Showcasing the best young boxing talent, BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Wales and BBC Scotland will broadcast a series of three boxing events live on BBC iPlayer and BBC television, starting with Belfast on Saturday 1 February. Nations Fight Night will bring live boxing back to BBC audiences right across the UK.

Five innovative projects across Northern Ireland and Wales have been awarded a share of £1million to develop technology to reduce waiting times and improve outcomes for cancer patients.

Three years have passed since substantial changes were made to the GB Highway Code, which introduced new rules on a ‘hierarchy of road users’, junction priority, close passes, and much more. While the Northern Ireland government is waiting to see the impact of those changes, Cycling UK has warned that greater delays will cost more lives.

A Northern Ireland man has been sentenced after smuggling hundreds of critically endangered European eels into the UK. Kevin Forbes, 33, of Rossa Court, Dungannon had 37 boxes of eels hidden in a pallet locker beneath the trailer of an HGV he had driven from Dublin to Holyhead, Wales.

Then, on February 9, the rain will move to the south, landing over the Midlands, the West Country, then London, and the south-east. The only cities that may swerve the deluge are Inverness and Aberdeen.

People in Wales have been warned to brace for further weather disruption in the coming days. The Met Office said heavy rain, strong winds and wintry showers could bring flooding and travel delays in the wake of Storm Eowyn.

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However, a major change in the UK’s weather starts on Thursday, as a front bringing heavy rain moves eastwards through the day. Conditions turn both wet and windy during the early hours on Friday morning as Storm Éowyn arrives, with rain starting off as snow over parts of Northern Ireland, Scotland and higher ground in northern England.

One person has died in Ireland and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power in the UK as Storm Éowyn brought record-breaking wind gusts. The man died when a tree fell on his car in County Donegal, Gardaí (Irish police) said.

Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald sounded the alarm while appearing before the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

More than 400 electricity engineers and field staff have been redeployed across the UK to assist with the clean-up following Storm Éowyn. This includes 200 personnel supporting around 1,000 NIE Networks staff in Northern Ireland, where 43,000 customers remain without power after extensive damage.

Three years have passed since substantial changes were made to the GB Highway Code, which introduced new rules on a ‘hierarchy of road users’, junction priority, close passes, and much more. While the Northern Ireland government is waiting to see the impact of those changes, Cycling UK has warned that greater delays will cost more lives.