in record uk temperatures, major incidents were declared across the country as wildfires destroyed everything in their path. firefighters in the capital say yesterday was their busiest day since the second world war. they said it was unsalvageable and, by that point, when we took a step back and we saw it spreading to neighbours�* houses, we saw how quick it was going, the marsh was up, we just thought we've got to get everyone out, you know. we'll be finding out about the link between these extreme weather events and climate change. also on the programme. more pressure on households. prices continue to rise at their fastest rate in a0 years, driven by higher food and fuel costs. a new strategy to try to improve health care for women

after a large survey showed more than 80% felt they weren't listened to when asking for help. you've either got a vagina or a voice. you don't seem to have both, do you? three will become two. conservative mps prepare to vote on the final candidates to become the next prime minister. commentator: gold forjake wightman! and a stunning performance. jake wightman becomes the first british man in nearly a0 years to win the world 1500 metres title. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england's biggest test of the euros is here. they face spain in the quarterfinals in brighton tonight.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the mayor of london says yesterday was the busiest day for the capital's fire service since the second world war. more than a0 properties in london were destroyed by fires which broke out in record breaking temperatures. and there were major incidents in other parts of the country including norfolk, suffolk, lincolnshire, leicestershire and south yorkshire. the weather is also continuing to affect transport. we'll have more on that in a few minutes. first our correspondent tim muffett reports from wennington in east london. the devastated village of wennington. what's believed to have started as a small fire in somebody�*s garden did this. many homes, buildings and cars destroyed. but mercifully, no lives lost. we

looked over— but mercifully, no lives lost. - looked over the neighbours fence and they had a pile of grass cuttings just smoking as it does with compost, it heats up, and combust, doesn't it? that's why we took the hosepipe round, a couple of buckets because we thought it's just a small fire. by the time we got round, the embers are blown out because the wind was so strong coming across from the marshes. it spread to the grass and it was just an inferno in a matter of 30 seconds. initially, we thought we might be able to save the house but once they said no, there is no saving it, i think we took a step back, got to the green and realised it was spreading to the other houses. we didn't want anybody else to go through the same things only got everybody out. i else to go through the same things only got everybody out.— only got everybody out. i didn't antici ate only got everybody out. i didn't anticipate it — only got everybody out. i didn't anticipate it spreading - only got everybody out. i didn't anticipate it spreading is - only got everybody out. i didn't anticipate it spreading is fast i only got everybody out. i didn't| anticipate it spreading is fast as it did~ _ anticipate it spreading is fast as it m i— anticipate it spreading is fast as it did. i saw next door is house on fire but_ it did. i saw next door is house on fire but is— it did. i saw next door is house on fire but is spread across the green, 200 yards— fire but is spread across the green, 200 yards away, it's incredible. human — 200 yards away, it's incredible. human life _ 200 yards away, it's incredible. human life is the most important thing. _ human life is the most important thing. you — human life is the most important thing, you know. the

human life is the most important thing. you know— human life is the most important thing, you know. the village remains cordoned off — thing, you know. the village remains cordoned off whilst _ thing, you know. the village remains cordoned off whilst the _ thing, you know. the village remains cordoned off whilst the emergency i cordoned off whilst the emergency services assess the damage. the temperature is not as hot as it was yesterday, but the ground remains tinder dry. and that's why the flames spread so quickly. many residents of wennington are now homeless come injust residents of wennington are now homeless come in just 2a hours, their lives have been turned upside down. , ' , ., down. different departments of the council, speaking _ down. different departments of the council, speaking to _ down. different departments of the council, speaking to people - down. different departments of the council, speaking to people from i council, speaking to people from aduu council, speaking to people from adult services, some of them have been traumatised without a doubt, we saw that yesterday. some people were in complete shock that they have lost everything they ever had. so we need to help support them to make sure we do that going forward but also obviously the key thing is housing and obviously we will do what we can to accommodate people. forest fires in other countries pose a particular threat but in the uk it is grass and heath fires that are of greater concern. as the climate warms, there are fears scenes like this could become more common. tim muffett, wennington.

