The Latest Breaking News from Gabrielle

The final months of New Zealand’s summer carried a massive sting, bringing “unprecedented” rainfalls several times over, from widespread flooding in Auckland at the end of January to ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle dumping record rains and causing devastating floods across the east coast of the North Island.

Watch: One Hawkes Bay woman's anguish over the horses taken in Cyclone Gabrielle

During Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle the poor management of exotic plantations – primarily pine – has again led to extensive damage in Tairāwhiti. Critical public infrastructure destroyed; highly productive agricultural and horticultural land washed away or buried; houses, fences and sheds knocked over; people’s lives and dreams upended; people dead.

Australians working in search and rescue roles in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle say their work is uplifting.

On a Woman's Madness and Forbidden Notebook have been highly lauded in their original languages for decades but, like the more recent Black Foam, inaccessible to English readers — until now.

Emmerdale actors and real-life twins Gabrielle and Sebastian Dowling have played Bob and Viv Hope's kids on the ITV soap since they were just a few weeks old

Viewers have been left infuriated by the character's storyline following his return to Weatherfield but there's more to come

The iconic New Year's Eve programme airs tonight at 11.30pm.

Coronation Street viewers have been having their say as villain Stephen caused them to squirm