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People who claim Universal Credit from the Department for Work and Pensions may be forced to return home from a holiday early in some circumstances, or risk losing access to the benefit

You may have found it hard to sleep over the past couple of nights due to the heat, however things are only set to get hotter with the Met Office predicting highs of nearly 30C today

The extreme heat could finally be reaching breaking point with thunderstorms expected for parts of the country

Brits are set to sizzle on the hottest UK day on record as temperatures are predicted to hit 41C amid growing travel chaos today but the heat will not last

A thermal imaging camera showed how dangerous the equipment in play parks could be for children, with a slide reaching nearly 72C under the sun in Manchester yesterday

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the UK's national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes. The typically temperate nation was just the latest…

Temperatures will continue to soar in Edinburgh for a second day on Tuesday, with an amber warning of 'extreme heat' from the Met Office remaining in effect for the entire day

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would take 'decades, actually, to replace it all' to make Britain's infrastructure more resilient to high temperatures

Sufferers report worse allergy symptoms as temperatures get warmer

The Met Office said temperatures overnight were some of the highest ever seen in the UK

Temperatures in the region soar to 30 degrees over July 18-19 with warnings over the risk of heat exhaustion