Weather becoming highly unpredictable - Burnham

The mayor of Greater Manchester has said the region's weather is becoming "highly unpredictable" as he promises to examine the response to flooding on New Year's Day.

People were forced to leave their homes, water flowed into houses and cars were abandoned as heavy flooding deluged swathes of north-west England on Wednesday.

Andy Burnham said "once-a-century" weather events were now happening "every year or so".

He said the floods appeared to come with fewer warnings than the Boxing Day floods in 2015, and pledged to also evaluate the alert system.