the extreme weather is continuing to cause rail disruption. dozens of services have been cancelled or delayed and people are being urged to check for updates before they set off on a journey. network rail is also said in the last hour that it is to set up a task force to look at how the railway can adapt to rising temperatures. alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow for us this lunchtime. she has the latest on the travel situation there for us. bring us right up to date with a picture for travellers. , ., ., travellers. yes, we are here at glasaow travellers. yes, we are here at glasgow central _ travellers. yes, we are here at glasgow central station - travellers. yes, we are here at glasgow central station and i travellers. yes, we are here at| glasgow central station and it's been a very difficult morning here notjust for passengers here but for passengers across the country. we've seen a lot of disruption, a lot of delays, and a lot of cancellations, a lot of diversions, people having to take buses instead of getting the

train. what we can see here at central, this is part of the queue of people trying to get to london euston. you won't able to get directly from scotland to london this morning, but about 20 minutes orso this morning, but about 20 minutes or so ago the first train that's hoping to get directly through from glasgow to london euston left central station, but the queue wasn't only just central station, but the queue wasn't onlyjust in the station, it is also around the block. that's certainly the biggest i've ever seen it and these are people who may be tried to travel over the last couple of days, who have been trying to travel this morning, and possibly didn't want to get the bus partway down the country. so lots and lots of disruption this morning. things are starting to get back to normal, but that's going to take quite some time. people are being advised to check their websites and only travel if absolutely necessary. someone calling for people to get on the buses now, as well.—

calling for people to get on the buses now, as well. thank you very much, alexandra _ buses now, as well. thank you very much, alexandra in _ buses now, as well. thank you very much, alexandra in glasgow. - in france, president macron is due to visit the gironde region in the south west of the country where wildfires have burned more than 20,000 hectares of forest in the last week, and forced more than 30,000 people from their homes. fires are continuing to blaze in spain, italy and greece amid drought conditions. 0ur correspondentjessica parker sent this report. homes ablaze on a hillside near athens. gale force and changing winds helping fan the flames, while hampering efforts to contain them. | translation: our first priority | remains the protection of human life, but also the protection of critical infrastructures, of public property and the private property of citizens. evacuations went on into the small hours. the greek authorities throwing all they could at the blaze. fires have raged across europe this summer. spain was still battling

the flames on several fronts. but in south—western france, things are calmer, the situation more under control. the local mayor was among the thousands evacuated, and hopes people can start going home soon. translation: we are closer today than we were yesterday _ but we're not there yet. we need to be a little bit more patient. the command hq for la teste—de—buch is actually the local hippodrome, a horse racing track, and they've set up a major operation in its grounds. and just down here the firefighters have a chance to grab a coffee and take a break. men and women have come to help from other parts of france. jerome was brought in from neighbouring dordogne. translation: they help us - when we need them and it's the same the other way round. it's important because the forest is part of france, our country.

experts say we will see even more severe extremes because of climate change — focusing some minds on the future, as europe continues to grapple with today. jessica parker, bbc news, in gironde. let's talk to our climate editorjustin rowlatt. jessica made the point at the end of her piece there, more and more of these events, what is the link with climate change? we these events, what is the link with climate change?— these events, what is the link with climate change? we are being told the kind of extreme _ climate change? we are being told the kind of extreme temperatures | climate change? we are being told i the kind of extreme temperatures we are seeing in europe at the moment are seeing in europe at the moment are likely to become a reality here in the uk. by the end of the century. as climate change progresses. we all know why that is but it's worth repeating, when we burn fossil fuels, they create greenhouse gases which trap heat in the atmosphere and is causing global temperatures to rise. the increase in temperatures may be extreme heat we have seen in the last couple of days here in the uk. ten times more likely. that's according to the met

office. climate scientists are 0ffice. climate scientists are saying that we should expect more frequent and hotter heatwaves as our climate warms and that suggests two things. first of all obviously, we should continue to try to tackle climate change, bear down on the emissions causing all of this, but secondly of course, we need to adapt our societies can adapt our infrastructure, railways and roads, to make sure they can cope with this and also our homes, so there a big agenda for the country in terms of dealing with these higher temperatures we can expect in the future. . ~ temperatures we can expect in the future. ., ~' , ., the government has given the green light to a new nuclear plant. the new sizewell c facility is set to be built on the suffolk coast. the project, mainly funded by the french energy company edf, is expected to cost in the region of £20 billion and provide 7% of britains power. prices are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for a0 years, driven by higher fuel and food costs. the uk's inflation rate reached 9.4%

in the year tojune. up from 9.1% in may. it comes as unions have been calling for pay rises to help workers cope with the cost of living. the bank of england has warned inflation will reach ii% later this year. today the bbc is in derby looking at how people are being affected by the cost of living crisis. from there our businss correspondent hannah miller reports. at this club in the centre of derby the added costs of inflation are really starting to pile up, from the crisps to the ice, the price of everything behind the bar has risen. some items well above today's 9.4% inflation figure. at the moment to think fluctuating so much, chicken for example is kind of up and down as much as fuel is, so we are unable to lock those prices in as you would normally and so we might not know what profit we

