Three-quarters of Britain's families are bracing themselves for a rush of New Year greeting cards with loads of pathetically up-lifting poems and massively predictable rhymes.
In Scotland there will be more verse - and sometimes the verse is w...
Google Maps were already brilliant, with satellite, topography, live traffic updates, street view and navigation. In wet, wet Britain, Google have unveiled another useful addition, flooding.
"We've all seen the news," said Jeeves Bing, head of res...
Sheffield remains the only city in the UK not to be submerged under at least an inch of water, leading major map manufacturers to redraw the island of the UK as just a small blob near the Isle of Man with a few scattered islands around it.
"The wh...
Torrential downpours across the country saw two months' rain fall in 24 hours yesterday.
And weather forecasters are warning that heavy showers will return by the end of the week.
The rain has caused chaos, with floods hitting various parts of...
Wales - West Wales Drugs Squad has been alerted to a new horror menacing the flood-stricken people of Gwynedd.
This morning's reports said crack had been found in a reservoir at Pennal, close to Machynlleth, contaminating drinking supplies and fri...
London - "It's bound to rattle the NewsCorpse Fragrant Redhead Garden," a whorticultural society groundsman said this morning as news of the weekend forecast broke.
"There's only so much washed out mugwort, poison ivy and wormwood the Show can ta...
London - Just one small fracking-related tremor could push the UK's volatile flood waters into tsunami mode No 10 Drowning Street warned today.
Sunday's powerful Scorpio fool moon reacting badly with underground methane deposits is all it would ta...
EMMAUS PA - News from the Broad Street Saloon in Emmaus, PA is backing up global warming, despite the cooked results previously reported. Scientists there noticed that while drinking scotch on the rocks, that the rocks melted. As this melt transpir...
HARFOLD, Vermont--Rumors at Harold Fish & Chips have been confirmed--residents have, indeed, spied actor and producer Kevin Costner snooping around areas in and around Harfold where the worst of Irene's flooding can be found.
A spokesperson fo...
London - Locals had long suspected its existence, of course, following decades of spurious equinoctial and solstice Druid activity next door at Primrose Hill.
This morning's discovery of a huge subterranean gambling complex came as more than a mon...
Nora and John Cushion are now wondering if they made the right decision to 'holiday at home' this year with five other couples in Stockton, England.
Recent weather forecasts tell of record-breaking rainfall and winds up to 30 miles/hour in their '...
NEW ORLEANS - Algonquin Brewtiddle one of the most respected weathercasters in the South recently spoke with reporters about the Mississippi River and the recent flooding.
Brewtiddle said that he entered all kinds of weather facts, information, an...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a flood alert for Chicago and most of Illinois state in the wake of the final Oprah Winfrey chat show on Wednesday.
FEMA Director William Fugate issued the warning after a massive outpouring of gr...
The Department Of Homeland Security is investigating claims that the dangerously high levels along the Mississippi river is part of an Al Qaeda plot to destroy the economies of Louisiana and neighbouring states.
The CIA has been monitoring recent...
Scottish Premier League club Dundee United have offered the use of their facilities for emergency planning training in the event of natural disasters.
Following the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in North East Japan, DUFC chairma...
A village yet to be named in Yorkshire has suffered a shock flood.
Pensioner, Bill Trout, decided to have a bath yesterday and whilst listening transfixed to Question Time in the House of Commons he forgot to turn off his taps.
He was yelling a...
Brisbane - (Biblical Proportions): Millions of deadly brown snakes, tiger snakes, red back spiders, funnel web spiders, box and Irukandji jellyfish have been destroyed in the recent deluge.
The predators are often cited as one of the biggest turn-...
Bored citizens of St Austell calling for its independence from the UK have admitted accidentally flooding the area by taking advantage of the adverse weather conditions during a botched attempt at turning the town into an island.
"Island of Auste...