The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is warning people to stay away from 'moving water' after three children in Lewisham were rescued from a river. The capital’s firefighters have also been put on flood alert after the Met Office issued a ‘yellow alert’ severe weather warning and the Environment Agency issued 35 flood alerts for the capital.

Heard the one about the bride-to-be whose Tutu caught fire at a hen do? A group of women celebrating their friend’s hen do had to call 999 on Sunday when a small fire broke out in a Marble Arch pub they were partying in.