We cover news from public bodies and utility companies for UK households on power cuts, weather, water, health, safety and security. Each report includes the date and sources, with links to our guides.
The Met Office issued several amber snow warnings for parts of northern England between 3 and 12 January 2025, during a six-day cold episode in which all regions of England were under an amber Cold…
The Public Health Agency has issued advice on keeping warm, avoiding falls and getting winter vaccines after a yellow warning for snow and ice in Northern Ireland.
The UK Health Security Agency issued an amber Cold-Health Alert for all regions of England from midday on 2 January 2025, replacing a yellow alert, with the alert later extended into mid-January.
SSEN's Priority Services team phoned more than 2,000 vulnerable customers and made in-person visits across its north of Scotland and central southern England licence areas during Storm Éowyn.
Storm Éowyn left households without power for days, including in Shetland, and the Government cited it in July 2025 as it set out a resilience action plan covering power, telecoms and flood risks.
An Emergency Alert warning of life-threatening conditions was sent to 4.5 million people in Scotland and Northern Ireland during Storm Éowyn in January 2025, the largest use of the system so far.
Amber Met Office warnings for snow and ice cover the Midlands, Wales and parts of northern England from 6pm Saturday until noon Sunday, with up to 30-40cm of snow possible in northern England, as the…
Electricity North West reported around 2,500 properties without power in the North West on 1 January 2025, mostly in Greater Manchester, after flooding at substations and damage to underground cables.
The Environment Agency has published an updated national coastal erosion risk map showing that 3,500 properties in England are at risk of coastal erosion by 2055.
The Environment Agency is making its detailed local flood risk mapping available through GOV.UK digital services from early 2025, alongside a new national assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk…
A leak under the Afon Ddu and a power outage shut Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's Bryn Cowlyd works in January 2025, leaving 114,562 people in North Wales without supply for up to seven days.
Fire and rescue services in England and Wales responded to 564 wildfires between January and June 2025, up from 69 in the same period of 2024, according to an analysis of the UK's record wildfire…
SSEN has moved to Weather Warning status for central southern England as south westerly winds forecast for New Year's Day could gust over 50mph inland and up to 70mph on the coast.
Emergency Alerts were used to support evacuations during acute flooding on the River Soar in January 2025, the government has said in its UK Government Resilience Action Plan.