The Environment Agency has warned locals that flooding is ‘expected’ in some areas

Flood alerts and warnings have been issued for Cambridgeshire areas by the Environment Agency on Monday (February 16). Locals have been advised that flooding is ‘expected’ in some areas, and ‘possible’ in others.

Locals in areas with flood warnings have been told flooding is expected and to “act now”, according to the government agency. Flood warnings mean that homes and businesses are at risk, as are roads and railway lines.

The flood warnings issued are as follows:

• Areas close to the River Great Ouse at Wyboston, Eaton Socon, Eynesbury, Eaton Ford, and St Neots. It is advised to take care and avoid walking, cycling or driving through the flood water. This is because of the rising river levels.
• North Bank Road alongside the River Nene, east of Peterborough and west of Dog-in-a-Doublet Sluice. Whilst the warning is in force, the local authority will close North Bank Road and other routes will be put in place.
• B1040 Thorney to Whittlesey Road to the South of the River Nene. River levels are expected to remain high and the local authority may close the road for safety reasons. Diversion routes are set to be put in place.

There are also several flood alerts in place. If a flood alert is issued, it means flooding is possible and locals should ‘be prepared’ to follow a flood plan.

The flood alerts issued are as follows:

• Bury Brook. Areas most at risk are around Bury Brook, from Abbots Ripton to Ramsey.
• Alconbury Brook. Areas most at risk are around Alconbury Brook at Hamerton, The Alconburys, Little Stukeley and Brampton.
• Ellington Brook. Areas most at risk are around Ellington Brook at Spaldwick, Ellington and Brampton.
• River Kym. Areas most at risk are around the River Kym and River Til from Yelden, and Upper Dean to Hail Weston.
• River Great Ouse in Central Bedfordshire, Beds Borough and Cambridgeshire from Wyboston to Brampton. Areas most at risk are around the River Great Ouse from Wyboston to the south of Brampton, including Duloe Brook, Hen Brook and Fox Brook.
• River Rhee. Areas most at risk are those around the River Rhee from Guilden Morden to Haslingfield.
• Lower River Cam. Areas most at risk are around the River Cam from Stapleford to Waterbeach.
• River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire from Brampton to Earith. Areas most at risk are around the River Great Ouse from Brampton to Earith, including Back Brook, Hall Green Brook, Parsons Drove Drain, Swavesey Drain and Wadsbys Folly.
• Hundred Foot Washes. The causeway at Sutton Gault has approximately 52cm of water on the road. The causeway at Welney has up to 43cm of water on the road. Floodwater is now rising onto Earith causeway. Due to the uneven surface of the roads, water may be deeper in places.

A 15-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after the incident took place in Glasgow’s Toryglen last week.

Police have made an arrest after a teenager was allegedly attacked with a weapon by thugs on e-bikes.

A 15-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after the incident took place on Ardnahoe Avenue in Glasgow’s Toryglen at around 6pm on Tuesday, February 10. Police previously said that the teen was ambushed by youths on electric bikes.

The pair were wearing dark clothing and both fled the scene in the direction of Kerrycroy Avenue. Officers have now confirmed that a 15-year-old male has been arrested and charged in connection with the serious assault.

He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court at a later date. Images from the scene on Wednesday showed police still in attendance. One squad car was parked on Ardnahoe Avenue.

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Police Scotland previously blasted the incident as “terrifying”. The force asked anyone who was in the area at the time and saw what happened, or who may know those involved, to get in touch.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “A 15-year-old male has been arrested and charged in connection with a serious assault in Glasgow.

“The incident happened around 6.10pm on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, on Ardnahoe Avenue. A report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal and he is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court at a later date.”

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New series Love Story retells some significant events from history

*This article contains minor spoilers for Love Story season one*

A new drama inspired by a real-life tragic story and historical figures is now streaming. The first episodes of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette are available now on Disney+.

Love Story is the latest anthology series that comes from writer Ryan Murphy. However, it is actually written by Colin Hines.

The series itself is based on the book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, written by Elizabeth Beller. While the focus is on the relationship and management between the son of a former US President and a high-flying fashion executive, other significant moments are also presented.

