The Met Office has issued an urgent five warnings lasting up to 18 hours as large swathes of Britain are set to be hit with downpours. The warning, comes into force Thursday at midnight, affects south west England, Wales, Central, Tayside &
Floods have placed the UK on alert, with several hundred warnings currently active across the country. Heavy rain has descended in the wake of last week’s snow, forcing the Met Office and Environment Agency to respond. Officials from the two organisations have
The Environment Agency has issued the following alerts: Clay Coton Brook at Clay Coton and Yelvertoft Brook at Yelvertoft Cocker Beck at Lowdham Gog Brook at Warwick Illey Brook at Halesowen Lutley Gutter at Halesowen Marchington Brook at Marchington River Alne at
Much of the nation has awoken to a blanket of snow this morning – from Middlesborough and London to Essex and Cornwall. But where else could be set for snow to tumble down over the weekend? The Met Office has issued a
The Met Office has issued an urgent yellow weather warning for thunderstorms as Britons experience adverse weather conditions. The weather service extended the weather alert to last until 3pm this afternoon and included even more areas as thunder and vicious winds batter
A Labour MP admitted some areas of the new 20mph speed limit in Wales are “frankly bonkers” during an appearance on BBC Question Time. The Labour-run Welsh Government earlier this year dropped the default speed limit from 30mph to 20mph for residential
Storm Ciaran will cause a ‘risk to life’ in 20 areas this week, the Met Office has warned, as it delivers another round of severe wind and rain hot on Babet’s heels. The system made landfall today, less than two weeks after
The Met Office has issued a string of weather warnings spanning 96 hours as the UK braces for Storm Ciarán to hit. Yellow weather warnings have been in place across the UK since 12am this morning (Monday, October 30), until 11.59pm on
With almost 150 flood alerts and two weather warnings having been issued for this weekend, unsettled rain and wind is expected across swathes of the UK. The unsettled weather is being caused by low pressure creating frequent fluxes of rain and wind.
Around 3.8 million people were living in destitution in the UK last year, including a million children, a new report has suggested. The flagship study conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggested that the figure for children has almost trebled since 2017