Winds and torrential rain left one person dead and forced hundreds from their homes — as David Cameron promised the Government would “ensure everything is being done to help”.

A serious fire has “severely damaged” celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Park Farm.

ALMOST 100 jobs are to be lost at Couristan carpets in east Cork after the company announced it was bringing carpet manufacturing in Youghal to an end for the first time since 1954.

Former jockey Ray Cochrane was today receiving a Queen’s Commendation for Bravery for the courage he showed when rescuing fellow rider Frankie Dettori from the wreckage of a crashed plane.