One of these is the final days of ex First Lady, Jackie Kennedy Onassis. In the show, she is played by Oscar-nominated star Naomi Watts, known for previous roles in The Impossible, Birdman, and All’s Fair.

But what happened to Jackie Kennedy in real life? How did she die? Here’s all you need to know.

How did Jackie Kennedy die?

JFK Jr’s mother, Jackie, is unsurprisingly a significant figure in the series as she was in real life. She was married to his father until his assassination in 1963. She remarried to business magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968, and they were together until his death in 1975.

While she is cited as redefining the role of First Lady, she later became a book editor for publisher Double Day. As is referenced in the series, Jackie was thrown from her horse in an incident in November 1993, which led to a short time in the hospital. While there, doctors noticed a swollen lymph node but thought it might be due to an infection.

However, her condition worsened a month later, and she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At the start of 1994, she began cancer treatment and publicly disclosed her illness, at which time a spokesperson said her prognosis was ‘excellent’.

She continued to work, but in just a few months, the cancer had spread to her spinal cord and brain. By March, it was in her liver, and doctors declared her condition terminal. Choosing to spend her final days at home, she died in her sleep on May 19, 1994.

The day after her death, then-President Bill Clinton said, “Jackie Kennedy Onassis was a model of courage and dignity for all Americans and all the world. More than any other woman of her time, she captivated our nation and the world with her intelligence, her elegance, and her grace. Even in the face of impossible tragedy, she carried the grief of her family and our entire nation with a calm power that somehow reassured all of us who mourned.”

On May 20, 1994, JFK Jr. delivered a brief statement outside his late mother’s apartment. He said: “She was surrounded by her friends and family and her books and the people and the things that she loved. And she did it in her own way, and we all feel lucky for that, and now she’s in God’s hands.”

A private funeral took place less than a week after Jackie’s death. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, beside her first husband.

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As temperatures drop overnight, there is an increased risk of ice forming.

Parts of Cambridgeshire have been placed under a yellow weather warning for ice by the Met Office. The warning will be in place from 6pm on Monday (February 16) and will be lifted at 10am on Tuesday (February 17).

Clear skies following a period of rain and sleet can lead to patches of ice forming. The areas covered by the warning include Peterborough, Ely, and Cambridge, as temperatures are set to fall to around 1C overnight.

People in these areas could be at risk of some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces. It is likely there will be some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements, and cycle paths.

If you need to leave the house when the warning is in place, you should leave at least five minutes earlier than normal to avoid rushing, according to the Met Office. This will reduce your risk of accidents, slips, and falls.

If you are travelling by car, you should check road conditions before setting off on your journey. You should also check bus and train timetables for any delays if using public transport.

A spokesperson for the Met Office said: “Areas of rain, sleet, and hill snow will move southeastwards through Monday evening and night before clearing to the North Sea. Whilst some patchy accumulations of snow will be possible, more especially on ground above 150-200 m elevation, ice will be a greater hazard as temperatures fall fairly quickly once showers clear away.

“In addition, a period of strong northwesterly winds are also likely along some North Sea coasts later in the night and into Tuesday morning.”

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Stephen Neil, 60, was last seen in the village of Ae in Dumfries at around 7pm on Saturday.

Police and mountain rescue teams are searching a forest area for a missing man who has vanished in his campervan.

Stephen Neil, 60, was last seen in the village of Ae in Dumfries at around 7pm on Saturday, February 14.

It is believed he is driving his old ‘L’ reg campervan which has been painted matt black and has green wheels and trim.

Police Scotland has enlisted the help of mountain rescue teams and dispatched a helicopter to scour for the missing camper.

Officers are also appealing for the help of the public in tracing Stephen.

He is described as White, 5ft9 in height, has blue eyes and is balding with very short grey/white hair. It is not known what he is wearing.

Inspector Lloyd Caven said: “We believe Mr Neil may have travelled in his campervan to the Galloway Forrest area. That is obviously a huge area to search, so to assist local officers, we have enlisted the help of local mountain rescue colleagues and the Force’s helicopter.

