Tackling storms is the ‘biggest emergency operation since the Blitz’

Rescue effort: Soldiers place sandbags around a house in Chertsey, Surrey (Picture: Ministry of Defence)

The biggest emergency response since World War II has been mobilised to deal with the storms.
More fire and rescue personnel have been deployed than at any time since the Blitz, Peter Holland – the government’s chief fire and rescue adviser – confirmed tonight.
About 70 per cent of crews in England and Wales are now involved in the flood relief effort.
On a visit to Somerset, Chief Fire Officers Association president Paul Fuller praised the operation.
‘The valiant efforts of fire crews in Devon, Somerset and other services across the country, who have been working tirelessly to help those affected by flooding should be recognised and applauded,’ he said.
‘In the face of exceptionally poor weather conditions, they have provided invaluable assistance to people whose lives and livelihood are under threat

Mesut Ozil dividing opinion at the Emirates

Sky Sports News reporter Andy Burton meets journalists and fans to discuss how they view Arsenal's record signing.

Mesut Ozil: Form has dropped off in recent weeks

After their opening-day defeat at home to Aston Villa, Arsenal needed a significant signing in the summer transfer window to appease fans unhappy with a lack of significant investment in the first-team squad.

That signing was Mesut Ozil, and he didn't come cheap. The club sanctioned a club-record fee of £42million and the Arsenal faithful had a new hero. Just remember the scenes on Sky Sports News when his signing was confirmed live on air.
Lauded upon his arrival at the Emirates, Ozil has everything needed to become an Arsenal great. The midfielder registered four goals and six assists in his first 12 Premier League games and with it, the club's title challenge began in earnest.

Nine ways to tell if your

Valentine's Day date is

interested - or if the 

romance will die before

 the roses

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Women have been known to spend hours on end analysing a first date, but there's no need anymore with this handy body language guide

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Body language: It's all in the way you act, says Susan Quilliam (left)

With Valentine's Day just hours away, it's never been more important to understand how your partner really feels about you.

Women don't need to spend hours wondering whether their date will call, all thanks to this new handy guide with nine key body language signs to look out for.

Online dating site Cupid.com hired body language expert Susan Quilliam to reveal how the fairer sex can discover a man’s true intentions.

Whether your man is totally into you, has a wandering eye, or just wants to be friends, there are signs for all three which are easy to look out for.

Steven Gerrard 'uncle' 

wanted over £60m 

cocaine trafficking - last

 time he was on run

 he WATCHED Stevie

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Robert Stephen Gerrard seemed to have no care in the world as he joined Stevie G’s then fiancée Alex at the World Cup in 2006

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'Uncle': Robert is on right, next to Alex, with Coleen Rooney on left

England captain Steven Gerrard’s “Uncle Bobby” brazenly watched the player starring in the World Cup despite being wanted by drug cops.

Robert Stephen Gerrard seemed to have no care in the world as he joined the Liverpool hero’s then fiancée Alex, 31, in the crowd in 2006.

As our previously unseen picture shows, WAGS including Coleen Rooney were also near the fugitive in the Stuttgart stadium as England beat Ecuador 1-0 thanks to a David Beckham trademark free-kick.

 man faces life behind

 bars after being found

 guilty of killing neighbour

 and cutting baby from

 her womb

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Julie Carey beat Darlene Haynes to death and then stole her unborn child so she could continue to collect state welfare, a court heard

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Guilty: Julie Corey faces life in prison for murdering her former neighbour

A woman has been found guilty of beating her former neighbour to death and then cutting her eight-month-old baby from her womb.

The body of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes was found in her apartment in 2009.

She had been beaten and strangled with an electric cord and her belly had been sliced upon to remove her eight-month-old child.

A few days later Julie Carey, 39, and her boyfriend turned up at a homeless shelter with a child she clamied was her own, the Worcester Telegram reports.

Steven Gerrard's 'Uncle 

Bobby' on list of Britain's

 most-wanted as police

 name crooks on-the-run

 in Holland

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Detectives are appealing for information to trace eight men - including a relative of England football captain Steven Gerrard

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England footballer Steven Gerrard's uncle appears in a rogues gallery of the UK's eight "most-wanted" criminals thought to be hiding in Holland

The on-the-run crooks are suspected of offences including drug smuggling and rape, with the list including accused or convicted members of organised crime networks who have fled justice in the UK.

They are all believed to be either in or around Amsterdam.

The list, published by charity Crimestoppers, features Robert Gerrard, 50, who is believed to be a second cousin of the Liverpool and England skipper, and known to family members as "Uncle Bobby".

The cost of a Valentine's

 rose - poor Kenyan

 workers on £30 a 

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Across Britain romantic couples are often bunches of red roses for Valentine's Day, but we uncover the true sacrifice behind the romance

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How sweet: But all is not sweet behind the scenes

The flower cutter clasps a Valentine’s Day rose in her scratched hand with a look of disgust. For this mum of two it’s not a romantic symbol of love but a reminder of the grinding toil for which she is paid barely £1 a day.

We will call her Alice. Her real name has to stay secret to protect her job. In her mid-thirties, she is one of thousands of casual workers employed in Naivasha, Kenya, by British flower wholesaler Finlays.

This is the start of the journey for red rose bouquets on sale across Britain and it is far from romantic. In the build-up to the most romantic day of the year Alice says she has to snip 8,000 an hour – more than two per second – in a baking hot polythene tunnel.