General news

Major rivers could be flooded until Tuesday, Environment Agency warn...

Train operators around the UK have advised customers not to travel on Saturday with rail networks widely flooded.

Jockey makes it to Ascot after car gets stranded in Storm Babet floo...

Hayley Turner missed racing at Redcar on Friday after her car became stranded in a flood caused by Storm Babet.

Cleverly calls for ‘professionalism and restraint’ from Israeli mili...

James Cleverly warned against allowing instability to engulf the Middle East.

Mother of one ‘giving my all to win’ biggest breakdancing competitio...

The competition takes place at the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris.

Danger to life flood warning issued in Wales as Storm Babet continue...

Natural Resources Wales warned that water was rising above local flood defences.

Drax faces penalty after Canadian biomass plant fails to submit poll...

The High Level pellet mill in High Level, Alberta, produces wood pellets for the company, which runs Britain’s biggest power station in Yorkshire.

Drones to be banned from flying within 400 metres of prisons

Drones have been used to smuggle contraband including drugs and mobile phones to inmates.

Storm Babet: Trent Alexander-Arnold in minor car crash after pylon b...

No-one was hurt in the incident, Cheshire Police has said.

Red weather warning cut but further floods feared as Storm Babet con...

The Met Office’s red weather warning now ends at 6pm.

LNER advises customers not to travel after disruption from Storm Bab...

An extremely limited service is in place on Saturday due to flooding, speed restrictions and trains being out of position.

Train operators advise customers not to travel after disruption from...

An extremely limited service is in place on Saturday due to flooding, speed restrictions and trains being out of position.

Rivers ‘will continue to rise’ following Babet as ‘risk to life’ flo...

The Environment Agency has said there could be flooding in 360 areas of England and temporary barriers have been put up in high-risk areas.

Climate change poses existential risk to children, says paediatricia...

Dr Camilla Kingdon said that the Government must ‘take action on poverty and health inequalities’.

Gaza humanitarian access ‘must not be one-off’, says Cleverly

The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt was opened to allow an aid convoy into the besieged territory.

Emergency crews rescue 20 people from care home trapped by floods

Over 100 people had to be rescued from flooding in Derbyshire on Friday and flood waters are still expected to rise in some parts of the county.

ADHD medication being rationed as shortage ‘not taken seriously’

The shortage of medicine is leaving some patients ‘jittery’ and anxious’.

Second red warning in place as Storm Babet causes widespread floodin...

Across England, there were over 353 flood warnings and 248 alerts on Saturday morning.

Resigning Oxford City councillors say party leadership ‘complicit in...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer argued he ‘was not saying that Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines’.

British Army trains Ukrainian engineers to defend energy sector agai...

Trainees were taught how to identify potential blast ranges and the impacts of different weapons and explosives.

What the papers say – October 21

Surprise results from the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections feature among the front page stories.