“We appreciate that the weather, road conditions and remoteness of the area is an issue, however, if anyone has been around there or has seen Mr Neil or his vehicle overnight or today, we’d ask that they contact police.

“Officers are checking CCTV, doing door-to-door enquiries, and have been liaising with various local agencies with regard to looking out for him.”

Information can be passed to police via 101. Please quote incident number 0211 of Sunday, February 15 2026 when calling.

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A hidden network of underwater fibre optic cables could offer unprecedented new insights into the lives of some of the world’s most threatened and elusive sea creatures.

That’s the hope of researchers from the University of Washington, US, who have laid 1.25 miles of cable across Puget Sound, just south of the Canadian border, to eavesdrop on the region’s endangered southern resident orcas.

The technique, known as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), works by firing laser pulses through the fibre optic cables and analysing tiny disturbances caused by vibrations and sound. It’s already been used to monitor earthquakes and in recent years has proved adept in detecting marine mammals.

Now the University of Washington’s Dr Shima Abadi hopes to use DAS to track orcas by mapping the distinctive clicks they make as they hunt and navigate. If successful, the system could provide early warnings to ships to slow down or steer clear, reducing the risk of disturbing or injuring the whales. Scaled up, the approach could tap into the 870,000 miles of fibre optic cable criss-crossing the planet’s oceans.

“This innovative approach could be a break-through in conservation efforts and open new possibilities to expand analysis on a much larger temporal and spatial scale,” said Abadi.

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US forces have boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean as part of efforts to target illicit oil tankers linked to Venezuela.

Military personnel boarded the Veronica III in a “right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding”, the Department of War said in a social media post on Sunday.

Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years and relied on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to transport the crude oil.

“The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine – hoping to slip away,” the Department of War said on X.

“We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down.

“No other nation has the reach, endurance, or will to do this.”

Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to increase economic pressure on then-president Nicolás Maduro.

The next month, Maduro and his wife were abducted in a US military operation and taken to New York to stand trial.

Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the Veronica III, that was boarded overnight.

“International waters are not sanctuary. By land, air, or sea, we will find you and deliver justice,” the Department of War said.

“The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of movement in the maritime domain.”

Video posted by the department shows US troops boarding the tanker.

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The Veronica III is a Panamanian-flagged vessel under US sanctions related to Iran, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s website.

The Panama Maritime Authority said that the ship was no longer registered after its authorisation was cancelled in December 2024.

The Veronica III left Venezuela on 3 January, the same day as Maduro’s capture, with nearly 2 million barrels of crude and fuel oil, TankerTrackers.com posted on X.

“Since 2023, she’s been involved with Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil,” the organisation said.

Emails Sarah Ferguson sent to Jeffrey Epstein – even after his conviction for sex offences – depict her as needy and desperate, with repeated requests for cash

Sarah Ferguson has ‘gone to ground’ following the latest drop of Epstein files, with her daughters ‘mortified’ over the revelations.

Amongst millions of documents released by the US Department of Justice are threads of communication which appear to be between Jeffrey Epstein and the former Duchess of York. Fergie comes across as increasingly desperate in pleading emails to the convicted paedophile, chasing both his money and his support.

A humiliating email exchange, recently released by the DOJ, shows Sarah telling the disgraced financier that she “desperately” needed money – and even asks Epstein to give her a job.

“But why, I don’t understand, don’t you just get me to be your House Assistant. I am the most capable and desperately need the money,” the email, dated May 2010, reads, adding, “Please Jeffrey think about it.”

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In August that year she emailed him again, according to the Daily Mail, saying: “I am feeling very traumatised and alone. I am wanting to work for you at organising your houses.”

A month later, she said: ‘when are you going to employ me…. My friendship is steadfast to the end, even after the body is cold… Love you now and always… And I know you do tooo. [sic]’

The messages were sent after Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in June 2008, but was let out five months early on July 22, 2009. Under the terms of his release Epstein was required to register as a sex offender.

It’s also claimed that while Epstein was on house arrest after he was released, Fergie travelled to his home with her girls in tow. At the time, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie would have been 20 and 19 respectively.

