Schools have been closed and people warned not to travel on Friday, as 100mph winds pose a danger to life in parts of the UK. Rail services and flights have been axed, with rare red weather warnings ...

Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.

Nationwide Building Society said that despite some modest recent improvements in housing affordability, the deposit hurdle remains high.

Conservationists are calling on the public to join the world’s largest garden wildlife survey this weekend to see how birds are faring across the UK.

A committee chair said local authorities are often ‘attempting to save a sinking ship with a little more than a leaky bucket’.