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Two people were rescued from the roof of a car after it became submerged in floodwater overnight – but despite further flood warnings Monday could be the hottest day of the year. A West Midlands hazardous area response team had to swim to the car, with one person taken to hospital “under blue light conditions”.It came as more than a month’s worth of rain deluged parts of Birmingham in just one hour on Sunday.A site at Winterbourne, in the Edgbaston area, recorded 58mm of rainfall in one hour, and 81mm in a 12-hour period.The monthly average for the West Midlands…

WHSmith has been voted the worst high street retailer in the UK this year, in a Which? survey of over 10,000 shoppers. Customers complained of out-of-date WHSmith stores, expensive products and poor customer service in the survey of 100 major retailers which was carried out in January.The retailer has been in the bottom two of its poll for an eighth consecutive year, Which? said.The customer scores given were based on experiences of purchasing items other than groceries, their level of satisfaction and the likelihood of recommending each shop.John Lewis dropped to 10th place – its worst ranking since the annual…

North Korea has “brilliant potential” and will be a “great economic and financial Nation one day”, Donald Trump says. The president made the comments in a tweet on Sunday as US officials arrived in North Korea and met their counterparts at the border village of Panmunjom.”Our United States team has arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the Summit between Kim Jong Un and myself,” he said.”I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It will happen!”:: Trump just couldn’t…

Italy’s president is facing calls for his impeachment after refusing to appoint a key minister backed by the country’s prospective prime minister. Sergio Mattarella would not endorse Eurosceptic Paolo Savona as economy minister, despite him being supported by Giuseppe Conte – who was picked as a compromise prime ministerial candidate by the populist coalition hoping to form a government.Mr Conte, a little-known 53-year-old lawyer with no political experience, subsequently rejected Mr Matteralla’s offer to form an administration – throwing Italy into fresh political crisis.The country has been without a government since elections on 4 March left the Eurosceptic 5-Star Movement…

One of Britain’s biggest engineering conglomerates is examining a potential transatlantic merger of its healthcare business‎ amid speculation that it could become the next London-listed target for an activist investor. Sky News has learnt that Smiths Group, which has a market capitalisation of £6.8‎bn, has been holding preliminary talks with companies including Nasdaq-listed ICU Medical about a possible combination of their healthcare operations.The discussions, which have been led by Andy Reynolds Smith, Smiths Group’s chief executive, are said to have been “very early stage” and not restricted to ICU.The structure of any deal with ICU, which makes devices used in…

Flights are delayed at Stansted Airport after lightning hit the aircraft fuelling system, leaving planes unable to refuel. In a statement on Twitter, a Stansted Airport spokesman said: “Due to an earlier lightning strike the aircraft fuelling system was unavailable for a period this morning.”Engineers have been on site and have now restored the system, however flights may still be subject to diversion, delay or cancellation.”We apologise for the inconvenience and advise all passengers to check with their airlines for their latest flight updates.” No one about to offer updates, hundreds of us huddled together in departures, airport is boiling…

It has been a month since TSB began a long-planned IT upgrade to move 1.3 billion customer records away from its old parent company Lloyds and on to a platform created by its new Spanish owners Sabadell.  But the move went disastrously wrong, with up to 1.9 million customers locked out of their accounts. And weeks later, Sky News has found the problems are far from over – with fraudsters exploiting the confusion to access customers’ money.Ewan Monaghan, a teacher from St Albans, says he and his wife were among those locked out four weeks ago, for a few days…

The mother of a teenage girl who died after becoming ill at the Mutiny Festival has warned people not to take drugs. Georgia Jones, 18, had a “45-minute fit” and was taken to hospital after “taking two pills” at the Hampshire music event on Saturday.The teenager and a 20-year-old man named locally as Tommy Cowan both died, as organisers warned of a “bad batch” of drugs at the annual two-day gathering in Portsmouth.Mr Cowan is said to have recently become a father.Another person is in a critical condition and 12 others have been treated at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in…

Electric storms have swept through the UK, creating dramatic skyscapes worthy of a Hollywood film. After a sunny start to the Bank Holiday weekend, with temperatures reaching 27C (80.6F), Saturday’s balmy evening eventually broke into a violent thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain. Image: A streak of lightning illuminates London’s Shard. Pic. Matthew Smith The UK was struck by lightning between 15,000 and 20,000 times, according to Met Office meteorologist Charlie Powell.He said: “Temperatures overnight did not fall much below 15 or 16 degrees.”For the end of May that’s a pretty hot and humid night, so everything was primed.”We had some…

By Darren McCaffrey, Ireland Correspondent in Letterkenny, Co. DonegalOn Ireland’s north west coast, Donegal is a long way from Dublin and it thinks very differently too. A largely rural county, farming, fishing and tourism sustain the local economy here.It is a place where the Church stills hold sway.Donegal voted overwhelmingly to insert the Eighth Amendment in the Irish constitution back in 1983.Today, it defied the national picture by becoming the only constituency wanting to keep it. Image: Donegal was the only area of Ireland to vote against the reform Opinion here is spilt, the local victory of no in the…