More localised flooding could hit parts of southern and eastern England and Wales as another band of heavy rain sweeps in, the Environment Agency has warned.

After weeks of rain, parts of the country enjoyed some brighter weather yesterday, but the outlook for today turns stormy again as torrential rain and thunderstorms move in to bring the bank holiday to a close on an extremely damp note.

Documents reveal public body knew of massive discrepancy in cost of nuclear project

The view from a log cabin

Tens of thousands of householders are facing another day without power after freezing gales and snow brought Britain's early summer to an abrupt end.

85 years, 14 male bosses. Now momentum is growing for a change at Broadcasting House. Ian Burrell reports

Cheltenham specialist O'Neill ready to peak at another Festival, he tells Chris McGrath

Passenger trains could be run by the organisation responsible for cleaning up after Britain's nuclear-power industry.

An NHS chief who spoke out against the Government's controversial Health Bill last night claimed he had been the target of political "smears" by Andrew Lansley's department.

A widow has been reunited with her husband's seven war medals which were lost in the 2009 Cumbria floods.

Motorcycling nurse Hettie Hopkins set up a national board for Wales for the Royal College of Nursing. Then, progressing to a small car, she also raised the money for a new RCN headquarters in Cardiff.

Burst water pipes are causing problems on the country's roads as the big freeze persists.

1. The Mournes Walks by Paddy Dillon

£7.99, obrien.ie

Walks in the Northern Irish Mourne mountains that take in the rugged coast and beautiful forest parks.

This is Simon Armitage's second shot at an alliterative epic. His Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) was highly entertaining: perhaps more entertaining than this version of Morte Arthure, but only because Gawain contains more startling images. As a feat of re-telling, The Death of King Arthur is more remarkable and sustained. One single decision makes it: consistency of tense. Epic medieval poems switch from past to present in a way that jars modern ears. Armitage held to this in Gawain, but here chooses past tense throughout.