Airport runways close and 999 calls surge while PM recalls doing loop the loop at Farnborough airshow
Wales was the first to break records by recording a provisional new high of 35.3C at Gogerddan near Aberystwyth, which was surpassed a couple of hours later when 37.1C was reached in Hawarden, Flintshire.
On Saturday a 16-year-old boy died in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, and a 50-year-old man died in a reservoir near Leeds. Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said the combination of “outdated” health premises and increasingly common record temperatures driving up demand for care may mean the summer is harder for the NHS to cope with than winter.
Care home operators said staff were working hard to ensure their vulnerable residents stayed cool and hydrated. NHS hospital kitchens made ice lollies for patients, while zoos in London and Bristol did the same for primates and other animals.while in Farnborough on Monday and throwing a party at Chequers at the weekend, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, said voters were “seeing a prime minister who’s basically checked out, so he’s not really doing anything”.
fell by 20%, Network Rail said, after heavily reduced timetables and speed restrictions were put in place to prevent rails from buckling. The east coast mainline from York and Leeds to London will be closed on Tuesday.Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian
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