Warnings on water use, port and risks to health as heat heads for 41C
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Transport for London said London’s rail network would also be running a reduced service on Tuesday due to safety restrictions put into place to deal with the heat. Elsewhere, council gritters were on stand-by to spread sand on melting roads. 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.
“Our buildings and estate are ill-equipped to deal with these kinds of temperatures and a lack of capital investment in the NHS over the last 10 years means we have very little resilience left to deal with crisis situations like this,” he said. The heat drove millions to work from home, with road congestion down in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, according to data from the satnav company TomTom.
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