Thames Water has urged millions of its customers to stop using hosepipes in a bid to conserve water but stopped short of announcing an outright ban. The water authority, which […]

Britain’s record-shattering heatwave will draw to a close this weekend, with cloud cover and rainfall replacing the scorching conditions in the first days of June. The transition will not be […]

Britain’s ‘historic’ heatwave will fizzle in a week of rain as the nation braces for an unusually soggy start to summer. Temperatures nationwide will slump through the next few days […]

Baking Britain is facing a summer of heatwaves with the next three months likely to be scorched in extreme temperatures. As spring records tumble in unprecedented 35C heat, experts warn […]

The Met Office has issued a fresh thunderstorm warning covering large swathes of Wales and the southeast. The yellow-level alert, which will come into force from 3pm today and last […]

Relentless heat ploughing the energy of an atom bomb into the atmosphere will explode with a deluge of thunderstorms. As Britons sizzle in the hottest May temperatures ever recorded, experts […]

Six people have now died in Britain’s waters during this May heatwave as police discover a body in a search for a 12-year-old boy. A body was discovered in the […]

Today is the hottest day in May on record, as temperatures reached 35C in parts of London, the Met Office has confirmed. The temperature has provisionally hit 35C in Heathrow […]

Railway staff were forced to withdraw a service from operation in Oxfordshire on Monday afternoon, declaring conditions “too hot to go on” as Britain experienced its warmest May day in […]

A seismic drop in temperatures will plunge the mercury by 10C in parts of Britain today while elsewhere continues to bake in record heat. Cold winds and sweeping clouds from […]