are making on a dish from one day to the next, which is obviously really, really challenging. and as the business seeks to expand, finding staff is proving a challenge, with the bank of england warning difficulty recruiting is making inflation worse. the hospitality industry has taken a battering _ the hospitality industry has taken a battering in the last few years. i think_ battering in the last few years. i think the — battering in the last few years. i think the pandemic lost a lot of people — think the pandemic lost a lot of people and tried to get them back it's proving really hard. we've had to pay— it's proving really hard. we've had to pay more — it's proving really hard. we've had to pay more to get people in. which, obviously. _ to pay more to get people in. which, obviously, increases costs. the price _ obviously, increases costs. the price of— obviously, increases costs. the price of a — obviously, increases costs. the price of a paint has to go up. it has been — price of a paint has to go up. it has been difficult to recruit, yeah. but wages are not rising anywhere near the level of inflation and down the road at this community centre people are struggling with the rising cost of living. a food hub has been set up downstairs. they will come in and they will say that they— they will come in and they will say that theyiust _ they will come in and they will say that theyjust can't _ they will come in and they will say that theyjust can't afford - they will come in and they will say that theyjust can't afford to - they will come in and they will say that theyjust can't afford to make| that theyjust can't afford to make ends _ that theyjust can't afford to make ends meet — that theyjust can't afford to make ends meet-— that theyjust can't afford to make ends meet. ., ., , ., , ., ends meet. how do you feel when you hear that? it — ends meet. how do you feel when you hear that? it makes _ ends meet. how do you feel when you hear that? it makes me _ ends meet. how do you feel when you hear that? it makes me feel— ends meet. how do you feel when you hear that? it makes me feel quite - hear that? it makes me feel quite an: . today anne's taking out a delivery

to pensioners christine and mel. hello, are you all right? they receive parcels when they need and are grateful for the government support they have received so far. at the moment it's not too bad because i can still make something out of nothing but eventually if it gets any worse, then we will probably start to struggle. i think it de ends probably start to struggle. i think it depends how— probably start to struggle. i think it depends how severe _ probably start to struggle. i think it depends how severe the - probably start to struggle. i think it depends how severe the winterj probably start to struggle. i think i it depends how severe the winter is going _ it depends how severe the winter is going to _ it depends how severe the winter is going to be. but back at the centre, which is also used as a sports hub, wayne says some of the customers he serves at the food bank are already wrestling with the cost of living. we've had a lot of referrals on the form where it says absolutely no food in the house whatsoever. that has been going on for days, they've had no food over a certain amount of days. three orfour had no food over a certain amount of days. three or four days they had no food. the chancellor says the government is working to bow down on inflation and support the most vulnerable households. but with inflation set to rise further in the autumn, organisations like this are already working flat out. hannah miller, bbc news.

with weeks of the school holidays ahead for millions of children, these continued price rises are leaving many households worried about how they'll cope. as well as days out or trips abroad becoming unaffordable, kids clubs, which often provide free meals, will be suspended. 0ur midlands correspondent navteonhal has more. breakfast club at firs primary school in derby and the smiles suggest the meal is a hit, sometimes literally. oh, sorry, pal! any child can come to the school early for breakfast, for free, a scheme that's been running here for five years now. what is your favourite thing to have at breakfast? bagels. you can get anything at the back there, like bagels, cereals. - sometimes you have milkshakes. i like that you can just sit with your friends, get some breakfast, chat about things. but there are worries. at the end of the week, breakfast club and the school will be shut and parents will have

to grapple with how to make ends meet over the summer holidays, with the cost of living crisis eating into their household budgets. yes, i am anxious and very worried about affording everything. what sort of things will you miss out on in order to help fund stuff for your children? maybe having different meals for the children, maybe skipping meals and stuff like that. you would skip meals in order to fund food for your children? the children are more important than me. this summer might be i "let's play in the garden. let's play in the garden for six weeks." - have you ever felt things being as tight for families as they are at the moment? no, definitely not. even those we have, we've got a mix of some obviously parents who aren't working and some who are. and even the ones who are working now are feeling the struggle. the city council says help is available over the summerforfamilies with school age children. well, we've got the holidays activity food fund, which is providing activities for young people who are normally having free school meals.

and it's got activities from arts, drama, education, sports, etc all across range, and providing a meal for them during the holidays. do you feel that you're providing enough support? is that enough? i think there's always room to do more. so we do have a number of other funds that we're hoping to do and working with people that are struggling. meanwhile, the government says it's protecting the most vulnerable families with at least £1200 of direct payments, starting with more than £300 currently being distributed with the summer holidays on the horizon. but for many parents, the next few weeks will be tougher than any previous summer. navteonhal, bbc news, derby. our business correspondent victoria fritz is also in derby for us. there are other increases to come?

