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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colin Drury

‘I feel like I might combust’: Doncaster swelts as Yorkshire city hits 40C

The Independent

Mad dogs and Englishmen, so it is said, go out in the midday sun. Not so, it seems, in an age of searing global warming.

In the parks, playgrounds and greenspace of Doncaster on Tuesday, there was barely a soul to be found.

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