UK braces for longest heatwave since 1976 as amber alerts issued

Significant rise in deaths expected, particularly among those aged 65 and over and those with existing health conditions due to prolonged high temperatures.

Once in a generation, a season reveals the fragility of ordinary life — and Britain now faces such a moment, as a heatwave of rare duration settles across the country, threatening to rival the long, punishing summer of 1976. Amber alerts stretch across the Midlands, eastern and southern England through July 12, as temperatures approach 36 degrees Celsius and health authorities prepare for the quiet toll that prolonged heat exacts on the elderly and the chronically ill. It is not the peak of the thermometer that defines this event, but its refusal to relent — a fortnight of warmth that tests no

UK braces for longest heatwave since 1976 as amber alerts issued

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