UK people of colour four times more likely to live in areas ‘at higher risk from heatwaves’

High-risk housing included high rises, which are more difficult to cool. Photograph: Ashlee Ruggels/PA

People of colour are four times more likely to live in areas at high risk from heatwaves in the UK as the climate heats up, according to experts.

Researchers at the University of Manchester and Friends of the Earth found one in three people from minority ethnic groups lived in areas most exposed to extreme heat, compared with just one in 12 white people.