France has evacuated nearly 4,000 people from tourist campsites and holiday accommodation near Lacanau on the Atlantic coast as worsening heat and dry conditions threaten to reignite major wildfires. The blaze remains unstable despite being contained, while firefighters continue efforts to prevent fresh flare-ups.

Around 4,000 tourists have been evacuated from campsites and holiday villages in south west France, as firefighters continue to battle a huge wildfire.

Firefighters have kept a vast wildfire in southwest France from advancing overnight, extinguishing flare-ups near Atlantic coast dunes before returning heat and drier air…