In another message from January 2010, Sarah fawned over Epstein, writing: “You are a legend. I really don’t have the words to describe my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness. Xx I am at your service. Just marry me.”

In further correspondence, she thanked Jeffrey “for being the brother I have always wished for”, and also made a crude reference to her own daughter’s sex life.

There are also requests for money. In March 2011, Sarah admitted borrowing £15,000 from Epstein, but in an interview with the Evening Standard she said she made a “terrible, terrible error of judgment”, adding: “I abhor paedophilia”.

Emails appear to show, however, that the former Duchess repeatedly turned to Epstein for help as her business ventures failed. According to the latest file release, in one message from 2009 she told him: “I urgently need £20,000 for rent today. The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don’t pay. Any brainwaves?”

Account transactions further show that Epstein also transferred $150,000 (£109,000) to Fergie following a share sale, wiring the cash to the former Duchess. (She is also said to have been bailed out by the late Queen in the past when the bank Coutts “demanded £500,000 within 14 days” .)

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Sarah actually later apologised for her comments to the Evening Standard. Just one month after she disowned him, Sarah backtracked in an email to Epstein, calling him a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend”.

“As you know, I did not, absolutely not, say the P [pedophile] word about you,” she reportedly wrote. “I know you feel hellaciously let down by me. And I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that. You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family.”

A spokesperson for the ex duchess said at the time that Sarah backtracked to Epstein through fear, as he had “threatened” her with legal action.

Sarah has gone to ground in recent months – but her whereabouts were seemingly revealed last week. It emerged that she recently spent time in the French Alps before moving on to the United Arab Emirates – where her youngest daughter Eugenie was recently spotted, having travelled to Qatar for an art fair as part of her job with art dealer Hauser and Wirth.

Fergie is even said to be plotting a ‘comeback’ of sorts. It’s claimed that the disgraced Duchess is now brazenly scouting around for a new PR team as she plots her return – without Andrew – with the hopes of continuing to live in the Windsor area. Sources say she has told friends: “I need to get back to work. I need money.”

But it’s going to be incredibly difficult for Sarah to rebuild the life she once had, according to royal correspondent Jennie Bond. “If it is true that she still thinks she can make some sort of comeback, she is more deluded than I thought possible,” she told the Mirror.

“Her charities have deserted her, her publishers have pulped her latest book, and almost every day brings more revelations about her fawning and prolonged friendship with the convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

“Ferguson has made some spectacular comebacks before, and has even managed to get herself back into the family fold for royal social gatherings, such as Christmas at Sandringham. But to think she could come back from this latest disgrace – with her emails calling Epstein a legend and a supreme friend, even …perhaps jokingly…asking him to marry her, suggests she is away with the fairies.”

Representatives of Sarah Ferguson have been contacted for comment.

A gunman opened fire at the property on School House Road in Oldham

Pictures show multiple bullet holes in the window of a home in Oldham this morning following a shooting.

The shooting happened on School House Road yesterday (Sunday, February 15). A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said officers were initially called to reports of criminal damage at a property at around 1pm.

Police then discovered a gunman had opened fire at the home. No injuries were reported and an investigation is now underway.

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This morning at least four bullet holes can be seen in the front window of the home. Forensic officers have been spotted taking pictures of the blasted window as they probe the scene.

A cordon remains in place on School House Road as officers carry out their investigation. A number of police vehicles are stationed on the scene.

A cordon is also in place on nearby Roundthorn Road, at the back of the property which appears to have been targeted. Police want to speak to any witnesses of the shooting, or anyone with CCTV or dash cam footage.

In a statement, a GMP spokesperson said: “At around 1pm yesterday (Sunday 15 February 2026), we were called to reports of criminal damage at an address on School House Road in Oldham. Officers attended the scene and confirmed that there had been a firearms discharge.

“A scene remains in place whilst we continue our enquiries and thankfully, no injuries have been reported. Investigations are ongoing.

“We are appealing for witnesses or any information about this incident – anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage that could assist our investigation should contact us on 101 quoting log 1397 of 15/02/2026.

“You can also report information via LiveChat on our website or through the independent charity Crimestoppers – anonymously – on 0800 555 111.”