Between 20 and 40mm of rain could fall in one hour in the amber warning zone, going up to 70 to 100mm in just a few hours where heavy downpours persist. “Torrential rain, with thunderstorms in places, ...

Johnny Sexton insists Finn Russell’s “flash” skills are matched by the defensive steel needed from the British and Irish Lions fly-half to weather the storm coming his way in Brisbane.

A doctor and her husband who made almost £8,000 out of “sheer greed” selling PPE stolen from the NHS during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic have been jailed for 10 months each.

Taiwan will not provoke a confrontation with China, the self-ruled island’s vice president has said, lamenting Beijing’s “aggressive military posturing” against the island democracy that China claims ...

Veolia said it has started legal action against Unite and its general Sharon Graham, claiming defamation. The company said the move followed months of protests and “smear campaigns” by the union and ...

Music mogul Simon Cowell is to search for the next big boyband in a new Netflix docuseries. The man behind the success of One Direction stars in Simon Cowell: The Next Act, which sees him hold open ...

Are we there yet? Parents ‘snap up items to keep children occupied on journeys’ as summer holidays stretch ahead ...

Essex Library Service has partnered with Fonetti, an app which uses automatic speech recognition to help children read aloud.

About £7 million worth of damage was caused to the aircraft at RAF Brize Norton in an incident alleged to have a ‘terrorist connection’.

One child has died and 21 staff members and pupils from Minehead Middle School were injured after a school coach left the A396 in Somerset.

Customers at Lidl, Asda, TK Maxx, Matalan and Amazon have been warned to stop using some products sold at the stores because of potential health risks. The Office for Product Safety and Standards ...

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