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UK Weather latest: Rain lashes UK - Britain hit with FLOOD WARNINGS

9/23/2018, 11:00:56 AM
BRITAIN is being battered with strong winds and heavy rains with forecasters warning of potential flooding and transport disruption. ✔ Met Office meteorologist Helen Roberts said it is very unlikely at this stage that Sunday will bring the third named storm of the season ✔ Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England can expect a fairly chilly day with bright, sunny spells and showers, she added ✔ Wednesday should be fine and dry in the south but with patchy rain, heavy at times, and strong winds in the north



UK weather latest: Will it stop raining today? Rain radar and forecast latest

9/23/2018, 11:13:25 AM
BRITAIN is facing a deluge of heavy rain as gusts of up to 60mph hit the UK. Will it stop raining today? ✔ On Monday, the forecast reads: Most places dry with light winds and warm sunny spells ✔ UK weather: Rain is expected to make it a washout Sunday (Image: WXCHARTS) Showers for Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, with thicker cloud in the far north later; chilly and breezy here ✔ However, those warnings have been dropped this morning



Massive fire at Crete university leaves Greek city engulfed with smoke (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

9/23/2018, 9:22:51 AM
Students have been evacuated from University of Crete after a fire broke out in its building in Heraklion. Huge plumes of smoke, resembling a volcanic eruption and visible kilometers away, were billowing above the area. ✔ The security alarm sounded on Sunday morning as the university premises caught on fire ✔ The blaze reportedly started at the campus, forcing students to flee their rooms as the building filled with smoke ✔ There have been no reports of casualties so far, however the authorities are still trying to make sure everybody in the building at the time escaped the inferno, according to local media



Social infrastructure can help save us from the ravages of climate change

9/23/2018, 11:19:45 AM
It's important to invest in social infrastructure — the physical spaces where communities gather — as part of our response to climate change. ✔ Nonprofit organizations that help poor and frail people are perennially cash-strapped ✔ Eric Klinenberg is a professor of sociology at New York University and author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life



BBC Weather forecast: 'It is MISERABLE!' Deluge of HEAVY rain brings total WASH OUT to UK

9/23/2018, 9:22:53 AM
BBC Weather forecasters have predicted a ‘miserable’ Sunday as heavy rains and strong winds continue to sweep across the UK, with forecaster Louise Lear recommending Britons stay indoors to ‘drink some coffee and read the papers’. ✔ And now lingering moisture from former Hurricane Florence could collide with another weather front to bring more strong winds - possibly becoming the third named storm of the season, Storm Callum ✔ Daytime temperatures trending upwards, particularly on Wednesday and Thursday



Volcano ‘set to erupt in blast that will dwarf 2010 ash cloud’

9/23/2018, 10:57:17 AM
SCIENTISTS have warned a giant Icelandic volcano is gearing up for an eruption – dwarfing an explosion there that disrupted worldwide air travel eight years ago. Katla, a “highly hazardous” v… ✔ Alamy 3 While everything looks peaceful, its wants lies beneath that is causing the concern Evgenia Ilyinskaya, a research fellow in the Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics at Leeds University, told RUV, the Icelandic national broadcasting service, that the volume of CO2 indicated something significant



Brexit: Theresa May ‘plotting another SNAP election’ after disaster Salzburg summit

9/23/2018, 9:37:52 AM
THERESA May is secretly plotting another snap election after EU leaders rejected her Brexit plans, according to reports. ✔ Two senior members of Mrs May’s Downing Street team are said to be war-gaming after the Prime Minister was humiliated by EU officials in Salzburg ✔ And the message to the Brexiteers is: if you want to sort out Brexit later you might get that opportunity once she's gone



The BIG ONE is coming: When will ‘inevitable’ California earthquake hit?

9/23/2018, 10:34:51 AM
A MAJOR California earthquake known as the Big One is an “inevitability” and the effects could be “tremendous”, a top earthquake expert has warned. ✔ He said: The impact of the northern Big One would be tremendous – I mean the San Andreas runs right through San Francisco ✔ About 75 percent of all of the world’s active volcanoes are found in this belt of tectonic activity ✔ In the last 11,700 years, all but three of the largest ever volcanic eruptions blew up in the Ring of Fire



'Please come back': Islanders seek tourism for Lombok quake recovery

9/23/2018, 10:13:35 AM
Six weeks after Lombok was smashed by a magnitude 7 earthquake, an Australian couple are there on holiday. And locals are delighted to see them. ✔ Typically, he spends two weeks on Gili T and then a week at home with his family in central Lombok ✔ We had a good chat to a guy in Senggigi who runs a bar the other night and I said to him we had nothing planned, could we come out and help, clean some bricks or something the next day ✔ This is the easiest, most realistic way to help – to just be a tourist ✔ It will be people like Wilson and Mitchell who help them do it



'Indian summer' to begin tomorrow but Britain will face North-South divide

9/23/2018, 8:12:28 AM
The Met Office have forecast that one swathe of the country will enjoy sunshine and still weather but the other half will be left battling wind and rain ✔ An Indian Summer is forecast to begin tomorrow however the country will suffer a North/South divide in the days to come ✔ It will be a very wet day across England and Wales, but that rain will eventually clear away ✔ Tuesday is set to be largely fine with sunshine for England and Wales



Cruise industry seeks to reassure worried customers after Caribbean storms - Los Angeles Times

9/23/2018, 11:12:24 AM
Cruise industry representatives gathered Thursday to reassure passengers that the region is functional and beautiful, while reminding them that ships can always be re-routed in any future storms. ✔ But the torrential rain and flooding brought by Hurricane Florence turned the conversation to the current storm season ✔ Typhoons and hurricanes are part of the annual weather pattern on the planet ✔ The Caribbean covers a million square miles and has many destinations ✔ If there are storms, we're in good condition to combat them



