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Heatwaves

The long, hot summer of 1976 changed Britain. What can we learn from it 50 years later?
Brighton beach in June 1976
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The long, hot summer of 1976 changed Britain. What can we learn from it 50 years later?

The summer of 1976 has gone down in the popular memory as an idealised season in an idealised nation. But what can it teach us?
Revealed: Homeless people face 'postcode lottery' of support leaving them at risk in heatwaves
a homeless man in hot weather
Investigation

Revealed: Homeless people face 'postcode lottery' of support leaving them at risk in heatwaves

Heatwaves can be a unifying call to fight climate change but they are only widening UK inequality
the sun
Liam Geraghty

Heatwaves can be a unifying call to fight climate change but they are only widening UK inequality

Big Issue vendors given free sunscreen as temperatures soar
News

Big Issue vendors given free sunscreen as temperatures soar

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave
Man mopping his head to illustrate a story on heatwaves
Heatwave

Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave