Storm Austen to bring October half-term washout: First named storm of the season to batter drought-hit England with 70mph winds and heavy rain

Daily Mail - Oct 20, 2026

Storm Austen - officially named by the Met Office on Tuesday morning - is forecast to hit on Thursday night and will bring 'strong winds and heavy rain'.

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Australian politician Helen Haines loses a leg after horrific attack - as new footage reveals moment LandCruiser reversed following alleged hit

Oct 20, 2026

Australian politician Helen Haines loses a leg after horrific attack - as new footage reveals moment LandCruiser reversed following alleged hit

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Palestine poppy creator is unmasked as NHS doctor who wrote book introducing children to stoning

Oct 20, 2026

Palestine poppy creator is unmasked as NHS doctor who wrote book introducing children to stoning

Abdul Qader Ismail, 41, from Birmingham, is facing accusations of 'hijacking' Britain's national symbol of remembrance, and has written books that justify Shariah punishments.

Care home residents were sacrificed to 'protect the NHS' during Covid pandemic causing 43,000 deaths after failings saw virus 'spread like wildfire', damning inquiry finds

Oct 20, 2026

Care home residents were sacrificed to 'protect the NHS' during Covid pandemic causing 43,000 deaths after failings saw virus 'spread like wildfire', damning inquiry finds

More than 43,000 residents died after hospitals discharged infected patients into care homes without adequate protections, allowing the virus to 'spread like wildfire'.

LISA BRADY: How could the English family ever have known that they'd just had their last breakfast, last school run together? It's unthinkable - and across Ireland right now, other families live in fear of a similarly horrifying fate...

Oct 20, 2026

LISA BRADY: How could the English family ever have known that they'd just had their last breakfast, last school run together? It's unthinkable - and across Ireland right now, other families live in fear of a similarly horrifying fate...

The last school run. The last squabble over cereal, the last scramble for the bathroom, the last hurried kiss goodbye.

Trump demands New Mexico renamed to 'New America' setting off firestorm with two weeks to the midterms

Oct 20, 2026

Trump demands New Mexico renamed to 'New America' setting off firestorm with two weeks to the midterms

President Donald Trump renewed his push for New Mexico to undergo a rebranding, asserting on Truth Social that 'New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America.'

Chaos as massive Google outage crashes banking apps, with NHS and court service also affected

Oct 20, 2026

Chaos as massive Google outage crashes banking apps, with NHS and court service also affected

A huge outage has hit hundreds of websites and apps due to an issue with the Google Cloud service.

BBC is mocked for calling French riots 'mostly peaceful' while showing videos of Paris in flames and thugs fighting police

Oct 20, 2026

BBC is mocked for calling French riots 'mostly peaceful' while showing videos of Paris in flames and thugs fighting police

A report on the corporation's News At Ten, covering the weekend of nationwide rioting and looting, has been accused by some viewers of downplaying the carnage.

Manchester's Market Street has some new artwork and the reason will make your skin crawl

Oct 20, 2026

Manchester's Market Street has some new artwork and the reason will make your skin crawl

It's appeared in the busy shopping street

Parents shared their piercing grief on Facebook after cherubic baby girl died aged just eight days old... but made no mention of the cocaine found on her pacifier

Oct 20, 2026

Parents shared their piercing grief on Facebook after cherubic baby girl died aged just eight days old... but made no mention of the cocaine found on her pacifier

Having lost their adorable eight-day-old daughter Emilia in February of this year, Justin Soll and his partner Shannon Wester flooded their Facebook pages professing how much they missed her.

Met Office maps show exact time Storm Austen set to hit UK this week

Oct 20, 2026

Met Office maps show exact time Storm Austen set to hit UK this week

The UK is set to see a very rainy week

Moment no-nonsense volunteer ignores Meghan's 'performative' questions about filling a food bag during Nottingham visit

Oct 20, 2026

Moment no-nonsense volunteer ignores Meghan's 'performative' questions about filling a food bag during Nottingham visit

Last week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex carried out a series of royal-style engagements in the East Midlands, marking their first joint engagement since returning to the UK.

Anti-Israel activist is charged with driving 4x4 into Australian MP, causing her to lose a leg - as his family reveal she had been a friend of theirs for 20 years

Oct 20, 2026

Anti-Israel activist is charged with driving 4x4 into Australian MP, causing her to lose a leg - as his family reveal she had been a friend of theirs for 20 years

Brendan Nugent allegedly ploughed into centrist independent politician Helen Haines, when she was taking  belongings from the boot of her car outside her office on Monday.

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