The unusual weather event is rarely spotted and can only take place a few months of the year!

What is thundersnow? Weatherman Des is here to explain!

2020 has been hailed as a "truly remarkable" weather year after featuring the sunniest spring and the wettest February on record.

A year of remarkable weather in the Midlands

It comes just over a year after a number of homes in the close had to be evacuated after a landslide on 7 November 2019 following heavy rain.

Properties evacuated due to landslide in Mansfield 

Areas across the region remain underwater.

Heavy rainfall hits the Midlands causing travel disruption and flood warnings

Parts of Midlands ready "precautionary" flood defences ahead of heavy rain

PPE littering is becoming a bigger and bigger problem, campaigners say.

A conservation charity has issued a stark warning for the future of the ocean, as volunteer litter-pickers say they're seeing more and more masks being dumped.

Warning of 'a pandemic for the ocean' as PPE adds to surging litter problem

Firefighters are continuing to tackle a fire that broke out this morning (6 Nov) at a sawmill in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire.

Firefighters tackle 'considerable' fire at a sawmill in Nottinghamshire

Eight Fire engines were called to Granville Recycling Plant on Grange Lane near Telford. 

"The whole tip was aglow": Fire at recycling plant in Shropshire

The shameless driver left the scene before the council came to clean up the mess.

Fly-tipper piles rubbish on street before fleeing, leaving residents 'furious'

70,000 badgers across England could be killed this year.

Badger culling licences granted for areas across the Midlands

Construction work has officially started on the high speed rail project. Boris Johnson says it will create up to 22,000 new jobs and connect urban areas- but campaigners continue to voice their concerns. 

Shovels in the ground: The first official day of HS2 construction 

The boiler house at the former Rugeley Power Station in Staffordshire has been demolished in a controlled explosion.

Sixth building at Rugeley Power Station in Staffordshire demolished

A man has been caught dumping rubbish onto the grounds of a a Sikh temple in Handworth.

Man caught dumping rubbish onto grounds of Handsworth Sikh temple

The enormous 2,000 tonne machines – which have been built by world-leading German tunnelling specialists – will be shipped in pieces to the UK later this year.

HS2 reveals machines that will drill the Midlands route next year

The scheme will give eligible properties a £5,000 grant to put in measures to help stop properties being flooded in the future.

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