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Outdoors

Gardens, paving and planting under a climate the plants in most British gardens were not chosen for.

Writing

1976 still holds the record, and that is not the comfort it sounds like

In 19 of the 25 towns here, the longest run of hot days on record is still 1976. What changed is not the peak. It is how often a long spell arrives.
The hot car is not how most British dogs get heatstroke

In the largest UK study, exercise triggered 74.2 per cent of cases and vehicles 5.2. The dangerous thing is usually the walk, on a day that felt fine.
What 77 years of daily readings say about British summers

We stored the daily temperature record back to 1950 for 22 British towns and counted the hot days. Cambridge went from 6 a year to 20.