A pensioner died and his widow was injured along with 26 other people after a bus carrying British tourists veered off a mountain road in La Gomera,Canary Islands.

The standstills and road closures have had heartbreaking consequences for some after missed hospital appointments.

It appears that Kharg Island in Iran has been attacked, hours before Trump's 'deadline' for the country to reopen the Strait of Hormuz arrives.

'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,' he wrote.

Trump said: 'We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.'