UK braces for fourth heatwave as amber alerts issued for 35C peak

Amber alert warns of rise in deaths particularly among those aged 65 and over or with existing health conditions due to extreme heat stress on health and social care services.

For the fourth time in a single summer, Britain finds itself in the grip of a heatwave — a rhythm that would have seemed extraordinary a generation ago but now arrives with the regularity of seasons. A surge of North African heat is pushing temperatures toward 35 degrees Celsius across southern and eastern England on Wednesday, prompting amber health alerts for some of the country's most densely populated regions. The warning is not merely meteorological: it speaks to the fragility of elderly and vulnerable lives under sustained thermal stress, and to a land so parched — just 4.4 millimetres o

UK braces for fourth heatwave as amber alerts issued for 35C peak

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