EXCLUSIVE: Holidaymakers have been urged to avoid visiting Bordeaux and the surrounding area, after thousands of people were evacuated away from a massive and "unpredictable" wildfire near the iconic French city

Devastating wildfires have raged in France's Gironde region for a number of days, with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret peninsula

British tourists who fled from the French cape inferno have described escaping from 'enormous' flames after being woken in the night with emergency texts.