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Police officers cautioned a newsagent selling copies of the Private Eye magazine near the Old Bailey that they could be in contempt of court. A news vendor said a policeman asked him to “consider” taking down issues of the satirical magazine due to the proximity to the phone hacking hearings of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. The issue which has a picture of Ms Brooks with the caption horror witch costume withdrawn from shops was shown to the jury and said to be a ‘joke in exceptionally bad taste’ by Mr Justice Saunders, presiding judge on the phone hacking case. The newsagent refused to...

A new study offers an explanation for the extraordinary run of wet summers experienced by Britain and northwest Europe between 2007 and 2012. The study found that loss of Arctic sea ice shifts the jet stream further south than normal resulting in increased rain during the summer in northwest Europe.

Dr James Screen from the University of Exeter used a computer model to investigate how the dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice influences the European summer climate. He found that the pattern of rainfall predicted by the model closely resembles the rainfall pattern of recent summers....

A teenage girl in Kent and A 50-year old man in Watford have been killed by falling trees from last night’s storm.

A Man and a Woman have also been killed in a suspected gas explosion caused by a fallen tree in West London. The 17-year old Bethany Freeman was hit by the tree as she was sleeping in abuilding adajecent her family home in Edenbridge at 7:20am this morning. The man was in a traffic accident where a tree came down on a car in Hertfordshire at 6:50am this morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his next-of-kin informed. The storm also saw a 14-year old boy,...

Much more needs to be done to improve UK children’s health, and acting early will save taxpayers’ money, the Chief Medical Officer has said in a frank assessment of the state of the health of the nation’s children.

Her latest report - which has the backing of several children’s charities - calls on government, the whole health service, social care and education professionals to take action and make improvements now. It highlights a strong economic case for doing more, sooner. For example, reducing obesity by just one percentage point among children and young people could lead to...