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Thunderstorms are forecast for North West England and Northern Ireland this afternoon and into the evening, bringing potential flooding, damage to buildings and power cuts

Several police forces and other emergency services have since confirmed they are able to receive 999 calls again, while some said they were experiencing the "residual impact" of the national fault

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have launched an investigation into the circumstances which led to the death of the five people on board the OceanGate Titan submersible, which is believed to have imploded off the coast of Newfoundland.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is chef of Wagner Group, says he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow to avoid shedding Russian blood - in a dramatic U-turn following today's tense showdowns

Emergency services were called to Gloucester Drive in north London at around noon following reports a building had partially collapsed, sparking fears people were trapped

Chief among the four vessels returning to port today was the MV Polar Prince, the mothership that towed the doomed underwater vehicle into the Atlantic Ocean before its "catastrophic implosion"

The Met Office said thunderstorms may cause disruption and localised flooding across northern England and Scotland tomorrow. A yellow weather warning is in force from 1pm to 9pm on Sunday

John McKenna, 22, died after falling from a balcony at his three-star hotel in the party resort of San Antonio. The man, from Carlisle in Cumbria, was pronounced dead at the scene

A truck went over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia on Thursday with the US Coast Guard searching for the driver in the water after the semi truck plunged into the river

WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS Paris Mayo has been found guilty of murdering little Stanley Mayo shortly after giving birth at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in March 2019 when she was just 15

A Brit has claimed an "absolutely incredible" £55,013,819 EuroMillions jackpot prize that was won in the lottery draw from June 20, the National Lottery has confirmed

Bill Kenwright came under pressure to resign as Everton flirted with relegation from the Premier League in the season just gone, but the Englishman has confirmed he will remain in his post

Nelly Akomah, 76, was found fatally injured at the bottom of the stairs in her house in Croydon, south London, in what the Met Police have said might have been a burglary gone wrong.

A 62-year-old British tourist has died on the Spanish island of Majorca after his partner saw him floating in the sea and emergency responders were unable to save him

Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines picked up an 'anomaly' likely to have been Titan's explosion on Sunday, according to officials

A massive multi-national search operation was launched after the Titan submersible went missing an hour and 45 minutes into the trip down to the sunken remains of the Titanic

Owners of the Titan submersible OceanGate has said they believe the crew have sadly been lost. A USCG spokesperson said the debris field was 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic

The US Coast Guard has revealed it has found debris in the search for the missing OceanGate submersible that has been lost on a venture to the wreck of the Titanic

Metropolitan Police can confirm the deaths of Monika, Maja and Dawid Wlodarczyk are being treated as murder after their bodies were discovered at a flat near Hounslow, west London

Victoria Pendleton, who won Olympic gold during her cycling career, has paid tribute to her brother Alex with a heartfelt message on social media after his death aged 42

The deadline for oxygen to run out on the missing submersible that ventured to the Titanic has passed despite a separate search for the missing five passengers

The two-year-old girl, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead on a farm in Lifton, west Devon, in circumstances which have been described as "unexplained"

Nelly Akomah, 76, was found fatally injured at the bottom of the stairs in her own home in Croydon, London, with neighbours claiming her CCTV had been cut as police launch a murder probe

Oxygen levels will soon run out on the Titanic submersible which has five crew members on board and is missing in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a major search mission underway

Iain Hughes trained for nearly two years for his cross-Channel charity swim. He began his attempt yesterday but has gone missing and his whereabouts are unknown, West Midlands Fire Service said