Summary

  • Huge numbers of visitors flock to beaches in Dorset and Hampshire

  • BCP Council declares 'major incident' in response to the numbers of people

  • People from as far away as the midlands have come for the day to the coast

  • The scenes have been described as a "complete breakdown of decent, normal behaviour"

  • Reports of anti-social behaviour, illegal parking, piles of litter, overnight camping and gridlock

  • A councillor said she was verbally abused and spat at as she directed traffic.

  1. Roof blown off flats amid wind and rain warningspublished at 16:01 Greenwich Mean Time 23 February 2021

    Emergency services are called out to the incident while a number of alerts are in place across Scotland.

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  2. Weather for the Week Aheadpublished at 17:06 Greenwich Mean Time 22 February 2021

    Weather for the Week Ahead

  3. Man charged over rape and stabbing attackspublished at 16:45 Greenwich Mean Time 22 February 2021

    Two women and a teenage girl were injured in separate incidents in the town on Thursday.

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  4. Weather for the Week Aheadpublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2021

    Weather for the Week Ahead

  5. Flooding after heavy rain and melting snowpublished at 13:10 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2021

    It has affected parts of the north-east and landslips have closed the road at the Rest and Be Thankful.

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  6. Cherries appoint Woodgate as head coachpublished at 11:48 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2021

    Championship club Bournemouth appoint Jonathan Woodgate as head coach until the end of the season.

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  7. Promenade closed for cliff stabilisation workspublished at 09:41 Greenwich Mean Time 21 February 2021

    Work is to take place on Canford Cliffs in Poole, which suffered landslips in 2017, 2019 and 2020.

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  8. Roads flooded and homes evacuated in heavy rainpublished at 20:41 Greenwich Mean Time 20 February 2021

    Several homes in west Wales were evacuated because of the flooding risk but many residents chose to stay.

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  9. QPR beat Cherries for fourth-straight winpublished at 17:58 Greenwich Mean Time 20 February 2021

    Todd Kane snatches a late winner as QPR beat promotion-chasing Bournemouth to clinch their fourth consecutive victory.

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  10. Weather for the Week Aheadpublished at 17:48 Greenwich Mean Time 20 February 2021

    Severe flooding for parts of the UK on Saturday but it's a drier, brighter week ahead

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  11. Weymouth 0-0 Solihull Moorspublished at 17:41 Greenwich Mean Time 20 February 2021

    Weymouth keep themselves just outside the National League relegation zone with a goalless draw against Solihull Moors.

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  12. Flood alert as rain warning for Wales upgradedpublished at 23:01 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    There is now an amber warning of rain for some areas, with a wider alert across much of Wales.

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  13. Man arrested over 'linked stab attacks and rape'published at 19:01 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    Three women are injured in two separate incidents which police are treating as linked.

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  14. Weather for the week aheadpublished at 17:43 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    Generally mild for the days ahead with spells of wet and windy weather at times. Ben Rich has the details.

  15. Temporary Covid mortuary stood downpublished at 17:37 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    The overflow mortuary at Poole Port was used for a month to support hospital mortuaries.

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  16. Flood defences readied for more rain in the UKpublished at 17:22 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    There’s a lot more rain to come in the next few days. But, as Rebecca Wood explains, technology continues to improve our preparedness against the threat of future flooding.

  17. Extreme cold causes misery across the USApublished at 11:23 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    Sarah Keith-Lucas has the latest details on the winter storm sweeping across large swathes of the country.

  18. Sailor returns home after Vendee Globepublished at 08:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    Pip Hare was first British skipper to cross the finish line at the 2020-21 Vendee Globe.

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  19. 'Peaky Blinders' museum among arts fund recipientspublished at 07:05 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    The Black Country Living Museum and Lincoln Cathedral are among 22 heritage sites to be awarded grants.

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  20. Texas residents told to boil water in winter stormpublished at 06:09 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2021

    Water treatment facilities are hit as many struggle with power cuts and freezing conditions.

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