'No-brainer': MPs urge government to boost nation's resilience to heatwaves

Cecilia Keating
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 'No-brainer': MPs urge government to boost nation's resilience to heatwaves

Environmental Audit Committee warns UK remains badly prepared for extreme heat events

MPs have raised the alarm about the UK's lack of preparedness in the face of increasingly intense heatwaves that are set to become a mainstay of British summers in the years ahead. In a report published...

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