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Ed Miliband to call for faster flooding insurance claims

Insurance bosses will meet ministers to discuss their response to the flood crisis. Victims have received £14m in emergency payments so far. Ed Miliband will call for faster processing of insurance claims when he too meets industry representatives.

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Satellite images show storm approaching British coast

"Exceptionally strong winds" are expected to lash Wales within the next hour as a storm sweeps across the UK from the Atlantic.

This satellite image below, taken yesterday, shows cloud being whipped into a vortex whose centre is just off the coast of Ireland.

The Atlantic weather system is seen in this satellite image from Tuesday Credit: EUMETSAT

This image, from earlier today, shows the centre of the storm is much closer to the UK.

Satellite image of the storm just of the coast of the UK Credit: Met Office

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