Wildfires threaten to sweep across the parts of the country this weekend in an “unprecedented” risk, while the relentless heat fuels concerns for the ill and elderly.
As temperatures hit 33C yesterday, experts warned there could be hundreds of heat related deaths in the UK, while the Government prepared to announce an official drought in the South as soon as Friday.
Antonio Gasparrini, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has estimated that about 950 people in England and Wales are likely to have died because of the heat between July 17 and 19, when there was a record high of 40C.
