6 h. ago One dead in California floods as state braces for brutal week of Christmas storms

An atmospheric river is forecast to drive storms across the state this week, bringing rain, high winds and risk of floodsOne person has died in California amid heavy flooding, as residents across the state brace for a week of brutal storms that are predicted to bring extensive rainfall throughout the Christmas weekend.Authorities in Redding, a city in northern California, reported that a motorist died on Sunday after becoming stranded in their vehicle. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago One dead amid heavy rains in California as storms threaten flooding over Christmas

More heavy rain brought by atmospheric rivers is expected for California by midweek

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11 h. ago Which parts of the US can expect a white Christmas this year – and which will need to brace for storms, flooding and travel chaos

Deadly flooding is set to continue as record warmth heats up Christmas for millions of Americans

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13 h. ago Driving Home For Christmas icon Chris Rea dies three days before December 25

Festive legend Chris Rea, best known for his song Driving Home For Christmas, has sadly died on 22 December as tributes flood in for the iconic crooner

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54 h. ago Scale of Neath Port Talbot flooding confirms 'urgent' need for support to people and businesses

Some were forced to leave their homes just days before Christmas after torrential rain flooded streets

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3 d. ago Shocking pictures show train station outside London completely flooded as it’s closed until Christmas Eve

The flooding at Rye House station is due to a burst Thames Water sewer pipe

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5 d. ago Killer Labubus: Urgent warning as dangerous counterfeit dolls flood UK before Christmas

Figures show at least 259,000 fake toys worth over £2.5million have been seized so far this year - of which Labubu's account for 90 per cent.

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7 d. ago Pictures show scale of devastation in Welsh town where residents are staying in hotels

The town hadn't flooded for decades but now, days before Christmas, folk here are beginning a long rebuild

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7 d. ago Little boy wakes up to water rushing through front door and window

The family are having to stay the night at a hotel due to the extensive flooding in their home which has wrecked the house days before Christmas

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8 d. ago Undercover police flood City of London shopping district in Christmas shoplifting crackdown

Retail crime - said to cost the capital of £16.7million a month - will spike during festive period

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8 d. ago Undercover police flood London shopping district in Christmas shoplifting crackdown

Undercover police flood London shopping district in Christmas shoplifting crackdown  London Evening Standard

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9 d. ago ‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect giftI love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I strongly approve of the Icelandic tradition of the Jólabókaflóðið (Yule book flood), whereby books are given (and, crucially, read) on Christmas Eve. Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is the one I’ve given more often than any other; so much so that I keep a stack of four or five to hand, ready to give at Christmas or any other time of the year. It’s a slender masterpiece – a meditation on Shepherd’s lifelong relationship with the Cairngorm mountains, which was written in the 1940s but not published until 1977. It’s “about the Cairngorms” in the sense that Mrs Dalloway is “about London”; which is to say, it is both intensely engaged with its specific setting, and gyring outwards to vaster questions of knowledge, existence and – a word Shepherd uses sparingly but tellingly – love. Contin...

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2 w. ago Man builds ark ahead of 'Biblical Christmas flood' after 'divine message from God'

Ebo Jesus, who goes by Ebo Noah, claimed to have received a vision from God that a monstrous Biblical level flood would cover the entire Earth on Christmas Day this year

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3 w. ago More than 30 dead and 14 missing as heavy rains trigger landslides and floods in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 30 deaths

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