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Travellers heading to Europe should soon be able to resume their journey after a deal was done to end a strike that halted cross-Channel trains.

Thousands were stranded on Thursday when French workers rejected an end-of-year bonus.

Services affected included Eurostar, which runs passenger services from London St Pancras, and Eurotunnel Le Shuttle, which runs vehicle-carrying trains from Folkestone.

The disruption started about midday and at least 30 Eurostar trains were cancelled, with many turning back to where they started.

Eurotunnel later said management and trade unions had reached a deal that meant services would “resume progressively this evening and Eurostar tomorrow morning [Friday]”.

Getlink, the company that manages Channel Tunnel infrastructure, said unions wanted three times the €1,000 (£866) bonus they were offered.

The problems came on a day when all services from London Euston were suspended for a time due to overhead line damage near Watford Junction.

King’s Cross also had severe delays due to a fallen tree in the Newark area.

Large crowds massed outside the stations and on concourses, staring at their phones and trying to work out alternative routes.

At 4.30pm, Euston said the problem had been fixed and “we are working closely with train operators to get you on the move”.

However some operators, such as London Northwestern, were still reporting disruption on Thursday evening.

Storm Pia also disrupted air travel, with some planes diverting from northern airports and British Airways grounding two dozen flights.

Video showed a pilot fighting to land his plane at Birmingham in 50mph crosswinds.

The aircraft was less than 100ft from the tarmac when it was forced to pull up – but it made it down safely on the second try.

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Gusts of 115mph were recorded at Cairngorm Summit in the Highlands, while Brizlee Wood, near Alnwick in Northumberland, saw 81mph.

About 40,000 households were affected by electricity outages in the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

But nearly all were reconnected by Thursday evening, said operator Northern Powergrid.

Elsewhere, a man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a tree hit his car in Clifton, Derbyshire. Police in the county said a number of trees had fallen on the road.

Storm Pia, named by Danish forecasters, is set to move towards mainland Europe where its effect is expected to be more severe, said the Met Office.

New details about the Prague mass shooting in which a gunman died have been released by police.

Officers have given a timeline of the suspect’s movements leading up to the mass shooting at a Charles University building in central Prague.

The body of the suspect – a 24-year-old student at the university named in Czech media as David K – was found within the building, according to police.

Alongside his body and the 14 people he killed, at least 25 others have also been wounded – with 10 seriously injured – officials have said.

Earlier shooting

Police president Martin Vondrasek said officers received a report at 12.20pm on Thursday that a 24-year-old man from the village of Hostoun was travelling to Prague, having stated that he “wanted to take his own life”.

At 12.45pm, the body of a man, identified as the gunman’s father, was discovered at a property in the village – which is to the west of the Czech capital.

Czech media reported that the suspect had previously posted on social media site Telegram saying he “always wanted to kill”.

He is also reported to have posted about a school shooting in Russia earlier this year.

Mr Vondrasek said investigators were looking at whether the gunman had been “inspired” by a previous mass shooting.

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“We have very fresh unconfirmed information from an account on a social network that he was supposedly inspired by one terrorist attack in Russia in the autumn of this year,” Mr Vondrasek told reporters

He also said, based on a search of the suspect’s home, that the gunman was suspected in the killing of a man and his two-month-old daughter in the east of Prague earlier this month.

Building evacuated

Following the discovery of the father’s body, police ordered the evacuation of one of the university buildings, where the gunman was due to have a lecture at 2pm on Thursday.

According to Mr Vondrasek, the evacuation was completed at 2.22pm, and after this, police continued to search for the student.

However, at 2.59pm, gunshots were reported in another university building, the Charles University Faculty of Arts near Jan Palach Square.

According to the Czech interior minister, Vit Rakusan, armed police were at the scene within 12 minutes.

By 3.20pm, the shooter’s body was found, having suffered “devastating injuries”.

Police have not said if he was shot by armed officers or took his own life.

What do we know about the gunman?

The gunman’s name has not been released by police – though he has been named in Czech media as David K.

Though police have not revealed the name, the one reported by Czech media matches a police search report.

Police have described the suspect as a high-achieving student with no prior criminal record.

They say he was the legal owner of several guns.

Police say the gunman acted alone, while Mr Rakusan said investigators do not suspect a link to any extremist ideology or groups.