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Mark Hardingham, the chairman of the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), said that he 'can't remember a summer like this' in his entire 32-year career in the fire service.
JANE FRYER: The ridiculously pretty village of Northend has been in the news this week as its hot and harassed residents have just won the dubious title of 'first village to run dry in the heatwave',
Residents in Northend, Oxfordshire, have resorted to using bottled water for everything from filling troughs to washing themselves