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

Out-of-control blazes in south-western France and central Spain have forced tens of thousands to flee. In France, flames swept through the Cap Ferret peninsula, injuring 42…

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

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