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Storm Dennis: severe flooding continues
Flooding in parts of England and Wales has been described as “unprecedented” – but scientists say the bleak reality is that climate change will lead to more erratic weather.
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Coronavirus: Is Britain Ready?
How deadly is the coronavirus? How fast can it spread? What are the best precautions? Will we end up responding to it the way China has done? And how prepared are we in Britain?
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Coronavirus & Me: Ben Kavanagh’s complete journey
Irish teacher Ben Kavanagh has become an unexpected internet sensation. His videos of everyday life throughout the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic have been watched by millions, offering a unique insight into what it’s like to be caught up in the middle of a global outbreak.
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Britons stranded on coronavirus-hit cruise ship could be flown home
Downing Street has said that more than 70 Britons stranded on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship could be flown home.
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FactCheck Q&A: does climate change cause flooding?
Climate scientists agree that there are likely to be more episodes of extreme rainfall in the future thanks to changes in global temperature.
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Bitter sweet anniversary of Libyan revolution amid siege of Tripoli
EU foreign ministers have agreed to launch new sea patrols in the Mediterranean to try to enforce an arms embargo in war-torn Libya.
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No 10 refuses to condemn adviser’s controversial comments
Downing Street has refused to condemn controversial remarks previously made by a new government adviser.
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‘It’s appalling we are still building on a food plain’ – Prof Hannah Cloke
The environment secretary George Eustice today linked extreme weather events to what he said was “the nature of climate change” and added that the government had not been caught off guard by the floods caused by Storm Dennis.
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Chekhov’s Three Sisters re-worked with black cast
When Anton Chekhov wrote his play Three Sisters it was set amid tensions in Russia in the early 1900s.
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Man Utd Munich hero Harry Gregg dies at 87
He was known as the hero of the 1958 Munich air disaster. After the plane carrying the Manchester United team crashed on take off, goalkeeper Harry Gregg returned twice to the burning fuselage to drag Bobby Charlton and other teammates and strangers to safety.
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Disease expert: ‘There needs to be investigation once everyone’s off ship to identify what happened’
We’re joined by Dr Nathalie MacDermott, a specialist in Outbreak Disease Control at King’s College London.
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Storm Dennis: will Yorkshire flood defences hold?
The army was brought in to parts of Yorkshire over the weekend to help with flood defences. And on the whole they seem to have worked.
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Johnson visit to flood-hit areas ‘wouldn’t help’ – Tory MP Mark Garnier
We’re joined by Mark Garnier, the MP for Wyre Forest – a neighbouring constituency which has flooded in the past, and the Reverend Ruth Hulse who’s the Church of England’s dean for the Hereford area.
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Storm Dennis: people forced to leave homes as Hereford’s River Wye rises
Greyfriars Avenue is usually a pleasant place to live – just yards from the town centre and not far from the River Wye.
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Coronavirus death toll passes 1,600 as 69,000 infected worldwide – as 350 cruise passengers in Japan now infected
The number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak has passed 1,600 in China. 69,000 people have been infected worldwide. In Japan, more than 350 passengers aboard a cruise ship have now been infected.
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Will lessons be learned from Caroline Flack’s death?
Tributes have been paid to the television presenter Caroline Flack, following her death yesterday. The 40-year-old host of ITV’s Love Island was found at her home, having taken her own life.
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Storm Dennis: Record number of flood warnings declared in England
A second weekend of prolonged heavy rain has brought flooding in areas across the country. The Environment Agency said it expected “significant” flooding to continue into the next week. There are currently 409 flood alerts across England, Scotland and Wales, with 339 flood warnings.
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Met Police remove hundreds of names from gangs matrix
It was designed to help prevent violent crime. But now the Metropolitan Police has been forced to delete hundreds of names from its Gang Violence Matrix.
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Meet the 13-year-old violinist who’s about to make her British concerto debut
She’s performed in more than a dozen countries and has earned herself the nickname “the violin girl”. The Newcastle violinist Leia Zhu will make her British professional concerto debut this weekend.
