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Mon 12 Dec 2002Weekend comes to a stormy endHigh winds brought down power lines and kept emergency services busy, as the weekend came to a stormy end in almost all areas of the country.The west and south-west had the worst of yesterday's conditions, but the northern regions were expected to bear the brunt of the storms overnight, before a return to calmer weather today.