Households have been urged to cut their water consumption in the wake of hosepipe bans

An MP has questioned the reasons behind the plant’s closure although the company says it is for “maintenance work”

National Grid ESO report suggests on 19th July the UK saw a peak in energy demand

Lower Rhine River levels mean that the company might need to cut output at a coal fire plant in Germany

New EV registrations totalled nearly 125,000 by the end of July, a new report suggests

People in Kent and Sussex will reportedly be hit by a new ban from 12th August

The hosepipe ban in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight aims to protect the habitats of rivers in these regions

Without human-caused climate change, the heatwave would have been 2°C to 4°C

The Isle of Man has introduced a hosepipe ban

‘Human influence’ will see temperatures like these ten times more likely in the future, it says