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Three yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms are in force - covering swathes of the north of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland on Sunday - as the summer washout continues. The warnings mean there is a risk of flooding to homes and businesses as well as the risk of lightning strike damage to properties. The Met Office also said standing water on the roads and localised flooding could make driving treacherous, with a risk of disruption to public transport. But the weather forecasters insist that this summer has been more temperate than usual, apart from in the south east of the country.  Met Officer meteorologists said that because long periods of heat have been interspersed with high levels of rain and flooding in some cases has been so severe that people forget the good weather.    Becky Mitchell, a Met Office meteorologist, said this summer has been 'warmer and drier than average'. She told the Telegraph: 'It's not been wetter on average but we've seen a lo

The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of woke activists who claimed it was a symbol of racism.   Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president.  Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. The boulder was described using the n-word in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925. The derogatory term was commonly used in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock. University historians have not found any other time that the term was used, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. University Chancellor Rebecca Blank approved removing Chamberlin Rock in January but the Wisconsin Historical Society needed to sign off because the boulder was located within 15 feet of a Native American burial site.  University of Wisconsin black students called on sch

South Asian American food bloggers have called on people to cancel the word curry because of its ties to British colonialism. In the latest fallout since the increased scrutiny over the country's imperial history, critics say the word curry is too often used to lump very distinct foods from different regions together.  Chaheti Bansal, 27, who lives in California and shares her home-cooking online, shared a video recipe where she called on people to 'cancel the word curry'. In the video, which has since been viewed more than 3.6million times after it was shared by Buzzfeed Tasty, Bansal added: 'Not in all cultures but specifically in Indian cuisine because I don't understand what that word means. 'There's a saying that the food in India changes every 100km and yet we're still using this umbrella term popularised by white people who couldn't be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes. But we can still unlearn.' Food bloggers are calling fo