that is right. if it feels relentless the cost of living crisis thatis relentless the cost of living crisis that is because it is, each time we hit a new record of inflation the following month things appear to become more acute and that is across and inescapable from food to fuel. and the predictions are that things are going to get worse before they get better. many economists are predicting inflation will reach 11% this year before it starts to fall back and that is in part due to the rise in energy bills that we will see in october. of course not everyone is going to feel there is equally. not everyone is able to deal with the cost of living crisis in the same way. here in derby 16% of households are already experiencing fuel poverty and the fear is that many more homes will tap into that bracket as the seasons change and the weather cools and people start to reach reluctantly

for the thermostat. but before any of that the expectation is all roads are going to rise to an interest rate rise in the coming months and the bank of england is trying to grapple with the cost of living crisis. and how quickly does interest rates rise and by how much will determine how many people will ride out the worst period for personal finances in ride out the worst period for personalfinances in britain in living memory. victoria fritz, many thanks. our top story this lunchtime. record uk temperatures with wildfires causing major incidents across the country. firefighters in london say it was the busier state since the second world war. and i will be in brighton ahead the england quarterfinal match against spain in the women's euros. coming up on the bbc news channel, an historic night for british athletics. jake wightman becomes the first british man since 1983 to win

world championship gold in the 1500 metres. conservative mps are to vote for the last time this afternoon in the party's leadership race. the vote will decide which final two candidates go through to the ballot of party members. rishi sunak, penny mordaunt, and liz truss are the remaining candidates. then the vote over the summer will produce a result in early september. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. any regrets, prime minister? boris johnson clearly thought if he had any they were too few to mention. tension was already turning to the might replace him. but the prime minister seemed less interested in this than the rest of westminster. mr speaker, i'm not following this particularly closely. he

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remaining candidates will make the final pitch to get onto that ballot. fourth place kemi badenoch has dropped out of the race and is remaining tight—lipped about whom she will now support but this morning frantic attempts by the remaining candidates to persuade the mps who backed her to switch to them. liz truss has been gaining in second placed penny mordaunt and today pledged she would assemble a cabinet of all talents, taken as code that she would offerjobs to defeated candidates in return for support. the penny mordaunt campaign is getting personal saying liz truss cannot win an election and insist she is not in the borisjohnson cabinet and it is penny mordaunt who can offer a fresh start. rishi sunak has emerged as frontrunner amongst fellow mps but the polling suggests he could face a bigger challenge winning over party members. let's not get ahead of ourselves, boris johnson summed up his premiership as

mission largely accomplished. using a well—known nine from the terminator movies. but another line came to mind as well, i will be back! ian watson, bbc news. a new strategy is being launched to try to improve healthcare for women in england. the government plans include specific training in women's health for medical students, while existing doctors could take extra courses. a focus on issues including fertility and the menopause aim to address inequalities in the system, known as the �*gender health gap'. but ministers have admitted the plan isn't a quick fix. the strategy was devised after a survey of 100,000 women found more than 80% felt they weren't listened to when seeking help from the nhs. catherine burns reports. they say some people open up to their hairdresser more than they do to their close friends. that's definitely true for zoe trafford and her clients. most of the time, i'm the agony

aunt, but now they're having to listen to me and my problems. zoe has had endometriosis since she was a teenager. it can cause severe pain and heavy bleeding. for years, though, doctors told her shejust had bad periods. "you'll be alright, it's just normal." and it's not normal. i don't think being in pain is normal. you have periods that will last for months and months on end. and it'sjust like you're just told, it's unlucky. see, that'sjust not fair, is it? no. so part of the uterus is coming out? yeah. coming out? oh, my word. you poor thing. do you feel like you've been given enough options by the doctors? no, not really. let's face it, it's like you've either got a vagina, or a voice. you don't seem to have both, do you? no, you're right. 0lder teenagers say their main health concern is periods. for women in their 20s, the focus shifts to gynaecological conditions. next, pregnancy and fertility are highlighted. because as women age,

their needs change. menopause is the next big question. and for over 60s, the spotlight is on healthy ageing. women's health has been affected by the pandemic, too, since it started gynaecology waiting lists in england have gone up by 79%. the average is 49%. here in westminster, the government says this strategy will help women across the course of their lives. but there's also an acknowledgement that it's not going to be a quick fix. it's a start of the process. some of the things we've got some low hanging fruit, we can make some quick wins on. others, it's about, you know, this isn'tjust something that's going to be an announcement today and not happen in the future. we're serious about this. so what will that low hanging fruit be? there's a plan for better access to ivf, more training for medical students, a commitment to encourage more women's health hubs. one thing there isn't is a lot of new money. there's also a question about keeping up the momentum on this. i'm really concerned

