Landslip kills a man in Wales as Storm Callum batters the country
10/14/2018, 12:14:38 AMPolice confirmed one man has died in Cwmduad on the A484 between Carmarthen and Cardigan, on Saturday, as parts of the country were battered by strong winds and torrential rain. ✔ Pictured: Cars travel through the flooded A4119 by Aberdulais Falls in south Wales this morning An amber warning for rain remains in place for parts of south Wales until 6pm with further flooding and power cuts expected ✔ Storm Callum was named by Met Eireann and is the third named storm of the season to hit the UK
Storm Callum eases off after causing chaos across UK
10/14/2018, 2:05:16 AMCallum caused travel misery and flooding as rivers burst their banks and power supplies were wiped out for many across western parts ✔ Storm Callum will ease off today today after claiming the lives of two people ✔ The victim, whose age was not given, died at the scene on the A484, Dyfed-Powys Police said ✔ Donna Nook in Lincolnshire reached 26.5C on Saturday, making it the warmest October day in seven years ✔ Read More Cold weather advice Too cold at work
UK weather forecast: Britain to be LASHED by more torrential rain following FATAL FLOODING
10/14/2018, 3:38:08 AMTHE UK is set for more fierce torrential rain just one day after a person was killed after parts of Wales experienced their “worst flooding for 30 years”, with wet weather heading east across the country. ✔ We’ll see a reversal in fortunes for the UK weather (Image: MET OFFICE/WXCHARTS) But those areas further west which have seen huge amounts of rain over the last 48 hours will finally turn drier, brighter with some decent sunny spells ✔ However, he adds there will be some showers across the far northwest of Scotland and down in the southeast
PETER HITCHINS: On the elites hellbent on legalising marijuana
10/14/2018, 12:30:22 AMThis country faces a grim race, between a fanatical and sometimes greedy campaign to decriminalise marijuana at all costs, and the accumulating evidence that such a move would be an irreparable disaster. ✔ Just as modish elite opinion swings ever more swiftly towards legalising marijuana, shocking and undeniable new evidence of its grave and frightening harms comes to light ✔ If we do that… we’ll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.’ It must be the most successful red herring in history
David Davis takes on Boris in bid to become Brexiteer PM
10/14/2018, 12:06:37 AMDavid Davis has written off Boris Johnson’s chances of ever becoming Tory leader and is planning to mount his own bid for No 10. But Mr Johnson's allies said Mr Davis would be a ‘disaster’ as PM. ✔ Mr Johnson called yesterday for Mrs May to rebuff the European Union’s demand for a special ‘backstop’ deal to avoid a hard border in Ireland after Brexit, saying it would be the UK’s ‘greatest humiliation’ since the Suez crisis of the 1950s ✔ Aged just eight, she suffered the horror of witnessing her father’s shooting at the hands of the IRA and, when she was 16, Republicans bombed the school bus she was travelling on
With Sniffer Dogs and Hope, Rescue Teams Comb Shambles Left by Hurricane Michael
10/14/2018, 12:11:25 AMUnder an unflinching Florida sun, the teams looked for the tiniest signs of life amid debris and thick brush. ✔ Now, rescuers do not know how many of the 278 people listed are accounted for ✔ Opinion: My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot Opinion: Democrats Are Blowing It, Again Opinion: It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God How Jared Kushner Avoided Paying Taxes
Fake tan disasters which have to be seen to be believed
10/14/2018, 12:10:27 AMTHIS fake tan fan is clearly on something of a losing streak. She was left with bizarre lines down her cheeks and neck after something went awry in the tanning booth. But at least her bronzing boo-… ✔ She was left with bizarre lines down her cheeks and neck after something went awry in the tanning booth ✔ Another woman was left with geometric lines across her arms and chest, while a third looked like an oompa loompa ✔ There's tan, and then there's orange, and what's with the eyes
With Death Toll At 15, Searches Intensify In Wake Of Hurricane Michael
10/14/2018, 2:32:45 AMTempers are flaring in the Florida Panhandle, where power could be out for weeks. ✔ ASSOCIATED PRESS Michael was one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever make landfall in the U.S. While most residents fled ahead of the storm’s arrival, others stayed to face the hurricane ✔ Contributors in Florida include Associated Press writers Russ Bynum in Mexico Beach, Brendan Farrington in Panama City, Gary Fineout in Tallahassee Download
Lawnmower mothers of grown up children who will mow down any obstacle
10/14/2018, 1:06:15 AMWe’ve had Tigers who pushed and Helicopters who hovered. But a ‘lawnmower’ parent aims to mow down the most trivial day-to-day inconveniences. ✔ ‘My attitude is, Let’s just sort it and save stress for him and me.’ It’s one of the paradoxes of parenting that the more we try to think ahead for our offspring to guarantee their success, the less able they are to stand on their own two feet ✔ But Janey says: ‘The first thing they would do is complain they don’t know how to switch it on in the first place.’
The problem is, Americans just don't care enough
10/14/2018, 3:00:11 AMAmericans have already been tested and they’ve aptly demonstrated their failure to care. ✔ Once again we’re all seething and once again we’re convinced that we’ve found our rallying cry, our beacon of hope, our life raft that’ll make everything OK at the mid-terms ✔ This article has been co-published with the University of Melbourne’s Election Watch
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