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The heat is on

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Vincent
Published date12 August 2022
Publication titleCoventry Telegraph
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Britain is facing the driest period since the summer of 1976 when people across the country were urged to save water. That heatwave lasted from June 23 to July 8 when temperatures reached into the 90°F.

Romanian tennis player Ilie Nastase, inset, felt the heat at Wimbledon when temperatures of 104° (40°C) were registered on Centre Court.

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The source of the River Thames has moved five miles downstream for the first time in its history. It comes after weeks of dry spells. Little rainfall, combined with record-breaking temperatures have left rivers at exceptionally low levels, depleted reservoirs and dried out soils.

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Hosepipe bans are in force in some parts of the UK. Water features in some historic gardens have dried up, bats were found disorientated and dehydrated at Wallington in Northumberland, right, and a water wheel that powers a flour mill in Cambridgeshire had to stop turning due to low river flows.

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Wildfires have broken out in beauty spots in Cornwall, Devon and Norfolk. Fires broke out at Zennor Head, inset, in Cornwall, closing part of the South West Coast Path, and at Morden Hall Park in London, destroying part of a meadow. More wildfires broke out in England and Wales last month than all of 2021.

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A Victorian steam yacht gondola that ferries tourists across Coniston Water in the Lake District was forced to stop sailing in the...

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