3 hours ago Rossendale charity shop devastated by Storm Bert flooding just days after opening

Bacup Bargains owner Andrew Jones says he was forced to use stock to try and stop the water from getting into the business

Events

3 hours ago I'm A Celebrity's Maura Higgins almost strips down to her birthday suit for a freezing cold jungle shower as she turns 34 in the Aussie wilderness

The Love Island star braved the cold water during Monday's episode to kick off her birthday in the jungle.

Politics

5 hours ago Ministers told ‘incompetence’ at Met Office led to underestimation of Storm Bert

Hundreds of homes were left under water, roads were turned into rivers and winds of more than 80mph were recorded across parts of the UK.

Politics

8 hours ago 'Wild' scenes as river climbs half way up pub windows during Storm Bert and bar is waist deep

'It really went wild and the pub started really filling with water. I tried leaving out through the back kitchen door, which leads into the beer garden and the river area. Water was coming through there at a rate of knots

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8 hours ago ‘If you survive this, you somehow must share it’: reliving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

A harrowing docuseries looks back at the deadly Boxing Day tsunami that killed over 225,000, speaking to survivorsOn Christmas day, 2004, Chris Xaver arrived in Phuket, a popular tourist destination on the south-west coast of Thailand, for a brief holiday. It was already dark by the time she and her then husband, Scott, got to the hotel; she couldn’t see the ocean, but could smell the saltwater of a beach vacation. The next morning, she had just stepped out of the shower when water started flooding their sea-level bungalow. Thinking the water main had broken, they called the front desk. No answer. Outside the bungalow, they saw the remnants of what they assumed was a rogue wave. “The lexicon, the word tsunami, was not in our brain,” Xaver recalled.Twenty years on, she remembers standing...

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8 hours ago Fresh pressure on Labour to water down its inheritance tax raid as top think tank suggests allowing more farmers to pass on their land to family without being hit by death duties

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggested alterations to Chancellor Rachel Reeves ' action to prevent farmers feeling 'unfairly treated' by her Budget measures.

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9 hours ago I'm A Celebrity star Christine Hamilton's kitchen submerged after Storm Bert floods home

Christine Hamilton, who came third in the first series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2002, shared footage on social media of her husband Neil Hamilton bailing water out of their home

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11 hours ago Taxpayers shell out £453m in bill subsidy for one of UK's worst performing water firms

The £50 a year subsidy for each South West Water customer over a decade came as the firm paid out more than £1.5 billion to shareholders and was fined for dumping raw sewage

Economics

12 hours ago TV personality Christine Hamilton’s kitchen submerged by Storm Bert floods

Video footage posted on social media shows the former reality TV veteran’s kitchen submerged in water.

Events