More than 220,000 people in south-west France's Gironde department have been evacuated as raging wildfires approach Bordeaux

Raging wildfires have forced the evacuation of the whole of the Cap Ferret peninsula in southwest France, with hundreds of people escaping by boat.

The violence of fires, fuelled by high temperatures and the long-term effects of climate change, has caught authorities off guard, with firefighters in Spain admitting the fires…

Officials have described it as the ‘worst fire in the history of the region’