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Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was a powerful extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
Dawn Limbu - BBC News, Somerset and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley - BBC News, west of England ... The council declared a major incident in Somerset after Storm Éowyn caused heavy rainfall and flooding ...
In Hereford, the River Wye reached its highest level in recorded history, and the major incident declaration was subsequently expanded to cover Herefordshire and Shropshire. Across Herefordshire, landslides and high river levels damaged roads and bridges. In Ludlow, Shropshire, more than 50 homes were flooded.
Further bands of heavy rain over the following days worsened the situation, and a major incident was declared in Nottinghamshire on 4 January. [3] The worst of the flooding occurred across parts of the Midlands including Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. [4]
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Arrowe Park Hospital have declared ‘major incidents’ after the crash on M53 in Merseyside
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A white supremacist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel in what a judge said was "undoubtedly a terrorist attack" has been jailed for life. Callum Parslow, 32, stabbed Nahom Hagos in the chest ...