northwards

The band of thundery showers will move northwards through the day and evening, with the showers less likely to be thundery over Scotland on Thursday night.

Another round of storms will develop in the south late on Friday before spreading northwards across most of the UK during Friday night and into Saturday.

The Connswater River rises in the Castlereagh hills and runs northwards through east Belfast, getting wider until it reaches the sea at Belfast Lough.

A forestry expert said it would have been "unequivocally obvious" it would topple northwards, with the bottom of its severed trunk falling on the Roman wall and causing £1,144 worth of damage.

Beirut, once a safe haven for those fleeing airstrikes in southern Lebanon, itself came under fire as the violence spread northwards.