Workplace warning as UK faces summer heat health alert

The Met office has issued the first Heat-Health Watch warning this summer as it confirmed that temperatures at London Heathrow at lunchtime today rose to 30°C, making it the hottest day of the year so far.

Said Head of Health Forecasting at the Met Office, Wayne Elliott: "The last time a heat-health warning was issued was in the hot summer of 2006."

The Heat-Health Watch is currently at level two, but with the probability of heatwave conditions at 70%, the Met office predicts ... (322 more words)

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