Forecasters have warned parts of the country could see more than a month's worth of rain today, while winds of up to 50mph will make driving treacherous for those hitting the roads for the great summer getaway. Even those heading abroad in search of sunnier climes won't escape travel chaos. In France, motorists have been warned to expect delays caused by striking farmers blocking major roads to the Alps. And in Spain, a strike by air traffic controllers could cause delays to flights on the busiest weekend of the year. As for Britain, the Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for the South East of England today, with gusts of up to 50mph on the coast and 40mph inland expected, and as much as 2.36in of rain. Pictured: A father and his sons battle the elements on the seafront at Teignmouth in Devon this morning (main image), and a rain total chart shows the 24 hours from 6am today to 6am tomorrow, with the wetter areas in orange and red (inset).

Jason Knowles caused fury last night after it emerged he betrayed his heartbroken new wife Kate Stewart on the controversial Channel 4 series. Last night Knowles urged friends not to speak out about his antics as it emerged he was already kissing another woman. The photograph was posted on Facebook last month with the caption: 'You wouldn't like it if you knew'.

Louise Shaw, a single mother, is among the stars of the Channel 5 documentary series, Benefits by the Sea. To make extra money, the 41-year-old from Jaywick in Clacton-on-Sea has taken to piercing babies' ears, charging £10 at a time. In a forthcoming episode of the series, she is filmed piercing one baby's ears while her mother covers her eyes (main). The baby is sent in to a screaming fit (inset), with Ms Shaw left laughing off accusations of child cruelty.

Courtney Stewart, 21, of Erskine, Renfrewshire, can be seen (left) throwing the toddler from shoulder height onto the surface below, leading to his neck jolting back violently as he bounces a foot into the air. He then tries to crawl away only for Ms Stewart to grab him by the ankle and drag him back (right). The video, taken by a concerned mother, surfaced after it was revealed Ms Stewart's neighbours had reported her to police after she posted a picture of the same boy in a washing machine on Facebook (inset).

Anett Pikula (pictured, right, bottom left and inset, in social media snaps) was 'overly talkative' and visibly flirting with border patrol officers after she drove up to the crossing at Lukeville, Arizona, in her 2006 gold-colored Mercedes Benz for a primary inspection on Sunday. Her alleged behavior sparked suspicion among the officers, and they chose to refer her for a secondary inspection, during which a U.S. Customs and Border Protection narcotics-detection K-9 was used. The dog alerted the officials to a hidden compartment inside Pikula's car, where they found six packages of cocaine (pictured, top left, on the Mercedes), totaling 13 pounds and worth nearly $134,000, a CBP statement says. Now, Pikula has been arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute. Papers obtained by Daily Mail Online show that the suspect filed for bankruptcy in December 2010.

Lucy Aitken Read, 33, from south London braved weeks of 'smelly and horrible' hair after giving up shampoo when she read an article highlighting the number of chemicals it contained. She has convinced her husband Tim (right) and her father to ditch hair products in favour of water, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar and she never shampoos her daughters' Ramona, four, (inset) and Juno, two, (right). She insists her mane is now thicker and shinier than ever.

In light of the claims she's splitting with husband Jamie Hince, FEMAIL looks back on the rocky romances of Miss Moss and asks the experts: just why can't she find true love? Kate has had several romances including a brief engagement to actor Johnny Depp, left, in the early nineties, a romance with magazine editor, Jefferson Hack, centre, with whom she had a daughter in 2002, a turbulent relationship with Pete Doherty, right, between 2005-2007, and marriage with Jamie Hince in 2011, inset.

The model first appeared in the magazine in 1981, a year before being outed as transgender. After attempting suicide, Caroline found her confidence again and eventually revisited the magazine in 1991, as the first openly transgender person to appear. She also explained how she saved up for sexual reassignment surgery on her own by working as a showgirl.

Controversial videos featuring cats reacting in horror at the sight of a cucumber have emerged online. In the clips the cats can be seen eating dinner when the vegetable is quietly placed behind them. They later turn around, spot the cucumber and jump several feet into the air.

Olga Kurkova, from the Russian capital, Moscow, sparked controversy after pictures on her social media account were widely distributed on the internet. Images shared by the 21-year-old show a woman dressed as a maid posing in front of flaming ovens (inset), and a child in a 'White pride' t-shirt posing in front of the Confederate flag. Another showed her extending her right hand in a Nazi-style salute (left), while standing in front of racist graffiti. Kuzkova had been asked by the football club CSKA to represent the club in the official Russian Premier League's annual beauty contest.

Dubbed 'masstige make-up', the formulations promise to rival professional cosmetics you'd find in a make-up artist's kit, but for a tenth of the price. Freedom Makeup, seen on model, left, was devised and created by Medichem and David Horne, who worked as head of product development at Illamasqua, advised on the colour palettes, formulas and creative direction for the brand. FEMAIl pitted it against nearly £300 worth of products from Urban Retreat in Harrods, seen on model, right.

Road safety campaigner Jordan Bone, 25, from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, was left paralysed from the chest down after a car accident aged 15, but she refuses to let her disability hold her back. Despite the weakness in her arms and fingers, she runs her own beauty website and YouTube channel - and is planning her wedding to fiance, personal trainer Michael Harrison, 27, who she met on a night out.

