at 8am.

Fellow commuter Daniel Edmundson said: "Work has been pretty good about all the disruption. They know that people will struggle to get in, but I wouldn't have come here unless I'd seen the notice about the Tonbridge service.

"Last Monday London Bridge was closed because of over-running engineering work, so we've been hit again. You can just about cope with the struggling service, but not when there's slightly bad weather."

And John Marven added: "Southeastern knows there is a storm coming and it just seems there is a complete lack of planning or co-ordination. It could have arranged replacement bus services, or linked in with Arriva, but instead everyone is just told to stay at home.

"I probably won't get to work in London until around 3pm today. I don't see how they can say it runs a good service. I don't think the storm has been that bad."

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