about the timing and this coming just before recess. it was a shame we didn't get it a couple of months ago where you could see time to push this through. this isn't the first women's health strategy in the uk. scotland's plan came out last year. wales has had a women's health implementation group for four years. northern ireland doesn't have a specific strategy. so are you happy about it? back in liverpool, what's the verdict in the salon? i think it's good that they're doing something. and i think slowly but surely women's voices are getting louder. so although we might wait, i think eventually maybe it will be better. maybe it'll be better for our daughters and their daughters, you know? but what about us?! what about us? i think that's the thing. it's nice that we seem to be getting a voice, our voices are being heard. it'sjust going to take time. that's how i feel. fingers crossed, girls. yeah? catherine burns, bbc news. children in care are still being illegally placed

in unregulated homes in england, including on narrow boats and in caravans. a bbc investigation found that at least 120 children, including one child aged just ten, had been placed in unregulated homes. such placements are banned for under 16s, but there are concerns that exemptions for holidays are being exploited. the department for education says it is 0fsted's job to prosecute companies running unlawful children's homes. it was a historic night for british athletics at the world championships in oregon overnight with jake wightman winning gold in the 1500 metres. he is the first british man to win the world title since steve cram in 1983. our sports correspondent andy swiss was trackside. on top of the podium and on top of the world. forjake wightman and for british athletics, a golden night. commentator: men's1500m final...

the 28—year—old has impressed all summer. but on the biggest stage, could he rise to the occasion? well, just watch this. commentator: jake wightman has another go. _ round the final bend, he overtook the olympic champion, jakob ingebrigtsen. still his rivals were queueing up behind him, but wightman dug in and stubbornly, stunningly, he held on for glory. commentator: jake wightman! he could become the world champion. he's going to stay strong, and he is going to do it! gold forjake wightman. even he, it seemed, could scarcely believe it. he was only tenth at last year's 0lympics, what a transformation! well, what a moment forjake wightman! just when it mattered, he has produced the performance of his life and britain has a new world champion. i just got a whiff of it in the last lap. i knew if i was there with 200 to go, i could put myself in a position to win it. i was just running for my life on the home straight. i never really gave up the confidence that i had

the ability to be able to get to this point, so i'm just so glad i've been able to do what i dreamed of since i was a kid. and get this... commentating on the race inside the stadium was none other than his dad, who's also his coach. to commentate on your son winning a world title, i mean, how did you even go about doing that? so i've been doing his school sports day since he was about 11 because my wife's been his pe teacher. so we've just taken it to slightly bigger stadia, and slightly bigger crowds, and slightly bigger medals. it was surreal watching it because you're thinking, "i know that guy, he has a familiar look!" and britain's last 1500m world champion told me it was richly deserved. i couldn't be more happy for him. he is one of the nicest guys in the team. he's one of the best athletes i've watched run middle distances over the years, just because of how he races. it doesn't matter what else he does in the rest of his career, he will never forget this. a day then of elation and emotion, and an unforgettable one forjake wightman. andy swiss, bbc news, eugene.

and in football, excitement is building for england fans as the team prepares to take on spain in the quarterfinal of the women's euros tonight. attendance records for the tournament have already been broken and there are still 15 games left to be played. kick off is eight o'clock this evening in brighton. our sports correspondent jane dougall is there. we're ina we're in a fun park in brighton had at the match night with families enjoying all the activities including face painting and the ability to take shots on goal. all that happening with slightly cooler temperatures because yesterday england women had to train in difficult conditions as it was incredibly hot. they had to use ice vests to try to keep the intensity of their training up. the match tonight is sold out as we expect about 30,000 fans to attend the

brighton ground later but we do not yet know if the england manager sarina wiegman will be there because she tested positive for covid have the much last week against northern ireland and she was not allowed in the dugout for that. we do not know if she will be in the dugout tonight or not. england of course have been playing well against norway and northern ireland but do not underestimate spain as they have not quite yet got out of second gear and with that in mind sarina wiegman says her line—up will be unchanged. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. i'm going to show you the progression of the heatwave in the last few days not just progression of the heatwave in the last few days notjust here but across europe. this is where we started on monday with these deep red colour is across parts of spain and france and into the uk when temperatures reached the high 30s and then we saw that peaking on tuesday. the temperature is dropping

at night. this is today cost germany with