Heavily pregnant Michelle Froome (pictured with her husband, right) hit out on Twitter (inset) at the 'ignorant fools' who have accused her husband (left) of being a drug cheat as he looks on course to win the Tour de France 2015. The outspoken sports photographer had previously taken herself off Twitter after previous spats, often sparked by a desire to defend her husband. But after declaring that the urine incident 'is not what sport is about' and adding that she was 'completely disgusted', she turned her anger on the French media who she blames for provoking the backlash.

When a 94-year-old Pat Stocks (pictured) of Canada died on July 1, her son Sandy (center) penned a hilarious obituary that described her as a witty sharp-shooter who cooked bland food and loved her family.'She left behind a hell of a lot of stuff to her daughter and sons who have no idea what to do with it,' reads the obituary for Pat Stocks, who passed away peacefully in her bed.

A new exhibition will show the planning behind each state banquet the Queen (top left) hosts at Buckingham Palace. The events take ten days to prepare for and need 76 members of staff and 4,000 pieces of crockery. Pictured left and top right: the Buckingham Palace ballroom set for a state banquet, bottom right: Menus are displayed in a recreation of the Palace kitchens.

The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a G2-type star, like our sun. Nasa said the discovery - and the introduction of 12 new small habitable zone candidate planets - marks another milestone in the journey to finding another 'Earth.' Kepler-452b is 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth and is considered a super-Earth-size planet. It is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. Inset is an artist's impression of exoplanet Kepler-452b, which Nasa say is likely to be rocky, just like Earth.

A photographer captured a video of the moment of impact after the high-speed freight carrier slammed into the vehicle. Teenagers celebrating a friend's birthday were in the vehicle in Indiana when it stopped on the lines. They managed to get out, and used a red piece of cloth to try and warn the conductor, who was constantly sounding his whistle as it approached the limousine. One person on the side of the tracks started shouting: 'It's not going to stop. It's not going to stop.' When it slammed into the vehicle, it pushed it along the tracks several hundred feet before grinding to a halt. No one was hurt in the incident.

Party-loving Andrew Broughton (left), from Bolton, would down up to 20 pints on a night out and would scoff up to two takeaways at a time. His waist ballooned to 54 inches and he would have to ask for a bigger seat-belt on planes. The 33-year-old said he knew he had to change after realising he wanted to have a family, but didn't have the confidence to find a girlfriend, so he ditched booze and fatty foods and he lost an incredible 14 stone in just 18 months. Now weighing more than 15 stone, Andrew met Sarah Smethurst (pictured together right), 27, in February - his first serious girlfriend.

After previously predicting clear, sunny skies, meteorologists in Oklahoma were baffled when they spotted fast-moving heavy rainclouds hovering over northwest Texas. They soon realized that the cloud they were seeing was no weather formation - but a 50-mile wide swarm of grasshoppers. The gigantic swarm was picked up on the forecasters' radar (pictured).

Despite being told she needs surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Alex Wynn, 33, from Thame, Oxfordshire, claims to be treating her breast cancer with a strict diet, high in vegetables, and cutting out meat. She has regular IV drips of Vitamin C and twice-weekly sessions in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and claims test show her cancer cells are reducing.

This incredible picture shows the last thing a worm would have seen before being snapped up by an owl for dinner.   It took extreme patience from photographer Jamie Hall to capture the split-second moment the owl decided to swoop down for food in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Mr Hall spent two months observing the predator hunting in a patch of overgrown grass between old buildings near his home and was sitting ten metres away when he managed to remotely fire off his Canon 1DX to freeze the scene.

A fleet of flamboyant supercars rolled into the capital this week as their owners try to flee the scorching hot temperatures of the Middle East. But some of the drivers have already run into trouble with the authorities after an expensive BMW parked up outside Harrods in Knightsbridge was spotted with a parking ticket slapped on its windscreen today (top right). Meanwhile the young driver of an ostentatious blue Mercedes, with a Qatari registration plate, was asked to move his vehicle along by police officers outside the doors of the upmarket department store. A row of Ferraris parked up behind a blue Dubai-registered Pagani Huayra in the capital while a carbon edition Lamborghini was also seen today.

US couple Scott (top right) and Brittany Meyers (top left) live on a 44ft boat, with Isla, three, and twins Haven and Mira, aged one (centre). Instead of watching TV the family spend most of their time playing on the beach, and paddle boarding. The couple dreamed of sailing the world and have so far travelled 10,000 nautical miles and 13 countries.

Instead of using one face mask to combat oily noses, acne outbreaks, lined eyes and dry cheeks, women are slathering on a range of creams and posting pictures of their cosmetic warpaint online. Each eye-catching selfie is tagged on social media with the hashtag #multimasking.

The squid can be seen feasting on a fish as it is hauled out of the ocean onto a fishing vessel while Russian sailors try to prod it with a long pole from the side of the boat to try to save their catch. After the squid retreats, the sailors can be heard cheering at the spectacle of the gargantuan cephalopod - and at the the prospect of retaining their catch, which a few seconds earlier seemed lost to the monster of the deep.

After what appears to be a heavy night of drinking, the Russian man is believed to have gone to the bathroom and passed out. The hilarious footage was posted to social media, and has so far garnered 660,000 shares and almost 300,000 likes. His friends find the man slumped over the toilet backwards after struggling to pry open the door.