Joe Duggan

A man has appeared in court charged with murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe by hitting her 21 times on her head with a hammer.

A British father and his eight-year-old daughter escaped in a 'mini-Dunkirk' as flames threatened to cut off a popular tourist location

A British father and his daughter fled the wildfires raging in France by escaping on a boat in a “mini- Dunkirk ” as flames threatened to cut off a popular tourist area.

More than 300,000 people have been evacuated from parts of south-west France and Spain as wildfires continue to rip through the region.

Authorities in Bordeaux, a major French city, are considering a “total evacuation” of the city as wildfires continue to rage in the region.

Four years ago a wildfire destroyed 18 village homes on the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, when temperatures hit 40.3°C.

Spanish authorities say 67 people have now died after around 60,000 migrants crossed the border from Morocco into Ceuta

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Families who lost everything in the devastating 2022 Wennington blaze fear nearby wildfires risk their lives being destroyed again - just months after moving back home

Residents whose village homes were destroyed in a wildfire on the UK's hottest day ever fear tinder-dry grassland and recent blazes just a mile away risk turning their lives upside down again.