A "sex-obessed" former UK police officer who filmed a couple having sex from his force helicopter as well as other people sunbathing naked has been jailed for a year.

Radio controllers warned senior officers that Bray Fire Station’s bleeper system was failing and the problem could prove to be major, an inquest into the death of two firefighters heard.

Hundreds of people spent a second night in evacuation centres as a huge clean-up operation continued after catastrophic floods that claimed four lives in the UK.