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Thursday’s amber extreme heat warning from the Met Office covered a huge area of central England, stretching from London to Sheffield. The temperature at Kew reached 38.1 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day of the year so far.

The tinder dry conditions accelerated by fossil fuel pollution, have seen firecrews having to deal with numerous wild fire outbreaks across the country.

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UK, heatwave, wildfire