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For this month’s Discovering Britain, Rory Walsh looks at Dorset’s changing coastline The phrase ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’ describes h...

TWO extremely rare woolly monkeys which are known to be notoriously difficult to breed in captivity have been born at Monkey World.

TWO extremely rare woolly monkeys which are known to be notoriously difficult to breed in captivity have been born at Monkey World.

The cause of the delay to a toilet refurbishment in Evesham has been revealed.

A drivers worst nightmare caught on dashcam — a lorry overturns in extreme winds in oxfordshire during storm eunice, the second and most powerful of three named storms to hit the uk in just one week. thankfully, the driver wasnt seriously hurt. another lucky escape in london, which was covered for the first time by a red weather warning. falling trees caused damage and widespread travel disruption, many people filming the storms disruption themselves. man: oh, my god! i caught that on video! a...

O2 arena, which opened as the millennium dome 22 years ago. dudley was the first of the three named storms to hit the uk injust one week in february. even a wind turbine collapsed in wales. after eunice, there was franklin, which brought major flooding. here, one bridge in northern england is swept away and goes crashing into another. since 2015, the uk met office has been giving names to storms to raise awareness of the severe weather on the way. here from the national coastwatch institute on t...

Or even dumbing down meteorology, but it has been a real success. i think we are all so connected these days, there is so much available information online and in the media, and storm naming reallyjust helps us to organise that advice into a single, simple message, which everyone can share. so, notjust the met office but also the bbc, the rest of the media, government, emergency services, and of course the public. there is plenty of evidence of this improving the effectiveness of warnings, which...

A little later in the programme, we will be back from here to find out more about the vital work thats done by the nci. storms around the world now and first, another view of storm eunice, this time from belgium. the same systems that struck the uk spread east across northern europe, causing further destruction. summer in south america brought extreme heat and severe storms. in the brazilian city petropolis in february, torrential rain caused flooding and landslides which killed over 200 people....

Of the jet stream at around 30,000 feet or so. a disturbance in the powerful jet stream forces the air aloft to accelerate away, removing air from the top of the column. the column weighs less and so the force it is exerting on the ground, the pressure gets lower. hence, low pressure. near the ground, air rushes in to replace what is lost higher up, and the area of low pressure rotates more and more quickly. and as the process continues, the storm is able to deepen explosively. on a weather char...

Still to come on weather world, what makes a flash a mega flash? the changes in technology taking our understanding of lightning to new extremes. this time on weather world, we are on the isle of wight where, in february, a gust of wind of 122 miles per hour was recorded — and that is a new record for england. it happened during storm eunice. an area of low pressure that underwent explosive cyclogenesis. bbc weather�*s climate check presenter ben rich takes a closer look at the science behin...