North Carolina river filled with toxic muck from flooded coal ash dump

9/23/2018, 10:10:49 AM
Coal combustion byproducts containing arsenic, lead and mercury transformed the look of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina Saturday, and a power plant rep said the area was not safe to cross. ✔ 'This is Duke's third coal ash spill in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, and it looks like it's the biggest yet.' The ash is left over when coal is burned to generate electricity leaving an array of components, including mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals The inundated basin at the plant contains 400,000 cubic yards of ash and has contaminated other areas The L.V



Cosby sentencing is new milestone for #MeToo movement

9/23/2018, 10:12:16 AM
When a grainy video of standup comedian Hannibal Buress making a joke about Bill... ✔ The movement itself may have helped convict Cosby, after his first trial in mid-2017 for sexually assaulting a former friend, Andrea Constand, ended with a hung jury ✔ By the time he faced his retrial, the #MeToo campaign had exploded ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Climate change swells ranks of refugees as Trump administration retreats to the sidelines - Los Angeles Times

9/23/2018, 11:12:28 AM
Climate change has uprooted tens of millions of people around the globe, creating a new class of refugees and another problem for the U.N. General Assembly that President Trump will address on Tuesday. ✔ Climate change is driving migration, which in turn can result in violence and instability, said Nancy Lindborg, the president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, who has worked extensively on development and democracy issues in Africa ✔ Although relatively few people are affected, the villages represent unique native cultures, said Joel Clement, a former Interior Department official who will take over an Arctic policy program at Harvard University



Meghan dreamed of releasing her own cookbook YEARS before Together

9/23/2018, 8:28:15 AM
The Duchess of Sussex, 37, previously spoke of her intention to release a collection of recipes under the umbrella of her now defunct lifestyle website The Tig. ✔ Dedicated: The duchess wrote the foreword to the new book (pictured) produced by cooks from the Hubb Community Kitchen, an initiative based near the site of Grenfell Tower Hands-on: Images published in the book show Meghan cooking alongside volunteers and their families who rallied to support each other - and fellow survivors - in the wake of the disaster 'It’s a timely question because those are conversations that are happening right now



Iranian President Blames U.S. After Deadly Military Parade Attack

9/23/2018, 9:47:49 AM
President Hassan Rouhani claimed an unnamed U.S.-allied country was behind Saturday's attack. ✔ The U.S. government nevertheless strongly condemned Saturday’s attack and expressed its sympathy, saying it condemns all acts of terrorism and the loss of any innocent lives ✔ Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Maamoun Youssef in Cairo and television producer Mohammad Nasiri in Tehran contributed



Iran blames U.S. for attack on military parade

9/23/2018, 11:34:41 AM
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the Persian Gulf was behind an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded around 70. ✔ The U.S. government nevertheless strongly condemned Saturday’s attack and expressed its sympathy, saying it condemns all acts of terrorism and the loss of any innocent lives ✔ Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Maamoun Youssef in Cairo and television producer Mohammad Nasiri in Tehran contributed



Brexit News: Dominic Raab 'won't accept' DOOMSDAY claims from Project Fear supporters

9/23/2018, 11:00:58 AM
BREXIT Secretary Dominic Raab lashed out at anti-Brexit campaigners this morning, claiming that he “didn’t accept” the “doomsday scenarios” put forward by Project Fear supporters. ✔ It wouldn’t be a walk in the park, there are risks, but we’re well placed now with our plans to manage those risks ✔ What we’re not going to do is be dictated to in these negotiations ✔ To deny its legitimacy or frustrate its result threatens public trust in our democracy



Pathologist who examined Diana's body answers rumours she was pregnant

9/23/2018, 9:40:45 AM
Dr Richard Shepherd, now 65, re-examined Diana's body for the official inquiry into her death - since then, people have asked him: "Was she pregnant?" ✔ If she had taken this step, he believes she would have survived the tragedy in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel with a black eye or maybe a broken arm ✔ Dr Richard Shepherd's 'Unnatural Causes: The Life And Many Deaths Of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist' is published by Michael Joseph and available now



UK's divided Labour ponders second Brexit vote at party conference

9/23/2018, 10:50:43 AM
Britain’s Labour Party is facing a huge choice at its annual conference – whether or not to back a new referendum that could halt the country’s impending departure from the European Union. ✔ […] Banks are already doing that […] This isn’t good for British finances, for the City for the industrial economy, or for the working class jobs – everybody knows this ✔ The leadership might try and persuade Momentum activists not to make it (de-selection) a central plank of conference but the language is getting very, very abrasive, said Menon



Germany launches world's first autonomous tram in Potsdam

9/23/2018, 10:39:53 AM
The Guardian goes for a ride on the new AI-driven Combino vehicle developed by Siemens ✔ Truth be told, it does looks rather underwhelming, a normal low-floor tram, but closer up you see all the discreet technology like the sensors, and to see it tackle real-time traffic and to think this is the future, it’s a bit like what it must have been to witness the transition from horse-drawn to steam trams or gas to electric, he said



Labour wants firms to give a THIRD of seats on their boards to workers

9/23/2018, 9:30:34 AM
The party wants employees to be handed a third of seats on the committees so they can have a 'real say' in how companies are run. ✔ 'That is his attitude to the Attlee government, which created the NHS and a huge house-building programme ✔ Mr Corbyn believes this is fuelling a short-termist corporate culture, holding back economic growth ✔ He said: 'The opinions I held then are not in all respects those I hold today



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