the late mp sir david amess 5 dog has been crowned westminster dog of the year. his three year—old french bulldog, vivienne, was wearing a southend city status bandanna as she collected the prize. the organisers, the kennel club, said she was the runaway winner of the public vote. sir david amess regularly entered his dogs into the annual competition outside parliament, but had never won. time for a look at the weather. here�*s ben rich. we were seeing some torrential rain in cumbria? yes, extraordinarily wet weather across north—west england and southern scotland, there are numerous flood warnings in force and river levels have been rising as you can see from this picture close to cockermouth. there is no real surprise as to why we�*ve seen so much of that flooding and disruption, because the rain has been piling into this part of the country. in fact according to the environment agency, 350 metres of