11 h. ago 'It's like a sauna': Temperatures on London's Tube hit 33C on the hottest day of the year so far

Londoners have described Tube and bus travel as being like a “sauna” amidst sweltering temperatures recorded on the hottest day of the year.

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12 h. ago The Tubes and London buses that are too hot for cattle: Britain swelters in heatwave as 35C Underground trains record temperatures that are above legal limit for transporting livestock

To find out just how hot it really on public transport, MailOnline took a trip on Tuesday in 30C heat - and came away both concerned and sweaty.

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13 h. ago The hottest Tubes and buses as London swelters in heatwave:  Underground trains hit sizzling 35C with bus passengers suffering in 33C heat

To find out just how hot it really on public transport, MailOnline took a trip on Tuesday in 30C heat - and came away both concerned and sweaty.

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13 h. ago Full details of what happened to mother suing TfL for £25m after suffering life

Commuter who lost arm and leg ‘contributed to her own injuries’ according to TfL’s High Court defence

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14 h. ago Snow gritters dispatched to stop roads from melting in sweltering heatwave

Road surfaces can heat to as high as 50C in hot summer weather, causing them to melt

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19 h. ago The moment rare 'roll clouds' sweep across Portugal during record heatwave

Mediterranean countries have been sweltering in a heatwave for several days, prompting health warnings and alerts about increased risk of wildfires.

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31 h. ago Weather map: Temperatures could soar to 35C as Britons swelter in heatwave

Temperatures could reach 35C on Tuesday as the heatwave reaches its peak

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40 h. ago Wimbledon heatwave: Organisers' statement, new rule and protocols amid sweltering start

Wimbledon started on Monday amid soaring temperatures in south west London and the All England Lawn Tennis Club have implemented a new approach to combatting the heat

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40 h. ago Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave

Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warningsEurope live – latest updatesA vicious heatwave has engulfed southern Europe, with punishing temperatures that have reached highs of 46C (114.8F) in Spain and placed almost the entirety of mainland France under alert.Extreme heat, made stronger by fossil fuel pollution, has for several days scorched Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece as southern Europe endures its first major heatwave of the summer. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago London Tube Carriages Can Be 5C Hotter Than Street in Heat Wave

London Tube Carriages Can Be 5C Hotter Than Street in Heat Wave  Bloomberg.com

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44 h. ago What is a heat dome? Weather system explained as UK and Europe hit by sweltering temperatures

Large swathes of the UK and Europe are sweltering through a heatwave, with England’s southeast set to hit temperatures of 35C and parts of Europe including Paris, Rome and Athens to near 40C.

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45 h. ago Weather maps reveal exactly what UK areas face 35C as sweltering heatwave hits

Highs of 35C are forecast to sear through parts of London and south-east England today as a heatwave takes hold of the UK, sending the mercury soaring to potentially dangerous levels

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69 h. ago Chaos as car ploughs into iconic landmark in central London with streets & Tube station sealed off by police

Chaos as car ploughs into iconic landmark in central London with streets & Tube station sealed off by police  The Sun

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69 h. ago Chaos as car ploughs into iconic fountain in London's Piccadilly Circus with streets and Tube station sealed off by cops

Chaos as car ploughs into iconic fountain in London's Piccadilly Circus with streets and Tube station sealed off by cops  The Sun

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3 d. ago Met Office UK heatwave verdict as new maps show 31C sweltering temps to return

July is set to pack a punch when it comes to hot weather, with more sizzling temperatures predicted for many in the Met Office's long-range forecast

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3 d. ago Wimbledon release statement with tournament ready to implement new heatwave rule

Wimbledon 2025 begins on Monday, June 30, when thousands of tennis fans will descend on SW19 in sweltering temperatures caused by the second heatwave of the summer

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3 d. ago Britain forecast roasting 30C weekend mapped with 120 areas prepped for red hot heatwave

Parts of the country are bracing for a sweltering weekend as 120 areas in Britain will see heatwave conditions across the next few days with people able to check their area

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4 d. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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4 d. ago Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman review – secrets from the studio

The much-loved painter, designer of stamps and creator of anti-war posters shares tips from a 90-year careerYou know the art of David Gentleman even if you don’t know you know it. Anyone who’s passed through London’s Charing Cross tube station has seen his life-filled black-and-white mural of medieval people, enlarged from his woodcuts, digging, hammering, chiselling to construct the Eleanor Cross that once stood nearby. His graphic art has graced everything from stamps to book covers to Stop the War posters in a career spanning seven decades. He says he’s been making art for 90 years, since he was five.His parents were also artists, and in his latest book he reproduces a Shell poster by his father to show he follows in a modern British tradition of well-drawn, well-observed popular art. Perhaps it is because he learned from his parents as naturally as learning to speak – “Seeing them drawing tempted me to draw” – that Gentleman dislikes pedagogy. He’s proud that...

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4 d. ago How many injuries happen on the London Underground? As commuter who lost arm and leg files high court claim

Sarah de Lagarde, a mother from Camden, has launched a massive claim against Transport for London after losing an arm and a leg in a Tube incident

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