Update 6pm: Eleven crew members have been evacuated after the Saga Sky cargo ship took on water off the English coast today.

Ireland may be in for a scorcher this summer, if the British send a little sunshine our way.

Britain remains at risk of more flooding as rain continues to plague the south of the country and tidal surges batter the coast.

The biggest wave ever to hit Irish shores has been recorded, weather experts have revealed today.

THE latest ash cloud crisis may have been averted — but European airspace regulators and airlines remain on a collision course over the risk to air safety from volcanic emissions.

Ryanair has demanded the re-opening of Scottish airspace after the airline operated a one-hour "verification flight" that it says confirmed there was no volcanic ash in the airspace.

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has said there will be no closures in Irish airspace as a plume of volcanic ash makes its way towards western Europe.

The UK Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for the North.

Scientists measuring rises in global temperatures underestimated the rate of warming in the past decade, they said today, setting out the “growing” evidence for climate change.

WITH reference to the letter from Adi Roche (October 11) concerning, among other things, the Windscale reactor fire in October 1957, I would like to respond as one of the authors of the recent study of the accident.