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Unclear as to the cause of the fire. this happened in the area close to the german border around 50 miles south of strasbourg. we now know the number of dead in that fire in the french holiday home housing people with learning difficulties has reached 11. more of that on our website. around the world and across the uk you are watching bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. a court has heard that the victims of a fatal car crash in cardiff had been drinking and inhaling laughing gas before the accident. rafeljeanne, darcy ross and eve smith were all killed — two other passeng...

Local and national fire commanders say that big fire has been under control since mid morning but they also said that the expected readmissions particularly in the southern front going into the algarve region through the rest of the day, given the condition. the wins have been changeable and bringing more community and that is helping, but it is a huge perimeter, around 50 kilometres around and there are more firefighters in action there, 1100 more than they were overnight. the focus has now shifted inland to central and northern portugal, the interior there along with spain is suffering very ...

Nobody was there to help us but luckily i had three friends who came. the firemen who where there found themselves surrounded by fire and we asked them for help but it wasn't possible. in spain, too, a heightened risk of wildfires. the authorities have warned that heatwave conditions will peak today. temperatures in the south could hit 44 celsius. translation: we already know that summers are getting hotter- and hotter with climate change, so we will have to prepare and train ourselves to cope as well as possible with this heat. portugal remains on high alert. even as communities assess the da...

Scorched earth still smouldering. the fires consumed 40 square miles of land. here, flames swept up the valley, right up to the southern town of 0deceixe. 0n the outskirts, destruction. but somehow the community itself was spared. there is a really strong smell here. it is notjust of the smoke, it is eucalyptus and pine — those are the trees which line this landscape, and they have been consumed by the fire. after three heatwaves, the ground is now extremely dry and extremely vulnerable. it is five days since this fire started. firefighters have contained much of it but they are still battli...

Or, what happens when you gentrify an entire town