What is a weather bomb?
Storm Goretti - the first named storm of the year - hits the UK today and is bringing with it a "weather bomb".
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Catherine joins William for London hospital visit
The visit to Charing Cross Hospital is the couple's first public engagement of 2026.
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More changes to farm inheritance tax plans ruled out
The government says it has listened to farmers and increased the proposed inheritance tax threshold.
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Swinney backs action against Russia after Scots airports used during tanker operation
The first minister says he was not briefed on a US-led operation a few hundred miles off Scotland's coast.
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Man pleads guilty to attempted murder of soldier near barracks
A man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of an army officer who was stabbed "repeatedly" outside his barracks in Chatham, Kent.
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Government to water down business rate rise for pubs
The hospitality industry had called for a rethink of planned changes to the way the tax based on property is calculated.
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Abandoned baby Elsa to be adopted and regularly see two siblings
Police say all enquiries to find the parents of the abandoned babies have now been "exhausted".
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Avalanche warning and travel disruption as Storm Goretti hits
There are areas of unstable snow in several locations near the top of Yr Wyddfa, said the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team.
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Police who named wrong fatal car crash victim 'used family description and ID card'
Police who told a teenager's relatives he had died in a car crash when he had, in fact, survived, relied on the family's description of him and a photo ID card when they tried to identify him, a coroner has been told.
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Police in teens' death crash ID error did not do forensics tests
A boy wrongly thought to have died was misidentified based on a description and college ID card.
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'My endometriosis pain is excruciating but I'm still waiting for surgery'
According to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 59,733 women in NI are now on waiting lists.
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No forensics used to ID boys in crash death mix-up
A boy wrongly thought to have died was misidentified based on a description and college ID card.
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Ex-referee sentenced over child image offence
Former football official David Coote is given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
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Woman who drove around bend at 85mph jailed for killing three friends in crash
A woman who crashed a car and killed her boyfriend and two friends after driving around a bend at more than 85mph has been jailed for three years and 10 months.
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Tate Modern attacker sentenced for nurse assaults
Jonty Bravery kicked a nurse in the thigh and "clawed" at the face of a second, a court heard.
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Flu on the rise again after Christmas mixing, says NHS
Cases up after two weeks of decline, as hospitals report rise in slips and falls because of cold snap.
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Ex-Premier League referee given suspended jail term over child image
Former football official David Coote is given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
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Former Premier League referee avoids jail sentence over sexual video of schoolboy
Former Premier League referee David Coote has avoided jail as he was sentenced over a sexual video of a schoolboy found on his laptop.
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Flu bouncing back after Christmas mixing, says NHS
Cases up after two weeks of decline, as hospitals report rise in slips and falls because of cold snap.
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Man admits knife attack on soldier near barracks
Anthony Esan pleads guilty to the attempted murder of Lt Col Mark Teeton in Kent in July 2024.
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