Two arrested over major fire at Folkestone hotel

Met Office names areas to be hit by 600-mile wall of heavy rain on Wednesday - see list

Met Office names areas to be hit by 600-mile wall of heavy rain on Wednesday - see list The Met Office has forecast heavy rain, particularly in the north of the UK on Wednesday, as a band of low pressure abruptly ends our recent warm sequence A 600-mile stretch of heavy rain is expected to batter around 15 regions of Britain within days, according to a Met Office weather map. The forecaster's chart indicates rainfall spanning large swathes of the UK on Wednesday. The Met Office meteorologist...

Nationalist residents groups warn some parading settlements 'could unravel' over Drumcree

Nationalist residents' groups warn some parading settlements "could unravel" if the Orange Order insists on marching down the Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

Lucy Letby, the NHS and the rise of managerialism | Letters

Pete Dorey believes most public services are thoroughly over-managed, Michael Barrett says whistleblowing policies are essential. Plus letters from Frances Kirkham and Jenny WebbTom Dolphin’s excellent article on the failings of NHS management made sombre reading (The Letby inquiry report makes one thing crystal clear: too much NHS management is scandalously poor, 16 September). Yet I believe that most of our public services are thoroughly over-managed, with frontline professionals neither...

Ben Jennings on the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton – cartoon