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'This will only intensify': Millions of pensioners at risk of serious illness due to UK heatwaves
older man in heatwave temperatures
Heatwave

'This will only intensify': Millions of pensioners at risk of serious illness due to UK heatwaves

The Centre for Ageing Better has warned that the country must not accept 'loss of life as inevitable'
Millions of Brits made ill because their home is too hot, study finds – as UK faces heatwave
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Heatwave

Millions of Brits made ill because their home is too hot, study finds – as UK faces heatwave

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Working temperature: When is it too hot to work?
Heatwave

Working temperature: When is it too hot to work?

Over one third of homes set to face dangerous overheating – with poorest households hit hardest
Climate crisis

Over one third of homes set to face dangerous overheating – with poorest households hit hardest

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Big Issue vendors need your help in the heatwave
Big Issue vendor Ian Duff on selling the magazine in a heatwave
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Big Issue vendors need your help in the heatwave

How to keep your house cool: 11 tips to follow
Man spending summer vacations at home, he is cooling himself with electric fans and sitting on a deckchair
Life

How to keep your house cool: 11 tips to follow

Trade unions call for law on maximum working temperature as British workers swelter in heatwave
Heatwave

Trade unions call for law on maximum working temperature as British workers swelter in heatwave

‘Sun and heat are not always good news’: How the role of British weather presenters is changing with the climate
Climate change

‘Sun and heat are not always good news’: How the role of British weather presenters is changing with the climate

Here are the supermarket staples at risk from climate change
woman standing in front of empty shelves at the endangered aisle pop up
Climate Crisis

Here are the supermarket staples at risk from climate change

Here's how much climate change events are actually costing us
Environment

Here's how much climate change events are actually costing us

How to care for your garden during a heatwave and a hosepipe ban
UK Heatwave

How to care for your garden during a heatwave and a hosepipe ban

Here's how to cool down at home when heatwaves hit
Heatwaves

Here's how to cool down at home when heatwaves hit

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers
homeless in heatwave
UK HEATWAVE

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers

'There's no support for us at all': The realities of caring for a disabled child during a heatwave
record temperatures/ carers of disabled children/ image of child in wheelchair
Heatwave

'There's no support for us at all': The realities of caring for a disabled child during a heatwave

BP-sponsored British Museum forced to close early because of heatwave
British Museum
Climate crisis

BP-sponsored British Museum forced to close early because of heatwave

What it's like to be an ice cream man on the hottest day ever recorded
Heatwave

What it's like to be an ice cream man on the hottest day ever recorded

‘We’ve had no sleep and the kids are off school’: Life in crowded rental homes during a 40C heatwave
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UK HEATWAVE

‘We’ve had no sleep and the kids are off school’: Life in crowded rental homes during a 40C heatwave

UK 'not prepared' for more frequent wildfires as climate change accelerates
A fire broke out in London on the hottest day ever recorded.
Wildfires

UK 'not prepared' for more frequent wildfires as climate change accelerates

Met Office chief scientist makes urgent call for net zero as UK hits 40C for first time
Met Office chief scientist Stephen Belcher wears a white shirt and grey cardigan in front of a map showing record temperatures of 40C across the UK
Climate change

Met Office chief scientist makes urgent call for net zero as UK hits 40C for first time

Diary of a food bank manager: Summer usually provides some respite. Not this year
Volunteers at Earlsfield Foodbank sort food in crates in the middle of a church
Diary of a food bank manager

Diary of a food bank manager: Summer usually provides some respite. Not this year

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Climate resilience minister fails to attend climate change committee as UK heads for hottest day on record
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Heatwave

Climate resilience minister fails to attend climate change committee as UK heads for hottest day on record

Food banks forced to close as UK heatwave sees temperatures soar
Food banks/ heatwave
Food banks

Food banks forced to close as UK heatwave sees temperatures soar

How you can help birds, bees and hedgehogs as the heatwave brings record temperatures
A hedgehog drinking from a shallow bowl.
Heatwave

How you can help birds, bees and hedgehogs as the heatwave brings record temperatures

A climate change protest has been cancelled because of climate change
heatwave
Heatwave

A climate change protest has been cancelled because of climate change