A yellow rain alert has been issued for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset for Monday and into Tuesday, which will affect previously sodden ground.

Blood Cancer UK, Lymphoma Action and stem cell charity Anthony Nolan have formally appealed against the decision.

A bank worker who trekked more than 110km across the Sahara desert two years after receiving a life-saving heart transplant has said he feels he can “do anything now”. Fraser Wilson has genetic ...