The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for torrential rain and thunderstorms across London this weekend.

One child has died and 21 staff members and pupils from Minehead Middle School were injured after a school coach left the A396 in Somerset.

The former England captain has been disqualified from getting behind the wheel for 12 months and ordered to pay a total of £7,085.

All 29 military and intelligence personnel on board RAF Chinook ZD576 were killed when the aircraft crashed in foggy weather on June 2, 1994.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander made the claim ahead of c2c becoming the second operator to be nationalised by the Labour Government on Sunday.