U.K. All Wet

Fourteen flood warnings are in place across England as a powerful storm moves across the UK, causing widespread travel disruption and power cuts.

On Monday, gale force winds and heavy rain affected roads, rail and air travel, while almost 12,000 homes are without power.

More bad weather is expected in the early hours of Tuesday.

The Environment Agency say the Bristol Channel, Severn Estuary and the Somerset coast are most at risk.

High tides along the south west, southern and west coasts will peak by midnight GMT.

A spokeswoman for the Environment Agency said: "The situation has now improved along parts of the south west and southern coasts."

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This storm is one of the strongest the U.K. has seen in the past several years. The picture really explains it all.

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Trivia Question Results

The answer to last week's trivia question was Bo Diddley. Congratulations to those of you who answered correctly! Kritesh is currently leading by 9 points.

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Kritesh is ahead by 9 points now. Next week the question will be worth 10 points and only the first answer will be accepted.

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The answer to the special question was Noel Fielding.

Kritesh is currently 4 points ahead of Camp . If anyone reads this 5 points will be given to the first person to tell me Noel Fielding's Birth City.

Behind camp are Sean and Courtney both by one point. Lauren has 0 points.

Burrell refuses return to inquest

Former royal butler Paul Burrell has refused to return to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He had been asked to explain discrepancies between his evidence and comments reported in the Sun newspaper.

In a video recording obtained by the Sun, Mr Burrell apparently claims he introduced "red herrings" during his evidence and held back facts.

The coroner said he cannot compel him to give evidence because he is outside the court's jurisdiction in the US.

Lord Justice Scott Baker said in a statement: "The coroner asked him to give further evidence either in person or via videolink from abroad.

"Mr Burrell has refused to do this and, as he is outside the court jurisdiction, the coroner has no power to compel him to give evidence."

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Once again Burrell is back. One innocent testimony must not be enough for the British courts.

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Migrants challenge rule changes

The government's decision to change the rules for highly skilled immigrants is facing a challenge in the High Court.

It is claimed retrospective changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants have to leave the UK.

The HSMP Forum, which is seeking the judicial review, says 90% - 44,000 people - who entered under the HSMP no longer qualified.

They claim the decision was unfair and in breach of their human rights.

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Parliament tries to create strict imigration policies and the immigrants reject them.

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Tories planning new prison places

Conservative leader David Cameron says his party would build 5,000 more prison places in England and Wales - taking capacity in jails to more than 100,000.

Under the plans, older inner-city jails would be sold off to pay for more new prisons on cheaper land elsewhere.

Mr Cameron also wants new "min-max" sentences - with no chance of parole until the minimum term has been served.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw accused him of copying Labour plans, saying the rest of the scheme was "uncosted".

The 5,000 extra spaces would be on top of the 15,000 new prison spaces being created by the government over the next five years.

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This new policy could very well be England's solution to their problem of overcrowded prisons.

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Man is found dead in city street.

Police believed the man lived locallyPolice are investigating the "unexplained death" of a man, whose body was found in a Swansea street. The unidentified man, who was aged between 40 and 55, was found in Llangyfelach Road, close to Brynhyfryd Square, near the Landore district.
South Wales Police said he was found at 0031 GMT on Sunday.

The man, who was believed to be local, was white, slim, 5ft 8ins to 5ft 10ins tall, with short brown, straight, tidily-kept hair and a brown moustache. He was wearing a green Barbour-style jacket, blue jeans and white trainers. A post mortem examination will take place on Monday.

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This is an interesting story for two reasons, one is that the man should have been caught on camera dying and number two is that this small of a story would not make national news in the U.S. but Britain is so much more close knit.

Fatal wartime Tube crush marked

It was one of Britain's worst civilian disasters during World War II. On the evening of 3 March, 1943, a crowd of people were descending the steps into Bethnal Green underground station to take shelter from an impending air-raid. Suddenly, they surged forward and in the crush 173 people were killed and more than 90 injured.

A high proportion of the victims were women and children, some younger ones babes-in-arms or holding hands, as they made their way down the stairs. The disaster happened on one small stairwell, in the capital city, as people followed their routine to take cover from the coming bombs.

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During WWII 173 people died in a crushing. All of this happened on one small stairwell. this awful event took a long time to unfold because of the wartime attitude.